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Uranium | The major application of uranium in the military sector is in high-density penetrators. This ammunition consists of depleted uranium (DU) alloyed with 1–2% other elements, such as titanium or molybdenum. At high impact speed, the density, hardness, and pyrophoricity of the projectile enable the destruction of heavily a... | What percentage of low-density penetrators is not made up of depleted uranium? | 5ad113dc645df0001a2d0c8b | null | -1 | 1–2% | 151 | true |
Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System | All versions of the SNES are predominantly gray, although the exact shade may differ. The original North American version, designed by Nintendo of America industrial designer Lance Barr (who previously redesigned the Famicom to become the NES), has a boxy design with purple sliding switches and a dark gray eject lever.... | What does the flat surface of the redesigned SNES invite people to do? | 5a42d81e4a4859001aac7365 | null | -1 | interact | 371 | true |
Norfolk_Island | Norfolk Island was originally a colony acquired by settlement but was never within the British Settlements Act. It was accepted as a territory of Australia, separate from any state, by the Norfolk Island Act 1913 (Cth), passed under the territories power (Constitution section 122) and made effective in 1914. In 1976 th... | Norfolk Island became a territory of what country? | 5726bc4cdd62a815002e8ebb | Australia | 146 | null | -1 | false |
United_States_Air_Force | Building Partnerships is described as airmen interacting with international airmen and other relevant actors to develop, guide, and sustain relationships for mutual benefit and security. Building Partnerships is about interacting with others and is therefore an inherently inter-personal and cross-cultural undertaking. ... | What are Airmen expected to be competent in for these Building Partnerships missions? | 5730e690f6cb411900e2452c | relevant language, region, and culture | 735 | null | -1 | false |
Estonia | In 2007, however, a large current account deficit and rising inflation put pressure on Estonia's currency, which was pegged to the Euro, highlighting the need for growth in export-generating industries. Estonia exports mainly machinery and equipment, wood and paper, textiles, food products, furniture, and metals and ch... | How much electricity is imported by Estonia annually? | 5728c8262ca10214002da7b8 | 200 million kilowatt hours | 559 | null | -1 | false |
New_Haven,_Connecticut | The American Civil War boosted the local economy with wartime purchases of industrial goods, including that of the New Haven Arms Company, which would later become the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. (Winchester would continue to produce arms in New Haven until 2006, and many of the buildings that were a part of the... | What was the original name of the famous rifle manufacturing companies in New Haven? | 57294fd36aef051400154ca6 | New Haven Arms Company | 115 | null | -1 | false |
Neptune | In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus. Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations from the tables, leading Bouvard to hypothesise that an unknown body was perturbing the orbit through gravitational interaction. In 1843, John Couch Adams began work ... | What year did Alexis Bouvard publish relevant astronomical tables? | 572e8e6bc246551400ce4344 | 1821 | 3 | null | -1 | false |
Beer | The first step, where the wort is prepared by mixing the starch source (normally malted barley) with hot water, is known as "mashing". Hot water (known as "liquor" in brewing terms) is mixed with crushed malt or malts (known as "grist") in a mash tun. The mashing process takes around 1 to 2 hours, during which the star... | What does sparging convert starches into? | 5acd645f07355d001abf4075 | null | -1 | sugars | 342 | true |
Cork_(city) | St. Patrick's Street, the main street of the city which was remodelled in the mid-2000s, is known for the architecture of the buildings along its pedestrian-friendly route and is the main shopping thoroughfare. The reason for its curved shape is that it originally was a channel of the River Lee that was built over on a... | What was built on the site of the old Theatre Royal? | 5727bdcd4b864d1900163c2c | General Post Office | 655 | null | -1 | false |
Presbyterianism | Over subsequent centuries, many Presbyterian churches modified these prescriptions by introducing hymnody, instrumental accompaniment, and ceremonial vestments into worship. However, there is not one fixed "Presbyterian" worship style. Although there are set services for the "Lord's Day", one can find a service to be e... | What type of lectionary do Anglicanism churches follow? | 5acfc98577cf76001a685faf | null | -1 | daily, seasonal, and festival | 1,073 | true |
Asphalt | Naturally occurring crude asphalt/bitumen impregnated in sedimentary rock is the prime feed stock for petroleum production from "Oil sands", currently under development in Alberta, Canada. Canada has most of the world's supply of natural asphalt/bitumen, covering 140,000 square kilometres (an area larger than England),... | By what year did Canadian oil sands production average 2.3 million barrels per day? | 5ace7a3732bba1001ae4a788 | null | -1 | 2014 | 801 | true |
Glass | The term mainly refers to a mix of lithium and aluminosilicates that yields an array of materials with interesting thermomechanical properties. The most commercially important of these have the distinction of being impervious to thermal shock. Thus, glass-ceramics have become extremely useful for countertop cooking. Th... | Because of their heat resistance, glass-ceramics are especially suitable for what? | 5729765a6aef051400154f49 | countertop cooking | 298 | null | -1 | false |
Cubism | The traditional interpretation of "Cubism", formulated post facto as a means of understanding the works of Braque and Picasso, has affected our appreciation of other twentieth-century artists. It is difficult to apply to painters such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, whose fun... | Who said "o suggest that merely because these artists developed same as the traditional pattern" | 5acfca6f77cf76001a685fff | null | -1 | Daniel Robbins | 452 | true |
Umayyad_Caliphate | In 680 Ibn al-Zubayr fled Medina for Mecca. Hearing about Husayn's opposition to Yazid I, the people of Kufa sent to Husayn asking him to take over with their support. Al-Husayn sent his cousin Muslim bin Agail to verify if they would rally behind him. When the news reached Yazid I, he sent Ubayd-Allah bin Ziyad, ruler... | Who led Husayn's forces? | 5acfa0ca77cf76001a6855e2 | null | -1 | Amru bin Saad | 1,005 | true |
Chicago_Cubs | The official Cubs team mascot is a young bear cub, named Clark, described by the team's press release as a young and friendly Cub. Clark made his debut at Advocate Health Care on January 13, 2014, the same day as the press release announcing his installation as the club's first ever official physical mascot. The bear c... | When did Clark make his debut? | 57268becf1498d1400e8e362 | January 13, 2014 | 179 | null | -1 | false |
Northwestern_University | Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. In... | In what year did Northwestern University stop teaching? | 5ad2b57ed7d075001a429fea | null | -1 | 1855 | 339 | true |
Plymouth | Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Frank Bickerton both lived in the city. Artists include Beryl Cook whose paintings depict the culture of Plymouth and Robert Lenkiewicz, whose paintings investigated themes of vagrancy, sexual behaviour and suicide, lived in the city from the 1960s until his death in 2002. Il... | What local figure played in the bands AMM and MIMEO? | 56df827c56340a1900b29c9b | Keith Rowe | 645 | null | -1 | false |
Group_(mathematics) | Exchanging "+" and "−" in the expression, i.e. permuting the two solutions of the equation can be viewed as a (very simple) group operation. Similar formulae are known for cubic and quartic equations, but do not exist in general for degree 5 and higher. Abstract properties of Galois groups associated with polynomials (... | What is an example of a complex operation? | 5a81f51431013a001a334fdc | null | -1 | Exchanging "+" and "−" | 0 | true |
Tajikistan | In 2010, there were concerns among Tajik officials that Islamic militarism in the east of the country was on the rise following the escape of 25 militants from a Tajik prison in August, an ambush that killed 28 Tajik soldiers in the Rasht Valley in September, and another ambush in the valley in October that killed 30 s... | What operation in the Rasht Valley was concluded in November 1910? | 5aced84b32bba1001ae4b714 | null | -1 | military | 524 | true |
Brigham_Young_University | In 2009, the university's Marriott School of Management received a No. 5 ranking by BusinessWeek for its undergraduate programs, and its MBA program was ranked by several sources: No. 22 ranking by BusinessWeek, No. 16 by Forbes, and No. 29 by U.S. News & World Report. Among regional schools the MBA program was ranked ... | Who ranked BYU as No. 11 of institutions whose grads were top-rated by recruiters in a 2010 article? | 57288b974b864d1900164a8f | Wall Street Journal | 838 | null | -1 | false |
Botany | Most sexually reproducing organisms are diploid, with paired chromosomes, but doubling of their chromosome number may occur due to errors in cytokinesis. This can occur early in development to produce an autopolyploid or partly autopolyploid organism, or during normal processes of cellular differentiation to produce so... | What is a yellow example of a sterile,hybrid plant with no seeds? | 57274d2bdd62a815002e9abc | commercial banana | 1,101 | null | -1 | false |
National_Archives_and_Records_Administration | Archival descriptions of the permanent holdings of the federal government in the custody of NARA are stored in Archival Research Catalog (ARC). The archival descriptions include information on traditional paper holdings, electronic records, and artifacts. As of December 2012, the catalog consisted of about 10 billion l... | How many digital copies of previously digitized materials were there in December of 2012? | 56e7857c00c9c71400d77229 | 922,000 | 424 | null | -1 | false |
Endangered_Species_Act | Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act provided funding for development of programs for management of threatened and endangered species by state wildlife agencies. Subsequently, lists of endangered and threatened species within their boundaries have been prepared by each state. These state lists often include species ... | Who funded species within specific states? | 5a84a5ed7cf838001a46aa03 | null | -1 | Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act | 0 | true |
Antarctica | Some species of marine animals exist and rely, directly or indirectly, on the phytoplankton. Antarctic sea life includes penguins, blue whales, orcas, colossal squids and fur seals. The emperor penguin is the only penguin that breeds during the winter in Antarctica, while the Adélie penguin breeds farther south than an... | What sea plankton doe many sea creatures rely on to live? | 570df3470dc6ce1900204d47 | phytoplankton | 78 | null | -1 | false |
Uranium | Calcined uranium yellowcake, as produced in many large mills, contains a distribution of uranium oxidation species in various forms ranging from most oxidized to least oxidized. Particles with short residence times in a calciner will generally be less oxidized than those with long retention times or particles recovered... | What contains a distribution of uranium deoxidation species in various forms ranging from most oxidized to least oxidized? | 5ad14a35645df0001a2d15a8 | null | -1 | Calcined uranium yellowcake | 0 | true |
2008_Sichuan_earthquake | Besides parents, Liu Shaokun (刘绍坤), a Sichuan school teacher, was detained on June 25, 2008 for "disseminating rumors and destroying social order" about the Sichuan earthquake. Liu’s family was later told that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion. Liu had travelled to the Shifang, ... | What was Liu Shaokun's profession? | 56d65c671c850414009470b9 | Sichuan school teacher | 38 | null | -1 | false |
Gene | After DNA replication is complete, the cell must physically separate the two copies of the genome and divide into two distinct membrane-bound cells.:18.2 In prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) this usually occurs via a relatively simple process called binary fission, in which each circular genome attaches to the cell me... | What is one thing the cell must do once DNA replication is compete? | 56f8cb819e9bad19000a0504 | physically separate the two copies of the genome | 49 | null | -1 | false |
Somerset | Along with the rest of South West England, Somerset has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country. The annual mean temperature is approximately 10 °C (50.0 °F). Seasonal temperature variation is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom because of the adjacent sea temperat... | The average rainfall level of somerset | 57269a315951b619008f77a6 | Average rainfall is around 700 mm (28 in) | 1,177 | null | -1 | false |
Jehovah%27s_Witnesses | The offices of elder and ministerial servant were restored to Witness congregations in 1972, with appointments made from headquarters (and later, also by branch committees). It was announced that, starting in September 2014, appointments would be made by traveling overseers. In a major organizational overhaul in 1976, ... | Who was one of the members of the Governing Body in 1995? | 5ad3bf70604f3c001a3fef69 | null | -1 | Don A. Adams | 662 | true |
51st_state | In Canada, "the 51st state" is a phrase generally used in such a way as to imply that if a certain political course is taken, Canada's destiny will be as little more than a part of the United States. Examples include the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the debate over the creation of a common defense... | What was a consequence of adopting proposals intended to resolve the issue of Quebec sovereignty? | 5a8a37a53b2508001a72a849 | null | -1 | debate over the creation of a common defense perimeter | 276 | true |
Botany | A considerable amount of new knowledge about plant function comes from studies of the molecular genetics of model plants such as the Thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, a weedy species in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). The genome or hereditary information contained in the genes of this species is encoded by about 13... | Why is sequencing done on plants? | 57274eb3f1498d1400e8f60d | understanding the genetics | 629 | null | -1 | false |
Geological_history_of_Earth | To the north of Africa the Tethys Sea continued to narrow. Broad shallow seas advanced across central North America (the Western Interior Seaway) and Europe, then receded late in the period, leaving thick marine deposits sandwiched between coal beds. At the peak of the Cretaceous transgression, one-third of Earth's pre... | Where are the Deccan Traps? | 5732a253d6dcfa19001e8a52 | India | 1,104 | null | -1 | false |
Digimon | The third Digimon series, which began airing on April 1, 2001, is set largely in a "real world" where the Adventure and Adventure 02 series are television shows, and where Digimon game merchandise (based on actual items) become key to providing power boosts to real Digimon which appear in that world. The plot revolves ... | What is not needed to provide power boost to Digimon | 5a1105a106e79900185c34e0 | null | -1 | Digimon game merchandise | 172 | true |
Everton_F.C. | Formed in 1878, Everton were founding members of The Football League in 1888 and won their first league championship two seasons later. Following four league titles and two FA Cup wins, Everton experienced a lull in the immediate post World War Two period until a revival in the 1960s which saw the club win two league c... | When was the Everton club founded? | 570a81684103511400d597aa | 1878 | 10 | null | -1 | false |
Jehovah%27s_Witnesses | Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible condemns the mixing of religions, on the basis that there can only be one truth from God, and therefore reject interfaith and ecumenical movements. They believe that only their religion represents true Christianity, and that other religions fail to meet all the requirements se... | What Protestant group is fine with the mixing of religions? | 5ad3dacc604f3c001a3ff3c7 | null | -1 | Jehovah's Witnesses | 0 | true |
Spectre_(2015_film) | The main cast was revealed in December 2014 at the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios. Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond, while Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw reprised their roles as M, Eve Moneypenny and Q respectively, having been established in Skyfall. Rory Kinnear also reprised... | How many times has Daniel Craig portrayed James Bond in films? | 56cf4113aab44d1400b88ee0 | four | 112 | null | -1 | false |
Letter_case | In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule, see Terminology) and smaller lower case (also small letters, or more formally minuscule, see Terminology) in th... | Capital letters refer to which case of letter? | 5706f38e9e06ca38007e923b | larger upper | 109 | null | -1 | false |
Professional_wrestling | However, although almost any scenario where one wrestler is covering another prone, back-first wrestler can be considered a pin attempt, there is one important exception to that rule: Pin attempts broken up by other wrestlers. In matches involving multiple wrestlers (such as triple threat matches or tag team matches), ... | What happens during a pin attempt? | 57265e8c5951b619008f70c1 | one wrestler is covering another prone, back-first wrestler can be considered a pin attempt | 44 | null | -1 | false |
Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union | The rebellion of fellow Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh had an immediate effect in Armenia itself. Daily demonstrations, which began in the Armenian capital Yerevan on February 18, initially attracted few people, but each day the Nagorno-Karabakh issue became increasingly prominent and numbers swelled. On February 20, a ... | Where were the first demonstrations in Armenia? | 57279a47708984140094e1fb | Yerevan | 155 | null | -1 | false |
Sanskrit | Sanskrit, as defined by Pāṇini, evolved out of the earlier Vedic form. The present form of Vedic Sanskrit can be traced back to as early as the second millennium BCE (for Rig-vedic). Scholars often distinguish Vedic Sanskrit and Classical or "Pāṇinian" Sanskrit as separate dialects. Though they are quite similar, they ... | What is another name for Vedic Sanskrit? | 5a2aae235b078a001a2f06a4 | null | -1 | "Pāṇinian" Sanskrit | 242 | true |
Madrasa | At the beginning of the Caliphate or Islamic Empire, the reliance on courts initially confined sponsorship and scholarly activities to major centres. Within several centuries, the development of Muslim educational institutions such as the madrasah and masjid eventually introduced such activities to provincial towns and... | Who traditionally paid for scholars to study natural sciences? | 572a6788fed8de19000d5bf5 | royal courts | 800 | null | -1 | false |
Daylight_saving_time | The history of time in the United States includes DST during both world wars, but no standardization of peacetime DST until 1966. In May 1965, for two weeks, St. Paul, Minnesota and Minneapolis, Minnesota were on different times, when the capital city decided to join most of the nation by starting Daylight Saving Time ... | What state supported DST because it wanted to sell more potatoes? | 56e74de737bdd419002c3e48 | Idaho | 570 | null | -1 | false |
Queen_(band) | At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1.9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits, during which the sold-out stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. The show's organisers, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, other musicians such as El... | What date was Live Aid? | 5726a3bf5951b619008f78a3 | 13 July 1985 | 32 | null | -1 | false |
University_of_Kansas | The Community Tool Box is a public service of the University maintained by the Work Group for Community Health and Development. It is a free, online resource that contains more than 7,000 pages of practical information for promoting community health and development, and is a global resource for both professionals and g... | How much content does the Community Tool Box offer? | 56e7a09b00c9c71400d77420 | more than 7,000 pages | 172 | null | -1 | false |
Neptune | Neptune also resembles Uranus in its magnetosphere, with a magnetic field strongly tilted relative to its rotational axis at 47° and offset at least 0.55 radii, or about 13500 km from the planet's physical centre. Before Voyager 2's arrival at Neptune, it was hypothesised that Uranus's tilted magnetosphere was the resu... | What fluids are in Neptune's interior? | 572ea13b03f9891900756867 | ammonia, methane and water | 649 | null | -1 | false |
Athanasius_of_Alexandria | Athanasius's first problem lay with Meletius of Lycopolis and his followers, who had failed to abide by the First Council of Nicaea. That council also anathematized Arius. Accused of mistreating Arians and Meletians, Athanasius answered those charges at a gathering of bishops in Tyre, the First Synod of Tyre, in 335. T... | Did the followers of Meletius obey the guidelines of Nicaea? | 571adf0732177014007e9f6e | failed to abide | 85 | null | -1 | false |
FA_Cup | Since the start of the 1994–95 season, the FA Cup has been sponsored. However, to protect the identity of the competition, the sponsored name has always included 'The FA Cup' in addition to the sponsor's name, unlike sponsorship deals for the League Cup where the word 'cup' is preceded by only the sponsor's name. Spons... | How long does the sponsor remain? | 57278e8f708984140094e0c6 | Sponsorship deals run for four years | 315 | null | -1 | false |
Eritrea | In the vacuum that followed the 1889 death of Emperor Yohannes II, Gen. Oreste Baratieri occupied the highlands along the Eritrean coast and Italy proclaimed the establishment of the new colony of Italian Eritrea, a colony of the Kingdom of Italy. In the Treaty of Wuchale (It. Uccialli) signed the same year, King Menel... | Who signed the Treaty of Wuchale for Italy? | 5ad0b621645df0001a2d011e | null | -1 | Oreste Baratieri | 72 | true |
Antenna_(radio) | Loop antennas consist of a loop or coil of wire. Loops with circumference of a wavelength or larger act similarly to dipole antennas. However loops small in comparison to a wavelength act differently. They interact with the magnetic field of the radio wave instead of the electric field as other antennas do, and so are ... | If you needed to place an antenna somewhere with a large amount of interference, which type would be best? | 57306d712461fd1900a9ce0d | loops small | 142 | null | -1 | false |
CBC_Television | On August 6, 2010, the CBC issued a press release stating that due to financial reasons, the CBC and Radio-Canada would only transition 27 transmitters total, one in each market where there was an originating station (i.e. a CBC or Radio-Canada television station located in that market). Further, the CBC stated in the ... | How many stations did the CBC have broadcasting in analog in 2012? | 5a55334a134fea001a0e19d0 | null | -1 | eight | 745 | true |
Capacitor | When there is a potential difference across the conductors (e.g., when a capacitor is attached across a battery), an electric field develops across the dielectric, causing positive charge +Q to collect on one plate and negative charge −Q to collect on the other plate. If a battery has been attached to a capacitor for a... | When does an electric field develop across the dielectric? | 5726dfe9708984140094d453 | When there is a potential difference across the conductors | 0 | null | -1 | false |
Hokkien | There are many Hokkien speakers among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia as well as in the United States. Many ethnic Han Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singap... | What does Lan-nang mean in Singapore? | 5a1324e66614be00188f2565 | null | -1 | Our people’s language | 624 | true |
Cork_(city) | The Cork accent, part of the Southwest dialect of Hiberno-English, displays various features which set it apart from other accents in Ireland. Patterns of tone and intonation often rise and fall, with the overall tone tending to be more high-pitched than other Irish accents. English spoken in Cork has a number of diale... | Where did Cork get pieces of its language from? | 5727b636ff5b5019007d932c | at home and abroad | 525 | null | -1 | false |
Cotton | Cotton is used to make a number of textile products. These include terrycloth for highly absorbent bath towels and robes; denim for blue jeans; cambric, popularly used in the manufacture of blue work shirts (from which we get the term "blue-collar"); and corduroy, seersucker, and cotton twill. Socks, underwear, and mos... | For what is cotton used to make? | 57275f1df1498d1400e8f6fc | textile products | 35 | null | -1 | false |
Planck_constant | The X-ray crystal density method is primarily a method for determining the Avogadro constant NA but as the Avogadro constant is related to the Planck constant it also determines a value for h. The principle behind the method is to determine NA as the ratio between the volume of the unit cell of a crystal, measured by X... | What is the primary method for determining the Avogadro constant? | 572975206aef051400154f2e | The X-ray crystal density method | 0 | null | -1 | false |
Eton_College | Figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph had revealed that, in 2010, 37 applicants from Eton were accepted by Oxford whilst state schools had difficulty obtaining entry even for pupils with the country's most impressive exam results. According to The Economist, Oxford and Cambridge admit more Etonians each year than app... | Which independent school had more hosted outreach events than Eton? | 5727f7872ca10214002d9a65 | Wellington College | 663 | null | -1 | false |
Antibiotics | Antibacterial antibiotics are commonly classified based on their mechanism of action, chemical structure, or spectrum of activity. Most target bacterial functions or growth processes. Those that target the bacterial cell wall (penicillins and cephalosporins) or the cell membrane (polymyxins), or interfere with essentia... | What is another word for interfere? | 5a65cfcfc2b11c001a425d59 | null | -1 | polymyxins | 281 | true |
Humanism | The ad fontes principle also had many applications. The re-discovery of ancient manuscripts brought a more profound and accurate knowledge of ancient philosophical schools such as Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism, whose Pagan wisdom the humanists, like the Church fathers of old, tended, at least initially, to consider as... | Who was the least influential supporter of the ideals of Terence? | 5a82003531013a001a3350ad | null | -1 | Saint Augustine | 617 | true |
Sanskrit | The Sanskrit grammatical tradition, Vyākaraṇa, one of the six Vedangas, began in the late Vedic period and culminated in the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, which consists of 3990 sutras (ca. fifth century BCE). About a century after Pāṇini (around 400 BCE), Kātyāyana composed Vārtikas on the Pāṇini sũtras. Patanjali, who lived ... | How many sutras are in the Astadhyayi? | 570e66e60dc6ce190020501f | 3990 sutras | 165 | null | -1 | false |
Madrasa | During its formative period, the term madrasah referred to a higher education institution, whose curriculum initially included only the "religious sciences", whilst philosophy and the secular sciences were often excluded. The curriculum slowly began to diversify, with many later madaris teaching both the religious and ... | How many madaris have been founded outside of Cairo? | 5ace3fff32bba1001ae4a087 | null | -1 | 75 | 871 | true |
New_York_City | Over 600,000 students are enrolled in New York City's over 120 higher education institutions, the highest number of any city in the United States, including over half million in the City University of New York (CUNY) system alone in 2014. In 2005, three out of five Manhattan residents were college graduates, and one ou... | What fraction of Manhattan residents have graduate degrees? | 56cfb1a2234ae51400d9be87 | one out of four | 314 | null | -1 | false |
Mexico_City | West of the Historic Center (Centro Histórico) along Paseo de la Reforma are many of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods such as Polanco, Lomas de Chapultepec, Bosques de las Lomas, Santa Fe, and (in the State of Mexico) Interlomas, which are also the city's most important areas of class A office space, corporate headq... | Where are many of the wealthy neighborhoods located? | 572685955951b619008f756b | West of the Historic Center | 0 | null | -1 | false |
Gramophone_record | Eventually, when it was more common for electric recordings to be played back electrically in the 1930s and 1940s, the overall tone was much like listening to a radio of the era. Magnetic pickups became more common and were better designed as time went on, making it possible to improve the damping of spurious resonance... | When would you have first found the moving coil microphone? | 5727f7ee4b864d19001640c8 | around 1930 | 441 | null | -1 | false |
Endangered_Species_Act | Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are required to create an Endangered Species Recovery Plan outlining the goals, tasks required, likely costs, and estimated timeline to recover endangered species (i.e., increase their numbers and improve their management to the point where th... | What is the time limit for completing an Endangered Species Recovery Plan? | 572eb435cb0c0d14000f1491 | The ESA does not specify when a recovery plan must be completed. | 365 | null | -1 | false |
Tibet | Muslims have been living in Tibet since as early as the 8th or 9th century. In Tibetan cities, there are small communities of Muslims, known as Kachee (Kache), who trace their origin to immigrants from three main regions: Kashmir (Kachee Yul in ancient Tibetan), Ladakh and the Central Asian Turkic countries. Islamic in... | Where did Islamic influence in Tibet come from? | 5727e94fff5b5019007d9833 | Persia | 352 | null | -1 | false |
ASCII | Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machine... | What alphabet is invisible graphic:223 based on? | 5a64ed447f3c80001a150bf5 | null | -1 | English | 24 | true |
Antarctica | Meteorites from Antarctica are an important area of study of material formed early in the solar system; most are thought to come from asteroids, but some may have originated on larger planets. The first meteorite was found in 1912, and named the Adelie Land meteorite. In 1969, a Japanese expedition discovered nine mete... | What astronomical study is important research for Antarctica? | 570dfbd20b85d914000d7c57 | Meteorites | 0 | null | -1 | false |
Alps | The Alps (/ælps/; Italian: Alpi [ˈalpi]; French: Alpes [alp]; German: Alpen [ˈʔalpm̩]; Slovene: Alpe [ˈáːlpɛ]) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechte... | How many kilometres do the Alps stretch? | 56f81f0ea6d7ea1400e173d8 | 1,200 kilometres | 223 | null | -1 | false |
Central_African_Republic | Michel Djotodia took over as president and in May 2013 Central African Republic's Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye requested a UN peacekeeping force from the UN Security Council and on 31 May former President Bozizé was indicted for crimes against humanity and incitement of genocide. The security situation did not impro... | How many people were displaced in the unrests? | 57281a552ca10214002d9dd9 | 200,000 | 378 | null | -1 | false |
Comcast | Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings,[note 1] is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue. It is the second largest pay-TV company after the AT&T-DirecTV acquisition, largest cable TV company and largest home I... | What company merged with Comcast, making it the largest TV company? | 5a732bc553a187001ae6312a | null | -1 | DirecTV | 256 | true |
Beyoncé | On April 4, 2008, Beyoncé married Jay Z. She publicly revealed their marriage in a video montage at the listening party for her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce, in Manhattan's Sony Club on October 22, 2008. I Am... Sasha Fierce was released on November 18, 2008 in the United States. The album formally introduc... | Which prominent star felt the 2009 Female Video of the Year award should have went to Beyoncé instead of Taylor Swift? | 56d4bf242ccc5a1400d831c2 | Kanye West | 1,611 | null | -1 | false |
Spanish_language_in_the_United_States | In 1821, after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas. A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836, the now largely "American" Texans, fought a war of independence from the central g... | Was Texas a primarily a Spanish speaking state? | 572e9c8bdfa6aa1500f8d1fd | Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people | 471 | null | -1 | false |
Jehovah%27s_Witnesses | Former members Heather and Gary Botting compare the cultural paradigms of the religion to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, and Alan Rogerson describes the religion's leadership as totalitarian. Other critics charge that by disparaging individual decision-making, the religion's leaders cultivate a system of unquest... | What do critics of the Jehovah's Witnesses accuse the religion's leaders of exercising over members? | 57325b9fe99e3014001e670d | "intellectual dominance" | 479 | null | -1 | false |
Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) | 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 and dogmas of the church. He held fast to the belief that Mary was a perpetual virgin and the Theotokos... | What does Theotokos mean? | 570c5057fed7b91900d458a6 | Mother of God | 324 | null | -1 | false |
Spectre_(2015_film) | In the United Kingdom, the film grossed £4.1 million ($6.4 million) from its Monday preview screenings. It grossed £6.3 million ($9.2 million) on its opening day and then £5.7 million ($8.8 million) on Wednesday, setting UK records for both days. In the film's first seven days it grossed £41.7 million ($63.8 million), ... | What movie did Spectre unseat as having the highest earnings for IMAX screenings in the UK? | 56ceea40aab44d1400b88c9b | Avatar | 795 | null | -1 | false |
Letter_case | Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule letters, spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. When written quickly with a pen, these tended to turn into rounder and much simpler forms. It is from these that the first minuscule hands developed, the half-uncials and cursive minuscule, which no long... | Who developed the Carolingian minuscule script for handwriting? | 5706f6a790286e26004fc779 | Alcuin | 449 | null | -1 | false |
Alsace | By the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, Strasbourg was a prosperous community, and its inhabitants accepted Protestantism in 1523. Martin Bucer was a prominent Protestant reformer in the region. His efforts were countered by the Roman Catholic Habsburgs who tried to eradicate heresy in Upper Alsa... | Who was known as a reformer in Strasbourg? | 572786705951b619008f8c5a | Martin Bucer | 154 | null | -1 | false |
Heresy | Constantine the Great, who along with Licinius had decreed toleration of Christianity in the Roman Empire by what is commonly called the "Edict of Milan", and was the first Roman Emperor baptized, set precedents for later policy. By Roman law the Emperor was Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of the College of Pontiffs ... | Who was high priest according to Christian tradition? | 5a5abce09c0277001abe7165 | null | -1 | the Emperor | 243 | true |
Canadian_football | The first written account of a game played was on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals, 2 rouges to nothing.[citation needed] In 1864, at Trinity College, T... | What is the oldest group with devised rules in Canada? | 5a0f3ff6decec9001847551c | null | -1 | Hamilton Football Club | 528 | true |
Pharmaceutical_industry | On 2 July 2012, GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to a $3 billion settlement of the largest health-care fraud case in the U.S. and the largest payment by a drug company. The settlement is related to the company's illegal promotion of prescription drugs, its failure to report safety data, bri... | When did Wellbutrin plead guilty? | 5ad3b134604f3c001a3fecc5 | null | -1 | 2 July 2012 | 3 | true |
Hunter-gatherer | Starting at the transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some 80,000 to 70,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers bands began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of (often larger) game and gathering a smaller selection of food. This specialization of work also involved creating s... | Agriculture ended how many years ago? | 5acd431b07355d001abf3afd | null | -1 | 12,000 | 667 | true |
Muslim_world | The Solar Hijri calendar, also called the Shamsi Hijri calendar, and abbreviated as SH, is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It begins on the vernal equinox. Each of the twelve months corresponds with a zodiac sign. The first six months have 31 days, the next five have 30 days, and the last month has 29 da... | What is the customary calendar of Iran? | 57300a8aa23a5019007fccad | the Shamsi Hijri calendar | 38 | null | -1 | false |
Dominican_Order | Female houses differed from male Dominican houses in a lack of apostolic work for the women. Instead, the sisters chanted the Divine Office and kept all the monastic observances. Their lives were often much more strict than their brothers' lives. The sisters had no government of their own, but lived under the authority... | Whose authority did the sisters not live under? | 5ad261c0d7d075001a42905b | null | -1 | general and provincial chapters of the order | 328 | true |
Bird | Birds have featured in culture and art since prehistoric times, when they were represented in early cave paintings. Some birds have been perceived as monsters, including the mythological Roc and the Māori's legendary Pouākai, a giant bird capable of snatching humans. Birds were later used as symbols of power, as in the... | When were birds represented in early cave paintings? | 57321a39e99e3014001e651c | since prehistoric times | 39 | null | -1 | false |
Madonna_(entertainer) | Working with photographer Steven Klein, Madonna completed a 17-minute film called secretprojectrevolution. The BitTorrent company was selected by Madonna to release the film as part of a Madonna bundle. It was released on September 24, 2013, and consisted of the 17-minute film, its stills, a Vice interview, and a messa... | What initiative did Madonna launched with her film? | 5726ee825951b619008f82b6 | Art for Freedom | 368 | null | -1 | false |
Queen_Victoria | Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated. She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury. Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was... | Who replaced Gladstone for only a few short months? | 5725662acc50291900b283a0 | Lord Salisbury | 230 | null | -1 | false |
The_Bronx | The Bronx is almost entirely situated on the North American mainland. The Hudson River separates the Bronx on the west from Alpine, Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs in Bergen County, New Jersey; the Harlem River separates it from the island of Manhattan to the southwest; the East River separates it from Queens to the south... | What's on the other side of the Hudson from the Bronx? | 573254c7e17f3d1400422883 | Alpine, Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs | 124 | null | -1 | false |
Franco-Prussian_War | To relieve pressure from the expected German attack into Alsace-Lorraine, Napoleon III and the French high command planned a seaborne invasion of northern Germany as soon as war began. The French expected the invasion to divert German troops and to encourage Denmark to join in the war, with its 50,000-strong army and t... | What did the French navy lack in engaging coastal defenses? | 570d724bfed7b91900d4612b | heavy guns | 617 | null | -1 | false |
Arena_Football_League | For the 2013 season, the league's new national broadcast partner was the CBS Sports Network. CBSSN would air 19 regular season games and two playoff games. CBS would also air the ArenaBowl, marking the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on network television. Regular season CBSSN broadcast games are u... | In 2013, on what day were Arena Football League games usually broadcast on CBS Sports Network? | 56e7b3d237bdd419002c43a4 | Saturday | 330 | null | -1 | false |
Jehovah%27s_Witnesses | Jehovah's Witnesses are best known for their door-to-door preaching, distributing literature such as The Watchtower and Awake!, and refusing military service and blood transfusions. They consider use of the name Jehovah vital for proper worship. They reject Trinitarianism, inherent immortality of the soul, and hellfire... | What are Jehovah witnesses best known for? | 57323c07e17f3d140042275b | their door-to-door preaching | 39 | null | -1 | false |
Capacitor | When there is a potential difference across the conductors (e.g., when a capacitor is attached across a battery), an electric field develops across the dielectric, causing positive charge +Q to collect on one plate and negative charge −Q to collect on the other plate. If a battery has been attached to a capacitor for a... | Under what condition does a displacement current never flow in a capacitor? | 5acf573d77cf76001a684bb5 | null | -1 | a time-varying voltage is applied across the leads | 403 | true |
Empiricism | In the late renaissance various writers began to question the medieval and classical understanding of knowledge acquisition in a more fundamental way. In political and historical writing Niccolò Machiavelli and his friend Francesco Guicciardini initiated a new realistic style of writing. Machiavelli in particular was s... | Who judged everything according to mental ideals? | 5a57bcc4770dc0001aeefd2d | null | -1 | Machiavelli | 289 | true |
American_Idol | Michael Lynche was the lowest vote getter at top nine and was given the Judges' Save. The next week Katie Stevens and Andrew Garcia were eliminated. That week, Adam Lambert was invited back to be a mentor, the first Idol alum to do so. Idol Gives Back returned this season on April 21, 2010, and raised $45 million. | Who was saved with the Judges' Save? | 56db26c6e7c41114004b4e22 | Michael Lynche | 0 | null | -1 | false |
BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_System | The ranging signals are based on the CDMA principle and have complex structure typical of Galileo or modernized GPS. Similar to the other GNSS, there will be two levels of positioning service: open and restricted (military). The public service shall be available globally to general users. When all the currently planned... | What are the ranging signals of the BeiDou system based on? | 56e10dbdcd28a01900c674e1 | the CDMA principle | 33 | null | -1 | false |
Capacitor | For air dielectric capacitors the breakdown field strength is of the order 2 to 5 MV/m; for mica the breakdown is 100 to 300 MV/m; for oil, 15 to 25 MV/m; it can be much less when other materials are used for the dielectric. The dielectric is used in very thin layers and so absolute breakdown voltage of capacitors is l... | In what way is the dielectric used in order to cause the absolute breakdown voltage of capacitors to be limited? | 572704df5951b619008f84af | The dielectric is used in very thin layers | 225 | null | -1 | false |
Chihuahua_(state) | In the far eastern part of the state the Chihuahuan Desert dominates due to low precipitation and extremely high temperatures; some areas of the eastern part of the state are so dry no vegetation is found like the Sand Dunes of Samalayuca. There are two distinctive climate zones found in the eastern part of the state: ... | Both types of climate zones in the eastern part of the state are what? | 570720969e06ca38007e948b | Desert | 324 | null | -1 | false |
Communications_in_Somalia | As of 2009, dial up, wireless and satellite services were available. Dial up internet services in Somalia were among the fastest growing on the continent, with an annual landline growth rate of over 12.5%. The increase in usage was largely due to innovative policy initiatives adopted by the various Somali telecom opera... | Who was the first ISP provider in Somalia? | 5a551746134fea001a0e1908 | null | -1 | Global Internet Company | 510 | true |
Alexander_Graham_Bell | Bell is also credited with developing one of the early versions of a metal detector in 1881. The device was quickly put together in an attempt to find the bullet in the body of U.S. President James Garfield. According to some accounts, the metal detector worked flawlessly in tests but did not find the assassin's bullet... | What did Bell create in 1881? | 56dfb0e97aa994140058dfe5 | metal detector | 69 | null | -1 | false |
Gamal_Abdel_Nasser | On 11 July, Nasser replaced Amer with Mohamed Fawzi as general commander, over the protestations of Amer's loyalists in the military, 600 of whom marched on army headquarters and demanded Amer's reinstatement. After Nasser sacked thirty of the loyalists in response, Amer and his allies devised a plan to topple him on 2... | What loyalists did Nasser target? | 57282fa44b864d1900164697 | figures loyal to Amer | 822 | null | -1 | false |
Protestantism | In America, Episcopalian Dennis Bennett is sometimes cited as one of the charismatic movement's seminal influence. In the United Kingdom, Colin Urquhart, Michael Harper, David Watson and others were in the vanguard of similar developments. The Massey conference in New Zealand, 1964 was attended by several Anglicans, in... | When was the Massey conference held? | 573249980fdd8d15006c6906 | 1964 | 278 | null | -1 | false |
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