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when did the anaheim angels win the world series? | [
"2002"
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"text": "Kennedy was the ALCS MVP. The 2002 World Series was the 98th edition of the Fall Classic, held from October 19–27, 2002. The series featured the American League champion Anaheim Angels defeating the National League champion San Francisco Giants, 4–3, to win the franchise's first ever World Series. The series was notable as being the first time since the 1995 inception of the wild card in Major League Baseball that two wild card teams would vie for the title. It was also the fourth World Series played between two teams from California (after , , and , when the Giants",
"title": "2002 Anaheim Angels season"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.88,
"text": "won to clinch the series 4-3. The morning after the win, \"\"The Orange County Register\"\" celebrated the Angels' win with the headline \"\"7th Heaven,\"\" referring to the popular television series and fact that it took seven games for the Angels to win the World Series, and in doing so, it sent them to seventh heaven. 2002 was also notable as the season in which the Angels debuted their present-day uniforms, colors, and halo insignia, which replaced the widely ridiculed \"\"periwinkle\"\" uniforms and \"\"winged\"\" insignia they had worn since 1997. It was also the last season the team was owned by",
"title": "2002 Anaheim Angels season"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.42,
"text": "in a run before Darin Erstad's groundout scored the last run of the inning. Ben Weber and Troy Percival pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth, respectively as the Angels' 13–5 win earned them the American League pennant. The Anaheim Angels would go on to win the 2002 World Series against the San Francisco Giants. The Minnesota Twins, despite having lost the American League Championship Series, would go on to win the American League Central for two more consecutive years, although they would lose in the American League Division Series both years to the New York Yankees. Within six months, another",
"title": "2002 American League Championship Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.41,
"text": "2002 World Series The 2002 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 2002 season. The 98th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Anaheim Angels and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Angels defeated the Giants, four games to three, to win their first World Series championship. The series was played from October 19–27, 2002, at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco and Edison International Field of Anaheim in Anaheim. This was the first World Series since the 1995 inception of the wild card",
"title": "2002 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.31,
"text": "with the Angels splitting the first two games at Yankee Stadium. The Angels then proceeded to win the next two games, earning their ticket to the ALCS and winning their first postseason series in franchise history. The 2002 American League Championship Series featured the Wildcard winner Anaheim Angels and the AL Central champion Minnesota Twins. The series began on October 8, 2002 with the Angels splitting the first two games at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Angels then went home where they won three straight at Edison Field to earn a spot in the 2002 World Series. Infielder Adam",
"title": "2002 Anaheim Angels season"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.23,
"text": "just their first appearance, making them the most recent teams to do so. The Angels became the first American League (AL) champion team not representing the AL East Division to win the World Series since the Minnesota Twins in 1991. The Angels were also the first American League Wild Card winner to win the World Series. With this win the Angels got rid of the supposed curse on their head stemming from Anaheim Stadium being built on an ancient Indian burial ground. 2002 World Series (4–3): Anaheim Angels (A.L.) over San Francisco Giants (N.L.) The Angels and the Giants combined",
"title": "2002 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.22,
"text": "in the tying run. Angels relief pitcher Doug Corbett pitched a perfect tenth and eleventh innings, and California broke through in the bottom of the eleventh. Jerry Narron scored on Bobby Grich's one-out single off of Calvin Schiraldi, giving California a 4–3 win and a 3–1 series lead. Sunday, October 12, 1986, at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California Heading into Game 5, California looked set to earn their first-ever trip to a World Series. Rich Gedman's two-run home run in the second put the Red Sox up 2–0, but Bob Boone's home run off of Bruce Hurst in the third",
"title": "1986 American League Championship Series"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.91,
"text": "Santiago to even the series. Giants pitchers failed to strike out a batter for the entire game, the first time this had happened in the World Series since Game 7 of the 1960 World Series; as of 2016 it remains the last time a team has not recorded a strikeout in a World Series game. Anaheim won 10–4 in the first World Series game at Pacific Bell Park (now AT&T Park). The Angels batted around twice without a home run in either of their four-run innings. They became the first team in World Series history to bat around in consecutive",
"title": "2002 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.73,
"text": "was renamed the Anaheim Angels and became a subsidiary of Disney Sports, Inc. (later renamed Anaheim Sports, Inc.). Under Disney's ownership and the leadership of manager Mike Scioscia, the Angels won their first pennant and World Series championship in 2002. In 2005, new owner Arturo Moreno added \"\"Los Angeles\"\" to the team's name. In compliance with the terms of its lease with the city of Anaheim, which required \"\"Anaheim\"\" be a part of the team's name, the team was renamed the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Fans, residents and the municipal governments of both Anaheim and Los Angeles all objected",
"title": "Los Angeles Angels"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.72,
"text": "nearby Anaheim Angels would later claim their first World Series championship four months later. It marked the second occurrence that a city/metropolitan area won both NBA and Major League Baseball championships in the same calendar year. The last time this occurred was in 1988, when the Lakers won that year's NBA Finals in June; the Dodgers followed suit with a World Series victory four months later. In relation to sports of smaller leagues, the Los Angeles Sparks won the WNBA Finals two months after the Lakers' 2002 Finals victory; the Los Angeles Galaxy won the MLS Cup exactly one week",
"title": "2002 NBA Finals"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "Basketball Association's Finals and National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Finals. 2002 World Series The 2002 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 2002 season. The 98th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Anaheim Angels and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Angels defeated the Giants, four games to three, to win their first World Series championship. The series was played from October 19–27, 2002, at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco and Edison International Field of Anaheim in Anaheim. This was the first",
"title": "2002 World Series"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "1988–1990, winning once. 1988 and 1989 were all-California series as the A's lost to the Dodgers and beat the Giants, respectively. The Giants have been in four World Series' in the new millennium, losing in 2002 to the Anaheim Angels (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2005 to 2015), and winning in 2010 (Rangers), 2012 (Tigers), and 2014 (Royals). Prior to 1969, the National League and the American League each crowned its champion (the \"\"pennant winner\"\") based on the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season. A structured playoff series began in 1969, when both the National",
"title": "World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "Angeles Angels of Anaheim winning Game 1, but a controversial uncaught third strike in Game 2 helped the Sox start a run and win Games 2–5, all on complete games pitched by starters Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland, Freddy García, and José Contreras, clinching their first American League pennant in 46 years. Manager Ozzie Guillén then led the White Sox to a World Series victory, their first in 88 years. Slugger Frank Thomas was not on the post-season roster because he was injured, but the team honored his perennial contributions to the franchise during Game 1 of the Division Series against",
"title": "2005 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.34,
"text": "the Los Angeles Angels. The team won the World Series under manager Mike Scioscia in 2002. In 2005, new owner Arte Moreno wanted to change the name to \"\"Los Angeles Angels\"\" in order to better tap into the Los Angeles media market, the second largest in the country. However, the standing agreement with the city of Anaheim demanded that they have \"\"Anaheim\"\" in the name, so they became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This name change was hotly disputed by the city of Anaheim, but the change stood and still stands today, which prompted a lawsuit by the city",
"title": "Orange County, California"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "to the Anaheim Angels after holding a 3–2 series lead. It took the Giants until 2010 to get back to the World Series, and they won their first world championship since 1954, when the team was still located in New York, by defeating the Texas Rangers in five games. In , the Giants would go back to the World Series and defeat the Detroit Tigers in a four-game sweep, and in they would beat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to capture their third World Series crown in five seasons. On the A's, players Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco",
"title": "1989 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "2002 American League Championship Series The 2002 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a matchup between the Wild Card Anaheim Angels and the Central Division Champion Minnesota Twins. The Angels advanced to the Series after dethroning the reigning four-time AL Champion New York Yankees in the 2002 American League Division Series three games to one. The Twins made their way into the Series after beating the Athletics three games to two. The Angels won the Series four games to one and went on to defeat the San Francisco Giants in the 2002 World Series. Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at Hubert",
"title": "2002 American League Championship Series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "championship win, having won their first in 1997. The 2003 World Series featured the New York Yankees in their sixth Series appearance in eight years. Opposing them were the wild card Florida Marlins, appearing in their second World Series in their eleven-year franchise history. The Marlins became the second straight wild card team to win the World Series; the Anaheim Angels won in 2002. The series was, however, somewhat overshadowed by the League Championship Series that year, when the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox, both widely believed to be cursed, went down in dramatic defeats only five outs",
"title": "2003 World Series"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "Award. Jarrod Washburn went 18-6 with a 3.15 earned run average to anchor a pitching staff that allowed the fewest runs in the league. In the postseason, the Angels defeated the New York Yankees 3-1 in the American League Division Series, then defeated the Minnesota Twins 4-1 in the American League Championship Series to win the AL pennant. The Angels then won the World Series in dramatic fashion when, with a 3-2 series deficit to the San Francisco Giants, they overcame a 5 run deficit in the late innings of Game 6 to force a winner-take-all Game 7, which they",
"title": "2002 Anaheim Angels season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.14,
"text": "Stadium and finally won the fifth game at Angel Stadium ultimately winning the series 3–2. The 2005 American League Championship Series featured the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the AL Central champion Chicago White Sox. The series began on October 11, 2005 with the Angels winning the first game at U.S. Cellular Field, but after an incredibly controversial second game loss, the Angels dropped the next three and lost the series 4–1. Because of the controversy surrounding game two, Angel fans to this day (as of the 2013 season) give A. J. Pierzynski a poor welcome",
"title": "2005 Los Angeles Angels season"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "however. Prior to the Angels' World Series victory in 2002, some had theorized that the team did not have success because its stadium, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, was supposedly built upon an ancient Native American burial ground (although Anaheim city historians have not been able to either confirm or debunk the theory). The Walt Disney Company effectively took control of the Angels in 1996, when it was able to gain enough support on the board to hire Tony Tavares as team president. Gene Autry, however, remained as chairman until his death in 1998. In 1999, Tavares hired Bill Stoneman as",
"title": "History of the Los Angeles Angels"
}
] |
who played the baby in superman the movie? | [
"Aaron Smolinski"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.41,
"text": "hosting the game show \"\"To Tell the Truth\"\". He returned to Superman by voicing \"\"The New Adventures of Superman\"\" for CBS in 1966. Three years later, he was dead of a circulatory ailment at the age of 61. Lee Quigley, who played Superman as a baby in the 1978 film, died in 1991 at age 14 of solvent abuse. George Reeves played Superman in the 1951 film \"\"Superman and the Mole Men\"\" and the ensuing television series \"\"Adventures of Superman.\"\" Like Alyn and Reeve, he was too closely associated with the role to find further work. On June 16, 1959,",
"title": "Superman curse"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.83,
"text": "Little Superman Little Superman is a 2014 Malayalam 3-D superhero film directed by Vinayan, starring Master Deny, Baby Nayanthara, Ansiba Hassan and Praveena in the lead roles. The film was inspired by the superhero character Superman. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil and Hindi. Willy Wilson, a 12 year old comic book aficionado, falls into a manhole and gets trapped inside it for days and soon figures out that he has the ability to fly and lift things up with the help of telekinesis. The music of \"\"Little Superman\"\" is by Mohan Sithara and the Background Music by",
"title": "Little Superman"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "Superman (Salkind films) Superman (Kal-El) or just Clark Kent is a fictional character portrayed by Christopher Reeve in the \"\"Superman\"\" film series produced by Ilya and Alexander Salkind and is an adaption of the original comic book character, Superman. The character went through many casting interviews until Christopher Reeve was chosen. Superman is portrayed as a superhero who stands for \"\"truth, justice and the American way\"\". The character has received positive reception and is ranked as one of the best performances in superhero films. In \"\"Superman\"\", the film tells the origin of Superman as it depicts baby Kal-El escaping from",
"title": "Superman (Salkind films)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "romance between Lois and Clark as much as the adventures of Clark's alter-ego, Superman. On May 17, 1966, Jonathan and Martha Kent (Eddie Jones and K. Callan) witness the crash-landing of a small spaceship in Shuster's Field outside of Smallville, Kansas. When they investigate, they discover the baby Kal-El and decide to raise him as their own naming him, Clark Jerome Kent (Dean Cain). Throughout the series, Clark proudly states his mother made his Superman costume for him. Clark often consults his parents either by telephone or in person, after impromptu Superman flights to Smallville, about personal and moral concerns",
"title": "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.42,
"text": "the role would be. He later said, \"\"By the late 1970s, the masculine image had changed... Now it was acceptable for a man to show gentleness and vulnerability. I felt that the new Superman ought to reflect that contemporary male image.\"\" He based his portrayal of Clark Kent on Cary Grant in his role in \"\"Bringing Up Baby\"\". After the screen test, his driver said, \"\"I'm not supposed to tell you this, but you've got the part.\"\" Reeve was a talented all-around athlete. Portraying the role of Superman would be a stretch for the young actor, but he was tall",
"title": "Christopher Reeve"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.38,
"text": "Lex Luthor, identified by his bald head and grab him, only to realize he had captured Telly Savalas who would remark \"\"Who loves ya, baby?\"\" and offer Superman a lollipop. Dick [Donner] had done away with much of that inanity.\"\" Reeve's own performance as a corrupted Man of Steel received praise, particularly the junkyard battle between this newly darkened Superman and Clark Kent. One of the film's positive reviews was from the fiction writer Donald Barthelme, who praised Reeve as \"\"perfect\"\", also describing Vaughn as \"\"essentially playing William Buckley - all those delicious ponderings, popping of the eyes, licking of",
"title": "Superman III"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "He applied 3 to 4 hours of prosthetic makeup daily to facially resemble Reeve. Christopher Reeve first imagined the approach of his role on a plane ride to London. Reeve felt that in 1970s, the masculine image had changed and that it was acceptable \"\"for a man to show gentleness and vulnerability.\"\" He also felt \"\"that the new Superman ought to reflect that contemporary male image.\"\" Reeve would base his portrayal of Clark Kent, Superman's alter ego, on Cary Grant in his role in \"\"Bringing Up Baby\"\". His personality as depicted in the films is a do gooder with little",
"title": "Superman (Salkind films)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "Jovey George Sujo. The lyrics are written by Kaithapram Damodaran. \"\"Little Superman\"\" was released on 07 Nov 2014 (India). Little Superman Little Superman is a 2014 Malayalam 3-D superhero film directed by Vinayan, starring Master Deny, Baby Nayanthara, Ansiba Hassan and Praveena in the lead roles. The film was inspired by the superhero character Superman. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil and Hindi. Willy Wilson, a 12 year old comic book aficionado, falls into a manhole and gets trapped inside it for days and soon figures out that he has the ability to fly and lift things up",
"title": "Little Superman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "shifted to the usual origin story, in which Kal-El landed on Earth as a baby and was raised by the Kent family. Clayton \"\"Bud\"\" Collyer voiced both Clark Kent and Superman, until Michael Fitzmaurice replaced him in the final episodes. In the film serials \"\"Superman\"\" (1948) and \"\"Atom Man vs. Superman\"\" (1950), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the \"\"Daily Planet\"\", following the death of his foster parents. While he quickly gains the respect of \"\"Planet\"\" editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane,",
"title": "Clark Kent"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "that in his absence Lois Lane has given birth to a son and become engaged. Singer chose to follow Donner's lead by casting relatively unknown Brandon Routh as Superman, who resembled Christopher Reeve somewhat, and more high-profile actors in supporting roles, such as Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. Singer brought his entire crew from \"\"X2\"\" to work on the film. Via digitally-enhanced archive footage, the late Marlon Brando appeared in the film as Jor-El. \"\"Superman Returns\"\" received positive reviews and grossed approximately $391 million worldwide. In February 2006, four months before the release of \"\"Superman Returns\"\", Warner Bros. announced a",
"title": "Superman in film"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.92,
"text": "the past few days. The 2006 film \"\"Superman Returns\"\" serves as a homage sequel to \"\"Superman\"\" and \"\"Superman II\"\". Brandon Routh played the role of Superman/Clark Kent and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. In the film, Superman has disappeared for many years. On his return to Earth, not only did he find the world he left behind has changed in ways he didn't expect, but the woman he loves, Lois Lane, is a mother and is engaged to Richard White (Perry White's nephew). Lois and Richard's son, Jason White, is later revealed to be Superman's son after the child begins",
"title": "Superman and Lois Lane"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.91,
"text": "saying \"\"He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype. He's Woody Allen.\"\" Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in \"\"Bringing Up Baby\"\". This same theme is mirrored in other 1940s superheroes. In the scene where Lois Lane interviews Superman on the balcony, Superman replies, \"\"I never lie.\"\" Salkind felt this was an important point in the film, since Superman, living under his secret identity as Clark Kent, is \"\"telling the biggest lie of all time.\"\" His romance with Lois also leads",
"title": "Superman (Salkind films)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "sunrise for further adventures. Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill have cameo appearances as Lois Lane's father and mother in a deleted scene that was restored in later home media releases. Alyn and Neill portrayed Superman and Lois Lane in the film serials \"\"Superman\"\" (1948) and \"\"Atom Man vs. Superman\"\" (1950), and were the first actors to portray the characters onscreen in a live-action format. Neill reprised her role in the 1950s \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" TV series. Larry Hagman and Rex Reed also make cameos; Hagman plays an army major in charge of a convoy that is transporting one of the",
"title": "Superman (1978 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.36,
"text": "Superman (1978 film) Superman (informally titled Superman: The Movie in some listings and reference sources) is a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner starring Christopher Reeve as Superman based on the DC Comics character of the same name. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Panama and the United States, the film stars an ensemble cast featuring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Jeff East, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Jack O'Halloran, Maria Schell, and Sarah Douglas. It depicts Superman's origin, including his infancy as",
"title": "Superman (1978 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "ended on a cliffhanger where Clark and Lois find an infant in their home with a note saying the child belongs to them. This mystery was never solved on the series. Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain received critical praise for their performances. Lane Smith was a huge success, breathing life and humor into the Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White. John Shea also received positive reviews for his portrayal of Lex Luthor. Michael Landes' modern-day portrayal of Jimmy Olsen gained a cult following, as did Tracy Scoggins' comedic portrayal of Cat Grant. Lex Luthor's death in the season finale occurred after",
"title": "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "uncredited appearances in a deleted scene in which Superman rescues a girl, played by his daughter Alexandra, and reunites her with her brother, played by his son Matthew, after Nuclear Man creates a tornado in Smallville. Reeve would have made a fifth Superman film after the rights to the character reverted to Alexander Salkind, Ilya Salkind, and Pierre Spengler if said film had a budget the same size as that of \"\"Superman: The Movie\"\". Although there was potential for such a film in the late 1980s after Cannon Films went bankrupt, Reeve never received any script. In 1993, two years",
"title": "Christopher Reeve"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.12,
"text": "John Doucette, Norma Varden, Roy Barcroft, Elizabeth Patterson, and George Chandler. Director Tommy Carr's brother Steve appeared as an unbilled extra in nearly every one of the first 26 shows and frequently in more substantial character roles. He was also the show's dialogue director and was the man pointing \"\"up in the sky\"\" in the introductions of the black-and-white shows. Episodes follow Superman as he battles gangsters, thugs, mad scientists and non-human dangers like asteroids, robots, and malfunctioning radioactive machines. In the first episode—the \"\"origin\"\" episode—Superman's infant life on the planet Krypton, his arrival on Earth, and a family couple",
"title": "Adventures of Superman (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.03,
"text": "Reeve). She declined to make a third appearance on the show after Reeve's death because she felt it would be doing his memory a disservice. Actress Kate Bosworth played Lois Lane in the 2006 film \"\"Superman Returns\"\" opposite Brandon Routh, directed and produced by Bryan Singer. Superman has returned to earth after many years away and learns that Lois has given birth to a son named Jason White and is engaged to Richard White (Perry White's nephew). Jason is shown starting to develop superpowers of his own, indicating he is Superman's son. Actress Amy Adams portrays Lois Lane in the",
"title": "Lois Lane"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "with Superman flying off to Krypton in a spaceship. Brett Ratner was hired to direct in September 2002, originally expressing an interest in casting an unknown for the lead role, while filming was to start sometime in late 2003. Christopher Reeve joined as project consultant, citing Tom Welling, who portrayed the teenage Clark Kent in \"\"Smallville\"\", as an ideal candidate. Reeve added \"\"the character is more important than the actor who plays him, because it is an enduring mythology. It definitely should be an unknown.\"\" Ratner approached Josh Hartnett, Jude Law, Paul Walker and Brendan Fraser for Superman, but conceded",
"title": "Superman in film"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "director John Carpenter thought he was too tough looking and too old for the part, and decided to cast Kurt Russell instead. Bronson auditioned for the role of Superman for the 1978 film adaptation, but producer Ilya Salkind turned him down for being too earthy and decided to cast Christopher Reeve. His first marriage was to Harriet Tendler, whom he met when both were fledgling actors in Philadelphia. They had two children before divorcing in 1965. She wrote in her memoir that she \"\"was an 18-year-old virgin when she met the 26-year-old Charlie Buchinsky at a Philadelphia acting school in",
"title": "Charles Bronson"
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who is the red headed girl in charlie brown? | [
"Heather Wold"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.41,
"text": "Little Red-Haired Girl The Little Red-Haired Girl is an unseen character in the \"\"Peanuts\"\" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, who serves as the object of Charlie Brown's affection, and a symbol of unrequited love. While never seen in the strip, she appears onscreen in several television specials, in which her name has been revealed as Heather Wold. Charlie Brown most often notices her while eating lunch outdoors, always failing to muster the courage to speak to her. She figures prominently in Valentine's Day strips, several of which focus on Charlie Brown's hope of getting a valentine from her. Charlie",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "Red-Headed Girl her Valentine's Day card, but he ends up saying \"\"Merry Christmas\"\", making a fool out of himself. He goes to see Lucy, who is at her psychiatrist booth. He tells her all the things he thinks of himself. Lucy then clears it up by saying that Charlie Brown is unique the way he is, then asks for the five cent price (\"\"The Doctor Is In\"\"). Later, Charlie Brown sees a happy Schroeder spreading the word of Beethoven's birthday and pulling together a celebration. He and company join Schroeder in the song of jubilation (\"\"Beethoven Day\"\"). At noon, Linus,",
"title": "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.53,
"text": "love interest was dubbed \"\"The Little Red-Haired Girl\"\", as he didn't know her name and had never even talked to her. Charlie Brown liked to watch the little Red-Haired girl but hid from her sight because he is too shy to let her see him. She was usually not shown, being outside the panel, and her only actual appearance was silhouetted. Charlie Brown did fall in love with Peggy Jean, a girl first featured in the July 23, 1990 strip. Most of the other girls call him \"\"wishy-washy\"\"; however, the characters Peppermint Patty and Marcie were both infatuated towards him.",
"title": "Charlie Brown"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "making her first ever onscreen appearance. Linus tells Charlie Brown that her name is \"\"Heather\"\", and that she is the Homecoming Queen. Charlie Brown becomes a wreck, trying desperately to impress her once he learns that he has been chosen to escort her to the dance after the football game. After spending nearly the entire duration of the special stressing about meeting her, he eventually musters up the courage to give her a kiss. Heather appeared onscreen again in the 1985 special \"\"Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!\"\" She did not have a speaking role in either of the aforementioned specials.",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "Little Red-Haired Girl spoke in all Peanuts-related media, with Charlie Brown finally succeeding in talking to her. She is voiced by Francesca Capaldi who also voiced Frieda. A former co-worker, Donna Mae Wold (born Donna Mae Johnson January 3, 1929 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died August 8, 2016 in Richfield, Minnesota), was Schulz's inspiration for the character. A 1947 high school graduate, Johnson was working in the accounting department of the Art Instruction, Inc., a correspondence school where Schulz worked. Johnson and Schulz eventually became romantically involved and dated for three years, but in 1950 when Schulz proposed to her, she",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "where it is stated that she is aware of Charlie Brown (despite his belief that she does not know he exists) and is talking about him to the other girls at camp, although what she says of him and how she feels about him are not stated. Eventually, the Little Red-Haired Girl moved back to Charlie Brown's neighborhood, with no further mention of her ever having been away. The 1967 \"\"Peanuts\"\" animated TV special \"\"You're in Love, Charlie Brown\"\" revolved entirely around Charlie Brown's obsession with the Little Red-Haired Girl. After several failed attempts at making conversation with her on",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.73,
"text": "in. At the party, Charlie Brown sees Linus, and Linus tells him the Little Red Haired Girl is at the party, so he should ask her to dance with him. Charlie Brown decides Linus is right, and starts walking towards the Little Red Haired Girl, getting more nervous with every step he takes. But before he could make it over to her, Peppermint Patty and Marcie find him, and start dancing with him, much to Charlie Brown's annoyance. When the two girls finally let him go, Charlie Brown realizes the Little Red Haired Girl is already dancing with somebody else.",
"title": "A Charlie Brown Valentine"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "Brown typically attempts to give her a valentine but panics at the last minute. Charlie Brown first catches sight of her in the November 19, 1961 strip, saying he would \"\"give anything in the world if that little girl with the red hair would come over and sit with me.\"\" In July 1969, a story arc ran depicting the Little Red-Haired Girl moving away. Charlie Brown despaired that he would never see her again. He saw her from a distance later that year while skiing. Peppermint Patty and Marcie encountered her at summer camp a few years later in 1972,",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.53,
"text": "sequence used in the second season of \"\"The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show\"\", in which she again looks different from her other appearances. Another appearance includes the 1988 special \"\"Snoopy!!! The Musical\"\" (albeit a brief cameo). She also appears in \"\"A Charlie Brown Valentine\"\". In \"\"The Peanuts Movie\"\", she has a much different design based on the earlier mentioned silhouette, and on the test score sheet, it is revealed her name is Heather Wold, after her name in the specials and the last name of Donna Wold, the real-life inspiration behind the character. The film marked the first time the",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown is the 32nd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip \"\"Peanuts,\"\" by Charles M. Schulz. It is a hybrid of animation and live-action footage, and features Spike instead of the core \"\"Peanuts\"\" characters. A spin-off focused on Spike's unrequited love for a young woman, it was described to being similar to \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\". Spike waves to a young woman driving an old red Chevrolet pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day; it is the",
"title": "It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.3,
"text": "Schulz did not consider these animated appearances to be canonical, although he wrote the screenplay himself. The Little Red-Haired Girl was once seen in the comics in silhouette on May 25, 1998, dancing with Snoopy. When the storyline was adapted as part of the 2002 special \"\"A Charlie Brown Valentine\"\", she was seen unshadowed but had a different design than suggested by the silhouette, and completely different from her two previous appearances in \"\"It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown\"\" and \"\"Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!\"\" A third animated version of the Little Red-Haired Girl is briefly seen in the introduction",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.3,
"text": "the last two days of school, she stuffs a note into Charlie Brown's hands as students rush past him to board the school bus. Thinking he has ruined his final chance at meeting her, he reads the letter, which affectionately states, \"\"I like you, Charlie Brown. Signed, the Little Red-Haired Girl.\"\" Ecstatic, Charlie Brown skips his way home, realizing he has triumphed against what he considers all odds. Throughout the entirety of \"\"You're in Love, Charlie Brown\"\", the Little Red-Haired Girl is not seen once. The Little Red-Haired Girl returned in the 1977 special \"\"It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown\"\",",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "doesn't know what to do about the Little Red Haired Girl. Linus suggests Charlie Brown should invite her to the school Valentine's Day dance. Charlie Brown agrees, but first asks Linus to talk to her to find out if she likes him. Linus goes over and asks her if she likes Charlie Brown. However, the Little Red Haired girl has no idea there was a kid in their class named Charlie Brown. Later, in class, Charlie Brown tries to impress the Little Red Haired Girl by winking at her. However, before she can notice him, the teacher sends Charlie Brown",
"title": "A Charlie Brown Valentine"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "in the drawing strongly resembles Patty (not to be confused with the later character Peppermint Patty), a character who was prominent in the early days of the strip. A book containing the sketch also has a photo of Johnson with Schulz. \"\"I'd like to see Charlie Brown kick that football, and if he gets the little red-haired girl, that's fine with me,\"\" Donna said around the time Schulz announced his retirement in 1999. On Valentine's Day 2011, the Schulz Museum gave free admission to all redheaded girls and boys in honor of the Little Red-Haired Girl. Little Red-Haired Girl The",
"title": "Little Red-Haired Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "highlight of his day. In this combined animated and live-action special, we meet her, aerobics instructor Jenny, who wants to be a big city jazz dancer. She and Spike drive around, looking at the desert scenery and spending some time at a roller rink. However, when Spike is accidentally thrown out of the rink he runs off, and is pursued by people on a nighttime coyote hunt. A sub-plot sees Jenny's boyfriend, Jeff, set up an audition for her, which she is angry about because he did it without consulting her. It is a departure from the usual \"\"Peanuts\"\" specials.",
"title": "It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "the object of his desires, the Little Red-Haired Girl, but gets his hand caught in the mail slot. With the party on his mind, he attempts to try to find another way to write the report, even going to a bookstore to find an audiobook and computer game of it, all to no avail. While at the party, he tries to finish the book on the front porch of the house, but falls asleep and misses the clock's striking of midnight but is more devastated to find out that Linus ended up dancing with the Little Red-Haired Girl, who showed",
"title": "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.02,
"text": "So far, the special received mixed to negative reviews. Recently, MetLife used the \"\"Peanuts\"\" characters in cartoon form for their live-action commercials, and would continue to use the characters until October 20, 2016. Snoopy has brief cameo appearances but is silent. It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown is the 32nd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip \"\"Peanuts,\"\" by Charles M. Schulz. It is a hybrid of animation and live-action footage, and features Spike instead of the core \"\"Peanuts\"\" characters. A spin-off focused on Spike's",
"title": "It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "Lucy (as usual) pulls it away, and the round-headed boy lands on his back as a result. While Charlie Brown and Linus are practicing for the contest, they notice a very pretty girl, who catches Linus's attention. They both walk over to her, and introduce themselves to her. The girl says her name is Melody-Melody, and has been watching them. They flirt with her, and take her out for hot fudge sundaes. They then try to impress her, and try to tell her how they'll be entering the punt-and-pass contest. Melody says she will be rooting for them at the",
"title": "You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "entangled around his waist and sails away with him. Amazed to see Charlie Brown flying a kite, his friends follow. Upon reaching the bus, Charlie Brown finally asks the Little Red-Haired Girl why she has chosen him in spite of his failures. The Little Red-Haired Girl explains she admires his selflessness and his determination and praises him as an honest, caring, and compassionate person. The two promise to write to one another; the other children congratulate him as a true friend and carry him off. In a subplot, after finding a typewriter in the school dumpster, Snoopy writes a novel",
"title": "The Peanuts Movie"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "way home, Lucy and Violet jeer at Charlie Brown for a ridiculous answer he gave in class. Linus defends him by revealing that he loves the Little Red-Haired Girl, but this only gives the girls another way to humiliate Charlie Brown. At home Charlie Brown finds out that his sister is wearing her graduation clothes and Sally tells Charlie Brown that she is graduating kindergarten and is going to the 1st grade. That afternoon, Charlie Brown goes over to Lucy's psychiatry booth, but Lucy, already upset over Schroeder ignoring her after she breaks his piano and Beethoven bust, is not",
"title": "You're in Love, Charlie Brown"
}
] |
who won the us golf open in 2004? | [
"Retief Goosen"
] | [
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"score": 27.03,
"text": "2004 U.S. Open (golf) The 2004 United States Open Championship was the 104th U.S. Open, held June 17–20 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Shinnecock Hills, New York. Retief Goosen won his second U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson, the reigning Masters The purse was $6.25 million with a winner's share of $1.125 Late on Sunday in dry and breezy conditions, Goosen birdied the 16th hole and Mickelson double-bogeyed the par-3 Goosen's previous U.S. Open win was in 2001 in a playoff at Southern Hills. This was the fourth U.S. Open hosted by Shinnecock Hills. The",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.73,
"text": "73 and Vijay Singh stumbled with \"\"Sunday, June 20, 2004\"\" Retief Goosen held his nerve and won his second U.S. Open, edging out Phil Mickelson by two shots with a closing 71 (+1) on Sunday to finish at four-under 276. Conditions were brutal on the final day when the average final-round score was 78.7 and no one was Mickelson, urged on by raucous New York galleries on a windswept sunny afternoon, completed a matching 71 for his third runner-up spot in the last six U.S. Opens. Goosen led by two going into the final day, but was overtaken by Mickelson",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.48,
"text": "shot an 83, the worst round in the field, but was in high spirits afterwards. \"\"Friday, June 18, 2004\"\" Phil Mickelson surged into the lead, trying to become the sixth to win the first two majors of the year, with a bogey-free 66. He tied for the lead with Shigeki Maruyama, who bogeyed the 18th hole and shot 68. Ernie Els had four consecutive birdies in a round of 67. Jeff Maggert was in solo third at five-under-par with a 67, while Fred Funk and Retief Goosen both shot 66 to tie for fourth. Ángel Cabrera had a crazy day",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.3,
"text": "former champions were James Foulis (1896), Raymond Floyd (1986), and Corey Pavin (1995). The second U.S. Open was held at Shinnecock in 1896, but ninety years went by before it hosted again. The 1986 edition was held on a completely revamped course. Floyd, age 43, entered the final round three shots behind and shot a 66 in difficult scoring conditions to win his fourth major. The conditions were similar in 1995, with no one under par. Pavin played the final ten holes in three-under-par on the way to a 68 and the win. He hit a memorable 4-wood to the",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.05,
"text": "2003 U.S. Open (golf) The 2003 United States Open Championship was the 103rd U.S. Open, held June 12–15 at the North Course of Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Jim Furyk won his only major championship, three shots ahead of runner-up Stephen Leaney. With a total score of 272, Furyk tied the record for the lowest 72-hole score in U.S. Open history, also achieved in 2000 and 1980 (and since lowered to 268 in 2011). Another record was equalled by Vijay Singh, who tied Neal Lancaster's 9-hole record of 29 on the back",
"title": "2003 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.91,
"text": "only six countries other than the United States have won the championship, most notably South Africa, which has won five times since 1965. A streak of four consecutive non-American winners occurred from 2004 to 2007 for the first time since 1910. These four players, South African Retief Goosen (2004), New Zealander Michael Campbell (2005), Australian Geoff Ogilvy (2006) and Argentine Ángel Cabrera (2007), are all from countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell (2010) became the first European player to win the event since Tony Jacklin of England in 1970; three more Europeans won in the next four",
"title": "U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.89,
"text": "2004 US Open (tennis) The 2004 US Open was held between August 30, 2004 – September 12, 2004. Both Andy Roddick and Justine Henin-Hardenne were unsuccessful in their title defences, Roddick losing in the quarter-finals to Joachim Johansson and Henin-Hardenne falling in the fourth round to Nadia Petrova. On the men's side, Roger Federer won his first US Open, defeating rival and 2001 champion Lleyton Hewitt in a lopsided final. Svetlana Kuznetsova won the women's title defeating Elena Dementieva in the final. Roger Federer defeated Lleyton Hewitt, 6–0, 7–6, 6–0 Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Elena Dementieva, 6–3, 7–5 Mark Knowles /",
"title": "2004 US Open (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.84,
"text": "Hamilton, Joakim Haeggman, Scott Hoch, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Zach Johnson, Shigeki Maruyama, Craig Parry Raymond Floyd \"\"Thursday, June 17, 2004\"\" Fifty-year-old Jay Haas led after one round, in a bid to become the oldest major champion in history. He was joined at the lead by Shigeki Maruyama and Ángel Cabrera. Two-time major champion Vijay Singh shot a solid 68, as did current Masters champion Phil Mickelson. Former U.S. Open champions Ernie Els and Retief Goosen shot an even-par 70 after rough starts. World Number 1 Tiger Woods struggled on Shinnecock's fast conditions and settled for a two-over-par 72. David Duval",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.83,
"text": "in the closing stretch, with back-to-back birdies on 15 and 16. But Mickelson, bidding to become the sixth player to win the first two majors of the year, immediately fell back with a double-bogey at the par-three 17th, three-putting from . In the final pair with compatriot Ernie Els, Goosen restored his two-shot advantage with a birdie putt on 16 and parred the final two holes to seal In a nearly unprecedented action, the USGA needed to water a few of the greens during play including the 7th green when players were not able to prevent the ball from rolling",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.7,
"text": "Arnold Palmer (1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1994), Seve Ballesteros (1978, 1994), Gary Player (1981, 1983), Lee Trevino (1983, 1984), Hale Irwin (1990, 2002, 2003), Jack Nicklaus (1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000), Tom Watson (1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2010). Irwin won the 1990 U.S. Open after accepting a special exemption. In the 2016, a special exemption was extended to former champion Retief Goosen (2001, 2004). In 2018, a special exemption was extended to former U.S. Open champions Jim Furyk (2003) and Ernie Els (1994, 1997). The purse at the 2017 U.S. Open was $12 million, and the winner's",
"title": "U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.69,
"text": "par\"\"<br> 2003 U.S. Open (golf) The 2003 United States Open Championship was the 103rd U.S. Open, held June 12–15 at the North Course of Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Jim Furyk won his only major championship, three shots ahead of runner-up Stephen Leaney. With a total score of 272, Furyk tied the record for the lowest 72-hole score in U.S. Open history, also achieved in 2000 and 1980 (and since lowered to 268 in 2011). Another record was equalled by Vijay Singh, who tied Neal Lancaster's 9-hole record of 29 on the",
"title": "2003 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "2004 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship The 2004 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 59th U.S. Women's Open, held July 1–4 at the Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, Massachusetts, a suburb north of Springfield. The event was televised by ESPN and NBC Sports. Meg Mallon won her second U.S. Women's Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Annika Sörenstam. The 54-hole leader was Jennifer Rosales at 206 (−7), with Mallon, Sörenstam, and Kelly Robbins three strokes back at 209 (−4). In the final round, Mallon shot 65 (−6) to Sorenstam's 67 (−4), and Rosales fell down to fourth",
"title": "2004 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "2005 U.S. Open (golf) The 2005 United States Open Championship was the 105th U.S. Open, held June 16–19 at Pinehurst Resort Course No. 2 in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Michael Campbell won his only major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods; third-round leader and two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen collapsed on the It was the second of three U.S. Opens at the course, which first hosted in 1999, when Payne Stewart won his second U.S. Open four months before his death in an aviation accident. Six years was the shortest gap between U.S. Opens at the same site",
"title": "2005 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.5,
"text": "after a 66 to shoot a 71. Corey Pavin, the previous champion at Shinnecock in 1995, tied with Vijay Singh at four strokes back. Tiger Woods shot 69 for 141 (+1), tied for 18th. World Number 4 Davis Love III missed the cut, as did David Duval. Jay Haas (E) and amateur Bill Haas (+5) were the second father and son to make the cut in the same U.S. Open; it was first accomplished 46 years earlier in 1948 by Joe Kirkwood, Sr. and Joe Kirkwood, Jr. \"\"Saturday, June 19, 2004\"\" Retief Goosen battled his way into a two-shot lead",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.39,
"text": "since 1946. The total purse was with a winner's share of $1.17 million. It was only the second U.S. Open at Pinehurst, because of past concerns of high temperatures and its distance from a major populated area. At the first in 1999, Payne Stewart won his second U.S. Open (and third major) in one of the most remarkable U.S. Open victories ever. He trailed playing partner Phil Mickelson by one stroke as they played the 16th hole, where he made an amazing putt for par while Mickelson missed his from . Stewart birdied 17 to take the lead and holed",
"title": "2005 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "purse. The amount depends on their US Open Series placement and US Open result. If both are won then the bonus is $1 million as of 2010. Lleyton Hewitt and Lindsay Davenport were the top point-getters in 2004, Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters won in 2005, and Andy Roddick and Ana Ivanovic won in 2006. Defending US Open champions Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova won in 2007. In 2005, whereas Roddick was upset in the first round against Gilles Müller at the Open, Clijsters became the first player to win both the US Open Series and the US Open, receiving",
"title": "US Open Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.11,
"text": "off. Jeff Maggert (72) finished third at one-over 281, while 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir (74) and Shigeki Maruyama (76) were three shots further back at 284 in a tie for fourth. World number two Els, joint second overnight with Mickelson, produced four double-bogeys on his way to an 80 (+10), his worst score in a U.S. Open, and tied for ninth at 287. Top-ranked Tiger Woods, who began nine shots off the battled to a 76 and a share of 17th place. A mix of five bogeys, a double-bogey and a birdie at the last left him at 290",
"title": "2004 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "Browne and Rocco Mediate had the first round lead at Pinehurst No. 2. While Masters champion Tiger Woods battled to an even-par 70 and two time winner Ernie Els ground out a 71. Retief Goosen launched his title defense with a three-birdie 68 for a three-way tie for third, 2004 Masters winner Phil Mickelson returned a 69 after holing a 20-foot birdie putt at the last and world number two Vijay Singh opened with a 70. \"\"Friday, June 17, 2005\"\" Two-time champion Retief Goosen shared the lead in the U.S. Open second round after most of the field struggled on",
"title": "2005 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.95,
"text": "1904 U.S. Open (golf) The 1904 U.S. Open was the tenth U.S. Open, held July 8–9 at Glen View Club in Golf, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. Defending champion Willie Anderson won the third of his four U.S. Open titles, five strokes ahead of runner-up Gilbert Nicholls. Anderson shared the lead with Stewart Gardner at 75 on Friday morning, but a 78 in the afternoon dropped him two behind after 36 holes. In the third round on Saturday morning, Fred Mackenzie shot 74 to take a two-stroke lead over Anderson and Gardner after 54 holes. Mackenzie and Gardner fell",
"title": "1904 U.S. Open (golf)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.77,
"text": "2004 Open Championship The 2004 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 133rd Open Championship, held from 15–18 July at the Old Course of Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Todd Hamilton won his only major championship, defeating 2002 champion Ernie Els by a stroke in a four-hole playoff. Phil Mickelson finished third, followed by Lee Westwood in fourth. Hamilton was the sixth consecutive American to win at Royal Troon. Royal Troon first hosted The Open Championship in 1923 and the 2004 Open was its eighth. Royal Troon's list of champions includes Arthur Havers (1923), 4-time",
"title": "2004 Open Championship"
}
] |
where did the 2006 winter olympics take place? | [
"Turin, Piedmont, Italy"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 27.34,
"text": "2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Turin 2006 or , was a winter multi-sport event which was held in Turin, Piedmont, Italy from February 10 to 26, 2006. This marked the second time that Italy had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, the first being the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Italy also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1960 in Rome. Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 Games in June 1999. The official motto of the XX Olympic Winter Games was \"\"Passion",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.92,
"text": "2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony The Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 26 February 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy. The games were formally closed by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge calling them \"\"magnificent\"\" This again departed from former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch's tradition of declaring each games \"\"best ever\"\" and continued Rogge's tradition of assigning each games their own identity in his comments. During the closing ceremony, in the Olympic Stadium, medals were presented for Cross country skiing at the cross-country skiing men's 50 km",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.7,
"text": "2006 Winter Olympics medal table The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Turin, Italy, from February 10 to February 26, 2006. A total of 2,508 athletes representing 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+3 from 2002 Olympics) participated in 84 events (+6 from 2002) from 15 different sports and disciplines (unchanged from 2002). Athletes from 26 NOCs won at least one medal, and athletes from 18 of these NOCs secured at least one gold. Germany won the highest number of gold medals (11) and led in overall medals (29)",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics medal table"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.64,
"text": "2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony The Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics (\"\"Torino 2006\"\") was held on February 10, 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy. The ceremony was attended by 35,000 spectators with the presence of numerous international and Italian guests on the stage and heads of state and government on the stands. The event was broadcast live to an estimated two-billion audience worldwide by 32 television cameras. The ceremony saluted the region's culture and history, was highlighted by Italian celebrities and showcased Italian designs. There were the customary parade of",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.59,
"text": "the track sports) were held in mountainous outlying villages for obvious reasons. Many venues were located in the Olympic District in central Turin, including: A record 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) entered athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This was an increase of two from the 78 represented at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed. It was the first appearance for Albania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. It was the only appearance at the Winter Olympics for Serbia and Montenegro, coming between their change of name in 2003 and Montenegro's",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.41,
"text": "the ceremony live, starting at 5.30 am AEST. In Spain, TVE2 broadcast the ceremony. In Italy, RAI broadcasts the ceremony live at the same time it start started. 2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony The Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 26 February 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy. The games were formally closed by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge calling them \"\"magnificent\"\" This again departed from former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch's tradition of declaring each games \"\"best ever\"\" and continued Rogge's tradition of assigning each games",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.19,
"text": "the Olympic movement were in attendance. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was absent primarily due his relative unpopularity with the people of Italy. 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony The Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics (\"\"Torino 2006\"\") was held on February 10, 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy. The ceremony was attended by 35,000 spectators with the presence of numerous international and Italian guests on the stage and heads of state and government on the stands. The event was broadcast live to an estimated two-billion audience worldwide by 32 television cameras.",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26,
"text": "and competed in every Winter Olympics between 1988 and Turin. The United States Virgin Islands have won a medal in Olympic competition only once, by Peter Holmberg in sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy from 10–26 February 2006; a total of 2,508 athletes participated, representing 80 National Olympic Committees. The team the USVI sent to Turin consisted of a single luger, Anne Abernathy. She was the flag bearer for both the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony. In the closing ceremony, she intended to carry her red racing helmet in one",
"title": "Virgin Islands at the 2006 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.73,
"text": "a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. 2006 Winter Olympics medal table The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Turin, Italy, from February 10 to February 26, 2006. A total of 2,508 athletes representing 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+3 from 2002 Olympics) participated in 84 events (+6 from 2002) from 15 different sports and disciplines (unchanged from 2002).",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics medal table"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.7,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's snowboard cross The men's snowboard cross event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on February 16, 2006. All competitors raced two qualification runs, with only the best of the two times used in the final ranking. The top 32 of the 36 competitors advanced to the 1/8 finals. Struck-through runs in the table below represent the discarded time for a competitor. Only one snowboarder, Michal Novotny, had first run that was faster than his second run.",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's snowboard cross"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.69,
"text": "2006 Arctic Winter Games Approximately 2,000 athletes, coaches, team staff and officials participated in the 2006 Arctic Winter Games on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska in the United States. The 2006 games took place from March 5 through March 11. Events were held mostly in the larger towns of Soldotna and Kenai, along with Homer (curling) and the Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood (alpine skiing and snowboarding.) Soldotna, Kenai, Homer, and the town of Seward also hosted cultural events. This was the fifth time Alaska had hosted the games. The 2008 Arctic Winter Games were held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Competition",
"title": "2006 Arctic Winter Games"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "Venues of the 2006 Winter Olympics For the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, a total of fifteen sports venues were used. Venue construction ran from 2002 to 2005. Cesana Pariol had to have turns 17 and 18 modified following the Luge World Cup in January 2005, but they were not cleared out until October 2005. Winds postponed the Nordic combined team event for a day. Many of the venues served as host for the Winter Universidade the following year. Stadio Olimpico in 1934 was known as Stadio Benito Mussolini. For the FIFA World Cup that took place that year,",
"title": "Venues of the 2006 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at the Torino Palasport Olimpico and the Torino Esposizioni in Turin, Italy. The men's competition, held from 15 to 26 February, was won by Sweden, and the women's competition, held from 11 to 20 February, was won by Canada. The format was changed from the version used in the 1998 and 2002 tournaments. This format was used in 1992 and 1994, the number of teams was reduced from 14 to 12 and the preliminary and final group stages were combined to form two six-team",
"title": "Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.64,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's parallel giant slalom The women's parallel giant slalom event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. The competition took place on February 23, 2006. The qualification runs started at 11 a.m. The athletes were allowed two runs, one on the blue course and one on the red course. The two times were added, and the top 16 snowboarders moved on to the 1/8 finals. The elimination rounds started at 2 p.m. The four quarterfinal losers entered the consolation bracket, where",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's parallel giant slalom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.64,
"text": "Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy, from 15 to 26 February. Twelve teams competed, with Sweden winning the gold medal, Finland winning silver, and the Czech Republic winning bronze. It was the third Olympic tournament to feature National Hockey League (NHL) players and the tenth best-on-best hockey tournament in history. United States defenseman Chris Chelios set a standard for longest time between his first Olympic ice hockey tournament and his last—he had competed twenty-two years earlier at the 1984 Olympics.",
"title": "Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.62,
"text": "Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February at the Torino Palavela. Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: No new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. The first round was held on 12 February. There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers in each advancing to the semifinals. The top two finishers in each of the three, six-man semifinals",
"title": "Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.58,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's snowboard cross The women's snowboard cross event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on February 17, 2006. All competitors raced two qualification runs, with only the better of the two times used in the final ranking. The top 16 of the 23 competitors advanced to the quarter-finals. Struck-through runs in the table below represent the discarded time for a competitor. The top 16 qualifiers advanced to the quarterfinal round. From here, they participated in four-person elimination",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's snowboard cross"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.58,
"text": "Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres The women's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February at the Torino Palavela. Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows: No new world and Olympic records were set during this competition. There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers advancing to the semifinals. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place",
"title": "Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.5,
"text": "and the closing ceremony, were held on February 26. The Swedish men's ice hockey team handed Finland their first loss in the final to take the gold medal. In the closing ceremony, Manuela Di Centa, a seven-time Olympic medalist from Italy and then-member of the International Olympic Committee, was scheduled to present the medals for the men's 50-kilometre cross-country skiing event. This resulted in her presenting the gold medal to her own brother when Giorgio Di Centa won the event to take his second gold medal. Olympic events were mainly held in Turin, but other events (namely skiing, snowboarding, and",
"title": "2006 Winter Olympics"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.42,
"text": "2006 Winter Paralympics The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games (Italian: \"\"IX Giochi paralimpici invernali\"\"), the ninth Winter Paralympics, took place in Turin, Italy from 10 to 19 March 2006. These were the first Winter Paralympic Games to be held in Italy. They were also the first Paralympics to use the new Paralympics logo. The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (Italy) is highlighted. The Games featured 58 medal events in five disciplines of four sports. As with other Paralympic Games, medals are awarded for each classification within each event. The sport of wheelchair",
"title": "2006 Winter Paralympics"
}
] |
who has sold the most music records of all time? | [
"The Beatles"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.03,
"text": "sold worldwide. \"\"Candle in the Wind 1997\"\" is the best-selling physical single of all time with 33 million copies sold. Although precise worldwide sales figure is hard to obtain, it is widely acknowledged that the Beatles have sold more records than any other artist in the history of recorded music. Before the existence of recording medium and its player, the music industry earned profit through selling musical compositions on sheet music. The very first sales chart published by \"\"Billboard\"\" magazine in the United States was the \"\"Sheet Music Best Sellers\"\" chart. Following the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison",
"title": "Record sales"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "of the most recorded songs of all time and reportedly sold over 170 million copies. In 1955, he and his business partners formed President Records in New York, but it had little success and was amalgamated into a larger company by 1961. He then formed another company, Seville Records, which had hits with \"\"Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)\"\" by Ernie Maresca and \"\"Bobby's Girl\"\" by Marcie Blane, but failed to capitalise on its early successes. He decided to reactivate the President label, partly inspired by the memory of John F. Kennedy after his assassination. Soon afterwards, in 1964, his London",
"title": "Edward Kassner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "Wayne passed Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 chart, with 109 songs. The record has since been passed by other artists. His twelfth studio album, \"\"Tha Carter V\"\", was released in 2018 after multiple delays. Lil Wayne has sold over 100 million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in the United States, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Lil Wayne also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of his own label imprint, Young Money Entertainment. Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.",
"title": "Lil Wayne"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.7,
"text": "which, \"\"custom, codependancies, and psychopathologies\"\", contribute to his angst, according to Reisch. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States, and 37.9 million albums sold in the US since 1993. The \"\"Sunday Times Rich List\"\", Music Millionaires 2013 (UK), ranked Waters at number 12 with an estimated fortune of £150 million, Gilmour at number 27 with £85 million and Mason at number 37 with £50 million. In 2004, MSNBC ranked Pink Floyd number 8",
"title": "Pink Floyd"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.55,
"text": "\"\"Finesse\"\". Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He has released seven number-one singles on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received various awards and nominations, including 11 Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Guinness World Records and nine American Music Awards. He has appeared in \"\"Time\"\"s 100 most influential people in the world (2011) and \"\"Forbes\"\" lists of lists of 30 under 30 (2013), the world's most powerful celebrities (2014),",
"title": "Bruno Mars"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.39,
"text": "a new record for largest indoor concert in North America. Strait was successful innovating country music and in numerous aspects of being a part of popular music. Strait has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum, 33 platinum, and 38 gold albums. His best-selling album is \"\"Pure Country\"\" (1992), which sold 6 million (6× platinum). His highest certified album is \"\"Strait Out of the Box\"\" (1995), which sold 2 million copies (8× Platinum due to being a box set with four",
"title": "George Strait"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.39,
"text": "records sales stands at over 77 million worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Williams was entered in \"\"The Guinness Book of World Records\"\" when, after he announced his World Tour for 2006, 1.6 million tickets were sold in one day. Caroline Sullivan of \"\"The Guardian\"\" wrote Williams is “a perfect meeting of ego, self-deprecation and hits”, adding “there really is nobody else, in pop music anyway, who combines monumental hamminess and bone-deep vulnerability quite so effectively.” He has been presented many awards, including a record eighteen Brit Awards—Best British Male four times, and two awards",
"title": "Robbie Williams"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.33,
"text": "Rhett Lawrence Rhett Lawrence is an American record producer and songwriter. He has produced, mentored, and helped launch the career of 5 of the top 200 artists of all time who have sold over 350,000,000 records worldwide. He has worked with 30 of the top 500 artists of all time who have sold over 2.2 billion records worldwide. Many of these artists are also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is originally famous for producing the Grammy Award–winning, \"\"Billboard\"\" No. 1 single \"\"Vision of Love\"\" for Mariah Carey. \"\"Vision of Love\"\" was No. 1 simultaneously on 3",
"title": "Rhett Lawrence"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. She was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by \"\"Guinness World Records\"\" and remains one of the best-selling music artists of all time with 200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have been certified diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts—as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for \"\"How Will",
"title": "Whitney Houston"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. Present-day composers from England include Michael Nyman, best known for \"\"The Piano\"\", and Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose musicals have achieved enormous success in the West End and worldwide. In the field of popular music, many English bands and solo artists have been cited as the most influential and best-selling musicians of all time. Acts such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Queen, Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones are among the highest selling recording artists in the world. Many musical genres have origins in (or strong associations with)",
"title": "England"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "\"\"Billboard\"\" 200. Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million albums worldwide as of 2018. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines such as \"\"Rolling Stone\"\", which ranked them at no. 61 on its \"\"100 Greatest Artists of All Time\"\" list. As of 2017, Metallica is the third best-selling music artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, selling a total of 58 million albums in the United States. Metallica was formed in Los Angeles, California, in late 1981 when Danish-born",
"title": "Metallica"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "He is also one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records. , Brooks is now the only artist in music history to have released seven albums that achieved diamond status in the United States (surpassing the Beatles' record of six); those albums are \"\"Garth Brooks\"\" (10× platinum), \"\"No Fences\"\" (17× platinum), \"\"Ropin' the Wind\"\" (14× platinum), \"\"The Hits\"\" (10× platinum), \"\"Sevens\"\" (10× platinum), \"\"Double Live\"\" (21× platinum), and \"\"The Ultimate Hits\"\" (10× platinum). Since 1989, Brooks has released 22 records in all, which include: 12 studio albums, two live albums, three compilation",
"title": "Garth Brooks"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.14,
"text": "recorded music history. Canadian songstress Celine Dion became the third overall and second female recipient of the Diamond award. She was honored in 2004 receiving the diamond award . According to her record label, Sony Music Entertainment, Dion has sold over 140 million albums worldwide. The American rock band Bon Jovi became the successors to Dion and the first group to be acknowledged with the Diamond award, after being honored in 2005. The band are believed to have sold over 120 million albums worldwide. Michael Jackson, recognized by \"\"Guinness World Records\"\" as the most commercially successful entertainer of all time,",
"title": "Chopard Diamond award"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "the band has not recorded new material since then. In 2007, Lance Bass confirmed that the group had \"\"definitely broken up\"\". The band completed five nationwide concert tours and has sold between 50 and 70 million records, becoming the fifth-best-selling boy band in history. \"\"Rolling Stone\"\" recognized their instant success as one of the Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments of all time. Justin Timberlake went on to become one of the world's best-selling music artists, with more than 32 million albums and 56 million singles sold throughout his solo career. Chris Kirkpatrick, who had missed the cut for the",
"title": "NSYNC"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "copies, making him the first male artist to do so as a lead singer. Six of his singles are counted among the best-selling singles of all time. , Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide. , the singer has sold over 180 million singles worldwide. Because of the ticket reselling that occurred during the week after the Super Bowl, and in order to limit that kind of profiteering, Hawaii Senate President Donna Mercado Kim introduced Senate Resolution 12, also known as the \"\"Bruno Mars Act\"\". It limits all ticket purchases within 48 hours of the on-sale date to the",
"title": "Bruno Mars"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "eventually offered to produce the record himself. Jackson accepted and the resulting record, \"\"Off the Wall\"\", ultimately sold about 20 million copies. This made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry at that time. Jones and Jackson's next collaboration, \"\"Thriller\"\", sold 110 million copies and became the highest-selling album of all time. The rise of MTV and the advent of music videos as promotional tools also contributed to \"\"Thriller's\"\" multimillion-copy sales figures and high monetary grosses. Jones also worked on Jackson's album \"\"Bad\"\", which has sold 45 million copies. \"\"Bad\"\" was the last time the two men worked",
"title": "Quincy Jones"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "He has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in \"\"The Blind Side\"\" (with Sandra Bullock), \"\"Friday Night Lights\"\", \"\"The Kingdom\"\", \"\"Tomorrowland\"\", and \"\"Four Christmases\"\" (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and \"\"The Shack\"\", and lead roles in \"\"Flicka\"\" (2006) and \"\"Country Strong\"\" (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. In acknowledgement of his grandfather's Italian heritage, McGraw was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award",
"title": "Tim McGraw"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "eras died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. Elvis Presley, the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18, 1977. Bing Crosby, who sold about 50 million records, died on October 14, 1977. His single, White Christmas, remains as the best selling single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Records. In addition to the early 70s deaths, in 1970 bands such as Simon and Garfunkel broke-up as did the Beatles, over the next few years Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Everly Brothers and more. Statistically, Led",
"title": "1970s"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "having performed for over 60 million people on five continents. In April 2013 he was awarded in Beijing as the most popular international artist in China. In Brazil, France, Romania, Italy, and others, Iglesias is the most successful foreign record seller, while in his home country, Spain, he has sold the most records in history, with 23 million records. During his career, Iglesias has won many awards in the music industry, including the Grammy, Latin Grammy, World Music Award, Billboard Music Award, American Music Award and Lo Nuestro Award. He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the",
"title": "Julio Iglesias"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.94,
"text": "Around the Clock\"\" is often cited as the biggest-selling vinyl rock and roll single of all time. The exact number of copies sold has never been audited; however, a figure of at least 25 million was cited by the \"\"Guinness Book of World Records\"\" in its category \"\"Phonograph records: Biggest Sellers\"\" from the early 1970s until the 1990s, when the advent of compact discs led to Guinness discontinuing the category. Guinness consistently listed \"\"Rock Around the Clock\"\" as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of \"\"White Christmas\"\",",
"title": "Rock Around the Clock"
}
] |
where does the last name flynn come from? | [
"Ireland"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "to Marelle. Flynn described his mother's family as \"\"\"\"seafaring folk\"\"\"\" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea originated. Both of his parents were Australian-born of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers. Flynn received his early schooling in Hobart. He made one of his first appearances as a performer in 1918, aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as \"\"a dashing figure –",
"title": "Errol Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "Dennis Flynn Christopher Dennis Flynn (according to Irish Civic Birth Registration, his name was Denis Christopher O'Flynn at birth) O.Ont, (December 17, 1923 – August 19, 2003) was Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto from 1984 to 1988. Flynn rarely used his first name and was commonly known as Dennis Flynn. Born in Rathcormac, County Cork, Ireland to the O'Flynn family, the family immigrated to Canada while he was a child. He had two brothers Patrick and John, and two sisters, Eileen and Mary. Eventually the family dropped the \"\"O\"\" honorific and became known simply as \"\"Flynn\"\". Flynn's older brother Patrick Flynn",
"title": "Dennis Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "John E. Flynn John E. Flynn (April 10, 1912 – September 23, 2003) was an American politician from New York. He was born on April 10, 1912, in Yonkers, Westchester County, New Yorkto John and Mary Agnes Drohan Flynn. He attended New York University and Columbia University, and then became a business executive. He entered politics as a Republican, and was Mayor of Yonkers from 1961 to 1966. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1967 to 1986, sitting in the 177th, 178th, 179th, 180th, 181st, 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th and 186th New York State Legislatures.",
"title": "John E. Flynn"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "T. A. Flynn Terence A. Flynn (1858 – 8 July 1925) was an Irish trade unionist. Born in Ireland, Flynn began working at the age of twelve. He completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, then moved to Scotland to find work, and later on to London. While in London, he joined the Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Tailors, and gradually rose to prominence, taking a leading role in the strike of 1891. He married the daughter of Peter Shorrocks, first General Secretary of the union. In 1893, Flynn was appointed as the union's London District Secretary, succeeding James MacDonald, and also",
"title": "T. A. Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.31,
"text": "Lefty Satan Flynn Lefty 'Satan' Flynn (born 17 March 1917) born Selvin Campbell in British Honduras (present day Belize) was a professional boxer. Flynn also known as \"\"His Satanic Majesty\"\" fought out of Jamaica becoming Jamaican featherweight and later welterweight champion. After taking the Jamaican titles he moved to Britain in late 1936. Flynn was a successful opponent in British boxing circles and fought many of the up-and-coming fighters of his age. In 1954 he made an unsuccessful attempt at the British Honduras welterweight title in Belize City. Flynn, born as Selvin Campbell in British Honduras, moved to Jamaica while",
"title": "Lefty Satan Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "Joseph V. Flynn Joseph Vincent Flynn (September 2, 1883 – February 6, 1940) of Brooklyn, New York was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York serving from 1915 to 1919. He was a Democrat. Flynn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 2, 1883. He attended public schools and the Boys High School of Brooklyn. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1904 and from the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University in 1906; was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced the practice of",
"title": "Joseph V. Flynn"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "Theodore Thomson Flynn Theodore Thomson Flynn (11 October 1883 - 23 October 1968) was an Australian marine biologist and a professor in both Tasmania and the United Kingdom. Flynn was born in Coraki, New South Wales, Australia, the son of Jessie B. (née Thomson) and John Flynn. He became a biology lecturer at the University of Tasmania in 1909, becoming professor in 1911 and teaching there until 1930. He married his wife, Lily Mary (Marelle) Young on 23 January 1909. Flynn then moved to Northern Ireland where he served as the Chair of Zoology at Queen's University of Belfast from",
"title": "Theodore Thomson Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "T. T. Flynn Theodore Thomas (\"\"T. T.\"\") Flynn (August 8, 1902 – January 8, 1979) was an American writer of pulp fiction in multiple genres. Later in life he concentrated on Westerns. As an author, he is most famous for writing The Man from Laramie which was adapted to film starring actor James Stewart. Flynn was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Indianapolis Technical High School, and at the age of fourteen joined the merchant navy to work his way across the world. He worked various jobs like fireman, oiler, mess boy, steersman, and ship’s carpenter. In 1924 he",
"title": "T. T. Flynn"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "1925 on board the CP Ship Melita. Evidently the family dropped the \"\"O'\"\", and became known simply as Flynn. First arriving in Quebec City, they traveled by train to Toronto where they settled. Joe attended St. Helen's Catholic School and Bloor Street Collegiate in Toronto. In 1938 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy. He served as a Chief Petty Officer on HMCS Halifax (K237) during World War II. Joe and Dennis had three siblings, all born in Toronto: On March 18, 1944 he married Norma Jean (Betty) Brown, at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church in Toronto. Upon",
"title": "Patrick Flynn (Canadian politician)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "Dennis Thomas Flynn Dennis Thomas Flynn (February 13, 1861 – June 19, 1939) was an American politician and a Delegate from Oklahoma Territory to the United States House of Representatives. Flynn was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on February 13, 1861, son of Dennis T. and Margaret (Clancy) Flynn. He moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, in 1863. There, he became an orphan at the age of three when his mother died. He was raised in a Catholic orphanage where he remained until 1880. He attended common school and then Canisius College in Buffalo. He married Addie M. Blanton",
"title": "Dennis Thomas Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "Flynn Adam Flynn Adam Atkins (born August 3, 1973) is an American producer/singer/rapper originating from Los Angeles, California. He is currently independent and has released a new EP titled \"\"Bang the Drums\"\". Flynn Adam has also been featured numerous times on RadioU and TVU for his music video, \"\"Such a Time,\"\" and is an active member of the hip hop music duo Rootbeer. He was also a member of famed Christian hip-hop group LA Symphony which is currently on hiatus. In 1996, Flynn Adam created Eartube Empire to release his first EP titled \"\"Memoirs\"\" under the name Flynn Adam Atkins.",
"title": "Flynn Adam"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "Patrice Flynn Patrice Flynn (15 August 1874 – 13 October 1970), was Bishop of Nevers. Born in Paris to Irish parents (his father was from County Cork, his mother a Ms. Curran from Portaferry, County Down), Flynn was schooled at Douai and taught maths in Paris. Both he and his older brother Henri were ordained in Paris. Serving in the French army during World War One, \"\"he spent two years as a hospital attendant before volunteering as chaplain to the 33rd Infantry Division that was fighting at the front. He served at a number of the places whose name has",
"title": "Patrice Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.19,
"text": "Maurice Bennett Flynn Maurice Bennett Flynn (May 26, 1892 – March 6, 1959) was an American football player and actor. He was also known as \"\"Lefty\"\" Flynn because in football, he kicked with his left foot. Flynn was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on May 26, 1892. He later attended Yale University starting in 1910. He was expelled from Yale in January 1913 after he married Irene Leary, a chorus girl. They separated after 11 days, and their divorce became final in 1914. In 1916 he married Blanche Shove Palmer and they had two children, including basketball player and broadcaster Bud",
"title": "Maurice Bennett Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.16,
"text": "Patrick Flynn (Canadian politician) Patrick Joseph (Joe) Flynn (September 8, 1921 – June 9, 1996) was an Irish-born, Canadian politician. He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament representing Kitchener, Ontario from 1974 until 1979. His younger brother Dennis Flynn (birth name was Denis Christopher O'Flynn) was also active in Canadian politics serving as the Mayor of Etobicoke, Ontario and Chair of Metropolitan Toronto. Flynn was born Patrick Joseph \"\"Joe\"\" O'Flynn in Rathcormac, County Cork, Ireland on September 8, 1921. He and Denis, along with their parents, John Joseph O'Flynn and Molly O'Flynn (née Mary Cahill) immigrated to Canada in",
"title": "Patrick Flynn (Canadian politician)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.09,
"text": "Damian O'Flynn Damian O'Flynn (January 29, 1907 – August 8, 1982) was an Irish-American actor of film and television originally from Boston, Massachusetts. O'Flynn made his screen debut in \"\"Marked Woman\"\" (1937), after which he was a freelance player for such studios as Warner Brothers, Paramount, and RKO Pictures. While serving in World War II, he was cast with several other actors-in-uniform in \"\" Winged Victory\"\", a production of 20th Century Fox. O'Flynn appeared in many western films and television series. He was cast with Ben Cooper in \"\"Gunfight at Comanche Creek\"\" (1963) and had a bit part in \"\"The",
"title": "Damian O'Flynn"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "Flynn Robinson Flynn James Robinson (April 28, 1941 – May 23, 2013) was an American professional basketball player. Flynn was born April 28, 1941 from the union of Sam Hopkins and Dorothy Mae Robinson. Later Flynn's mother married Johnnie Hodge, Sr., Flynn's step-father. A native of Murphysboro, Illinois, Robinson later moved to Kinloch, Missouri (St. Louis area) where he attended Dunbar Elementary School thru the 4th Grade as Flynn Hodge. Afterwards Flynn lived in Elgin, Illinois (Chicago area) and graduated in 1959 from Elgin High School. Robinson attended Southern Illinois University in September 1959 for one semester and was on",
"title": "Flynn Robinson"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "John Flynn (footballer, born 1948) John Edward Flynn (born 20 March 1948) is an English former footballer who played as a defender. Born in Workington, Cumbria he played in the Football League for Workington, Sheffield United and Rotherham United, spending the majority of his career in Sheffield where he made over 230 appearances for United. Flynn began his senior career with his home town club of Workington, with whom he made his league debut as a 17-year-old amateur in December 1966. Having made occasional first-team appearances for the following eighteen months, Flynn was released in the summer of 1968. Flynn",
"title": "John Flynn (footballer, born 1948)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "Don Flynn Donald Max Flynn (September 14, 1934, in Durant, Oklahoma – April 14, 2010) is a former All-American quarterback, NFL quarterback, soldier and businessman. He grew up in Texas, lettering in baseball, basketball and football for MVP again his senior year of college. Flynn graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in petroleum engineering and minored in geology. After college, Flynn served in the Army and played four years of professional football. Flynn played for the Dallas Texans, who later became the Kansas City Chiefs, and the New York Titans, who later became the New York Jets.",
"title": "Don Flynn"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "Vincent Flynn Vincent Anthony Flynn (born 3 October 1955) is a former English cricketer. Flynn was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Flynn made his first-class debut for Northamptonshire against Oxford University in 1976. He played two further first-class matches for Northamptonshire, both coming in the 1978 County Championship against Yorkshire and Leicestershire. In his three first-class matches he scored 21 runs at a batting average of 21.00, with a high score of 15. It was for Northamptonshire that he played two List A matches in 1978 against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in",
"title": "Vincent Flynn"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "Charlie Flynn Charles \"\"Mailman\"\" Flynn (born 6 November 1993, Lanark) is a professional boxer and Commonwealth gold medalist from Scotland. Flynn competed in the men's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won the gold medal. Flynn was also a lightweight boxing competitor in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games where he won the silver medal. He was the winner of the Editor's Award at the Sunday Mail Scottish Sports Awards 2014. In the weeks following his Commonwealth Games success he gave an inspirational speech to the Scotland Rowing Team before the 2014 Commonwealth Rowing Championships. Flynn made his",
"title": "Charlie Flynn"
}
] |
jim croce time in a bottle release date? | [
"1972"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.33,
"text": "Time in a Bottle \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" is a hit single by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970. It appeared on his 1972 ABC debut album \"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\". ABC originally did not intend to release the song as a single; but when Croce was killed in a plane crash in September 1973, the song's lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, had additional resonance. The song subsequently received a large amount of airplay as an album track and",
"title": "Time in a Bottle"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "demand for a single release built. When it was eventually issued as a 7\"\", it became his second and final No. 1 hit. After the single had finished its two-week run at the top in early January 1974, the album \"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\" became No. 1 for five weeks. In 1977, \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" was used as the title for a of Croce's love songs. The arrangement features a harpsichord that producer Tommy West discovered had been left in the mixing studio: \"\"The night before we were going to mix, I was watching a horror movie",
"title": "Time in a Bottle"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "Jim Croce James Joseph Croce (; January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and singles. His songs \"\"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown\"\" and \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" reached No. 1 on the U.S. \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 chart. Croce was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Albert Croce and Flora Mary (Babucci) Croce, both Italian Americans. Croce grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia and attended Upper Darby High School. Graduating in 1960, he studied at Malvern Preparatory School for a year",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "Way\"\". \"\"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown\"\" achieved great success, reaching the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100. \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" went from a relatively unknown album cut to a posthumous No. 1 after the boost it received from being featured in the ABC TV-movie \"\"She Lives\"\". His fifth album, \"\"I Got a Name\"\", was released in December 1973 and reached the No. 2 position in both the United States and Canada. This album would feature the title song \"\"I Got a Name\"\", \"\"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song\"\", and \"\"Workin' at the Car Wash",
"title": "Jim Croce discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.77,
"text": "Jim Croce discography Jim Croce was an American singer-songwriter with five studio albums and 11 singles to his credit. His posthumously-released fifth studio album was completed just prior to his 1973 death, and six singles were also posthumously issued, one of which was \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" from a previous album \"\"You Don't Mess Around With Jim\"\". His popularity continued long after his death with the release of numerous compilation albums and \"\"new\"\" material (from the vaults) being portioned out sporadically over the years. Two live albums, as well as a live DVD, have also been published. Croce's first two",
"title": "Jim Croce discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "\"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\", \"\"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)\"\", and \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" (written for his then-unborn son, A. J. Croce) all received airplay. Croce's biggest single, \"\"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,\"\" reached Number 1 on the American charts in July 1973. Also that year, the Croce family moved to San Diego, California. Croce began touring the United States with Muehleisen, performing in large coffee houses, on college campuses, and at folk festivals. However, his financial situation was still bad. The record company had fronted him the money to record his album, and much of what",
"title": "Jim Croce"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "spawned a CD featuring the audio from the concert footage. Jim Croce discography Jim Croce was an American singer-songwriter with five studio albums and 11 singles to his credit. His posthumously-released fifth studio album was completed just prior to his 1973 death, and six singles were also posthumously issued, one of which was \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" from a previous album \"\"You Don't Mess Around With Jim\"\". His popularity continued long after his death with the release of numerous compilation albums and \"\"new\"\" material (from the vaults) being portioned out sporadically over the years. Two live albums, as well as",
"title": "Jim Croce discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "album rejected by up to 40 record labels, Croce was signed to ABC Records after Cashman & West had a chance meeting with ABC promotion man Marty Kupps. Kupps urged label head Jay Lasker to sign Croce after hearing cuts from a cassette tape of the finished album. The record spent 93 weeks on the charts, longer than any other Jim Croce album. Due to the strong performance of the posthumous single release \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" (#1 pop, #1 AC), \"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\" was the best selling album in the U.S. for five weeks in early",
"title": "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "the DVD \"\"Have You Heard Jim Croce Live\"\", with an album of the same name, the album \"\"Jim Croce, Home Recordings, Americana\"\", and the album \"\"Facets\"\" (Jim Croce's debut album from 1966). PBS broadcast the documentary \"\"The Legacy of Jim Croce\"\", with commentary by Ingrid Croce and A. J. Croce and with segments from their DVD. In 2004, Croce published \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\", a photographic memoir of Jim's songs with lyrics and her favorite photos, compiled in collaboration with her husband, Jim Rock, and Deborah Ogburn. Ingrid Croce Ingrid Croce (born April 27, 1947) is an American author, singer-songwriter,",
"title": "Ingrid Croce"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.67,
"text": "told the movers they could remove it, walked into Jerry's office and asked if I could borrow the electric bass that was sitting on his couch, played that on just the second verse and the outro, and that was that! Radio compression worked in our favor on that record. It made the harpsichord blend with the two guitars in an unusual way. But we thought this record would only be an album cut.\"\" 7\"\" Single (ABC-11405) Time in a Bottle \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" is a hit single by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid",
"title": "Time in a Bottle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.5,
"text": "or blues or drinking songs, as well as early pieces of songs like 'Time in a Bottle' that were coming out of them. And at first he played his own songs timidly, whereas just a year or two later he had enormous confidence in playing his own material.\"\" Home Recordings: Americana Home Recordings: Americana is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 2003. This album is a compilation of unreleased tracks and demos. This compilation was the first new material of Jim Croce's work released since 1973. The album also contains liner notes written by Croce's son A.J.",
"title": "Home Recordings: Americana"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.44,
"text": "three Jim Croce albums, \"\"You Don't Mess Around With Jim\"\". Recorded in the fall of 1971 and released in April 1972, this album produced three hit singles. Simultaneously, Cashman and West were on the charts with their first single, their tribute to New York City, the \"\"American City Suite.\"\" In 1973, Cashman and West produced Croce's \"\"Life and Times\"\" and \"\"I Got A Name\"\" albums. They received five gold records for their work on Jim Croce’s hits - #1 singles \"\"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown\"\" and \"\"Time in a Bottle,\"\" and three albums (You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Life and",
"title": "Tommy West (producer)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "studio albums \"\"Facets\"\" and \"\"Croce\"\" (aka \"\"Jim & Ingrid Croce\"\") did not chart, but his third, \"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\", peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 following his death. This album featured three singles, \"\"You Don't Mess Around with Jim\"\", \"\"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)\"\", and \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\". His fourth album \"\"Life and Times\"\" peaked at No. 2 in the United States, but reached No. 1 in Canada in late December 1973. It featured the singles \"\"One Less Set of Footsteps\"\", \"\"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown\"\", and \"\"It Doesn't Have to Be That",
"title": "Jim Croce discography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.56,
"text": "Ones were Jim Croce – \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" (1973), The Beatles – \"\"Yesterday\"\" (1965), and on the UK Singles Chart, The Beatles – \"\"Eleanor Rigby\"\" (1966). According to the liner notes from Riperton's compilation album \"\"\"\", the melody for \"\"Lovin' You\"\" was created to be a distraction for her baby daughter (Maya Rudolph) so that Minnie and her husband Richard could hang out. Maya was in the studio with Riperton on the day it was recorded and Riperton can be heard singing her daughter's name at the end, but only in the unedited or album version. The song fades",
"title": "Lovin' You"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "severe coronary artery disease and had run to the airport from a motel. He had an ATP Certificate, 14,290 hours total flight time and 2,190 hours in the Beech 18 type. A later investigation placed the sole blame on pilot error due to his downwind takeoff into a \"\"black hole\"\"—severe darkness limiting use of visual references. Croce was buried at Haym Salomon Memorial Park in Frazer, Pennsylvania. The album \"\"I Got a Name\"\" was released on December 1, 1973. The posthumous release included three hits: \"\"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues,\"\" \"\"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a",
"title": "Jim Croce"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.62,
"text": "\"\"Okay, but don't break it.\"\" He responds, \"\"I will never break anything as long as I live.\"\" He writes She Lives! in chalk and runs through the streets shouting it. He turns and there is Pam, the girl he loves. As the movie ends, Jim Croce's \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" plays over the credits. She Lives! She Lives! is a 1973 made-for-television movie about a young couple, Andy and Pam (played by Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Season Hubley). \"\"She Lives!\"\" is the title of a novel by Paul G. Neimark, published in 1972, on which the television drama is based.",
"title": "She Lives!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.45,
"text": "as \"\"Croce's Park West\"\". The restaurant had dining, bar and terrace areas, plus a large room at the back for live music. That business model turned out not to be viable, and the restaurant closed two years later. In 1996, Croce wrote \"\"Thyme in a Bottle\"\", her autobiographical cookbook with memories and recipes from Croce's Restaurant. When the book sold out, guests to her restaurant and website were encouraging and she re-issued the book through her own publishing company, Avalanche Records and Books, in 1998. In 2003, thirty years after Jim Croce's death, Ingrid Croce and A. J. Croce released",
"title": "Ingrid Croce"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.2,
"text": "September 20, 1973, during Croce's \"\"Life and Times\"\" tour and the day before his ABC single \"\"I Got a Name\"\" was released, Croce and five others were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree during take-off from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, musician Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager before, Croce had completed a concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches, and was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College; he",
"title": "Jim Croce"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.03,
"text": "You Don't Mess Around with Jim You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972. The album was recorded over a three to four week period for approximately $18,000, with most funding coming from the PolyGram Group in Baarn, the Netherlands on the basis of hearing an 8-song demo tape assembled by production team Cashman & West. The deal with PolyGram was made after team attorney Phil Kurnit approached a contact within the record company who then had PolyGram executives to listen to the demo tape. After having the finished",
"title": "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.02,
"text": "the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but was back in the hospital the next day with surgery complications. In November Bice was named \"\"Heartland Hero of the Week\"\" on John Kasich's show, \"\"Heartland\"\" for giving up his house to the family displaced by Hurricane Katrina and for using his music to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Jim Croce's family awarded Bice the \"\"Jim Croce 20th Annual Music Award\"\" because the Croce family had been greatly moved by Bice's performance of Croce's song \"\"Time in a Bottle\"\" while he was a contestant on \"\"American Idol\"\". Bice's solo debut album, \"\"The",
"title": "Bo Bice"
}
] |
who was the president of lahore session of congress? | [
"Dadabhai Naoroji",
"N. G. Chandavarkar",
"Madan Mohan Malaviya",
"Jawaharlal Nehru"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "an especially large public gathering attended the session convened in Lahore. Despite the bitterly cold weather, Pattabhi Sitaramayya records that: The heat of passion and excitement, the resentment at the failure of negotiation, the flushing of faces on hearing the war drums – oh, it was all in marked contrast to the weather. Jawaharlal Nehru was elected President and veteran leaders like Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel returned to the Congress Working Committee. They approved a declaration of independence, which stated: The British government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based",
"title": "Purna Swaraj"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "in Lahore in 1940, Azad was elected Congress president in its session in Ramgarh. Speaking vehemently against Jinnah's \"\"Two-Nation Theory\"\"—the notion that Hindus and Muslims were distinct nations—Azad lambasted religious separatism and exhorted all Muslims to preserve a united India, as all Hindus and Muslims were Indians who shared deep bonds of brotherhood and nationhood. In his presidential address, Azad said: In face of increasing popular disenchantment with the British across India, Gandhi and Patel advocated an all-out rebellion demanding immediate independence. Azad was wary and sceptical of the idea, aware that India's Muslims were increasingly looking to Jinnah and",
"title": "Abul Kalam Azad"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "brought Gandhi back into the fold of active politics. At its annual session in Lahore, the Indian National Congress, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, issued a demand for \"\"Purna Swaraj\"\" (Hindustani language: \"\"complete independence\"\"), or Purna Swarajya. The declaration was drafted by the Congress Working Committee, which included Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. Gandhi subsequently led an expanded movement of civil disobedience, culminating in 1930 with the Salt Satyagraha, in which thousands of Indians defied the tax on salt, by marching to the sea and making their own salt by evaporating seawater. Although, many, including Gandhi, were arrested,",
"title": "British Raj"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "resign from the government. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the president of the Muslim League, persuaded participants at the annual Muslim League session at Lahore in 1940 to adopt what later came to be known as the Lahore Resolution, demanding the division of India into two separate sovereign states, one Muslim, the other Hindu; sometimes referred to as Two Nation Theory. Although the idea of Pakistan had been introduced as early as 1930, very few had responded to it. However, the volatile political climate and hostilities between the Hindus and Muslims transformed the idea of Pakistan into a stronger demand. Apart from",
"title": "Indian independence movement"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.92,
"text": "the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Malhi commenced his political career with the Congress Party. After attending the 1940 Lahore Conference held by the All India Muslim League, he recognised the immense potential that the Muslim League had for representing the Muslims of India. He joined the Muslim League's Sialkot chapter and rapidly ascended to become its president. In 1943 Malhi met Muhammad Ali Jinnah at Jinnah House on Malabar Hill, Bombay. It was on Malhi's advice that what became the historic Sialkot Convention was planned for Punjab. Held in Sialkot city in May 1944, this convention was attended by",
"title": "Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "their common motherland. The session was held on March 22-24, 1940, at Iqbal Park, Lahore. The welcome address was made by Sir Shah Nawaz Khan of Mamdot, as the chairman of the local reception committee. The various draft texts for the final resolution/draft were deliberated over by the Special Working Committee of the All India Muslim League The resolution text, unanimously approved by the Subject Committee, accepted the concept of a united homeland for Muslims and recommended the creation of an independent Muslim state. The resolution was moved in the general session by A. K. Fazlul Huq, the chief minister",
"title": "Lahore Resolution"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "Sabha (\"\"Assembly\"\"). Madan Mohan Malaviya presided over the Sabha's first session at Lahore in October 1909. The Sabha stated that it was not a sectarian organisation, but an \"\"all-embracing movement\"\" that aimed to safeguard the interests of \"\"the entire Hindu community\"\". During 21–22 October 1909, it organised the Punjab Provincial Hindu Conference, which criticised the Indian National Congress for failing to defend Hindu interests, and called for promotion of Hindu-centered politics. The Sabha organised five more annual provincial conferences in Punjab. The development of the broad work for Hindu unity that started in the early 20th century in Punjab was",
"title": "Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "Aitchison College and the University of Oxford. Mian Iftikharuddin joined the Congress Party in 1936. He was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly in 1937 and became the President of the Punjab Provincial Congress in 1940, serving in that position until 1945. He was a member of the All India Congress Committee from the 1930s to the mid 1940s. Iftikharuddin was very close to Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1937, he was instrumental in introducing the Kashmir leader Sheikh Abdullah to Nehru. Iftikharuddin opposed the Muslim League's Lahore Resolution and declared that \"\"“any attempt at disrupting the unity of [India's] spirit is",
"title": "Mian Iftikharuddin"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "sung, so why should you object to this. 3. As president of the District Council Pandit shukla had asked all teachers to actively participate in the freedom movement. The District Collector and the State Government strongly objected to this and demanded an explanation from the District Council. To this Pandit Shukla sent a very courageous reply saying that to participate in the national freedom movement is duty of every citizen of this country. 4. When Congress in its Lahore session decided that the country's national aim is to obtain complete freedom and to celebrate 26 January 1930 as the day",
"title": "Ravishankar Shukla"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.38,
"text": "– he pressed Gandhi to demand immediate actions from the British. Gandhi brokered a further compromise by reducing the time given from two years to one. Nehru agreed to vote for the new resolution. Demands for dominion status were rejected by the British in 1929. Nehru assumed the presidency of the Congress party during the Lahore session on 29 December 1929 and introduced a successful resolution calling for complete independence. Nehru drafted the Indian declaration of independence, which stated: We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom and",
"title": "Jawaharlal Nehru"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "Master Lyallpuri organised or else participated in several seminars or \"\"Ekta Samelans\"\" for the promotion of mutual love, trust and brotherhood among the Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and the Sikhs. Lyallpuri also remained a member of All India Congress Committee. Lyallpuri had also attended the Lahore Congress Session of 1929. At the proposal of Baba Kharak Singh and Lyallpuri, a resolution was included in the Congress Session asking for \"\"Complete Independence\"\" of India. Master Lyallpuri was also involved in the preparation of its wording. Some of the conservative Congress members however, had opposed this resolution but it still got passed with",
"title": "Sunder Singh Lyallpuri"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "hearing of a petition against the victory of Nasira Iqbal as the LHCBA president in a controversial by-election. He asked both the sides to stop fighting and wait for the decision of the committee. Former president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association, Ahmad Awais, appeared on behalf of Nasira Iqbal and extended his arguments on the by-election and questioned the jurisdiction of Punjab Bar Council in the matter. Adjourning the hearing of the petition, Noon said whatever was happening in the LHCBA from both sides was tarnishing the image of the legal fraternity. The Punjab Bar Council would take",
"title": "Rana Arif Kamal Noon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.98,
"text": "many nationalists. He'd joined the Congress and was a senior leader during his tenure at Raigunj Court. In 1930, Raigunj celebrated Independence day (Purna Swaraj) on 26 January against the British Raj - he and \"\"Umeshchandra Bhowmik\"\" were the Congress leaders enacting the historic Lahore resolution of the CWC. In March 1930, as mass disobedience gathered momentum in Bengal, several Congress leaders (including Netaji - then Bengal Provincial Congress Committee President), were arrested. On 15 April, on the occasion of the Bengali New Year, Sudhamoy presided over public meetings in Raigunj as a part of the Civil Disobedience Movement in",
"title": "Sudhamoy Pramanick"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "independence and the creation of Pakistan, was held in Lahore in 1940. Muslims under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam demanded a separate homeland for Muslims of India in a document known as the \"\"Pakistan Resolution\"\" or the \"\"Lahore Resolution\"\". During this session, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the league, publicly proposed the Two Nation Theory for the first time. The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League and Pakistan Movement. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from India settled in the Lahore District. Lahore is regarded as the heart",
"title": "History of Lahore"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "then-Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued the Lahore Declaration, which committed the two nations to resolve bilateral disputes through dialogue and concurrently boost trade. However, the Lahore summit's success was diminished by the outbreak of the Kargil War just months later. In 2001, Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf held the Agra summit, which failed to produce results and was overshadowed by the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff. In 2003, Vajpayee declared in the Indian Parliament that he was making his final initiative to make peace with Pakistan, and oversaw considerable improvement in relations and a ceasefire between Indian forces and militant",
"title": "Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.91,
"text": "serving BOI as chairman in an honorary capacity, he became president of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry that same year. Dar made his Parliament debut after running for a seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan in a by-election held after 1993 general election as a candidate of the PML-N for the Lahore NA-95 constituency after the seat was vacated by Nawaz Sharif who had won the seat in two different constituencies in 1993 general election.<ref name=\"\"thenews/11sept2017\"\"></ref> After receiving 39,483 votes (62%), he was elected to the National Assembly.<ref name=\"\"thenews/10oct2015\"\"></ref> His tenure as Member of the National Assembly was",
"title": "Ishaq Dar"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.83,
"text": "of Dr. Ajazi merged with Congress to strengthen its views on partition. All-India Jamhur Muslim League The All India Jamhur Muslim League was formed in 1940, to counter the Lahore resolution, passed by the All-India Muslim League, for a separate Pakistan based on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Two nation theory. The first session of the party was held at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The Raja of Mahmoodabad was elected president and Dr. Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi was elected General Secretary. Later, the Raja of Mahmoodabad changed his mind under influence of Jinnah, who was a long time family friend, and rejoined Jinnah in",
"title": "All-India Jamhur Muslim League"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.83,
"text": "of President Khalid Ikram Malik, Vice President Tahir A Khan, and 20 members of the Managing Committee (2 from each block) and five nominated / ex-officio members. This MC was dissolved by the Registrar within 18 months for incompetence. For two years again, the Administrator ruled the Society. The first managing committee after restoration took over the office on 23 October 2002. This MC worked for 17 months only after which it was sacked by the Registrar for incompetence. In November 2005, on the orders of former Chief Minister Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, new elections were ordered. Elections were held",
"title": "Model Town, Lahore"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.77,
"text": "Shahzad Malik Shahzad Ali Malik is a former President of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He received the prestigious Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award by the President of Pakistan in 2013, the third-highest decoration given to any civilian in Pakistan, in recognition of his research work in the field of hybrid rice technology for higher and better yield of rice in Pakistan. The whole business community including 'Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry' and Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan applauded the decision of President Asif Ali Zardari for conferring of the Sitar-e-Imtiaz Award (Star of Excellence) Award on Ex-Chairman, Rice Exporters Association",
"title": "Shahzad Malik"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.75,
"text": "1928, many young revolutionaries met at Ferozshah Kotla ground in Delhi and reorganized the Hindustan Republican Association into the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) under the leadership Chandrashekhar Azad. Vohra was appointed Propaganda Secretary and prepared the HSRA manifesto that was widely distributed at the time of the Lahore Session of the Congress. He was also party to murder of J. P. Saunders and the throwing of bombs in Central Assembly Hall by Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt. In 1929 he rented room No. 69, Kashmir Building, Lahore and used it as a bomb factory. He planned and executed the 23",
"title": "Bhagwati Charan Vohra"
}
] |
when does the season finale of andi mack come on? | [
"August 13, 2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "Channel. The second season premiered on Disney Channel on October 27, 2017. On February 19, 2018, Disney Channel announced that \"\"Andi Mack\"\" had been renewed for a third season, with the cast informed about the renewal live on \"\"Good Morning America\"\" by the creator that day. The third season premiered on October 8, 2018. On November 13, 2018, it was announced that the series would be featuring a two-episode arc—\"\"Cookie Monster\"\" and \"\"The New Girls\"\"—revolving around gun safety and peer pressure. On December 14, 2018, it was announced that Stoney Westmoreland was fired by Disney Channel and would no longer",
"title": "Andi Mack"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "season on May 25, 2017. The filming of the second season began in July 2017. On August 20, 2017, five additional episodes were ordered for the second season. One week prior to the season two premiere, a music video for the full version of the series' theme song was released, starring the entire cast. On October 25, 2017, TVLine revealed that in the second season, Cyrus will begin to realize that he has romantic feelings for Jonah, following through from several hints in the first season, making him the first gay main character with a coming out storyline on Disney",
"title": "Andi Mack"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "August 2016. The series started filming in Salt Lake City in September 2016, and finished filming in December 2016. The first episode became available on the Disney Channel App, On-Demand, Disney Channel's YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play on March 10, 2017, while the second episode became available the same day via Disney Channel On-Demand as well as to subscribers using the Disney Channel App. The series premiered on Disney Channel on April 7, 2017. A total of 13 episodes were ordered for the first season; however, only 12 episodes were aired. Disney Channel renewed the series for a second",
"title": "Andi Mack"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.41,
"text": "second season, premiered March 24, 2017, after a DCOM, called \"\"\"\", premiered March 10, 2017. \"\"Liv and Maddie\"\" aired its final episode on March 24, 2017 after four seasons. \"\"Andi Mack\"\", premiered April 7, 2017. \"\"\"\", a show based on the characters of the 2012 movie of the same name, premiered June 25, 2017. \"\"Raven's Home\"\", a spin-off of \"\"That's So Raven\"\", premiered July 21, 2017, after the premiere of \"\"Descendants 2\"\". On February 2 2018, \"\"K.C. Undercover\"\" aired its final episode (actually two produced episodes broadcast as a one-hour episode) after three seasons. Disney XD series \"\"DuckTales\"\", \"\"\"\", and",
"title": "History of Disney Channel"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.98,
"text": "season. On November 15, 2018, it was announced by Disney Channel that the series was renewed for a fourth season. Miranda May, Mallory James Mahoney, Raphael Alejandro, and Will Buie Jr. will be returning for the fourth season, with new unannounced cast also set to star alongside them. Peyton List, Karan Brar, and Skai Jackson will not be returning for the fourth season. Additionally, \"\"Andi Mack\"\"s Phil Baker and Erin Dunlap will take over as executive producers in the fourth season. Production for the fourth season is scheduled to begin in March 2019. In Canada, the series premiered on Disney",
"title": "Bunk'd"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.19,
"text": "Andi Mack Andi Mack is an American family comedy-drama television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on April 7, 2017. The series stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Joshua Rush, Sofia Wylie, Asher Angel, Lilan Bowden, Lauren Tom, and Trent Garrett. It follows 13-year-old Andi Mack and her best friends, Cyrus Goodman and Buffy Driscoll, as they attend middle school. \"\"Andi Mack\"\" is the top-rated series on American television among all girls and in its time period among all children ages 6–14. It is the first series on Disney Channel to feature a gay middle school boy, Cyrus",
"title": "Andi Mack"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.75,
"text": "been licenced worldwide by Jazwares, and are scheduled for release during the late summer of 2019. The show will be broadcast worldwide but premiere in the third quarter of 2018 on YTV in Canada and in January 2019 on Disney Channel in the US before an international roll out to other Disney Channels, including the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Latin America, Australia, Korea, Russia, Southeast Asia (will be stopped airing in early 2019 next year due to the return of \"\"Andi Mack\"\" for the new episodes) and Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa channels. The series will be",
"title": "Go Away, Unicorn!"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.45,
"text": "on American television among all girls and in its time period among all children ages 6–14. The introduction of the coming out storyline caused the series to experience a ratings surge. The series is the first on Disney Channel to feature a coming out storyline, for which it has been nominated for and won awards, including the 2018 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming and the 2018 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for Television with a Conscience. Andi Mack Andi Mack is an American family comedy-drama television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on",
"title": "Andi Mack"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.19,
"text": "for Disney's live adaptation of \"\"Mulan\"\". The teaser trailer was released on December 19, 2017. Another trailer was released August 8, 2018. Two days later, on August 10, 2018, a sneak peek of the film aired on Disney Channel during a new episode of \"\"Andi Mack\"\". There was also a trailer that first came out in theatres with showings of \"\"Incredibles 2\"\", \"\"Ant-Man and the Wasp\"\", and \"\"Christopher Robin\"\" before going online on September 4 of that year. , \"\"The Nutcracker and the Four Realms\"\" has grossed $53.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $107.2 million in other",
"title": "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.02,
"text": "Peyton Elizabeth Lee Peyton Elizabeth Lee (born May 22, 2004) is an American actress. She is known for playing the title role on the Disney Channel series \"\"Andi Mack\"\". Prior to \"\"Andi Mack\"\", Lee recurred in 3 episodes of \"\"Shameless\"\" as a \"\"girl soldier\"\" and appeared on \"\"Scandal\"\" as \"\"Violet\"\", a spelling bee champion. \"\"Andi Mack\"\" premiered on Disney Channel on April 7, 2017. When asked about casting Lee in the lead role, \"\"Andi Mack\"\" executive producer Terri Minsky said she \"\"liked that Lee did not look as if she had fallen off a child-star assembly line\"\", later stating that",
"title": "Peyton Elizabeth Lee"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18,
"text": "Dee in the West End production) in the small-scale production (only eleven performers), which ran for a limited season between March and June 2005. The show then toured the UK from January 2006 prior to a West End transfer, where it played at the Criterion Theatre from April 10, 2006 until July 1, 2006. It featured the trademark style of director John Doyle, with the cast members, except for Soul, playing musical instruments as well as acting and singing. The show was produced at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario in 2007. Directed by Molly Smith, this production eliminated",
"title": "Mack and Mabel"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.91,
"text": "Peterson told \"\"Entertainment Weekly\"\"'s Michael Ausiello that he was \"\"very optimistic\"\" that Allison Mack would be back. The studio's official press release was presented on May 20, 2010 and confirmed that \"\"Smallville\"\" would be remaining at its Friday, 8 p.m. time slot. It also revealed that \"\"Smallville\"\" would be reteaming with \"\"Supernatural\"\", a series that was originally slotted just behind \"\"Smallville\"\" on Thursday nights for four seasons. The press release did not list Mack in the list of stars. On May 21, 2010, Mack released a statement confirming that she would not return as a series regular, but would return",
"title": "Smallville (season 10)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.89,
"text": "December 2016, it was announced that the show had been re-commissioned for a ninth and tenth series. Series 9 began on 8 March 2018. A live Christmas-based episode will be broadcast on BBC One on 21 December 2018. The series focuses on Lee Mack, who plays a fictional version of himself: an unambitious man in his late thirties living as a lodger in a flat in the London Docklands. Originally from Chorley, Lancashire (which is approximately 20 miles from Southport, Mack's real-life birthplace), Lee is a negligent, unmotivated layabout. Frequently between jobs, he spends most of his days on his",
"title": "Not Going Out"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.84,
"text": "was then released in Region 2 on April 2, 2012 and in Region 4 on June 6, 2012. The first and second seasons are available through Amazon.com's Instant Video section and through iTunes. Episodes of the series have been seen on a sporadic basis on TeenNick's 1990s-oriented block, \"\"The '90s Are All That\"\". Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD for the very first time on August 1, 2017. A book series aimed at young readers was released along with the series. The first and last books of the series were novelizations of the first and last episodes,",
"title": "The Secret World of Alex Mack"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.67,
"text": "\"\"Season Eleven\"\" banner. On March 11, 2015, DC Comics ended the \"\"Smallville Season Eleven\"\" with story arc \"\"Continuity\"\", which serves as the finale of the television franchise. Allison Mack's character, Chloe Sullivan, has starred in two promotional tie-in series: \"\"Smallville: Chloe Chronicles\"\", and \"\"Vengeance Chronicles\"\". Two volumes of \"\"Chloe Chronicles\"\" totaled eleven mini-episodes. In the first volume Chloe investigated events leading to the death of Earl Jenkins, who held Chloe and her friends hostage at the LuthorCorp plant in the first-season episode \"\"Jitters\"\". It aired from April 29 to May 20, 2003 to AOL subscribers. After the first volume received",
"title": "Smallville"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.58,
"text": "Goodman, which has drawn considerable media attention and was reported in the news as \"\"history\"\". The series has been nominated for and won awards for his coming out storyline, the introduction of which caused a ratings surge. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Andi Mack's world is turned upside down when she discovers that whom she believed to be her sister, Bex, is actually her mother. Andi joins her middle school frisbee team to get close to Jonah, whom both she and her best friend Cyrus are developing romantic feelings for, while also competing with Jonah's high school girlfriend",
"title": "Andi Mack"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.56,
"text": "the series was given an additional 44-episode order. The second half of season 5 premiered on June 20, 2017 and ended with the season finale on September 12, 2017. On November 21, 2017, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on January 9, 2018, and the 1st mid-season finale aired March 13, 2018 and on March 13, 2018, OWN also announced the second half of the season, which premiered on May 1, 2018 and with the 2nd mid-season finale July 17, 2018. On July 17, 2018, OWN announced the third half of the season, which premiered on",
"title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.55,
"text": "seven seasons, along with interviews with the show's cast and producers. On November 16, 2017, VH1 announced that \"\"Remy & Papoose: A Merry Mackie Holiday\"\", a holiday special starring Remy Ma and Papoose, would air on December 18, 2017. On February 12, VH1 aired \"\"Love & Hip Hop: The Love Edition\"\", a Valentine's Day special featuring clips from the show and interviews with cast members from all franchises. Yandy's marriage becomes strained when her mother-in-law Judy starts to interfere with her business. Singer Anaís, frustrated by the state of her career and stuck in a miserable marriage, becomes recklessly flirtatious,",
"title": "Love & Hip Hop: New York (season 8)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.34,
"text": "be interpreted back and forth on set. Simmonds helped teach her fellow actors to sign. In 2018, Simmonds appeared in a two-episode arc in the third season of the Disney Channel television series \"\"Andi Mack\"\". She first appeared as an extra in the first season, and the series creators invited her back for a recurring role. For her arc, Simmonds taught the other actors how to use ASL, and the showrunners decided to show her scenes involving ASL without providing subtitles so viewers could focus on figuring out the sign language. Film Television Millicent Simmonds Millicent \"\"Millie\"\" Simmonds (born )",
"title": "Millicent Simmonds"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.33,
"text": "Deadliest Warrior (season 3) This is a list of episodes for \"\"Deadliest Warrior\"\". Shortly after the season 2 finale, season 3 was announced on Spike.com, followed shortly after by a live Aftermath featuring new host Richard \"\"Mack\"\" Machowicz answering fan questions. On October 13 the show announced the start of production for the season. Over the course of several weeks, Spike revealed the Season 3 match ups. The battle simulator (created by host Max Gieger) now simulates 5,000 battles as opposed to the previous 1,000. The new format (except for Vampires vs. Zombies) is a squad on squad battle of",
"title": "Deadliest Warrior (season 3)"
}
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which barbarian groups entered the western roman empire through germany? | [
"Suebi.",
"Vandals"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.75,
"text": "moved north into the turmoil of Gaul, where there was some prospect of food. His supergroup of barbarians are called the Visigoths in modern works: they may now have been developing their own sense of identity. The Crossing of the Rhine in 405/6 brought unmanageable numbers of German and Alan barbarians (perhaps some 30,000 warriors, 100,000 people) into Gaul. They may have been trying to get away from the Huns, who about this time advanced to occupy the Great Hungarian Plain. For the next few years these barbarian tribes wandered in search of food and employment, while Roman forces fought",
"title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.59,
"text": "of 31 December 405. Their entrance into the Roman Empire was at a moment when the Roman West was experiencing a series of invasions and civil wars; between 405 and 406, the Western regions of the empire saw the invasion of Italy by Goths under Radagaisus, as well as a steady stream of usurpers. This allowed the invading barbarians to enter Gaul with little resistance, consequently allowing for the barbarians to cause considerable damage to the northern provinces of Germania Inferior, Belgica Prima, and Belgica Secunda before the empire saw them as a threat. In response to the barbarian invasion",
"title": "Kingdom of the Suebi"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "pathogens. Romans crowded into walled cities and the poor and the slaves lived in very close quarters with each other. Epidemics began sweeping though the Empire. The culture of the German barbarians living just across the Rhine and Danube rivers was not so conducive to the spread of pathogens. Germans lived in small scattered villages that did not support the same level of trade as did Roman settlements. Germans lived in single-family detached houses. Germans did not have public baths nor as many brothels and drank ale made with boiled water. The barbarian population seemed to be on the rise.",
"title": "Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "number of barbarian groups crossed the Rhine, entering the Roman empire, and the Herules appear in the list of peoples given by the historian Jerome. However this list is sometimes thought to have drawn on historical lists for literary effect. A more difficult phenomenon for historians to explain is the appearance in these times of significant sea-borne raiding groups of Herules, as far away as northern Portugal, by this time under control of Suevi who had been involved in the 406 Rhine crossing approximately 50 years earlier. This was reported by Hydatius. Some historians have even speculated that there must",
"title": "Herules"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "effectively abandoned by the empire by 410 due to the lack of resources and the need to look after more important frontiers. The weakening of the Rhine frontier allowed multiple barbarian tribes, including the Vandals, Alans and Suebi, to cross the river and enter Roman territory in 406. Honorius was convinced by the minister Olympius that Stilicho was conspiring to overthrow him, and so arrested and executed Stilicho in 408. Olympius headed a conspiracy that successfully orchestrated the deaths of key individuals related to the faction of Stilicho, including his son and the families of many of his federated troops.",
"title": "Western Roman Empire"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.17,
"text": "Empire, which had ruled modern-day Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and England for centuries, collapsed due to a combination of economic decline, and drastically reduced military strength which allowed invasion by barbarian tribes originating in southern Scandinavia and modern-day northern Germany. Historical opinion is divided as to the reasons for the fall of Rome, but the societal collapse encompassed both the gradual disintegration of the political, economic, military, and other social institutions of Rome as well as the barbarian invasions of Western Europe. In England, several Germanic tribes invaded, including the Angles and Saxons. In Gaul (modern-day France, Belgium and parts",
"title": "History of Western civilization before AD 500"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.06,
"text": "wars, Theodosius I died, leaving a collapsing field army and the Empire, still plagued by Goths, divided between the warring ministers of his two incapable sons. Further barbarian groups crossed the Rhine and other frontiers, and like the Goths were not exterminated, expelled or subjected. The armed forces of the Western Empire became few and ineffective, and despite brief recoveries under able leaders, central rule was never effectively consolidated. By 476 when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the Western Roman Emperor wielded negligible military, political, or financial power and had no effective control over the scattered Western domains that could still",
"title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.69,
"text": "were executed. The Burgundians were settled on the left bank of the Rhine. Ataulf then operated in the south of Gaul, sometimes with short-term supplies from the Romans. All usurpers had been defeated, but large barbarian groups remained un-subdued in both Gaul and Hispania. The imperial government was quick to restore the Rhine frontier. The invading tribes of 407 had passed into Spain at the end of 409 but the Visigoths had exited Italy at the beginning of 412 and settled themselves in Narbo. Heraclianus was still in command in the diocese of Africa, the last of the clique that",
"title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "the effective line of Roman control until 455 ran from north of Cologne (lost to the Ripuarian Franks in 459) to Boulogne. The Italian areas which had been compelled to support the Goths had most of their taxes remitted for several years. Even in southern Gaul and Hispania large barbarian groups remained, with thousands of warriors, in their own non-Roman military and social systems. Some occasionally acknowledged a degree of Roman political control, but without the local application of Roman leadership and military power they and their individual subgroups pursued their own interests. Constantius died in 421, after only seven",
"title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "Roman border troops, Germanic clients, and then various \"\"barbarian\"\" peoples from outside the empire, some of whom had been under the hegemony of Attila the Hun. \"\"Elbe Germans\"\", came from the Elbe river to the north, which was under Thuringian rule, and is where the Lombards had also been. But also more northern groups had moved along the Elbe from the direction of the North Sea, as did some Saxons who joined the Lombards, and possibly the Heruls. Also, East Germanic groups such as the Goths had entered the Pannonian region east of the Bavarians in the generations leading up",
"title": "Bavarians"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "among other Germanic tribes as well (Vandals, Longobards, Svevi and Burgundians). When the Germanic peoples entered the provinces of the Western Roman Empire and began founding their own kingdoms there, most of them were Arian Christians. The conflict in the 4th century had seen Arian and Nicene factions struggling for control of Western Europe. In contrast, among the Arian German kingdoms established in the collapsing Western Empire in the 5th century were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers. The Germanic elites were Arians, and the Romance majority population was Nicene. The",
"title": "Arianism"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.48,
"text": "Francia Francia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks (), or Frankish Empire was the largest post-Roman Barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Franks during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It is the predecessor of the modern states of France and Germany. After the Treaty of Verdun in 843, West Francia became the predecessor of France, and East Francia became that of Germany. Francia was among the last surviving Germanic kingdoms from the Migration Period era until its partitioning in 843. The core Frankish territories inside the former Western Roman Empire were close to",
"title": "Francia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.45,
"text": "German and French medievalists worried about the origins of the great medieval families. Did the great families descend from the aristocracy of the Roman Empire or from the barbarian chieftains who invaded the Roman Empire between 400 and 600? Did the families originate in the Latin or Germanic world? Both, it seems. Medieval Western Europe was an amalgam of Roman and 'Barbarian' bloodlines. The cultural and genetic influence of the Visigoths, Franks, et al. is readily apparent in the socio-cultural and political framework of Medieval Europe. In spite of this, the legacy of Rome, both social-cultural and genetic pervaded every",
"title": "Romano-Germanic culture"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "of civilizations between the Roman and the Germanic world, a process taking place roughly between 3rd and 8th century. The French historian Lucien Musset, studying the Barbarian invasions, argues the civilization of Medieval Europe emerged from a synthesis between the Graeco-Roman world and the Germanic civilizations penetrating the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not fall, did not decline, it just transformed but so did the Germanic populations which invaded it. To support this conclusion, beside the narrative of the events, he offers linguistic surveys of toponymy and anthroponymy, analyzes archaeological records, studies the urban and rural society, the institutions,",
"title": "Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians, and subsequent classically oriented historical narratives depicted the migrations associated with the end of the Western Roman Empire as the \"\"barbarian invasions\"\". The Romans adapted the term in order to refer to anything that was non-Roman. The German cultural historian Silvio Vietta points out that the meaning of the word \"\"barbarous\"\" has undergone a semantic change in modern times, after Michel de Montaigne used it to characterize the activities of the Spaniards in the New World – supposedly representatives of the \"\"higher\"\" European culture – as \"\"barbarous,\"\" in a satirical essay",
"title": "Barbarian"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "modern roads. See also Roman roads in Britannia, Roman roads in Africa, and Roman roads in Morocco. Francia or the Frankish Empire was the largest post-Roman Barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Franks during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It is the predecessor of the modern states of France and Germany. After the Treaty of Verdun in 843, West Francia became the predecessor of France, and East Francia became that of Germany. The Old Salt Route or \"\"Alte Salzstraße\"\" (Hanseatic League) was a was a medieval trade route in northern Germany that transported salt",
"title": "Historic roads and trails"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.12,
"text": "tribes of a given region. The concept of such duchies survived especially in the areas which in the mid-9th century would become part of East Francia (for example: Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony, Franconia, Thuringia) rather than further west in Middle Francia (for example: Burgundy, Lorraine In the 5th century, the \"\"Völkerwanderung\"\" (or Germanic migrations) brought a number of \"\"barbarian\"\" tribes into the failing Roman Empire. Tribes that became stem duchies were originally the Alamanni, the Thuringii, the Saxons, the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Rugii. In contrast to later duchies, these entities did not have strictly delineated administrative boundaries, but approximated",
"title": "History of Germany"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.08,
"text": "dissolution in the 800s, the Frankish Kingdom had lasted far longer than the other migration period barbarian kingdoms. Its divided successors would develop into the medieval states of France (initially known as West Francia) and Germany (initially known as East Francia). A Mauro-Roman realm survived in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis until the early 8th century. An inscription on a fortification at the ruined city of Altava from the year 508 identifies a man named Masuna as the king of \"\"\"\"Regnum Maurorum et Romanarum\"\"\"\", the Kingdom of the Moors and Romans. It is possible that Masuna is the same man",
"title": "Western Roman Empire"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.86,
"text": "of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation\"\" (1998 ), Ferrill supports the claims of Vegetius, about increased \"\"barbarisation\"\" and \"\"germanisation\"\" helping to cause the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. He asserts that allowing barbarians to settle within Rome's borders, to act as a buffer zone against other barbarians, created friction and led to a decrease in the size of the Roman Empire's Borders. He also states that the Germans were recruited in such large numbers by the Western empire that they in fact changed it from a Roman to a German culture. For example,",
"title": "Arther Ferrill"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.83,
"text": "Arians, Latin and barbarian culture\"\" resulted in the eventual failure of the Ostrogothic reign and the subsequent \"\"end of Italy as the heartland of late antiquity.\"\" According to noted historian Herwig Wolfram, the Germanic peoples did not and could not \"\"conquer the more advanced Roman world\"\" nor were they able to \"\"restore it as a political and economic entity\"\"; instead, he asserts that the empire's \"\"universalism\"\" was replaced by \"\"tribal particularism\"\" which gave way to \"\"regional patriotism\"\". Nonetheless, the entry of the Germanic tribes deep into the heart of Europe and the subsequent collapse of the western Roman Empire resulted",
"title": "Germanic peoples"
}
] |
when does the second season of castlevania start? | [
"October 26, 2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "team and production commenced. Its art style is heavily influenced by Japanese anime and Ayami Kojima's artwork in \"\"\"\", with the production team including staff members who worked in the Japanese anime industry. The series premiered on Netflix on July 7, 2017, and was renewed for an expanded second season of eight episodes on the same day; the second season premiered on October 26, 2018. A ten-episode third season has been greenlit by Netflix. When his wife is burned at the stake after being falsely accused of witchcraft, the vampire Count Dracula declares all the people of Wallachia will pay",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "of the show's animation directors having previously worked on the . The production works closely with Konami, the holders of the \"\"Castlevania\"\" franchise, who helped to identify small continuity issues but were otherwise very receptive towards the work. The first season of four 30-minute episodes was released on July 7, 2017. This season represents the first part of the trilogy that Ellis has laid out in 2007. The second season is eight episodes long and was released on October 26, 2018. Ellis said that the second season, completing the trilogy, is where he had been able to deviate somewhat from",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "Netflix as part of its original programming. The show is being showrun by Adi Shankar, who had previously teased plans for an animated mini-series based on \"\"\"\" in 2015, and is written by Warren Ellis. Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde also co-produce. The series is animated by Seibert's Frederator Studios and Powerhouse Animation Studios, under Michael Hirsh's Wow Unlimited Media company. The show's first season released on July 7, 2017 and ran for four episodes, while the second season premiered on October 26, 2018 and ran for eight episodes. A ten-episode third season is currently in development. Castlevania Castlevania ()",
"title": "Castlevania"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "later renewed for an 8-episode second series which premiered on October 26, 2018. A ten-episode third season has been greenlit by Netflix. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is the third \"\"Castlevania\"\" video game produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was published by Konami in Japan in 1989, in North America in 1990, and in Europe in 1992. It was later released on the Wii Virtual Console. It is notorious for its difficulty, and like its predecessors is also notable for its highly regarded sound track. The plot of \"\"Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse\"\" is a prequel to",
"title": "Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "was greenlit by Netflix a few days after the broadcast of the second season. Shankar announced in November 2018 that he will also be leading an animated series based on Capcom's \"\"Devil May Cry\"\", which he acquired the rights for himself, and will make the show, alongside the \"\"Castlevania\"\" series, part of a shared \"\"bootleg multiverse\"\". According to Parrot Analytics, \"\"Castlevania\"\" was the most popular digital original series in the United States during July 619, 2017, with the show generating 23,175,616 \"\"demand expressions\"\" on average. According to Parrot Analytics, \"\"demand expressions\"\" indicate the \"\"total audience demand being expressed for a",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "the Netflix anime series \"\"Castlevania\"\" had a special theatrical screening followed by Q&A with Director Sam Deats and executive producers Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde. It featured concerts with Spazmatics and Phantogram, both hosted at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater. It also featured an early screening of \"\"War for the Planet of the Apes\"\" at the Paramount Theater. Crypt TV will premiere season 2 of \"\"The Look-See\"\". RTX 2019 will be held from July 5-7. On June 11, 2015, Rooster Teeth announced RTX Australia, a collaboration with Hanabee and Supanova Pop Culture Expo. In 2017, the event was renamed RTX Sydney.",
"title": "RTX (event)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "the special sound chip in the Japanese version as the reason why. The 1991 \"\"\"\" episode \"\"Return to Castlevania\"\" was based on this game. An animated \"\"Dracula's Curse\"\" movie had been in development since 2007 with writer Warren Ellis, Frederator Studios, and James Jean attached to the project. In August 2015, film producer Adi Shankar teased that the project, now an animated mini series, was finally in production. Titled simply \"\"Castlevania\"\", it was revealed in February 2017 that the first season of the series will premiere on Netflix on July 7, 2017. After the 4-episode first season premiere, it was",
"title": "Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "in the cast here\"\". WhatCulture wrote very positively of the voice work and also noted the new performances, including Jaime Murray as Carmilla and Adetokumboh M'Cormack as Isaac. IGN gave the second season a 9.2/10, praising Ellis's approach to \"\"Castlevania\"\" as \"\"witty and self-aware enough to poke fun at itself when necessary\"\". Castlevania (TV series) Castlevania is an American adult animated web television series based on the Japanese video games \"\"\"\" (1989) and \"\"\"\" (2005) by Konami. The series follows Trevor Belmont, who defends the nation of Wallachia from Dracula and his minions. The series was originally planned as a",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "their \"\"own pace\"\". \"\"Finality\"\", a new webcomic written by Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran, was announced in September 2016. Set to be published by Line Webtoon in 2017, the 26-issue weekly series follows a middle-aged female detective working a murder mystery. In February 2017, Netflix announced a \"\"Castlevania\"\" animated television series adaptation, written and executive produced by Ellis. Ellis had been previously hired to write a screenplay for \"\"Castlevania: Dracula's Curse\"\", an animated film based on \"\"\"\". The first season was released on July 7, 2017, with a second set for 2018. Executive producer Adi Shankar confirmed that Ellis",
"title": "Warren Ellis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "Castle (season 2) The second season of American crime-comedy-drama television series \"\"Castle\"\" was ordered on May 15, 2009, by ABC. The season aired from September 21, 2009, to May 17, 2010. The second season was originally renewed with an order of 13 episodes, but a few weeks after the season premiere, on October 20, 2009, ABC ordered a full season increasing the episode count to 24 episodes. Richard Castle (Fillion) is a famous mystery novelist who has killed off the main character in his popular book series and has writer's block. He is brought in by the NYPD for questioning",
"title": "Castle (season 2)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.92,
"text": "team. Eventually all episodes became distributed online via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network, although an archive of http first and second series downloads now exists and lower quality http downloads are released concurrently with the more recent BitTorrent releases. On January 23, 2017, it was announced via Patreon that a new series of consolevania was planned for production. The first episode of the new run was released on February 18, 2017, and the show is following a regular monthly release schedule. \"\"Consolevania\"\" was first released online in 2004, presented by Robert Florence, former writer for BBC comedy \"\"Chewin' the Fat\"\", and",
"title": "Consolevania"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.69,
"text": "second, (), was published January 1, 2009. It is also licensed in France by Soleil Manga. \"\"Castlevania: Curse of Darkness\"\" was positively received by English-language readers. The first volume ranked 72nd on the list of the top 100 best-selling graphic novels in September 2008 with an estimated 1,564 copies sold. In December 2008, the second volume placed 171st on the list of the top 300 best-selling graphic novels with an estimated 720 copies sold. However, it received mixed reviews from English-language critics—two of whom were fans of the Castlevania franchise. Criticism focused on Sasakura's artwork which tended to focus on",
"title": "Castlevania: Curse of Darkness"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.55,
"text": "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is a platform-adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. Belonging to Konami's \"\"Castlevania\"\" video game series, it is the second installment of the series on the Game Boy Advance. It was released in Japan in June 2002, in North America in September 2002, and in Europe in October 2002. It was the first Castlevania game to be called \"\"Castlevania\"\" in Japan instead of \"\"Akumajō Dracula\"\". \"\"Harmony of Dissonance\"\" occurs in the fictional universe of the \"\"Castlevania\"\" series; the premise of the series centers on the eternal",
"title": "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.45,
"text": "negative review, writing that it tried too hard to find profundity in the story of the \"\"Castlevania\"\" series. He also cited issues with the pacing. On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season received a rating of 100% with an average score of 9.7/10 based on 9 reviews. Complaints were made towards the pacing and the screen time spent on Dracula's court in season two. Writing for GameSpot, Michael Rougeau was disappointed that Trevor's group spent the first six episodes in a library, and also said Dracula \"\"does literally nothing in all the episodes we've seen so far. There's one medium length",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.39,
"text": "flashback in which he massacres a council of merchants who offended him, but it's not like that moves the story along\"\". Rougeau concluded that the action was creatively executed, but he felt that the new cast was given more development and that the previous characters were left to \"\"tread water\"\". Film School Rejects echoed similar sentiments, who said the second season was more of a complement to the first one. McTavish and the rest of the voice cast were once again met with high praise. In Collider's review for the second series, Dave Trumbore mentioned there \"\"isn't a weak link",
"title": "Castlevania (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "of \"\"Castlevania\"\" was slated to begin in late fall 2007 in South Africa and Romania. \"\"Castlevania\"\" was planned for a late 2008 release. In October 2007, Anderson said that he hoped to have a script within two or three weeks before the onset of the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike. Producer Jeremy Bolt said that production was intended to begin in spring 2008. In December 2007, Rogue Pictures halted active development of \"\"Castlevania\"\" due to the writers' strike and, later, the sale of the studio to Relativity Media and possibility of a screen actors' guild strike. Despite the shelving,",
"title": "Castlevania"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "Castlevania Legends Castlevania Legends is the third \"\"Castlevania\"\" title released for the original Game Boy. It was released in Japan on November 27, 1997 and in North America on March 11, 1998. A player starts with three lives, after which the game is over. A player may continue from the beginning of the last stage they were in. There is also a Hit score showing how many enemies have been defeated in each stage. Like other \"\"Castlevania\"\" games, striking candles will cause items to appear. However, unlike most other \"\"Castlevania\"\" titles, the traditional subweapons are replaced with five unique magic",
"title": "Castlevania Legends"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "Blasting News felt that the second season of \"\"Castlevania\"\" gave more screentime to developed the chemistry between Alucard and his friends in contrast to his brief role in the first season. Destructoid agreed mostly due to the way Alucard and Trevor push aside their differences to defeat Dracula yet they keep insulting each other across the story leaving good comic relief in the process. IGN felt that the relationship between Alucard and his father was one of the best aspects of the second season thanks to the well performance of their voice actors. Alucard (Castlevania) , better known as ,",
"title": "Alucard (Castlevania)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.03,
"text": "of \"\"Lords of Shadow 2\"\". Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is an action-adventure video game developed by MercurySteam and Kojima Productions, published by Konami and released on October 5, 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The PC version was released on August 27, 2013. The game is a reboot of the \"\"Castlevania\"\" series. Set in Southern Europe during the Middle Ages, the story focuses on Gabriel Belmont and his quest to defeat a malevolent order known as the Lords of Shadow and resurrect his wife. The player controls Gabriel in 3D environments as he uses",
"title": "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "September 2007, at 11.30am, and a second series began on Friday 2 January 2009 in the same time slot. Series 3 debuted on Wednesday 14 July 2010. Series 4 began its broadcast in 2012. The Castle (radio series) The Castle is a BBC Radio 4 comedy set in the Middle Ages and referencing modern life: in the words of its own introduction, \"\"a comedy set in the filth, stench and grime of the Middle Ages, with some nice music\"\". The exact timeframe of the series is not fixed; one episode specifies it to be in the early 12th century, yet",
"title": "The Castle (radio series)"
}
] |
what was the capital of brazil before brasilia? | [
"Rio de Janeiro"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "that moving the capital to the region would help populate the area. The new capital, Brasília, was inaugurated as the federal capital on 21 April 1960 after being purpose built at great cost of 2 trillion U.S. dollars. Capitals of Brazil The current capital of Brazil, since its construction in 1960, is Brasília. Rio de Janeiro was the country's capital between 1763 and 1960. The city of Salvador served as the seat for the Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil for its first two centuries and is usually called the \"\"first capital of Brazil\"\". Salvador was established in 1549 by the",
"title": "Capitals of Brazil"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.19,
"text": "Capitals of Brazil The current capital of Brazil, since its construction in 1960, is Brasília. Rio de Janeiro was the country's capital between 1763 and 1960. The city of Salvador served as the seat for the Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil for its first two centuries and is usually called the \"\"first capital of Brazil\"\". Salvador was established in 1549 by the first Governor-General of Portuguese South America shortly after colonisation began. The city became the seat of the first Catholic bishopric of Brazil in 1552, and is still the center of Brazilian Catholicism. In the 17th century Rio de",
"title": "Capitals of Brazil"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.83,
"text": "chief architect of most public buildings and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer. Brasília was built in 41 months, from 1956 to April 21, 1960, when it was officially inaugurated. From 1763 to 1960, Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil. At this time, resources tended to be centered in Brazil's southeast region near Rio de Janeiro. Brasília's geographically more central location made for a more regionally neutral federal capital. The idea of locating the capital in the center of Brazil was first suggested in 1891 but was not defined until 1922. Right from the beginning, the growth",
"title": "History of Brasília"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.8,
"text": "newly built city of Brasilia became the Capital of Brazil. In 1898, after ceasing to be a presidential palace, the Itamaraty Palace became the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (when the Brazilian Capital was moved to Brasília the Ministry's Palace in that city was also given the name Itamaraty Palace, that had by then become synonymous with the Brazilian foreign service). Rio's Itamaraty Palace today houses a branch office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the Catete Palace is now a museum. From 1926 to 1946 the seat of the Presidency was housed in Guanabara Palace (that",
"title": "Brazilian presidential inauguration"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.33,
"text": "Brazil had been occasionally discussed, and when Juscelino Kubitschek was elected president in 1955, it was partially on the strength of promises to build a new capital. Though many thought that it was just campaign rhetoric, Kubitschek managed to have Brasília and a new Federal District built, at great cost, by 1960. On 21 April of that year the capital of Brazil was officially moved to Brasília. The territory of the former Federal District became its own state, Guanabara, after the bay that borders it to the east, encompassing just the city of Rio de Janeiro. After the 1964 coup",
"title": "Rio de Janeiro"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "History of Brasília The history of Brasília, the centrally located capital of Brazil, started with discussions in the eighteenth century. The name Brasília was first proposed in 1822, but construction only began in 1956, following the election of Juscelino Kubitschek as President of Brazil. Its official declaration as a city dates to 21. April 1960, and the process of moving the federal government offices started on that date. President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a",
"title": "History of Brasília"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "square-shaped Distrito Federal was carved out of Goiás in preparation for the new capital, Brasília. The previous federal district became Guanabara State, but in 1975 it was merged with Rio de Janeiro State, retaining its name and with the municipality of Rio de Janeiro as its capital. In 1977, Mato Grosso was split into two states. The northern area retained the name Mato Grosso while the southern area became the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, with Campo Grande as its capital. The new Mato Grosso do Sul incorporated the territory of Ponta Porã and the northern part of Iguaçu.",
"title": "States of Brazil"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "stated the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a place close to the country's center. The plan was conceived in 1827 by José Bonifácio, an advisor to Emperor Pedro I. He presented a plan to the General Assembly of Brazil for a new city called Brasília, with the idea of moving the capital westward from the heavily populated southeastern corridor. The bill was not enacted because Pedro I dissolved the Assembly. According to legend, Italian saint Don Bosco in 1883 had a dream in which he described a futuristic city that roughly fitted Brasília's location. In Brasília",
"title": "Brasília"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.11,
"text": "Brasília Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located atop the Brazilian highlands in the country's center-western region. It was founded on April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília is estimated to be Brazil's 3rd most populous city. Among major Latin American cities, Brasília has the highest GDP per capita at (). Brasília was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956 to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto",
"title": "Brasília"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "new sense of national agency in the population. Part of this grand vision for Brazil’s future was the relocation of the nation’s capital from the coastal Rio de Janeiro to a new inland site named Brasília. Essentially located in the wilderness, Brasília was to be a “single-function, strictly administrative capital,” says political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott. Here, long-considered plans for a new capital were finally able to come to fruition thanks to global enthusiasm for the potential of technology. Brasília’s massive scale, rational design and cultural offerings, all built from the ground up in the forests of Brazil",
"title": "High modernism"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "fact, Brazil from continental neighbors.” The idea to establish a new Brazilian capital was adopted, and the location for Brasília would be within the Brazilian State of Goiás. The search for the site had been calculated, based on factors such as the favorability of the climate, water supply, land quality for agriculture, a suitable power source within 100 kilometers, and access to ground and air transportation. Once it had been determined that there would be a new capital and the location had been established, the project entered into the design process. The plan was to be selected among competing plans",
"title": "Lúcio Costa"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "District is composed of 31 administrative regions, only one of which is the area of the originally planned city, also called Plano Piloto. The rest of the Federal District is considered by IBGE to make up Brasília's metro area. From 1763 until 1960, Rio de Janeiro was Brazil's capital. At this time, resources tended to be centered in Brazil's southeast region near Rio de Janeiro and most of its population was concentrated near to the Atlantic Coast. Brasília's geographically central location fostered a more regionally neutral federal capital. An article of the country's first republican constitution dating back to 1891",
"title": "Brasília"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.7,
"text": "Brazil. The Federal District has the status of a federal state in many aspects. It has representatives both in the Lower House of Congress (Câmara dos Deputados) and in the national Senate. The Brazilian federal government was transferred to the current Federal District, separate from the state of Goiás and the border with the state of Minas Gerais on April 21, 1960, when the planned city of Brasília was inaugurated. Before the transfer, the Brazilian capital was the city of Rio de Janeiro. After the transfer, the territory where the former Federal District was located became the state of Guanabara,",
"title": "Capital districts and territories"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.7,
"text": "Mineira. A completely new capital city, its streets, government palaces, infrastructure, living facilities, etc., suddenly emerged in the middle of a savanna in just 41 months, and before the target date. As soon as it was inaugurated, Brasília was considered a masterpiece of modern urbanism and modern architecture. Brasilia plays a strategic role in integrating Brazil's farthest regions, bringing development to unpopulated areas and guaranteeing Brazil's cultural and territorial unity. The construction of Brasilia, fostered the development of many roads, linking Brazil's vast territories. One important example was the construction of the Belém-Brasilia road. Previously, the only way to go",
"title": "Juscelino Kubitschek"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.64,
"text": "de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil. His \"\"Plano Piloto\"\" (Pilot Plan) for Brasília, is in the shape of an irregular cross, suggesting an airplane or dragonfly. While the majority of the project's architecture was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, Costa's own Parque Guinle project was the model for Brasília's many residential tower-in-a-park superblocks. The new city was inaugurated on April 21, 1960 and represents one of the largest adoptions of Modernism in a singular project to the present day. Although named as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, the city is notorious for its windswept emptiness and anti-pedestrian layout.",
"title": "Lúcio Costa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "today, many references of Bosco, who founded the Salesian order, are found throughout the city and one church parish in the city bears his name. In 1957 an international jury selected Lúcio Costa's plan to guide the construction of Brazil’s new capital, Brasília. Costa's plan was not as detailed as some of the plans presented by other architects and city planners. It did not include land use schedules, models, population charts or mechanical drawings, however, it was chosen by five out of six jurors because it had the features required to align the growth of a capital city Even though",
"title": "Brasília"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "and 2012). The club hosts some of its games at the 16,000 all-seat Nilson Nelson Gymnasium. Brasília Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located atop the Brazilian highlands in the country's center-western region. It was founded on April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília is estimated to be Brazil's 3rd most populous city. Among major Latin American cities, Brasília has the highest GDP per capita at (). Brasília was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956 to move",
"title": "Brasília"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.45,
"text": "it became a province of the empire of Brazil. It became a state in 1889. The Brazilian constitution of 1891 specified that the nation's capital should be moved to the Brazilian Highlands (Planalto Central), and in 1956 Goiás was selected as the site for the federal district and capital national, Brasília. The seat of the federal government was officially moved to Brasília in 1960. Goiânia, the largest city and capital was planned in 1933 to replace the old, inaccessible former state capital of Goiás, northwest. In 1937 the state government moved there, and in 1942 the official inauguration was held.",
"title": "Goiás"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.31,
"text": "became the capital of Rio de Janeiro, until 1902 when Niterói recovered its capital status. With the relocation of the federal capital to Brasília in 1960, the city of Rio de Janeiro became Guanabara State. Niterói remained the state capital for Rio de Janeiro state, while Rio de Janeiro served the same status for Guanabara. In 1975, the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro were merged under the name of Rio de Janeiro, with the city of Rio de Janeiro as state capital. The symbols of the former State of Rio de Janeiro were preserved, while the symbols of",
"title": "Rio de Janeiro (state)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília. Rio de Janeiro has the second largest municipal GDP",
"title": "Rio de Janeiro"
}
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who won the battle of the white plains? | [
"British"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.59,
"text": "won a victory over a corps of Loyalists at Mamaroneck, New York. At White Plains, on October 28, 1776, the Delaware Regiment again fought with Colonel William Smallwood's Marylanders, reinforcing militia placed on the strategic Chatterton's Hill. The local militia fled under the British attack, but Haslet and Smallwood fought on until, at last, they too yielded the ground. The Battle of White Plains was another British victory, but because of the difficulty in taking Chatterton's Hill, the price was great and the reward to the British was little. With expiring enlistments leaving fewer than 100 men remaining in his",
"title": "John Haslet"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "Battle of White Plains The Battle of White Plains was a battle in the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on October 28, 1776, near White Plains, New York. Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army northward from New York City, British General William Howe landed troops in Westchester County, intending to cut off Washington's escape route. Alerted to this move, Washington retreated farther, establishing a position in the village of White Plains but failed to establish firm control over local high ground. Howe's troops drove Washington's troops from a hill near the",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "and important river crossings. Later, British movements chased him across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania, and the British established a chain of outposts across New Jersey. Washington, seeing an opportunity for a victory to boost the nation's morale, crossed the Delaware and surprised Rall's troops in the December 26 Battle of Trenton. Each year on or near the anniversary date, the White Plains Historical Society hosts a commemoration of the event at the Jacob Purdy House in White Plains, New York. Two ships in the United States Navy were named for the Battle of White Plains. CVE-66 was an escort",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.44,
"text": "where General George Washington's Continental Army had organized significant defenses around Brooklyn Heights. After losing the Battle of Long Island on August 27, General Washington and his army of 9,000 troops escaped on the night of August 29–30 to York Island (as Manhattan was then called). General Howe followed up with a landing on Manhattan on September 15, but his advance was checked the next day at Harlem Heights. After an abortive landing at Throg's Neck, he landed troops with some resistance at Pell's Point on October 18 to begin an encircling maneuver that was intended to trap Washington's army",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24,
"text": "retreat. George Washington sent various troops, including Hitchcock's Regiment, to pursue them. By the time the units got there, the British brought in more reinforcements. The British troops ran out of ammunition and were forced to retreat a second time. The Americans kept up a close pursuit until it was heard that British reserves were coming, and Washington, fearing a British trap, ordered a withdrawal, and the Americans won the battle. Hitchcock's next battle was the Battle of White Plains. Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army northward from New York City, British General William Howe landed troops in",
"title": "Daniel Hitchcock"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.88,
"text": "attacked that night by a detachment of Lord Stirling's troops under John Haslet, who took more than thirty prisoners as well as supplies, but suffered several killed and 15 wounded. As a result, Howe moved elements of his right wing to occupy Mamaroneck. On October 22, Howe was reinforced by the landing at New Rochelle of an additional 8,000 troops under the command of Wilhelm von Knyphausen. Washington established his headquarters at the Elijah Miller House in North White Plains on October 23, and chose a defensive position that he fortified with two lines of entrenchments. The trenches were situated",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "battalion under Colonel Carl von Donop (consisting of the Linsing, Mingerode, Lengereck, and Kochler grenadiers, and Donop's own chasseur regiment) was to attack the center. A British column under General Alexander Leslie (consisting of the 5th, 28th, 35th, and 49th Foot) was to attack the right. Donop's force either had difficulty crossing the river, or was reluctant to do so, and elements of the British force were the first to cross the river. Rall's charge scattered the militia on the American right, leaving the flank of the Maryland and New York regiments exposed as they poured musket fire onto the",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "Spencer out to slow the British advance, and sent Haslet and the 1st Delaware Regiment, along with Alexander McDougall's brigade (Rudolphus Ritzema's 3rd New York Regiment, Charles Webb's 19th Continental Regiment, William Smallwood's 1st Maryland Regiment, and the 1st New York Regiment and 2nd New York Regiments) to reinforce Chatterton Hill. Spencer's force advanced to a position on the old York road at Hart's corners (Hartsdale, New York) and there exchanged fire with the Hessians led by Colonel Johann Rall that were at the head of the British left column. When Clinton's column threatened their flank, these companies were forced",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "October 1776, troops led by George Washington took up positions in the hills of the village, hotly pursued by the British under General Sir William Howe, who attacked on October 28. The Battle of White Plains took place primarily on Chatterton Hill, (later known as \"\"Battle Hill,\"\" and located just west of what was then a swamp but is now the downtown area) and the Bronx River. Howe's force of 4,000–6,000 British and Hessian soldiers required three attacks before the Continentals, numbering about 1,600 under the command of Generals Alexander McDougall and Israel Putnam, retreated, joining Washington's main force, which",
"title": "White Plains, New York"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "dispatched Putnam with orders to Lord Stirling, whose troops were furthest north, to immediately march to White Plains. They arrived at White Plains at 9 am on October 21, and were followed by other units of the army as the day progressed. Washington decided to withdraw most of the army to White Plains, leaving a garrison of 1,200 men under Nathanael Greene to defend Fort Washington on Manhattan. General Howe's army advanced slowly, with troops from his center and right moving along the road from New Rochelle to White Plains, while a unit of Loyalists occupied Mamaroneck. The latter was",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.7,
"text": "village; following this loss, Washington ordered the Americans to retreat farther north. Later British movements chased Washington across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania. Washington then crossed the Delaware and surprised a brigade of Hessian troops in the December 26 Battle of Trenton. British General William Howe, after evacuating Boston in March 1776, regrouped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and embarked in June on a campaign to gain control of New York City. The campaign began with an unopposed landing on Staten Island in early July. British troops made another unopposed landing on Long Island on August 22, south of the areas",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "Battle of Harlem Heights, an American victory. On October 28, 1776, his forces participated in the Battle of White Plains. After the war, Scott regained his Manhattan estate and was a candidate for the first governorship of New York State, losing to George Clinton. He became, instead, New York's first Secretary of State, a state senator, and served as an active delegate to the Continental Congress. His body is interred at the north entrance of Trinity Church, New York. His inscribed slab is visible from the corner of Wall Street and Broadway. An equestrian statue is erected in his honor",
"title": "John Morin Scott"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "the hopes of catching Charles Lee's column, which had to alter its route toward White Plains and execute a forced march at night to avoid them. Howe remained at Scarsdale until the morning of October 28, when his forces marched toward White Plains, with British troops on the right under General Henry Clinton, and primarily Hessian troops on the left under General von Heister. While Washington was inspecting the terrain to determine where it was best to station his troops, messengers alerted him that the British were advancing. Returning to his headquarters, he ordered the 2nd Connecticut Regiment under Joseph",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "between that force, his troops in Manhattan, and the Hudson River, which was dominated by warships of the Royal Navy. Howe established a camp at New Rochelle, but advance elements of his army were near Mamaroneck, only from White Plains, where there was a lightly defended Continental Army supply depot. On October 20, General Washington sent Colonel Rufus Putnam out on a reconnaissance mission from his camp at Harlem Heights. Putnam discovered the general placement of the British troop locations and recognized the danger to the army and its supplies. When he reported this to Washington that evening, Washington immediately",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.44,
"text": "carrier in World War II. AFS-4 was a combat stores ship that was decommissioned in 1995. According to some historians, the Headless Horseman depicted in Washington Irving's short story \"\"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\"\" was inspired by a real-life Hessian soldier who lost his head by cannon fire during this battle. Battle of White Plains The Battle of White Plains was a battle in the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on October 28, 1776, near White Plains, New York. Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army northward from New York City, British",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "with other surgeons and physicians to North Castle, New York with Washington's army when the Battle of White Plains began in October 1776. The Continental Army lost the battle, and the British took Fort Washington and Fort Lee, which pushed Washington's ragged army south toward New Jersey in December 1776, which set the stage for the Battle of Trenton. McKnight remained at North Castle until John Morgan, the Director General, ordered him and Samuel Adams, Jr. (the son of Samuel Adams of Massachusetts) to set up a new hospital near Peekskill, New York, for more than 300 sick soldiers of",
"title": "Charles McKnight"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.33,
"text": "George Athan Billias argues in support of Baldwin's estimates, due in part to the corroborating admission of another British deserter. Regardless, the combined British and Hessian casualties were almost certainly larger than those of the Americans. With the British advance delayed, the main American army under Washington was able to safely evacuate from Harlem (on the island of Manhattan) to White Plains. Howe slowly moved his army through New Rochelle and Scarsdale. On October 28, he sent 13,000 men to attack the Americans, resulting in a minor victory over Washington at the Battle of White Plains. Fort Washington, the last",
"title": "Battle of Pell's Point"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "reinforcements began to arrive, Washington called off the attack. Although not a complete defeat of the British attacking force, the battle was nonetheless a Continental Army victory, the first of the war. This fact greatly enhanced troop morale. Washington would later retreat further north to White Plains, New York as the British pursued him and his army. While the British advanced towards Washington's Army, Washington decided to take a stand in White Plains. In October, 1776, Howe's army advanced from New Rochelle, and Scarsdale. Washington set up defensive positions in the hills around the village. When the British attacked, the",
"title": "History of the Hudson River"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.23,
"text": "numbered 214 British and 99 Hessians. However, Rodney Atwood points out that Fortescue's figure for the Hessians includes the entire Hessian casualties from 19–28 October and that in fact only 53 of these casualties were incurred at the Battle of White Plains. This revised figure would give a total of 267 British and Hessians killed, wounded or missing at White Plains. Henry Dawson, on the other hand, gives Howe's loss as 47 killed, 182 wounded and 4 missing. The American loss is uncertain. Theodore Savas and J. David Dameron give a range of 150-500 killed, wounded and captured. Samuel Roads",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.23,
"text": "numbers the casualties of 47 killed and 70 wounded. Henry Dawson estimates 50 killed, 150 wounded and 17 missing for McDougall's and Spencer's commands but has no information on the losses in Haslet's regiment. The two generals remained where they were for two days, while Howe reinforced the position on Chatterton Hill, and Washington organized his army for retreat into the hills. With the arrival of additional Hessian and Waldeck troops under Lord Percy on October 30, Howe planned to act against the Americans the following day. However, a heavy rain fell the whole next day, and when Howe was",
"title": "Battle of White Plains"
}
] |
who played jimmy olsen in the original superman tv show? | [
"Jack Edward Larson"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.72,
"text": "Lex Luthor's henchman Orville Gump in disguise. Mark L. Taylor played Jimmy Olsen in the 1988 animated adaptation of \"\"Superman\"\". In \"\"\"\", part of the DCAU, Jimmy was played by voice actor David Kaufman. One episode was called \"\"Superman's Pal\"\" as an homage to the classic comic series, and Superman gave Jimmy the signal watch by the end of the episode. Another allusion to the comics made in the show was seen in the second-season episode \"\"Mxyzpixilated\"\", where Mr. Mxyzptlk turns all the employees of the Daily Planet into animals. Jimmy is turned into a turtle, possibly as a homage.",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.39,
"text": "in \"\"Superman\"\" #13 (November–December 1941). But after a handful of appearances, he disappeared again. In late 1953, while Jack Larson was playing the character on the \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" television show where he was referred to as \"\"Jim Olsen\"\", the character was revived in the Superman comics after a 10-year absence and then given his own title. Jimmy is traditionally depicted as a bow tie-wearing, red-haired young man who works as a cub reporter and photographer for \"\"The Daily Planet\"\", alongside Lois Lane and Clark Kent, whom he idolizes as career role models. In most depictions of the character, he",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.23,
"text": "is a round-table discussion featuring four of the six surviving actors at the time who had portrayed Jimmy Olsen in live action: Jack Larson (\"\"Adventures of Superman\"\"), Marc McClure (\"\"Superman\"\" film series, \"\"Supergirl\"\" film), Sam Huntington (\"\"Superman Returns\"\"), and Aaron Ashmore (\"\"Smallville\"\"). Michael Landes and Justin Whalin (both from \"\"\"\") did not participate. Jack Grimes reprised his role as Jimmy Olsen in \"\"The New Adventures of Superman\"\". In the \"\"Super Friends\"\" animated series, he \"\"appears\"\" in the second episode of \"\"The World's Greatest Super Friends\"\" season, 'Lex Luthor Strikes Back', with Lois Lane. It was not Jimmy at all, but",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.94,
"text": "Jack Grimes (actor) Jack Grimes (April 1, 1926 – March 10, 2009) was an American voice and radio actor who played Jimmy Olsen in the last three years of \"\"The Adventures of Superman\"\" radio program, the 1966 Filmation TV series \"\"The New Adventures of Superman\"\", and is also known for his performance on the 1967 anime \"\"Speed Racer\"\". Grimes was born April 1, 1926, in New York City. His acting career began at age 7, during the depression, when he helped earn money for his family. He completed grammar school at the Professional Children's School and went on to complete",
"title": "Jack Grimes (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.73,
"text": "\"\"Superman\"\" (1948) and \"\"Atom Man vs. Superman\"\" (1950); Marc McClure in the \"\"Superman\"\" films of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1984 film \"\"Supergirl\"\"; Michael Landes in the first season of \"\"\"\" and Justin Whalin in the subsequent three seasons; Sam Huntington in the 2006 film \"\"Superman Returns\"\"; Aaron Ashmore in the CW's \"\"Smallville\"\"; and Michael Cassidy in \"\"\"\". In the series \"\"Supergirl\"\", he is portrayed by Mehcad Brooks. Olsen is also the superhero Guardian in the show. An unnamed \"\"office boy\"\" with a bow tie makes a brief appearance in the story \"\"Superman's Phony Manager\"\" published in",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.7,
"text": "the age of 82. Jack Grimes (actor) Jack Grimes (April 1, 1926 – March 10, 2009) was an American voice and radio actor who played Jimmy Olsen in the last three years of \"\"The Adventures of Superman\"\" radio program, the 1966 Filmation TV series \"\"The New Adventures of Superman\"\", and is also known for his performance on the 1967 anime \"\"Speed Racer\"\". Grimes was born April 1, 1926, in New York City. His acting career began at age 7, during the depression, when he helped earn money for his family. He completed grammar school at the Professional Children's School and",
"title": "Jack Grimes (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "Marc McClure Marc A. McClure (born March 31, 1957 in San Mateo, California) is an American actor, known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the \"\"Superman\"\" series of feature films released between 1978 and 1987, and Dave McFly, the older brother of Marty McFly in the \"\"Back to the Future\"\" films. McClure appeared in the 1976 film \"\"Freaky Friday\"\". He was in the 1977 Brigham Young University church video \"\"The Phone Call\"\" as Scott, who works at Ripples Drive-In. In 1978 he appeared in the film \"\"I Wanna Hold Your Hand\"\" and in 1980 appeared in the film \"\"Used Cars\"\", both",
"title": "Marc McClure"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "guest role as a \"\"the evil Dr. Curtis Knox\"\" in the fourth episode \"\"Cure\"\". Marc McClure, who portrayed Jimmy Olsen in all of the \"\"Superman\"\" films as well as in \"\"Supergirl\"\", was brought in to play a Kryptonian scientist named Dax-Ur for the episode \"\"Persona\"\". James Marsters was brought back to reprise his role as Milton Fine/Brainiac in a four-episode arc slated for January 2008; Marsters had not appeared on the show since the season five finale \"\"Vessel\"\". Another character from the DC Comics universe arriving on \"\"Smallville\"\" is the Black Canary. The character was intended to be featured in",
"title": "Smallville (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.52,
"text": "as the cub reporter from 1952 to 1958. Largely because of the popularity of Larson and his portrayal of the character, National Comics Publications (DC Comics) decided in 1954 to create \"\"Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen\"\", a regular title featuring Jimmy as the leading character. Decades later in 1996, Larson portrayed an unnaturally aged Jimmy Olsen in an episode of \"\"\"\". On the television series \"\"\"\", Jimmy Olsen was portrayed by Michael Landes in the first season and Justin Whalin for the rest of the series' run. The reason cited behind the change is that Landes looked too much like Dean",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "Eddie Jones as Jonathan Kent, K Callan as Martha Kent, Justin Whalin as Jimmy Olsen. Season two dropped the character of Cat Grant and replaced Michael Landes with Justin Whalin as Jimmy Olsen. The official reason, according to Landes, was that he looked too similar to Dean Cain (on the DVD commentary for the pilot of \"\"Lois & Clark\"\", Dean Cain has admitted that he and Landes looked like they could be related). Series creator Deborah Joy LeVine and the entire first-season writing team were also dismissed. The new producer, Robert Singer, planned a stronger focus on \"\"action\"\"; the show",
"title": "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (season 2)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "a trademark of Filmation's animated productions. Producer Lou Scheimer also recruited Clayton \"\"Bud\"\" Collyer and Joan Alexander, veterans of the Superman radio show and the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons, for the voices of Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane respectively. Jackson Beck, who had narrated, and provided the character voice of Perry White on, the radio show, reprised those same roles for the cartoon version, while Jack Grimes, who had played Jimmy Olsen in its later years, took that part here as well. For this series, Collyer returned to the same vocal technique he had perfected on the radio show to",
"title": "The New Adventures of Superman (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.28,
"text": "(episodes 1–52, 26 titles per season) were filmed in black and white; seasons three through six (episodes 53–104, 13 titles per season) were filmed in color but originally telecast in black and white. \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" was not shown in color until 1965, when the series was syndicated to local stations. George Reeves played Clark Kent/Superman, with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson. Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in the first season, with Noel Neill stepping into the role in the second (1953) and later seasons. Superman battles crooks, gangsters,",
"title": "Adventures of Superman (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.25,
"text": "Jimmy Olsen James Bartholomew Olsen, better known as Jimmy Olsen, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the \"\"Daily Planet\"\". He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with his boss Perry White. Olsen looks up to his coworkers as role models and parent figures. He has appeared in most other media adaptations of Superman. Jack Larson played the character on the \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" television show. He was portrayed by Tommy Bond in the two Superman film serials,",
"title": "Jimmy Olsen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "Wonder Woman early in the film, while Holt McCallany makes an uncredited appearance as a burglar. Marc McClure, who portrayed Jimmy Olsen in the Christopher Reeve \"\"Superman\"\" film series, has a cameo as a police officer. An unidentified Green Lantern appears at the beginning of the film, created by use of CGI and embodied by an uncredited actor. Willem Dafoe and Kiersey Clemons filmed scenes as Nuidis Vulko and Iris West, although their roles were cut from the final film. Both actors are signed for multiple films and set to appear in the future installments of the franchise. Dafoe is",
"title": "Justice League (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "of which were written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. McClure's best known role is as Jimmy Olsen in the 1978 film \"\"Superman\"\", and its sequels, \"\"Superman II\"\", \"\"Superman III\"\", \"\"\"\" and in the 1984 spinoff film \"\"Supergirl\"\". He is the only actor to appear in the same role in all four Christopher Reeve-era \"\"Superman\"\" films and \"\"Supergirl\"\". McClure played Dave McFly, Marty McFly's older brother in the 1985 film \"\"Back to the Future\"\", reuniting him with his \"\"I Wanna Hold Your Hand\"\" co-star Wendie Jo Sperber, and with writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, who wrote and directed that",
"title": "Marc McClure"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.17,
"text": "role of Lex Luthor, while Christopher Walken was Burton's choice for Brainiac, a role also considered for Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. Sandra Bullock, Courteney Cox and Julianne Moore had been approached for Lois Lane, while Chris Rock was cast as Jimmy Olsen. Michael Keaton confirmed his involvement, but when asked if he would be reprising his role as Batman from Burton's \"\"Batman\"\" films, he would only reply, \"\"Not exactly.\"\" Filming was originally set to begin in early 1998. In the summer of 1997, \"\"Superman Lives\"\" entered pre-production, with an art department employed under production designer Rick Heinrichs. Burton hired",
"title": "Superman in film"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.17,
"text": "Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?\"\" The film features George Newbern reprising his role as Superman from \"\"Justice League\"\", \"\"Justice League Unlimited\"\", \"\"The Batman\"\", and \"\"\"\", while David Kaufman reprises his role as Jimmy Olsen, It features the voice talents of Pauley Perrette as Lois Lane, Robin Atkin Downes as Manchester Black, Marcella Lentz-Pope as Vera Black, Fred Tatasciore as Perry White, Catero Colbert as Coldcast, Melissa Disney as Menagerie, Andrew Kishino as Hat, and Tara Strong as young Vera Black. The film was directed by Michael Chang and written by Joe Kelly. It was released on June",
"title": "DC Universe Animated Original Movies"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "the TV series \"\"Superboy\"\", alongside Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\", and an episode of \"\"\"\" as an aged Jimmy Olsen in the episode \"\"Brutal Youth\"\", first broadcast on October 20, 1996. Larson had a cameo in a late-1990s American Express card commercial with Jerry Seinfeld and an animated Superman, directed by David Kellogg. He and Neill provided commentary on several \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" episodes for the January 2006 DVD release of the 1953 season, and in 2006, he appeared in Bryan Singer's film \"\"Superman Returns\"\" in a cameo role as \"\"Bo the Bartender\"\". Larson and",
"title": "Jack Larson"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.97,
"text": "episodes of the \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\", met with Jack Larson, the actor who portrayed Jimmy Olsen in the TV show, read various books about Reeves' life and death, and gained 20 pounds to closely resemble the actor with contact lenses and subtle use of facial prosthesis. In addition he listened to hours of Reeves' voice on CD so he could get the same intonations and timbre. Filming began in Toronto, Canada in May 2005. During its production, \"\"Hollywoodland\"\" went through many rounds of getting clearance from Warner Bros. Pictures to use different aspects of Reeves's Superman persona to reflect the",
"title": "Hollywoodland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.86,
"text": "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from September–October 1954 until March 1974, spanning a total of 163 issues. Featuring the adventures of Superman supporting character Jimmy Olsen, it contains stories often of a humorous nature. The 1952 television series \"\"Adventures of Superman\"\" co-starred actor Jack Larson, who appeared regularly as Jimmy Olsen. Largely because of the popularity of Larson and his portrayal of the character, National Comics Publications (DC Comics) decided to create a regular title featuring Jimmy as the leading character. Curt Swan was the main artist",
"title": "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen"
}
] |
the origins of the concerto can be found in? | [
"the Baroque period"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "but it seems to originate from the conjunction of two Latin words: \"\"conserere\"\" (meaning to tie, to join, to weave) and \"\"certamen\"\" (competition, fight). The idea is that the two parts in a concerto—the soloist and the orchestra or concert band—alternate between episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence to create a sense of flow. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period, in parallel to the \"\"concerto grosso\"\", which contrasted a small group of instruments called a \"\"concertino\"\" with the rest of the orchestra, called the \"\"ripieno\"\". The popularity of the \"\"concerto grosso\"\" declined after",
"title": "Concerto"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "form for two harpsichords and strings, the assumption that it originated as concerto for violin and oboe has become widely accepted since the late 19th century. The precise date for this earlier concerto is unknown, but it is believed to have been in existence from the early 1720s. The version for two harpsichords likely originated in or around 1736. A broader estimate for the time of origin of the version for two harpsichords is 1735–1740. The subtle and masterful way in which the solo instruments blend with the orchestra marks this out as one of the most mature works of",
"title": "Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "to have originated as \"\"Hausmusik\"\", a duet for the elder sons. The concertos for one harpsichord, BWV 1052–1059, survive in an autograph score, now held in the Berlin State Library. Based on the paper's watermarks and the handwriting, it has been attributed to 1738 or 1739. The harpsichord part in the autograph manuscript is not a \"\"fair copy\"\" but a composing score with numerous corrections. The orchestral parts on the other hand were executed as a fair copy. As Peter Williams records, these concertos are almost all considered to be arrangements by Bach of previously existing works. Establishing the history",
"title": "Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "as that version of the concerto was probably intended for a limited single-manual keyboard instrument. This puts the origin of the concerto's earliest version at least before Bach's third year in Köthen. Further, the presence of a traverso as one of the instruments needed for the performance of the concerto seems to indicate that it was not written for the group of performers Bach had at his disposal at Weimar or during his early years in Köthen: the traverso was a relatively new instrument at the time with probably no performers in either orchestra. By the time when Bach added",
"title": "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.16,
"text": "at the premiere. Scholars have seen in this work the origins of the solo keyboard concerto as it is the first example of a concerto with a solo keyboard part. An earlier version, BWV 1050a, exists, and has many small differences from its later cousin, but no major difference in structure or instrumentation. It is dated ca. 1720–21. Title on autograph score: Concerto 6 à due Viole da Braccio, due Viole da Gamba, Violoncello, Violone e Cembalo. \"\"Instrumentation\"\": two viole da braccio, two viole da gamba, cello, violone, and harpsichord \"\"Duration\"\": about 16 minutes The absence of violins is unusual.",
"title": "Brandenburg Concertos"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "30 to 35 minutes, depending on the interpretation. The main movement of the concerto is marked \"\"Allegro affettuoso\"\"; its origin lay in the one-movement fantasy written by Schumann in 1841, at whose core is the musical development of the conflict between the boisterous Florestan and the dreamy Eusebius, two characters Schumann often used to express the duality of being. The movement is set in 4/4 rhythm. The piece starts with an energetic strike by strings and timpani, followed by a fierce, descending attack by the piano. This exposition chord is followed by a descending, rhythmically incisive chord progression of the",
"title": "Piano Concerto (Schumann)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "of origin can be established more accurately. The Italian violin concerto influence is strongest in the concerto's first movement. The concerto's second movement, exceptional for a slow movement in Bach's concerto output, is a pure concerto form, consisting of a regularly returning ritornello and evenly distributed episodes, without the experimentation of the concerto's outer movements. The last movement, with a da capo structure, has no clear ritornello: this is the only extant da capo concerto movement by Bach that has no ritornello structure. In this movement the concertato violin no longer doubles the ripieno violin in tutti passages according to",
"title": "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "jazz elements, most felt, were not consistent with Rachmaninoff's previous brooding and dark themes. What they failed to realize was that, though some aspects of the concerto had roots in Imperial Russia, the piece had been written mainly in New York, and finished in Western Europe. The composer was a sharp, intelligent and sensitive man who had naturally been affected by the sights and sounds of the country in which he had resided for the last several years. Any romantic aura had long dissipated. There may be several reasons for this. The structure was criticized for being amorphous and difficult",
"title": "Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rachmaninoff)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "Geistliches Konzert Geistliches Konzert (plural Geistliche Konzerte) or \"\"spiritual concerto\"\" is a broad term for various genres of chamber concerto for a small number of voices and instruments popular in Germany during the 17th Century and prefiguring the late baroque church cantata and solo spiritual cantata forms. The stylistic roots of the concert lie in early baroque Italian models brought back to German by musicians such as Heinrich Schütz, and popularised by his contemporaries such as Samuel Scheidt. Some of these concerts take an Italianate dialogue or oratorio form, notably the works of Kaspar Förster and the dialogues of Schütz.",
"title": "Geistliches Konzert"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "Concerto delle donne The concerto delle donne (\"\"lit.\"\" consort of ladies) was a group of professional female singers in the late Renaissance court of Ferrara, Italy, renowned for their technical and artistic virtuosity. The ensemble was founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, in 1580 and was active until the court was dissolved in 1597. Giacomo Vincenti, a music publisher, praised the women as \"\"\"\"virtuose giovani\"\"\"\" (young virtuosas), echoing the sentiments of contemporaneous diarists and commentators. The origins of the ensemble lay in an amateur group of high-placed courtiers who performed for each other within the context of the Duke's",
"title": "Concerto delle donne"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "D Major and C Major of the K. 314 Concerto in the Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, which led to the belief that the oboe concerto was the origin of the flute concerto. The orchestra parts of the composition and solo oboe part in C were rediscovered by Bernhard Paumgartner in Salzburg, in 1920. The first movement of Mozart's unfinished Oboe Concerto in F major, K. 293 (1778) was completed by musicologist William Drabkin in 2015. Oboe Concerto (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 (271k), was composed in the spring or summer",
"title": "Oboe Concerto (Mozart)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "origin to the loss of use in Fleisher's right hand in 1965, according to Fleisher's Kennedy Center biography. Gaea (Bolcom) \"\"Gaea\"\", for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra, also simply called \"\"Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand\"\", is a concert piece by the American composer William Bolcom, written for Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman. The composition, which received its first performance in Baltimore in April 1996, is constructed in such a way that it can be performed in one of three ways, with either piano part alone with reduced orchestra, or with both piano parts and the two reduced orchestras",
"title": "Gaea (Bolcom)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060 The concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060, is a concerto for two harpsichords and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is likely to have originated in the second half of the 1730s as an arrangement of an earlier concerto, also in C minor, for oboe and violin. That conjectural original version of the concerto, which may have been composed in Bach's Köthen years (1717–1723), is lost, but has been reconstructed in several versions known as BWV 1060R. While the extant 18th-century manuscripts present the concerto in a",
"title": "Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "Finland, Sibelius engaged Victor Nováček (1873–1914), a Hungarian violin pedagogue of Czech origin who was then teaching at the Helsinki Institute of Music (now the Sibelius Academy). The initial version of the concerto premiered on 8 February 1904, with Sibelius conducting. Sibelius had barely finished the work in time for the premiere, giving Nováček precious little time to prepare, and the piece was of such difficulty that it would have sorely tested even a player of much greater skill. Given these factors, it was unwise of Sibelius to choose Nováček, who was a teacher and not a recognised soloist, and",
"title": "Violin Concerto (Sibelius)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "Chorale concerto In music, a chorale concerto is a short sacred composition for one or more voices and instruments, principally from the very early German Baroque era. Most examples of the genre were composed between 1600 and 1650. This use of the word \"\"concerto\"\" differs considerably from the more modern, and considerably more common usage: in the early Baroque the word meant vocal music accompanied by instruments, specifically in concertato style. The concertato style was brought north across the Alps by composers such as Hans Leo Hassler and Heinrich Schütz, who studied in Venice with the originators of the style,",
"title": "Chorale concerto"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "\"\"The Origin of Design\"\", arranged from music by Handel. From then until his last LPO recording in December 1945 Beecham recorded ninety-nine 78-rpm sets with the orchestra. Other conductors who worked in the EMI studios with the orchestra in its early years included Elgar, Felix Weingartner, John Barbirolli, and Serge Koussevitzky. Soloists in concerto recordings included the pianists Artur Schnabel and Alfred Cortot and the violinists Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz. In 1946 the orchestra began recording for EMI's rival, Decca. The LPO's first recording for the label, Stravinsky's \"\"Petrushka\"\", conducted by Ernest Ansermet, was followed by a large number",
"title": "London Philharmonic Orchestra"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "original was a concerto for viola d'amore. Most recently, however, in 2015 musicologist Peter Wollny (the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig) argued that the \"\"entire first movement\"\" may instead \"\"originate as a composition for unaccompanied keyboard instrument,\"\" since the movement \"\"is conceived on the basis of the harpsichord as solo instrument, to such an extent that the strings are not even permitted to deploy a ritornello theme of their own, but from the first bar onwards assume their role as accompanists and thus step into the background to enable the solo part to develop unhindered; in the case",
"title": "Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "has suggested that it is highly likely that the concert included performances of concertos from \"\"L'estro armonico\"\". Following their publication, the concertos from the collection were widely performed in Italy, as church music and chamber music, both indoors and outdoors. In theatres and opera houses they were performed by small groups of 10, as in the \"\"Pietà\"\", sometimes with Vivaldi as soloist. Open air concerts in the 1720s and 1730s could have as many as a hundred performers. Despite originating in a religious institution, the print copies were widely distributed throughout Europe, with 20 reprintings of Estienne Roger's Amsterdam edition",
"title": "L'estro armonico"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor between 1821 and 1823, when he was 12 to 14 years old, at the same time that he produced his twelve string symphonies. This work was \"\"rediscovered\"\" and first recorded in 1951 by Yehudi Menuhin. Following his appointment in 1835 as principal conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Mendelssohn named his childhood friend Ferdinand David as the orchestra's concertmaster. The work's origins derive from this professional collaboration. In a letter dated 30 July 1838, Mendelssohn wrote to David: \"\"I should like to write a violin concerto for you next winter. One",
"title": "Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "parts and only one bass part, and secondly the accompaniment gets instruction to play quietly most of the time. The ritornellos used by Bach in this concerto, for instance the extremely Vivaldian ritornello of the first movement, stay very close to early 18th-century Italian an Italianate violin concerto models, thus making a time of origin shortly after the concerto transcriptions of the mid-Weimar period likely. An occasion to work with a traverso performer may have presented itself during a visit the composer made to Dresden in September 1717, shortly before he moved to Köthen, a visit which is primarily remembered",
"title": "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"
}
] |
how many seasons of crimal minds are there? | [
"thirteenth"
] | [
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"score": 18.7,
"text": "Criss Angel became the creator, director, and executive producer of the A&E Network show \"\"Criss Angel Mindfreak\"\", and had entered production in January. Seasons 1 and 2 were filmed at The Aladdin in Las Vegas, with Season 3 at the Luxor Las Vegas. Premiering on July 20, 2005, the show's illusions included walking on water, levitating, walking up the side of Luxor Hotel (in the light of 39 focused lamps that can be seen from space), floating between two buildings, causing a Lamborghini to disappear, surviving in an exploding C4 Crate, cutting himself in half in full view of an",
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"score": 18.67,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 13) The thirteenth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on April 7, 2017, by CBS with an order of 22 episodes. The season premiered on September 27, 2017 in a new time slot at 10:00PM on Wednesday when it had previously been at 9:00PM on Wednesday since its inception. The season concluded on April 18, 2018. The entire main cast from the previous season returned for the season, except Damon Gupton (Stephen Walker), who was fired from the show. His character was killed off in the season premiere off-screen. Following the cancellation of \"\"\"\", it was announced",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 13)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.53,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 14) The fourteenth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on May 12, 2018, by CBS with an order of 15 episodes. The season premiered on October 3, 2018. The season also featured the milestone 300th episode which served as the season premiere. The entire main cast from the previous season returned. \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was renewed for a fourteenth season with an episode order of 15 episodes on May 12, 2018, with the possibility of more episodes being ordered later in the season. On November 27, 2018, it was reported that CBS had declined to order any more",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 14)"
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"score": 18.52,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 12) The twelfth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on May 6, 2016, by CBS with an order of 22 episodes. The season premiered on September 28, 2016 and ended on May 10, 2017. \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was renewed for a twelfth season with an episode order of 22 episodes on May 6, 2016. The season began on September 28, 2016. The entire main cast returned for the season, except Shemar Moore (Derek Morgan), who left the show during the eleventh season. After Shemar Moore's departure in the previous season, former \"\"\"\" star Adam Rodriguez was cast to",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 12)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.44,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 3) The third season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" premiered on CBS on September 26, 2007 and ended May 21, 2008. The third season was originally to have featured 25 episodes; however, only 13 were completed due to the Writers Guild of America strike (2007–08). Seven more episodes were produced after the strike, bringing the total number of episodes to 20 for the third season. Mandy Patinkin wanted to leave the series, since he loathed the violent nature of it. He was replaced by Joe Mantegna several episodes later. In the season premiere \"\"Doubt\"\", Shelly Cole guest-starred as Anna",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 3)"
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"text": "Criminal Minds (season 3) The third season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" premiered on CBS on September 26, 2007 and ended May 21, 2008. The third season was originally to have featured 25 episodes; however, only 13 were completed due to the Writers Guild of America strike (2007–08). Seven more episodes were produced after the strike, bringing the total number of episodes to 20 for the third season. Mandy Patinkin wanted to leave the series, since he loathed the violent nature of it. He was replaced by Joe Mantegna several episodes later. In the season premiere \"\"Doubt\"\", Shelly Cole guest-starred as Anna",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 3)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.42,
"text": "Emily Prentiss. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Criminal Minds (season 14) The fourteenth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on May 12, 2018, by CBS with an order of 15 episodes. The season premiered on October 3, 2018. The season also featured the milestone 300th episode which served as the season premiere. The entire main cast from the previous season returned. \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was renewed for a fourteenth season with an episode order of 15 episodes on May 12, 2018, with the possibility of more episodes being ordered later in the season. On November 27, 2018, it was reported that CBS had declined to",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 14)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.33,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 11) The eleventh season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on May 11, 2015 by CBS. It premiered on September 30, 2015 on CBS and ended on May 4, 2016. The season consisted of 22 episodes. The entire main cast returned for the season, except Jennifer Love Hewitt (Kate Callahan), who left the show in the season ten finale. On June 22, 2015, it was announced that Aisha Tyler would replace Hewitt in a recurring role as Dr. Tara Lewis, a psychologist with an eye on forensic psychology and its application toward the criminal justice system. Jennifer Love",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 11)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.31,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 9) The ninth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" premiered on CBS and CTV, on September 25, 2013. The series was officially renewed for a ninth season on May 9, 2013. The season consists of 24 episodes with the 200th episode being episode 14 of the season, and the finale on 14 May. This new season is said to reveal more on the past of Agent Jennifer \"\"JJ\"\" Jareau. \"\"We're going to use the serendipitous gift of Season 6 to explain with flashbacks what happened when she was working for the Pentagon and why she came back as a",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 9)"
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"score": 18.28,
"text": "Criminal Minds (season 10) The tenth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" premiered on CBS on October 1, 2014. The series was officially renewed for a tenth season on March 13, 2014. It consists of 23 episodes. This season features Jennifer Love Hewitt playing an undercover agent who joins the BAU. The entire main cast returned for the season, except Jeanne Tripplehorn (Alex Blake), who left the show in the season nine finale. On July 1, 2014, it was announced that Jennifer Love Hewitt would join the show as a series regular, playing Kate Callahan, a former undercover FBI agent whose exceptional",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 10)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.17,
"text": "unknown. In total there are four seasons of \"\"The Cramp Twins\"\". In the United States, season 1 aired as two separate seasons, and did not get broadcast until long after it had aired in its home country. All episodes were aired 2–3 years earlier in the UK leaving one episode from season 3 unaired. The Cramp Twins The Cramp Twins is an animated series created by cartoonist Brian Wood for Cartoon Network. The show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment from season 1 up to season 2, Telemagination from season 3 up to season 4 and TV-Loonland AG in association with",
"title": "The Cramp Twins"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.12,
"text": "work lands her a job with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Criminal Minds (season 10) The tenth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" premiered on CBS on October 1, 2014. The series was officially renewed for a tenth season on March 13, 2014. It consists of 23 episodes. This season features Jennifer Love Hewitt playing an undercover agent who joins the BAU. The entire main cast returned for the season, except Jeanne Tripplehorn (Alex Blake), who left the show in the season nine finale. On July 1, 2014, it was announced that Jennifer Love Hewitt would join the show as a series",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 10)"
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"score": 17.94,
"text": "Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created and produced by Jeff Davis. It premiered on September 22, 2005 and has run for fourteen seasons on CBS. It tells the story of a group of behavioral profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). The team focuses on profiling criminals, called the \"\"unsub\"\" or \"\"unknown subject\"\", as well as victimology, in investigation of crimes. The show follows the team as they work various cases and tackle their personal struggles. The show has an ensemble cast, with Jason Gideon",
"title": "Criminal Minds"
},
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"score": 17.81,
"text": "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (season 1) The first season of \"\"\"\" premiered on CBS on March 16, 2016 and ended May 25, 2016. The season consisted of 13 episodes. A proposed new series in the \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" franchise was announced in January 2015, and was to be named \"\"Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders\"\". Gary Sinise and Anna Gunn had been cast in the lead roles of Jack Garrett and Lily Lambert, with Tyler James Williams and Daniel Henney being cast as Russ \"\"Monty\"\" Montgomery and Matthew \"\"Matt\"\" Simmons, respectively. On May 8, 2015, CBS announced that \"\"Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders\"\", has",
"title": "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (season 1)"
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"score": 17.78,
"text": "& iOS devices. Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created and produced by Jeff Davis. It premiered on September 22, 2005 and has run for fourteen seasons on CBS. It tells the story of a group of behavioral profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). The team focuses on profiling criminals, called the \"\"unsub\"\" or \"\"unknown subject\"\", as well as victimology, in investigation of crimes. The show follows the team as they work various cases and tackle their personal struggles. The show has an ensemble cast,",
"title": "Criminal Minds"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.72,
"text": "has been dismissed from Criminal Minds.\"\" Gibson's character's exit was explained in the sixth episode of the season, \"\"Elliot's Pond\"\", when it was revealed that his character retired and went into witness protection because of Mr. Scratch stalking his son. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Live +7 ratings were not available, so Live +3 ratings have been used instead. Criminal Minds (season 12) The twelfth season of \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was ordered on May 6, 2016, by CBS with an order of 22 episodes. The season premiered on September 28, 2016 and ended on May 10, 2017. \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was renewed for a twelfth season",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 12)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.64,
"text": "that Daniel Henney (Matt Simmons) would join the cast this season as a series regular. \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" was renewed for a thirteenth season with an episode order of 22 episodes on April 7, 2017. The entire main cast from the previous season returned for the season, except Damon Gupton (Stephen Walker), who was fired from the show. Matthew Gray Gubler directed the seventeenth episode of the season and it was said to be \"\"the spookiest episode of Season 13\"\" and involved clowns. On August 10, 2017, it was revealed that Aisha Tyler will make her television directing debut and direct",
"title": "Criminal Minds (season 13)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.47,
"text": "ratings hit for CBS, regularly featuring as one of the network's most-watched cable shows throughout its decade-long run. The show's success has spawned a media franchise, with several spinoffs, including a South Korean adaptation and a video game. Following the conclusion of the thirteenth season, CBS renewed the show for a fourteenth season, which premiered on October 3, 2018. Every episode includes one or more quotations that are tangentially connected to the crimes under investigation, recited by a main character. Most often, one quotation is heard after the opening credits, and another at the end of the episode. When the",
"title": "Criminal Minds"
},
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"score": 17.39,
"text": "Daniels, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Sacks, Maria Freire, Naomi Oreskes, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Guy Davis, J.B. Smoove and Jill Soloway. In May 2016, the program entered its 60th season. Hundreds of guests have appeared on the program, including many prominent civil rights leaders (Martin Luther King, Gloria Steinem, Malcolm X, James L. Farmer, Jr.), politicians (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Lugar, Dianne Feinstein), jurists (Thurgood Marshall, Stephen Breyer, Judith Kaye), educators (Derek Bok, Michael S. Roth, John Palfrey), authors (Erich Fromm, Elie Wiesel, Norman Mailer), intellectuals (William F. Buckley, John Hope Franklin, Neil Postman), economists (Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, Paul Krugman), physicians (Jonas",
"title": "The Open Mind (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.36,
"text": "channel, TLC. Seasons 1 through 3 each contained between 20 and 30 episodes. Seasons 4 and 5 each contained 15 episodes. Season two premiered on Friday, September 2, 2011, and new games were added. The games added to the second season included Cranium Brain Breaks (which replaced \"\"Guess Who?\"\" as the opening toss-up game), Green Scream, Ratuki Go-Round, Simon Flash, Operation Sam Dunk, Trouble Pop Quiz, and Spelling Bee. On June 19, 2012 \"\"Family Game Night\"\" was renewed for a third season by The Hub, which premiered on September 23, 2012. On July 9, 2012, it was announced that \"\"Family",
"title": "Family Game Night (TV series)"
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what's the answer to life the universe and everything? | [
"The number 42"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "Life, the Universe and Everything Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume \"\"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams as \"\"Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen\"\" to be a Tom Baker \"\"Doctor Who\"\" television six-part story, but was rejected by the BBC. It was later considered as a plotline for the second series of the Hitchhiker's TV series, which was never commissioned. A radio adaptation of \"\"Life, the Universe",
"title": "Life, the Universe and Everything"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new unabridged edition of the audiobook. Stephen Moore and Douglas Adams used the uncensored UK edition of the text, while both the censored and uncensored versions of the book are available read by Freeman, depending on where they are purchased. Life, the Universe and Everything Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume \"\"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams",
"title": "Life, the Universe and Everything"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "the off-topic section of an Internet forum and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean \"\"anything at all\"\". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer \"\"42\"\". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question. Google Calculator will give the result to \"\"the answer to life the universe and everything\"\" as 42, as will Wolfram's Computational Knowledge Engine. Similarly, DuckDuckGo also gives the result of \"\"the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything\"\" as 42. In the online community Second Life, there is a section on a sim called \"\"42nd",
"title": "Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"score": 22.22,
"text": "This is similar to the book where the \"\"Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything\"\" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in \"\"The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\". It was later incorporated into the covers of all five reprinted \"\"Hitchhiker's\"\" novels in the United States. Adams has described the puzzle as depicting the number 42 in ten different ways. Six possible questions are: The number 42 and the phrase, \"\"Life, the universe, and everything\"\" have attained cult status on the Internet. \"\"Life, the universe, and everything\"\" is a common name for",
"title": "Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "reveals that Arthur Dent and company are seated at Table \"\"42\"\", almost without a doubt an allusion to The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. At the end of there is a gag about \"\"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\"\" not being at the temporal end, but at the \"\"other end\"\" in terms of location. In , a similar venue is referenced that does exist at the beginning of the universe called \"\"The Big Bang Burger Bar\"\". According to \"\"The Salmon of Doubt\"\", Douglas Adams came up with the idea while listening to Procol Harum's \"\"Grand Hotel.\"\"",
"title": "Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "42 expressed in base 13). When confronted with this, the author claimed that it was a mere coincidence, stating that \"\"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13.\"\" In \"\"Life, the Universe and Everything\"\", a character named \"\"Prak,\"\" who \"\"knows all that is true,\"\" confirms that 42 is indeed The Answer, and that it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known in the same universe, as they will cancel each other out and take the Universe with them—to be replaced by something even more bizarre (as described in the",
"title": "Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"score": 21.38,
"text": "OpenSUSE team decided the next version will be based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and named \"\"Leap 42\"\". The number 42 was chosen as a reference to the answer to life, the universe and everything. The Allen Telescope Array, a radio telescope used by SETI, has 42 dishes in homage to the Answer. In the American TV show \"\"Lost\"\", 42 is the last of the mysterious numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. In an interview with Lostpedia, producer David Fury confirmed this was a reference to \"\"Hitchhiker's\"\". The British TV show \"\"The Kumars at No. 42\"\" is so",
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"score": 21.28,
"text": "segments is 42, which is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in \"\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\", recognized by Lucassen as a direct reference. On 18 December 2013 Lucassen released on YouTube a free version of the album with all vocals sung by Waarbroek. \"\"The Theory of Everything\"\" was a commercial success and received acclaim from audience and critics, who praised its instrumental sections, songwriting, story, and the performances of the cast. After the release of \"\"01011001\"\", Lucassen decided to temporarily put Ayreon on hold, because he was not inspired to continue and",
"title": "The Theory of Everything (Ayreon album)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "pondering of the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When used on someone, it will cause them to see things from the point of view of the firer (the Guide says that it \"\"conveniently, does precisely as its name suggests\"\"). According to the Guide's entry on it, though the gun was designed by Deep Thought, it was commissioned by the Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives, who were tired of ending every argument with their husbands with the phrase: \"\"You just don't get it, do you?\"\" This neatly mirrors the Total Perspective Vortex, an earlier plot device from the radio",
"title": "Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.52,
"text": "such as the search for the question to the ultimate answer of \"\"life, the universe and everything\"\". Ford is approximately 200 years old, as supported by the books. When, in the first novel, Zaphod steals the spaceship \"\"Heart of Gold\"\", it is on Zaphod's two-hundredth birthday. It is later mentioned that Ford and Zaphod attended school together, even having some of the same classes, which would indicate that they are roughly the same age. He had originally planned to spend a week on Earth doing research for the \"\"Guide\"\", but wound up being stranded there for 15 years prior to",
"title": "Ford Prefect (character)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.5,
"text": "the native cavemen**, becoming the ancestors of humanity and thereby altering and distorting the course of the great experiment to find the question for the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, or so Ford Prefect presumes. A lot of them didn't make it through the winter three years prior to Arthur Dent's reunion with Ford Prefect, and the few who remained in the spring said they needed a holiday and set out on a raft. History says they must have survived. People from Golgafrincham are called \"\"Golgafrinchans\"\". In some versions of , the planet is also referred to as",
"title": "Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
},
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"score": 20.38,
"text": "Hanuman. The \"\"Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad\"\" is structured as two chapters with a cumulative total of 164 verses. The text opens with a set of four questions, for whose answers a yogi, the Trishikhi Brahmana, travels to the Sun. He asks, what is the body, what is soul, what is life, and what is the primal cause of the universe? The text begins its answers by asserting in verse 2 that everything is Shiva, the absolute, the one being that appears to be divided into many beings and matter. The prime cause of the universe, states the Upanishad, is the Brahman, who",
"title": "Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.23,
"text": "search engine calculator provides the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from Douglas Adams' \"\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\". When searching the word \"\"recursion\"\", the spell-checker's result for the properly spelled word is exactly the same word, creating a recursive link. When searching for the word \"\"anagram,\"\" meaning a rearrangement of letters from one word to form other valid words, Google's suggestion feature displays \"\"Did you mean: nag a ram?\"\" In Google Maps, searching for directions between places separated by large bodies of water, such as Los Angeles and Tokyo, results in instructions to",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.22,
"text": "Silicon Valley opened in summer 2016 in Fremont, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. 42's name is a reference to the science fiction book \"\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\" written by British author Douglas Adams: in the book 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. In addition to the two official campuses in Paris, France and Fremont, California, the school model was adopted in Lyon, France, as well as in Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Belgium, Russia and Morocco with the help and support of 42. Announced on March 26,",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.05,
"text": "our universe come to be so exactly balanced when its forces emerged. In current particle physics the differences between some parameters are much larger than this, so the question is even more noteworthy. One answer given by some physicists is the anthropic principle. If the universe came to exist by chance, and perhaps vast numbers of other universes exist or have existed, then life capable of physics experiments only arose in universes that by chance had very balanced forces. All the universes where the forces were not balanced, didn't develop life capable of the question. So if a lifeform like",
"title": "Naturalness (physics)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "in nature, questioning the importance we place on life (\"\"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life\"\") and other meaning-of-life related questioning. John Cleese also had his sit-com character Basil Fawlty contemplating the futility of his own existence in Fawlty Towers. In Douglas Adams' popular comedy book, movie, television, and radio series \"\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"\", the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is given the numeric solution \"\"42\"\", after seven and a half million years of calculation by a giant supercomputer called Deep Thought. When this answer is met with confusion and",
"title": "Meaning of life"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "Life, The Universe and Everything\"\" (the answer to which is known to be 42). Transcomputational problem In computational complexity theory, a transcomputational problem is a problem that requires processing of more than 10 bits of information. Any number greater than 10 is called a transcomputational number. The number 10, called Bremermann's limit, is, according to Hans-Joachim Bremermann, the total number of bits processed by a hypothetical computer the size of the Earth within a time period equal to the estimated age of the Earth. The term \"\"transcomputational\"\" was coined by Bremermann. Exhaustively testing all combinations of an integrated circuit with",
"title": "Transcomputational problem"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.89,
"text": "is met by his old friend Ford Prefect, who drags him into a space-time eddy, represented by an anachronistic sofa. The two end up at Lord's Cricket Ground two days before the Earth's destruction by the Vogons. Shortly after they arrive, a squad of robots land in a spaceship in the middle of the field and attack the assembled crowd, stealing The Ashes before departing. Another spaceship arrives, the \"\"Starship Bistromath\"\", helmed by Slartibartfast, who discovers he is too late and requests Arthur and Ford's help. As they travel to their next destination, Slartibartfast explains that he is trying to",
"title": "Life, the Universe and Everything"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "Life.\"\" It is devoted to this concept in the book series, and several attempts at recreating Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, were made. In OpenOffice.org software (prior to version 3.4) if \"\"=ANTWORT(\"\"Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest\"\")\"\" (German for \"\"=ANSWER(\"\"life, the universe and everything\"\")\"\") is typed into any cell of a spreadsheet, the result is 42. \"\"ISO/IEC 14519-2001/ IEEE Std 1003.5-1999, IEEE Standard for Information Technology – POSIX(R) Ada Language Interfaces – Part 1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API) \"\", uses the number 42 as the required return value from a process",
"title": "Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.55,
"text": "roots of the \"\"Life, the Universe, & Everything\"\" (LTUE) and other science fiction efforts at Brigham Young University (BYU) began with a one-day symposium on science fiction held on January 20, 1976. Four years later, Orson Scott Card gave a speech in 1980 at the university about morality in writing, which showed some of the students and faculty that a serious, academic forum for discussion of science fiction writing was a possibility at BYU, but there weren't enough students interested in trying to make things work at that time. This changed in February 1982 when Ben Bova was invited to",
"title": "Life, the Universe, & Everything"
}
] |
when was prayer taken out of the schools? | [
"1963"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.5,
"text": "unlawful in public schools. In these two landmark decisions, \"\"Engel v. Vitale\"\" (1962) and \"\"Abington School District v. Schempp\"\" (1963), the Supreme Court established what is now the current prohibition on state-sponsored prayer in US schools. While the \"\"Engel\"\" decision held that the promulgation of an official state-school prayer stood in violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause (thus overruling the New York Courts’ decisions), \"\"Abington\"\" held that Bible readings and other public school-sponsored religious activities were prohibited. Madalyn Murray's lawsuit, \"\"Murray v. Curlett\"\", contributed to the removal of compulsory Bible reading from the public schools of the United States,",
"title": "School prayer"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.17,
"text": "schools was decided by the Supreme Court in 1963. A more significant case had reached the Supreme Court one year prior, suddenly changing the legal climate for school prayer in the US. In 1955, the New York Board of Regents developed a prayer recommended (but not required) for the school districts under its purview. The prayer was relatively short: \"\"Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country.\"\" The board stated that the prayer would \"\"combat juvenile delinquency and counter the spread of Communism.\"\" Seven years later,",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "\"\"Public Schools Act\"\" were removed as being inconsistent with freedom of conscience and religion guarantees in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Further following the \"\"Zylberberg\"\" case to strike down use of the Lord’s Prayer in schools, the British Columbia Supreme Court incorporated the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in \"\"Zylberberg\"\" in its entirety. From 1871 to 1989, observance of school prayer had declined. With the unfavorable court decision, the requirement for Christian morning exercises was replaced with the following clauses found in the \"\"School Act\"\" (1996) in British Columbia. Conduct: 76 (1) All schools and Provincial schools must",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "students do continue to pray in public schools, even in organized groups such as \"\"See You at the Pole\"\", the lawsuit disallowed schools from including prayer as a compulsory activity required of every student. The success of O'Hair's lawsuit led to subsequent lawsuits by Mormon and Catholic families in Texas in 2000 to limit compulsory prayer at school-sponsored football games. Following these two cases came the Court's decision in \"\"Lemon v. Kurtzman\"\" (1971), a ruling that established the Lemon test for religious activities within schools. The Lemon test states that, in order to be constitutional under the Establishment Clause, any",
"title": "School prayer"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "these numbers have been steadily dropping since 2001, but the majority of Americans continue to support having religion in the education system. Prior to 1944, in British Columbia, the \"\"Public Schools Act\"\" (1872) permitted the use of the Lord’s Prayer in opening or closing school. In 1944, the government of British Columbia amended the \"\"Public Schools Act\"\" to provide for compulsory Bible reading at the opening of the school day, to be followed by a compulsory recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. This amendment appeared as section 167 of the \"\"Public Schools Act\"\", and read as follows: 167. All public schools",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.39,
"text": "legislation authored by Jesse Helms permitting prayer in public schools and taking the issue away from the Supreme Court which had previously ruled in 1963 that school prayer violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution through the establishment of a religion. In January 1975, Thurmond was one of four senators to vote against the creation of a special committee to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government agencies intended to either gather intelligence or enforce the law. In January 1976, the Senate voted in favor of expanding American fishing jurisdiction by 200 miles,",
"title": "Strom Thurmond"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "the issue of prayer in public schools. In Engel v. Vitale 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Court determined it unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools, even when it is non-denominational and students may excuse themselves from participation. As such, any teacher, faculty, or student can pray in school, in accordance with their own religion. However, they may not lead such prayers in class, or in other \"\"official\"\" school settings such as assemblies or programs. Currently, the Supreme Court applies a three-pronged test to determine whether legislation comports with the",
"title": "History of religion in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "with its school creed, colors, and mascot. The prayer, adopted in 1960, replaced the Lord's Prayer in daily recitation until 1962, following the United States Supreme Court ruling in \"\"Engel v. Vitale\"\". Banners bearing both the school creed and prayer were gifts from the school's first graduating class (1963), and were affixed in the school auditorium. The text of the prayer reads: Jessica Ahlquist was born in 1995, and lives in Cranston, Rhode Island. Her father, Mark Ahlquist, was co-plaintiff as parent, guardian, and next friend. In July 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a letter to Cranston",
"title": "Ahlquist v. Cranston"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "law permitting one minute for prayer or meditation was unconstitutional. In \"\"Lee v. Weisman\"\" (1992), the court prohibited clergy-led prayer at middle school graduation ceremonies. \"\"Lee v. Weisman\"\", in turn, was a basis for \"\"Santa Fe ISD v. Doe\"\" (2000), in which the Court extended the ban to school-organized \"\"student\"\"-led prayer at high school football games. Engel v. Vitale Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. The",
"title": "Engel v. Vitale"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "with an oral prayer or Bible reading. Catholics would sometimes object to the distinct Protestant observations performed in the local schools. For instance, in the Edgerton Bible Case (\"\"Weiss v. District Board\"\" (1890)), the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholics who objected to the use of the King James Bible in Wisconsin public schools. This ruling was based on the state constitution and only applied in Wisconsin. The media and popular culture often erroneously credit atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair with removing school prayer from US public schools, when the case against recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore",
"title": "School prayer"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.91,
"text": "First Amendment rights via the Fourteenth Amendment. Use of the Regent's prayer was initially upheld in both New York State Court and in the New York Court of Appeals, prompting Engels to petition the US Supreme Court in the \"\"Engel v. Vitale\"\" case in 1962. With its 8–1 vote to make public recitation of the Regents' Prayer in public schools unlawful, the U.S. Supreme Court made its first-ever decision on prayer in public schools. It made its second in 1963—the \"\"Abington School District v. Schempp\"\" ruling, which made the corporate reading of the Bible and recitation of the Lord's Prayer",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "School Prayer Amendment The School Prayer Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution intended by its proponents to protect the right of the students if they wish, to voluntarily pray in schools, although opponents argue it allows for government sponsored prayer. In the cases \"\"Engel v. Vitale\"\" (1962) and \"\"Abington School District v. Schempp\"\" (1963), the United States Supreme Court ruled that government mandated school prayer is unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. However voluntary prayer is not unconstitutional. The history of school prayer amendment began in 1962 with the Supreme Court case of",
"title": "School Prayer Amendment"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "dismissed Papp for invoking the \"\"Fifth\"\" before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Finally, in response to a landmark school-prayer case brought by the NYCLU, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a school board cannot prescribe recitation of prayer in classrooms. In 1965, David J. Miller was arrested when he burned his draft card to protest selective service regulations and the Vietnam War; the NYCLU defended Miller's expression of political dissent. That same year, the NYCLU convinced the Nassau County district attorney to drop charges against reproductive rights pioneer William G. Baird after his arrest for distributing contraceptives to married women.",
"title": "New York Civil Liberties Union"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.58,
"text": "Ahlquist v. Cranston Ahlquist v. Cranston (2012) was a case where the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled that a \"\"School Prayer\"\" banner posted in Cranston High School West was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution and ordered its removal. The suit was brought by Mark Ahlquist on behalf of his minor daughter Jessica Ahlquist, a student at the school, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union. When Cranston High School West was opened in 1959, its student council was charged with selection of a school prayer along",
"title": "Ahlquist v. Cranston"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "trial, the state legislature changed the law to allow students to be excused from the Bible readings if they wished. In further hearings in 1962 the court, again in an opinion by Biggs, held that the law still violated the Constitution by allowing the state \"\"to introduce a religious ceremony into the public schools of the Commonwealth.\"\" The Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal by the school district, and Sawyer again argued the case. On June 17, 1963, the Court issued an 8–1 opinion upholding the district court ruling and striking down Pennsylvania's school prayer law. In the opinion",
"title": "Henry W. Sawyer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "United States or by any state to participate in prayer.\"\" In 1984, Reagan again raised the issue, asking Congress \"\"why can't freedom to acknowledge God be enjoyed again by children in every schoolroom across this land?\"\" In 1985, Reagan expressed his disappointment that the Supreme Court ruling still bans a moment of silence for public schools, and said he had \"\"an uphill battle.\"\" In 1987 Reagan renewed his call for Congress to support voluntary prayer in schools and end \"\"the expulsion of God from America's classrooms.\"\" Critics argue that any governmental imposition of prayer on public school students is involuntary.",
"title": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "observation of religious holidays, and Bible reading. The Supreme Court concurred with the ACLU's position, when it prohibited New York's in-school prayers in the 1962 \"\"Engel v. Vitale\"\" decision. Religious factions across the country rebelled against the anti-prayer decisions, leading them to propose the School Prayer Constitutional Amendment, which declared in-school prayer legal. The ACLU participated in a lobbying effort against the amendment, and the 1966 congressional vote on the amendment failed to obtain the required two-thirds majority. However, not all cases were victories; ACLU lost cases in 1949 and 1961 which challenged state laws requiring commercial businesses to close",
"title": "American Civil Liberties Union"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "of the pupil stating that for conscientious reasons he does not wish the pupil to attend the ceremony of reading prescribed selections from the Bible and reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the opening of school, the teacher shall excuse the pupil from attendance at such ceremony and at his discretion may assign the pupil some other useful employment at school during that period, but the pupil so excused shall not be deprived of any other benefits of the school by reason of his non-attendance at the ceremony. In 1982, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms received royal assent. Section",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "the argument that the need to seek exemption from Christian exercises is itself a form of religious discrimination. The judges described as insensitive the position of the respondents that it was beneficial for the minority children to confront the fact of their difference from the majority. In 1989, Joan Russow challenged, in the British Columbia Supreme Court, the \"\"Public Schools Act’s\"\" requirement that in British Columbia all public schools were to be opened with the Lord’s Prayer and a Bible reading. The argument was similar to the \"\"Zylberberg\"\" case and the result was the same: The offending words in the",
"title": "School prayer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "the Fourth Circuit ruled the prayer, during an event with mandatory attendance, at a state-funded school, violated the U.S. Constitution. When the Supreme Court declined to review the school's appeal in April 2004, the prayer tradition was stopped. The tradition of guarding the Institute is one of the longest standing and is carried out to this day. Cadets have been posted as sentinels guarding the barracks 24 hours a day, seven days a week while school is in session since the first cadet sentinel, Cadet John B. Strange, and others relieved the Virginia Militia guard team tasked with defending the",
"title": "Virginia Military Institute"
}
] |
when did the eagle last win the super bowl? | [
"2017"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "the Patriots' last hopes. The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Patriots by a score of 41–33. Nick Foles also was named Super Bowl MVP after the game. With this win, the Eagles finally won their first Super Bowl, and their first NFL title since 1960. A Super Bowl victory parade took place four days later on February 8. 2017 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2017 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 85th season in the National Football League, the 15th playing their home games at Lincoln Financial Field, and the second under head coach Doug Pederson. The Eagles improved their 7–9 record",
"title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.69,
"text": "to overcome numerous injuries, particularly to its defense, to reach the NFC Championship for the third year in a row, only to suffer a heartbreaking 14-3 loss against the Carolina Panthers. On January 23, 2005, the Eagles reached a fourth consecutive conference championship game (the first time this happened in the salary cap era of the NFL). At long last, the Eagles justified the hopes of their long-suffering fan base, defeating Michael Vick's much-hyped Atlanta Falcons, 27-10, sending them to their first Super Bowl in 24 years. The victory sent the city of Philadelphia into wild celebrations. With two Super",
"title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "1980, under head coach Dick Vermeil, the Philadelphia Eagles, who had not played in a league championship since their 1960 NFL championship, advanced to their first ever Super Bowl. The Eagles were led by quarterback Ron Jaworski, who completed 257 out of 451 passes for 3,529 yards during the regular season, including 27 touchdowns and only 12 interceptions. Another key player on the Eagles offense was halfback Wilbert Montgomery, who was widely considered one of the top running backs in the NFL and had rushed for over 1,200 yards in each of the last two seasons. Injuries during the 1980",
"title": "Super Bowl XV"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "time in January, the Eagles were also trying to end a losing streak—teams in the city of Philadelphia had lost six straight championships during presidential inauguration years, beginning with the 76ers loss in . The streak included the Eagles in Super Bowl XV in 1981. 1989 was not included in that streak, but 1977, 1981, 1985 (Flyers), 1993 (Phillies), 1997 (Flyers), and 2001 (76ers) were. The game was televised in the United States by Fox, with play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and color commentators Cris Collinsworth and Troy Aikman. Pam Oliver (Patriots sideline) and Chris Myers (Eagles sideline) served as sideline",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXIX"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.48,
"text": "Super Bowl XV Super Bowl XV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1980 season. The Raiders defeated the Eagles by the score of 27–10, becoming the first wild card playoff team to win a Super Bowl. The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the Iran hostage crisis ended. The game was thus held under patriotic fervor, as the pregame ceremonies honored",
"title": "Super Bowl XV"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "in 1992, with two other coaches following him before they were fired) was their last season above .500 until 2016, when the Eagles went 7-5. Even though they finished 6-6 in 2011, the Eagles' two wins over FCS squads resulted in them not being invited to a bowl. In 2016, Eastern Michigan was finally invited to another bowl game, the Popeye's Bahamas Bowl against Old Dominion University. They were beaten 24-20. As for the Spartans, they would return to the California Bowl in 1990, which was their last until 2006. 1987 California Bowl The 1987 California Bowl was a college",
"title": "1987 California Bowl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "Super Bowl XXXIX Super Bowl XXXIX was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2004 season. The Patriots defeated the Eagles by the score of 24–21. The game was played on February 6, 2005, at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, the first time the Super Bowl was played in that city. The Patriots, who entered the Super Bowl after compiling a 14–2 regular season record, became the first, and most recent (as of",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXIX"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "as the rest of the game represented total domination from Nick Foles and the Eagles' offense, who racked up 456 total yards and 38 unanswered points. With a blowout win against one of the league's top defenses, the Eagles advanced to their third Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles entered Super Bowl LII as a 5.5 point underdog to the defending champions; the New England Patriots. This was also their first appearance in 13 years, with their last Super Bowl berth happening in 2005 (Super Bowl XXXIX), which also happened to be against the New England Patriots. In the first quarter,",
"title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "loss of Pro Bowl cornerback Lito Sheppard to a dislocated elbow. Heading into 2017, this remains Andy Reid's last home playoff win as the Eagle's head coach. \"\"at Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana Riding a six-game winning streak, the Eagles traveled to the Louisiana Superdome to face the NFC South champion New Orleans Saints. New Orleans had bested a Philadelphia team still led by Donovan McNabb 27–24 in Week 6. The Saints were rested and had what appeared to be the sympathy of the nation, but the Eagles brought greater playoff experience. Cornerback Sheldon Brown set the tone early with",
"title": "2006 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "on December 28, 2008 and advanced to the playoffs. The Eagles then defeated the Minnesota Vikings 26-14 in the first round of the playoffs on January 4, 2009. They defeated their division rival and the defending Super Bowl champions the New York Giants 23-11 in the NFC Divisional Round to advance to their fifth NFC Championship game in nine years. For the third time in a decade, an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl seemed possible, as the Pittsburgh Steelers won the AFC Championship against the Baltimore Ravens. However, the Eagles lost 32-25 to the Arizona Cardinals. In August, the team stirred up",
"title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.92,
"text": "Super Bowl LII), team since the 1997–1998 Denver Broncos to win consecutive Super Bowls. New England also became the second team after the Dallas Cowboys to win three Super Bowls in four years. The Eagles were making their second Super Bowl appearance after posting a 13–3 regular season record. The game was close throughout, with the teams battling to a 14–14 tie by the end of the third quarter. The Patriots then scored 10 points in the 4th quarter with Corey Dillon's 2-yard touchdown run and Adam Vinatieri's 22-yard field goal. The Eagles then cut their deficit to 24–21, with",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXIX"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "not make the playoffs again until 1988. They also wouldn't reach the Super Bowl again until 2004. After going 12–4 and winning the NFC title and losing in Super Bowl XV to the Oakland Raiders in the 1980 season the Eagles would be picking next to last in the 12 rounds of the draft The 1981 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 28–29, 1981. ESPN would cover all 12 rounds live for the first",
"title": "1981 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "the Oakland Raiders in the Super Bowl one week later, is consistently rated as the one of the worst in Philadelphia sports history. 2002 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2002 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 70th in the National Football League. The team improved upon their previous output of eleven wins, going 12–4 and making the playoffs for the third consecutive year. This is also their last season playing at The Vet. The Eagles' record gave the team a tie for the best record in the NFL, and due to tie-breakers, gave them the number-one seed in the NFC, a first-round",
"title": "2002 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "Comiskey Park and remains as the Cardinals' only win. The two teams returned for a rematch in 1948 in Philadelphia, but the Eagles won in a snowstorm. The Cardinals have not won a league championship since this one in 1947, over seven decades ago, the longest drought in the NFL. They made it to the Super Bowl XLIII in the 2008 season, but lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cardinals' win kept the NFL title within the city of Chicago; the north end's Bears had won the previous season. This was the Cardinals' last playoff win as a franchise until",
"title": "1947 NFL Championship Game"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "learned that Lewis broke his ankle on the second touchdown catch, and he would be left off the Super Bowl roster. Meanwhile, the defense held Vick to 136 passing yards and 26 rushing yards, and kept Atlanta off the scoreboard in the second half. In their first Super Bowl appearance since Super Bowl XV, the Eagles met the New England Patriots on February 6, 2005 at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. The Patriots, led by Tom Brady had won two of the past three Super Bowls and a win against the Eagles would likely lead to \"\"dynasty status\"\". They had",
"title": "2004 Philadelphia Eagles season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "finished the 1999 regular season with a 5–11 record, they became a playoff team in 2000, with McNabb throwing for 3,365 yards and 21 touchdowns while also rushing for 629 yards and another 6 touchdowns. The Eagles achieved the best regular season record in the conference during the combined 2001, 2002, and 2003 seasons with a total of 35 wins out of 48 games, but lost the NFC Championship Game in each of those 3 years. Prior to the 2004 season, the Eagles traded for wide receiver Terrell Owens to be the impact player to help get them to the",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXIX"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.75,
"text": "game 401 yards to 296, with only 13 first downs as compared to 22 for the Packers. It would prove to be the only career playoff loss for Packer head coach Lombardi and would be the last Eagles championship until Super Bowl LII 57 seasons later. Lombardi would later rue his decision to go on fourth down on several occasions deep in Philadelphia territory rather than attempt field goals on such plays, saying \"\"When you get down there, come out with something. I lost the game, not my players.\"\" \"\"Monday, December 26, 1960\"\" Kickoff: 12:00 p.m. EST The NFL had",
"title": "1960 NFL Championship Game"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "goal by Jake Elliott to make the final score 41–33. The franchise won their first Super Bowl ever and their first championship since 1960. Foles won Super Bowl MVP going 28 out of 43 with 373 passing yards, three touchdowns, and an interception. Foles became the first backup quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl since his opponent Tom Brady won as the backup for Drew Bledsoe in 2002's Super Bowl XXXVI. One of the NFL's oldest, this rivalry began on October 15, 1933 when the Giants defeated the newly founded Eagles 56–0. The all-time series is tied at",
"title": "Philadelphia Eagles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.67,
"text": "first time since the 2004 season. The Eagles would face Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX at Super Bowl LII. The Eagles would end up winning the game 41-33 to give the Eagles their first Super Bowl Championship and their first championship since the 1960 season before the NFL-AFL merger. Nick Foles would be named Super Bowl MVP. The Eagles came back from a successful 2017 season hoping to become the first repeat Super Bowl victors since the New England Patriots during their 2003 and 2004 season. Before the season started many",
"title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.67,
"text": "team won every playoff game they played away from their home stadium (Giants Stadium and MetLife Stadium) from 2007-2011. Prior to this run, last time the Giants were defeated in a game away from the Meadowlands was in 2006, when they were defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild Card round. This streak came to an end in the 2016–17 NFL playoffs, where the Giants were defeated 38-13 by the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in the Wild Card round. Two of the Giants' road playoff victories during this streak occurred at Lambeau. This was the second Super",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVI"
}
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how many australian soldiers were killed in world war 2? | [
"Over 27,000"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 27.03,
"text": "Australian casualties of World War II Over 27,000 Australians were killed and 23,000 wounded in action during World War II. In addition, hundreds more servicemen and women were killed and injured in accidents during the war. The following table is taken from \"\"The Final Campaigns\"\" by Gavin Long. It excludes deaths and illnesses from natural causes, including disease. The Australian Army suffered 1,165 killed and died of injuries in operational areas and a further 33,396 soldiers were wounded or injured. Casualties in non-operational areas were also significant, with 2,051 soldiers being killed or dying of injuries and 121,800 being wounded",
"title": "Australian casualties of World War II"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.84,
"text": "or injured. These figures also exclude deaths and illnesses from natural causes. The RAN suffered 177 non-battle casualties and the RAAF 6,271. Australian casualties of World War II Over 27,000 Australians were killed and 23,000 wounded in action during World War II. In addition, hundreds more servicemen and women were killed and injured in accidents during the war. The following table is taken from \"\"The Final Campaigns\"\" by Gavin Long. It excludes deaths and illnesses from natural causes, including disease. The Australian Army suffered 1,165 killed and died of injuries in operational areas and a further 33,396 soldiers were wounded",
"title": "Australian casualties of World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.66,
"text": "population, the Australian Army was ultimately one of the largest Allied armies during World War II. Casualties included 11,323 killed in action, 1,794 who died of wounds, and 21,853 wounded. Another 5,558 were killed or died as prisoners of war (POWs), while non-battle casualties in operational areas were also significant and included 1,088 killed and 33,196 wounded or injured. In addition, the Army suffered a substantial number of casualties in non-operational areas: 1,795 soldiers killed and 121,800 wounded or injured. Prior to the outbreak of war the Australian Army consisted of the small full-time Permanent Military Forces (PMF) and the",
"title": "Australian Army during World War II"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.84,
"text": "II cost thousands of Australian lives and consumed a large portion of the national income. During the war, 27,073 members of the Australian military were either killed, died of wounds or died while prisoners of war. Of these, 9,572 were killed in the war against Germany and Italy and 17,501 in the war against Japan. Prisoners of war held by the Japanese made up nearly half of Australia's deaths in the Pacific. At least 386 Australian civilian seamen were killed during the war. Total Australian war expenditure was £2,949,380,000 and at its peak in 1942–43, military costs accounted for 40.1",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.81,
"text": "a part-time volunteer force which would be able to provide the basis for expansion in wartime. In the course of the fighting the Australian Army sustained approximately 61,000 battle casualties, the bulk of them from the Second AIF. This included 11,323 killed in action, 1,794 died of wounds, and 21,853 wounded. 5,558 were killed or died in captivity, while another 20,920 survived as prisoners of war. Non-battle casualties included 1,088 killed and 33,196 wounded/injured in operational areas, and another 1,795 killed and 121,800 wounded/injured in non-operational areas. The large number of non-battle casualties was significant, illustrating the toll that sickness",
"title": "Australian Army during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.39,
"text": "was declared on 11 November 1918. Total Australian casualties on the Western Front numbered 181,000, including 46,000 of whom died. Another 114,000 men were wounded, 16,000 gassed, and approximately 3,850 were taken prisoners of war. When the war ended, there were 92,000 Australian soldiers in France, 60,000 in England and 17,000 in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Small numbers were serving in other theatres. Australian troops from the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron provided communications for British forces during the Mesopotamian Campaign. They participated in a number of battles, including the Battle of Baghdad in March 1917 and the Battle of",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War I"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.16,
"text": "addition, Australia came under direct attack for the first time in its post-colonial history. Its casualties from enemy action during the war were 27,073 killed and 23,477 wounded. Australian Army units were gradually withdrawn from the Mediterranean and Europe following the outbreak of war with Japan. However, Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Australian Navy units and personnel continued to take part in the war against Germany and Italy. From 1942 until early 1944, Australian forces played a key role in the Pacific War, making up the majority of Allied strength throughout much of the fighting in the South West",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "survivors surrendered in the weeks after the battle. Few members of Lark Force survived the war, as at least 130 were murdered by the Japanese on 4 February and 1,057 Australian soldiers and civilian prisoners from Rabaul were killed when the ship carrying them to Japan (\"\"Montevideo Maru\"\") was sunk by the US submarine on 1 July 1942. AIF troops were also dispatched from Darwin to the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) in the first weeks of the Pacific War. Reinforced battalions from the 23rd Brigade were sent to Koepang in West Timor ('Sparrow Force') and the island of Ambon ('Gull",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "the Western Front. Of about 416,000 who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 152,000 were wounded. Many Australians regard the defeat of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) at Gallipoli as the birth of the nation—its first major military action. The Kokoda Track campaign is regarded by many as an analogous nation-defining event during World War II. Britain's Statute of Westminster 1931 formally ended most of the constitutional links between Australia and the UK. Australia adopted it in 1942, but it was backdated to 1939 to confirm the validity of legislation passed by the Australian Parliament during",
"title": "Australia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "the objectives that had been given as a justification for it, and due to the inexperience of high commanders and mismanagement there were an unacceptably high number of casualties amongst the participating troops, not only from as a result of combat, but also due to widespread disease that resulted from poor sanitation and hygiene in the front lines and a breakdown in the casualty clearance and resupply and logistics systems. It has been estimated that over the course of the campaign there were 26,111 Australian casualties with 8,141 killed. Other Allied casualties—killed and wounded—included: 7,571 New Zealanders, 120,000 British and",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War I"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25,
"text": "of Australians enlisted in the military served with Bomber Command, they incurred almost 20 percent of all Australian deaths in combat; 3,486 were killed and hundreds more were taken prisoner. Hundreds of Australians participated in the liberation of Western Europe during 1944 and 1945. Ten RAAF squadrons, hundreds of Australians in RAF units and about 500 Australian sailors serving with the Royal Navy formed part of the force assembled for the landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944; overall, it has been estimated that about 3000 Australian personnel took part in this operation. From 11 June until September 1944 the",
"title": "Military history of Australia during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.98,
"text": "highly effective military force. Following the armistice on 11 November 1918, a process of demobilisation began, with the last Australian personnel being repatriated in late 1919. In all, 416,809 Australians enlisted during the war and 334,000 served overseas. The AIF sustained approximately 210,000 casualties, of which 61,519 were killed or died of wounds, a casualty rate among the highest of any belligerent for the war. The Commonwealth of Australia was founded on 1 January 1901. On 1 March, 29,010 colonial soldiers, consisting of 1,544 professional soldiers, 16,105 paid militia and 11,361 unpaid volunteers, were transferred to the new Australian Army.",
"title": "Australian Army during World War I"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.95,
"text": "Imperial units; casualties included 251 killed in action, 267 died of disease and 43 missing in action, while a further 735 were wounded. The war had the third largest number of fatalities in Australia's military history, behind only the world wars. In all likelihood, the total number of men from the Australian colonies to have served in the Second Boer War is probably between 20,000 and 25,000, making it the second largest contingent behind British troops. Five Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross. These were Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps; Trooper John Hutton Bisdee of",
"title": "Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.95,
"text": "men killed and 2,030 captured. While most of the 6th Division returned to Egypt, the 19th Brigade Group and two provisional infantry battalions landed at Crete where they formed a key part of the island's defences. The 19th Brigade was initially successful in holding its positions when German paratroopers landed on 20 May, but was gradually forced to retreat. After several key airfields were lost the Allies evacuated the island's garrison. Approximately 3,000 Australians, including the entire 2/7th Battalion, could not be evacuated, and were taken prisoner. As a result of its heavy casualties the 6th Division required substantial reinforcements",
"title": "Australian Army during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "the weeks after the battle. Few members of Lark Force survived the war, as at least 130 were murdered by the Japanese on 4 February and 1,057 Australian soldiers and civilian prisoners from Rabaul were killed when the ship carrying them to Japan, the transport \"\"Montevideo Maru\"\", was sunk by a US submarine on 1 July 1942. AIF troops were also dispatched from Darwin to the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) in the first weeks of the Pacific War. Reinforced battalions from the 8th Division's third brigade, the 23rd, were sent to Koepang in West Timor as part of \"\"Sparrow Force\"\"",
"title": "Australian Army during World War II"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.8,
"text": "in Australia's entire history.\"\" It resulted from a plan to divert German attention from the Battle of the Somme, but historians estimate that 5,500 Australians and 2,000 British troops were killed or wounded. The Australian losses were equivalent to the combined total Australian losses in the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War: although later World War I actions would be more deadly for the AIF, Fromelles was the only one to achieve no success. Adolf Hitler is believed to have served as a messenger on the German side with the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division. The site was constructed in",
"title": "V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.77,
"text": "five to seven thousand Australians served in \"\"irregular\"\" regiments raised in South Africa. Perhaps five hundred Australian irregulars were killed. In total 20,000 or more Australians served and about 1,000 were killed. A total of 267 died from disease, 251 were killed in action or died from wounds sustained in battle. A further 43 men were reported missing. When the war began some Australians, like some Britons, opposed it. As the war dragged on some Australians became disenchanted, in part because of the sufferings of Boer civilians reported in the press. In an interesting twist (for Australians), when the British",
"title": "Second Boer War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.73,
"text": "out of the line when the armistice was declared on 11 November 1918. Although, some artillery units continued to support British and American units into November, and the AFC maintained flying operations until the end of the war. Total Australian casualties on the Western Front numbered 181,000, including 46,000 of whom died. Another 114,000 men were wounded, 16,000 gassed, and approximately 3,850 were taken prisoners of war. Small numbers of AIF personnel also served in other theatres. Australian troops from the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron provided communications for British forces during the Mesopotamian Campaign. They participated in a number",
"title": "Australian Army during World War I"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.7,
"text": "2/12th Field Ambulance The 2/12th Field Ambulance was an Australian military unit of the Second Australian Imperial Force, serving during World War II. During their six years of service, over 200 soldiers were killed, the highest figure for a non-combatant unit in Australian history. The majority of the unit's casualties were suffered during the sinking of the hospital ship \"\"Centaur\"\" in May 1943. During the war, the 2/12th deployed personnel in support of Australian combat operations against the Japanese on Ambon, Timor and in Borneo before being disbanded in 1946. The 2/12th was founded at Sydney Showground on 22 November",
"title": "2/12th Field Ambulance"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.67,
"text": "in a high death rate. Australians were held in camps across the Asia-Pacific region and many endured long voyages in grossly overcrowded ships. While most of the Australian POWs who died in Japanese captivity were the victim of deliberate malnutrition and disease, hundreds were murdered by their guards. The Burma-Thai Railway was the most notorious of the prisoner of war experiences, as 13,000 Australians worked on it at various times during 1942 and 1943 alongside thousands of other Allied POWs and Asians conscripted by the Japanese; nearly 2,650 Australians died there. Thousands of Australian POWs were also sent to the",
"title": "Australian Army during World War II"
}
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how many times has south africa won the world cup? | [
"0"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.39,
"text": "favor and provided the swing vote for the World Cup. Since then South Africa have won the world cup twice, in 1995 in their first appearance when they also hosted the event and again in 2007 in Paris. The 1995 tournament concluded with then President Nelson Mandela (at the time described as the world's most famous former political prisoner), wearing a Springbok jersey and matching baseball cap, presenting the trophy to the South Africa's captain François Pienaar (a young Afrikaner). Given the political history of South Africa, the moment is seen as one of the most emotional in the sport's",
"title": "Rugby union in South Africa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "in North African music and dance and, in Southern Africa, Western influences are apparent due to colonization. Fifty-four African countries have football (soccer) teams in the Confederation of African Football. Egypt has won the African Cup seven times, and a record-making three times in a row. Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, and Algeria have advanced to the knockout stage of recent FIFA World Cups. South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup tournament, becoming the first African country to do so. Cricket is popular in some African nations. South Africa and Zimbabwe have Test status, while Kenya is the leading non-test team",
"title": "Africa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.75,
"text": "tournament is The Rugby Championship (formerly Tri-Nations), involving Australia and New Zealand since 1996, with Argentina joining the competition in 2012. South Africa has won the tournament three times; in 1998 and 2004 and 2009. South Africa also participates in the Mandela Challenge Plate with Australia, and the Freedom Cup with New Zealand as part of the Rugby Championship. South Africa did not participate in the 1987 and 1991 World Cups because of the sporting boycott that apartheid brought against them. South Africa's introduction to the event was as hosts. They defeated defending champions Australia 27–18 in the opening match,",
"title": "South Africa national rugby union team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "representative team at the FIFA Confederations Cup is decided by a play-off between the winners of the last two tournament editions. Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the Gold Cup was held 24 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (10 titles). South Africa participated once, as invitee, in 2005. After defeating heavyweight Mexico in their first match, they followed up with a row of draws and were eliminated on penalties in the quarter-final against Panama. In May 2005, that year's eventual South African league champions, the Kaizer Chiefs, were banned from African club",
"title": "South Africa at the CONCACAF Gold Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "Russia, drew 1–1 with Belgium, and lost 0–2 to co-hosts Japan. Of Africa's five representatives, three won at least once, but only one progressed beyond the first round. Still, Senegal's surprise run made it the fifth successive time an African nation had made it to the Round of 16, and the second time an African country had reached the quarter finals. Three of the five African nations (South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia) took a local coach to the World Cup; only one of those three scored a win. 51 African countries entered the race for 5 spots at the 2006 FIFA",
"title": "African nations at the FIFA World Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.98,
"text": "South Africa at the Rugby World Cup South Africa have played at six of the eight Rugby World Cup tournaments, having been unable to compete in the first two tournaments due to a sports boycott during the apartheid era. Following the end of apartheid, they hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup and won the tournament, and were champions again at the 2007 tournament in France. With two tournament wins, they are one of the three best performing teams, along with Australia who have also won twice, and New Zealand with three wins, the only team to do better. South Africa",
"title": "South Africa at the Rugby World Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "and Springboks played two or three encounters each year on a home-and-away basis; the Rugby Championship features two annual encounters, also on a home-and-away basis. Australia and South Africa have met three times in the Rugby World Cup. In 1995 they were drawn in the same pool and host nation South Africa won 27–18, going on to win the cup. In 1999 Australia knocked South Africa out of the competition in a semi-final at Twickenham, winning 27–21. In 2011, Australia again knocked South Africa out of the competition, in a quarter-final at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, winning 11–9. Below is",
"title": "History of rugby union matches between Australia and South Africa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "World Cup. After upsetting Australia in the opening match, South Africa continued to advance through the tournament until they met New Zealand in the final. After a tense final that went into extra time, South Africa emerged 15–12 winners, with then President Nelson Mandela, wearing a Springbok jersey, presenting the trophy to South Africa's captain, Francois Pienaar. The tournament in 1999 was hosted by Wales with matches also being held throughout the rest of the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. The tournament included a repechage system, alongside specific regional qualifying places, and an increase from sixteen to twenty participating nations.",
"title": "Rugby World Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "World Cup Sevens held in Dubai. In men's Rugby World Cup Sevens, the New Zealand have won the tournament three times, Fiji have won it twice, and England and Wales have won a single tournament each, while , Australia and South Africa have reached tournament finals but not secured a title. For women's Rugby World Cup Sevens, Australia won the first tournament in 2009 and New Zealand won the second and third tournaments in 2013 and 2018. New Zealand are the current men's and women's world champions having won both tournaments in 2018. In May of 2009, the International Rugby",
"title": "Rugby World Cup Sevens"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "the world stage in 1992, after years of being banned by FIFA due to the apartheid system. The team has played at seven Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, winning once. The team has also played at three FIFA World Cups including, 1998 in France and 2002 in South Korea and Japan. South Africa became the first African nation to host the FIFA World Cup when it hosted the 19th FIFA World Cup in June 2010. The team's Siphiwe Tshabalala was also the first person to score in this World Cup during the opening game against Mexico. Despite defeating France 2-1",
"title": "Soccer in South Africa"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "Africa won 6–1. In March 1999, they toured New Zealand, beating them 1–0 in the Test series and 3–2 in the one-dayers. At the 1999 World Cup, Cronje finished with 98 runs at 12.25 as South Africa were eliminated after the famous tied semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston. In the first match of the tournament versus India, Cronje came onto the field with an earpiece wired to coach Bob Woolmer, but at the first drinks break match referee Talat Ali ordered him to remove it. In October 1999, Cronje became South Africa's highest Test run scorer during the first Test",
"title": "Hansie Cronje"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.53,
"text": "first edition of the tournament in 1985, all of the teams from Europe plus Bolivia appeared by invitation of FIFA. Africa is the most successful continental zone with 7 tournament wins (5 for Nigeria, 2 for Ghana) and 6 times as runner up. Notably the 1993 final was contested by two African teams, when the final has been contested by two teams from the same confederation. The African teams repeated the 1993 final with Mali replacing Ghana (Disqualified for age violation) in 2015 when Nigeria and Mali made it to the last two standing and Nigeria got their fifth win.",
"title": "FIFA U-17 World Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.52,
"text": "a scrum. The South African forwards secured the ball, and as soon as the clock ticked over the 80-minute mark, the ball was kicked into touch. Referee Rolland then blew the final whistle, and South Africa had won their second World Cup title. This was also the second World Cup title for retiring prop Os du Randt, who was the last player from the Springboks' 1995 championship team still active. He joined five Australians who had been on the Wallabies' 1991 and 1999 championship teams as the only players at that time to have won two World Cups (they would",
"title": "2007 Rugby World Cup Final"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.52,
"text": "World Cup six times, highest placing 10th (2010). The women's team has qualified for the Olympics four times, highest placing 9th (2004), and the Women's Hockey World Cup six times, highest placing 7th (1998). South Africa's Men's and Women's teams are currently rated 15th and 14th, respectively, in the FIH World Rankings. Both teams are members of the African Hockey Federation, the governing body for Hockey in Africa, and the International Hockey Federation. Founded on 14 December 1984, Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has hosted five world championships in Johannesburg in 1997, Cape Town in 1999, Durban in 2002, Port",
"title": "Sport in South Africa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "However, in the next five years, South Africa won most of their Test (10 out of 15 series) and One Day International matches (73%). However, the side failed to win either the 1996 World Cup or the 1999 World Cup, despite having the highest ODI success rate among international teams in that period. At the 1996 tournament on the Indian subcontinent, his team won all their preliminary group matches before succumbing to the West Indies in the quarter finals. At the 1999 tournament, South Africa faced Australia in the final match of the Super Six round; Australia needed to win",
"title": "Bob Woolmer"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "South Africa to their first victory in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers as they beat the Central African Republic 2–0 in Cape Town. South Africa continued their push for a place at the World Cup with a 3–0 win over the Central African Republic on 8 June. South Africa endured a difficult build-up to the game as they were only able to practice once before the game due to a delayed connecting flight, but they performed admirably against their physical opponents on a bumpy pitch. The win was South Africa's first away win in a World Cup qualifier since 2005.",
"title": "South Africa national football team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "April 1992. The match was played in Bridgetown, Barbados and South Africa lost by 52 runs. Since South Africa have been reinstated they have achieved mixed success, and hosted the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup in 2003. However, it is widely believed the sides containing the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Gary Kirsten, Jacques Kallis and Hansie Cronje grossly underachieved, gaining a reputation as \"\"chokers\"\", due to them reaching the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup four times, but failing to progress into the finals. In the second part of the 1990s, South Africa had the highest winning",
"title": "South Africa national cricket team"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "2007 Rugby World Cup Final The 2007 Rugby World Cup Final was a rugby union match, played on Saturday, 20 October 2007 at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, to determine the winner of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. South Africa beat England 15-6. Having also won the 1995 tournament, South Africa became the second country to win two World Cups, following Australia, who won in 1991 and 1999. The two teams, who won their semi-finals against France and Argentina respectively, had met earlier in the competition, during the pool stage, when South Africa won 36–0. South Africa began the",
"title": "2007 Rugby World Cup Final"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "the tables on defending champions South Africa, beating them 27–21 to make it to the final. There they defeated France 35 to 12, in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final and becoming the first nation to win the World Cup more than once. Australia were the sole hosts of the tournament in 2003, and went undefeated in Pool A, beating Ireland, Argentina, Romania and Namibia. Australia defeated Scotland in the quarter finals, and then the All Blacks in what was regarded as an upset in the semi-finals, to go to the final. England won the final in Sydney during extra",
"title": "Australia national rugby union team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "now be held in even-numbered years henceforth to desaturate the calendar, starting with 2016. Senegal are the most successful nation having won the event five times and are also the current champions. In terms of success in qualifying to the World Cup, again Senegal are the most outstanding nation, having qualified in seven out of nine attempts. Nigeria follow closely behind, with six qualifications. For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. \"\"As of 2016\"\" Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra Time W+",
"title": "Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations"
}
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who has the maximum number of wimbledon single titles? | [
"Roger Federer"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.53,
"text": "7–5, 6–3, 6–4. The match enabled Federer to break three of the sport's most prestigious all-time records. He broke his own all-time record of Grand Slams, setting the new mark at seventeen. He also tied Pete Sampras for the most Wimbledon singles titles with seven. Federer secured the world no. 1 position for the first time since June 2010 which enabled him to pass Sampras and set the record for most weeks at the summit of men's tennis. Federer went on to spend an additional 17 weeks at world no. 1 and set the record (since the 1973 inception of",
"title": "2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "advance to his 11th Wimbledon final, subsequently setting the record for the highest number of men's singles finals made at a single major. In the final, Federer defeated Marin Čilić in straight sets to win a record 8th Wimbledon Gentleman's singles title, breaking his previous tie with William Renshaw and Pete Sampras, and his 19th Grand Slam singles title overall. He became the second male player in the Open Era to win the championships without dropping a set, after Björn Borg in 1976. Following his victory, he also qualified for the 2017 ATP Finals for a record 15th time along",
"title": "2017 Roger Federer tennis season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "Open titles, an all-time record of 8 Wimbledon Gentleman singles titles, and one Stuttgart Open title. Federer has the longest grass court winning streak in the Open Era as he won 65 consecutive matches on grass from 2003 to 2008 where he was beaten by Rafael Nadal in the 2008 Wimbledon final. The most successful female grass-court players currently playing are Serena Williams and her sister Venus Williams, with seven and five Wimbledon singles titles respectively. Venus has won five out of her nine Wimbledon finals appearances (losing three to her sister Serena) and achieving five titles in the ladies'",
"title": "Grass court"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times (surpassing Helen Wills Moody's eight Wimbledon titles), including a run of six consecutive titles, widely regarded as the best performance by any professional player at a major event. She and Billie Jean King each won 20 combined Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is also one of just three women ever to have accomplished a Career Grand Slam in women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam \"\"boxed set\"\"), a distinction she shares only with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. Navratilova holds the records for most",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "1999 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Pete Sampras successfully defended his title, defeating Andre Agassi in the final, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. With this win, his sixth at Wimbledon, Sampras broke Björn Borg's then open era record of five Wimbledon titles, and equalled Roy Emerson's then record of twelve Grand Slam titles. Sampras' victory over Agassi in the final is often cited as one of the greatest performances in a Wimbledon final. However, despite his victory, Sampras lost his No. 1 ranking when the ATP rankings were updated a",
"title": "1999 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22,
"text": "also caused Federer to reclaim the world number 1 ranking from his rival Rafael Nadal. The championship set a record for longest match played in Grand Slam final history (in terms of games), due particularly to the unprecedented thirty games contested in the ultimate set. Roger Federer had tied Sampras with fourteen major singles titles a month earlier at the 2009 French Open and was seeking to set a new standard of excellence in the men's game by capturing an unprecedented fifteenth championship. Former world number 1 Andy Roddick was looking to capture his first Wimbledon title and second Grand",
"title": "2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "2007 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles In a repeat of the previous year's final, Roger Federer successfully defended his title for a fifth consecutive year by defeating Rafael Nadal in the final, 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 2–6, 6–2 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. With this win Federer equalled Björn Borg's record of five consecutive Wimbledon titles. Roger Federer (Champion) Mario Ančić was originally seeded #18 but withdrew due to illness before the tournament draw was made. All original seeds from 19-31 moved up one place, and a new #31 seed was added. Andy Murray",
"title": "2007 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "first of a record 8 Gentleman's singles titles at Wimbledon and a record 20 Grand Slam singles titles. This was also notable for being the first Grand Slam competition in which future World No. 1 and champion Rafael Nadal competed in the main draw, in which he lost to Paradorn Srichaphan in the third round. Lleyton Hewitt \"\"(First round)\"\" Albert Costa and Marat Safin withdrew due to injury. They were replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded players Nikolay Davydenko and Àlex Corretja, who became the #33 and #34 seeds respectively. Corretja subsequently withdrew due to personal reasons and",
"title": "2003 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final, 7–5, 6–3. By winning her seventh Wimbledon title, Williams equaled Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 major singles titles. This was also the first time two women contested two major finals against one another in a single season since Amélie Mauresmo and Justine Henin-Hardenne met in the 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon finals. The two faced each other again in the final two years later, with Kerber winning the title in straight sets. In addition to",
"title": "2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.77,
"text": "championship titles won by Lenglen, the WHCC is used for 1914 and 1920 through 1923 instead of the closed-to-foreigners French Championships for those years. Under this counting method, Lenglen's total number of championship wins is 31. At Wimbledon in 1920 and 1921, Lenglen did not play what was called the final but instead a Challenge Round. At the time, the winner of the tournament final would go on to play a single match for the title against the champion from the previous year. The exception was ladies doubles and mixed doubles. SR = the ratio of the number of championship",
"title": "Suzanne Lenglen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.77,
"text": "the 2017 Australian Open. Federer has won a men's record eight Wimbledon titles, a joint-record six Australian Open titles, a record five consecutive US Open titles, and one French Open title. He is one of eight men to have achieved a career Grand Slam. Federer has reached a record 30 men's singles Grand Slam finals, including 10 in a row from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships to the 2007 US Open. Federer has also won a record six ATP Finals, 27 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, and a record 21 ATP World Tour 500 titles. Federer's all-court game and versatile",
"title": "Roger Federer"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "in a major men's singles final, surpassing the 11–9 fifth set in the 1927 French Open final. The match took 4 hours and 17 minutes to complete, and the fifth set alone lasted 95 minutes. By winning his 15th major, Roger Federer surpassed Pete Sampras's record of 14 major titles. In a rare occurrence, Roddick lost despite only having his serve broken once, in the very last game of the match. By winning the title, Federer regained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking from Nadal for the first time since August 2008. Roddick's run to the final would be the",
"title": "2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Roger Federer was the defending champion and top seed, but lost in the quarterfinals to Kevin Anderson despite leading by two sets to love and having a match point in the third set. Novak Djokovic claimed his fourth Wimbledon title, defeating Anderson in the final 6–2, 6–2, 7–6. The win moved him to 13 grand slam titles, and outright fourth place on the all time men's singles grand slam wins list, passing Roy Emerson. The win was also Djokovic's first title on the ATP tour for over 12 months, his last win coming at",
"title": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Roger Federer. Federer defeated Andy Murray in the final, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4, to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. It was his seventh Wimbledon title and seventeenth Grand Slam title. With the win, Federer also regained the world No. 1 ranking. Federer thus equalled both William Renshaw and Pete Sampras' record of seven Wimbledon titles, as well as Sampras' record of 286 weeks as world No. 1; Federer broke the latter record on 16 July 2012.",
"title": "2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.64,
"text": "with his twin brother Ernest. The right-hander was known for his power and technical ability which put him ahead of competition at the time. He was the first president of the British Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). Renshaw won a total of twelve Wimbledon titles. Seven of those were in singles, which was a record shared with Pete Sampras which was surpassed in 2017 by Roger Federer who won his eighth title. The first six were consecutive, an achievement which has been unequaled to this day . Since 1922 the reigning champions have had to play in the main draw, making",
"title": "William Renshaw"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "1994 Wimbledon Championships. 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final, 7–5, 6–3. By winning her seventh Wimbledon title, Williams equaled Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 major singles titles. This was also the first time two women contested two major finals against one another in a single season since Amélie Mauresmo and Justine Henin-Hardenne met in the 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon finals. The two faced each other again in the final two years later, with Kerber winning the title in straight sets.",
"title": "2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.61,
"text": "are not salaried, but must play and finish highly in tournaments to obtain money. In recent years, some controversy has surrounded the involuntary or deliberate noise caused by players' grunting. The following players have won at least five singles titles at Grand Slam tournaments: A frequent topic of discussion among tennis fans and commentators is who was the greatest male singles player of all time. By a large margin, an Associated Press poll in 1950 named Bill Tilden as the greatest player of the first half of the 20th century. From 1920 to 1930, Tilden won singles titles at Wimbledon",
"title": "Tennis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "1896 Wimbledon Championships The 1896 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 13 July until 21 July. It was the 20th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1896. The number of entries for the men's singles competition was 31, the highest since 1881. Harold Mahony and Charlotte Cooper won the singles titles. The All England Plate was introduced for players who had lost in the first or second round of the singles. Harold Mahony defeated",
"title": "1896 Wimbledon Championships"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "four US Open titles and three Wimbledon titles, and added nine men's Grand Slam doubles titles. His singles match record of 82–3 in 1984 remains the best single season win rate of the Open Era. McEnroe also excelled at the year-end tournaments, winning eight singles and seven doubles titles, both of which are records. Three of his winning singles year-end championships were at the Masters Grand Prix (the ATP year-end event) and five were at the World Championship Tennis (WCT) Finals, an event which ended in 1989. Since 2000, there has been only one year-end men's singles event, the ATP",
"title": "John McEnroe"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.5,
"text": "Club and International Tennis Federation. Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion in the Gentlemen's Singles, but he lost in the third round to Sam Querrey, ending a 30-match winning streak in Grand Slams and Djokovic's hopes of becoming the first man to achieve the golden calendar slam. The Gentlemen's Singles title was won by Andy Murray. Serena Williams successfully defended her Ladies' Singles title and equaled Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 major singles titles. The Gentlemen's Doubles event consisted of 'best of three sets' matches for Rounds 1 and 2 in order to help with 'catch-up' scheduling",
"title": "2016 Wimbledon Championships"
}
] |
new york is situated in which river bank? | [
"The Hudson River"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "Ellis Island, partially belonging to both the states of New Jersey and New York, is located just south of the river's mouth in New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty, located on Liberty Island, is located a bit further south of there. A stretch on the east bank of the Hudson has been designated the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission protects the Palisades on the west bank of the river. The Hudson River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1997. The Hudson River estuary system is part of the National",
"title": "Hudson River"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.36,
"text": "are large, rocky cliffs along the west bank of the river; also known as Bergen Hill at their lower end in Hudson County. Further south the east bank of the river becomes Yonkers and then the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. South of the confluence of the Hudson and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the east bank of the river becomes Manhattan. The river is sometimes still called the North River at this point. The George Washington Bridge crosses the river between Fort Lee and the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel",
"title": "Hudson River"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "River. The two separate about south of the county line as NY 126 leaves the riverbank and follows a more northeasterly routing than the river through the town. NY 126 parallels the waterway to the hamlet of Naumburg, located near the point where the Beaver River merges with the Black River. NY 126 intersects NY 410 in the center of the hamlet. East of Naumburg, NY 126 follows the north bank of the Beaver River as it proceeds through rural Croghan. About from Naumburg, NY 126 crosses the river and enters the hamlet of Beaver Falls, a large community situated",
"title": "New York State Route 126"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "worldwide. New York City is situated in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of New York City is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary. The",
"title": "New York City"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.88,
"text": "Riverbank State Park Riverbank State Park is a state park built on the top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. On September 5, 2017, the park was renamed Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, after a longtime member of the New York State Assembly who represented the area around and near the park. Riverbank State Park was designed by Dattner Architects and Abel Bainnson Butz Landscape Architects and opened in 1993. The original idea for a park atop the sewage plant was Philip Johnson's. It is located on the West",
"title": "Riverbank State Park"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "River Line (Conrail) The River Line is a rail corridor located between Jersey City, New Jersey and Selkirk, New York, running along the west side of the Hudson Palisades and after passing through a tunnel at Haverstraw, New York, along the west bank of the Hudson River. A parallel track, which was operated as part of the River Line from Jersey City to Weehawken, New Jersey, was known as the Weehawken Branch. The River Line has since been split into several sections, following the 1999 division of Conrail assets between Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation. The current name for",
"title": "River Line (Conrail)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and western Long Island, making land scarce and encouraging a high population density. The Hudson River flows from the Hudson Valley into New York Bay, becoming a tidal estuary that separates the",
"title": "Geography of New York City"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.44,
"text": "were constructed in two phases between 1986 and 1991. One of only three state parks within Manhattan (the others being Hudson River Park & Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park ), it has become one of the most heavily used state parks in New York. The site includes synthetic sport surfaces as well as several acres of \"\"green roofs\"\", with varying depths of soil supporting plantings and trees up to high. This is the largest green roof in New York City. The park includes an Olympic-size swimming pool (home to the Riverbank Redtails swim team), a covered skating rink for",
"title": "Riverbank State Park"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.42,
"text": "which extends into Ohio and Pennsylvania. Of New York State's total area, 13.6% consists of water. Much of New York's boundaries are in water, as is true for New York City: four of its five boroughs are situated on three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens at its western end. The state's borders include a water boundary in (clockwise from the west) two Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River); the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada, with",
"title": "New York (state)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "that includes within its borders parts of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The Hudson River begins near Lake Tear of the Clouds and flows south through the eastern part of the state, without draining Lakes George or Champlain. Lake George empties at its north end into Lake Champlain, whose northern end extends into Canada, where it drains into the Richelieu River and then ultimately the Saint Lawrence River. The western section of the state is drained by the Allegheny River and rivers of the Susquehanna and Delaware River systems. Niagara Falls is shared between New York and Ontario",
"title": "New York (state)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States. The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, flows southward through the Hudson Valley, and eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor, between New York City and Jersey City. The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York at its southern end. Further north, it marks local boundaries between several New York counties. The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary, deeper",
"title": "Hudson River"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "Albany, New York Albany ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River approximately south of its confluence with the Mohawk River and approximately north of New York City. Albany is known for its rich history, commerce, culture, architecture, and institutions of higher education. Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With",
"title": "Albany, New York"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "River to the west, and is bound by the Hudson Highlands State Park to the north, where Mount Taurus and Breakneck Ridge rise steeply and dramatically out of the banks of the Hudson and form two basically parallel ridges that track each other inland. The valley between them has an abandoned dairy farm, two lakes, and a camp. The view from the river bank is the Constitution Marsh and the US Military Academy (West Point) slightly to the south, and Crow's Nest and Storm King Mountain to the west and northwest. All of this considered, the village is nestled in",
"title": "Cold Spring, New York"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "York River State Park York River State Park is located near the unincorporated town of Croaker in James City County, Virginia on the south bank of the York River about 10 miles downstream from West Point. The York River is formed from the confluence of the Mattaponi River and the Pamunkey River at West Point. The York River empties into the Chesapeake Bay about 30 miles downstream from Croaker Landing. In the state park, the historical Croaker Landing is an archaeological site listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The name \"\"Croaker\"\" is believed to have derived",
"title": "York River State Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "bank of the Black River. The two entities remain close for roughly before NY 812 crosses over the river and enters New Bremen. In the hamlet of New Bremen, NY 812 intersects County Route 33 (CR 33), a riverside roadway bypassing both Croghan and Beaver Falls along the east bank of the Black River, southwest of Duflo Airport. NY 812 continues onward, crossing the Black Creek as it enters Croghan, a village situated on the New Bremen–Croghan town line. At the center of the community, NY 812 meets the eastern terminus of NY 126. Outside of Croghan, NY 812 traverses",
"title": "New York State Route 812"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "work began on the graded roadbeds on the southern riverbank. Ground was broken on the Mohawk River bridge in May 1997. The highway was completed in October 1998 and opened to traffic at 3 p.m. on October 21, 1998, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony. It was designated as NY 890 at this time, becoming one of several state routes to serve as an extension of a like-numbered Interstate Highway. New York State Route 890 New York State Route 890 (NY 890) is a long state highway located northwest of downtown Schenectady in the Capital District of New York in the United",
"title": "New York State Route 890"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.16,
"text": "state. The river takes its rise in Otsego Lake, and, flowing southwest to the Pennsylvania line, receives Charlotte River from the south and the Unadilla River from the north. After a course of a few miles in Pennsylvania, it again enters New York and flows in a general westerly direction to near the western border of Tioga County, whence it turns south and again enters Pennsylvania. Its principal tributary from the north is the Chenango River. The Tioga River enters New York from Pennsylvania near the eastern border of Steuben County, flows north, receives the Canisteo River from the west",
"title": "Geography of New York (state)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "mergers, leases, and takeovers, it became part of the New York Central Railroad and then Conrail in 1976. When the majority of Conrail was broken up in 1999, its River Line was assigned to CSX Transportation. The River Subdivision (also known as the River Sub or River SD) is a major north-south rail corridor located between Bogota, New Jersey and Ravena, New York, carries strictly freight trains and runs mostly along the shoreline or paralleling closely to the west bank of the Hudson River. The River Subdivision is part of the CSX Albany Division, which in turn is part of",
"title": "River Subdivision (CSX Transportation)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.06,
"text": "Great River, New York Great River, New York is a suburban hamlet and CDP in the Town of Islip, Suffolk, USA situated approximately (55 mi driving) east of NYC on South Shore of L.I., adjoining the Great South Bay, protected from the Atlantic Ocean by Fire Island. Great River's name derives from \"\"Connetquot\"\", an Algonquian word for \"\"Great River.\"\" Prior to the 1900s Great River was primarily home to wealthy families on mansion estates. As of the 2010 census, the population of Great River was 1,489. Great River's buildings include a New York City-style steak house in a turn of",
"title": "Great River, New York"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.05,
"text": "North River, New York North River is a hamlet in the Town of Johnsburg, in Upstate New York, within the Adirondack Mountains. It is located on the upper Hudson River five miles north of the hamlet of North Creek in Warren County, on the northern border with Hamilton County. Historically it was one of the centers of the New York State garnet industry. The last remaining garnet mine in New York is located in North River. The hardest garnets in the world come from the Adirondacks and are still in demand, especially for industrial use. There is also a former",
"title": "North River, New York"
}
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where does an embryo usually attach to its mother? | [
"the wall of the uterus"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "visible. Also during this time, there is development of structures important to the support of the embryo, including the placenta and umbilical cord. The placenta connects the developing embryo to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply. The umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the embryo or fetus to the placenta. After about ten weeks of gestational age, the embryo becomes known as a fetus. At the beginning of the fetal stage, the risk of miscarriage decreases sharply. At this stage, a fetus is about 30 mm (1.2 inches)",
"title": "Pregnancy"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "that sits within the pelvis of the mother. The process the mother experiences whilst carrying the fetus or embryo is referred to as pregnancy. The placenta connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, thermo-regulation, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply; to fight against internal infection; and to produce hormones which support pregnancy. The placenta provides oxygen and nutrients to growing fetuses and removes waste products from the fetus's blood. The placenta attaches to the wall of the uterus, and the fetus's umbilical cord develops from the placenta. These organs connect the",
"title": "Development of the human body"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.11,
"text": "inside its mouth. It stays attached to the teat for several months until it is sufficiently developed to emerge. Joeys are born with \"\"oral shields\"\"; in species without pouches or with rudimentary pouches these are more developed than in forms with well-developed pouches, implying a role in maintaining the young attached to the mother's nipple. Many reptiles and the vast majority of invertebrates, most fish, amphibians and all birds are oviparous, that is, they lay eggs with little or no embryonic development taking place within the mother. In aquatic organisms, fertilization is nearly always external with sperm and eggs being",
"title": "Birth"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "Embryotroph Embryotroph is the embryonic nourishment in placental mammals. On approximately the seventh day of development, the trophoblast (cells that make up the outer part of the blastocoel) divides to form two separate layers: the cytotrophoblast (the inner layer) and the syncytiotrophoblast (the outer layer). Using enzymes, the syncytiotrophoblast penetrates the tissues of the mother, then it attaches to these tissues by burrowing with long projections, breaking maternal blood vessels. The chemical reason why this process occurs is currently unknown. Uterine milk is part of the embryotroph. It is a white secretion containing proteins and amino acids that nourishes the",
"title": "Embryotroph"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.39,
"text": "either the term \"\"uterus\"\" or \"\"oviduct\"\" is used to describe the same organ, but the egg does not develop a placenta within the mother and thus does not receive further nourishment after formation and fertilization. Marsupials have two uteri, each of which connect to a lateral vagina and which both use a third, middle \"\"vagina\"\" which functions as the birth canal. Marsupial embryos form a choriovitelline placenta (which can be thought of as something between a monotreme egg and a \"\"true\"\" placenta), in which the egg's yolk sac supplies a large part of the embryo's nutrition but also attaches to",
"title": "Uterus"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.28,
"text": "to germinate—grow out from the seed—it is called a seedling (plantlet). Bryophytes and ferns also produce an embryo, but do not produce seeds. In these plants, the embryo begins its existence attached to the inside of the archegonium on a parental gametophyte from which the egg cell was generated. The inner wall of the archegonium lies in close contact with the \"\"foot\"\" of the developing embryo; this \"\"foot\"\" consists of a bulbous mass of cells at the base of the embryo which may receive nutrition from its parent gametophyte. The structure and development of the rest of the embryo varies",
"title": "Embryo"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.22,
"text": "develops into the umbilical cord to attach the placenta to the embryo. Arteries in the decidua are remodelled to increase the maternal blood flow into the intervillous spaces of the placenta, allowing gas exchange and the transfer of nutrients to the embryo. Waste products from the embryo will diffuse across the placenta. As the syncytiotrophoblast starts to penetrate the uterine wall, the inner cell mass (embryoblast) also develops. The inner cell mass is the source of embryonic stem cells, which are pluripotent and can develop into any one of the three germ layer cells,and which have the potency to give",
"title": "Human embryogenesis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.05,
"text": "and transitioning to motherhood from outside of the pregnant body. This can lead to new conceptualizations of body and self. The first transfer of an embryo from one human to another resulting in pregnancy was reported in July 1983 and subsequently led to the announcement of the first human birth 3 February 1984. This procedure was performed at the Harbor UCLA Medical Center under the direction of Dr. John Buster and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. In the procedure, an embryo that was just beginning to develop was transferred from one woman in whom it",
"title": "Embryo transfer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.77,
"text": "to climb to the pouch and attach to a teat. In comparison, a human embryo at a similar stage of development would be about seven weeks old, and premature babies born at less than 23 weeks are usually not mature enough to survive. When the joey is born, it is about the size of a lima bean. The joey will usually stay in the pouch for about nine months (180–320 days for the Western Grey) before starting to leave the pouch for small periods of time. It is usually fed by its mother until reaching 18 months. The female kangaroo",
"title": "Kangaroo"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.62,
"text": "Implantation (human embryo) In humans, implantation is the stage of pregnancy at which the embryo adheres to the wall of the uterus. At this stage of prenatal development, the conceptus is called a blastocyst. It is by this adhesion that the embryo receives oxygen and nutrients from the mother to be able to grow. In humans, implantation of a fertilized ovum is most likely to occur around 9 days after ovulation, however this can range between 6 and 12 days. The reception-ready phase of the endometrium of the uterus is usually termed the \"\"implantation window\"\" and lasts about 4 days.",
"title": "Implantation (human embryo)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.47,
"text": "continues at a rapid rate and the cells then develop into what is known as a blastocyst. The blastocyst arrives at the uterus and attaches to the uterine wall, a process known as implantation. The development of the mass of cells that will become the infant is called embryogenesis during the first approximately ten weeks of gestation. During this time, cells begin to differentiate into the various body systems. The basic outlines of the organ, body, and nervous systems are established. By the end of the embryonic stage, the beginnings of features such as fingers, eyes, mouth, and ears become",
"title": "Pregnancy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.42,
"text": "still barely developed, they already have well-defined front limbs and digits that allow them to climb on their mothers' bodies. Hatchlings attach themselves to their mothers' milk areolae, specialised patches on the skin that secrete milk—monotremes lack nipples—through about 100–150 pores. The puggles were thought to have imbibed the milk by licking the mother's skin, but they are now thought to feed by sucking the areolae. They have been observed ingesting large amounts during each feeding period, and mothers may leave them unattended in the burrow for between five and ten days to find food. Studies of captives have shown",
"title": "Short-beaked echidna"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.38,
"text": "which the endometrium undergoes changes to prepare for implantation, which will lead to the attachment of the embryo. The endometrium houses stromal cells that will differentiate to produce an optimal environment for the embryo to attach (decidualization). OPN is a vital protein for stromal cell proliferation and differentiation as well as it binds to the receptor αvβ3 to assist with adhesion. OPN along with decidualization ultimately encourages the successful implantation of the early embryo. A OPN gene knock-out results in attachment instability at the maternal-fetal interface. Osteopontin Osteopontin (OPN), also known as bone sialoprotein I (BSP-1 or BNSP), early T-lymphocyte",
"title": "Osteopontin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.36,
"text": "a sphere or sheet of cells, also called blastomeres. In a placental mammal, an ovum is fertilized in a fallopian tube through which it travels into the uterus. An embryo is called a fetus at a more advanced stage of development and up until birth or hatching. In humans, this is from the eleventh week of gestation. However, animals which develop in eggs outside the mother's body, are usually referred to as embryos throughout development; e.g. one would refer to a chick embryo, not a \"\"chick fetus\"\", even at later stages. During gastrulation the cells of the blastula undergo coordinated",
"title": "Embryo"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.34,
"text": "said a third thing: It is natural that, if a person is confined without attention to a chamber, and someone comes and releases the person and takes the person out from there, the former should feel gratitude to the latter. Even so when the embryo is in its mother’s womb, God comes and releases it and brings it forth into the world. Rabbi Ammi taught in the name of Rabbi Johanan that even though Rabbi Simeon ruled that a dissolved fetus expelled by a woman was not unclean, Rabbi Simeon nonetheless agreed that the woman was ritually unclean as a",
"title": "Tazria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.34,
"text": "developing embryo. Egg cells are often associated with other cells which support the development of the embryo, forming an egg. In mammals, the fertilized embryo instead develops within the female, receiving nutrition directly from its mother. Animals are usually mobile and seek out a partner of the opposite sex for mating. Animals which live in the water can mate using external fertilization, where the eggs and sperm are released into and combine within the surrounding water. Most animals that live outside of water, however, use internal fertilization, transferring sperm directly from to female to prevent the gametes from drying up.",
"title": "Sex"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.27,
"text": "has also evolved independently in other animals, such as in scorpions, some sharks, and in velvet worms. Viviparous offspring live independently and require an external food supply from birth. Certain lizards also employ this method such as the genera \"\"Tiliqua\"\" and \"\"Corucia.\"\" The placenta is attached directly to the mother in these lizards which is called viviparous matrotrophy. Ovoviviparous animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother's body up until they hatch or are about to hatch. This strategy of birth is known as ovoviviparity. It is similar to vivipary in that the embryo develops within the mother's body.",
"title": "Gestation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.23,
"text": "centriole is now a daughter centriole in each pair) will remain attached to each other orthogonally until mitosis. At that point the mother and daughter centrioles separate dependently on an enzyme called separase. The two centrioles in the centrosome are tied to one another. The mother centriole has radiating appendages at the distal end of its long axis and is attached to its daughter at the proximal end. Each daughter cell formed after cell division will inherit one of these pairs. Centrioles start duplicating when DNA replicates. The last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was a ciliated cell with centrioles.",
"title": "Centriole"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.16,
"text": "genera of the subfamily, the eggs are attached to cotylephores, which are fleshy stalks that develop seasonally on the underside of the body that may function in exchange of materials between the mother and her developing embryos. Because these catfish live in muddy environments, this behaviour has been hypothesised to give the eggs better access to oxygenated water. Accounts of reproduction in \"\"Bunocephalus\"\" vary; some sources state that they are egg-scatterers without any parental care, while others note them to build a depression for a nest and guard the eggs. A few banjo catfishes are kept as aquarium fish, predominantly",
"title": "Aspredinidae"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.16,
"text": "from and contains remnants of the yolk sac and allantois. It forms by the fifth week of development, replacing the yolk sac as the source of nutrients for the embryo. The cord is not directly connected to the mother's circulatory system, but instead joins the placenta, which transfers materials to and from the maternal blood without allowing direct mixing. The length of the umbilical cord is approximately equal to the crown-rump length of the fetus throughout pregnancy. The umbilical cord in a full term neonate is usually about 50 centimeters (20 in) long and about 2 centimeters (0.75 in) in",
"title": "Umbilical cord"
}
] |
who plays william in snow white and the huntsman? | [
"Sam Claflin"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.42,
"text": "with Emily Blunt. It was later announced that Cedric Nicolas-Troyan would take over as the new director for the film. Nick Frost will return as Dwarf Nion and Jessica Chastain will star. On March 18, 2015, Rob Brydon, Alexandra Roach and Sheridan Smith were added to the cast as dwarves. \"\"TheWrap\"\" confirmed on May 7, 2015, that Sam Claflin would return as William in this sequel. It was later revealed that the film would feature Ravenna's sister, the Ice Queen, and would reveal the origins of the Huntsman, while also continuing the story of the first film. Snow White and",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.16,
"text": "Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, was released on April 22, 2016. Hemsworth, Theron, Claflin and Nick Frost reprised their roles and new characters were played by Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain. Stewart did not reprise her role, but appeared in archive footage. While admiring a rose blooming in the winter, Queen Eleanor of the kingdom of Tabor pricks her finger on one of its thorns. Three drops of blood fall onto the snow-covered ground, and she wishes for a daughter as white as the snow, with lips as red as the blood, hair as black as a raven's wings and a heart as",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "closed a deal to star as well. On March 18, 2015, it was revealed that Sheridan Smith, Rob Brydon, and Alexandra Roach were added to the cast to play dwarves alongside Frost's character Nion. \"\"TheWrap\"\" confirmed on May 7, 2015, that Sam Claflin would return as William in the sequel. Principal photography on the film began on April 6, 2015. Filming took place at Waverley Abbey in Surrey, England in April 2015. Filming also occurred from May to July 2015 in Windsor Great Park, England, at locations including South Forest, Johnson's Pond and in the Deer Park near Snow Hill.",
"title": "The Huntsman: Winter's War"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "men are killed, while William reveals himself. William joins the group which continues the journey to Hammond's castle. Halfway to Duke Hammond's castle, Queen Ravenna disguises herself as William and tempts Snow White into eating a poisoned apple, but is forced to flee when the Huntsman and William discover her. William kisses Snow White, whose body is taken to Hammond's castle. As she lies in repose, the Huntsman professes his regret for not saving Snow White, who reminds him of his late wife, Sara; and he kisses her. The spell broken, Snow White awakens and walks into the courtyard; rallying",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.38,
"text": "in 2011's \"\"\"\", the fourth instalment of the \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\" film series. For the film, he received a nomination in the 17th Empire Awards for \"\"Best Male Newcomer.\"\" In 2012, he appeared as Jack in the six-episode miniseries \"\"White Heat\"\". Later that year, he played a supporting role in the 2012 film \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\", as William, Snow White's childhood friend. He received a nomination in the 2012 Teen Choice Awards for the category \"\"Best Movie Breakout.\"\" Also in 2012, he was cast in the lead role in Hammer Films' \"\"The Quiet Ones\"\", which was filmed",
"title": "Sam Claflin"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.03,
"text": "for helping him remember who he truly was. The Huntsman is one of the two title characters in the film \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\", played by Chris Hemsworth. Eric is a huntsman whose wife, Sara, was seemingly killed while he was fighting in a war. After Snow White escapes into the Dark Forest, Queen Ravenna and her brother Finn make a bargain with Eric the Huntsman to capture Snow White, promising to bring his wife back to life in exchange. The Huntsman tracks down Snow White, but when Finn reveals that Ravenna does not actually have the power to",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.69,
"text": "offer. The role was then apparently offered to Michael Fassbender, and then Johnny Depp, but both claim to have declined it. Viggo Mortensen was said to have been in negotiations with Universal for the part, but supposedly turned down the role, too. It was claimed that Hugh Jackman was offered the role, but that he declined. In 2011, \"\"Thor\"\" star Chris Hemsworth was eventually cast in the role of the Huntsman. The Dwarfs were played by actors of average height who had their faces digitally superimposed onto small bodies. This caused a protest from the Little People of America. Principal",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.67,
"text": "and orders her to flee as far away from the kingdom as she can. The Huntsman appears in the first season of \"\"Once Upon a Time\"\" played by Jamie Dornan. The Huntsman is a nameless hunter who is a solitary recluse, raised by wolves. He considers the wolves to be his true family, and is greatly saddened by the deaths of animals. He is considered by the Evil Queen Regina the perfect assassin, and is hired to kill Snow White, though he spares her for selflessness. When he offers the Queen a stag's heart instead, she realizes she has been",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "casting a lesser-known actress for the role of Snow White, with mention of Riley Keough, Felicity Jones, Bella Heathcote, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Maxwell as possible picks. This idea became less likely as known actresses Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart were later rumored to be short-listed for the role. On March 4, 2011 a series of tweets from co-producer Palak Patel confirmed that Stewart was offered the role. Winona Ryder was initially considered to play Queen Ravenna, before the role went to Charlize Theron. Tom Hardy was supposedly first offered the role of Eric, the Huntsman, but turned down the",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "Meanwhile, Finn gathers another band of men to find her, and the Duke and his son William learn that she is alive. William leaves the castle on his own to find her, joining Finn's band as a bowman. The Huntsman and Snow White leave the Dark Forest, where she saves his life by charming a huge troll that attacks them. They make their way to a fishing village populated by women who have disfigured themselves to make themselves useless to the Queen. While there, the Huntsman learns Snow White's true identity, and initially leaves her in the care of the",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.05,
"text": "his fellow \"\"Bill\"\" cast members Russell Boulter and Huw Higginson. Wingett's partner is Sharon Martin, a makeup artist. They have a daughter, Jamila, and a stepson Benny from Martin's previous relationship. The couple separated in 2000 after Yvonne Williams, a fire-eater who had appeared on \"\"The Bill\"\" as an extra, went to the press detailing her affair with Wingett over a number of years., but had reconciled by 2003 after a two-year separation. They both worked on the 2012 film \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\", with Martin as head of the makeup department and Wingett playing the character of Thomas.",
"title": "Mark Wingett"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21,
"text": "Snow White. The cast includes Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, and Bob Hoskins in his final film performance. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Costume Design at the 85th Academy Awards. It was a success at the box office, earning $396.6 million worldwide against a $170 million budget. Although critics praised the production design, visual effects, Theron and Hemsworth's performances, musical score, and action sequences; Stewart and Claflin's performances received mixed reviews, and the screenplay was heavily criticized. A prequel/sequel, titled \"\"\"\", directed by the first film's visual effects supervisor",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.94,
"text": "the Evil Queen to eliminate Snow White. This plan fails when Snow White's friend Klaus buys Snow White enough time to get away. When the Huntsman goes after Snow White, he is attacked by a wild boar and knocked off the cliff into the forest below. In the four-part comic \"\"Muppet Snow White\"\" as part of \"\"The Muppet Show\"\" comics, the Huntsman is played by Sweetums. The Evil Queen (played by Miss Piggy) orders the Huntsman to kill Snow White (played by Spamela Hamderson). But the Huntsman refuses to kill Snow White, tells her that the Queen wants her dead,",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.84,
"text": "do what she promised, the Huntsman fights him and his men while Snow White runs away. Throughout the film, Eric becomes Snow White's ally in the fight against Queen Ravenna. His allegiance slowly becomes both absolute (after finding himself smitten by the same purity in the princess that he loved in his wife) and resolute (after the revelation of the Queen's duplicity having been the cause of the death of his wife). The Huntsman is the title character in the film \"\"\"\" (which is a prequel to \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\"). Chris Hemsworth reprises his role as Eric the",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "her 'death' was staged by Freya, who used her magic to make Eric see Sara's death while Sara saw Eric apparently leave her behind. Eric is able to convince Sara of the deception, but Freya briefly uses the mirror to resurrect Ravenna, only for Freya to assist her huntsmen in killing Ravenna when she learns that her sister was responsible for the death of her baby daughter. In \"\"Ever After High\"\", the character Hunter Huntsman (voiced by Grant George) is the son of the Huntsman. Huntsman (Snow White) The Huntsman is a fictional character in \"\"Snow White\"\". When the Evil",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.69,
"text": "invading army upon the kingdom. Snow White's childhood friend William and his father, Duke Hammond, escape the castle but are unable to rescue her, and she is captured by Ravenna's brother Finn and locked away in the north tower of the castle for many years. Tabor is ruined under Queen Ravenna's rule as she periodically drains the youth from the kingdom's young women in order to maintain a spell, cast over her as a child by her mother, which allows her to keep her youthful beauty. When Snow White comes of age, Ravenna learns from her Magic Mirror that her",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "evil queen.\"\" Michael O'Sullivan of the \"\"Washington Post\"\" also gave the film a negative review: \"\"Overlong, overcrowded, overstimulating and with an over-the-top performance by Charlize Theron as the evil queen Ravenna, the movie is a virtual orchard of toxic excess, starting with the unnecessarily sprawling cast of characters.\"\" Lisa Kennedy of the \"\"Denver Post\"\" gave the film two out of four stars and said, \"\"Only Bob Hoskins as the blind seer Muir comes close to making us care. We can almost glean Snow White's heroic possibilities through his clouded eyes. As much as we'd like to, we certainly can't from",
"title": "Snow White and the Huntsman"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "White (Nicola Stapleton). When her magic mirror tells her that Snow White is now the fairest in the land, the Evil Queen orders a huntsman (Amnon Meskin) to take Snow White into the forest and kill her, and to bring back her liver as proof of her death. During a hunting trip, the huntsman succeeds in taking Snow White away from her father, but Snow White, realizing her stepmother's plan to destroy her, manages to escape into the forest where she finds a cottage belonging to seven kindly dwarfs - Iddy, Biddy, Kiddy, Diddy, Fiddy, Giddy and Liddy - who",
"title": "Snow White (1987 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "killing her and Snow White sees that it wears a necklace with a moon charm on it similar to the one the Queen wears. She cuts the chain with her father's dagger and the Beast suddenly becomes engulfed in light. The Beast turns out to be Snow White's father who has no memory of the last ten years. Grateful to Prince Alcott for his assistance, the King agrees to let him marry Snow White. In \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\", the King is known and named as King Magnus and is portrayed by Noah Huntley. King Magnus ruled the Kingdom",
"title": "King (Snow White)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.31,
"text": "Snow White and the Prince are married. In the 2012 adaptation \"\"Snow White and the Huntsman\"\", directed by Rupert Sanders, Snow White becomes a warrior in order to overthrow the Evil Queen named Ravenna, and the huntsman named Eric is presented as her mentor and possible love interest. The movie \"\"Mirror Mirror\"\" has the queen (Julia Roberts) surviving, but she is hopelessly haggard when she attends Snow White (Lily Collins)’s wedding. The 2007 Disney movie \"\"Enchanted\"\" features a character named Giselle (Amy Adams) who is loosely based on Snow White (poisoned apple), Sleeping Beauty (fighting a dragon), and Cinderella (losing",
"title": "Snow White"
}
] |
who was the first indian to win a grammy award for his performance titled east meets west? | [
"Ravi Shankar"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "chart (later the \"\"Billboard\"\" 200), where it peaked at number 161. In February 1968, the album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, the first time that an Asian musician had won a Grammy. This recognition coincided with a period of heightened interest in Indian classical music, and particularly Shankar,<ref name=\"\"Hunt/Ravi AM\"\">Ken Hunt, \"\"Ravi Shankar\"\", AllMusic (retrieved 1 December 2013).</ref> as Western pop and rock bands such as the Beatles, the Byrds, the Rolling Stones and Traffic all adopted sitar or other aspects of the genre into their sound. In July 1968, Angel Records announced that \"\"West",
"title": "West Meets East"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "originally called \"\"East Meets West\"\", according to author Peter Lavezzoli; \"\"Messenger Out of the East\"\" was an alternative working title. The first of these titles referenced \"\"West Meets East\"\", Shankar's 1966 album with American violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and the winner of the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Much of \"\"Raga\"\" was shot during the first half of 1968 in India, particularly Bombay, home to Shankar's Kinnara School of Music since 1963. Among the scenes filmed in India, Shankar directs musicians such as Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Kartick Kumar in a Bombay studio and, in a scene",
"title": "Raga (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "Peter Feuchtwanger's attempt to adapt the same raga. Later in 1966, on Menuhin and Shankar's Grammy Award-winning album \"\"West Meets East\"\", Barham supplied liner notes, explaining the various musical terms particular to Indian music. He served as musical annotator on several subsequent East–West collaborations by Shankar, who described him as \"\"a brilliant young pianist\"\". One such project was Shankar's score for \"\"Alice in Wonderland\"\" (1966),<ref name=\"\"Wall/Mojo Special\"\">Alan Clayson, \"\"Off the Wall\"\", in \"\"Mojo: The Beatles' Final Years\"\", p. 50.</ref> a BBC TV film directed by Jonathan Miller. During this period, Barham met George Harrison of the Beatles through Shankar, who",
"title": "John Barham"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "West Meets East, Volume 2 West Meets East, Volume 2 is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968. It is the second album in a trilogy of collaborations between the two artists, after the Grammy Award-winning \"\"West Meets East\"\" (1967).<ref name=\"\"Massey/Shankar obit\"\">Reginald Massey, \"\"Ravi Shankar obituary\"\", \"\"The Guardian\"\", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 3 December 2013).</ref> The release followed Menuhin and Shankar's duet on 10 December 1967 at the United Nations in New York, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As part of his utopian ideal, international",
"title": "West Meets East, Volume 2"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "into the home and musical genius of Ravi Shankar. East Meets West Music: The Living Room Sessions Part 1 \"\"Released: 2013.\"\" No less noteworthy and masterly, then its predecessor The 2013 Grammy winning Living Room Sessions Part 1, with three of the last session recording made by Maestro Ravi Shankar before his passing in December 2012. Session Mishra Kafi introduces the set with a beautiful Alaap and Gat in medium tempo Deepchandi Taal. Session Sindhi Bhairavi, with its Gat in Dadra and Teen Taal, highlights in the in-depth facility with rhythm and improvisational flow which he and Bose have built",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.73,
"text": "human rights was a cause long supported by Menuhin in his work, while for Indian classical music, this Human Rights Day recital marked the first time that a performance had received a worldwide television broadcast. Reflecting the celebrity status afforded the sitarist during this period, particularly as a result of his association with George Harrison of the Beatles, Shankar's activities were filmed for a documentary on his life, released as \"\"Raga\"\" in 1971, and his autobiography \"\"My Music, My Life\"\" (1968) became a bestseller. Although \"\"West Meets East, Volume 2\"\" was another popular success for Menuhin and Shankar, their work",
"title": "West Meets East, Volume 2"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "An East Meets West Music Series Celebrating the life, music and legacy of Ravi Shankar, featuring musicians and students inspired by the Maestro and who continue his mission of Peace through Music. The first two installments include Arghyam - The Offering by world-renowned classical Hindustani vocalist in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharan Tradition, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and Raga & Raj, a set of daring experimental compositions by Barry Phillips - a long time student of Ravi Shankar - Linda Burman-Hall harpsichordists extraordinaire with Lux Musica Ensemble! \"\"Released: 2013.\"\" Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, world-renowned classical Hindustani vocalist in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana tradition, pays loving",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.52,
"text": "featuring Ravi Shankar's earliest compositional experimentations with his National Orchestra between 1950 and 1954. The orchestra consisted of many of the finest Indian Musicians of the period, and in these recordings one senses the excitement Ravi felt at having such resources at his disposal. Not only was Ravi inspired by the players to experiment with the orchestration, but he enjoyed the freedom to explore both North and South Indian systems, as well as use some Western technique. Ravi also maintained his natural inclination for improvisation by recording usually within an hour or two completing the composition. \"\"Released: 2010.\"\" EMWMusic released",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.5,
"text": "duet in New York, which was the first recital of Indian classical music to be broadcast globally. Chakravarty subsequently contributed to the recording of the same piece, \"\"Raga Piloo\"\", for Menuhin and Shankar's album \"\"West Meets East, Volume 2\"\" (1968). Also over 1967–68, she participated in filming for the \"\"Raga\"\" documentary (1971), appearing in footage of Shankar's performances from the period and as his companion in off-stage scenes filmed at the Monterey festival and (with Lakshmi) at the Los Angeles branch of his Kinnara School. Among other Shankar albums, she plays tambura on \"\"In San Francisco\"\" (1967) and \"\"Transmigration Macabre\"\"",
"title": "Kamala Chakravarty"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.27,
"text": "West Meets East West Meets East is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in Britain in January 1967. It was recorded following their successful duet in June 1966 at the Bath Musical Festival, where they had played some of the same material. The album was issued in America on EMI's Angel Records imprint in June 1967. \"\"West Meets East\"\" was number 1 on \"\"Billboard\"\"s Best Selling Classical LP's list for eighteen weeks in 1967 and continued to top that chart through January the following year. It also placed on the mainstream national",
"title": "West Meets East"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.25,
"text": "Meets East\"\" was the fastest selling LP in the history of the label. The album was the first in a trilogy of \"\"West Meets East\"\" collaborations by Menuhin and Shankar,<ref name=\"\"Massey/Shankar obit\"\">Reginald Massey, \"\"Ravi Shankar obituary\"\", \"\"The Guardian\"\", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 1 December 2013).</ref> volumes two and three appearing in 1968 and 1976, respectively. The friendship between the two musicians had begun in India in the early 1950s, after which Menuhin had done much to introduce Western audiences to Indian music. On the recording, the main performers are accompanied at various points by tabla player Alla Rakha; Menuhin's sister,",
"title": "West Meets East"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.17,
"text": "the \"\"Billboard\"\" 200), the highest placing Shankar ever achieved on that chart, and reached number 20 on the same magazine's Jazz Albums list. This success coincided with Shankar's continued run at number 1 on \"\"Billboard\"\"s Best Selling Classical LP's, with \"\"West Meets East\"\"; in addition, the magazine honoured him as its Artist of the Year for 1967, the first time that an Indian musician had received such an award. \"\"Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival\"\" was issued on CD in October 1998, on EMI's Angel label. AllMusic's reviewer admires the performance as \"\"finely wrought, intense and hypnotic,",
"title": "Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20,
"text": "triumphs and challenges of this type of cross-cultural exchange and reminding us of Ravi Shankar's musical mission and life's work: Peace through Music. East Meets West Music: UTSAV Series! Raga & Raj \"\"Released: 2012.\"\" In October 2011, at the age of 91, Ravi Shankar invited his long time-tabla accompanist, Tanmoy Bose, to his home in Encinitas, California for an informal recording session. Over four days in Shankar's living room, the recorded seven different Ragas. The resulting music is pure Ravi Shankar, combining his deep musical experience and brilliant technique with the passion he brings to live performance. The first two",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20,
"text": "tribute to the Maestro, Ravi Shankar. This recording features four Ravi Shankar ragas, performed by Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and overlaid with her lyrical bandishes, as well as one original raga by Ashwini Bhide Deshpande. The Selections, both intricate and soaring, feature the talents of Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, who Shankar recognized during his lifetime as a vocalist blessed with both a beautiful voice and the scholarship retain the spirit of the tradition. East Meets West Music: UTSAV Series! Arghyam - The Offering \"\"Released: 2013.\"\" Celebrating Ravi Shankar's life and musical legacy of East-Meets-West cultural exchange, Barry Phillips, Linda Burman-Hall and Lux",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "Europe as part of Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India, the first Indian orchestra to play in Europe. Her contributions, on tambura and as a backing singer, also appeared on the Music Festival's studio album, recorded in England at Harrison's Friar Park and released in 1976. That same year, Chakravarty participated in the recording of the third volume of Shankar and Menuhin's West Meets East series, issued in 1977. The album included \"\"Morning Love\"\", featuring Shankar and French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal backed by Rakha and Chakravarty – a piece that Shankar later named as a favourite among his various collaborative",
"title": "Kamala Chakravarty"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.94,
"text": "Jai Uttal Jai Uttal (born June 12, 1951) is an American musician. He is a Grammy-nominated singer and “a pioneer in the world music community with his eclectic East-meets-West sound.” He is a “sacred music composer, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist, [who] combines influences from India with American rock and jazz to create a stimulating and exotic multicultural fusion that is truly world spirit music.” Uttal grew up in New York City and lived in a home filled with music: “He began studying classical piano at the age of seven, and later learned to play old time banjo, harmonica,",
"title": "Jai Uttal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.92,
"text": "performed a well-received set at the Monterey Pop Festival. While complimentary of the talents of several of the rock artists at the festival, he said he was \"\"horrified\"\" to see Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage: \"\"That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.\"\" Shankar's peaked at number 43 on \"\"Billboard\"\"s pop LPs chart in the US, which remains the highest placing he achieved on that chart. Shankar won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for \"\"West Meets East\"\", a collaboration",
"title": "Ravi Shankar"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "for the first time on DVD the 1971 documentary film \"\"Raga: A Film Journey into the Soul of India\"\". Directed by Howard Worth, \"\"Raga\"\" was released by Apple Films through the support of Shankar's friend George Harrison. The DVD release features a digitally remastered 35mm print optimized to modern color-range resolution and standard, and a fully remastered audio soundtrack. East Meets West Music: RAGA East Meets West Music East Meets West Music is the official recording label of the Ravi Shankar Foundation. With access to the sitar master's personal archive of thousands of hours of live performance audio, film footage,",
"title": "East Meets West Music"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "together drew further criticism from purists in India, who considered that Shankar was westernising and thus diluting Indian classical music. The follow-up to \"\"West Meets East\"\" was announced in February 1968, when \"\"Billboard\"\" magazine reported that Menuhin and Shankar had been recording new material together at Angel Records' New York studios. While their first album continued to top that magazine's Best Selling Classical LP's listings, Shankar had also achieved mainstream success with the recently released \"\"\"\", which peaked at number 43 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Top LP's chart – the highest US chart placing he would achieve throughout his career. Angel",
"title": "West Meets East, Volume 2"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.72,
"text": "concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany. The \"\"Raga Piloo\"\" was originally composed, performed and recorded by Ravi Shankar as a duet with Yehudi Menuhin on the album \"\"West Meets East, Volume 2\"\" in 1968. Shankar has also ventured into acting (\"\"Dance Like a Man\"\", (2004)) and writing. She wrote a biography of her father, \"\"\"\", in 2002 and has contributed to various books. As a columnist she wrote monthly columns for India's \"\"First City Magazine\"\" for three years, and spent one year as a weekly columnist for India's largest newspaper, the \"\"Hindustan Times\"\". On 29 November 2002, Shankar was the featured",
"title": "Anoushka Shankar"
}
] |
how many episodes on queen of the south season 1? | [
"13"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "and later from within Canada and the United Kingdom. South Park (season 1) The first season of the animated television series \"\"South Park\"\" ran for 13 episodes from August 13, 1997 to February 25, 1998 on the American network Comedy Central. The creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote most of the season's episodes; Dan Sterling, Philip Stark and David Goodman were credited with writing five episodes. The narrative revolves around four children—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick—and their unusual experiences in the titular mountain town. \"\"South Park\"\" originated from Parker and Stone's 1992 animated short, \"\"Jesus",
"title": "South Park (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "South Park (season 1) The first season of the animated television series \"\"South Park\"\" ran for 13 episodes from August 13, 1997 to February 25, 1998 on the American network Comedy Central. The creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote most of the season's episodes; Dan Sterling, Philip Stark and David Goodman were credited with writing five episodes. The narrative revolves around four children—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick—and their unusual experiences in the titular mountain town. \"\"South Park\"\" originated from Parker and Stone's 1992 animated short, \"\"Jesus vs. Frosty\"\". The low-budget, crudely made film featured prototypes",
"title": "South Park (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "to write another script before signing off on at least six episodes, the executives agreed to commit to a series. Comedy Central originally ordered only these six episodes, but when the show proved successful, they requested an additional seven, which Parker and Stone had to produce quickly. \"\"Pinkeye\"\", the first of these new episodes, would air on October 29, 1997, only two and a half months after the show's premiere. There were three holiday episodes—\"\"Pinkeye\"\", \"\"Starvin' Marvin\"\" and \"\"Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo\"\"—which aired at intervals of three weeks, while the remaining four aired later in February 1998. \"\"Cartman Gets",
"title": "South Park (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.53,
"text": "October 1, 2018, it was announced that the USA Network had renewed the series for a fourth season. \"\"Queen of the South\"\" first season received mixed to positive feedback from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 69%, based on 16 reviews. The site's consensus reads: \"\"\"\"Queen of the South\"\" enlivens an overdone premise with action and narrative vigor—and shows hints of intriguing potential.\"\" On Metacritic, the first season scored 59 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating \"\"mixed or average reviews\"\". Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on Showcase on August 4, 2016. German TV channel",
"title": "Queen of the South (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.23,
"text": "Producers Guild of America for the most promising producers in television. Six episodes—\"\"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe\"\", \"\"Weight Gain 4000\"\", \"\"Volcano\"\", \"\"Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride\"\", \"\"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig\"\" and \"\"Death\"\"—were released in a three-VHS set on May 5, 1998, marking the first time \"\"South Park\"\" was made available on video. The first DVD releases came later that year, when the first Thirteen episodes were released by Warner Home Video on October 27 on the compilation collections \"\"South Park, Volume 1\"\", \"\"Volume 2\"\" and \"\"Volume 3\"\". The last episode of the season \"\"Cartman's Mom",
"title": "South Park (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.03,
"text": "of \"\"South Park\"\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main characters and was followed in 1995 by another short film, \"\"Jesus vs. Santa\"\". The latter became popular and was widely shared over the Internet, which led to talks for a series with representatives from Fox Network and Comedy Central. It debuted on the latter with an initial run of six episodes; due to its success, an additional seven episodes were quickly produced. The complete season was released on DVD in November 2002. The first season was a ratings success for Comedy Central. The Nielsen ratings rose from 1.3 to 6.4 from the first to the tenth",
"title": "South Park (season 1)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "Queen of Mystery 2 Queen of Mystery 2 () is a South Korean television series starring Choi Kang-hee and Kwon Sang-woo. It aired on KBS2 from February 28 to April 19, 2018 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) for 16 episodes. Housewife-turned-investigator Seol-ok and passionate detective Wan-seung collaborate to solve mysterious cases and cure the hearts of those who were wounded by crimes along the way. \"\"Queen of Mystery\"\" Season 2 is a drama that digs into the inside details of daily crimes realistically about a murder next door and sexual assault crime that happened in a blind alley",
"title": "Queen of Mystery 2"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.88,
"text": "Reign (season 1) The first season of \"\"Reign\"\", an American historical fantasy romance television series, consists of 22 episodes that aired on The CW between October 17, 2013, and May 15, 2014. The series follows the early exploits of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was created by Stephanie SenGupta and Laurie McCarthy. The season opens in 1557, with Mary living in the French court and awaiting her marriage to Prince Francis, to whom she has been engaged since they were six. Mary has to contend with changing politics and power plays, as well as her burgeoning feelings for Francis and",
"title": "Reign (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "last night instead of dealing with a psychopath or notorious serial killer, etc. Queen of Mystery 2 Queen of Mystery 2 () is a South Korean television series starring Choi Kang-hee and Kwon Sang-woo. It aired on KBS2 from February 28 to April 19, 2018 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) for 16 episodes. Housewife-turned-investigator Seol-ok and passionate detective Wan-seung collaborate to solve mysterious cases and cure the hearts of those who were wounded by crimes along the way. \"\"Queen of Mystery\"\" Season 2 is a drama that digs into the inside details of daily crimes realistically about a",
"title": "Queen of Mystery 2"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.61,
"text": "Queen of Mystery Queen of Mystery () is a South Korean television series starring Choi Kang-hee, Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Won-keun and Shin Hyun-bin. It aired on KBS2 from April 5 to May 25, 2017 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) for 16 episodes. The drama centres on a prosecutor's wife, Yoo Seol-ok (Choi Kang-hee), who has always wanted to become a police officer. One day, she gets to know a passionate detective Ha Wan-seung (Kwon Sang-woo) and he gives her an opportunity to make her dream come true. They start working on mysterious cases together. The series is based",
"title": "Queen of Mystery"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.59,
"text": "deal. It consisted of fourteen 22-minute episodes, which aired in two groups of seven episodes separated by a six-month gap. Prior to the season's premiere, all \"\"South Park\"\" episodes were made available for free viewing on the official series website, \"\"South Park Studios\"\". The 13th season was the first to be broadcast in high definition and in widescreen. Continuing their practice from previous seasons, Parker and Stone wrote and produced each episode within the week before its broadcast date. The 13th season satirized such topics as the ACORN scandal, Japanese whaling, piracy in Somalia and the marketing tactics of The",
"title": "South Park (season 13)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.59,
"text": "series continually maintained high ratings throughout the season. The season consists of 10 episodes, as series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to scale back and have one uninterrupted season, as opposed to two 7-episode runs, as had been the format since Season 8. Bill Hader, a former \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\" cast member, began working full-time on the show as a staff writer. Due to a power outage at the studio, episode 4 (\"\"Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers\"\") missed the deadline and aired a week later than scheduled. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> South Park (season 17) The seventeenth season of",
"title": "South Park (season 17)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.55,
"text": "second 18-episode season, which ran from 1995 to 1996. The show was once again shown on CBS in late 1995 after many fall shows had failed (CBS ordered an additional five episodes but broadcast only four of them), but CBS did not renew the series. After a one-year hiatus, CTV revived the series in 1997 with international investment (from the BBC, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, and TF1), and it ran for two further seasons, until 1999. In the United States, seasons three and four were packaged together as a single 26-episode season for syndication. Despite critical acclaim and a consistently warm",
"title": "Due South"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.48,
"text": "It consisted of fourteen 22-minute episodes, which aired in two groups of seven episodes separated by a six-month gap. Continuing their practice from previous seasons, Parker and Stone wrote and produced each episode within the week before its broadcast date. Parker was the director and writer for all episodes in the fourteenth season. The season lampooned various topics, including the legalization of medical marijuana and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The season also parodied various cultural touchstones, such as \"\"The Catcher in the Rye\"\", \"\"Tron\"\", Facebook, \"\"Jersey Shore\"\", \"\"Hoarders\"\", and \"\"Inception\"\". The parody of celebrities, a \"\"South Park\"\" tradition, continued",
"title": "South Park (season 14)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.41,
"text": "were each to consist of 14 episodes. Stone said of the announcement, \"\"Three more years of \"\"South Park\"\" will give us the opportunity to offend that many more people.\"\" Parker and Stone also announced they would partner with Comedy Central to create a Los Angeles–based digital animation studio called South Park Digital Studios, which would serve as the center for all digital extensions of the \"\"South Park\"\" franchise and other animated projects. Prior to the broadcast of the 13th season, Parker and Stone made every episode from the previous 12 seasons of \"\"South Park\"\" available for free viewing on the",
"title": "South Park (season 13)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.41,
"text": "as his assistant. Seven new players were acquired in the January transfer 'window'. Queens went on a run, losing only once at home since November and collecting 23 points from their last 12 games. It secured its First Division survival with a 1–1 draw at Brechin City on 22 April 2006. A poor start to the 2006–07 campaign saw the Dumfries side bottom of the league after 21 games. Inspired by the goals of January transfer window signing Stephen Dobbie, a twelve match unbeaten run led to the side avoiding relegation in the penultimate game of the season. A Scottish",
"title": "History of Queen of the South F.C."
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.39,
"text": "Queen of the South (TV series) Queen of the South is an American television crime drama series. It premiered on June 23, 2016, on USA Network and is an adaptation of the telenovela \"\"La Reina del Sur\"\", which airs on USA's sister network Telemundo, and is in turn is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. On September 6, 2016, USA Network renewed the series for a second season which premiered June 8, 2017. On August 10, 2017, USA renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on June 21, 2018. On",
"title": "Queen of the South (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.34,
"text": "Nowhere\"\" for a third season, and 16 episodes had been ordered. Eight episodes aired from August 10, 2007 to September 21, 2007. On February 27, 2008, it was officially announced on the N'sider podcast that \"\"South of Nowhere\"\" was to be canceled after the end of season 3. On February 28, an official announcement was made at the show's website that this will be the last season. Promos began airing in March 2008 stating the show would be returning April 11. However, on March 21, it was announced that the final half of the third season had been pushed back",
"title": "South of Nowhere"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.3,
"text": "South Park (season 20) The twentieth season of the American animated sitcom \"\"South Park\"\" premiered on Comedy Central on September 14, 2016 and ended on December 7, 2016, containing ten episodes. As with most seasons of the show, all episodes are written and directed by series co-creator and co-star Trey Parker. Like the previous two seasons, this season features an episode-to-episode continuity, but unlike the previous two, the continuity is more linear, as if the whole season is one story arc. This season featured recurring themes focusing on Internet trolls, nostalgia, and the 2016 United States presidential election. This season",
"title": "South Park (season 20)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.28,
"text": "South Park (season 18) The eighteenth season of the American animated sitcom \"\"South Park\"\" premiered on Comedy Central on September 24, 2014 with \"\"Go Fund Yourself\"\", and ended with \"\"#HappyHolograms\"\" on December 10, 2014, with a total of ten episodes. The season featured serial elements and recurring story lines, which \"\"The A.V. Club\"\" noted as an experimentation with episode-to-episode continuity, in which the episodes \"\"explore the consequences of the boys' actions [week to week], allowing the plots to be motivated in part by their attempts to dig themselves out of a hole\"\". As for most seasons of the show, all",
"title": "South Park (season 18)"
}
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who plays the voice of violet from the incredibles? | [
"Sarah Vowell"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.95,
"text": "Violet Parr Violet Parr is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's animated superhero film \"\"The Incredibles\"\" (2004) and its sequel \"\"Incredibles 2\"\" (2018). The eldest child of Bob and Helen Parr (Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl), Violet is born with the superhuman ability to render herself invisible, as well as generate force fields. Voiced by Sarah Vowell, Violet is a shy junior high school student who longs to fit in among her peers, a task she believes is hindered by her superpowers. Throughout the course of the films, Violet gradually matures and becomes more confident in herself as both a",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "of Violet unexpectedly, Bird wanted to cast Vowell as Violet after hearing her voice on the National Public Radio program, \"\"This American Life\"\". Bird stated that she was \"\"perfect\"\" for the part and immediately called her to offer her the role. \"\"The Incredibles\"\" is the first Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino. Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film's retrofuturistic design – the future as seen from the 1960s. John Barry was the first choice to do the film's score, with a trailer of the film given a rerecording of Barry's theme",
"title": "The Incredibles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.53,
"text": "her own hair.\"\" In addition to praising Pixar's decision to cast the \"\"unknown\"\" Vowell as Violet, Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend dubbed Violet his \"\"favorite character\"\" in \"\"The Incredibles\"\", praising her many \"\"goose-bump worthy moments as she starts to accept who she is.\"\" Commending the multidimensionality of the film's characters, Hollywood.com's Julia Emmanuele enjoyed the way in which audiences can \"\"understand how awkward and insecure being a teenager can be, even without the addition of superpowers.\"\" Vulture.com's Abraham Riesman described Vowell's voice acting as \"\"terrific\"\". In addition to praising Vowell's performance, Carla Meyer of the \"\"San Francisco Chronicle\"\" wrote that the",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.22,
"text": "actor Vowell recorded with while working on both films. The director would sometimes temporarily provide the voices of other characters for Vowell to act opposite of, such as Elastigirl in lieu of actress Holly Hunter. For \"\"Incredibles 2\"\", Vowell had not been allowed to read to entire script while recording her dialogue, having only been allowed to preview small excerpts in which Violet is speaking or having conversations with other characters. Until watching the film for the first time, Vowell had been under the impression that \"\"Incredibles 2\"\" would mostly be about Violet's anger at her father until experiencing the",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.02,
"text": "\"\"Incredibles 2\"\", in 2018. Additionally, Vowell has also lent her voice to the character for various related video games and \"\"Disney on Ice\"\" presentations in the years following the film's release. The makers of \"\"The Incredibles\"\" discovered Vowell from episode 81 – \"\"Guns\"\" \"\"This American Life\"\", where she and her father fire a homemade cannon. Pixar made a test animation for Violet using audio from that sequence, which was included on the DVD of \"\"The Incredibles\"\". She also wrote and was featured in a documentary included on the same DVD entitled \"\"Vowellett - An Essay by Sarah Vowell\"\", where she",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.02,
"text": "him afterward. Violet has made several appearances in other media, with Vowell returning to voice the character in various spin-offs and merchandise, including toys and cell phones. Violet also appears in several video games inspired by \"\"The Incredibles\"\". In the original 2004 video game based on the film, Violet appears mostly in stealth missions, using her invisibility to maneuver past guards and enemies unnoticed. The character's invisibility is limited by her Incredi-Meter, which can become greatly depleted by the use of her powers. In later levels, players can combine the powers of Violet and Dash to create the Incredi-Ball, in",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.72,
"text": "hands. Despite experiencing some hesitation due having never voiced an animated character before, Vowell accepted the role after receiving an e-mail from the film's producer, agreeing to participate in \"\"The Incredibles\"\" because she believes that Pixar is consistently \"\"the best at what they do\"\", comparing the offer to \"\"if Nelson Mandela showed up asking for your help to fight racism\"\". Additionally, she had also been a long-time fan of Bird's work as a filmmaker. Vowell ultimately decided to accept the role based on a sole image she had been sent of the character: a drawing of Violet surrounded by her",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "in me, and he’ll also be able to find the take that is the best one.\"\" Vowell stars in a documentary about her work in the film, \"\"Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell\"\", which is included as a bonus feature on \"\"The Incredibles\"\"' 2004 DVD release. In the \"\"video essay\"\", Vowell discusses the various differences between voicing a superhero and becoming an action figure while she was writing about presidential assassinations, contrasting the two distinct careers. The animators also animated Violet to some of Vowell's dialogue from the documentary. Bird, who voices costume designer Edna Mode, was the only other",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "eventually finds her own voice is one of the most moving aspects of the film.\"\" Similarly, The Playlist also ranked Vowell's performance 19th. The Cinemaholic ranked \"\"The Incredibles\"\" the third best film featuring invisible characters, with author Clarisse Tenreiro writing that Violet \"\"possesses perhaps the coolest power of\"\" the film's characters. In 2017, Violet served as inspiration behind the BBC article \"\"Can a 'superpower force field' protect us from hackers?\"\", in which technology writer Matthew Wall likened cybersecurity firm Bromium anti-malware software to the character's abilities several times. Violet Parr Violet Parr is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.52,
"text": "a reputation for declining several voice acting jobs prior to \"\"The Incredibles\"\", to the point at which her agent warned Bird, \"\"She's a serious writer and she wouldn't do this, so don't waste your time!\"\" However, Vowell states that she simply avoided pursuing animated roles in general because she was content being a writer and found few animated projects particularly interesting prior to \"\"The Incredibles\"\". The animators animated a rough test sequence to some of Vowell's dialogue from the radio segment about her father's cannon, in which Violet is depicted being startled by a gun that repeatedly fires in her",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "voiced Mikaela Banes in the \"\"Transformers\"\" film franchise, Violet Parr in \"\"The Incredibles\"\" and \"\"Incredibles 2\"\" and Gretchen Ross in \"\"Donnie Darko\"\". Alessia Amendola Alessia Amendola (born February 27, 1984) is an Italian voice actress. Born in Rome, Amendola is the daughter of actor Claudio Amendola and the granddaughter of voice actors Ferruccio Amendola and Rita Savagnone. Amendola started her career at quite a young age. She is the official Italian voice actress of Lindsay Lohan, Kat Dennings, Megan Fox, Amber Tamblyn, Ellen Page, Michelle Trachtenberg and Danielle Panabaker. Some of her well known Italian dubbed television roles include Max",
"title": "Alessia Amendola"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "Live Tour 2006). This album also received a Platinum certification in France, because it sold over 470,000 copies. That same year, Lorie voiced the character Violette in the French version of the Academy Award-winning animated film “The Incredibles”. On 26 November 2007, Lorie’s fifth studio album \"\"2lor en moi?\"\" was released; it was the singer's most mature album and it is clear that the album’s sound is influenced by Tecktonik, the then-new dance. The first single from the album “Je vais vite” showcases Lorie’s musical and personal evolution. Its follow-up “Play”, featuring back vocals by her fiancé Garou, was a",
"title": "Lorie (singer)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "following reshoots. Giacchino then scored another Marvel Studios film, 2017's \"\"\"\". Giacchino returned to Pixar to score \"\"Incredibles 2\"\" (2018). In addition to his long list of soundtracks, in 2005 Giacchino collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for the updated versions of Space Mountain at Disneyland, at Disneyland Paris, and Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland. Giacchino was also contracted by Sarah Vowell, who played character Violet in \"\"The Incredibles\"\", to compose the score to the audio version of her book \"\"Assassination Vacation\"\". Michael Giacchino's music can also be heard in \"\"\"\" during the \"\"travel log",
"title": "Michael Giacchino"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.58,
"text": "film's other storylines and characters. Despite 14 years separating the releases of the first and second films, Vowell did not find resuming the role to be difficult, identifying Violet as a character to whom she feels \"\"closely tied\"\", having played her for approximately one-third of her life. Syfy Wire's Heather Mason observed that Vowell shares her dry sense of humor with Violet. To-date, the \"\"Incredibles\"\" films remain Vowell's only animated film roles. Bird had always been more interested in developing the personalities of the film's main characters than their superpowers. When it came time to determine the Parr family's powers,",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "common with actress Thora Birch's character Enid in the film \"\"Ghost World\"\" (2001) than most teenage girls. Observing that Bird approached the character designs in a manner that is \"\"less cute\"\" and more edgy than previous Pixar characters, Jeff Otto of IGN likened Violet to the goth teenager Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) from the film \"\"Beetlejuice\"\" (1988). In \"\"Incredibles 2\"\", female characters contribute a more central role to the plot, with Todd McCarthy of \"\"The Hollywood Reporter\"\" observing that Violet has begun \"\"to spread her wings\"\". However, she remains an awkward teenage girl \"\"with the power to make herself invisible",
"title": "Violet Parr"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "Sarah Vowell Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. Often referred to as a \"\"social observer,\"\" Vowell has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. She was a contributing editor for the radio program \"\"This American Life\"\" on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program's live shows. She was also the voice of Violet Parr in the animated film \"\"The Incredibles\"\" and its 2018 sequel. Vowell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma,",
"title": "Sarah Vowell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.38,
"text": "the children's literacy centers 826NYC, 826CHI, 826 Valencia, 826LA, 826 Michigan, and 826 Seattle. Vowell also provided commentary in Robert Wuhl's 2005 \"\"Assume the Position\"\" HBO specials. Vowell's first book, which had radio as its central subject, caught the attention of \"\"This American Life\"\" host Ira Glass, and it led to Vowell becoming a frequent contributor to the show. Many of Vowell's essays have had their genesis as segments on the show. In 2004, Vowell provided the voice of Violet Parr, a shy teenager, in the Pixar animated film \"\"The Incredibles\"\", and returned to her role for the film's sequel,",
"title": "Sarah Vowell"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "in the pouring rain; during the closing credits. 5 also appears, but is silent. This is also the first Peanuts special to not feature Tracy Stratford as Lucy van Pelt, she has been replaced with Sally Dryer, who previously voiced Violet in the previous special. This is also the first special where Karen Mendelson voices Violet. A book about the show came out around the time show premiered. In the book, Charlie Brown just goes up to the team and said the whole simple \"\"we don't need them\"\" line, then turns and walks away as the whole team heaps verbal",
"title": "Charlie Brown's All Stars!"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.8,
"text": "The Incredibles (video game) The Incredibles is a video game based on the film \"\"The Incredibles\"\", released in by THQ for mobile phones, OS X, Microsoft Windows, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Boy Advance. The game's music was composed by Michael Giacchino, who also scored the film. Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone/Lucius Best), Spencer Fox (Dash), Sarah Vowell (Violet), and Jason Lee (young Buddy Pine; Syndrome is absent from the game on the console and PC versions aside from scenes directly taken from the film) are the only actors to reprise their roles from the film, with the rest of",
"title": "The Incredibles (video game)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.75,
"text": "\"\"the extra challenge of an unformed performer.\"\" Producer Nicole Paradis Grindle agreed that Vowell \"\"genuinely thinks the way Brad [Bird] wants Violet to think\"\", which contribute to her deliveries being \"\"spot-on\"\". Despite her success, Vowell maintains that she is not an actress, describing herself as merely \"\"a writer moonlighting\"\" as an actress for \"\"The Incredibles\"\" and insisting that she would be \"\"mortified\"\" if she were required to act in the presence of anyone apart from Bird, whose directing she trusts greatly, explaining, \"\"I trust that he’ll be able to find something in me or he’ll be able to inspire something",
"title": "Violet Parr"
}
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the chemiosmotic theory for energy conservation in mitochondria and chloroplasts was proposed by? | [
"Peter Mitchell"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "major triumphs of bioenergetics is Peter D. Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory of how protons in aqueous solution function in the production of ATP in cell organelles such as mitochondria. This work earned Mitchell the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Other cellular sources of ATP such as glycolysis were understood first, but such processes for direct coupling of enzyme activity to ATP production are not the major source of useful chemical energy in most cells. Chemiosmotic coupling is the major energy producing process in most cells, being utilized in chloroplasts and several single celled organisms in addition to mitochondria. Energy homeostasis is",
"title": "Bioenergetics"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.53,
"text": "chemiosmotic hypothesis in 1961. The theory suggests essentially that most adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis in respiring cells comes from the electrochemical gradient across the inner membranes of mitochondria by using the energy of NADH and FADH formed from the breaking down of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. Molecules such as glucose are metabolized to produce acetyl CoA as an energy-rich intermediate. The oxidation of acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) in the mitochondrial matrix is coupled to the reduction of a carrier molecule such as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). The carriers pass electrons to the electron transport",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "is important for ATP production in mitochondria, chloroplasts and many bacteria and archaea. The movement of ions across the membrane depends on a combination of two factors: These two gradients taken together can be expressed as an electrochemical gradient. Lipid bilayers of biological membranes, however, are barriers for ions. This is why energy can be stored as a combination of these two gradients across the membrane. Only special membrane proteins like ion channels can sometimes allow ions to move across the membrane (see also: Membrane transport). In chemiosmotic theory transmembrane ATP synthases are very important. They convert energy of spontaneous",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "is the enzyme that makes ATP by chemiosmosis. It allows protons to pass through the membrane and uses the free energy difference to phosphorylate adenosine diphosphate (ADP), making ATP. The generation of ATP by chemiosmosis occurs in mitochondria and chloroplasts, as well as in most bacteria and archaea, an electron transport chain pumps H+ ions in the thylakoid spaces through thylakoid membranes. The energy from the electron movement through electron transport chains cross through ATP synthase which allows the proton to pass through them and use this free energy difference to photophosphorylate ADP making ATP. Peter D. Mitchell proposed the",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.14,
"text": "the Calvin Cycle). Bacteria and archaea also can use chemiosmosis to generate ATP. Cyanobacteria, green sulfur bacteria, and purple bacteria synthesize ATP by a process called photophosphorylation. These bacteria use the energy of light to create a proton gradient using a photosynthetic electron transport chain. Non-photosynthetic bacteria such as \"\"E. coli\"\" also contain ATP synthase. In fact, mitochondria and chloroplasts are the product of endosymbiosis and trace back to incorporated prokaryotes. This process is described in the endosymbiotic theory. The origin of the mitochondrion triggered the origin of eukaryotes, and the origin of the plastid the origin of the Archaeplastida,",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.12,
"text": "or the stroma of a chloroplast. A steep H gradient is formed, which allows chemiosmosis to occur, where the thylakoid, transmenbrane ATP-synthase serves a dual function as a \"\"gate\"\" or channel for H ions and a catalytic site for the formation of ATP from ADP + a PO ion. Experiments have shown that the pH within the stroma is about 7.8, while that of the lumen of the thylakoid is 5. This corresponds to a six-hundredfold difference in concentration of H ions. The H ions pass down through the ATP-synthase catalytic gate. This chemiosmotic phenomenon also occurs in mitochondria. Chloroplast",
"title": "Chloroplast membrane"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.02,
"text": "the membrane, often expressed as the proton-motive force (PMF). In mitochondria, the PMF is almost entirely made up of the electrical component but in chloroplasts the PMF is made up mostly of the pH gradient because the charge of protons H is neutralized by the movement of Cl and other anions. In either case, the PMF needs to be greater than about 460 mV (45 kJ/mol) for the ATP synthase to be able to make ATP. The proton-motive force is derived from the Gibbs free energy. Let N denote the inside of a cell, and let P denote the outside.",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.72,
"text": "an unequal distribution of charges across the membrane, then the difference in electric potential generates a force that drives ion diffusion until the charges are balanced on both sides of the membrane. Electrochemical potential is important in electroanalytical chemistry and industrial applications such as batteries and fuel cells. It represents one of the many interchangeable forms of potential energy through which energy may be conserved. In biological processes, the direction an ion moves by diffusion or active transport across a membrane is determined by the electrochemical gradient. In mitochondria and chloroplasts, proton gradients are used to generate a chemiosmotic potential",
"title": "Electrochemical gradient"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.55,
"text": "of 1992. The term CoRR was introduced in 2003 in a paper in \"\"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society\"\" entitled \"\"The function of genomes in bioenergetic organelles\"\". Chloroplasts and mitochondria are energy-converting organelles in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. Chloroplasts in plant cells perform photosynthesis; the capture and conversion of the energy of sunlight. Mitochondria in both plant and animal cells perform respiration; the release of this stored energy when work is done. In addition to these key reactions of bioenergetics, chloroplasts and mitochondria each contain specialized and discrete genetic systems. These genetic systems enable chloroplasts and mitochondria to make",
"title": "CoRR hypothesis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.42,
"text": "begun by Mary and Hershel Mitchell ultimately led to the discovery of genetic material in mitochondria as well. According to the endosymbiont theory, mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free living organisms that were each taken up by a eukaryotic cell. Over time, mitochondria and chloroplasts formed a symbiotic relationship with their eukaryotic hosts. Although the transfer of a number of genes from these organelles to the nucleus prevents them from living independently, each still possesses genetic material in the form of double stranded DNA. It is the transmission of this organellar DNA that is responsible for the phenomenon of extranuclear",
"title": "Non-Mendelian inheritance"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.27,
"text": "André Jagendorf André Tridon Jagendorf (October 21, 1926 – March 13, 2017) was an American Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Section of Plant Biology at Cornell University who is notable for providing direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell. André Tridon Jagendorf was born on October 21, 1926 in New York City to Moritz Adolph Jagendorf and Sophie Sheba (Sokolsky) Jagendorf. He married Jean Elizabeth Whitenack on June 12, 1952. They had three children Suzanne, Judith and Daniel (deceased January 2014); 8 grandchildren; and 9 great grandchildren. André Jagendorf",
"title": "André Jagendorf"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.27,
"text": "adapting a major part of it for use as a research laboratory. He and his former research colleague, Jennifer Moyle founded a charitable company, known as Glynn Research Ltd., to promote fundamental biological research at Glynn House and they embarked on a programme of research on chemiosmotic reactions and reaction systems. In the 1960s, ATP was known to be the energy currency of life, but the mechanism by which ATP was created in the mitochondria was assumed to be by substrate-level phosphorylation. Mitchell's chemiosmotic hypothesis was the basis for understanding the actual process of oxidative phosphorylation. At the time, the",
"title": "Peter D. Mitchell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.09,
"text": "hypothesis which he formulated in 1993 in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, introducing the term “CoRR\"\" in 2003. Briefly, the CoRR hypothesis states that endosymbiotic organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts retain genomes to provide for regulation of gene expression by electron transport and the redox state of the organelle. In addition, Allen works on mitochondrial ageing in relation to sex. Allen has been granted the following honours and awards: John F. Allen (biochemist) John Allen (born 23 June 1950) is a British biochemist. He is an honorary professor at the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at the University",
"title": "John F. Allen (biochemist)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.06,
"text": "came to me, and said ‘André, could this possibly explain XE [something that preceded ATP formation]?’\"\" As a result of this conversation, Jagendorf began to communicate with Peter Mitchell who invited him to visit his lab so that he could learn about the chemiosmotic hypothesis. Later that summer Jagendorf did the \"\"experimentum crucis\"\" that showed that the synthesis of adenosine trisphosphate by chloroplasts depended on the magnitude of the pH difference. The experiment consisted of creating a pH gradient across the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts in the dark. Jagendorf and Uribe created the transient pH gradient by incubating chloroplasts in",
"title": "André Jagendorf"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.05,
"text": "C. Slater on November 2, 1965, stating: \"\"experiments have been steadily pushing me towards accepting the chemiosmotic hypothesis and I think I shall feel inclined presently to regard it as a theory.\"\" Jagendorf was also a pioneer in many aspects of chloroplast molecular biology, including DNA repair mechanisms. Jagendorf became the President of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in 1967. He received the Charles F. Kettering Award of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in 1978. Jagendorf was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980. Jagendorf received the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award of the American",
"title": "André Jagendorf"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.03,
"text": "but not all have chloroplasts, the serial endosymbiosis theory proposes that mitochondria came first. Chimeric models claim that two prokaryotic cells existed initially – an archaeon and a bacterium. These cells underwent a merging process, either by a physical fusion or by endosymbiosis, thereby leading to the formation of a eukaryotic cell. Within these chimeric models, some studies further claim that mitochondria originated from a bacterial ancestor while others emphasize the role of endosymbiotic processes behind the origin of mitochondria. Based on the process of mutualistic symbiosis, the hypotheses can be categorized as – the serial endosymbiotic theory (SET), the",
"title": "Eukaryote"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.94,
"text": "theory. Weathering constant criticism of her ideas for decades, Margulis was famous for her tenacity in pushing her theory forward, despite the opposition she faced at the time. The descent of mitochondria from bacteria and of chloroplasts from cyanobacteria was experimentally demonstrated in 1978 by Robert Schwartz and Margaret Dayhoff. This formed the first experimental evidence for her theory. The endosymbiosis theory of organogenesis became widely accepted in the 1980s, when the genetic material of mitochondria and chloroplasts was found to be different from that of the symbiont's nuclear DNA. In 1995, English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins had this to",
"title": "Lynn Margulis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.89,
"text": "Symbiogenesis Symbiogenesis, or endosymbiotic theory, is an evolutionary theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms, first articulated in 1905 and 1910 by the Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski, and advanced and substantiated with microbiological evidence by Lynn Margulis in 1967. It holds that the organelles distinguishing eukaryote cells evolved through symbiosis of individual single-celled prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea). The theory holds that mitochondria, plastids such as chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles of eukaryotic cells represent formerly free-living prokaryotes taken one inside the other in endosymbiosis. In more detail, mitochondria appear to be related to Rickettsiales proteobacteria, and chloroplasts",
"title": "Symbiogenesis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.81,
"text": "some of their own proteins. Both the genetic and energy-converting systems of chloroplasts and mitochondria are descended, with little modification, from those of the free-living bacteria that these organelles once were. The existence of these cytoplasmic genomes is consistent with, and counts as evidence for, the endosymbiont hypothesis. Most genes for proteins of chloroplasts and mitochondria are, however, now located on chromosomes in the nuclei of eukaryotic cells. There they code for protein precursors that are made in the cytosol for subsequent import into the organelles. CoRR seeks to explain why chloroplasts and mitochondria retain DNA, and thus why some",
"title": "CoRR hypothesis"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 16.78,
"text": "oxygen to form water. This was a radical proposal at the time, and was not well accepted. The prevailing view was that the energy of electron transfer was stored as a stable high potential intermediate, a chemically more conservative concept. The problem with the older paradigm is that no high energy intermediate was ever found, and the evidence for proton pumping by the complexes of the electron transfer chain grew too great to be ignored. Eventually the weight of evidence began to favor the chemiosmotic hypothesis, and in 1978, Peter Mitchell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Chemiosmotic coupling",
"title": "Chemiosmosis"
}
] |
when does the usa men's soccer team play? | [
"January 28, 2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.34,
"text": "U.S. played its first official international match under the auspices of U.S. Soccer on August 20, 1916, against Sweden in Stockholm, where the U.S. won 3–2. The U.S. fielded a team in the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, the first ever World Cup to be played. The U.S. began group play by beating Belgium 3–0. The U.S. then earned a 3–0 victory over Paraguay, with FIFA crediting Bert Patenaude with two of the goals. In November 2006, FIFA announced that it had accepted evidence that Patenaude scored all three goals against Paraguay, and was thus the first person to score",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.92,
"text": "the finals of the 2009 Confederations Cup. In 1885, the United States and Canada played at Newark, New Jersey, making it the first international match held outside of the United Kingdom; the Canadians won the match 1–0. The following year, a fixture at the same venue resulted in the U.S. winning after scoring the only goal of the game. Neither match was officially recognized. Thirty years later, on August 20, 1916, the United States played its first official international match under the auspices of U.S. Soccer against Sweden in Stockholm, which the U.S. won 3–2, with goals from Dick Spalding,",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "began its World Cup qualification, and topped their third round qualification group with four wins, one draw and one defeat. On June 2, 2013, the U.S. played a friendly against 2nd-ranked Germany in its Centennial celebration match at a sold out RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. The US won 4–3. This was the USMNT's first win over a top 2 ranked team since the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. On June 6, 2013 the US beat Jamaica 2–1. On June 11, the U.S. beat Panama 2–0 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle in front of almost 41,000 fans, the seventh largest crowd",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "and 2013. The U.S. team won 1–0 in Italy on February 29, 2012, the team's first ever win over Italy. On June 2, 2013, the U.S. played a friendly against Germany at a sold out RFK Stadium in Washington D.C., with the U.S. winning 4–3. In July 2013, the U.S. hosted the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup where it went undefeated in the group stage and won with a 1–0 victory over Panama in the final, with Landon Donovan winning the tournament's golden ball award. A 4–3 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina in an international friendly match in Sarajevo represented the",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "of the Men’s National Team. From 2007–2009, the United States national team played 16 international friendly matches with a record of 9–4–3. Notable matches include a 2–0 victory over Mexico, a 0–0 tie with Argentina, 2–0 victories over Sweden in 2008, and 3–2 victory against Sweden in 2009. The U.S. played in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The United States won their 3 games in the group stage to win their group. In the elimination round, the U.S. defeated Panama 2–1 in the quarter-finals. The United States then defeated Canada in the semi-finals 2–1. This set up a championship match",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.38,
"text": "Colombia on March 25 and March 29, 2016. The following players have been called up during the 2016 Olympic cycle. United States men's national under-23 soccer team The United States U-23 men's national soccer team, also known as the United States men's Olympic soccer team, is a youth soccer team operated under the auspices of U.S. Soccer. Its primary role is qualification into and competition at the quadriennial Olympic Football Tournament, the next of which is to be held during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The team's most recent major tournament was the tournament at the 2016 Summer",
"title": "United States men's national under-23 soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.36,
"text": "of November 20, 2018, after the match against Italy.\"\" The following players have also been called up to the United States squad within the last twelve months. Notes: The following is a list of match results from the previous 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. \"\"For all past match results of the national team, see and the team's results page.\"\" . Active players are shown in Bold. The U.S. regularly competes at the FIFA World Cup, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, and the Summer Olympics. The U.S. has also played in the FIFA Confederations Cup,",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "for a World Cup Qualifier on U.S. soil. The game also drew the second largest TV audience on ESPN for a U.S. World Cup Qualifier. On June 18, the U.S. followed with a 1–0 victory over Honduras at Rio Tinto Stadium. In July 2013, the US hosted and played in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup where they went undefeated in the group stage and won with a 1–0 victory over Panama in the final, a victory which represented a record 11th straight win. A 4–3 victory over Bosnia in an international friendly match in Sarajevo represented the 12th straight win",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "2017 Conference USA men's soccer season The 2017 Conference USA men's soccer season was the 23rd season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 25 and concluded on November 12. The regular season was won by FIU, while the tournament was won by Old Dominion. Both school's were the conference's bids into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. There, the two programs reached the round of 32 before being eliminated. Niko Klosterhalfenm and Mercan Akar were named the conference's offensive and defensive most valuable players, respectively. Paul Marie and Alex Bumpus were drafted",
"title": "2017 Conference USA men's soccer season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "held November 13–17 at Transamerica Field in Charlotte. The defending regular season champions are the SMU Mustangs, who left the conference to join The American. The defending tournament champions are the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The format for the 2013 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament will be announced in the Fall of 2013. 2013 Conference USA men's soccer season The 2013 Conference USA men's soccer season will be the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will mark the arrival of the Charlotte 49ers from the Atlantic 10 Conference, the Florida Atlantic Owls from the Mid-American Conference,",
"title": "2013 Conference USA men's soccer season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.08,
"text": "2018. The first U.S. national soccer team was constituted in 1885, when it played Canada in the first international match held outside the United Kingdom. Canada defeated the U.S. 1–0 in Newark, New Jersey. The U.S. had its revenge the following year when it beat Canada 1–0, also in Newark, although neither match was officially recognized. The U.S. earned both silver and bronze medals in men's soccer at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Olympics through Christian Brothers College and St. Rose Parish, though the tournament is declared official only by the IOC (FIFA doesn't endorse tournaments held before 1908). The",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "1, 2016 AS Roma and Liverpool played a friendly match. On November 13, 2015, the United States Men's National Soccer Team played St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the first match of World Cup qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at Busch Stadium. The United States defeated St. Vincent and the Grenadines 6–1. The official attendance for the game was 43,433. Every U.S. team in World Cup history has included at least one St. Louisan on its roster, and 29 St. Louisans have been inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. The U.S. team for the 1950 World",
"title": "Soccer in St. Louis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "In the semifinals, the United States upset top ranked Spain 2–0, to advance to the final. In the final, the United States lost 3–2 to Brazil. The U.S. men's soccer team have played in the Summer Olympics since 1924. From that tournament to 1980, only amateur and state-sponsored Eastern European players were allowed on Olympic teams. The Olympics became a full international tournament in 1984 after the IOC allowed full national teams from outside FIFA CONMEBOL & UEFA confederations. Ever since 1992 the men's Olympic event has been age-restricted, under 23 plus three overage players, and participation has been by",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "after the 1950 World Cup, the only victories for the United States came against Haiti, Bermuda, Honduras, Canada, Poland, and China. After the enthusiasm caused by the creation and rise of the North American Soccer League in the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed as though the U.S. men's national team would soon become a powerful force in world soccer. These hopes were not realized, however. The United States played only two international matches from 1981–1983. To provide a more stable national team program and renew interest in the NASL, U.S. Soccer entered the national team into the league for the",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.92,
"text": "2013 Conference USA men's soccer season The 2013 Conference USA men's soccer season will be the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will mark the arrival of the Charlotte 49ers from the Atlantic 10 Conference, the Florida Atlantic Owls from the Mid-American Conference, the New Mexico Lobos from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, and the Old Dominion Monarchs from the Colonial Athletic Association. It will also be the last C-USA season for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, which will join the American Athletic Conference in July 2014. The 2013 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament will be",
"title": "2013 Conference USA men's soccer season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.73,
"text": "History of the United States men's national soccer team The history of the United States men's national soccer team began with the team's first international match in 1885. Highlights from the team's early history include reaching the semi-finals of the 1930 World Cup, and defeating England in a remarkable upset in the 1950 World Cup. The U.S. national soccer team improved during the 1980s, and has played in every World Cup since 1990 (excluding this year, 2018). The team's best performances in modern history include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, and defeating #1 ranked Spain to reach",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.67,
"text": "the final qualification group against Honduras and Canada. U.S. Soccer scheduled the game to be played at El Camino College in Torrance, California, an area with many Costa Rican expatriates, and marketed the game almost exclusively to the Costa Rican community, even providing Costa Rican folk dances as halftime entertainment. A 35th-minute goal by Evaristo Coronado won the match for Costa Rica and kept the United States from reaching its first World Cup since 1950. In 1988, U.S. Soccer attempted to reimplement its national-team-as-club concept, offering contracts to national team players, to build an international team with something of a",
"title": "History of the United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "squad for the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship from November 1–21 in Bradenton, Florida. The following players have previously been called up to the United States under-20 squad and remain eligible. Names in bold denote players who have been capped for the senior team. United States men's national under-20 soccer team The United States under-20 men's national soccer team is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation. The highest level of competition in which the team competes is the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which is held every two years. The United States' best finish came in the 1989 FIFA World Youth",
"title": "United States men's national under-20 soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.61,
"text": "United States men's national soccer team The United States Men's National Soccer Team (USMNT) is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football. The team has appeared in ten FIFA World Cups, including the first in 1930, where they reached the semi-finals. The U.S. participated in the 1934 and 1950 World Cups, winning 1–0 against England in the latter. After 1950, the U.S. did not qualify for the World Cup until 1990. The U.S. hosted the 1994 World Cup, where they lost to Brazil in the round of",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "of the 1994 World Cup under Bora Milutinović, the U.S. opened its tournament schedule with a 1–1 tie against Switzerland in the Pontiac Silverdome in the suburbs of Detroit, the first World Cup game played indoors. In its second game, the U.S. faced Colombia, then ranked fourth in the world, at the Rose Bowl. Aided by an own goal from Andrés Escobar, the U.S. won 2–1. Escobar was later murdered in his home country, possibly in retaliation for this mistake. Despite a 1–0 loss to Romania in its final group game, the U.S. made it past the initial round for",
"title": "United States men's national soccer team"
}
] |
where does the phrase separation of church and state originated? | [
"Thomas Jefferson"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.69,
"text": "of religious doctrine and practice. This doctrine, known as the \"\"wall of separation\"\" or \"\"strict separationism,\"\" would later become highly influential in 20th century Supreme Court understandings of the relationship between church and state. The phrase \"\"separation of church and state\"\" does not appear in the United States Constitution, despite its wide use and origin from a founding father. The relevance of this reply is a subject of heated debate, with scholars such as Robert Boston emphasizing its importance, and others such as Mark David Hall arguing that the letter was a historical outlier. In the U.S. today, a group",
"title": "Baptists in the history of separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "submitted by President Adams and unanimously ratified by the Senate. In the 1892 case \"\"Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States\"\", Supreme Court Justice David Brewer wrote for a unanimous Court that \"\"no purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. ... [T]his is a Christian nation.\"\" Legal historian Paul Finkelman writes that: The phrase \"\"separation of church and state\"\" is derived from a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to Baptists from Danbury, Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper soon thereafter. In that",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.\"\" However, the phrase \"\"separation of church and state\"\" itself does not appear in the United States Constitution. The phrase of Jefferson (see above) was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. The Supreme Court did not consider the question of how this applied to the states until 1947; when they did, in \"\"Everson v. Board of Education\"\", the court incorporated the establishment clause, determining that it applied to the states and that a law enabling",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.84,
"text": "Separation of church and state in the United States \"\"Separation of church and state\"\" is paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads: \"\"\"\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...\"\"\"\" The phrase \"\"separation between church & state\"\" is generally traced to a by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote, Some argue",
"title": "Separation of church and state in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "Religious Freedom was enacted in 1786, five years before the Bill of Rights. Most Anglican ministers, and many Anglicans, were Loyalists. The Anglican establishment, where it had existed, largely ceased to function during the American Revolution, though the new States did not formally abolish and replace it until some years after the Revolution. The phrase \"\"[A] hedge or \"\"wall of separation\"\" between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world\"\" was first used by Baptist theologian Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, in his 1644 book \"\"The Bloody Tenent of Persecution\"\". The phrase",
"title": "Separation of church and state in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.11,
"text": "Alexis de Tocqueville, another French observer tended to make the same distinction, \"\"In the U.S., from the beginning, politics and religion were in accord, and they have not ceased to be so since.\"\" Separation of church and state The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church–state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state. In a",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.92,
"text": "of the phrase, \"\"wall of separation between church and state\"\", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.86,
"text": "originally authored by Jefferson and championed by Madison, and guaranteeing that no one may be compelled to finance any religion or denomination. Under the United States Constitution, the treatment of religion by the government is broken into two clauses: the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. Both are discussed in regard to whether certain state actions would amount to an impermissible government establishment of religion. The phrase was also mentioned in an eloquent letter written by President John Tyler on July 10, 1843. During the 1960 presidential campaign the potential influence of the Catholic Church on John F. Kennedy's",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "religion from American public life. Critics of the American Pledge of Allegiance have argued that the use of the phrase \"\"under God\"\" violates the separation of church and state. While the pledge was created by Francis Bellamy in 1891, in 1954, the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization, campaigned with other groups to have the words \"\"under God\"\" added to the pledge. On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the bill to make the addition. Since then, critics have challenged the existence of the phrase in the Pledge. In 2004, an atheist man challenged a Californian law which required",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "political principle which advocates derive from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads, \"\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof\"\". The phrase \"\"separation of church and state\"\", which does not appear in the Constitution itself, is generally traced to an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, where Jefferson spoke of the combined effect of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. It has since been quoted in several opinions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Robert N. Bellah",
"title": "Religion and politics in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "to churches. The phrase \"\"\"\"separation of church and state\"\"\"\" became a definitive part of Establishment Clause jurisprudence in \"\"Everson v. Board of Education\"\", 330 U.S. 1 (1947), a case that dealt with a state law that allowed government funds for transportation to religious schools. While the ruling upheld the state law allowing taxpayer funding of transportation to religious schools as constitutional, \"\"Everson\"\" was also the first case to hold the Establishment Clause applicable to the state legislatures as well as Congress, based upon the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1962, the Supreme Court extended this analysis to",
"title": "History of religion in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.55,
"text": "faiths, even perhaps eclipsing the opposition of Roman Catholics. Critics of the modern concept of the \"\"separation of church and state\"\" argue that it is untethered to anything in the text of the constitution and is contrary to the conception of the phrase as the Founding Fathers understood it. Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law school professor and prominent critic of the modern understanding of the concept, maintains that the modern concept, which deviates from the constitutional establishment clause jurisprudence, is rooted in American anti-Catholicism and Nativism. Briefs before the Supreme Court, including by the U.S. government, have argued that some state",
"title": "Separation of church and state in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "and State.\"\" The phrase 'Separation of Church and State' has been cited several times by the Supreme Court in its interpretation of the Establishment Clause. Jefferson donated to the American Bible Society, saying the Four Evangelists delivered a \"\"pure and sublime system of morality\"\" to humanity. He thought Americans would rationally create \"\"Apiarian\"\" religion, extracting the best traditions of every denomination. And he contributed generously to several local denominations nearby Monticello. Acknowledging organized religion would always be factored into political life for good or ill, he encouraged reason over supernatural revelation to make inquiries into religion. He believed in a",
"title": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "was later used by Thomas Jefferson as a description of the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch of the federal government, in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the dominant position of the Congregationalist church in Connecticut): Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which",
"title": "Separation of church and state in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "as England; Puritan Massachusetts, for example, did not allow standard Church of England worship. Some of these people voluntarily sailed to the American Colonies specifically for this purpose. After the American Colonies famously revolted against George III of the United Kingdom, the Constitution of United States was specifically amended to ban the establishment of religion by Congress. The concept of separating church and state is often credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). According to his principle of the social contract, Locke argued that the government lacked authority in the realm of individual conscience, as this was",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "government. The court noted that it \"\"is a matter of history that this very practice of establishing governmentally composed prayers for religious services was one of the reasons which caused many of our early colonists to leave England and seek religious freedom in America.\"\" The lone dissenter, Justice Potter Stewart, objected to the court's embrace of the \"\"wall of separation\"\" metaphor: \"\"I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the \"\"wall of separation,\"\" a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.\"\"",
"title": "Separation of church and state in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.14,
"text": "wrote that the First Amendment erected a \"\"wall of separation between church and state\"\" likely borrowing the language from Roger Williams, founder of the First Baptist Church in America and the Colony of Rhode Island, who used the phrase in his 1644 book, \"\"The Bloody Tenent of Persecution\"\". James Madison, often regarded as the \"\"Father of the Bill of Rights\"\", also often wrote of the \"\"perfect separation\"\", \"\"line of separation\"\", \"\"strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States\"\", and \"\"total separation of the church from the state\"\". Controversy rages in the",
"title": "Freedom of religion in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "Utah territory who claimed polygamy was an aspect of their religious freedom. The Court used the phrase again by Justice Hugo Black in 1947 in \"\"Everson\"\". In a minority opinion in \"\"Wallace v. Jaffree\"\", Justice Rehnquist presented the view that the establishment clause was intended to protect local establishments of religion from federal interference. Rehnquist made numerous citations of cases that rebutted the idea of a total wall of separation between Church and State. A result of such reasoning was Supreme Court support for government payments to faith-based community projects. Justice Scalia has criticized the metaphor as a bulldozer removing",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "Separation of church and state The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church–state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state. In a society, the degree of political separation between the church and the civil state is determined by the legal structures and prevalent legal views that define the proper relationship between organized religion and the",
"title": "Separation of church and state"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "the beginning of the modern conception of separation of church and state. Those of the Radical Reformation (the Anabaptists) took Luther's ideas in new direction, most notably in the writings of Michael Sattler (1490–1527), who agreed with Luther that there were two kingdoms, but differed in arguing that these two kingdoms should be separate, and hence baptized believers should not vote, serve in public office or participate in any other way with the \"\"kingdom of the world.\"\" While there was a diversity of views in the early days of the Radical Reformation, in time Sattler's perspective became the normative position",
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when did the movie coyote ugly come out? | [
"August 4, 2000"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "article. The film was shot on a set in Los Angeles, with exteriors filmed in Manhattan. \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" opened in August 2000 with Maria Bello in the role of Lovell and Piper Perabo as an aspiring songwriter in New York City who becomes the newest \"\"Coyote\"\". It grossed more than $110 million worldwide. From 2006 to 2008, CMT ran three seasons of \"\"The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search\"\" produced by Touchstone Television. The first two seasons saw a group of prospective employees paired with a serving Coyote in the hope of getting a job at the bar and a cash sum",
"title": "Coyote Ugly Saloon"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "additional scene which shows the \"\"Coyotes\"\" winning a softball game because Cammie distracts the pitcher by stripping. The special features of the extended cut DVD are identical with those of the previous DVD release. The film's soundtrack features Violet's four songs from the film, performed by LeAnn Rimes and written by Diane Warren, as well as several other songs not exclusive to the film. It achieved gold status within one month of its release on August 1, 2000 and platinum status on November 7, 2000. On April 18, 2001 the soundtrack was certified 2x Platinum and on January 9, 2002",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "Coyote Ugly (film) Coyote Ugly is a 2000 American romantic musical comedy-drama film based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon. Set in New York City, the film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia. It was directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman, and written by Gina Wendkos. Violet Sanford leaves her hometown of South Amboy, New Jersey, her father Bill, and her best friend Gloria, in order to pursue her dreams of becoming a songwriter in nearby New York City. Violet tries multiple times to get her demo tape noticed by the recording studios but is",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "of Rimes' songs, followed on January 28, 2003. Although Perabo was able to sing for her character, it was decided that Rimes, owing to her soprano-type voice, would provide Violet's singing voice far better for the role. This means that during Rimes' cameo, she is effectively duetting with herself. The following songs appear in the film, but are on neither of the two released soundtracks. Coyote Ugly (film) Coyote Ugly is a 2000 American romantic musical comedy-drama film based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon. Set in New York City, the film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia. It was",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "to pop singer Jessica Simpson, who turned it down. Principal photography took place in Manhattan and small towns in New Jersey including South Amboy and Sea Bright for a month. Production then moved to California and shooting took place in Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Pasadena, and San Pedro. The film was based on an article, \"\"The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon\"\", in \"\"GQ\"\" by Elizabeth Gilbert, who worked as a bartender in the East Village. The bar, which opened in 1993, quickly became a favorite of the Lower East Side hipsters. As mentioned in the film, the slang term",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24,
"text": "wild routine, which included such antics as chugging alcohol, setting light to it, and then breathing fire. While some women were good at singing, others good at dancing, and others good at yelling, Lovell found that not all the women were talented in each of the three aspects, so she often paired women with complementary abilities. Disney bought the rights to Gilbert's story and adapted it into the movie \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\", produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" is a romantic comedy/drama released in August 2000. The film stars Piper Perabo, was directed by David McNally, written by Gina Wendkos, and",
"title": "Liliana Lovell"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "it was certified 3x Platinum. The soundtrack was certified 4x Platinum on July 22, 2008, was certified 5x Platinum (500,000 units) in Canada and gold (100,000 units) in Japan in 2002. Three singles were released from the soundtrack, all three by LeAnn Rimes, \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" which achieved gold status, became a nearly instant hit on the radio charts and peaked at #11 on The \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100, \"\"But I Do Love You\"\" and \"\"The Right Kind of Wrong\"\". A second soundtrack, \"\"More Music from Coyote Ugly\"\", with more songs that appeared in the film and remixes of two",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "Coyote Ugly Saloon The Coyote Ugly Saloon is an American drinking establishment and the namesake of an international chain of bars. It served as the setting for the 2000 movie \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\". The original Coyote Ugly Saloon opened January 27, 1993, in New York City, after New York University alumna Liliana Lovell declined an internship on Wall Street for a career as a bartender. In 2001, the second Coyote Ugly Saloon opened in Las Vegas at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino, as a franchise operation. In 2002, a new company-owned bar opened in New Orleans' French Quarter. In",
"title": "Coyote Ugly Saloon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "\"\"coyote ugly\"\" refers to the feeling of waking up after a one-night stand, and discovering that your arm is underneath someone who is so physically repulsive that you would gladly chew it off without waking the person just so you can get away without being discovered. Coyotes are known to gnaw off limbs if they are stuck in a trap, in order to facilitate escape. \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" opened fourth at the North American box office making US$17,319,282 in its opening weekend. It went on to gross $60,786,269 domestically and $53,130,205 around the world to a total of $113,916,474 worldwide, becoming",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.27,
"text": "everything else follows the same path. If you're looking for a tease then see this flick, otherwise stay as far away as possible.\"\" Metacritic reports a 27 out of 100 rating, based on 29 critics, indicating \"\"generally unfavorable reviews\"\". VH1 made a statement about Rimes' appearance in the film stating, \"\"Rimes [herself], who is only 17 years old, was sporting leather pants and a skimpy top and in all likelihood, even with a fake ID, would never have been allowed inside any NYC bar.\"\" In the summer of 2005, an unrated special edition (the original release was rated PG-13 and",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "the director's cut rated R) was released on DVD. It was also released in the UK and rated 15 by the BBFC. (By contrast, the theatrical cut was rated 12 in the UK.) The extended cut adds approximately six minutes to the film's runtime, most of which consists of additional shots of the \"\"coyotes\"\" dancing on the bar and of Violet and Cammie trying on different outfits while shopping. Arguably, the most notable additions are the extension of the sex scene between Violet and Kevin (Perabo used a body double for most of the scene), and the inclusion of an",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "made his directorial debut directing the film \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" (2000) followed by \"\"Kangaroo Jack\"\" in 2003. In 2006, he co-created the short-lived Fox legal drama \"\"Justice\"\", also serving as writer and executive producer. David McNally (director) David McNally (born 1960 in Liverpool, England) is a Canadian director of film and television. He is best known for directing the films \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" (2000) and \"\"Kangaroo Jack\"\" (2003). McNally was born in England, But he grew up in Montreal, Quebec, before moving to Los Angeles, where he currently resides. McNally began his career as a music video director before directing commercials. His",
"title": "David McNally (director)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 1966 alongside the Western film, \"\"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\"\", directed by Sergio Leone. The score is composed by frequent Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, whose distinctive original compositions, containing gunfire, whistling, and yodeling permeate the film. The main theme, resembling the howling of a coyote, is a two-note melody that is a frequent motif, and is used for the three main characters, with a different instrument used for each one: flute for Blondie (Man With No",
"title": "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "as a bartender at the very first Coyote Ugly table dancing bar located in the East Village section of New York City, was the basis for the feature film \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" (2000). She adapted her 1998 \"\"GQ\"\" article, \"\"The Last American Man\"\", into a biography of the modern woodsman and naturalist Eustace Conway in \"\"The Last American Man\"\". \"\"The Ghost\"\", a profile of Hank Williams III published by \"\"GQ\"\" in 2000, was included in \"\"Best American Magazine Writing 2001\"\". Gilbert's first book, \"\"Pilgrims\"\" (Houghton Mifflin 1997), a collection of short stories, received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for",
"title": "Elizabeth Gilbert"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.92,
"text": "corporately owned bar in Ft. Worth, Texas. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan is scheduled to open in mid-September 2016 followed by Cardiff, Wales in the UK in early October 2016 and Ft. Worth in November 2016. These new openings will bring the number in the chain to 24 (as of 2016). The bar reached national prominence in 1997 when former bartender Elizabeth Gilbert wrote of her experiences in an article for \"\"GQ\"\" magazine, titled \"\"The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon\"\". Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's company bought the rights to the story from Lovell, and he produced the movie \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\", based on the",
"title": "Coyote Ugly Saloon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.5,
"text": "voice for Perabo. The theatrical trailer for the film included Perabo's original recording of the song prior to Rimes recording it. \"\"But I Do Love You\"\" was first released on the soundtrack for \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" on August 1, 2000. It was later released as a B-side track to the single \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" on August 22, 2000. The song was released to country radio in the U.S. on February 9, 2001. It was released in the UK on February 11, 2002 In March of 2002 it was included on Rimes' compilation album, \"\"I Need You\"\", with the Almighty Radio",
"title": "But I Do Love You"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.3,
"text": "for them and their partner. The final season changed the format with the contestants competing to get a place on the traveling Coyotes troupe – five Coyotes who could be booked to bar-tend and entertain at corporate, sports, and music events. Coyote Ugly Saloon The Coyote Ugly Saloon is an American drinking establishment and the namesake of an international chain of bars. It served as the setting for the 2000 movie \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\". The original Coyote Ugly Saloon opened January 27, 1993, in New York City, after New York University alumna Liliana Lovell declined an internship on Wall Street for",
"title": "Coyote Ugly Saloon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.3,
"text": "a box office success. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. Criticisms and praise centered around the belief that it was little more than an excuse to portray \"\"hot, sexy women dancing on a bar in a wet T-shirt contest\"\". It currently holds a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 96 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The site's consensus states: \"\"Well, the women in this film are incredibly attractive and flaunt that fact quite a lot. Unfortunately, that's all there is to the film. The script is almost as big a joke as the characters, and",
"title": "Coyote Ugly (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "from the \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" soundtrack. \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" was released as a single for the soundtrack on August 22, 2000, with the second single from the soundtrack, \"\"But I Do Love You\"\", as the B-side track. By February 2002 \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" became a crossover Pop hit, reaching number 11 in United States and becoming the highest selling single of 2001 in Australia. \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" won Rimes a \"\"Blockbuster Entertainment Award\"\" for \"\"Favorite Song from a Movie.\"\" In January 2001, Curb Records released another compilation of previously recorded material, \"\"I Need You\"\". The album topped the",
"title": "LeAnn Rimes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.09,
"text": "is a sassy number, demonstrating that Rimes has crossed the line to adult-leaning lyrics.\"\" \"\"Can't Fight the Moonlight\"\" was first released on the soundtrack for \"\"Coyote Ugly\"\" on August 1, 2000. It was released in the US on a CD single on August 22, 2000 along with the song, \"\"But I Do Love You\"\" (also included on the soundtrack) as the B-side track. The song was later released on a maxi-single which included several remixes of the song. The song was also included on Rimes's 2002 compilation album, \"\"I Need You\"\", with the Graham Stack Radio Edit of the song",
"title": "Can't Fight the Moonlight"
}
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who is called the father of english learning? | [
"Bede"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "mid 1600s. Locke was called \"\"Father of English Psychology\"\". One of Locke's most important works was written in 1690, named \"\"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding\"\". In this essay, he introduced the term \"\"tabula rasa\"\" meaning \"\"blank slate.\"\" Locke explained that learning was primarily understood through experience only, and we were all born without knowledge. He followed by contrasting Plato's theory of innate learning processes. Locke believed the mind was formed by experiences, not innate ideas. Locke introduced this idea as \"\"empiricism,\"\" or the understanding that knowledge is only built on knowledge and experience. In the late 1600s, John Locke advanced",
"title": "Educational psychology"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "sometimes called the father of English literature. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative \"\"The Canterbury Tales\"\". He is also credited by some scholars with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. His eldest brother John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (c. 1464 – 1487), was named heir to the throne by his maternal uncle, Richard III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of",
"title": "Richard de la Pole"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "Francis March as an instructor. March, a graduate of Amherst College, had learned under the guidance of Noah Webster who was celebrated as the \"\"Father of American Scholarship and Education\"\". March's appointment to the school by McLean was seen as one of the pivotal moments in the history of higher education, as it was the first time a professor advocated the teaching of English in a college setting. Within a few years, starting with Lafayette, all American colleges began teaching English. Within a year of hiring March, the school's subscription program had almost entirely paid off the college's debts. However,",
"title": "Daniel V. McLean"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "Arthur Francis Leach Arthur Francis Leach (16 March 1851 – 28 September 1915) was an English historian who wrote a number of books on the development of education in England. He has been called \"\"the father of the history of education in England\"\". Leach was born in 1851, the son of Thomas Leach, barrister. He was educated from 1862 at Highgate School, then at Winchester College and won a scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first in Classics. He won the Stanhope essay prize in 1872, and from 1874 to 1881 was a fellow of All Souls",
"title": "Arthur Francis Leach"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "published in 1915, the year of his death, \"\"formed the basis for all subsequent work on medieval and Reformation schooling until the publication of Nicholas Orme.s \"\"English Schools in the Middle Ages\"\" in 1973\"\". However, the same scholar goes on to say that his claims \"\"were not always sufficiently supported by his sources\"\". Arthur Francis Leach Arthur Francis Leach (16 March 1851 – 28 September 1915) was an English historian who wrote a number of books on the development of education in England. He has been called \"\"the father of the history of education in England\"\". Leach was born in",
"title": "Arthur Francis Leach"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.42,
"text": "John Biddle (Unitarian) John Biddle or Bidle (born Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, 14 January 1615 – died 22 September 1662) was an influential English nontrinitarian, and Unitarian. He is often called \"\"the Father of English Unitarianism\"\". Biddle studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, taking an M. A. in 1641. At the age of twenty-six, he became headmaster of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester. The school had links to Gloucester Cathedral, and since he was obliged to teach his pupils according to the Catechism of the Church of England, he immersed himself in the study of the Bible. He concluded from his studies",
"title": "John Biddle (Unitarian)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.88,
"text": "and in 1827 attempted to have his disciple John Bowring appointed as the first professor of English or History, but on both occasions his candidates were unsuccessful. This suggests that while his ideas may have been influential, he himself was less so. However, Bentham is today commonly regarded as the \"\"spiritual father\"\" of UCL, as his radical ideas on education and society were the inspiration to the institution's founders, particularly the Scotsmen James Mill (1773–1836) and Henry Brougham (1778–1868). In 1827, the Chair of Political Economy at London University was created, with John Ramsay McCulloch as the first incumbent, establishing",
"title": "University College London"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "Noah Webster Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the \"\"Father of American Scholarship and Education\"\". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with \"\"dictionary\"\" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as \"\"An American Dictionary of the English Language\"\". Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster graduated from Yale College in 1778. He passed the bar examination",
"title": "Noah Webster"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.78,
"text": "Charles Butler (beekeeper) Charles Butler (1571 – 29 March 1647), sometimes called the \"\"Father of English Beekeeping\"\", was a logician, grammarist, author, priest (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), and an influential beekeeper. He was also an early proponent of English spelling reform. He observed that bees produce wax combs from scales of wax produced in their own bodies; and he was among the first to assert that drones are male and the queen female, though he believed worker bees lay eggs. Butler was born into a poor family in Buckinghamshire, South East England, but became a boy",
"title": "Charles Butler (beekeeper)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.7,
"text": "of Calgary awarded him an honorary LL.D., and he received NCTE's David H. Russell award in 1977 for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. A collection, \"\"The Word for Teaching Is Learning\"\", was published in 1988 to honor his eightieth birthday. In addition, the Conference on English Education recognises Britton's important influence on English teachers throughout the world by annually selecting a winner of the James N. Britton Award for Inquiry in English Language Arts. Britton also worked hard at establishing professional networks for teachers of English. In 1947, he helped found the London Association for the Teaching of",
"title": "James N. Britton"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.67,
"text": "the master of Eton College and was known as the father of English comedy. He graduated B.A. at Oxford on 19 January 1527–8, and directly entered the service of Thomas Wolsey; but he soon left the cardinal, visited Hugh Latimer at Cambridge, and went to Italy to study Greek. He attended the University of Padua in 1532, making the acquantaince there of Michael Throckmorton. In Italy both these young humanists had links with a group of reformers later called 'spirituali', whom Morison met through contacts with Edmund Harvel and Bishop Cosimo Gheri. He became a proficient if impoverished scholar at",
"title": "Richard Morrison (ambassador)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.59,
"text": "borough\"\". They founded the English Merchants' Society in 1810 and in 1822 the British Consulate became home to the first modern bank in Buenos Aires. The so-called \"\"father of Argentine football\"\" was a Glaswegian schoolteacher, Alexander Watson Hutton, who first taught football at St. Andrew's Scots School in Buenos Aires in the early 1880s. On 4 February 1884 he founded the Buenos Aires English High School [\"\"sic\"\"] where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game. In 1891 Hutton established the Association Argentine Football League, the first football league outside of the British Isles. Five clubs competed but only",
"title": "Argentina–United Kingdom relations"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.59,
"text": "Henry Widdowson Henry Widdowson (also H.G. Widdowson and sometimes Henry G. Widdowson) (born May 28, 1935) is an authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English language learning and teaching. He gained a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1973. Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics.\"\"The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning\"\" calls him \"\"probably the most influential",
"title": "Henry Widdowson"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.48,
"text": "by various scholars. Although Sydenham was a successful practitioner and witnessed, besides foreign reprints, more than one new edition of his various treatises called for in his lifetime, his fame as the father of English medicine, or the English Hippocrates, was posthumous. For a long time he was held in vague esteem for the success of his cooling (or rather expectant) treatment of smallpox, for his laudanum (the first form of a tincture of opium), and for his advocacy of the use of \"\"Peruvian bark\"\" in quartan agues, in modern terms, the use of quinine-containing cinchona bark for treatment of",
"title": "Thomas Sydenham"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.34,
"text": "Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) is known as the Father of English literature and is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Chaucer achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his 10 year-old son Lewis. He also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, and diplomat. Among his many works are \"\"The Book of the Duchess\"\", \"\"The House of Fame\"\", \"\"The Legend of",
"title": "Geoffrey Chaucer"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.34,
"text": "Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) is known as the Father of English literature and is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Chaucer achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his 10 year-old son Lewis. He also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, and diplomat. Among his many works are \"\"The Book of the Duchess\"\", \"\"The House of Fame\"\", \"\"The Legend of",
"title": "Geoffrey Chaucer"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.33,
"text": "two teams of British railway workers, the White Caps and the Red Caps (it was common in the early days of football for teams to be distinguished by caps rather than jerseys). The so-called \"\"father of Argentine football\"\" was a Glaswegian schoolteacher, Alexander Watson Hutton, who first taught football at the St. Andrew's Scots School in Buenos Aires in the early 1880s. On 4 February 1884, he founded the Buenos Aires English High School, where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game. In 1898, Alumni Athletic Club, a football team formed by the BAEHS students, was established. Alumni",
"title": "Argentina–England football rivalry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.33,
"text": "Andrey Korsakov Andrey Konstantinovich Korsakov (October 30, 1916 – 2007) was an eminent Russian and Ukrainian linguist and language philosopher who specialised in the grammar of the English language and is considered a father of Grammar School in Ukraine. Having organised the Chair of English Grammar at Odessa National Mechnikov University in 1963, he was at the head of it for the following 30 years. Within this period, as a scientific adviser, Korsakov supervised over 30 candidate theses, thus influencing the linguistic minds throughout the USSR. Professor Korsakov was one of the first to give philosophic interpretation of grammatical phenomena.",
"title": "Andrey Korsakov"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.2,
"text": "patron of learning; his correspondence with English envoys abroad contains frequent requests for rare books. His chief benefactions were to Exeter College, Oxford (whose rowing eights bear his name to this day), and entitle him to be considered its founder; he rewrote its statutes so its membership was increased. That he retained a warm affection for the College that had given him his early education is evident from the liberal gifts he made. In 1566 he founded seven Scholarships or Fellowships, called the Petrean Fellowships, and the next year founded another to be nominated by him or his heirs from",
"title": "William Petre"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.19,
"text": "John Newbery John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), called \"\"The Father of Children's Literature\"\", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market. He also supported and published the works of Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson. In recognition of his achievements the Newbery Medal was named after him in 1922. Newbery was born in 1713 to Robert Newbery, a farmer, in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England. When he was younger he gave himself an education. He was apprenticed to a local printer, William Ayers,",
"title": "John Newbery"
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which country has the most casualties in ww1? | [
"Russian Empire"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "the United States|U.S President]] [[Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman']]s speech regarding the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|nuclear attack]] on [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima, Japan]].Captions provided]] It is possible that around 62 million people [[World War II casualties|died in the war]]; estimates vary greatly. About 60% of all casualties were civilians, who died as a result of disease, starvation, [[genocide]] (in particular, the [[Holocaust]]), and aerial bombing. The former Soviet Union and China suffered the most casualties. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. No country lost a greater portion of its population than",
"title": "Modern history"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "constant threat of incendiary raids, and the formal evacuation programs of the Government, an unknown number of the inhabitants had either drifter away from the cities or been removed according to plan. In this uncertain situation, estimates of casualties have generally ranged between 100,000 and 180,000 for Hiroshima, and between 50,000 and 100,000 for Nagasaki. The Survey believes the dead at Hiroshima to have been between 70,000 and 80,000, with an equal number injured; at Nagasaki over 35,000 dead and somewhat more than that injured seems the most plausible estimate. Korea Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaya and Singapore Malta 1,493 civilians",
"title": "World War II casualties"
},
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"score": 21.84,
"text": "World War II casualties World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history an estimated total 70-85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. World War II fatality statistics vary, with estimates of total deaths ranging from 70 million to 85 million.Deaths directly caused by the war, military and civilians killed are estimated at 50-56 million persons. There were an additional estimated 19 to 28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine.Civilians deaths totalled 50 to 55 million. Military deaths",
"title": "World War II casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.72,
"text": "famine and disease. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. G. The demographic losses due to the reduction of 335,000 births and emigration of about 660,000 are not included with war casualties. Other Nations World War II casualties World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history an estimated total 70-85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. World War II fatality statistics vary, with estimates of",
"title": "World War II casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "were some 20,000 Gurkha casualties included above with the British Indian Army. East and Central Africa Australia Canada France Greece India (British) Italy Romania United Kingdom United States Austria-Hungary German Empire Norway Sweden The source of population data is: World War I casualties The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from 15 to 19 million deaths and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military personnel. The civilian death toll",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
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"score": 21.41,
"text": "battles or captivity — the highest percentage of all nations of the USSR. (E) Kazakhstan estimates its military casualties at 601,029. (F) Armenians estimate their military casualties at over 300,000. (G) Georgians also estimate their military casualties at over 300,000. (I) Among the others Azerbaidzhans claim military casualties of 300,000, Bashkirs of about 300,000, Mordvas of 130,000 and Chuvashes of 106,470. But one of the most tragic figures comes from a Far Eastern republic of Yakutia and its small nation. 37,965 citizens, mostly Yakuts, or 60.74 per cent of 62,509 drafted have not returned home with 7,000 regarded missing. About",
"title": "World War II casualties of the Soviet Union"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "\"\"Great Patriotic War\"\". The Soviet Union together with the United States, the United Kingdom and China were considered as the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II and later became the Four Policemen which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council. During this war, which included many of the most lethal battle operations in human history, Soviet military and civilian deaths were 10.6 million and 15.9 million respectively, accounting for about a third of all World War II casualties. The full demographic loss to the Soviet peoples was even greater. The Soviet economy and infrastructure suffered",
"title": "Russia"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Many ethnic groups in these territories were conscripted for military service. The casualties listed by modern borders are also included in the above table of figures for the countries that existed in 1914. The casualty figures by 1924 post war borders are rough estimates by Russian historian Vadim Erlikman in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century, the sources of his figures were published in the Soviet era and in post-Soviet Russia. According to the 1914–1918 Online Encyclopedia \"\"In addition to losses suffered by African military personnel and the laborers supporting their operations, very",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "the Soviet Union (more than any other country in human history). Soviet military casualties totaled approximately 35 million (official figures 28.2 million) with approximately 14.7 million killed, missing or captured (official figures 11.285 million). Although figures vary, the Soviet civilian death toll probably reached 22 million. Millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians disappeared into German detention camps and slave labour factories, while millions more suffered permanent physical and mental damage. Economic losses, including losses in resources and manufacturing capacity in western Russia and Ukraine, were also catastrophic. The war resulted in the destruction of approximately 70,000 Soviet cities, towns and",
"title": "Soviet Union in World War II"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "decline in births are not included with the total dead. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear-cut. For nations that suffered huge losses such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany, and Yugoslavia, sources can give only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity and war-related famine. The casualties listed here include 19 to 25 million war-related famine deaths in the USSR, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India that are",
"title": "World War II casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.16,
"text": "than all the other European fronts combined—the Wehrmacht suffered 80% to 93% of all of its total World War II combat casualties on the Eastern Front. Russia's casualties in this war were the highest of all nations, and numbered more than 20 million dead (Russians composed 80% of the 26.6 million people lost by the USSR), which is about half of all World War II casualties and the vast majority of Allied casualties. Russians Russians (, \"\"russkiye\"\") are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the nation state of Russia, while notable minorities",
"title": "Russians"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.16,
"text": "from all causes totalled 21 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. The government of the Russian Republic in the 1990s published an estimate of USSR losses at 26.6 million, including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease. The People's Republic of China as of 2005 estimated the number of Chinese dead at 20 million.",
"title": "World War II casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.12,
"text": "based on sources published in the Soviet Union and Russia. The following estimates are for Yugoslavia within the 1991 borders. Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Vojvodina (Now part of Serbia) were part of Austria-Hungary during World War I. Serbia, which included Macedonia, and Montenegro was an independent nation. The Yugoslav historian Vladimir Dedijer put the total losses of the Yugoslav lands at 1.9 million, of which 43% were from Serbia. The following estimates of Yugoslav deaths, within 1991 borders, during World War I were made by a Russian historian in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century. Total",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.08,
"text": "our dead, when we have left, as a memory and a goodbye?” Wilhelm Doegen estimates the number of dead in the camps at 118,159 but serious doubts surround this number, notably because Doegen failed to take certain diseases into account. Also according to Doegen, Russia suffered the heaviest losses (perhaps explained by the poorer nutrition of Russians, most of whom did not receive packages from their families) with a little over 70,000 dead, followed by France with 17,069 deaths, Romania with 12,512, and then Italy and the United Kingdom. A confinement that was visual as well as physical very quickly",
"title": "World War I prisoners of war in Germany"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.98,
"text": "the population of the German states was reduced by about 30%. The Swedish armies alone may have destroyed up to 2,000 castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns. Estimates for the total casualties of World War II vary, but most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilians. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, about half of all World War II casualties. The largest number of civilian deaths in a single city was 1.2 million citizens dead during",
"title": "Effects of war"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.92,
"text": "relations with Germany (see Sino-German cooperation), and following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, China formally joined the Allies and declared war on Germany on 9 December 1941. Many of China's urban centers, industrial resources, and coastal regions were occupied by Japan for most of the war. China suffered a large death toll from the war, both military and civilian. The Chinese Nationalist army suffered some 3.2 million casualties, and 17 million civilians died in the crossfire. After the war, China gained one of the permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. After the war ended, the Chinese Civil",
"title": "World War II by country"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.88,
"text": "is very likely to raise. The losses of Portuguese Mozambique were estimated by a Russian historian Vadim Erlikman in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century. Erlikman's estimates are based on sources published in the Soviet Union and Russia. 52,000 Poland was territory of Germany, Austria-Hungary and partially annexed by Russia, from 1795 to 1918. By late 1915, Germany had complete control over modern-day Poland. A 2005 Polish study estimated 3,376,800 Poles were conscripted into the armed forces of these countries during World War I, an additional 300,000 were conscripted for forced labor by the Germans. The",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "of the United States and Great Britain as well as France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia. More recently the research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has revised the military casualty statistics of the UK and its allies; they include in their listing of military war dead personnel outside of combat theaters and civilians recruited from Africa, the Middle East and China who provided logistical and service support in combat theaters. The casualties of these support personnel recruited outside of Europe were previously not included with British war dead, however the casualties of the Labour Corps recruited from",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "World War I casualties The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from 15 to 19 million deaths and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military personnel. The civilian death toll was about 8 million, including about 6 million due to war-related famine and disease. The Triple Entente (also known as the Allies) lost about 6 million military personnel while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. At least 2",
"title": "World War I casualties"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.73,
"text": "most sources, World War II was the most lethal war in world history, with some 70 million killed in six years. The civilian to combatant fatality ratio in World War II lies somewhere between 3:2 and 2:1, or from 60% to 67%. The high ratio of civilian casualties in this war was due in part to the increasing effectiveness and lethality of strategic weapons which were used to target enemy industrial or population centers, and famines caused by economic disruption. A substantial number of civilians in this war were also deliberately killed by Axis Powers as a result of racial",
"title": "Civilian casualty ratio"
}
] |
who used to say handle it handle it? | [
"Mayor Burnside"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "Deep South, and was often characterized as being an irreverent, comedic version of the movie \"\"In the Heat of the Night\"\", especially with the aspect of an educated, African American man coming to the small town South to work as a police officer. The character of Mayor Burnside coined a minor catchphrase with his manic \"\"Handle it, Roy, handle it!\"\", used when delegating various details to Chief Mobey such as fixing a parking ticket. If Mobey protested or asked any further questions, Burnside would stifle further discussion with a dismissive hand gesture and a further \"\"Handle it, handle it, handle",
"title": "Carter Country"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "load his clothes into the dryer. To expedite the process, the man takes out a load of a woman's laundry to make room for his. As he is unloading the woman's clothes, she catches him while he is holding a pair of her yellow underwear. The line that follows this situation says \"\"Don't sweat it. Handle it\"\". This again perpetuates the idea behind Speed Stick's campaign \"\"Handle It\"\". Speed Stick encourages its fans to submit their ideas of \"\"Handle It\"\" situations. Brian Katz was the winner of the \"\"Handle It\"\" situation taking place at the laundromat. Since the beginning of",
"title": "Speed Stick"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20,
"text": "the \"\"Oxford English Dictionary\"\" in 2004, largely in response to its much later popularisation in the television programme \"\"The Simpsons\"\", although \"\"ITMA\"\" is credited with the earliest recorded use of the term. On Wednesday, 19 February 1947, Mrs Jean Mann, MP for Coatbridge, introduced the epithet \"\"twerp\"\" to the House of Commons when referring to Tommy Handley during a debate on supplementary estimates. She objected to Molly Weir, who played a Scottish girl (Tattie Mackintosh) on the show, \"\"pursuing\"\" Tommy Handley. Mrs Mann commented that in her day, no Scottish girl would be seen chasing a twerp like Handley. The",
"title": "It's That Man Again"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "The Handle The Handle is the name of an electric guitar created by the award-winning designer Peter Solomon and produced by the company XOX Audio Tools. The Handle is characterized by its hollow shell which construction favors direct transmission of acoustic vibrations and creates a resonance chamber similar to that of a semi-acoustic guitar. The Handle is made from carbon fiber, a material developed for the aerospace industry, and used in F1 race cars. This ultra lightweight material is incredibly resistant, it won’t bend or deform under high temperatures or humidity. Surprisingly, carbon fiber offers a much wider harmonic range",
"title": "The Handle"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "as the second single from the album in the United States on 1 April 2008. The song was written and produced by Klas Åhlund. In an interview with British newspaper \"\"Metro\"\", Robyn spoke about \"\"Handle Me\"\", saying, \"\"It’s a fun song about any guy who thinks he’s really cool but really isn’t and I’ve got to tell him.\"\" Chris Willman of \"\"Entertainment Weekly\"\" considered the song \"\"a less nasty but even hookier version of Pink's lounge-lizard-repelling 'U + Ur Hand'.\"\" The song begins with thudding beats, accompanied by \"\"serious-sounding\"\" violas and violins. David Hyland of WMUR-TV wrote that it utilizes",
"title": "Handle Me"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.62,
"text": "handle it.' AllMovie critic Donald Guarisco wrote: \"\"This agreeable high-concept effort is one of Peter Hyams' most accomplished films. The script's conspiracy-theory premise requires a major suspension of disbelief, but Hyams makes it worthwhile for those willing to make that leap.\"\" Conversely, Vincent Canby of \"\"The New York Times\"\" called the film \"\"an expensive stylistically bankrupt suspense melodrama\"\" while describing much of its screenplay as \"\"humorless comic-strip stuff.\"\" The film received a 61% positive \"\"Fresh\"\" rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Two novelizations of the film were written and published by separate authors. The first was written by Ken",
"title": "Capricorn One"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.62,
"text": "so someone using narration technology would still be able to get a similar experience to other people using the sites. Their posts are also about a large variety of subjects, with topics like weight/size, disability, sexuality, gender, mental health, race, aging, rad parents, men, global, intersections, and \"\"H\"\", a section that stands for \"\"handle that\"\", a more radically inclusive version of the phrase \"\"man up.\"\" In 2010 Taylor released her first book, \"\"A Little Truth on Your Shirt\"\", a collection of her poetry that has been described as challenging, asking the reader hard questions. She was included in several different",
"title": "Sonya Renee Taylor"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.61,
"text": "a dash of magical fantasy, or an offbeat road movie. He handles none of these generic variations with enough care, leaving each dangling like an unwanted arm.\"\" Russell Edwards of \"\"Variety\"\" also said the problem was the script, which \"\"like many comedies with a sentimental streak, gets lost in mawkishness ... the idiosyncratic \"\"Handle\"\" becomes too slow and self-pitying\"\". The film also played at the 2008 Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy and in June 2008 at the Filmfest München in Munich, Germany. \"\"Handle Me With Care\"\" has been shown at film festivals as follows: Handle Me with Care",
"title": "Handle Me with Care"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.47,
"text": "handle it—-and even gives him permission to say \"\"booger\"\" on the air. When he gets on the air the first time after the format change, Johnny comes alive, signaling the change with a loud drag on the playing record (a fictional cover of \"\"(You're) Having My Baby\"\" by the Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir), after literally folding the record album on the other turntable in half. He immediately adopts the new, hyper-excited persona of \"\"Dr. Johnny Fever,\"\" by playing the first record (\"\"Queen of the Forest\"\" by Ted Nugent), and telling his listeners: He then starts the station's first rock record, before",
"title": "Dr. Johnny Fever"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.38,
"text": "were supposed to hold onto it (money) it would have handles.\"\" Jack Straus Jack \"\"Treetop\"\" Straus (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1988) was an American professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 1982 World Series of Poker Main Event, where he was able to come back from being down to one chip earlier in the tournament, which gave meaning to the poker phrase \"\"a chip and a chair\"\". In addition, Straus is known for successfully pulling off one of the best bluffs in the history of poker. Straus began playing in World Series of Poker events",
"title": "Jack Straus"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.16,
"text": "handle?\"\" was apparently translated by Monsignor Antonio Bacci of the Vatican. Frank Okey's page on the University of Rochester's Hall of Fame website The Tennis Club of Rochester Frank Okey Frank Okey (born Francis Anthony Okolowicz on December 16, 1919) is an American tennis and squash champion, born in Rochester, New York, whose career spanned from 1929 until 1999. Okey won between 200 and 250 tennis tournaments between 1949 and 1999, including wins from throughout western New York State, Florida, and other regional, national, and international circuits. His local achievements in tennis include 85 tournament wins in the Rochester District",
"title": "Frank Okey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.14,
"text": "itself became known for a number of catchphrases, some of which entered popular vocabulary. He starred in the films \"\"ITMA\"\" (1942) and in \"\"Time Flies\"\" (1944). In later years, he suffered with high blood pressure, the result of his driving commitment to \"\"ITMA\"\", and died suddenly on 9 January 1949 from a brain haemorrhage, eight days before his 57th birthday. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the rhododendron bed at Golders Green Crematorium. In a eulogy at his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London, John W.C. Wand, said that \"\"he was one whose genius",
"title": "Tommy Handley"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.05,
"text": "Handles (novel) Handles is a realistic children's novel by Jan Mark, first published in 1983 by Kestrel Books of Harmondsworth, London, with illustrations by David Parkins. Set in the Norfolk countryside, it features a city girl on holiday, who loves motorcycles. Nicholas Tucker calls it \"\"a happy, optimistic work\"\"; Erica escapes \"\"mean-minded relatives\"\" for the \"\"anarchic motorbike-repair outfit in a nearby town\"\". Mark and \"\"Handles\"\" won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Thus she became the third writer with two such honors (of seven through 2012), having won",
"title": "Handles (novel)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.94,
"text": "she was in the studio recording his song, \"\"Handle It\"\". An assistant handled the actual recording work. Most of the songs on the album were mixed by Phil Tan at Soapbox Studios in Atlanta, while the title track was mixed by Fabian Marasciullo at Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. \"\"Fight for You\"\" and \"\"Here for Me\"\" were mixed Harvey Mason, Jr. Most of the songs were mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York, while the title track was mastered by Dave Kutch at The Mastering Palace in New York. The album's official cover and track listing",
"title": "Get 'Em Girls"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.94,
"text": "when the album was first released, and were very low budget videos. Which I think is great – I don't mind working with low budget kind of videos.\"\" Robyn asked director and singer Johan Renck for advice when she started her own record label. At the time, Robyn said that she \"\"hardly had any money to make music videos – and [Renck] doesn't do low-budget stuff – so he hooked me up with people who could help me out.\"\" The video begins with Robyn and a group of people outside at night. Robyn wears a tank top and several gold",
"title": "Handle Me"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.88,
"text": "than wood. The guitar won the \"\"Good Design\"\" 2006 award from Chicago Athenaeum Museum has been selected by the acclaimed ADI Design Index. It was designed taking inspiration from musician’s needs, the handle was designed for speed and comfort; its concave form, thin profile, slim neck, and light weight offer a truly pleasing experience to anyone who plays it. There's a baritone version, Billy Sheehan signature, which is called \"\"Billytone\"\". The Handle The Handle is the name of an electric guitar created by the award-winning designer Peter Solomon and produced by the company XOX Audio Tools. The Handle is characterized",
"title": "The Handle"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.86,
"text": "order to shut it, the handle came off and Wells fell, injuring himself. Expert evidence was given that Cooper should have used longer screws when attaching the handle. The Court of Appeal held that the degree of care and skill required of a householder undertaking his own repairs was to be measured not by reference to his own degree of personal competence but by reference to the degree of care and skill which a reasonably skilled amateur carpenter might be expected to apply to the work in question. The safety of their work was not to be judged by reference",
"title": "Wells v Cooper"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.83,
"text": "voice spoken into the mouthpiece. This telephone device weighed about twelve ounces and could be held in one hand when mounted on a handle. It reproduced voices better that the large box telephones made earlier and worked well over long circuits but with less volume. It did, however, serve as both transmitter and receiver and had to be moved from the mouth to the ear depending on whether the caller was speaking or listening. The handle telephone was embraced by Alexander Graham Bell and in June 1878 the Bell Telephone Company began production of its standard handheld model, combined with",
"title": "John Peirce"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.81,
"text": "the dial and give it to the person.\"\" Olmstead and Zúñiga were struck by the level of public advertising and the extent to which public space had been privatized through advertising: Even the strap handles on Santiago buses held slots for advertising. One bus company ad stated \"\"We worry about your security, what do you worry about?\"\" The collaborators adopted this ad imitating its font, style and colors. One version included an illustration of Milton Friedman said \"\"The economy is in your hands\"\" and the other an illustration of Juan Sebastian Piñera Echenique, the neo liberal president of Chile, in",
"title": "Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.8,
"text": "Handle\"\". Both films were low-budget, and their American releases were delayed. \"\"Too Hot to Handle\"\" was not released in the United States until 1961 as \"\"Playgirl After Dark\"\". \"\"The Challenge\"\" was released in 1963 as \"\"It Takes a Thief\"\". In the United States, censors objected to a scene in \"\"Too Hot to Handle\"\" where Mansfield, wearing silver netting with sequins painted over her nipples, appears nearly nude. When she returned to Hollywood in mid-1960, 20th Century-Fox cast her in \"\"It Happened in Athens\"\" (1962). She received first billing above the title, but appeared in only a supporting role. \"\"It Happened",
"title": "Jayne Mansfield"
}
] |
who plays the voice of bob from bob's burgers? | [
"H. Jon Benjamin"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.86,
"text": "John Roberts (actor) John Roberts (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer who voices Linda Belcher on the animated sitcom \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". Roberts currently voices Linda, the doting matriarch of the Belcher family, in the Fox animated primetime comedy \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". He has said in interviews that he based the voice of Linda on that of his own mother, Marge. He has appeared several times on NBC's \"\"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\"\" and \"\"Watch What Happens: Live\"\", has co-written a pilot for MTV with Bob Odenkirk and performed in two national tours for Margaret",
"title": "John Roberts (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.64,
"text": "Benjamin, Rachel Hastings, Justin Hook, Dan Mintz, and Mike Olsen have also written or co-written episodes. After the writing has been completed, the voice actors read the script as written, but later are allowed to improvise lines. The editors and writer decide what improvised lines make the final cut. \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" has five main cast members: H. Jon Benjamin as Bob Belcher, John Roberts as Linda Belcher, Dan Mintz as Tina Belcher, Eugene Mirman as Gene Belcher, and Kristen Schaal as Louise Belcher. The components of a hamburger fall into place on a white screen, and Bob's hands appear underneath",
"title": "Bob's Burgers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.03,
"text": "Dan Mintz Daniel Alexander Mintz (born September 25, 1981) is an American comedian, voice actor and writer best known for his role as Bob's oldest daughter Tina Belcher on the animated show \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". As a comedian, he is known for his extremely deadpan delivery, keeping his eyes fixed straight ahead and never looking toward the camera or audience. Born to a Jewish family, Mintz grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for \"\"The Harvard Lampoon\"\". He landed his first writing job at Comedy Central's \"\"Crank Yankers\"\", then worked on \"\"Last Call",
"title": "Dan Mintz"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "Bob's Burgers (season 1) The first season of the American animated sitcom \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" began airing on Fox in the United States on January 9, 2011, and concluded on May 22, 2011. Thirteen episodes long, the season was produced by Bento Box Entertainment in association with 20th Century Fox Television. The series follows the family—father Bob, mother Linda, daughters Louise and Tina Belcher, and son Gene. The show features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts and Kristen Schaal in their roles of the Belcher family. The series premiere, \"\"Human Flesh\"\", was broadcast directly after",
"title": "Bob's Burgers (season 1)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.59,
"text": "and the writing starts to show how even the most maniacal girl with a bunny hat can be humanized.\"\" Phillip Maciak, writing for the \"\"Los Angeles Review of Books\"\", named Kristen Schaal's voice acting as Louise on \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" as his favorite television performance of the year and cited her performance in the episode: \"\"Schaal's handling of the anger and betrayal Louise feels as she finds herself attracting to a boy for the first time is actually quite moving. But, more than that, it opens up a new register of this top-register performance as Louise’s murderous rage turns to murderous",
"title": "Boyz 4 Now"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "himself to be the titular hamburger chef character of the animated series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". (Both titular characters are voiced by H. Jon Benjamin.) The \"\"daily special\"\" on the menu board is \"\"Thomas Elphinstone Hambledurger with Manning Coleslaw\"\". Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon (Tommy Hambledon) is the fictional protagonist of many spy novels written by the British author \"\"Manning Coles\"\" (actually the two-person writing team of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles) from 1940 through 1963. He works for a department of the Foreign Office, usually referred to in the novels as \"\"MI5\"\" (counter-intelligence), although in the earliest",
"title": "Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.19,
"text": "second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons of the show. In 2014, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the third season. Cole currently provides the voice of Sergeant Boscoe on \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and Principal Shepherd on \"\"Family Guy\"\". Cole married actress Teddi Siddall on March 8, 1992. Their daughter Mary is pursuing an acting career. On June 19, 2017, the couple announced they were divorcing. Gary Cole Gary Michael Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career",
"title": "Gary Cole"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "(Jenny Slate), Jocelyn (John Roberts), and Regular-Sized Rudy (Brian Huskey). Mr. Frond (David Herman) is the guidance counselor at their school. Other recurring characters include customers Teddy (Larry Murphy) and Mort (Andy Kindler), as well as Linda's eccentric sister Gayle (Megan Mullally), and the Belchers' sometimes-meddling landlord, Calvin Fischoeder (Kevin Kline) and his brother Felix (Zach Galifianakis). Bob is frequently antagonized by health inspector Hugo (Sam Seder), Linda's ex-fiancé who holds a grudge against Bob and constantly schemes to get the restaurant shut down, though his plans are often revealed to the Belchers by his easy-going assistant, Ron (Ron Lynch).",
"title": "Bob's Burgers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou? \"\"Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?\"\" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the American animated comedy series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and the 112th episode overall. It was directed by Chris Song and written by Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, its guest stars are Kurt Braunohler as Logan Bush, Erik Griffin as Gerald the accountant and David Herman who voices Mr. Frond, a director and Logan's friend. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 20, 2016. In this episode Tina Belcher has detention and Bob and Linda Belcher are in Gerald's office,",
"title": "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "Kristen Schaal Kristen Joy Schaal (; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and Mabel Pines on \"\"Gravity Falls\"\", as well as for playing Mel on \"\"Flight of the Conchords\"\", Hurshe Heartshe on \"\"The Heart, She Holler\"\" and Carol on \"\"The Last Man on Earth\"\". She also provides several voices for \"\"BoJack Horseman\"\", most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda",
"title": "Kristen Schaal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "Kristen Schaal Kristen Joy Schaal (; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and Mabel Pines on \"\"Gravity Falls\"\", as well as for playing Mel on \"\"Flight of the Conchords\"\", Hurshe Heartshe on \"\"The Heart, She Holler\"\" and Carol on \"\"The Last Man on Earth\"\". She also provides several voices for \"\"BoJack Horseman\"\", most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda",
"title": "Kristen Schaal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "The Hauntening \"\"The Hauntening\"\" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American animated comedy series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and the 91st episode overall. It was written by Steven Davis and Kevin Yu who won an Annie Award, and was directed by Jennifer Coyle. Guest star is Max Greenfield who voices boyband member Boo Boo. It first aired in the United States on October 18, 2015 at Fox Network. In this episode, the Belcher family goes to a haunted house on Halloween, where the parents want to scare their children, especially Louise. In the family restaurant Bob and Linda",
"title": "The Hauntening"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "Bob Actually \"\"Bob Actually\"\" is the ninth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series Bob's Burgers and the 116th episode overall. It was written by Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu, and directed by Chris Song. Its guests are Stephanie Beatriz as Chloe Barbash, Daniel Van Kirk as Flips Whitefudge, Gabrielle Sanalitro as Isabella, David Herman as Mr. Frond and Martin, Melissa Bardin Galsky as a receptionist and Ms. Jacobson, Sarah Baker as Ms. Selbo, Brian Huskey as Regular Sized Rudy, Brooke Dillman as Shelly, Jenny Slate as Tammy Larsen, and Bobby Tisdale as Zeke. It originally",
"title": "Bob Actually"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "Glued, Where's My Bob? \"\"Glued, Where's My Bob?\"\" is the 19th episode of sixth season of the American animated comedy series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". Written by Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu, the episode features guest appearances from actors Rob Huebel, Kumail Nanjiani, and Keegan-Michael Key, as well as appearances by recurring guest stars Pamela Adlon, Ken Jeong, Tim Meadows, and Jenny Slate. Its main plot sees Gene Belcher (Eugene Mirman), Louise Belcher (Kristen Schaal), and Tina (Dan Mintz) getting into a normal fight which causes Bob to end up in a sticky situation, where he learns that a journalist is coming",
"title": "Glued, Where's My Bob?"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "Ambergris (Bob's Burgers) \"\"Ambergris\"\" is the 18th episode of the fourth season of the American animated comedy series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\", and the 63rd episode overall. Written by Scott Jacobson, the episode sees the Belcher children—Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal)—discovering a lump of ambergris, which they decide to sell illegally with the assistance of former bank robber and family friend Mickey (guest voiced by Bill Hader) upon discovering its high monetary value. Meanwhile, Mr. Fischoeder (guest voiced by Kevin Kline) brings in his neurotic brother Felix (guest voiced by Zach Galifianakis) to help Bob (H. Jon",
"title": "Ambergris (Bob's Burgers)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "Nice-Capades \"\"Nice-Capades\"\" is the fifth episode of the sixth season of the American comedy series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" and the 93rd episode overall. It was written by Dan Fybel and directed by Chris Song. Guest starring are Kevin Kline as Calvin Fischoeder, Zach Galifianakis as his brother Felix Fischoeder, Henry Winkler as a mall Santa and Jessica Lowe who voices an elf. It first aired in the United States on Fox Network on November 15, 2015. In this Christmas episode, the siblings Tina, Gene and Louise Belcher try to prove that they are good kids by performing an ice capades show",
"title": "Nice-Capades"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "writing (particularly writing for others), preferring instead to perform in front of a camera. Tompkins has done voice work for many animated television series including \"\"Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist\"\", \"\"King of the Hill\"\", and \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\", in which he voices the recurring character Randy. He lent his voice to a character in an unaired 2007 episode of \"\"Aqua Teen Hunger Force\"\" titled \"\"Boston\"\" that was supposed to be the premiere episode of the show's fifth season, but it was pulled by Turner Broadcasting System to avoid further controversy surrounding the 2007 Boston bomb scare. Tompkins later appeared in an episode",
"title": "Paul F. Tompkins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "April 4, 2013, Mirman provided the voice for Cecil Tunt, multi-millionaire brother of Cheryl/Carol Tunt on FX's \"\"Archer\"\". On March 13, 2016, Mirman appeared on \"\"Last Week Tonight\"\" as a hacker. Mirman currently voices the character Gene Belcher on the Fox animated series \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\". Mirman lent his guest voice to a character named Emperor Keith Merman in the Netflix original \"\"The Adventures of Puss in Boots\"\". In January 2009, Mirman released a satirical self-help book entitled \"\"The Will to Whatevs\"\". He often appears on \"\"StarTalk Radio\"\", hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He has also appeared several times on the",
"title": "Eugene Mirman"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.56,
"text": "H. Jon Benjamin Harry Jon Benjamin (born May 23, 1966) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian best known for voicing characters, such as Sterling Archer in the animated sitcom \"\"Archer\"\"; Bob Belcher in the animated sitcom \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\"; Ben, the son of Dr. Katz, in \"\"Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist\"\", Satan in \"\"Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil\"\"; Coach McGuirk and Jason on \"\"Home Movies\"\" and a can of mixed vegetables in the film \"\"Wet Hot American Summer\"\". Benjamin was born on May 23, 1966 to a Jewish family in Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated from Worcester Academy in 1984",
"title": "H. Jon Benjamin"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.56,
"text": "\"\"Lucy\"\" in the Adult Swim series \"\"Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil\"\", another series creation from Bouchard from 2007, replacing Jessi Klein from the pilot and again appearing alongside H. Jon Benjamin. On March 13, 2011 Galsky teamed up again with Benjamin, voicing \"\"Nora Samuels\"\" in the seventh episode of \"\"Bob's Burgers\"\" a show created by Bouchard entitled \"\"Bed & Breakfast\"\" and she is now a production coordinator in New York City for the series. Melissa Bardin Galsky Melissa Bardin Galsky (born January 17, 1972) is an American voice actress, writer and producer for several animated sitcoms from the Soup2Nuts",
"title": "Melissa Bardin Galsky"
}
] |
what episode does reid get caught with drugs? | [
"\"Elephant's Memory\""
] | [
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "birthday. At the end of the episode, the team throw him a mini birthday party. After being kidnapped by a serial killer with multiple personalities, Tobias Hankel (James Van Der Beek), Reid is tortured and drugged over the course of two days in \"\"Revelations\"\". This leads him to develop an addiction to the narcotic painkiller Dilaudid. While the BAU team members have their suspicions about Spencer's addiction, none of them confront him about it. An old friend of Reid's in New Orleans is also aware that Reid suffers from 'problems' in \"\"Jones\"\". Reid gets clean and attends a support group",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "admitted to Garrett that the case affected him more than he would like as the girl reminded him of his own daughters. Simmons and Clara Seger made an appearance in the \"\"Criminal Minds\"\" season 12 episode \"\"Spencer\"\" to help out their colleagues at the BAU. Dr. Spencer Reid was imprisoned in Mexico after being found in possession of drugs. Simmons and the IRT had been in Costa Rica working a case when they received the call for help. In the season 2 episode \"\"Pretty Like Me\"\", Simmons took some time off to fulfill his late mother's dying wish to find",
"title": "Matt Simmons (Criminal Minds)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.17,
"text": "\"\"Criminal Minds\"\", playing a serial killer with dissociative identity disorder called Tobias Hankel who kidnaps and drugs one of the main characters, Spencer Reid. In 2008, he made a guest appearance on \"\"How I Met Your Mother\"\", in which he played Simon, one of Robin Scherbatsky’s early boyfriends, multiple times. In 2008, he began a recurring role on \"\"One Tree Hill\"\" as a filmmaker who was largely the satirical opposite of Dawson Leery. He appeared in an episode of the fifth season of \"\"Medium\"\". In 2009, he portrayed real life kidnapper Anthony Steven \"\"Tony Zappa\"\" Wright in the Lifetime network",
"title": "James Van Der Beek"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "meeting for addicts in law enforcement in \"\"Elephant's Memory\"\", at which he admits struggling with cravings as well as with traumatic memories, including a young adult suspect's shooting death in his presence. When he contracts anthrax in \"\"Amplification\"\", he strictly refused to take any narcotic painkillers in an attempt to remain clean. Memories of his torture under Hankel later allow him to empathize with other victims. Throughout the show, Reid shows a lack of interest when interacting with women. The only three exceptions are Lila Archer, a young actress he is assigned to protect; Austin (Courtney Ford), a bartender he",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "them the shooting \"\"was completely unrelated to the medication. For me, it was a result of mental illness.\"\" In 2005 Reid supported psychiatrist Park Dietz over false testimony that had contributed to a guilty verdict and a possible execution of Andrea Yates. Dietz had testified that Yates got the idea of drowning children and claiming postpartum psychosis from a recent episode of Law and Order, a TV show Dietz had consulted on, but later admitted such an episode didn't exist and that Yates hadn't told him she watched the show. Reid called it an 'accident' and 'off-the-cuff answer' that shouldn't",
"title": "William Reid (psychiatrist)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "in him, and he gives her his business card in case she hears something about the killer. Later, she sees the killer with another potential victim and intentionally spills her drink on the lady, pulling her away. The killer seems to disappear, and while the bartender goes outside to phone Reid, he grabs her. The team responds quickly and saves her before she is harmed. At the end of the episode, she and Reid are talking over the phone, and he opens a package at his desk that contains the card that he gave her—with a lipstick kiss on the",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.12,
"text": "in front of the entire office, causing Burke to intervene and discipline her. When Stuart falls asleep on duty in \"\"An Eye for an Eye\"\" (2003), allowing a murderer to kill again, Jackie comforts him and then visits his flat while he is suspended. She encourages him to take a blood test, which reveals that he was drugged on the night in question. She is finally promoted in the most recent episode, \"\"The Ends of Justice\"\" (2010). She currently has the last line of the show so far on answering the telephone: \"\"DI Reid?\"\" character profile on IMDb Jackie Reid",
"title": "Jackie Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.92,
"text": "capture \"\"specimens\"\" from the outside to test the effectiveness of a drug that the Stations have developed to Counter Gene-X. In the Country, a meeting of the royalty is called - and Cloud finds that Eleanor has disappeared. He takes Reide along instead. At the meeting, the possibility of the Stations mobilizing again is discussed. And at the end, Erin Iyelsviel announces that an intruder was caught in Diamonds - Lance. The punishment decided for him is death. Meanwhile, Eleanor breaks into the House of Diamonds and rescues Lance and they attempt to escape the facility. The Country is an",
"title": "Heightened Senses"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "go their separate ways, and Lila is not seen in further episodes. In another episode, Reid and Morgan are in a nightclub trying to find a serial murderer who picks up women in nightclubs. Reid is having trouble talking to the women in these clubs, especially since he is spouting facts about club-related deaths, but Morgan helps him out. Reid starts a conversation with the female bartender, and proceeds to do a magic trick in which he appears to jab a pen through the eye of a police sketch, but pulls it through, leaving the paper unscathed. She expresses interest",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.69,
"text": "and adoration from his superiors, and he is eventually assigned to undercover work in the case against Gittens. Cole goes undercover, posing as a drug dealer under the name of J. Reid from Akron, Ohio. He is determined to be the man who brings down Gittens underworld empire. Cole has to prove he has street cred to gain a place in God's crew. At one point God sends Cole out on a mission with a couple of his cohorts with the intention of Cole killing a man that God wants dead. Trapped in that position, Cole goes along and has",
"title": "In Too Deep (1999 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "betrayed because he came to her house \"\"for 10 weeks in a row, crying over losing a friend\"\" and \"\"not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth.\"\" She doesn't say anything. He asks J.J. \"\"what if\"\" he had started using Dilaudid again after Emily \"\"died.\"\" In \"\"True Genius\"\", Reid doubts his reasons for being in the BAU and wonders if he should be doing more with his 'genius'. This is caused by the unsub sending him taunting messages and challenging Reid to find him. In this episode, he also reveals that the team missed his 30th",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.47,
"text": "deal taking place between the game's villains. A drug lord known as Tulio Mendoza is infuriated after being ripped off by a Russian businessman named Akimov. The two settle their problems and join forces. Meanwhile, two TNT agents, Ray Jackson and his partner, Lee-Ann Reid, are going to a diner. Jackson sits in the car, while Reid walks inside. While sitting at the counter, the car explodes with Jackson inside and Reid is captured by a gang known as the Baby Demons. Burnett and Lowrey are sent by Captain Howard to rescue the surviving agent and take out the Baby",
"title": "Bad Boys: Miami Takedown"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.41,
"text": "JJ also states that she has a niece who, at the time, is about 8 years old. When she and Reid unexpectedly came across serial killer Tobias Hankel in the episode \"\"The Big Game\"\", and split up to apprehend the suspect, JJ walked into a dark barn and was attacked by several attack dogs. Although JJ shot and killed the dogs, saving her own life, Reid was abducted by Hankel in the meantime, and would later be tortured and almost killed by Hankel before the BAU team was able to rescue him. After this traumatic experience, it appears that JJ",
"title": "Jennifer Jareau"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.39,
"text": "drug tested 7 times during the 2018 NFL season, even though he has only played in 11 games. Reid sees this as being targeted by the league and plans on including these seven drug tests as part of his case file in the proceedings of his collusion grievance against the league. His brother, Justin Reid, is a safety who was picked by Houston Texans in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft. Since Reid decided to protest with Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 NFL season, the two have been collaborating with each other to address social justice issues and",
"title": "Eric Reid (American football)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "this, afraid that he may be suffering from the same illness as his mother. It is not mentioned again until \"\"Coda\"\", when he is seen once again wearing sunglasses and is carrying a book on migraines. In the same episode, Reid bonds with a young autistic boy, Sammy Sparks. A cut line from the episode has Rossi stating that Sammy and Reid are two of the most fascinating minds he's ever encountered. In the episode \"\"Valhalla\"\", Reid tells Prentiss about his headaches. By then, Reid has gone to several doctors, but no one has been able to diagnose what is",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.34,
"text": "Christmas light fails, to stab Ian Reid, the rapist who had attacked multiple characters earlier in the year. Kylie confessed this to Dylan after he finally admitted his own crimes. She then used a passionate kiss to drug him and then suffocate him, claiming his life as well. Meanwhile, Nurse Dawn was trying to spread Christmas cheer, unaware husband Ali has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The season ends when Mo, Coughs up blood onto Kate's shirt and hears Pixie before passing out, Jack is weak and his life is hanging in the balance, Kylie is now a two time",
"title": "Shortland Street cliffhangers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.22,
"text": "WWE adopting the ring name, Charlotte (which was later changed to include the Flair surname). On March 29, 2013, Reid died from an accidental overdose of heroin, Xanax and a muscle relaxer. In December 2005, a judge issued arrest warrants for Flair after a road rage incident that took place in Charlotte, North Carolina in which Flair allegedly got out of his car, grabbed a motorist by the neck, and kicked the door off the motorist's sport utility vehicle. Flair was charged with two misdemeanors, injury to personal property and simple assault and battery. This incident was ridiculed on WWE",
"title": "Ric Flair"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.2,
"text": "now she's a lot more confident and together.\"\" J.D. and Elliot have a complex relationship; they are close friends and often grapple with their romantic feelings for each other. In an interview, Sarah Chalke said that Bill Lawrence, the creator of \"\"Scrubs\"\", wanted to avoid a \"\"will they or won't they get together\"\" plot for the series, instead opting for a running gag where they hook up once a year and have \"\"everything blow up in [their] faces and not work out.\"\" In the Season 1 episode \"\"My Drug Buddy,\"\" they start a relationship, but break up in the following",
"title": "Elliot Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.14,
"text": "\"\"woos\"\" with magic tricks while showing her a sketch of a potential suspect; and Maeve, a geneticist he first meets through correspondence, then later weekly phone calls. In \"\"Memoriam\"\", a prostitute hits on Reid in a Las Vegas casino, but he is oblivious to her intentions. In \"\"Somebody's Watching\"\", with the team on a case to protect a TV starlet, Reid saves Lila Archer (Amber Heard) from being harmed by a serial killer. Reid and Lila kindle a short-lived romance, beginning when Lila pulls Reid, fully clothed, into her pool for a kiss. At the end of the episode, they",
"title": "Spencer Reid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.09,
"text": "11 0 1 Career 39 3 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 34 10 4 2 yrs IND 26 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 19 2 2 1 yr NWE 13 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 15 8 2 After pleading guilty in January 2008 to drug charges in Virginia Beach, VA stemming from a March 2007 incident, Reid was initially sentenced to two years in prison for possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute but had the sentence suspended with the agreement he",
"title": "Dexter Reid"
}
] |
who played scarlett in four weddings and a funeral? | [
"Charlotte Ninon Coleman"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.5,
"text": "played the twins' teacher, Miss Debenham. Coleman played Scarlett in the film \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" (1994) with Hugh Grant, Simon Callow and Kristin Scott Thomas. She continued to act in films throughout the 1990s with her last major film being Jasmin Dizdar's \"\"Beautiful People\"\" (1999), set in London in 1993, at the time of the Bosnian War, playing the role of Portia Thornton. Coleman portrayed the character of Lorna in \"\"Our Own Kind\"\" (Roy MacGregor), at the Bush Theatre in London (April 1991). She co-starred with Kevin Whately, Nisha Nayar and Jane Horrocks. \"\"\"\"The prime focus falls on",
"title": "Charlotte Coleman"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\", Jess in the television drama \"\"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit\"\", and her childhood roles of Sue in \"\"Worzel Gummidge\"\" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for",
"title": "Charlotte Coleman"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\", Jess in the television drama \"\"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit\"\", and her childhood roles of Sue in \"\"Worzel Gummidge\"\" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for",
"title": "Charlotte Coleman"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "Scarlett say the word \"\"Fuck\"\" over and over, after an initial screening of the movie in Salt Lake City led members of the conservative Mormon city council to walk out. Accordingly, Mike Newell and the actors agreed to reshoot the scene with the British swear word \"\"Bugger\"\" to be used in the American version. The executives also objected to the title, believing \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" would turn off male viewers from the film. In its place they suggested such titles as \"\"True Love and Near Misses\"\", \"\"Loitering in Sacred Places\"\", \"\"Skulking Around\"\", and \"\"Rolling in the Aisles\"\", none",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "On May 2, 2018, it was announced that Hulu had given the production a series order. On October 26, 2018, it was announced that Jessica Williams, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and John Paul Reynolds had been cast in starring roles. On November 21, 2018, it was reported that Williams' lead role of Jess had been reconceived into a new character named Maya and that Williams had been recast in the role by Nathalie Emmanuel. Additionally, it was further reported that Brandon Mychal Smith, Zoe Boyle, Jennie Jacques, Harish Patel and Guz Khan had joined the cast and that Andie MacDowell",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "Scarlett (miniseries) Scarlett is a 1994 American six-hour television miniseries loosely based on the 1991 book of the same name written by Alexandra Ripley as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, \"\"Gone with the Wind\"\". The series was filmed at 53 locations in the United States and abroad, and stars Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler, and Sean Bean as Lord Richard Fenton. The miniseries was broadcast in four parts on CBS on November 13, 15, 16 and 17, 1994. The series begins with Scarlett attending the funeral of Melanie Wilkes, her late sister-in-law and",
"title": "Scarlett (miniseries)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.06,
"text": "her and hinting that he would like to have a relationship with her, to no avail. The third wedding is that of Carrie and Hamish. Charles attends, depressed at the prospect of Carrie marrying Hamish. At the reception, Gareth instructs his friends to seek potential mates; Fiona's brother, Tom, stumbles through an attempt to connect with a woman until she reveals that she is the minister's wife, while Charles's flatmate, Scarlett, strikes up a conversation with an American named Chester. As Charles watches Carrie and Hamish dance, Fiona deduces his feelings about Carrie. When Charles asks why Fiona is not",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries) Four Weddings and a Funeral is an upcoming American comedy web television miniseries, based on the 1994 British film of the same name written by Richard Curtis, that is set to premiere on Hulu. The series was created by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton and stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and John Paul Reynolds. \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" follows \"\"four American friends — Maya, Craig, Ainsley, and Duffy — who reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "Charity Sharma (Emma Atkins) has bought into the business. Rodney Blackstock (Patrick Mower) fills Scarlett in on what has occurred since she left. Robbie Lawson (Jamie Shelton) flirts with Scarlett in the cafe and she catches up with Adam. The night before Carl's funeral, Jimmy gets drunk and tells a shocked Scarlett that Carl killed their father. Scarlett is disappointed that Jimmy had not told her sooner but forgives him. Scarlett attends Carl's funeral and is comforted by Nicola during the service. Scarlett chooses to stay in the village to support Jimmy against Charity, who is attempting to convince him",
"title": "Scarlett Nicholls"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "Henrietta punches Charles and the wedding is halted. Carrie visits Charles to apologise for attending the wedding. Charles confesses that, while standing at the altar, he realised that for the first time in his life he totally and utterly loved one person, \"\"and it wasn't the person standing next to me in the veil.\"\" Charles makes a proposal of lifelong commitment without marriage to Carrie, who accepts. Henrietta marries an officer in the Grenadier Guards; David marries his girlfriend Serena; Scarlett marries Chester; Tom marries his distant cousin Deirdre (whom he met, for the second time in 25 years, at",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "would make a guest appearance in a nod to her starring role in the 1994 film, albeit not as her original character Carrie from the film. On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Tom Mison and Ashley Madekwe had been cast in recurring roles and that Tommy Dewey would make a guest appearance. Principal photography for the series commenced on November 26, 2018, in London, England. Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries) Four Weddings and a Funeral is an upcoming American comedy web television miniseries, based on the 1994 British film of the same name written by Richard Curtis,",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral (miniseries)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.41,
"text": "Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance. Andie MacDowell stars as Charles' love interest Carrie, with Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave and Rowan Atkinson in supporting roles. It was made in six weeks and cost under £3 million,",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "De Souza (Michael Jayston). On Matthew and Anna De Souza's (Emma Davies) wedding day, Carl learnt what Donald had done and that Anna had an interest in De Souza Enterprises, meaning Matthew would benefit as her husband. Feeling that Matthew had stitched his brothers up, he stopped the wedding. Consequently, he and Matthew had a massive fight, ending in Matthew's death. Jimmy was devastated but Carl was too embittered and stunned to help so Jimmy turned to drink and was drunk at Matthew's funeral. When he learned that Tom's grave had been defaced, he verbally attacked the congregation before Scarlett",
"title": "Jimmy King (Emmerdale)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.03,
"text": "went on the publicity trail he turned out to be incredibly funny, and very like the character of Charles. That doesn't ever happen.\"\" Hugh Grant's then-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley also garnered much publicity for the film when she wore a black Versace safety-pin dress to the premiere in Leicester Square which became a sensation in the press. The film was very well received with critics, currently holding a 95% \"\"Certified Fresh\"\" approval on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating, \"\"While frothy to a fault, \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" features irresistibly breezy humor, and winsome performances from Hugh",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "Mike Newell and the film's producers to approve of Grant. The original choice for the role of Carrie was Jeanne Tripplehorn, but she had to drop out because of a death in her family. Marisa Tomei and, reportedly, Sarah Jessica Parker, were also considered before Andie MacDowell was cast. Grant's participation hit another stumbling block when his agent requested a £5,000 rise over the £35,000 salary Grant was offered. The producers initially refused because of the extremely tight budget, but eventually agreed. The supporting cast-members were paid £17,500 apiece. Pre-production for the movie was a long process because funding was",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "had joined the cast of the series. On 5 December 2018, it was announced that Richard Curtis has written \"\"One Red Nose Day and a Wedding\"\", a 25th anniversary reunion short film, to be directed by the original film's director, Mike Newell. It will reunite the film's surviving cast, including Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Hannah, Rowan Atkinson, James Fleet, David Haig, Sophie Thompson, David Bower, Robin McCaffrey, Anna Chancellor, Rupert Vansittart, Simon Kunz, Sara Crowe and Timothy Walker. The 12-minute film will be set at a wedding, though exactly whose wedding has not been revealed, as",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.77,
"text": "it is a twist. It will air in the UK during Red Nose Day on Friday 15 March 2019 and later in the US on their Red Nose Day on May 23, 2019. Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance. Andie MacDowell stars as Charles' love interest Carrie,",
"title": "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.52,
"text": "in 1992 and 1995. She also had a short, but memorable, appearance in \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" (1994). She appeared in only one film musical, \"\"Man of La Mancha\"\" (1972), based on the successful stage production, as Don Quixote's housekeeper. In the role, her less-than-good singing voice was used for intentionally comic effect in the song \"\"I'm Only Thinking of Him\"\". Her last appearance was in the pilot episode of the TV detective series, \"\"Midsomer Murders\"\", playing Lucy Bellringer. This was shown in 1997, shortly before she died. She was married twice, first to actor Dan Cunningham in 1939",
"title": "Rosalie Crutchley"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.52,
"text": "48th British Academy Film Awards The 48th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1995, honoured the best films of 1994. Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral won the award for Best Film. It also won the awards for Best Director (Mike Newell), Actor (Hugh Grant) and Supporting Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas). \"\"Pulp Fiction\"\" won the awards for Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson) and Original Screenplay. Susan Sarandon won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her role in \"\"The Client\"\". \"\"' Hugh Grant – \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" \"\"'",
"title": "48th British Academy Film Awards"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.41,
"text": "be smaller supporting parts. Her most prominent role has been as the irritating folk singer in \"\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\"\" (1994), who sings \"\"Can't Smile Without You\"\" at the first wedding. She also appeared in the feature film adaptation of the classic television series \"\"Thunderbirds\"\" (2004). In 2005, she portrayed a British journalist caught up in the Rwandan genocide in \"\"Shooting Dogs\"\". In July 2011, Walker played the significant supporting role of Medtech Liv Chenka in the Big Finish Productions \"\"Doctor Who\"\" audio drama \"\"Robophobia\"\", opposite Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. The Chenka character proved popular both with",
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] |
who sings i just died in your arms? | [
"Cutting Crew"
] | [
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"score": 26.67,
"text": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" is a song by the English rock band Cutting Crew. The song was released as the lead single from their debut studio album, \"\"Broadcast\"\" (1986). It was first released on 25 July 1986 in the United Kingdom, and then released to the United States on 1 January 1987. The song was written by frontman Nick Van Eede, produced by Terry Brown, John Jansen and the band, and mixed at Utopia Studios in London by Tim Palmer. The power ballad was the band's biggest hit, peaking at number-one in",
"title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26,
"text": "that Bieber sings over makes me melt in the same way his anime eyes makes little girls melt (Bieber still has them melting, right?). There is an in-your-ear-not-your-mouth joke to be made, but I will refrain because, ugh, I just died in your arms this year, Bieber. Even the robo-melisma doesn't bug. What is happening to me?\"\" Tanar Anitai of MTV compared the song's style to the ones of Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. Rolling Stone named the track the 45th best song of 2012. Following its release on iTunes Store, \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" reached number",
"title": "Die in Your Arms"
},
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"score": 25.58,
"text": "Nick Van Eede Nick Van Eede (born Nicholas Eede, 14 June 1958) is an English musician, producer and songwriter. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 U.S. #1 power ballad, \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" for his band Cutting Crew. While working as a hospital orderly in the late 1970s, Van Eede was discovered playing by ex member of The Animals, Chas Chandler, who sent him on a tour of Poland as support for Slade. Van Eede was only 18 when sent on the road. He recalls, \"\"I went with a kazoo and an acoustic guitar",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.31,
"text": "a song about an all-consuming passion and the affection that Bieber feels for his love interest. During the song's chorus, the singer states, \"\"If I could just die in your arms /I wouldn’t mind / Because every time you touch me / I just die in your arms / It just feels so right.\"\" Jason Lipshutz of \"\"Billboard\"\" deemed it as \"\"a more classically arranged pop offering\"\" when compared to Bieber's previous single \"\"Boyfriend\"\". Leah Collins of the \"\"National Post\"\" described the song as a \"\"Baby 2.0\"\", adding that \"\"like 'Baby', 'Die in Your Arms' has a certain old-fashioned pop",
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"score": 25.02,
"text": "Die in Your Arms \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, from his third studio album, \"\"Believe\"\" (2012). The track was written and produced by Rodney \"\"Darkchild\"\" Jerkins, Dennis \"\"Aganee\"\" Jerkins, and Travis Sayles, while additional lyrics were written by Bieber, Thomas Lumpkins, Kelly Lumpkins, and Herb Rooney. The pop song samples Michael Jackson's \"\"We've Got a Good Thing Going\"\" (1972), and lyrically (staff-written), features Bieber singing about an all-consuming passion and the affection that he feels for his love interest. \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who compared",
"title": "Die in Your Arms"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.88,
"text": "hit \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" by Cutting Crew. The song was Wells' first release mastered for iTunes. An 1980s-inspired lyric video for the song was also released on Vevo In December 2008 Wells became part of photographer Adam Bouska's NOH8 Campaign in response to California Proposition 8 (2008) making him one of the first pop artists to join the campaign. Wells was selected as one of 30 acts to perform in the music showcase \"\"Pure Pop 2009\"\" at Webster Hall. The performance on November 14, 2009 was Wells' first live show. Jack Chambers (2008 season winner of \"\"So",
"title": "Killian Wells"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "three additional songs are \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\", a rendition of the famous Cutting Crew song, \"\"Heaven's Sake\"\" and \"\"Awake\"\", the final track from their \"\"Dommin E.P.\"\" (2009). \"\"(I Just) Died In Your Arms\"\" features a collaboration with Tomo Miličević from Thirty Seconds to Mars, who contributed lead guitars to the track. The special edition was made available in a digital download format only. Upon release, \"\"Love Is Gone\"\" received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Chris Colgan from PopMatters felt that the album features a number of aspects that make Dommin \"\"stand out from the pack\"\", including",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.8,
"text": "seats. Railio opted to be with Team Paula. In the Battle Rounds, Paula put him against Daniela Persson. Both sang \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" and Paula picked Railio to moved to the next round. In the live rounds starting on March 15, 2013, he sang consecutively \"\"Maniac\"\", \"\"Rebel Yell\"\", \"\"Romanssi\"\" and \"\"Minun tuulessa soi\"\" and in the semi-finals, \"\"Skyfall\"\" advancing to the finals as Team Paula finalist, alongside Suvi Aalto (Team Michael), Emilia Ekström (Team Lauri) and Ike Ikegwuonu (Team Elastinen). The final was aired April 26, 2013 singing \"\"Sulava jää\"\" as solo and \"\"Kuuleeko yö\"\" as a",
"title": "Antti Railio"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "played briefly during DC's Legend of Tomorrow in the episode Compromised. a Spider-Man collected edition graphic novel is named \"\"Spider-Man: Died in Your Arms Tonight\"\" (and it collects \"\"The Amazing Spider-Man\"\" (1998- 2nd Series) #600-601, Annual #36 and material from \"\"Amazing Spider-Man Family\"\" (2008) #7, 200 pages, November 2009, ) (I Just) Died in Your Arms \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" is a song by the English rock band Cutting Crew. The song was released as the lead single from their debut studio album, \"\"Broadcast\"\" (1986). It was first released on 25 July 1986 in the United Kingdom, and",
"title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.67,
"text": "a model, with the band performing to camera. The UK version was filmed both in color as well as in black and white in a film studio. First released in Britain, the song peaked at #4 on the UK charts in August 1986. Upon its release in the United States, the previously unknown band's debut single shot to number one on 2 May 1987, and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached #4 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #24 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and (in a remix version) #37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play",
"title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.64,
"text": "the United States, Canada and Finland, and reaching the top five in the UK, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland. The actual words \"\"I just died in your arms tonight\"\" originally came allegedly to Van Eede while he was having sex with his girlfriend, the French phrase \"\"la petite mort\"\", or \"\"the little death\"\", being a metaphor for orgasm. After writing down his version of the phrase, he later used it as the opening line to the song as well as using it as the chorus. There were two music videos produced. The North American version featured artistic fragmented shots using",
"title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.59,
"text": "\"\"Darkchild\"\" Jerkins, Dennis \"\"Aganee\"\" Jerkins, and Travis Sayles, while additional lyrics were written by Bieber, Thomas Lumpkins, Kelly Lumpkins, and Herb Rooney. The track samples Michael Jackson's \"\"We've Got a Good Thing Going\"\" (1972), written by Alphonso Mizell, Berry Gordy Jr., Deke Richards, Freddie Perren. \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" was released as a promotional single to iTunes Store on May 29, 2012 through The Island Def Jam Music Group. The pop track incorporates hip hop beats, finger snaps and melodic piano chords in its instrumentation and is similar to early tracks by Jackson 5. Lyrically, \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" is",
"title": "Die in Your Arms"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "home wrote this song in twenty minutes. It uses the melody from \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight\"\" by the Cutting Crew. The song is an upbeat pop track with a disco-like bassline and a funky guitar riff in the background on the choruses, where he sings: \"\"It's as if I'm scared/It's as if I'm terrified/It's as if I scared/It's as if I'm playing with fire\"\". It is set in the key of F minor. The song received positive reviews from music critics. Beth Johnson from \"\"Entertainment Weekly\"\" wrote that the song is \"\"a Bee Gees-ish shout-out to Frankie",
"title": "Relax, Take It Easy"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "Van Eede married Nikki McFarlane in June 1996. He has a daughter, Lauren (born 13 May 1986). Nick Van Eede Nick Van Eede (born Nicholas Eede, 14 June 1958) is an English musician, producer and songwriter. He is best known for singing and writing the 1986 U.S. #1 power ballad, \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" for his band Cutting Crew. While working as a hospital orderly in the late 1970s, Van Eede was discovered playing by ex member of The Animals, Chas Chandler, who sent him on a tour of Poland as support for Slade. Van Eede was only",
"title": "Nick Van Eede"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "and the 2011 National League Division Series. The New York Giants used this song for their entrance for Super Bowl XLVI. The Mend performed a mashup of \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\" and \"\"Written in the Stars\"\" for their semi-final performance on \"\"Britain's Got Talent\"\" in 2012. Karmin recorded a cover of \"\"Written in the Stars\"\" on their YouTube channel. Written in the Stars (Tinie Tempah song) \"\"Written in the Stars\"\" is a song by English rapper Tinie Tempah, featuring American singer Eric Turner. Unlike his two prior breakthrough singles which were produced by Labrinth, the track instead features",
"title": "Written in the Stars (Tinie Tempah song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.16,
"text": "chart. The song spent three weeks at #1 in Canada. The track appears in the 1999 movie \"\"Never Been Kissed\"\", the 2007 movie \"\"Hot Rod\"\", the 2010 film \"\"Hot Tub Time Machine,\"\" the 2015 television series Ash vs Evil Dead (Season 2 \"\"Home again\"\") and the 2017 film \"\"The Lego Batman Movie\"\". The song was made available for download on 7 August 2012 to play in \"\"Rock Band 3\"\" Basic and PRO mode utilizing real guitar / bass guitar, and MIDI compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards. It also can be heard on \"\"\"\" on Emotion 98.3 radio. It also",
"title": "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "December 2011, they entered the \"\"Guinness World Records\"\" for most live shows during a single album cycle, with 300 shows. Miličević collaborated with American band Dommin on a rendition of Cutting Crew's song \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\", which was released on a special edition of Dommin's album \"\"Love Is Gone\"\" (2010). He began producing American singer Ivy Levan in 2012. After signing to Cherrytree Records, Levan released the EP \"\"Introducing the Dame\"\" (2013), which features a collaboration with Miličević, who wrote and produced a number of tracks. Thirty Seconds to Mars released their fourth album, \"\"Love, Lust, Faith",
"title": "Tomo Miličević"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.97,
"text": "thirty in Ireland and New Zealand, and the top forty in Australia, Scotland, and United Kingdom. Bieber performed \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" at the Capital FM Summertime Ball 2012. For the performance, he sported fingerless gloves, a Union Jack tank with matching vest, and jeans. The singer also performed the track during a promotional concert in Europe on June 4, 2012, along with \"\"Boyfriend\"\" and \"\"All Around the World\"\". The song included a sample of the recording \"\"We Got a Good Thing Going\"\" performed by Michael Jackson and samples of the recording \"\"Synthetic Substitution\"\" performed by Melvin Bliss. Die in",
"title": "Die in Your Arms"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "South America, the U.S., Australasia and Europe. Van Eede recently received a BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) award for 4 million plays on US radio for \"\"(I Just) Died in Your Arms\"\". The track was also used in the hit film \"\"'The Lego Batman Movie\"\". Since 2008, Van Eede has been a member of supergroup Man Doki Soulmates, formed by Hungarian musician Leslie Mándoki. Alongside Van Eede, the band's members in the group have included, amongst others: Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, John Helliwell, Chris Thompson, Bobby Kimball, Ian Anderson, Chaka Khan, Tony Carey and the late Jack Bruce and Greg Lake.",
"title": "Nick Van Eede"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.83,
"text": "the song's style to the ones of Jackson 5, Duffy and Bruno Mars, among others. The song has charted in several countries such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States. In late 2011, Bieber confirmed to radio network Capital FM that he was recording material for his third studio album, which was originally going to be released in early 2012. He later spoke to MTV News and revealed that \"\"Believe\"\" would surprise people in different ways, since it musically is a departure from his previous works. \"\"Die in Your Arms\"\" was written and produced by Rodney",
"title": "Die in Your Arms"
}
] |
when was the last time steph curry played? | [
"2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.8,
"text": "a free agent. On December 10, 2011, Curry signed a one-year contract with the Miami Heat. On January 19, 2012, a noticeably-slimmer Curry played in the NBA for the first time since 2009, against the Los Angeles Lakers. He had lost nearly 70 pounds since he last played in the NBA, and scored six points in six minutes in his return to the NBA. As a part of the Heat's 2011-2012 championship team, Curry played 83 minutes in 14 games (starting one), and was active for (but did not play in) one game during the playoffs. In October 2012, Curry",
"title": "Eddy Curry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "to Aston Villa on 18 September 1937. Curry played seven times for Sheffield Wednesday in 1940–41 and scored once but that was all the games he took part in for his employers during the war years. Prior to this, he also guested five times for Bradford Park Avenue in 1939–40 and scored three goals. He guested for Leeds United in the 1943–44 Football League Northern Section (Second Championship) in a 2–2 draw at Derby County in which Curry scored both Leeds goals. Curry had one game for Lincoln City in 1943–44 but did not score. He scored five times in",
"title": "Bob Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.03,
"text": "signed with the San Antonio Spurs. However, he did not make the team's final roster. Curry was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Mavericks on October 25, 2012. He played two games for Dallas before being waived to make room for Troy Murphy, as the Mavericks wanted a power forward with outside shooting ability instead of a traditional center. In December 6, 2012, Curry signed with the Zhejiang Golden Bulls in China, replacing Josh Boone. Curry played in 29 games and averaged 23.0 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 0.9 assists per game. Curry played his last game with Zhejiang on February",
"title": "Eddy Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.66,
"text": "draft after he was made available by the Cavaliers. Curry spent 10 seasons in Charlotte, mostly coming off the bench to provide instant offense, utilizing three-point shooting. He was a regular in the discussions for Sixth Man of the Year, but did not actually win the award until the 1993–94 season. He currently ranks among the franchise's all-time statistical leaders in points, games played, three-point field goals made and attempted, and three-point field goal percentage. Upon departing the franchise in 1998, he was the last player remaining from its inaugural season 10 years earlier. Curry played one season for the",
"title": "Dell Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.61,
"text": "range in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. On February 26, 2016, Curry played extended minutes in the Kings' 117–107 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers due to starting point guard Rajon Rondo sitting out with an injury. In 26 minutes of action off the bench, he recorded a then career-high 19 points and 4 rebounds. On March 25, he made his first career start, scoring 12 points in 26 minutes against the Phoenix Suns. Three days later, in just his third NBA start, Curry scored a career-high 21 points in a 105–93 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.",
"title": "Seth Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "in a Musical. Curry reprised this role in London's West End at the Palace Theatre, where \"\"Spamalot\"\" opened on 16 October 2006. His final performance came on 6 January 2007. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award as the Best Actor in a Musical for the role, and also won the Theatregoers' Choice Award (getting 39% of the votes cast by over 12,000 theatregoers) as Best Actor in a Musical. From May to August 2011, Curry was scheduled to portray the Player in a Trevor Nunn stage production of Tom Stoppard's \"\"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\"\" at the Chichester",
"title": "Tim Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "which he served as a Sergeant with the Royal Engineers. He played as a half-back, making 221 appearances between 1919 and 1929, and scoring five goals. In 1929, he moved to Stockport County, for whom he played for one season; he scored once in 19 league appearances for Stockport. In 1930, Curry retired from playing football and began to focus on coaching; he was soon appointed as the trainer of Carlisle United. After four years with Carlisle, Curry was picked up by Manchester United, who were then managed by Scott Duncan. Football was suspended due to the Second World War",
"title": "Tom Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "was played against the \"\"New York Club\"\" on June 19, 1846, at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey. The Knickerbockers lost by a score of 23 to 1. Curry recalled the game as follows:\"\"An awful beating you could say at our own game, but, you see, the majority of the New York Club's players were cricketers, and clever ones at that game, and their batting was the feature of their work. The chief trouble was that we had held our opponents too cheaply and few of us had practiced any prior to the contest, thinking that we knew more about the",
"title": "Duncan Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "Michael Curry (basketball) Michael Edward Curry (born August 22, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player, and coach. He is the former head coach of the Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team. Curry played in the NBA from 1993 to 2005. He later served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons. A 6'5\"\" guard/forward from Glenn Hills High School in Augusta, Georgia, and Georgia Southern University, Curry played eleven seasons (1993–1994 through 2004–2005) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers, the Washington Bullets, the Detroit Pistons, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Toronto Raptors and the",
"title": "Michael Curry (basketball)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.17,
"text": "Dell Curry Wardell Stephen \"\"Dell\"\" Curry I (born June 25, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1986 until 2002 and retired as the Charlotte Hornets' all-time leader in points (9,839) and three-point field goals made (929). Curry currently works as a color commentator, alongside Eric Collins and Stephanie Ready, on Charlotte Hornets television broadcasts. He is the father of current NBA players Stephen Curry and Seth Curry. Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Curry was raised in Grottoes and played high school basketball at Fort Defiance, where he used his coach's",
"title": "Dell Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "27, 2013, as he missed the last two playoff games due to gastroenteritis. Curry signed with the Wolf Warriors of the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) in 2018, and plays for the team in 2018–19 ABL season. Curry is married and has seven children, one from a previous marriage (Eddy III), and four with his current wife Patrice Curry, who stars on VH1's Basketball Wives LA franchise. Curry's other two children, Ava and Noah, were with former girlfriend Nova Henry, who was murdered in 2009 along with 10-month-old Ava. Several prominent cardiologists cleared Curry to play, but Barry Maron, a world-renowned",
"title": "Eddy Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.06,
"text": "Milwaukee Bucks before playing his final three seasons in the NBA for the Toronto Raptors. He holds career averages of 11.7 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.8 assists. Curry retired as the all-time leading scorer in Hornets history with 9,839 points. In 2004, Curry was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. On June 18, 2007, Curry was named an assistant coach of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, but he stepped down before the season began so that he could attend his sons' basketball games. In 2009, Curry started working as a color commentator, alongside longtime play-by-play announcer Steve Martin, for",
"title": "Dell Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.03,
"text": "Curry's final game for Michigan was a 38–30 win over Florida in the 2003 Outback Bowl; Curry had eight tackles and a pass break-up in the game. Curry played professional football for the Chicago bears, Detroit Lions from 2003-2005 NFL season and Green Bay Packers 2005-2007 . He appeared in three games and was credited with two tackles for the Lions. In 2006, Curry formed Curry Racing, Inc., to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Curry Racing became the first African American team in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series as sole minority ownership. Julius Curry Julius Justine Curry (born May",
"title": "Julius Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.89,
"text": "Dekker Curry John Desmond \"\"Dekker\"\" Curry (born 20 December 1966 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is a former Irish cricketer. A left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler, he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team against an England Amateur team in July 1992, and went on to represent Ireland on 50 occasions, his last game coming against Scotland in the 2001 ICC Trophy. Of his matches for Ireland, two were first-class matches against Scotland and eight had List A status. In all matches for Ireland, he scored 1193 runs, his top score (and only century) coming against the Earl",
"title": "Dekker Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.88,
"text": "Beavers in earned Curry a six-week call-up to Cleveland in June, but he collected only two hits and three bases on balls in 19 plate appearances as a pinch hitter in his last appearance in the majors. In all or parts of three big-league seasons, Curry played in 129 games and had 297 at bats, 33 runs, 73 hits, 16 doubles, 2 triples, 6 home runs, 40 RBI, 20 walks, .246 batting average, .295 on-base percentage, .374 slugging percentage, 111 total bases, 1 sacrifice hit, 1 sacrifice fly and 2 intentional walks. He died in his home city of Nassau",
"title": "Tony Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.78,
"text": "series saw Curry travel to Italy, Cyprus, India and Singapore, covering food topics. Curry made a guest appearance in an episode of \"\"Last of the Summer Wine\"\", entitled \"\"Will The Nearest Alien Please Come In\"\", broadcast 19 August 2007, playing a character trying to get in touch with extra terrestrials. He was also cast in an episode of the BBC daytime drama \"\"Doctors\"\". From 9 January, until the late summer of 2012, he presented the breakfast radio show, \"\"Curry For Breakfast\"\" on Talk Radio Europe, the English language talk/variety network in southern Spain, where he has a home. He played",
"title": "Mark Curry (television presenter)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.77,
"text": "Floyd Curry Floyd James \"\"Busher\"\" Curry (August 11, 1925 – September 16, 2006) was a Canadian ice hockey right winger. Curry was born in 1925 in Chapleau, Ontario and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He played junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals and starred for the team. The Montreal Canadiens realized his potential and signed him. He played for the Montreal Royals before being brought up to the Canadiens. Curry played his entire National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens. His career started in 1947 and ended in 1958. During his time with Montreal, Floyd won four Stanley Cups 1953,",
"title": "Floyd Curry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "Colchester played in the Football League Third Division South, Colchester's first-ever league game was against old Southern League foes Gillingham at Priestfield on 19 August 1950, when a crowd of 19,542 witnessed a 0–0 draw. Five days later Curry scored United's first-ever League goal in a 1–1 draw at Swindon Town. He top-scored with 13 goals in 32 games in the league and scored twice in two FA Cup games, as Colchester finished 16th. By the end of his Colchester career, Curry had played 138 league games for the U's, scoring 78 goals in that time. He was a captain",
"title": "Bob Curry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.64,
"text": "to travel to Sweden with the Pittsburgh Penguins as a backup to Marc-André Fleury and Dany Sabourin at the beginning of the 2008–09 NHL season but did not play. He was recalled in November due to an injury to Fleury and saw his first NHL game action on November 26 against the New York Islanders, replacing Sabourin in the second period and facing Joey MacDonald, whom he had fought in the AHL the season before. He made 11 saves in 30+ shutout minutes as part of a comeback win. Curry made his first NHL start on November 28 in a",
"title": "John Curry (ice hockey)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "Wes Curry Wesley Curry (April 1, 1860 – May 19, 1933) was an American pitcher and umpire in Major League Baseball who played one season for the Richmond Virginians of the American Association before officiating for six seasons between and . Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Curry joined the Virginians during the season, and pitched in just two games, both of which were complete game losses. The first game was a 4-5 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on August 6, and the other game was a 2-9 loss to the Brooklyn Grays on August 8. He never pitched in the major",
"title": "Wes Curry"
}
] |
who does the department of transportation report to? | [
"United States Secretary of Transportation"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.33,
"text": "Alabama Department of Transportation The Department is organized into five geographic regions, with a Central Office located in Montgomery, AL. The Central Office is organized into the Office of the Transportation Director and the Office of the Chief Engineer. The five Region Engineers report to the director and Deputy Director, Operations. The organization of the various bureaus and offices are designed to report to the director and the deputy directors, Chief Engineer, or the Assistant Chief Engineers. The Department has several boards and committees that operate either within a bureau or as a cooperative effort among several bureaus or regions.",
"title": "Alabama Department of Transportation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "the state and Iowans. The Iowa DOT is administered by the director, currently Mark Lowe. The director is appointed by the governor to serve as the chief administrative officer of the department. Reporting to the director are the deputy director, the bureau of policy and information, the bureau of transportation safety, the bureau of management, the general counsel division, and the divisions listed below. The director's duties are chiefly administrative, but he or she does have an important role in government. The director works with the commission to create transportation policy and transportation plans. By December 31, he or she",
"title": "Iowa Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.98,
"text": "headed by a director who reports to the governor. Below the director is the deputy director. Also on this level is a five member transportation commission, a nine member aeronautics board, legal services, and public information services. The Transportation Commission's responsibilities include selecting projects, awarding contracts, designating roads to highway systems, and resolving outdoor advertising issues. The Aeronautics Board has authority over airport loan and grant funds and advises the rest of the department. The next level of the department is divided into five districts serving different areas of the state: The department also contains the following divisions: The Department",
"title": "Montana Department of Transportation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "Illinois Department of Transportation The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is a state agency in charge of state-maintained public roadways of the U.S. state of Illinois. In addition, IDOT provides funding for rail, public transit and airport projects and administers fuel tax and federal funding to local jurisdictions in the state. The Secretary of Transportation reports to the Governor of Illinois. IDOT is headquartered in unincorporated Sangamon County, located near the state capital, Springfield. In addition, the IDOT Division of Highways has offices in nine locations throughout the state. The mission of IDOT is to provide safe, cost-effective transportation for",
"title": "Illinois Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.69,
"text": "the bureau is split into two categories: Design and Operations, with each overseen by an Assistant Chief Engineer. The Assistant Chief Engineer of Design oversees the following divisions: The Assistant Chief Engineer of Operations is responsible for overseeing the four regional offices. They also oversee the following divisions: Additionally there are three independent divisions that report directly to the Chief Engineer: TDOT reports the following as Tennessee's transportation system: Funding for the state transportation system in Tennessee comes from a fund that is separate from the state's general fund which operates most of the other state agencies in Tennessee. Transportation",
"title": "Tennessee Department of Transportation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "divisions devoted to highway research, design and construction. The offices devoted to communications, passenger transportation and business and economic affairs report to director of the department. The Mackinac Bridge Authority coordinates its activities to maintain the Mackinac Bridge as an independent agency through the department director. The International Bridge Administration (IBA) is the arm of the department responsible to the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Authority. That authority maintains the International Bridge. The IBA reports to the chief administrative officer. The Bureau of Aeronautics and Freight Services carries out the enforcement of the Commission's rules. It has three divisions: Airports Division,",
"title": "Michigan Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "Department of Transport (Western Australia) The Department of Transport is a department of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the state's vehicle licensing, maritime safety, taxi, ports, transport policies. It was formed on 1 July 2009. It is one of three agencies reporting to the same Director General. The two other transport agencies are: On 1 July 2009, the State Land Services and Pastoral Leases being transferred to the newly formed Department of Regional Development and Lands. The head of the Department of Transport is the Director General, who is responsible to the Public Sector Commissioner",
"title": "Department of Transport (Western Australia)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "Maine Department of Transportation The Maine Department of Transportation, also known as MaineDOT, is the office of state government charged with the regulation and maintenance of roads and other public infrastructure in the state of Maine. An exception is the Maine Turnpike, which is maintained by the Maine Turnpike Authority. MaineDOT reports on the adequacy of roads, highways, and bridges in Maine. It also monitors environmental factors that affect the motor public such as stormwater, ice/snow buildup on roads, and crashes with moose. MaineDOT is an agency that consists of several offices: See List of Maine State Routes, Interstate 95",
"title": "Maine Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport () is a department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for transport policy and overseeing transport services and infrastructure. The department is led by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who is assisted by one Minister of State. The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in Leeson Lane, Dublin 2, D02 TR60. It also has offices in Killarney and Loughrea. The departmental team consists of the following: Among the State Agencies that report to, are appointed by the Minister, or are",
"title": "Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.2,
"text": "reviewed. The OIG carries out its mission by issuing audit reports, evaluations, and management advisories with findings and recommendations to improve program delivery and performance. In fiscal year 2006, OIG issued 76 audit reports, which identified more than $893 million in financial recommendations. The Office of Auditing and Evaluation supervises and conducts independent and objective audits and other reviews of DOT programs and activities to ensure they operate economically, efficiently, and effectively. This office is divided according to specific DOT program areas into four sub-offices: Aviation; Information Technology and Financial Management; Surface Transportation; and Acquisition and Procurement. The Office of",
"title": "Office of Inspector General for the Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "and the Director General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Department of Transport (Western Australia) The Department of Transport is a department of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the state's vehicle licensing, maritime safety, taxi, ports, transport policies. It was formed on 1 July 2009. It is one of three agencies reporting to the same Director General. The two other transport agencies are: On 1 July 2009, the State Land Services and Pastoral Leases being transferred to the newly formed Department of Regional Development and Lands. The head of the Department of Transport",
"title": "Department of Transport (Western Australia)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.08,
"text": "state. The department also partners with the Ohio Department of Public Safety to monitor traffic related crashes. Traffic crash reports are entered into a database that is shared by both departments. This \"\"Base Transportation Reporting System\"\" (BTRS) allows ODOT to review the number, frequency and severity of accidents that occur on its system. Traffic engineering is then used to establish safety threshold numbers and signal areas of concern for traffic safety. The Ohio Department of Transportation currently operates a statewide traffic management center to monitor the highways in the State from a centralized location in Columbus. Dedicated operators monitor each",
"title": "Ohio Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "Commission (MDC) and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) were merged to form the DCR. Ownership and management for many nonpedestrian bridges was transferred to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in 2009. Previous Commissioners: The DCR is under the general management of the Commissioner of the DCR. The general administration divisions; Human Resources Division, the Financial Division, and External and Legislative Affairs, report directly to the Commissioner. It has two divisions and several bureaus, offices, and other work units, including (but not exclusively) The Division of State Parks is responsible for the maintenance and management of over of state-owned forests",
"title": "Department of Conservation and Recreation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (VDRPT) is an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. According to its web site, the state agency's mission is \"\"to improve the mobility of people and goods while expanding transportation choices in the Commonwealth.\"\" The three primary areas of VDRPT activity are the state's railroads, public transportation, and commuter services. The Department of Rail and Public Transportation is a state agency reporting to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. It was formerly a section within the Virginia Department",
"title": "Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.83,
"text": "are - These agencies were part of the Department of Transport but were functionally independent and reported to the relevant Ministers. The Director, Transport Safety has oversight of safety regulation schemes and industry performance under the schemes, while the Chief Investigator, Transport Safety is responsible for no blame or just culture inquiries and investigations in the transport sector. Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–13) The Department of Transport (DOT) was the government agency responsible for the coordination, integration and regulation of the transport system in the State of Victoria, Australia. The Department generated planning, policy, and legislation for transport in Victoria.",
"title": "Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–13)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "United States Department of Transportation The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967. It is governed by the United States Secretary of Transportation. Prior to the Department of Transportation, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation administered the functions now associated with the DOT. In 1965, Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency – the future Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) – suggested to U.S. President Lyndon B.",
"title": "United States Department of Transportation"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "Ministry of Transport and Communications (Norway) The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Norwegian (Bokmål): \"\"Samferdselsdepartementet\"\"; New Norwegian: \"\"Samferdsledepartementet\"\") is a Norwegian ministry established in 1946, and is responsible for transportation and communication infrastructure in Norway. It is since October 2013 led by Ketil Solvik-Olsen (Progress Party). The department must report to the parliament (Stortinget). The ministry has 135 employees and is divided into the following sections: Under the ministry there are seven administrative agencies and four state-owned limited companies: The department owned 1/3 of Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk that organised the public transport in Akershus. Note: The railway company Airport",
"title": "Ministry of Transport and Communications (Norway)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "governing Board. In 1974, the Idaho Department of Highways became the Idaho Transportation Department. The Department of Motor Vehicles originally reported to the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, but was transferred to ITD in 1982. ITD is organized into six divisions and six district offices. The agency serves under an appointed seven member Idaho Transportation Board. The board establishes state transportation policy and guides the planning, development and management of the Idaho transportation network. The board is appointed by the governor. One board member represents each of the six regional districts. A seventh member is appointed as chairman of the",
"title": "Idaho Transportation Department"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.41,
"text": "of the Soviets launching of the first artificial satellite and assuming NACA's role of aeronautical research. In 1967, a new U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) combined major federal responsibilities for air and surface transport. The Federal Aviation Agency's name changed to the Federal Aviation Administration as it became one of several agencies (e.g., Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, the Coast Guard, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Commission) within DOT (albeit the largest). The FAA administrator would no longer report directly to the president but would instead report to the Secretary of Transportation. New programs and budget requests would have",
"title": "Federal Aviation Administration"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.31,
"text": "of Transportation's Transportation Management Center in Atlanta. Connecting to operators allows users to report traffic accidents to the Georgia State Patrol or local police or sheriffs, or request motorist assistance from the Highway Emergency Response Operators (HERO) program. Callers can also connect to adjacent states' 5-1-1 systems, including North Carolina's. In January 2011, the Georgia Department of Transportation launched a mobile application on the iPhone platform to provide iPhone users with a mobile option for up to the minute traffic information found on the website. The application also provides special offers and other information about businesses and organizations who participate",
"title": "5-1-1"
}
] |
what disease does lucious lyon have on empire? | [
"ALS"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.66,
"text": "said \"\"even though shows like Empire are filled with climatic levels of drama, it has elevated the conversation around a disease that has historically been showed behind the curtain by thrusting it into the lights of primetime.\"\" Ilene Chaiken discussed having Lucious come clean about his condition sooner rather than keeping the secret until the following season. In the Season one finale, Lucious discovers that he doesn't have ALS; rather, he has the treatable but still debilitating myasthenia gravis. Brian Moylan of \"\"The Guardian\"\" found Lucious' misdiagnosis to be a mistake on the part of the writers and creators, saying",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "Lucious Lyon Lucious Lyon (born Dwight Walker) is a fictional character from the Fox drama series \"\"Empire\"\", portrayed by Terrence Howard. Lucious is the main protagonist and anti-hero of the series. Created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, Lucious is the founder and CEO of Empire Entertainment, a world-famous and renowned record company that he runs with his family. Realizing he will need a successor after he is diagnosed with ALS, Lucious pits his three sons—the college-educated executive Andre Lyon (Trai Byers), the talented and gay singer/songwriter Jamal (Jussie Smollett) and youngest, rapper Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray)—against one another. The",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.97,
"text": "and great music\"\". Pilot (Empire) The pilot episode of the American musical drama television series \"\"Empire\"\" premiered on Fox on January 7, 2015. The show focuses on Lucious Lyon, the head of a record label who is diagnosed with ALS and given three years to live. While keeping his condition a secret, he decides to find a successor that will take over the company. Meanwhile, his ex-wife Cookie Lyon comes out of jail and demands a part of the company she founded. The episode was directed by Lee Daniels and written by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. Over 12 original",
"title": "Pilot (Empire)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "Pilot (Empire) The pilot episode of the American musical drama television series \"\"Empire\"\" premiered on Fox on January 7, 2015. The show focuses on Lucious Lyon, the head of a record label who is diagnosed with ALS and given three years to live. While keeping his condition a secret, he decides to find a successor that will take over the company. Meanwhile, his ex-wife Cookie Lyon comes out of jail and demands a part of the company she founded. The episode was directed by Lee Daniels and written by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. Over 12 original songs, produced by",
"title": "Pilot (Empire)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "musical footsteps. This creates tensions with Lucious, who likes to push him aside. He is afflicted with bipolar disorder, and is on a spiritual journey to find his identity. He is the one Lyon \"\"son\"\" who chooses business over singing. He is also in an interracial relationship, married to scheming character Rhonda (played by Kaitlin Doubleday). This creates further troubles with his father Lucious who disapproves of the relationship. Rhonda, who is pregnant, is pushed down the stairs by a mystery major character in the mid-season finale of season 2, causing her to lose her unborn child. She is later",
"title": "Andre Lyon (Empire)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "\"\"Drip Drop\"\", and has them rob Jamal during one of his recording sessions while pinning the blame on Hakeem, though the robbery fails due to the intervention of the studio engineer. An angry Jamal believes that Hakeem set him up, and punches him in the stomach. The two later make amends after a duo performance during a concert hosted by Empire, after which Lucious informs his family that he has ALS. When Andre only expresses concern about the company's IPO and not his father, Hakeem indignantly tries to fight him, only to be restrained by Jamal. Hakeem begins to improve",
"title": "Hakeem Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "wife, Cookie Holloway, who helped him sell drugs in order to finance his rapping career. Cookie is eventually arrested in a drug run and sentenced to prison. Lucious immediately divorces her and raises their 3 young sons with the help of Vernon Turner (Malik Yoba) and Cookie's cousin, Bunkie Williams (Antoine McKay). Eventually, Cookie and Lucious get remarried in the Season 4 finale. After becoming a successful rapper and singer, Lucious uses his drug money to build his own record company, Empire. After announcing his plans to take Empire public, Lucious is informed that he has ALS and is given",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.02,
"text": "in the process of trying to make sure the IPO goes off without a hitch, he is off his medication and the news Lucious is dying from ALS pushes him to the brink. Byers explained \"\"So it's all those different emotions, and the fact that he's bipolar, just trying to manage everything. It just kind of failed him.\"\" The actor described the scenes in which Andre breaks down in the shower after learning of Lucious' impending demise as \"\"cathartic\"\" for him as an actor because Andre had been sort of lingering in the background. In preparation for his portrayal of",
"title": "Andre Lyon (Empire)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "disease would affect Lucious. Though the doctor gives Lucious three years, and maybe even less time, \"\"Bustle\"\" estimated Lucious would be killed off around the end of season 3. However, the magazine noted that while the disease is incurable, Stephen Hawking who was diagnosed at the age of 21 was now 73 years old. Lucious starts showing symptoms much earlier than the doctor predicts which makes it seems like his life expectancy could be shorter. However, \"\"Bustle\"\" argued against the potential of the character's death sooner rather than later because Howard is the lead of the show. Dr. Aletha Maybank",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "all.\"\"After Rhonda faced a terrible death in Season 3, Andre was heart-broken and weak without her, because of his Bipolar Disorder, she returns to him in hallucinations. Andre Lyon (Empire) Andre Martin Lyon is a fictional character from the American musical drama, \"\"Empire\"\" on Fox. Portrayed by Trai Byers, Andre is the oldest son of hip-hop mogul Lucious (Terrence Howard) and his wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson). Andre, the college educated executive in the company, is pitted against his two younger brothers, Hakeem Lyon (Bryshere Y. Gray) and Jamal (Jussie Smollett), for control of the family business after their father's",
"title": "Andre Lyon (Empire)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.45,
"text": "is a hip hop mogul, former drug dealer, and CEO of Empire Entertainment. Informed of his own imminent early death from a certain medical condition, Lucious is forced to choose from amongst his progeny, a successor who will control his dynasty after his demise. He begins working to groom one of his three sons to take over the family business – Empire CFO Andre (Trai Byers), R&B singer-songwriter Jamal (Jussie Smollett), and rapper Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray) – In the process, Lucious pits them against each other. Lucious' ex-wife Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) is released from prison after serving",
"title": "Empire (2015 TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "that place of missed time and trying desperately\"\" to make use of the time he has left. While Howard does not have personal experience with the disease, he focused in on the \"\"fear\"\" that comes with such a disease. \"\"There is a fear of what's about to happen\"\" Howard said. The character's longevity immediately comes into question due to the diagnosis. However, Danny Strong refused to comment on how the disease would affect Lucious in future seasons. Strong danced around answering the question about the fatality of Lucious' diagnosis and said viewers would have to wait and see how the",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "to have been misdiagnosed with ALS: \"\"Lucious being misdiagnosed was in my original pitch. Lee and I pitched the show to four different networks, and it was always in the pitch that he was going to think he had ALS, but toward the end of the first season, he’s going to find out he was misdiagnosed. I’ve heard a few stories about that; my ex-girlfriend’s father was misdiagnosed with ALS, but also my grandfather had an autoimmune disease that crippled him but then it just reversed itself.\"\" Strong stated that the misdiagnosis was believable because \"\"ALS is...a very hard disease",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.16,
"text": "them off with his shotgun. Jamal confronts Hakeem over the incident and punches him, although it was in fact Andre who had set up Jamal to be robbed and staged it to appear as though Hakeem was behind it. Jamal is visited by his ex-wife Olivia (Raven Symone), who informs him that he is the father of her daughter Lola. Jamal begins to bond with Lola and spends time singing to her. He and Hakeem patch up their relationship and perform together at a concert hosted by Empire Entertainment, after which Lucious reveals to them that he has ALS. Shortly",
"title": "Jamal Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.84,
"text": "Andre Lyon (Empire) Andre Martin Lyon is a fictional character from the American musical drama, \"\"Empire\"\" on Fox. Portrayed by Trai Byers, Andre is the oldest son of hip-hop mogul Lucious (Terrence Howard) and his wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson). Andre, the college educated executive in the company, is pitted against his two younger brothers, Hakeem Lyon (Bryshere Y. Gray) and Jamal (Jussie Smollett), for control of the family business after their father's developing illness. He is portrayed as the son with the most business acumen and unlike his younger siblings does not want to follow in the Lyon family's",
"title": "Andre Lyon (Empire)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.55,
"text": "that it made the plot of the show \"\"meaningless.\"\" He went on to say that the ALS diagnosis was a \"\"brave\"\" decision that the writers \"\"snatched away.\"\" He claimed that the misdiagnosis \"\"shows the audience that the bold choices this show makes have no real consequences. When they can find an easy way to brush off a serious disease such as ALS, what else will be swatted away when it becomes inconvenient to the writers? Is Andre’s bipolar disorder going to be cured too?\"\" However, co-creator Danny Strong revealed to \"\"The Hollywood Reporter\"\" that he had always intended for Lucious",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.53,
"text": "do — the least you can do — is respect your child.\"\" Co-creator Danny Strong said of the character's growth, \"\"Lucious has had the most profound arc of the season when it comes to his understanding and acceptance of his son’s sexuality, and it was sort of one of the driving ideas of the season thematically with addressing homophobia in a way that was honest.\"\" When Lucious is diagnosed with ALS in the pilot, he starts to realize that he was not a great parent because he was so focused on \"\"making the money.\"\" Howard said, \"\"I'm approaching it from",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.48,
"text": "MG (myasthenia gravis). While he is sleeping, Cookie hears Lucious confess to the murder of Bunkie, and she attempts to smother him with a pillow until Lucious nearly wakes. Overjoyed that he is not dying, Lucious decides to make amends with Hakeem and Andre. He finally recognizes Jamal's musical talent and realizes that he should lead Empire, making him the CEO. Lucious finally takes the company to the NYSE. In a celebration concert, Lucious is arrested for the murder of Bunkie. As he is escorted to jail, he believes Cookie informed the police of Bunkie's murder only to realize it",
"title": "Lucious Lyon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.23,
"text": "receiving star billing, with seven of them returning from the previous season, in addition to three characters upgraded from the first season. Terrence Howard will portray Lucious Lyon, a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and the CEO of Empire Entertainment who now is imprisoned. Taraji P. Henson will play Cookie Lyon, Lucious' outspoken ex-wife and mother of his three sons, who served 17 years in prison, and have now made a hostile takeover for Empire Entertainment with Anika, Andre and Hakeem. Lucious and Cookie have three sons: Andre Lyon, the eldest son of the Lyon family and CFO",
"title": "Empire (season 2)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.23,
"text": "attempts to make a hostile takeover in Empire but fails due to their investor siding with Lucious and Jamal, further damaging Jamal and Cookie's relationship. Frank Gathers then sends Jermel's decapitated head to Cookie and Carol and realises that he is out to get her. She then tells Lucious to take care of it, which then leads to Gathers being killed by his own goons. She then creates a new company with Hakeem named Lyon Dynasty after the failed hostile takeover, which then causes a conflict with Lucious' Empire and Cookie's Lyon Dynasty. After Jamal is shot by Freda Gatz,",
"title": "Cookie Lyon"
}
] |
when did sports authority go out of business? | [
"July 28, 2016"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.23,
"text": "which opened on November 11, 2011. A Sports Authority opened on August 11, 2012, in the same building as the P. C. Richard & Son, along with a Bonefish Grill on January 27, 2014. Sports Authority only lasted less than four years as they closed in June 2016, two months before the company went out of business as a whole. A proposal in the early 1990s to expand the deteriorating mall faced opposition from neighbors fearing increased traffic. By the late 1990s, while Freehold Raceway Mall was prospering, Manalapan Mall was becoming a dead mall. In 1998, the mall, except",
"title": "Manalapan EpiCentre"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24,
"text": "The sporting goods chain Sports Authority had held naming rights to the stadium's field (as \"\"Sports Authority Field at Mile High\"\") but had gone out of business in 2016. The previous signage referring to Sports Authority was removed in March. The Broncos hope to resell the naming rights to the stadium to another corporate sponsor in the near future. On February 16, EverBank Field, the home field of the Jacksonville Jaguars, was renamed TIAA Bank Field, after TIAA's 2017 acquisition of EverBank. The naming rights agreement was for 10 years and $43 million. The Color Rush program was discontinued, and",
"title": "2018 NFL season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "later. On May 18, 2016, the company's stores were sold to a group of liquidators and on May 25, CEO Michael Foss announced that all of the stores would close by the end of August 2016. On June 30, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods won the auction for Sports Authority's brand name and intellectual property. On July 15, 2016, the online store closed operations, redirecting users to the Dick's Sporting Goods website. On July 21, 2016, the purchase of Sports Authority's intellectual property by rival Dick's Sporting Goods was approved. Gart Sports began in 1928, when Denver Post newspaper carrier Nathan",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.47,
"text": "was set to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy, due to debt problems. Later that month, \"\"The Dallas Morning News\"\" reported that the company planned to close all 25 of its stores in Texas. The report did not specify a date for the closures. On March 2, 2016, Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After considering restructuring, Sports Authority announced that on April 26, they would sell all of their assets, including all of the remaining store locations. Earlier in April, Reuters reported that Academy Sports + Outdoors and Dick's Sporting Goods had expressed interest in purchasing Sports Authority's assets. On",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "off to Robinsons-May. In 2010, the former Mervyn's became a furniture store called Home Sleep Home, which went out of business. The lower level was replaced with a miniature golf course called Lunar Mini Golf and later Phoenix Sofa Factory. Phoenix Sofa Factory closed in October 2017, leaving the lower level vacant. The upper level became Sports Authority, which went out of business in 2016, and became Book Vault a year later. Book Vault closed on October 28th, 2018. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores",
"title": "Superstition Springs Center"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "were also no public bonds outstanding, and Sports Authority no longer filed financial statements with the SEC. In August 2006, Copeland's Sports, headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and on November 17, 2006, Sports Authority, through a wholly owned subsidiary, assumed the leasehold interests in seven former Copeland's Sports retail store locations. Sports Authority launched new store brand \"\"S.A. Elite\"\" in mid-2010, based on consumer research and testing. These stores are smaller than typical Sports Authority outlets and carry high-end sports apparel and accessories. On February 4, 2016, it was widely reported that Sports Authority",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "in each about 50% of the new merchant. The new company was based in Englewood, Colorado, which was the home of Gart Sports. As of May 2006, the remaining stores that were not operating under the Sports Authority name were re-branded to the Sports Authority name. In January 2006, Sports Authority agreed to be purchased in a leveraged buyout by affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners, a private equity investment firm, in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. Shareholders approved the deal in May 2006. Upon completion of the merger, Sports Authority ceased to be a publicly listed stock. There",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.7,
"text": "to 136 stores in 26 states, and was spun off from parent Kmart. Its headquarters were in Lauderdale Lakes, near Fort Lauderdale. Gart Sports, which also operated Oshman's and Sportmart, completed a \"\"merger of equals\"\" with Sports Authority on August 4, 2003. At the time of its merger with Gart Sports Company, The Sports Authority was the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the United States, and had 205 stores in 33 states. The combined company took the Sports Authority name. With the merger, each share of Sports Authority was exchanged with 0.37 shares of Gart Sports which gave investors",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "May 3, 2016, the company notified the US Bankruptcy Court that it would not reorganize its debt but would auction its assets. Contrary to media reports, the company announced it would not be liquidating its assets, but would be auctioning off its stores and operations, with the intended goal of keeping all of its stores open. On May 18, however, it was announced that the effort to avoid liquidation was unsuccessful, causing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to be converted to Chapter 7. The stores would in fact be closed, part of the American retail trend known as the retail",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.09,
"text": "Sports Authority Sports Authority, Inc. (formerly The Sports Authority) was a sports retailer in the United States that was headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. At its peak, Sports Authority operated more than 460 stores in 45 U.S. states, Canada and Puerto Rico. The company's website was on the GSI Commerce platform and supported the retail stores as well as other multi-channel programs. A joint venture with ÆON Co., Ltd., operates \"\"Sports Authority\"\" stores in Japan over a licensing agreement. On March 2, 2016, Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, but the case was converted to Chapter 7 a few months",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "until it was finally sold to New York-based DLC Management. At the time, it was the largest asset in DLC’s portfolio. Sports Authority closed due to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 2016. Michael's took this place in 2017. On April 18, 2018, the Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. company (owner of Carson's) announced that all of its stores will be going into liquidation and wrap up corporations on August 29, 2018 due to financial reasons. The Carson's store at Randhurst has had a little over 56 years of service in the Mount Prospect shopping community, and after 10 years of the indoor mall's",
"title": "Randhurst Village"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "1990. Builders Square closed its store in July 1990 so that Sports Authority could expand both its retail floor space and headquarters. A month later, the last two tenants (an optician and dentist's office) moved out following a roof collapse, leaving only Sports Authority and Office Depot. In 1992, renovation plans were announced that called for demolition of the structure, except for those stores. The mall was finally torn down in 1996, with Linen Supermarket, Mac Frugal's (which converted to Big Lots in 2002) and Smart & Final opening on portions of the former lot. Sports Authority moved out in",
"title": "Lakes Mall"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "The businesses on outparcels of the mall, Longhorn Steakhouse, Showcase Cinemas, and Firestone were able to reopen by the start of May 2010. Sports Authority, despite being located above the flooded area on the second level, was unable to reopen until May 17, 2010, due to repair work required for the escalators and elevator. The first business to reopen on the ground level of the mall was Liberty Travel, which reopened on June 14, 2010. Target reopened on July 11, with the next opening being Old Navy. When the Warwick Mall reopened on August 20, 2010, 25 stores were in",
"title": "Warwick Mall"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "key founding executives. Jack A. Smith, formerly COO of Herman's World of Sports, CEO; Roy M. Cohen, Senior Vice President and General Merchandise Manager; Richard Lynch, Senior Vice President and CFO and Arnold Sedel, Vice President of Stores Operations were the founding executives. The venture capital syndicate was led by William Blair Venture Partners and included First Chicago Venture Partners, Bain Capital, Phillips-Smith Venture Partners, Marquette Venture Partners, and Bessemer Securities. The Sports Authority, Inc. opened its first store in November 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1990, Kmart acquired the company. Five years later, The Sports Authority had expanded",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "in Niles, Illinois. The company grew to 60 stores in nine states. Gart Sports and Sportmart merged in 1998. Sportmart briefly operated in Canada in the 1990s before closing down their operations after two years. Oshman's Sporting Goods was founded in Houston, Texas in 1919 by Jake Oshman. By 1965, Oshman's had become the largest sporting goods chain in Texas, operating 43 Oshman's SuperSports USA stores and 15 traditional stores; the company merged with Gart Sports in 2001. The Sports Authority, Inc. was founded in Lakes Mall in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida by a syndicate of venture capital groups and several",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.11,
"text": "Gart started the company with $50 in fishing rod samples. In 1971, Gart Sports Company opened the \"\"Sportscastle\"\" superstore in Denver, Colorado at the corner of 10th Avenue and Broadway. The 1980s marked a period of substantial growth for the company through a series of acquisitions. These mergers included Hagan's Sports Ltd. (1987) and Stevens Brown of Salt Lake City (1987). In the fall of 1992, Leonard Green & Partners acquired Thrifty and became the company's largest shareholder. At the same time that Gart Sports Company opened the Sportscastle, the Hochberg family and the Cantor family opened their first Sportmart",
"title": "Sports Authority"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.95,
"text": "investor group in New Jersey. By the mid-1980s the chain had over 200 stores in the U.S. Sun Belt. In 1993 the company stated that it planned to close 33 stores. In 2001 Gart Sports Company announced that it would buy Oshman's for a combination of cash and stock valued around $82 million. In June of that year it merged into GSC Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gart. Many of Oshman's stores became Sports Authority stores; they have since closed. Today Dick's Sporting Goods picked up where Sports Authority left off. In 1991 the company stated that it",
"title": "Oshman's Sporting Goods"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "2011 season, Englewood, Colorado-based sporting goods retailer Sports Authority claimed the naming rights of Invesco Field, which became known as Sports Authority Field at Mile High. However, in the summer of 2016, Sports Authority went bankrupt, and the Broncos have been seeking a new corporate sponsor for their stadium ever since. The altitude has also been attributed as part of the team's home success. The stadium displays multiple references to the stadium's location of above sea level, including a prominent mural just outside the visiting team's locker room. The team training facility, the UCHealth Training Center (formerly known as the",
"title": "Denver Broncos"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "its major leaking problem. Although Lawler was working for the WWF, he and Larry Burton ended up buying the USWA from Jarrett and immediately selling it to businessman Mark Selker's company XL Sports Ltd. in early 1997, and the USWA went out of business by November of that year, resulting in a nasty lawsuit between Burton, Selker, and Lawler. In a civil RICO trial, a Federal District Court jury in Cleveland, Ohio eventually returned a verdict on which judgment was entered. The jury determined that Larry Burton and his son Jason Bertman had engaged in racketeering and awarded XL Sports",
"title": "United States Wrestling Association"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "on RTD. The State of California created the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority effective February 1, 1993 per AB152 (Katz). The former SCRTD and LACTC entities went out of business officially on April 1, 1993 after a 60 day cross-over and close out period, due to the inability of LACTC and SCRTD to cease long-standing feuds. The final straw and most embarrassing example of inter-agency contentious relations was based on a report in the \"\"Los Angeles Times\"\" on the Blue Line to Downtown Los Angeles (an LACTC project). The newspaper wrote that the line would terminate a mere six",
"title": "History of the LACMTA"
}
] |
where does absorption take place in digestive system? | [
"in the small intestine"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "their corresponding monosaccharides by enzymes (maltase, isomaltase, sucrase and lactase) present in the brush border of the small intestine. In the typical Western diet, digestion and absorption of carbohydrates is fast and takes place usually in the upper small intestine. However, when the diet contains carbohydrates not easily digestible, digestion and absorption take place mainly in the ileal portion of the intestine. Digestion of food continues while simplest elements are absorbed. The absorption of most digested food occurs in the small intestine through the brush border of the epithelium covering the villi (small hair-like structure). It is not a simple",
"title": "Carbohydrate digestion"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.31,
"text": "mesenteron, where the majority of digestion takes place. Microscopic projections from the midgut wall, called microvilli, increase the surface area of the wall and allow more nutrients to be absorbed; they tend to be close to the origin of the midgut. In some insects, the role of the microvilli and where they are located may vary. For example, specialized microvilli producing digestive enzymes may more likely be near the end of the midgut, and absorption near the origin or beginning of the midgut. In the hindgut (element 16 in numbered diagram), or proctodaeum, undigested food particles are joined by uric",
"title": "Insect"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "Small intestine The small intestine or small bowel is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine, and is where most of the end absorption of food takes place. The small intestine has three distinct regions – the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The duodenum is the shortest part of the small intestine and is where preparation for absorption begins. It also receives bile and pancreatic juice through the pancreatic duct, controlled by the sphincter of Oddi. The primary function of the small intestine is the absorption of nutrients and minerals from food, using small finger-like",
"title": "Small intestine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.52,
"text": "the proteins required by our body. The material that remains undigested and unabsorbed passes into the large intestine. Absorption of the majority of nutrients takes place in the jejunum, with the following notable exceptions: The small intestine supports the body's immune system. The presence of gut flora appears to contribute positively to the host's immune system. Peyer's patches, located within the ileum of the small intestine, are an important part of the digestive tract's local immune system. They are part of the lymphatic system, and provide a site for antigens from potentially harmful bacteria or other microorganisms in the digestive",
"title": "Small intestine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.66,
"text": "different regions. In traditional Chinese medicine, the small intestine is a yang organ. Small intestine The small intestine or small bowel is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine, and is where most of the end absorption of food takes place. The small intestine has three distinct regions – the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The duodenum is the shortest part of the small intestine and is where preparation for absorption begins. It also receives bile and pancreatic juice through the pancreatic duct, controlled by the sphincter of Oddi. The primary function of the small",
"title": "Small intestine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "while the majority of absorption occurs in the jejunum. Bile from the liver aids in digesting fats in the duodenum combined with enzymes from the pancreas and small intestine. Horses do not have a gall bladder, so bile flows constantly. Most food is digested and absorbed into the bloodstream from the small intestine, including proteins, simple carbohydrate, fats, and vitamins A, D, . Any remaining liquids and roughage move into the large intestine. The cecum is the first section of the large intestine. It is also known as the \"\"water gut\"\" or \"\"hind gut\"\". It is a cul-de-sac pouch, about",
"title": "Equine anatomy"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.42,
"text": "the colon or large intestine. Water is absorbed here and the remaining waste matter is stored prior to defecation. Most of the digestion of food takes place in the small intestine. A major digestive organ is the stomach. Within its mucosa are millions of embedded gastric glands. Their secretions are vital to the functioning of the organ. There are many specialised cells of the GI tract. These include the various cells of the gastric glands, taste cells, pancreatic duct cells, enterocytes and microfold cells. Some parts of the digestive system are also part of the excretory system, including the large",
"title": "Human digestive system"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "The duodenum is the first and shortest section of the small intestine. It is a hollow, jointed C-shaped tube connecting the stomach to the jejunum. It starts at the duodenal bulb and ends at the suspensory muscle of duodenum. The attachment of the suspensory muscle to the diaphragm is thought to help the passage of food by making a wider angle at its attachment. Most food digestion takes place in the small intestine. Segmentation contractions act to mix and move the chyme more slowly in the small intestine allowing more time for absorption (and these continue in the large intestine).",
"title": "Human digestive system"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.17,
"text": "the intestine. These animals all consume diets that either require little storage of food, or no pre-digestion with gastric juices, or both. The small intestine is the part of the digestive tract following the stomach and followed by the large intestine, and is where much of the digestion and absorption of food takes place. In fish, the divisions of the small intestine are not clear, and the terms \"\"anterior\"\" or \"\"proximal\"\" intestine may be used instead of duodenum. The small intestine is found in all teleosts, although its form and length vary enormously between species. In teleosts, it is relatively",
"title": "Fish physiology"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "in the small intestine. Water and minerals are reabsorbed back into the blood in the colon of the large intestine, where the environment is slightly acidic. Some vitamins, such as biotin and vitamin K produced by bacteria in the gut flora of the colon are also absorbed. The parietal cells in the fundus of the stomach, produce a glycoprotein called intrinsic factor which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin), is carried to, and through the stomach, bound to a glycoprotein secreted by the salivary glands - transcobalamin I also called haptocorrin, which protects the acid-sensitive",
"title": "Human digestive system"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "more digestive glands or digestive caeca. Digestive enzymes are secreted into the lumen of these glands. Additional extracellular digestion takes place in the stomach. In cephalopods, digestion is entirely extracellular. In the most other mollusks, the terminal stages of digestion are completed intracellularly, within the tissue of the digestive glands. The absorbed nutrients enter the circulatory system for distribution throughout the body or are stored in the digestive glands for later use. Undigested waste pass through an intestine and out through the anus. Other aspects of food collection and processing have already been discussed where appropriate for each group. The",
"title": "Extracellular digestion"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.05,
"text": "passing through. This is also where the ruminant digests the microbes produced in the rumen. Digesta is finally moved into the small intestine, where the digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs. The small intestine is the main site of nutrient absorption. the surface area of the digesta is greatly increased here because of the villi that are in the small intestine. This increased surface area allows for greater nutrient absorption. Microbes produced in the reticulorumen are also digested in the small intestine. After the small intestine is the large intestine. The major roles here are breaking down mainly fiber by",
"title": "Ruminant"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "the appendages on the telson instead form caudal rami (spine-like protrusions). The digestive tract is straight and the foregut consists of a short oesophagus and a two-chambered stomach, the first part of which contains a gizzard-like \"\"gastric mill\"\" for grinding food. The walls of this have chitinous ridges, teeth and calcareous ossicles. The fine particles and soluble material are then moved into the midgut where chemical processing and absorption takes place in one or more pairs of large digestive caeca. The hindgut is concerned with water reclamation and the formation of faeces and the anus is situated at the base",
"title": "Malacostraca"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.81,
"text": "gastroderm release enzymes that reduce the prey to slurry, usually within a few hours. This circulates through the digestive cavity and, in colonial cnidarians, through the connecting tunnels, so that gastroderm cells can absorb the nutrients. Absorption may take a few hours, and digestion within the cells may take a few days. The circulation of nutrients is driven by water currents produced by cilia in the gastroderm or by muscular movements or both, so that nutrients reach all parts of the digestive cavity. Nutrients reach the outer cell layer by diffusion or, for animals or zooids such as medusae which",
"title": "Cnidaria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.81,
"text": "The food bolus is moved along the gut by peristalsis. The long oesophagus leads to a muscular stomach roughly in the middle of the visceral mass. The digestive gland, which is equivalent to a vertebrate liver, diverticulates here, as does the pancreas, and both of these empty into the caecum, a pouch-shaped sac where most of the absorption of nutrients takes place. Indigestible food can be passed directly from the stomach to the rectum where it joins the flow from the caecum and is voided through the anus into the mantle cavity. Cephalopods are short-lived, and in mature squid, priority",
"title": "Squid"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "the wall and allow more nutrients to be absorbed; they tend to be close to the origin of the midgut. In some insects, the role of the microvilli and where they are located may vary. For example, specialized microvilli producing digestive enzymes may more likely be near the end of the midgut, and absorption near the origin or beginning of the midgut. In the hindgut (element 16 in numbered diagram), or proctodaeum, undigested food particles are joined by uric acid to form fecal pellets. The rectum absorbs 90% of the water in these fecal pellets, and the dry pellet is",
"title": "Insect morphology"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "tubule into the cells occurs at the brush border membrane of the epithelium (moist, tightly packed cellular lining of many tissues and organs of the body). Here, cotransporters such as sodium or chloride (part of the system of Na-K-Cl cotransporters) couple with the amino or imino acids on the molecular level and transport them through specific integral membrane proteins that form ion channels, which are located within the cell membrane. From the cells, the absorbed or reabsorbed amino and imino acids eventually reach the blood. Absorption refers to the overall process happening in the intestine in lieu of normal digestive",
"title": "Iminoglycinuria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.72,
"text": "absorption of B into the body requires adequate amounts of intrinsic factor, the glycoprotein produced in the parietal cells of the stomach lining. A functioning small intestine is also necessary for the proper metabolism of the vitamin, as absorption occurs within the ileum. B is produced in the digestive tracts of all animals, including humans. Thus, animal-origin food is the only natural food source of vitamin B However, synthesis of B occurs in the large intestine, which is past the point of absorption that occurs within the small intestine. As such, vitamin B must be obtained through diet. Unlike other",
"title": "Nutritional neuroscience"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.72,
"text": "cephalic phase in which saliva is produced in the mouth and digestive enzymes are produced in the stomach. Mechanical and chemical digestion begin in the mouth where food is chewed, and mixed with saliva to begin enzymatic processing of starches. The stomach continues to break food down mechanically and chemically through churning and mixing with both acids and enzymes. Absorption occurs in the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, and the process finishes with defecation. The human gastrointestinal tract is around 9 meters long. Food digestion physiology varies between individuals and upon other factors such as the characteristics of the food and",
"title": "Digestion"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "absorption occurs, when continuous exercise becomes very hard, and easily triggers rhabdomyolysis. It probably happens because the digestive system senses and signals forthcoming delivery of sugars, inhibiting fatty acid release and oxidation, and starving glycogen-less muscle cells of the sole available source of energy. Even simple continuous exercise, like walking or washing dishes by hand right after the meal, may trigger rhabdomyolysis in the exercising muscles. This rhabdomyolysis is probably not of exertional, but of hypoglycemic nature, as loaded glycogen-less muscles can rapidly remove glucose from blood, and the normal mechanism of glucose homeostasis lacks the required responsiveness or capacity",
"title": "Adenosine monophosphate deaminase deficiency type 1"
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when does the next season of anne with an e start on netflix? | [
"2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.58,
"text": "used \"\"Anne with an E\"\". CBC adopted the \"\"Anne with an E\"\" name beginning in the second season. On August 3, 2017, both CBC and Netflix renewed the series for a 10-episode second season, which began production in November 2017. Season 2 premiered on Netflix on July 6, 2018, and on CBC on September 23, 2018. In August 2018, CBC and Netflix renewed the series for a 10-episode third season to premiere in 2019. In the late 19th century, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, both in their old age, decide to take on an orphan boy to help",
"title": "Anne with an E"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.12,
"text": "old when we return to this season full of romantic complications, bold adventures and dramatic discoveries. I will explore important, contemporary themes that I hope will continue to resonate with, and inspire and uplift, our audience.\"\" The series initially premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC and aired on a weekly basis, the season finale airing on April 30, 2017. The series debuted on Netflix on May 12, 2017, under the title \"\"Anne With An E\"\". The second and later seasons were retitled to match Netflix's title by the CBC which had initially used the title \"\"Anne\"\". The CBC premier",
"title": "Anne with an E"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.55,
"text": "Anne with an E Anne with an E is a Canadian drama television series based on the 1908 novel \"\"Anne of Green Gables\"\" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and adapted by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Moira Walley-Beckett. It airs on CBC Television in Canada, and elsewhere in the world it is available for streaming on Netflix. The first season consists of seven episodes, with Niki Caro directing the 90-minute season premiere. The series premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC, the first season finale airing on April 30, 2017. The first season was titled simply Anne in Canada, while Netflix",
"title": "Anne with an E"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.67,
"text": "for Season 2 was in late September, after it had been streaming on Netflix for some time. The first season has achieved a rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews for an average rating of 7.78/10 the site's critical consensus stating: \"\"\"\"Anne with an E\"\" uses its complex central character to offer a boldly stylish, emotionally resonant spin on classic source material that satisfies in its own right.\"\" The series has received a rating of 79 on Metacritic based on fifteen reviews, indicating \"\"generally favorable reviews\"\". Emily Ashby, writing for Common Sense Media, calls the series an",
"title": "Anne with an E"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.3,
"text": "do. Slowly, her ebullient nature wins over those around her. The production companies are listed as Northwood Anne, Northwood Entertainment and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Netflix is only the distributor. The executive producers are Miranda de Pencier and series creator Moira Walley-Beckett. According to de Pencier, the adaptation of the novel for this television series was intended to provide a different look and feel compared to past productions; they were aiming for a \"\"documentary level of realism\"\", as reflected in the extraordinary detail which has gone into the design of sets and costumes. Production on Season 3 was planned to start",
"title": "Anne with an E"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "E\"\" for international distribution), premiered in March 2017, and has been renewed for a second season to air in 2018. She has written the upcoming film \"\"The Grizzlies\"\" alongside \"\"Justified\"\" creator Graham Yost, directed by Miranda de Pencier. Production staff Writer Moira Walley-Beckett Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian television actress, producer and writer. She is the creator of the television series \"\"Flesh and Bone\"\" and \"\"Anne\"\" (titled \"\"Anne with an E\"\" for international distribution)\"\".\"\" She previously worked on the AMC drama \"\"Breaking Bad\"\" as a writer and producer. For her work on the series, she won three Primetime Emmy Awards,",
"title": "Moira Walley-Beckett"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.84,
"text": "series premiered on March 2, 2018. During the 2018 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Netflix announced that a second season is in production. Anime Limited acquired the series for home video distribution in the United Kingdom and Ireland. B The Beginning B: The Beginning is an original anime series produced by Production I.G and directed by Kazuto Nakazawa and Yoshiki Yamakawa. The series premiered on March 2, 2018, worldwide on Netflix. In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action sweep through the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Chief among the major players is \"\"Killer B\"\", a serial killer who",
"title": "B The Beginning"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.59,
"text": "of melancholy and turmoil, this season feels more energetic and subsequently lighter because of the faster pace. It also is more comfortable in its skin and handles humor in its everyday situations deftly while also poking fun at itself.\"\" Anne with an E Anne with an E is a Canadian drama television series based on the 1908 novel \"\"Anne of Green Gables\"\" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and adapted by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Moira Walley-Beckett. It airs on CBC Television in Canada, and elsewhere in the world it is available for streaming on Netflix. The first season consists of",
"title": "Anne with an E"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.98,
"text": "in late 2018 Besides the show itself having a larger number of female characters than male, women serving as executive producer and showrunner, the series has several female directors. For the second season, showrunner and scriptwriter Moira Walley-Beckett was joined by a team of women writers. Season 3 will also feature a team of women writers. Approximately 1800 girls on three continents auditioned for the role of Anne Shirley. Amybeth McNulty was chosen for her ability to deliver dialogue which is \"\"incredibly thick and dynamic and beautiful\"\", according to Miranda de Pencier. Walley-Beckett describes her as at once \"\"luminous,\"\" transparent,",
"title": "Anne with an E"
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"hasanswer": true,
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"text": "ratings. Shortly after, eOne announced they were in \"\"active discussions\"\" with other networks to revive the show, including Netflix, which streams the series internationally. On September 5, 2018, it was confirmed that Netflix had picked up the series for a third season of 10 episodes, to be released in 2019. Neal Baer will serve as the series showrunner, the fifth person to do so. The first two seasons were produced by ABC Studios, The Mark Gordon Company, and eOne, with filming in Toronto, Ontario. For the third season, ABC Studios will not be involved with eOne (which had fully acquired",
"title": "Designated Survivor (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.53,
"text": "\"\"Anne: Journey to Green Gables\"\", with McKenzie Sullivan providing the voice of Anne. In 2016, a 90-minute movie was made (\"\"L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables\"\") with Ella Ballentine as Anne Shirley, Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert, and Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert. This was followed by sequels in 2017, entitled \"\"Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars\"\" and \"\"Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew\"\". Anne is portrayed by Amybeth McNulty in the 2017-present CBC and Netflix dramatic series \"\"Anne with an E\"\". Lennie Goodings, a publisher for Virago Press, chose Anne as her favorite fictional character, stating, \"\"The",
"title": "Anne Shirley"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.25,
"text": "and DVD on September 9, 2014, with the complete second season released on September 18, 2015, as an Amazon.com exclusive. On Netflix in the United States, the first season became available for streaming on November 20, 2014, the second season on June 11, 2015, the third season on June 16, 2016, the fourth season on June 15, 2017, and the fifth season on June 17, 2018. In the United States, the premiere episode of \"\"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\"\" earned a 4.7/14 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, with 12.12 million total viewers, making it the biggest network drama debut in",
"title": "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.08,
"text": "crystals in the middle, pointing to Skye's confused allegiances and the importance of the crystals in the finale. The season began streaming on Netflix on June 11, 2015, and was released on September 18, 2015, on Blu-ray and DVD as an Amazon.com exclusive. The season averaged 7.09 million total viewers, including from DVR, ranking 76th among network series in the 2014–15 television season. It also had an average total 18-49 rating of 2.7, which was 32nd. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 97% approval rating with an average score of 7.66/10, based on 29 reviews. The website's consensus",
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},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.97,
"text": "Has a Show\"\", a spiritual successor to Norm Macdonald Live starring Macdonald and Eget was released on Netflix on the September 14, 2018. The first season premiered on March 26, 2013 and concluded after eleven episodes. After a year-long hiatus, the second season debuted on May 12, 2014. It concluded after thirteen episodes in August 2014. A third season was released in September and October 2016, but only aired 2 episodes before going on hiatus. On July 25, 2017 the season continued with guest David Letterman. The recommencement of the third season featured a brand new set as well as",
"title": "Norm Macdonald Live"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.86,
"text": "the confines of their lives. The series had its debut on Netflix on November 17, 2017. The series was developed by Kevin Burke, Victor Cook, and Chris \"\"Doc\"\" Wyatt; Burke and Wyatt also wrote a tie-in comic book for IDW Publishing. The first 13 episodes of the 26-episode first season were released on Netflix on November 17, 2017. A similar concept with Stretch as a superhero was also shown in a one-off comic produced by Hasbro in 2011 dubbed \"\"Unit:E\"\"; there, the descendant of Acroyear and a Biotron (both from \"\"Micronauts\"\") and Synergy (from \"\"Jem\"\"; here an alien artificial intelligence)",
"title": "Stretch Armstrong"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.84,
"text": "succeeding. The first season, consisting of 8 episodes, became available on Netflix worldwide on November 25, 2016. In December 2016, Netflix renewed the series for a second season, which consists of 10 episodes and was released on April 27, 2018. On June 4, 2018, the series was renewed for a third season, which is scheduled to be released in 2019. Creator and writer Pedro Aguilera developed \"\"3%\"\" from a 2009 independent pilot episode. Netflix gave the series an 8-episode order for the first season. It is the first Portuguese-language Netflix original series and the second non-English production, after the Spanish-language",
"title": "3%"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.7,
"text": "finale to properly conclude the series, to air on December 20, 2018. Season 1 aired on NBC in the U.S. and on Global in Canada on Monday nights at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific (9 p.m. Central). Season 2 aired on NBC and Global on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. EST/PST. (9 p.m. CST). Episodes can also be streamed online through NBC and Global's respective websites, as well as on Netflix in some countries. Episodes can also be streamed on Hulu in the United States. Starting from December 14, 2016, it aired in the UK on E4 every Wednesday at",
"title": "Timeless (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.62,
"text": "a blooper reel, as well as the television special, \"\"\"\". On November 20, 2014, the season became available for streaming on Netflix. As of September 30, 2013, an estimated 22.1 million viewers have watched the premiere episode in the US through live, DVR, encore, and online viewing. In Canada, the premiere saw 2.706 million viewers, the third highest viewership for the week on the network. In the United Kingdom, the episode debuted as the highest rated drama launch of the year, averaging 3.23 million viewers including the +1 channel and recordings viewed the same night, a share of 14.8 percent",
"title": "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.58,
"text": "In January 2015, it was announced that the first five seasons of \"\"M*A*S*H\"\" would be available on Netflix's instant streaming service beginning February 1, 2015. This marked the first time the series was made available on an internet platform. As of July 1, 2015, all 11 seasons were available; syndicated versions of hour-long episodes were utilized for streaming, splitting these shows into two parts. In contrast to the DVD sets, the Netflix streams did not have an option for disabling the laugh track on the soundtrack. On April 1, 2016, \"\"M*A*S*H\"\" was removed from Netflix due to its contract to",
"title": "M*A*S*H (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.55,
"text": "Korea on 1 September 2015 on EBS1. In the United States, the series debuted on Nickelodeon on 6 December. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the show premiered on 30 January 2016 on Disney Channel. A Christmas special was released in 2016 and the second season premiered in French on TF1 and in English on Disney Channel UK in 2017. Netflix acquired the U.S. video-on-demand streaming rights and further seasons are in production. Set in modern-day Paris, the series focuses on teenagers Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste. When evil arises, Marinette transforms into her superhero persona Ladybug, while Adrien transforms",
"title": "Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir"
}
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who does hiccups voice in how to train your dragon? | [
"Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "song \"\"Sticks & Stones\"\" , provided two new original songs for the sequel in collaboration with Powell. Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, who voices Hiccup in Norwegian, also wrote and performed the song \"\"Into a Fantasy\"\". The latter song is featured only in the European versions of the film. A soundtrack album for the film was released on June 17, 2014, by Relativity Music Group. The album features over an hour of score by Powell; additional music by Anthony Willis and Paul Mounsey, as well as the two original songs written by Powell and Jónsi. Rybak's song, \"\"Into a Fantasy\"\", was",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "director of seven episodes in the first season, confirmed that there would also be a second season. Jay Baruchel, who voiced Hiccup, also stars in the series, as well as America Ferrera (Astrid), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), and T. J. Miller (Tuffnut). The second season is accompanied with the new subtitle, \"\"Defenders of Berk\"\", replacing the previous \"\"Riders of Berk\"\" subtitle. The show then moved to Netflix and was subtitled \"\"Race to the Edge\"\". It consists, in total, of 8 seasons. In 2019 a new series called \"\"Dragons: Rescue Riders\"\" is coming. \"\"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\"\" is a 16 minute",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.64,
"text": "on. It's only me that goes beyond the same.\"\" The song \"\"Into a Fantasy\"\" is played during the ending credits to the movie \"\"How to Train Your Dragon 2\"\" in European releases. Rybak provided the Norwegian voice-over for the animated character Hiccup. Alexander Rybak Alexander Igoryevich Rybak (born 13 May 1986) is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist and actor. Representing Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, Rybak won the contest with 387 points—the highest tally any country has achieved in the history of Eurovision under the old voting system—with \"\"Fairytale\"\", a song he wrote and composed.",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "enough for the dragon to eat him up to the waist, which is when Hiccup stabs the dragon in a major vulnerable spot. He ventures off into the creature's maze of glass walls because of a mysterious voice and finds Fishlegs. He also finds the Dragon Jewel. Then they swim to shore through and exit, and the Deadly Shadow picks them up, all flying triumphantly into the distance. Cressida Cowell tells readers to stop reading there if they want a happy story. However Valhallarama finds Hiccup and takes him to the slave jail. There she convinces the slaves and others",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "\"\"Happy Feet\"\", in which he voiced Mumble, 2007's \"\"Surf's Up\"\", voicing protagonist Cody Maverick, and 2010's \"\"How to Train Your Dragon\"\", voicing the lead of Hiccup. In September 2008, Descamps played Dolf Vega in the musical version of \"\"Crusade in Jeans\"\". In 2009, Descamps publicly announced his homosexuality and relationship with Danny de Jong. In 2007, Descamps released his a single \"\"Phonecall,\"\" which rose to number 36 on the Ultratop 50. Three years later, in 2010, he released the single \"\"Like It Rough.\"\" In 2011, Descamps released his third single, entitled \"\"Tomorrow.\"\" Timo Descamps Timo Descamps (born 27 May 1986)",
"title": "Timo Descamps"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "Hounsou as Drago Bludvist. John Powell, the composer of the first score, will also return for the second and third film. Set five years after the events of the original film, Hiccup and Toothless have successfully united dragons and Vikings. Now 20 years old, Hiccup is forced to take on the mantle of chief by his father. When he discovers a group of dragon trappers led by Drago Bludvist, he goes on a quest to find him. But first he comes across a masked stranger named Valka, his presumed-dead mother. In December 2010, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed that there",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "Dragon 2\"\". It was released on DVD separately on March 3, 2015, and it also includes \"\"Book of Dragons\"\" and \"\"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\"\". It was directed by John Sanford and Elaine Bogan, and it features the voices of Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera along with the cast from the television series. In the short, a hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and his friends for the first title of Dragon Racing Champion of Berk. A Broadway-style production named \"\"How To Train Your Dragon ON ICE\"\" is currently on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "Vorpentitis. Hiccup desperately tries to speak, murmuring \"\"Oot me!\"\", and tries to point at the arrow on the table next to him which had been stuck in the potato for a long time. Fishlegs realizes that Hiccup wants him to shoot him with the arrow, which is soaked in the juices of the potato. Fishlegs shoots Hiccup on the foot, and Hiccup recovers. In the epilogue, Hiccup buries the arrow that saved his life and a seed on the end of it grows another potato which is used to cover the island with potatoes so no one dies of Vorpentitis",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "It also features villagers and Vikings, including Hiccup (Rarmian Newton/Riley Miner), Astrid (Sarah McCreanor/Gemma Nguyen), Stoick (Robert Morgan), and Gobber (Will Watkins). The show premiered as \"\"How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular\"\" on March 3, 2012, in Melbourne, Australia, and was followed by a New Zealand tour in April 2012. Renamed to \"\"How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular\"\", it toured United States and Canada between June 2012 and January 2013, when it was cancelled in favour of taking the show to China where it premiered in July 2014. Earning over a billion dollars, \"\"How to Train Your Dragon\"\"",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.44,
"text": "who they are and the Wodensfang is asleep from a poison dart. Once Hiccup reaches Tomorrow, he is captured by the Dragon Guardians of Tomorrow who attempt to kill by performing Death by Airy Oblivion, but halfway up realize that they have made a mistake and Hiccup should not be killed, and so drop him in the swamp. Hiccup crawls out of the swamp and enters Grimbeard the Ghastly's castle just as Alvin is about to be crowned king by the Druid Guardian. At this point, Hiccup regains his memory and gives a speech convincing the Druid Guardian to crown",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.42,
"text": "horses and hawks so that he can fulfill his promise which stated that if humans didn't change by the time he died, dragons would have to go into hibernation. Hiccup also instructed Fishlegs to perpetuate that the whole story was just a myth. DreamWorks Animation released on 26 March 2010 a computer-animated film adaptation \"\"How to Train Your Dragon\"\", directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the directors of \"\"Lilo & Stitch\"\". The film features Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, Hiccup's father, Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch, and Jay Baruchel as Hiccup. The film proved to be a",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "collect five pots of honey, but gets captured by Berserks. So is Hiccup. At the Berserk Village, Hiccup and Fishlegs meet the other fiancés of Tantrum, one of them being Humongously Hotshot the Hero. All of them are to be fed to \"\"the Beast\"\" later in the evening. Hiccup realizes that the chef of the Berserk Chief is actually Alvin the Treacherous (who is in chains). Alvin explains that when he was in the Fire Dragon in Book 5, he had used his sword to pop open the stomach of the Exterminator Dragon he was riding (because there is lots",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "cell, where he meets a witch who introduces herself as Hogtrude(and Hiccup introducing himself as Fishlegs), who helps get some nasty things from Toothless's tummy. The witch then finds Hiccup suspicious and decides to tell him a story and at the end of the story, they will both guess each other's names and whoever guesses right will get to kill the other. The witch then tells Hiccup how Grimbeard the Ghastly had three kids, Thugheart, Chucklehead and Hiccup Horrendous Haddock II. Grimbeard tried to kill the second Hiccup by leaving him in the mountainside, upsetting his wife who left to",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"score": 23.34,
"text": "Animation Pierre Olivier Vincent - \"\"How To Train Your Dragon\"\" - DreamWorks Animation Fred Gonzales - \"\"T.U.F.F. Puppy\"\" – Nickelodeon Tom Owens - \"\"How To Train Your Dragon\"\" - DreamWorks Animation Jay Baruchel as Hiccup - \"\"How To Train Your Dragon\"\" - DreamWorks Animation James Hong as Mr. Ping - \"\"Kung Fu Panda Holiday\"\" - DreamWorks Animation Geoff Johns, Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Douglas Goldstein, Tom Root, Dan Milano, Kevin Shinick & Hugh Davidson - \"\"Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III\"\" – ShadowMachine William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders -",
"title": "38th Annie Awards"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "defend themselves. Hiccup and Gobber are saved by a mysterious man in a fireproof suit riding a white dragon, whom they at first believe to be a man from the treacherous Lava-Lout tribe. The man soon reveals himself to be Humungously Hotshot, one of the greatest heroes on the planet. Although Hiccup's father, Stoick, begins to regard Hotshot with jealousy, he hires him as Hiccup's \"\"bodyguard\"\". After that, Hotshot saves Hiccup from several deadly situations, all of which are later revealed to be his own doing. Later on at night, Hiccup wakes up to Hotshot looming over him with his",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.23,
"text": "called the Wodensfang, a very old, ancient dragon that was told to guard the crown by Grimbeard the Ghastly. The Wodensfang tells him he was the one who gave the first Hiccup the Dragon Jewel. He gets back into the hut and the witch attacks him but he was immune to the vorpent venom on her claws gets himself covered in the poison in the struggle, wins the competition, beating his own father. Alvin is third. Hiccup is declared winner and tells the tribes that he wanted to free all dragons so that there would be no revolt in the",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "eye and all of his hair) told Humongous the thing he must promise to do is to kill Hiccup, stating that Hiccup is a Prince of Darkness and a Devil Child, who will send terror across the Archipelago. After Hotshot finishes his story Hiccup figures out that the woman Humungous is talking about is Hiccup's own mother, who had thought he was dead, and that Terrific Al is really the terrible villain Alvin the Treacherous as Hiccup had guessed. Hiccup, Fishlegs, Hotshot, Camicazi, the White Dragon and the Windwalker, Hiccup's riding dragon travel to Lava-lout Island to put the fire",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "look for the second Hiccup. Meanwhile, the second Hiccup was adopted by Grimler dragons and learned to speak Dragonese, but was found by Hooligans, and he and his adopted step dragon brother, a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus named Furious, lived with Grimbeard. One day, Hiccup wanted to hold a petition for the dragons to demand freedom. However, Thugheart tricked Grimbeard into thinking that it was an attack and Grimbeard killed Hiccup, but soon he realizes that Hiccup just wanted a peaceful petition, and regrets his actions and buried his treasures and left in his boat(Furious took the second Hiccup's corpse away).",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
},
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"score": 23.19,
"text": "short films were released: \"\"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\"\" (2010), \"\"Book of Dragons\"\" (2011), \"\"Gift of the Night Fury\"\" (2011), and \"\"Dawn of the Dragon Racers\"\" (2014). A television series based on the film premiered on Cartoon Network in Autumn 2012. Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and T. J. Miller reprise their roles as Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, and Tuffnut. The series, set between the first and second film, follows Hiccup and his friends as they learn more about dragons, discover new ones, teach others to feel comfortable around them, adapt traditions within the village to fit their new friends",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)"
},
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"score": 23.16,
"text": "retrieve the rest of the things from the Alvinsmen – Alvin's team – so Hiccup would become king), the ten companions of the Dragonmark (Hiccup, Fishlegs, Camicazi, Toothless, Wodensfang, Stormfly, Windwalker, Innocence, Arrogance and Patience) hear a human calling for help then abruptly stopping. Soon they find Wolf-fangs in the river, showing them why he was screaming. Then they see why he stopped. Thousands of Dragon Rebellion dragons were sleeping on the riverbank. Then they see who the human is... Snotlout. Everyone except Hiccup decides to leave him, but Hiccup persuades them to save him, accidentally waking up Snotlout's Hogfly.",
"title": "How to Train Your Dragon"
}
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when does season 6 of arrow come on tv? | [
"October 12, 2017"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.91,
"text": "Arrow (season 7) The seventh season of the American television series \"\"Arrow\"\", which is based on the DC Comics character Oliver Queen / Green Arrow, premiered on The CW on October 15, 2018 and is set to consist of 22 episodes. The season follows Oliver, a former billionaire businessman and politician, and the aftermath of outing himself as a vigilante. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe. The season is produced by Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television, and DC Entertainment. This is the first season with Beth Schwartz as showrunner following",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
},
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"score": 22.83,
"text": "on The CW in the United States on October 15, 2018. The main cast of the season as well as executive producer Beth Schwartz attended San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2018 to promote the season. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 96% approval rating for the seventh season, with an average rating of 7.7/10 based on 85 reviews. Reviewing for \"\"Den of Geek\"\", Delia Harrington gave the premiere a rating of 3/5. She opined that Roy's inclusion in the season made his \"\"moving sendoff\"\" with Thea from last season feel \"\"cheap\"\" and that she remained \"\"cautious\"\" about",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.77,
"text": "13, 2016, before the entire story was collected in a single print edition in September 2016. On November 6, 2013, a six-episode series of shorts, titled \"\"Blood Rush\"\", premiered alongside the broadcast of the show, as well as online. The series, which was presented by Bose, and features product placement for Bose products, was shot on location in Vancouver, similarly to the main show. The miniseries features Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes and Paul Blackthorne reprising their roles of Felicity Smoak, Roy Harper and Quentin Lance, respectively. The episodes set during the course of the second season of the television",
"title": "Arrow (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "in season 6.\"\" Lindsay Macdonald of \"\"TV Guide\"\" wrote positive about the episode, stating \"\"It's true that season finales usually come with a bodycount, but killing off the entire cast besides Oliver and his son? That seems farfetched, even for The CW.\"\" Lian Yu (Arrow) \"\"Lian Yu\"\" is the twenty-third and final episode of the fifth season, and 115th episode overall of The CW series \"\"Arrow\"\". The episode was written by showrunners Wendy Mericle and Marc Guggenheim and directed by Jesse Warn. It was first broadcast on May 24, 2017, on The CW. The finale revolves about Oliver Queen (Stephen",
"title": "Lian Yu (Arrow)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.52,
"text": "the departures of Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle. The season was ordered in April 2018, and production began that July. Stephen Amell stars as Oliver, with principal cast members David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Echo Kellum, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, and Katie Cassidy also returning from previous seasons. Colton Haynes, a principal cast member for seasons two and three and a special guest actor for seasons four and six, was reinstated as a series regular for the seventh season. They are joined by Kirk Acevedo, who was promoted to a series regular from his recurring status in the previous season,",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "including making-of featurettes, deleted scenes, gag reel, and highlights from the Paley Fest. Arrow (season 2) The second season of the American television series \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on The CW on October 10, 2013 and concluded on May 14, 2014 with a total of 23 episodes. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp. The showrunners for this season were Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. The series follows Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), billionaire playboy of Starling City, who spends five years shipwrecked on a mysterious island.",
"title": "Arrow (season 2)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "Arrow (season 2) The second season of the American television series \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on The CW on October 10, 2013 and concluded on May 14, 2014 with a total of 23 episodes. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp. The showrunners for this season were Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. The series follows Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), billionaire playboy of Starling City, who spends five years shipwrecked on a mysterious island. In the second season, Oliver has vowed to stop crime without killing criminals,",
"title": "Arrow (season 2)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "and new cast member Sea Shimooka. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Gregory Smith will direct an episode this season. At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January 2018, The CW president Mark Pedowitz said he was \"\"optimistic\"\" and \"\"confident\"\" about \"\"Arrow\"\" and the other Arrowverse shows returning next season, but added that it was too soon to announce anything just yet. On April 2, The CW renewed the series for its seventh season. Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle stepped down as showrunners at the end of the sixth season, with veteran writer Beth Schwartz taking over as sole showrunner for the seventh",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "Arrow (season 1) The first season of the American action television series \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on October 10, 2012 at 8:00 pm (ET) on The CW, consisting of a total of 23 episodes after the network ordered a full season on October 22, 2012. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp. The showrunners for this season were Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. The first season follows Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), billionaire playboy of Starling City, who spends five years shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Upon",
"title": "Arrow (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "Arrow (season 3) The third season of the American television series \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on the CW on October 8, 2014 consisting of a total of 23 episodes. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and follows billionaire vigilante Oliver Queen in his quest to protect Star City. The showrunners for this season were Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. The series follows Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), billionaire playboy of Starling City, who spends five years shipwrecked on a mysterious island. In the third season, Oliver",
"title": "Arrow (season 3)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "a third novel, known as \"\"Supergirl: Master of Illusion\"\", slated for release on January 8, 2019. On November 6, 2013, a six-episode series of shorts, titled \"\"Blood Rush\"\", premiered alongside the broadcast of \"\"Arrow\"\", as well as online. The series, which was presented by Bose, and features product placement for Bose products, was shot on location in Vancouver, similarly to the main show. The miniseries features Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes and Paul Blackthorne reprising their roles of Felicity Smoak, Roy Harper and Quentin Lance, respectively. The episodes set during the course of the second season of the television series,",
"title": "Arrowverse"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "Stephen Amell announced at The CW upfronts that the next Arrowverse crossover would feature Batwoman and Gotham City. The crossover \"\"Elseworlds\"\" is slated to launch a 2019 solo series for the character. In May 2018, it was announced that \"\"Arrow\"\" would move to Mondays for its seventh season, a first for the series, due to The CW's programming expansion to Sunday nights. On June 20, the network released its fall schedule, revealing that the series would additionally move from the 9:00 pm time-slot to the 8:00 pm time-slot, to serve as the lead-in to \"\"Legends of Tomorrow\"\". The season premiered",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.81,
"text": "or Commercial. In 2007, the sound effects and foley teams were nominated for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing for their work on \"\"Zod\"\". David Moxness won the American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Award for his work on \"\"Arrow\"\". In the 33rd Annual Saturn Awards, the show was nominated for Best Dramatic Television Series, as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Allison Mack. The complete sixth season of \"\"Smallville\"\" was released on September 18, 2007 in North America. Additional releases in region 2 and region 4 took place on October 22, 2007 and",
"title": "Smallville (season 6)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "March 5, 2008, respectively. This was the first season to be released on Blu-ray Disc. The Blu-ray box set was released in the United States on September 18, 2007, and in Canada on October 9, 2007. Regions 2 and 4 received a release of October 13, 2008 and March 3, 2009, respectively. The box set included various special features, including episode commentary, \"\"Ultimate Fan\"\" featurette, a Green Arrow documentary, as well as mobisodes for the \"\"Oliver Queen Chronicles\"\" and \"\"Justice & Doom\"\". Smallville (season 6) Season six of \"\"Smallville\"\", an American television series, began airing on September 28, 2006. The",
"title": "Smallville (season 6)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "the second season of \"\"The Flash\"\" and the fourth season of \"\"Arrow\"\", which features characters from both shows; the story continued in \"\"Arrow: A Generation of Vipers\"\", released on March 28, 2017, again written by the Griffiths. In August 2017, it was confirmed that \"\"Arrow\"\" executive producer Marc Guggenheim would co-author a fourth novel, alongside James R. Tuck, entitled \"\"Arrow: Fatal Legacies\"\", which was released in January 2018. The novel focuses on events between the fifth-season finale and sixth-season premiere. In August 2015, it was confirmed that Matt Ryan would appear on \"\"Arrow\"\" in the fourth-season episode \"\"Haunted\"\", per a",
"title": "Arrow (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "third season includes the first annual crossover with spin-off series \"\"The Flash\"\". The season would go on to be nominated for eleven nominations in various categories, winning two, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 22, 2015. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> \"\"Arrow\"\" was renewed for a third season by the CW on February 12, 2014. The season began filming in Vancouver, British Columbia in July 2014. Talking ahead of San Diego Comic Con, executive producer Marc Guggenheim stated that the theme of the season would be 'identity'. He and fellow EP Andrew Kreisberg confirmed that the series would continue six months",
"title": "Arrow (season 3)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.41,
"text": "crossover episodes, as well as two bonus tracks from their respective 2014 midseason finales. The Season 3 soundtrack was released in December 2015, consisting of 2 discs for the first time (previous albums consisted on one CD). \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on The CW network from October 10, 2012, during the 2012–13 television season. In Canada, the show is broadcast simultaneously on the same day as the United States. The show premiered outside North America throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, on October 22, 2012. In Australia, the series premiered on May 1, 2013, on the Nine Network, before moving to Foxtel",
"title": "Arrow (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.31,
"text": "Canada, the first episode got 1.32 million viewers, making it the fourth most-watched airing of the night and the twenty-third of the week. \"\"Arrow: Season 1\"\" was released as a 5-disc DVD set and as a 9-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack set on September 17, 2013 in the United States and September 23, 2013 in the United Kingdom. The DVD/Blu-ray box sets contain additional features, including making-of featurettes, deleted scenes, gag reel, and highlights from the Paley Fest 2012. Arrow (season 1) The first season of the American action television series \"\"Arrow\"\" premiered on October 10, 2012 at 8:00 pm (ET)",
"title": "Arrow (season 1)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "of soundtracks was also released. In October 2014, a spin-off series entitled \"\"The Flash\"\" premiered. In August 2015, an animated spin-off, \"\"Vixen\"\", was released, while a second live-action spin-off, \"\"Legends of Tomorrow\"\", premiered in January 2016, featuring several characters from \"\"Arrow\"\" and \"\"The Flash\"\". All four shows are set in a shared universe collectively known as the Arrowverse. On April 2, 2018, The CW renewed the series for a seventh season, which premiered on October 15, 2018. The series follows Oliver Queen, billionaire playboy of Starling City, who is discovered on the mysterious island of Lian Yu five years after",
"title": "Arrow (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "season. Guggenheim, the series' co-developer, remains involved as an executive consultant. In May 2018, outgoing showrunner Marc Guggenheim revealed that the Longbow Hunters, a villainous organization in DC Comics, would be teased in the sixth season finale before being introduced in the seventh season. Following the conclusion of the sixth season, which marked the first time in the series' history where the season's main antagonist was still at large, Guggenheim's successor Beth Schwartz confirmed that Ricardo Diaz / Dragon would return and, like his comic book counterpart, establish the Longbow Hunters, \"\"a legendary group of assassins Diaz recruits to get",
"title": "Arrow (season 7)"
}
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when was the dont tread on me flag created? | [
"1775"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.2,
"text": "Patrick Henry as the prime agitators for American independence by historians. Gadsden designed the \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" flag, first used on December 3, 1775, on the \"\"Alfred\"\", featuring a rattlesnake with 13 rattles representing each colony. In 1767, the Townsend Acts levied new taxes on glass, oil, wine, tea, paper, and other goods. Gadsden led the opposition and although Britain removed the taxes on everything except tea, Charlestonians mirrored the Boston Tea Party by dumping a shipment of tea into the Cooper River. Other shipments were allowed to land, but they rotted in Charles Town storehouses. Delegates from twelve",
"title": "South Carolina in the American Revolution"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto \"\"Dont Tread on Me\"\" [\"\"sic\"\"]; this tradition dates at least back to 1880, when this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential \"\"History of the Flag of the United States\"\". Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this inferred design never actually existed but \"\"was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving\"\". In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sicily, thanking him for allowing entry of American ships into",
"title": "First Navy Jack"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "Gadsden flag The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the rattlesnake are the words \"\"DONT TREAD ON ME.\"\" The flag is named after American general and politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution. It was used by the Continental Marines as an early motto flag, along with the Moultrie flag. The timber rattlesnake can be found in the area of the original Thirteen Colonies. Its use as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "rattlesnake like the one found on the Gadsden Flag. The song's lyrics refer to political phrases from the American Revolutionary War. \"\"Don't Tread On Me\"\" is a song from hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees on their 1992 studio album Don't Tread. In addition, in the hit series The West Wing, Sam Seaborn's office displays the flag hanging above his cabinet. NASCAR driver Carl Edwards displayed the Gadsden Flag next to his facsimile signature on his race car. In WWE, the tag team Real Americans, composed by Jack Swagger, Cesaro and the manager Zeb Colter, used the Gadsden Flag and the",
"title": "Gadsden flag"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "and special glasses. The glasses revealed the words BENEVENTUM and GEORGETOWN SC in secret printing on the flag. The next destination was Beneventum Plantation in Georgetown, where the \"\"Don't Tread On Me\"\" flag was created. With the discovery of the destination, teams received a Motorola message that a $30,000 treasure could be claimed by the first team to reach an upcoming location. Team Miss USA realized their mistake in not taking a bundle and returned to the tunnel. Through it all a bluesman performed the song at the tunnel entrance. After well over a 14-hour trip to arrive at Beneventum,",
"title": "Treasure Hunters (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "and Latvia. From 1777 until September 2002, the United States Navy flew the \"\"union jack\"\", the blue canton with white stars from the U.S. national ensign. (Since September 11, 2002, the U.S. Navy has flown the First Navy Jack, originally used 1775–76, with a rattlesnake and the motto \"\"Dont Tread on Me\"\" superimposed on thirteen alternating red and white stripes.) The Confederate States of America followed the same pattern for its first naval jack (1861–1863), the canton of its first navy ensign, with seven stars forming a circle on a \"\"medium blue\"\" field. Later versions had up to fifteen stars.",
"title": "Jack (flag)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "some maintain that it was superimposed by an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto \"\"\"\"Dont tread on me\"\"\"\" , reminiscent of the Gadsden flag. It was later changed to a blue canton with white stars, the \"\"union\"\", and updated as each state entered the Union. However, all warships were directed to fly the First Navy Jack, including the disputed rattlesnake and motto, for the duration of the War on Terror in 2002. A Commissioning or Masthead pennant is flown from the masthead and represents the commission of the captain of the ship (and thus of the ship itself). Additionally, a Church",
"title": "Flags of the United States Armed Forces"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "Gadsden flag is used by the Revolutionary Agorist Cadre as well as the traditional anarchist black flag. A verse from the 1970 song \"\"Uncle John's Band\"\" by the \"\"Grateful Dead\"\" contains the words \"\"Their wall are built of cannonballs, their motto is 'Don't tread on me'\"\". Gadsden flag The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the rattlesnake are the words \"\"DONT TREAD ON ME.\"\" The flag is named after American general and politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution.",
"title": "Gadsden flag"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "Sicilian ports. The letter describes the American flag according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of \"\"South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of the thirteen stripes.\"\" The rattlesnake had long been a symbol of resistance to the British in Colonial America. The phrase \"\"Don't tread on me\"\" may have been coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of the snake severed in segments labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend \"\"Join, or Die\"\" which had appeared first in Benjamin Franklin's \"\"Pennsylvania Gazette\"\" in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on",
"title": "First Navy Jack"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "the motto \"\"Don't Tread on Me.\"\" This is the first recorded mention of the future Gadsden flag's symbolism. At the Congress, Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden represented his home state of South Carolina. He was one of seven members of the Marine Committee who were outfitting the first naval mission. Before the departure of that first mission in December 1775, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Navy, Commodore Esek Hopkins, received the yellow rattlesnake flag from Gadsden to serve as the distinctive personal standard of his flagship. It was displayed at the mainmast. Hopkins had previously led The United Companies of",
"title": "Gadsden flag"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "the flag of the \"\"Allied States of America\"\", which had been flying at the town hall following a federal coup. He replaces the red, white, and blue flag of the central government with a Gadsden Flag which the previous mayor had kept framed in his office. The scene depicts a once-collaborationist character as finally having summoned the courage to be in open defiance against a supreme government. American heavy metal band Metallica recorded a song called \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" on their self-titled fifth studio album, released in 1991. The album cover features a dark grey picture of a coiled",
"title": "Gadsden flag"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "served as a line company. Its uniform included blue cloth caps with white plumes; blue frock coats with three rows of brass buttons, silver lace trim, and blue epaulettes. Officers had a single-breasted frock coat. Trousers were also blue, apparently with a white stripe. The company flag, presented to the company a few days before December 11, 1860, was described: \"\"upon one side is the Coat of Arms of Georgia; on the other a huge rattlesnake, coiled around a tree and the words 'Don't tread on me'\"\". The flag was issued before Georgia seceded in January 1861, and it was",
"title": "5th Georgia Volunteer Infantry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "began. Southern Watch was the enforcement of a ban on Iraqi warplanes and helicopters from flying south of the 32nd parallel. \"\"Independence\"\" became the most battle experienced ship in the Navy's active fleet, and the first carrier in history to hold that distinction, on 30 June 1995. With this honor, \"\"Independence\"\" displayed the Revolution-era First Navy Jack, commonly called the \"\"Don't Tread On Me\"\" flag, from her bow until her decommissioning. The flag was presented to \"\"Independence\"\"s commanding officer Capt. David P. Polatty III in a formal ceremony on 1 July. The flag was received from upon her decommissioning. In",
"title": "USS Independence (CV-62)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.55,
"text": "and an active governor was needed since the British had not yet given up Charleston. So in 1782, John Mathews became the new governor. Gadsden was also a member of the state convention in 1788 and voted for ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1798, he built the imposing house at 329 East Bay Street in the Ansonborough area of Charleston that remained in the family for more than a century; famous iron worker Philip Simmons built the gates that incorporate a snake motif, drawn from the \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" flag that Gadsden designed. Gadsden was married three",
"title": "Christopher Gadsden"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.31,
"text": "Beneventum Plantation House Beneventum Plantation House, originally known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was built about 1750, and is a two-story, five bay, Georgian style house. It features a one-story portico across the center two-thirds of the façade. The rear half of the house was added about 1800, with further rear additions made probably early-20th century. It was the home of Christopher Gadsden, a prominent statesmen and soldier of the American Revolution, the originator of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, and Federalist Party leader in the early",
"title": "Beneventum Plantation House"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.09,
"text": "March 2013, a resident of New Rochelle, New York, put up a Gadsden flag at the city's vacant armory building. The city ordered its removal, fearing that the flag would be seen as political. The next month, a veterans group, the United Veterans Memorial & Patriotic Association, filed suit against the city. Athletic apparel company Nike uses the image of a rattlesnake coiled around a soccer ball for an ongoing, patriotic \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" campaign in support of the United States men's national soccer team. The phrase has become a rallying cry for American soccer fans and the Gadsden",
"title": "Gadsden flag"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song) \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from their eponymous fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album. The instrumental introduction uses an eight bar phrase from \"\"America\"\", a popular song from the musical and film \"\"West Side Story\"\". It is in a moderate tempo of 104 bpm in . The lyrics reference American Revolutionary Patrick Henry's",
"title": "Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.78,
"text": "Bay for exercises to get the crew ready for service. Sierra was the oldest active duty warship prior to her decommissioning. As such, she was entitled to fly the \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" flag denoting her as such. \"\"Sierra\"\" was decommissioned on 15 October 1993 and was sold for scrapping. USS Sierra (AD-18) USS \"\"Sierra\"\" (AD-18) was a destroyer tender that served with the United States Navy from World War II to the 1990s. The second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, \"\"Sierra\"\" was laid down on 31 December 1941 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company of Tampa, Florida, launched",
"title": "USS Sierra (AD-18)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.61,
"text": "In October, the Latino Victory Fund, which supports Northam, released an ad in which a pickup truck, adorned with a Gillespie bumper sticker, a \"\"Don't tread on me\"\" license plate, and a Confederate flag, chases down minority children and corners them in an alley—one of the children in the ad then wakes up, revealing the scene to have been a nightmare. Although Northam and his campaign were not involved with the ad, Northam initially defended it, saying Gillespie's own ads \"\"have promoted fearmongering, hatred, bigotry, racial divisiveness,\"\" and adding, \"\"I mean, it's upset a lot of communities, and they have",
"title": "Ed Gillespie"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.59,
"text": "list Miller praised it as a \"\"tribute to the doctrine of peace through strength\"\". Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song) \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from their eponymous fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words \"\"Don't Tread on Me\"\" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album. The instrumental introduction uses an eight bar phrase from \"\"America\"\", a popular song from the musical and film \"\"West Side Story\"\". It is in a",
"title": "Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song)"
}
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who plays sir smoke alot in half baked? | [
"Dave Chappelle"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "of this video cut out the cab ride part for time reasons). When she heads for the front of the line to the dance club Brick City, the doorman (played by Dave Chappelle in a character similar to Sir Smoke-a-Lot from Half Baked) denies her entrance because he doesn't see her name on the list. He then makes fun of her style of dress and the chihuahua in her purse. Instead of leaving, the woman sneaks inside Brick City, but trips and falls unconscious on the stairs. When the woman wakes up, she is dressed like Dorothy (with her chihuahua",
"title": "Oooh."
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.55,
"text": "in \"\"Half Baked\"\" as an \"\"enhancement smoker\"\" and in \"\"Big Daddy\"\" as Adam Sandler's roommate; he has joked on the \"\"Daily Show\"\" and in the documentary \"\"The Aristocrats\"\" that to get the role he slept with Sandler. Stewart often makes fun of his appearances in the high-profile flop \"\"Death to Smoochy\"\", in which he played a treacherous television executive; and the animated film \"\"Doogal\"\", where he played a blue spring named Zeebad who shot a freeze ray from his mustache. In 2007, Stewart made a cameo appearance as himself in \"\"Evan Almighty\"\", which starred former \"\"Daily Show\"\" correspondent Steve Carell.",
"title": "Jon Stewart"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.17,
"text": "diabetic police horse, by feeding her junk food. Their business, named Mr. Nice Guy in honor of their good-natured friend, becomes immensely popular, even attracting famous clientele. Thurgood's personal life is ruined once his adamantly anti-drug girlfriend, Mary Jane Potman, discovers that he is Mr. Nice Guy. Soon, all of their lives are in danger once Samson Simpson, a local drug lord, learns that Mr. Nice Guy is costing him business, including his former client, rapper Sir Smoke-a-Lot. He threatens to kill them if they do not pay him $20,000 every week. Brian buys a pouch that is supposed to",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.56,
"text": "film \"\"I Think I Do\"\". A similar role followed as Scarface in the film \"\"Half Baked\"\". One of his co-stars was Dave Chappelle, who later cast him in several episodes of \"\"Chappelle's Show\"\". In 1999, he landed a non-speaking role in \"\"200 Cigarettes\"\", and went on to act in both Ethan Hawke's directorial debut \"\"Chelsea Walls\"\" and the movie \"\"Just One Time\"\", where as secondary characters one critic thought that he and Jennifer Esposito provided what little \"\"comic spark\"\" existed in the film. Díaz played Guillermo García Gómez, a drug dealer/trafficker, in seasons 2-6 of Showtime's series \"\"Weeds\"\". In 2009,",
"title": "Guillermo Díaz (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.94,
"text": "Guillermo Díaz (actor) Guillermo Díaz (born March 22, 1975) is an American actor. He is known for films \"\"Half Baked\"\" (1998), \"\"200 Cigarettes\"\" (1999) and \"\"Stonewall\"\" (1995). He most recently starred as Huck in the ABC drama TV series \"\"Scandal\"\". Díaz has made guest appearances on shows such as \"\"Chappelle's Show\"\", \"\"Law & Order\"\", \"\"Weeds\"\", \"\"ER\"\", and \"\"Girls\"\". Díaz was born in New Jersey, to Cuban parents, and grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan. In 1994, he landed his first speaking role as Spike in Boaz Yakin's \"\"Fresh\"\". From there he began working on \"\"Party Girl\"\" as Leo, Parker Posey's",
"title": "Guillermo Díaz (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.94,
"text": "of the drugs, and arrest Samson after he wakes up. Thurgood, Brian, and Scarface's deal with the police works to get Kenny a pardon from jail. Thurgood gives up smoking and is able to win back Mary Jane, whose dad is a marijuana dealer. \"\"Half Baked\"\" hit U.S. theaters on January 16, 1998, earning $7,722,540 in its opening weekend, ranking at No. 6, and, by the end of its run, grossed $17,460,020. With the estimated budget being $8 million, the film can be considered a box office success. \"\"Half Baked\"\" received generally negative reviews, currently holding a 29% \"\"Rotten\"\" rating",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.73,
"text": "Half Baked Half Baked is a 1998 American stoner comedy film starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams and Guillermo Díaz. The film was directed by Tamra Davis, co-written by Chappelle and Neal Brennan (Brennan was later writer and co-creator of Chappelle's Comedy Central show \"\"Chappelle's Show\"\") and produced by Robert Simonds. Thurgood Jenkins and his friends Brian and Scarface are forced into selling marijuana stolen from the lab where Thurgood works as a \"\"master of the custodial arts\"\". They do this in order to bail their friend Kenny out of jail for $1,000,000 after he accidentally kills Buttercup, a",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.62,
"text": "when they have purchased the drugs. During the interview, Samson discovers that Thurgood is wearing a wire and is about to kill them. They scream \"\"abracadabra\"\" into the wire to try to get the cops to save them. But the cops are high from second-hand smoke and busy mocking a letter Thurgood wrote to Mary Jane. A fight breaks out with Samson and his army of women. Brian throws the pouch he bought earlier on the ground. The ghost of Jerry Garcia emerges and hits Samson with a guitar, knocking him out. The police then rush in and recover all",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 17.61,
"text": "by critics based on 24 reviews. On Metacritic, the film received a score of 16 out of 100, indicating \"\"overwhelming dislike\"\". Half Baked Half Baked is a 1998 American stoner comedy film starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams and Guillermo Díaz. The film was directed by Tamra Davis, co-written by Chappelle and Neal Brennan (Brennan was later writer and co-creator of Chappelle's Comedy Central show \"\"Chappelle's Show\"\") and produced by Robert Simonds. Thurgood Jenkins and his friends Brian and Scarface are forced into selling marijuana stolen from the lab where Thurgood works as a \"\"master of the custodial arts\"\".",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.48,
"text": "contain the ashes of Jerry Garcia with some of the money they are making, and Scarface buys a rottweiler named Killer. Thurgood tells police about a future meeting he has with Samson Simpson after they arrest him for stealing marijuana from the laboratory. The police agree to drop the charges if Thurgood wears a wire, that way they can get the proof they need to arrest the drug lord. Before the guys go into Samson's home they smoke a joint in the police van. The cops get high from the second hand smoke. The cops tell them to say \"\"abracadabra\"\"",
"title": "Half Baked"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.28,
"text": "million after production costs. At the beginning of 1998, he did a stand-up performance for HBO Comedy Half-Hour. That same year, he appeared in \"\"Pilots and Pens Lost,\"\" a 1998 episode of \"\"The Larry Sanders Show\"\"'s sixth season, in which he and the executives of the show's unnamed television network satirized the treatment that scriptwriters and show creators were subjected to, as well as the executives' knee-jerk tendencies toward racial stereotypes. He and Neal Brennan co-wrote the 1998 cult stoner film \"\"Half Baked\"\", Chappelle's first starring role, about a group of marijuana-smoking friends trying to get their other friend out",
"title": "Dave Chappelle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.16,
"text": "favorite, due partially to Artie Lange's later popularity on \"\"The Howard Stern Show\"\" where the film is sometimes mentioned, often in unflattering terms. In 1998, Saget made a cameo appearance as a cocaine addict in the stoner comedy \"\"Half Baked\"\". Saget had a sitcom on The WB titled \"\"Raising Dad\"\". It co-starred Kat Dennings, Brie Larson, and Jerry Adler and lasted only one season. Saget was host of NBC's game show \"\"1 vs. 100\"\" from 2006 to 2008. Saget served as the voice of the future Ted Mosby, who narrated the CBS sitcom \"\"How I Met Your Mother\"\", which premiered",
"title": "Bob Saget"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.02,
"text": "of improv-based commercials for Sierra Mist titled \"\"Mist Takes\"\". A Spanish version of the advertisements began airing and the bilingual Díaz also starred in those with other Latino comedians. Guillermo Díaz (actor) Guillermo Díaz (born March 22, 1975) is an American actor. He is known for films \"\"Half Baked\"\" (1998), \"\"200 Cigarettes\"\" (1999) and \"\"Stonewall\"\" (1995). He most recently starred as Huck in the ABC drama TV series \"\"Scandal\"\". Díaz has made guest appearances on shows such as \"\"Chappelle's Show\"\", \"\"Law & Order\"\", \"\"Weeds\"\", \"\"ER\"\", and \"\"Girls\"\". Díaz was born in New Jersey, to Cuban parents, and grew up in",
"title": "Guillermo Díaz (actor)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.81,
"text": "star Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. The film begins with an electrician (Cary Elwes) monitoring the electricity box behind an old house. Peering in through a window, he sees a huge marijuana crop. Something pulls him through the window, and we hear him give a dying scream. We then cut to see Gretel (Quinn) and her boyfriend Ashton smoking marijuana in Gretel's room. The marijuana is a new strain called \"\"Black Forest\"\" and is being produced by a little old lady living in Pasadena. When Gretel's older brother Hansel (Welch) comes home, he tantalizes the stoned pair with a box",
"title": "Hansel & Gretel Get Baked"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.56,
"text": "The Smoke (film) The Smoke, also known as Two Days in the Smoke (worldwide title outside UK/Ireland: London Payback), is a British crime thriller starring Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus, Lindsay Armaou, Anna Passey and Alan Ford. Lawyer Brad Walker (Matt Di Angelo) is having a bad day. His girlfriend Sasha (Anna Passey) has left him for a mate of his. And he's lost his job. While drowning his sorrows, Brad overhears a conversation between two drug dealers. In a moment of madness, Brad decides to steal thousands of pounds from their boss Jack (Alan Ford), an intimidating",
"title": "The Smoke (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.39,
"text": "Jim Breuer James E. Breuer (born June 21, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and radio host. He was a cast member on \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\" from 1995 to 1998 and starred in the film \"\"Half Baked\"\". Breuer was born and raised in Valley Stream, New York. His father was a veteran of World War II. Breuer's career began on the little-known \"\"Uptown Comedy Club\"\" weekly television show, based in Harlem, New York. He then joined the a cast of \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\" from 1995 to 1998. On \"\"SNL\"\", Breuer's characters included \"\"Goat Boy\"\" (who hosted the fictional",
"title": "Jim Breuer"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.27,
"text": "Weak's main problem is satisfying Smokehouse CEO Sir Marcus Rigsby (Geoffrey Whitehead), who is liable to demand adoption of the latest management fad \"\"by Friday, John!\"\". Thick skinned personal assistant Hayley (Clare Perkins) fences with her boss John constantly. When the squeeze is really on, John turns to his \"\"Director of Long Lunches and Work Avoidance\"\", Bill Peters (Ron Cook), who can be counted on to rescue the situation with a brilliant scheme, usually after he is well into the second bottle of claret. The script is written by Guy Browning who also writes books about management and business. He",
"title": "Weak at the Top"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.17,
"text": "by writing jobs for the game show \"\"Bzzz!\"\" in 1996, the sketch comedy-variety show \"\"All That\"\" from 1996 to 1997, and the teen sitcom \"\"Kenan & Kel\"\" in 1997. In 1997, Brennan and Chappelle collaborated for the first time on the screenplay for the film \"\"Half Baked\"\". The film was released in January 1998 and starred Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams and Guillermo Díaz. \"\"Half Baked\"\" was a commercial failure and received mainly negative reviews but has become a cult classic. In a 2006 interview, Brennan referred to the period of the film's release as \"\"probably the worst year of",
"title": "Neal Brennan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.16,
"text": "The non-linear Director's cut, featuring 12 additional minutes of unseen footage including an opening monologue and the last known screen appearance of the late British actor Malcolm Tierney (best known for his roles in \"\"Star Wars\"\" and \"\"Braveheart\"\", who died before the film was completed), is as yet unreleased. The Smoke (film) The Smoke, also known as Two Days in the Smoke (worldwide title outside UK/Ireland: London Payback), is a British crime thriller starring Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus, Lindsay Armaou, Anna Passey and Alan Ford. Lawyer Brad Walker (Matt Di Angelo) is having a bad day. His",
"title": "The Smoke (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.14,
"text": "annoying and forever coming up with 'half-baked' ideas (and oblivious to all of his aforementioned faults), Brittas is frequently upsetting his staff, public, and his frazzled wife Helen, often bringing confusion and chaos into their lives. Helen Brittas (Pippa Haywood) finds it increasingly difficult to cope with Gordon, and often turns to pills and affairs with other men to maintain her sanity. She is also helped by supportive friend Laura Lancing (Julia St John), Brittas's calm and efficient deputy. Laura (though she is fully aware of his incompetence) has a grudging admiration for Brittas whom she regards as honest and",
"title": "The Brittas Empire"
}
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who plays the voice of megara in hercules? | [
"Susan Farrell Egan"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.06,
"text": "\"\"Spirited Away\"\" and \"\"Porco Rosso\"\". She is most widely known for voicing Megara in the 1997 film \"\"Hercules\"\" and reprised her role in \"\"Kingdom Hearts II\"\". She will again reprise the role in the upcoming sequel, \"\"Kingdom Hearts III\"\". Egan provided Angel's singing voice in \"\"\"\" and the voice acting for Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond on the Cartoon Network animated series \"\"Steven Universe\"\". Egan is married to Robert Hartmann and has two daughters, Nina (born February 6, 2007) and Isla (born December 15, 2009). She currently resides in Orange County, California. \"\"Source: Internet Broadway Database\"\" \"\"Source: Susan Egan Susan Farrell Egan",
"title": "Susan Egan"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "Creator of \"\"Desperate Housewives\"\") Susan Egan (Belle in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast (Musical) and voice of Megara in Disney's Hercules (Film) Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba in Broadway's \"\"Wicked\"\") Eden Espinosa (Elphaba in Broadway's \"\"Wicked\"\", the title role in Broadway's \"\"\"\". Maureen in the closing cast of \"\"Rent\"\") Nia Peeples (TV's \"\"Fame\"\") Melissa Hayden (Daytime Emmy winner of \"\"Guiding Light\"\") Mark L. Walberg (Host of Antiques Roadshow) Reggie Bannister (actor, star of the Phantasm films) Donovan Tea, baritone for vocal trio The Lettermen (1984–present), formerly lead vocalist for The Young Americans. Ken Prymus, actor, singer (Old Deuteronomy- Broadway CATS, Cowardly",
"title": "The Young Americans"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.14,
"text": "previous games include Haley Joel Osment as Sora, Bill Farmer as Goofy, Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck, and Alyson Stoner as Kairi. Many of the voice actors for the Disney and Pixar characters reprise their roles from their respective films. These include: Josh Gad as Olaf; Kristen Bell as Anna; Idina Menzel as Elsa; Jonathan Groff as Kristoff; Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider; Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel; John Ratzenberger as Hamm; Wallace Shawn as Rex; Tate Donovan as Hercules; Kevin McNally as Gibbs; Susan Egan as Megara; Ryan Potter as Hiro; Jamie Chung as Go Go; Scott Adsit as",
"title": "Kingdom Hearts III"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "Susan Egan Susan Farrell Egan (born February 18, 1970) is an American actress, singer and dancer, known for her work on the Broadway stage. She is best known for originating the role of Belle in the Broadway musical adaptation of \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" (1994), as well as for providing the voice of Megara in \"\"Hercules\"\" (1997), and the voice for Rose Quartz on \"\"Steven Universe\"\". Egan was born in Seal Beach, California on February 18, 1970. She attended Los Alamitos High School and the co-located Orange County High School of the Arts and UCLA. Having long desired to become",
"title": "Susan Egan"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "role, and then landed the role of Belle in the Broadway production. Upon learning about \"\"Hercules\"\", Egan actively pursued the role of Megara, though she revealed that \"\"Alan Menken initially blocked me from going after that part. He said that the female lead in \"\"Hercules\"\" was supposed to be this cynical smart-ass, sounding nothing at all like sweet, innocent Belle.\"\" Menken eventually relented and allowed Egan to audition for the role. Egan read for the part in front of a microphone while being videotaped as Menken, \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" musical director Michael Kosarin, and the filmmakers sat at a",
"title": "Hercules (1997 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "1998. Disney's Hercules had the Greek god still in \"\"geek god\"\" mode, before his \"\"Zero to Hero\"\" transformation. In the series, \"\"Herc\"\" was enrolled at Prometheus Academy, a school for both gods and mortals. Since events occur before young Herc meets and falls for the lovely Megara (Meg), he is joined by two new friends Cassandra (voiced by comedian Sandra Bernhard) and Icarus (voiced by French Stewart). The animated television series' episodes and the direct-to-video film were animated by Toon City Animation, Inc. in Manila, Philippines, Walt Disney Animation Australia, Walt Disney Animation Japan, Studios Basara, Tama Productions, Delta Peak",
"title": "Hercules (1998 TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "House of Mouse is an animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television which originally aired from 2001 to 2003. Hades appeared in the latter half of \"\"Once Upon a Time's\"\" fifth season episode starting with \"\"Souls of the Departed\"\" portrayed by Greg Germann. In the episode \"\"Labor of Love\"\" Hercules and Megara were both portrayed by Jonathan Whitesell and Kacey Rohl. Disney's Hercules: Action Game is a video game for the PlayStation and PC released on June 20, 1997 by Disney Interactive. It was made in one week before the animated movie released in the same year. is part",
"title": "Hercules (franchise)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.91,
"text": "\"\", \"\"what brought her the award as best actress at the Amiens Film Festival in France. During her early work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band \"\"Even Cowgirls get the Blues\"\" as singer and songwriter. The 1997 German film Bandits exposed Jasmin Tabatabai to a larger audience. In addition to her acting role in the film, she also wrote and performed many of the songs for the soundtrack. The record for the film sold more than seven hundred thousand copies. She also voiced Megara in the German dub of Hercules. Tabatabai's first album as a solo artist, \"\"Only",
"title": "Jasmin Tabatabai"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "as Hecules' cousin, Iolaus of Athens, Tobias Santelmann as the film's apparent antagonist, Rhesus,and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal took the part of the female lead, the Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia. Also joining the cast were Joseph Fiennes as King Eurystheus, John Hurt as Lord Cotys, Rebecca Ferguson as Cotys' daughter, Ergenia, and Irina Shayk as Hercules' dead wife, Megara. Johnson's cousin, Tamina Snuka, made her silver screen debut in the film. Hercules (Radical Comics) Hercules is a Radical Comics character who has appeared in two limited series, \"\"The Thracian Wars\"\" and \"\"The Knives of Kush\"\", both written by Steve Moore",
"title": "Hercules (Radical Comics)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "The St. Petersburg Gazette praised her performance in the Mozart anniversary concert at the Zazerkalye State Theater and described her voice as \"\"absolutely smooth with crystal clear tone.\"\" Her voice is instantly recognizable in Russia as the voice-over for Disney film characters Mulan (\"\"Mulan\"\" and \"\"Mulan II\"\"), Belle (\"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\"), Megara and Calliope (\"\"Hercules\"\"), as well as Minnie Mouse. In 2004, Ms. Iskakova became involved with tango and the music of Ástor Piazzolla. She appeared with Horacio Ferrer, Piazzolla's lyrical collaborator, during his visit to St-Petersburg in 2004. In 2005, Ms. Iskakova and the ensemble Anima were awarded",
"title": "Saule Iskakova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "Hercules: Zero to Hero Hercules: Zero to Hero is a 1999 comedy-drama adventure and fantasy animated television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere. The film is a direct-to-video followup to 1997 animated feature \"\"Hercules\"\". It was released on August 17, 1999. The film serves as a package film combing three episodes of \"\"Hercules: The Animated Series\"\" as flashback segments. The film casts James Woods as Hades, Corey Burton as Zeus, Tate Donovan as Hercules, Susan Egan as Megara, Robert Costanzo as Philoctetes, Frank Welker as Pegasus, Bobcat Goldthwait as Pain and Matt Frewer as",
"title": "Hercules: Zero to Hero"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.69,
"text": "and Malcolm McDowell joined the cast of voice actors. Lloyd Sherr and Nolan North, who had originally voiced Cronos and Hades, were replaced by George Ball and Clancy Brown, respectively. Kevin Sorbo was chosen to voice Hercules because of his portrayal of the character in the television series, \"\"\"\". Elijah Wood had a minor voice role, and Josh Keaton and Fred Tatasciore, who voiced characters in previous games, also had minor roles. At E3 2009, the \"\"God of War III\"\" demo was unveiled, with Kratos on the cliffs of Mount Olympus battling Olympian legionnaires, a centaur, a chimera, and a",
"title": "God of War III"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "Sephiroth and Hercules, who were originally voiced by Billy Zane, Mandy Moore, David Boreanaz, Lance Bass, and Sean Astin respectively in the first game, were voiced by Richard Epcar, Mena Suvari, Doug Erholtz, George Newbern, and Tate Donovan (Hercules' original voice actor), and newcomer Tifa was voiced by Rachael Leigh Cook. Besides English translation and localization, the international version of \"\"Kingdom Hearts II\"\" differs from the original Japanese version in the content of gameplay and several scenes. The Hydra boss in the \"\"Hercules\"\"-themed world Olympus Coliseum had its green blood from the original Japanese version (which was taken from the",
"title": "Kingdom Hearts II"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "Wave 89.1 Urban Music Awards for releasing notable chart-topping hits and reaching Diamond certification with \"\"Nina Live!\"\". On February 5, 2011, she had a pre-Valentine concert with the Sessionistas at the Araneta Coliseum entitled ASAP Sessionistas 20.11. Her performances of \"\"Note to God\"\" and \"\"Got to Be There\"\" were applauded by fans and critics alike. She was supposed to portray the roles of Megara and Deianira on \"\"Hercules 12\"\", a pop-emo musicale, but later dropped out due to conflicts with her schedule. On March 18, 2011, she performed three of her past hit singles, including \"\"Someday\"\", at the Pattaya International",
"title": "Nina Girado"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "characters Theseus and Typhon, respectively. Corey Burton assumed the role of Zeus, having previously voiced the character in the 1998 Disney animated film \"\"\"\" and the subsequent animated series \"\"Hercules\"\". Famed actors Michael Clarke Duncan and Leigh-Allyn Baker lent their voices for the characters Atlas and Lakhesis, respectively. Actor Harry Hamlin was chosen to voice the character Perseus because of his previous portrayal of the same character in the 1981 feature film \"\"Clash of the Titans\"\". Although removed early in the game's development, Cam Clarke is credited for the voice of Hercules. Keythe Farley was the voice director alongside Kris",
"title": "God of War II"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "latter, see \"\"The Nemean Lion\"\" or \"\"The Chameleon Creature\"\". In \"\"Double Trouble\"\", the voices actually change right near the end of the episode, with Newton speaking a line in his original cracking voice, and the very next line in his second high-pitched voice. Hercules's final two lines of the short are likewise in his second voice. Although there are two voices, Hercules's voice actor is always credited as Jimmy Tapp. Daedalus' voice actor, depending on the episode, is Jack Mercer or Gerry Bascombe. Early episodes feature Jack Mercer voicing Newton and other incidental characters. The series also features a theme",
"title": "The Mighty Hercules"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "voiced one of the main protagonists, Prometheus, in the Wii video game \"\"The Conduit\"\". Sorbo returned to the role of Hercules in a more sinister portrayal, in the video game \"\"God of War III\"\", which was released for the PlayStation 3 in March 2010. In July 2013, Sorbo, along with his wife, Sam, provided voice over for characters in the video game \"\"Cloudberry Kingdom\"\". In 2014, Sorbo co-starred in \"\"God's Not Dead\"\", a Christian film in which he portrayed an atheist college professor who requires his students to disown their religions on the first day of his class. He also",
"title": "Kevin Sorbo"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.39,
"text": "escape, one of them will have to stay forever. Hades forces Hook to decide which of his friends will pay for this by creating new tombstones for him to engrave with a chisel. Also when Megaera – or Meg – introduces herself to Hercules she tells him \"\"My name is Megaera or Meg as my friends like to call me\"\" which is a reference to their Disney counterparts in the 1997 film \"\"Hercules\"\". Emilie de Ravin, Rebecca Mader and Robert Carlyle are credited but do not appear in this episode. The episode received good reviews in how they reimaged the",
"title": "Labor of Love (Once Upon a Time)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "his various labors, and finally extol and sigh for the tranquillity which is only to be found in leading a retired life. Megara bewails the absence of Hercules, and complains of the violence and insolence of Lycus. Amphitryon pities the despondent state of Megara's mind, and tenders his consolation. Lycus, having slain Creon and his sons, has established himself on the throne and governs the kingdom. He seeks to marry Megara, using every stratagem, and threatens violence in case she refuses. Hercules asks for the pardon of Phoebus and the rest of the Gods, that although having been commanded, he",
"title": "Hercules (Seneca)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.25,
"text": "help or hinder him in his adventures. Other characters from the film that appear are the evil god Hades (voiced by James Woods) and winged stallion Pegasus (voiced by Frank Welker). Corey Burton portrayed Hercules' father Zeus, as Rip Torn did not return. The series follows Hercules, as a teenager, training as a hero, as well as trying to adjust to life. With his free-spirited friend Icarus, his future-seeing friend Cassandra, and his teacher Philoctetes (\"\"Phil\"\"), he battles his evil uncle Hades. Like all teenagers though, Hercules has to worry about peer pressure when the snobbish prince Adonis ridicules him.",
"title": "Hercules (1998 TV series)"
}
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what is the mark in a contraction called? | [
"apostrophe"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "operation. The expression ! means \"\"the product of the integers from 1 to \"\". For example, 4! (read \"\"four factorial\"\") is 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24. (0! is defined as 1, which is a neutral element in multiplication, not multiplied by anything.) Additionally, it can also represent uniqueness or, if used in front of a number, it can represent a subfactorial. In linear logic, the exclamation mark denotes one of the modalities that control weakening and contraction. In computing, the exclamation mark (sometimes called a \"\"bang\"\") corresponds to ASCII character 33 (21 in hexadecimal). It is",
"title": "Exclamation mark"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "of hard-coded characters, the mark is rendered as an opening quote on the assumption that such a mark would never occur inside or after a word; and if not, it is rendered as a closing quote or apostrophe. This method can cause errors, especially for contractions that start with an apostrophe. For example, it fails to correctly render the abbreviation for \"\"2014\"\" as \"\"’14\"\" (instead rendering as \"\"‘14\"\"), or the archaic contraction of \"\"it is\"\" as \"\"’tis\"\" (instead rendering as \"\"‘tis\"\"). Errors may also be encountered with nested quotation marks, with \"\"“ ‘Hello,’ he said, ‘to you’ ”\"\" incorrectly rendered",
"title": "Quotation marks in English"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.69,
"text": "point, as in print, and the decimal point () to mark capitalization. Braille contractions are words and affixes that are shortened so that they take up fewer cells. In English Braille, for example, the word \"\"afternoon\"\" is written with just three letters, , much like stenoscript. There are also several abbreviation marks that create what are effectively logograms. The most common of these is dot 5, which combines with the first letter of words. With the letter \"\"m\"\", the resulting word is \"\"mother\"\". There are also ligatures (\"\"contracted\"\" letters), which are single letters in braille but correspond to more than",
"title": "Braille"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "with a full stop, whereas contractions (in the sense of words missing a middle part) do not, but there are exceptions. Fowler's Modern English Usage says full stops are used to mark both abbreviations and contractions, but recommends against this practice: advising them only for abbreviations and lower-case initialisms and not for upper-case initialisms and contractions. In American English, the period is usually included regardless of whether or not it is a contraction, e.g. \"\"Dr.\"\" or \"\"Mrs.\"\". In some cases, periods are optional, as in either \"\"US\"\" or \"\"U.S.\"\" for \"\"United States\"\", \"\"EU\"\" or \"\"E.U.\"\" for \"\"European Union\"\", and \"\"UN\"\"",
"title": "Abbreviation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "a dubious move, and \"\"!?\"\" an interesting move. In Scrabble, a question mark indicates a blank tile. In mathematics, \"\"?\"\" commonly denotes Minkowski's question mark function. In equations, it can mean \"\"questioned\"\" as opposed to \"\"defined\"\". In linear logic, the question mark denotes one of the exponential modalities that control weakening and contraction. A question mark is used in English medical notes to suggest a possible diagnosis. It facilitates the recording of a doctor's impressions regarding a patient's symptoms and signs. For example, for a patient presenting with left lower abdominal pain, a differential diagnosis might include \"\"?diverticulitis\"\" (read as",
"title": "Question mark"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "that occupy only the lower half of the braille cell mostly double as basic punctuation marks, legibility requires that, with few exceptions, they may not come in contact with actual punctuation marks; if they would, they should instead be spelled out. That is, any cell which follows without an intervening space should contain a dot in its top row. Most of the difficulties of when to use contractions are due to this complication. The whole-word contractions of the fifth decade are \"\"be\"\", \"\"enough\"\", \"\"to\"\", \"\"were\"\", \"\"his\"\", \"\"in\"\", \"\"by/was\"\". If one of these words occurs at the end of a sentence,",
"title": "English Braille"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "could be noted or replaced by a variety of , long marks which trailed between lines of text; these might also mark changes of speakers. Blank lines or various marked the ends of sections. (A separate was used to mark contractions; its early forms looked like an apostrophe between the two elided words.) Over time, the main punctuation came to be a full stop marked by a single dot at varying heights, a partial stop marked by various forms of commas, and the and papyrological hyphen or . These served to show whether an ambiguous series of letters should be",
"title": "Greek orthography"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.08,
"text": "tests. Fully contracted braille is known as \"\"Grade 2 Braille\"\". There is an intermediate form between Computer Braille—one-for-one identity with print—and Grade 2, which is called Grade 1 Braille. In Grade 1, the capital sign and Number sign are used, and most punctuation marks are shown using their Grade 2 values. The system of contractions in English Braille begins with a set of 23 words which are contracted to single characters. Thus the word \"\"but\"\" is contracted to the single letter \"\"b,\"\" \"\"can\"\" to \"\"c\"\", \"\"do\"\" to \"\"d\"\", and so on. Even this simple rule creates issues requiring special cases;",
"title": "Braille"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "() also didn't have tildes over the \"\"n\"\" or \"\"g\"\" or both \"\"ng\"\". Contraction of certain words were indicated by two commas such as \"\"iba\"\" and \"\"at\"\" → \"\"\"\"iba, t,\"\"\"\"; Indicated today by a single hyphen as in English (i.e. iba't). Diacritic marks were also utilized. Acute ( ´ ), grave ( ` ) and circumflex ( ˆ ) were required and only used with the vowels. The latter two may only appear at the end of a word ending in a vowel. Diacritics had no impact on the primary alphabetical order. Possible combinations include: \"\"á, à, â, é, è,",
"title": "Filipino orthography"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "residual function. The Mark IV Breathing Pacemaker is a phrenic nerve stimulator, also called a diaphragm pacemaker. Phrenic nerve stimulation is a technique whereby a nerve stimulator provides electrical stimulation of the phrenic nerve to cause diaphragmatic contraction. It consists of surgically implanted receivers and electrodes mated to an external transmitter by antennas worn over the implanted receivers. An external battery-operated transmitter sends radiofrequency energy to the receiver through an antenna, which is placed on the skin overlying the receiver. The receiver converts this energy into an electric current that is directed to the phrenic nerve in order to stimulate",
"title": "Avery Biomedical Devices"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "operation, which is a linear map which yields a tensor of type . By analogy with the case, the general contraction operation is sometimes called the trace. In tensor index notation, the basic contraction of a vector and a dual vector is denoted by which is shorthand for the explicit coordinate summation (where are the components of in a particular basis and are the components of in the corresponding dual basis). Since a general mixed dyadic tensor is a linear combination of decomposable tensors of the form formula_8, the explicit formula for the dyadic case follows: let be a mixed",
"title": "Tensor contraction"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.7,
"text": "by taking where H is the Hardy space of the circle and letting \"\"T\"\" be multiplication by \"\"z\"\". Such operators are called Jordan blocks and denoted \"\"S\"\"(φ). As a generalization of Beurling's theorem, the commutant of such an operator consists exactly of operators ψ(\"\"T\"\") with ψ in \"\"H\"\", i.e. multiplication operators on \"\"H\"\" corresponding to functions in \"\"H\"\". A C contraction operator \"\"T\"\" is multiplcity free if and only if it is quasi-similar to a Jordan block (necessarily corresponding the one corresponding to its minimal function). Examples. with the λ's distinct, of modulus less than 1, such that and (\"\"e\"\")",
"title": "Contraction (operator theory)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.55,
"text": "is used to measure around a solid body, e.g., a person's waist measurement, as well as linear measurement, e.g., inside leg. It is rolled up when not in use, taking up little space. A \"\"contraction rule\"\" is made having larger divisions than standard measures to allow for shrinkage of a metal casting. They may also be known as a \"\"shrinkage\"\" or \"\"shrink\"\" rule. A \"\"ruler software program\"\" can be used to measure pixels on a computer screen or mobile phone. These programs are also known as screen rulers. In geometry, a ruler without any marks on it (a straightedge) may",
"title": "Ruler"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.17,
"text": "latter. Like braille, there are contractions: single letters in NYP that correspond to sequences of letter in print, and sequences in NYP as well when capitalized. Capitals are all 2×4 (8-dot blocks). Like in braille, there is a number sign that converts letters to digits. The ten digits are the same four-dot patterns found in braille, but with entirely different values: The only punctuation marks three-dots wide are the number sign above and the quotation mark, which has the same form as the letter \"\"q\"\". The dash, hyphen, and apostrophe are four dots wide. Notes are made by combining two",
"title": "New York Point"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.16,
"text": "The formation of these contractions is called elision. In general, any monosyllabic word ending in \"\"e caduc\"\" (schwa) will contract if the following word begins with a vowel, \"\"h\"\" or \"\"y\"\" (as \"\"h\"\" is silent and absorbed by the sound of the succeeding vowel; \"\"y\"\" sounds like \"\"i\"\"). In addition to \"\"ce\"\" → \"\"c'-\"\" (demonstrative pronoun \"\"that\"\"), these words are \"\"que\"\" → \"\"qu'-\"\" (conjunction, relative pronoun, or interrogative pronoun \"\"that\"\"), \"\"ne\"\" → \"\"n'-\"\" (\"\"not\"\"), \"\"se\"\" → \"\"s'-\"\" (\"\"himself\"\", \"\"herself\"\", \"\"itself\"\", \"\"oneself\"\" before a verb), \"\"je\"\" → \"\"j'-\"\" (\"\"I\"\"), \"\"me\"\" → \"\"m'-\"\" (\"\"me\"\" before a verb), \"\"te\"\" → \"\"t'- \"\" (informal",
"title": "Contraction (grammar)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.91,
"text": "pairs of \"\"structural rules\"\" called \"\"thinning\"\", \"\"contraction\"\" and \"\"interchange\"\" are not required.) The symbol ' formula_3 ' is often referred to as the \"\"turnstile\"\", \"\"right tack\"\", \"\"tee\"\", \"\"assertion sign\"\" or \"\"assertion symbol\"\". It is often read, suggestively, as \"\"yields\"\", \"\"proves\"\" or \"\"entails\"\". Since every formula in the antecedent (the left side) must be true to conclude the truth of at least one formula in the succedent (the right side), adding formulas to either side results in a weaker sequent, while removing them from either side gives a stronger one. This is one of the symmetry advantages which follows from the",
"title": "Sequent"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.89,
"text": "more symmetrical than the C-G coefficient. Since the state formula_5 is unchanged by rotation, one also says that the contraction of the product of three rotational states with a 3-\"\"j\"\" symbol is invariant under rotations. The Wigner 3-\"\"j\"\" symbol is zero unless all these conditions are satisfied: A 3-\"\"j\"\" symbol is invariant under an even permutation of its columns: An odd permutation of the columns gives a phase factor: Changing the sign of the formula_11 quantum numbers (time-reversal) also gives a phase: The 3-\"\"j\"\" symbols also have so-called Regge symmetries, which are not due to permutations or time-reversal. These symmetries",
"title": "3-j symbol"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.64,
"text": "byte order mark in POSIX (Unix-like) scripts, for this reason and for wider interoperability and philosophical concerns. Additionally, a byte order mark is not necessary in UTF-8, as that encoding does not have endianness issues; it serves only to identify the encoding as UTF-8. An executable file starting with an interpreter directive is simply called a script, often prefaced with the name or general classification of the intended interpreter. The name \"\"shebang\"\" for the distinctive two characters may have come from an inexact contraction of \"\"SHArp bang\"\" or \"\"haSH bang\"\", referring to the two typical Unix names for them. Another",
"title": "Shebang (Unix)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.64,
"text": "correctly. Only words that end with vowels can make a contraction with words like \"\"at\"\" and \"\"ay.\"\" In this chart, the \"\"@\"\" represents any vowel. Contraction (grammar) A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations nor acronyms (including initialisms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term \"\"abbreviation\"\" in loose parlance. Contraction is also distinguished from clipping, where beginnings and endings",
"title": "Contraction (grammar)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.58,
"text": "was mostly redundant. He did not use it for spelling \"\"cant\"\", \"\"hes\"\", etc., in many of his writings. He did, however, allow \"\"I'm\"\" and \"\"it's\"\". Hubert Selby Jr. used a slash instead of an apostrophe mark for contractions and did not use an apostrophe at all for possessives. Lewis Carroll made greater use of apostrophes, and frequently used \"\"sha'n't\"\", with an apostrophe in place of the elided \"\"ll\"\" as well as the more usual \"\"o\"\". These authors' usages have not become widespread. The British pop group Hear'Say famously made unconventional use of an apostrophe in its name. Truss comments that",
"title": "Apostrophe"
}
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who played the witch in pirates of the caribbean? | [
"Naomie Melanie Harris"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.48,
"text": "Lucy Boynton. Her character, Carina, is an astronomer accused of being a witch. Scodelario confirmed that she was playing \"\"a totally different character\"\" from Elizabeth Swann, and also that she will be Henry's love interest, given in earlier drafts she was envisioned as a love interest of Sparrow. Kevin McNally confirmed his return as Joshamee Gibbs in late January. Shortly after on-location pre-production opened in Australia, Disney issued a casting call to local agents for actors from all ages and experience levels to apply for roles, and as extras in the upcoming film, with casting also open in the US.",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "Rodriguez as Rory Curren, Grant Brunet as Keelin Shanahan, Gabi Ott as Carmel McGlinchy, Philomena Bullock as Enya Fallon and Emma Murray as Deirdre McGuinness. The pirates were played by Richard O’Donnell as Capt. Jean-Pierre Beunet, Brandon Bogart as Scallywag, Christopher Dwyer as Shivers, Gerard Powers as Whale-Eye and Eric Robinson as Basher. The witches were played by Angela Conzone Dwyer as Ophelia Hollyhock Queen of Hubba Bubba, Shelly Murdock as Delia Hollyhock, Angelina Schembry as Vermilia Hollyhock and Krista Kelly as Misty the Singing Cauldron, along with Ryan Woodard as Yadder the Troll. Calea LeBel played Arema, Maddison LeBel",
"title": "St. John's Conservatory Theater"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.58,
"text": "of the man getting dunked (\"\"Don't tell him, Carlos!\"\") in \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\". In 2003, she guest starred as the villain Madame Argentina in the \"\"Powerpuff Girls\"\" episode, \"\"I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future\"\". During this time, Foray also had a regular role, reprising Granny on \"\"Baby Looney Tunes\"\" and also Witch Hazel in an episode of another Warner Bros. Animation series \"\"Duck Dodgers\"\". In October 2006, she portrayed Susan B. Anthony on three episodes of the podcast \"\"The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd\"\". In November 2009, Foray appeared twice on \"\"The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack\"\": in",
"title": "June Foray"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "of the Caribbean Online\"\". Elizabeth Swann Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) is a fictional character in the \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\" film series. She appears in \"\"\"\" (2003) and three of its sequels, \"\"\"\" (2006), \"\"\"\" (2007) and \"\"\"\" (2017). She is portrayed by Keira Knightley (and as a child by Lucinda Dryzek in the prologue of \"\"The Curse of the Black Pearl\"\"). She is known to use the alias \"\"Elizabeth Turner\"\", but this later becomes her married name when she weds the character Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom). Elizabeth is a spirited, intelligent, and independent-minded character whose beauty",
"title": "Elizabeth Swann"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "Elizabeth Swann Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) is a fictional character in the \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\" film series. She appears in \"\"\"\" (2003) and three of its sequels, \"\"\"\" (2006), \"\"\"\" (2007) and \"\"\"\" (2017). She is portrayed by Keira Knightley (and as a child by Lucinda Dryzek in the prologue of \"\"The Curse of the Black Pearl\"\"). She is known to use the alias \"\"Elizabeth Turner\"\", but this later becomes her married name when she weds the character Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom). Elizabeth is a spirited, intelligent, and independent-minded character whose beauty attracted Will Turner, James",
"title": "Elizabeth Swann"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "he had deliberately based his Pirate King on Johnny Depp's character from \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\" so that people who may not know the opera but are aware of the \"\"Pirates of the Caribbean\"\" trilogy of movies could enjoy the opera more. David Hobson (as \"\"Frederic\"\") and Suzanne Johnston (as \"\"Ruth\"\") also appeared in this production. The lead female role of Mabel, initially played by Emma Matthews was taken over by soprano Taryn Fiebig for most of the tour. John Bolton-Wood, originally cast as \"\"Major-General Stanley\"\" was replaced by Reg Livermore for the Melbourne season, and the role of the",
"title": "Anthony Warlow"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "a trace of wet barnacles on the floor amid a puddle of seawater. Additionally, Keira Knightley briefly appears at the end in a non-speaking role as Elizabeth Swann, Will's wife and Henry's mother. Adam Brown, Danny Kirrane, and Delroy Atkinson appear as members of Jack's crew, and in the prison scene, Paul McCartney briefly appears as Jack's paternal uncle, Uncle Jack. Alexander Scheer plays a young Captain Edward Teague in a flashback sequence. A silhouette of Davy Jones, one of the series' former villains, is seen in the post-credits scene, but actor Bill Nighy had stated that he was not",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "to find treasure, the crew of the \"\"Black Pearl\"\" were trying to return it in order to lift their curse; also, the traditional mutiny had already taken place. Verbinski approached Rush for the role of Barbossa, as he knew he would not play it with attempts at complexity, but with a simple villainy that would suit the story's tone. Orlando Bloom read the script after Rush, with whom he was working on \"\"Ned Kelly\"\", suggested it to him. Keira Knightley came as a surprise to Verbinski: he had not seen her performance in \"\"Bend It Like Beckham\"\" and was impressed",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "Lieutenant Maynard then decapitated the infamous pirate and strung his head up the mast. \"\"Calico\"\" Jack Rackham- played by David Joseph Boyd- was a pirate who conducted his operations in the Bahamas and Cuba. Rackham was not as successful in his missions as the previous two pirates mentioned and was mostly known for his relations with the two female pirates Anne Bonny (played by Michelle Michaels) and Mary Read (played by Kimberly Adair), who served under his command. This pirate’s most successful prize, Kingston, did not remain long in his power and therefore had left the pirate with little to",
"title": "True Caribbean Pirates"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally) follow Jack, Will and Elizabeth in the course of the films. The fourth film features Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and Angelica (Penélope Cruz), while the fifth film features Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario). The films take place in a fictionalized historical setting; a world ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company (based on the real East India Company) and the Spanish Empire, with pirates representing freedom from the ruling powers. The film series started in 2003 with \"\"\"\", which received positive reviews",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "characters\"\". Following the success of \"\"Bend It Like Beckham\"\", Knightley landed the role of Elizabeth Swann, in the 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film \"\"\"\". The film, which was based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks, saw Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp play the roles of 18th century pirates. Despite boasting the names of Hollywood stars like Depp and Bloom and a hefty $135 million budget, \"\"Pirates\"\" was not the most anticipated release of the year, and was expected to fail at the box-office. Knightley herself was not optimistic about its prospects: \"\"I remember being",
"title": "Keira Knightley"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "by her audition. Tom Wilkinson was negotiated with to play Governor Swann, but the role went to Jonathan Pryce, whom Depp idolized. Shooting for \"\"The Curse of the Black Pearl\"\" began on October 9, 2002 and wrapped by March 7, 2003. Before its release, many executives and journalists had expected the film to flop, as the pirate genre had not been successful for years, the film was based on a theme-park ride, and Depp rarely made a big film. However, \"\"The Curse of the Black Pearl\"\" became both a critical and commercial success. After seeing how well the first film",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "Jessica Fletcher. She was signed to appear in two sequels as Miss Marple, but these were never made. Lansbury's next film was the animated \"\"The Last Unicorn\"\" (1982), for which she provided the voice of the witch Mommy Fortuna. Returning to musical cinema, she starred as Ruth in \"\"The Pirates of Penzance\"\" (1983), a film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name, and while filming it in London sang on a recording of \"\"The Beggar's Opera\"\". This was followed by an appearance as the grandmother in Gothic fantasy film \"\"The Company of Wolves\"\" (1984). Lansbury had",
"title": "Angela Lansbury"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "to Jack: Salazar is coming for him. In Saint Martin, a young astronomer and horologist named Carina Smyth is sentenced to death for witchcraft but escapes and briefly crosses paths with Jack as he and his crew spectacularly blunder a bank robbery. Having suffered years of such bad luck, Jack's crew lose faith and abandon him. Depressed, Jack trades his magical compass for a drink. However, this betrayal of the compass frees Salazar and his crew from the Devil's Triangle. Carina learns Henry is looking for the Trident's location and offers to help him using her unknown father's diary. Carina",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who become undead skeletons at night. Jay Wolpert developed a script in 2001, and Stuart Beattie rewrote it in early 2002. Around that time, producer Jerry Bruckheimer became involved in the project; he had Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio work on the script, adding the plot device of a supernatural curse to the story to bring it in line with the original theme park ride. Filming took place from October 2002 to March 2003 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and on sets constructed around Los Angeles, California. It was also significant in being the first",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.12,
"text": "and the presence of the Black Pearl, the game otherwise has few connections to the \"\"\"\" film, which was released around the same time as the game. The PC version of this game is one of the first video games with multi-threaded code that is optimized for the Intel's Hyper-Threading technology. Actress Keira Knightley, who played Elizabeth Swann in the film series, voiced the narrator (only two simple cutscenes at the beginning and at the end) in the game. After a fierce storm, Captain Nathaniel Hawk arrives on the island of Oxbay. His first mate Malcolm Hatcher is retiring, and",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean (video game)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.11,
"text": "needed to be funny and clever and smart and crafty and beautiful\"\", and invited her for the role as they wrapped the production of \"\"Nine\"\". The actress spent two months working out and learning fencing for the role. During filming, Cruz discovered she was pregnant, leading the costume department to redesign her wardrobe to be more elastic, and the producers to hire her sister Mónica Cruz to double for Penélope in risky scenes. Depp recommended Stephen Graham, who worked with him in \"\"Public Enemies\"\", to play Scrum, a Machiavellian pirate and sidekick to Jack Sparrow, and Richard Griffiths for the",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.06,
"text": "other troubled teenagers attending the retreat, all of whom seem to play a role in the mystery of her dream. In particular, the enigmatic Bethany claims to be a witch and secretly seduces the other teens into joining her coven. Gradually, Angela realizes that her nightmares aren't dreams at all, but memories of her past life. As the true nature of the frightening nightmare unfolds, Bethany seems determined to either seduce or destroy Angela. With the witching hour ticking closer, Angela must solve the mystery of the Caribbean island and its legendary witch coven. The film was shot entirely in",
"title": "Witches of the Caribbean"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.05,
"text": "Witches of the Caribbean Witches of the Caribbean is a 2005 horror film directed by David DeCoteau. Seventeen-year-old Angela suffers from a recurring nightmare about a 16th-century witch burned to death on a dark and mysterious beach. To find an explanation to this nightmare and reclaim her life, she flies to a two-week retreat for troubled teens on the Caribbean island of Matau, run by noted child psychologist Professor Avebury. Little does Angela realize that Matau hides a horrific secret history, nor does she know that her nightmares stem from this very spot. <br> Upon her arrival, Angela meets the",
"title": "Witches of the Caribbean"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "to portray Armando Salazar, who in early scripts was referred to as Captain John Brand. Bardem had liked the working environment of the fourth movie, which he witnessed accompanying his wife, and stated he was also a fan of the franchise and of Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow. Australian actor Brenton Thwaites entered talks for the role of Henry in late November 2014, after Disney chose him over Taron Egerton, George MacKay, Mitchell Hope, Ansel Elgort and Sam Keeley. Kaya Scodelario was chosen as the female lead out of a shortlist that included Gabriella Wilde, Alexandra Dowling, Jenna Thiam, and",
"title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"
}
] |
who was the second pick in the 1999 major league baseball draft? | [
"Josh Beckett"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.33,
"text": "University, but he and Josh Hamilton were seen as the top two players available in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft. Concerned about Beckett's perceived arrogance, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays picked Hamilton with the first pick. Beckett was selected with the second pick by the Florida Marlins. Marlins scouting director Al Avila said at the time, \"\"Beckett has good size and has an overpowering fastball. He's a bulldog on the mound.\"\" Showing his confidence, Beckett predicted that he would make it to the major leagues within two years and play in an All-Star game by 2001. Beckett engaged in",
"title": "Josh Beckett"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "pitcher at the academy due to his arm speed. In 1999 he was named the Tovar Mérida Athlete of the Year. After the 1999 major league season, he was left unprotected by the Houston Astros and eligible in the Rule 5 draft. The Minnesota Twins had the first pick that year, the Florida Marlins had the second. The Twins made a deal with the Marlins: the Twins would draft Jared Camp with their first pick and the Marlins would draft Santana. The teams would exchange the two players with the Twins receiving $50,000 to cover their pick. Santana made his",
"title": "Johan Santana"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "with the 28th pick. In addition, David Espinosa, a high school shortstop from Miami, Florida, became the first RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) alumnus ever selected in the first round of the draft. Infielder Xavier Nady, second round pick of the San Diego Padres out of the University of California, went straight to the Major Leagues in 2000. He became the 19th player to do so since the draft started in 1965. 2000 Major League Baseball draft The Florida Marlins made Adrian Gonzalez of Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, California the first overall selection in the 2000 First-Year",
"title": "2000 Major League Baseball draft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "on a world stage, \"\"was one of the staff's less effective arms\"\". Benson was the first pick of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. After being signed for what was a then-record signing bonus, he spent two years in the minor leagues with the Lynchburg Hillcats and Carolina Mudcats in 1997, and the Nashville Sounds in 1998. Benson made his first major league start on April 9, 1999. He became just the second number one overall pick to win his big league debut. His first strikeout was Sammy Sosa. Benson came in fourth place in the NL Rookie of the",
"title": "Kris Benson"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "League baseball. They lost their first round pick to the San Diego Padres and their third round pick to the Baltimore Orioles as a result of their signing free agent pitchers Kevin Brown and Alan Mills. They also gained a supplemental first round pick and a second round pick as compensation for losing pitcher Scott Radinsky to free agency and a supplemental second round pick as compensation for pitcher Brian Bohanon. The first round pick was shortstop Jason Repko from Hanford High School. He was transitioned to the outfield and played seven seasons in the majors (four with the Dodgers).",
"title": "1999 Los Angeles Dodgers season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "(8th pick overall) in the 1998 Major League Baseball draft. He made his Major League debut on August 3, 2001, and played second base and shortstop part-time. On December 1, 2002, the Blue Jays traded the switch-hitting Lopez as part of a four-team trade with the Cincinnati Reds, Oakland A's, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Toronto Blue Jays sent him to the Cincinnati Reds, who sent pitcher Elmer Dessens to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks sent first baseman Erubiel Durazo to the Oakland Athletics, who, in turn, sent minor league pitcher Jason Arnold to the Blue Jays. After backing up",
"title": "Felipe López (baseball)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "the first pick in the 1997 MLB Expansion Draft. Saunders was 9th in the American League in strikeouts, but also 1st in walks, as he struggled to a 6–15 record. Saunders' 1999 season was short-lived as he went 3-3 with a 6.43 ERA. On May 26, 1999, while pitching against the Texas Rangers, Saunders threw a wild pitch and fell to the ground with his arm in serious pain. He was screaming in agony with a team trainer and teammate John Flaherty at his side. Saunders couldn't go it alone, so a cart came by to take him off the",
"title": "Tony Saunders"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "was also a High School football standout as a quarterback and signed a letter of intent to play football at Florida State University before being drafted. Right-handed pitcher Mark Prior of the University of Southern California was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the second overall pick in the draft. Prior, who was previously selected in the supplemental first round of the 1998 draft by the Yankees, was the first college player chosen in the 2001 draft. Prior won numerous National Player of the Year awards after going 15-1 with a 1.69 ERA and 202 strikeouts to lead the Trojans",
"title": "2001 Major League Baseball draft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "was a teammate of Detroit Tigers All-star second baseman Ian Kinsler. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round (46th overall) in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft as a supplemental Pick for loss of Free Agent Delino DeShields to the Baltimore Orioles. Duncan made his professional debut with the Johnson City Cardinals of the Appalachian League shortly after his signing. For the season, he batted only .214 with six home runs. After seven seasons in the Cardinals' farm system, including the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds, Duncan made his debut with the big club on September 10,",
"title": "Chris Duncan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "finishing second in the Western Division of the National League. Manager Davey Johnson was fired after the season and replaced with bench coach Jim Tracy. The Dodgers selected 50 players in this draft. Of those, eight of them would eventually play Major League baseball. The first round pick was right-handed pitcher Ben Diggins from the University of Arizona. He was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in 2002 and appeared in five games with them as a starting pitcher that season with an 0-4 record and an 8.63 ERA. Those would be the only Major League games he would appear in",
"title": "2000 Los Angeles Dodgers season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "Quarterback of the Year in 2000 by The National Quarterback Club. After committing to play football at Florida State University, Mauer ultimately decided instead to enter the Major League Baseball Draft. Mauer was selected by the Twins as the first overall pick of the 2001 draft, ahead of college pitcher Mark Prior, who was taken second overall by the Chicago Cubs. Mauer was part of the United States' roster at the All-Star Futures Game at U.S. Cellular Field before being promoted to the Twins' roster in after his predecessor, A. J. Pierzynski, was traded to the San Francisco Giants, in",
"title": "Joe Mauer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "a 1.53 earned run average (ERA) during the 1999 season. He struck out 79 batters in his senior season while walking only 41. Taschner was drafted again, this time by the San Francisco Giants in the second round of the 1999 Major League Baseball draft. Taschner was drafted again, this time by the San Francisco Giants in the second round of the 1999 Major League Baseball draft. The Giants assigned him to their short season A-level minor league affiliate, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League. Taschner earned a 3–2 record in the latter half of 1999, striking out 36",
"title": "Jack Taschner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "in the 24th round (738th overall) in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign with them. After attending California State University, Northridge for three years, Murphy was selected as the 98th overall pick in the third-round of the 2002 famous Moneyball draft. He was drafted again by the Oakland Athletics in the third round (98th overall) of the 2002 \"\"Moneyball\"\" draft. He spent two seasons in the Athletics organization, pitching for the Vancouver Canadians (2002), Kane County Cougars (2003) and Midland RockHounds (2003). On June 10, 2003, Bill pitched a no-hitter for the Kane County Cougars. On",
"title": "Bill Murphy (baseball)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "Montreal selected the pitcher second overall, and eventually pitcher Scott Sanderson in the third round and outfielder Tim Raines in the fifth. Shortstop Tom Goffena from Sidney, Ohio became the Toronto Blue Jays' first draft pick as he was chosen 25th in the first round. The Seattle Mariners picked 26th and took outfielder Dave Henderson from Dos Palos, CA as their first draft pick. The Blue Jays also picked Danny Ainge out of Brigham Young University in the 15th round. Ainge, who was also drafted by the NBA's Boston Celtics, later quit baseball for a career in basketball as a",
"title": "1977 Major League Baseball draft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.98,
"text": "on June 12 and was the first pick in the first major league draft four days earlier. After the season, Duncan and Monday entered boot camp with the U.S. Marine Corps in San Diego in September. The following year in 1966, Duncan led the California League with 46 home runs in 121 games for the Modesto Reds, the A's affiliate. The second pick in the 1966 MLB draft was another Arizona State center fielder, 20-year-old Reggie Jackson. He played two weeks in Lewiston then joined Duncan in Modesto in early July, and kept pace with 21 homers in 56 games.",
"title": "Dave Duncan (baseball)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "to the \"\"Baseball America\"\" and \"\"USA Today\"\" first-team All-America teams, and was selected by USA Baseball as its Amateur Player of the Year and as the Baseball Coaches Association's co-national high school Player of the Year. Patterson was also named a \"\"Baseball America\"\" second-team selection after his junior season. Patterson was selected by the Chicago Cubs as the third overall pick in the 1998 Major League Baseball draft. He made his professional debut in 1999 with the Lansing Lugnuts of the Class-A Midwest League, and was selected as that league's \"\"Prospect of the Year\"\" after leading the league in slugging",
"title": "Corey Patterson"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "second overall pick of the 2002 draft. With the fourth overall pick, the Nationals chose one of Upton's AAU teammates, third baseman Ryan Zimmerman of the University of Virginia. Zimmerman and B.J. Upton played in the same AAU infield as New York Mets third baseman David Wright in their youth. College third basemen accounted for three of the top five selections. A total of 13 pitchers went in the first round, 10 of whom came from the college ranks. Rice pitcher Wade Townsend was the eighth overall pick in the first round for the second straight year. After failing to",
"title": "2005 Major League Baseball draft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "more significant picks were catcher Johnny Bench by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round, pitcher Nolan Ryan by the New York Mets in the twelfth round, and infielder Graig Nettles by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round. The first player to reach the majors was pitcher Joe Coleman, the Washington Senators' first pick and third pick overall. Future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 10th round but did not sign and returned to the University of Southern California campus. The list of later selections is limited to those who have",
"title": "1965 Major League Baseball draft"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.89,
"text": "Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1996 Major League Baseball draft, Carlyle spent two years in the Reds organization before being traded to the San Diego Padres for Marc Kroon on April 8, 1998. He played for the Mobile BayBears and Las Vegas Stars before making his major league debut on August 29, 1999. In his first year, he appeared in seven games, recording a 1-3 record and a 5.97 ERA while striking out 17 batters. On November 3, , the Padres sold Carlyle's contract to the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In two seasons with",
"title": "Buddy Carlyle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.88,
"text": "draft. Arizona won the toss and chose to select second. The Devil Rays reportedly considered trading the player they were to select first. They chose Tony Saunders from the Florida Marlins. Once the draft was completed a number of trades were made. Teams had to wait until after the draft or risk losing their newly acquired players because they were not on their protected lists. The Diamondbacks intended to spend money. The day prior to the expansion draft, they signed Jay Bell to a $34 million contract across five years. Two weeks following the draft, the Diamondbacks traded Fryman and",
"title": "1997 Major League Baseball expansion draft"
}
] |
what are the four stages of high school? | [
"senior",
"sophomore",
"freshman",
"junior"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "public and private schools may be found through the U.S. Department of Education. Generally there are three stages: elementary school (K–5th/6th grade), middle school (6th/7th–8th grades) and high school (9th–12th grades). There is considerable variability in the exact arrangement of grades, as the following table indicates. Students completing high school may choose to attend a college or university, which offer undergraduate degrees such as Associate's degrees or Bachelor's degrees (baccalaureate). Community college or junior college typically offer two-year associate degrees, although some community colleges offer a limited number of bachelor's degrees. Some community college students choose to transfer to a",
"title": "Education in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "compared with 9% who attend parochial schools, 1% who attend private independent schools, and 2% who are homeschooled. Public school is normally split up into three stages: elementary school (kindergarten to 5th or 6th grade), middle (\"\"intermediate\"\" or junior high school) from 5th, 6th, or 7th grade to 8th or 9th grade, and high school (9th or 10th to 12th grade). The middle school format is increasingly common in which the elementary school contains kindergarten or 1st grade to 5th or 6th grade and the middle School contains 6th or 7th and 8th grade. In addition, some elementary schools are",
"title": "State school"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "four years though the length of some courses may be longer or shorter depending on the institution. In Iran 12-year school is categorized in two stages: Elementary school and High school. It takes six years for a student to graduate from elementary school and six years for high school. High school study is divided into two part: junior and senior high school. In senior high school, student can choose between the following six fields: Mathematics and physics, Science, Humanities, Islamic science, Vocational, or Work and knowledge. After graduating from high school, students acquire a diploma. Having a diploma, a student",
"title": "Student"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "parent university’s four-staged educational sequence, the first, third and fourth stages being primary school, university and graduate school respectively. Since the reformation led by Luping, the principal of Peking University in 1960, Peking University has attached high importance to improving the school. The then-School Counselor of Peking University Yin Qizhuo was appointed the first principal of the High School and 43 teaching staff from the university were seconded to the High as academic reinforcements. With the main support from the University, the High School of Peking University soon came to be regarded as one of the top schools in Beijing.",
"title": "Affiliated High School of Peking University"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "a broad and balanced curriculum. Key Stage 3 offers a wide range of subjects including : Mathematics, Technology, Science, Music, Languages (French and Spanish), English, Learning for Life & Work, PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education), ICT, Physical Education, Art, Home Economics, Religious Education, History, Geography, Drama, and the building also contains a Hair Salon. With Key Stage 4 and GCSE the School also supports a Careers Experience programme in which pupils can get experience by working a 1 week long apprenticeship or if they choose the Army they will get 1 week in the Military then they will be",
"title": "Newtownabbey Community High School"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "(years 9 and 10) and Stage 6 (years 11 and 12). Years 7 to 10 are traditionally regarded as \"\"junior\"\" high school, and officially conclude with attainment of the School Certificate at the end of year 10. Compulsory subjects during these years are English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography and Physical Education. In addition, Visual Arts, Drama, and Design & Technology are compulsory in years 7 and 8. Additionally, students learn two different languages in years 7 and 8. They may choose from French, German, Latin, Chinese and Japanese. In years 9 and 10, students choose three elective subjects, from amongst",
"title": "Fort Street High School"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "1988 Education Reform Act to accompany the first introduction of the National Curriculum. The precise definition of each of the main 4 Key Stages is age-related, incorporating all pupils of a particular age at the beginning of each academic year. The Key Stages were designed to fit with the most prevalent structures which had already grown up in the education system over the previous 100 years of development. Prior to the four main key stages, pupils attend a Foundation Stage, the latter part of which is compulsory. Key Stage 1 fits broadly with the first stage of primary education, often",
"title": "Key Stage"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.72,
"text": "pitch. Some departments have their own ICT facilities and the majority of classrooms are equipped with interactive white boards. At Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9) all pupils study English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, History, Geography, two Modern Foreign Languages, Art, Music, Drama, ICT, Religious Education, Physical Education and Life Studies. Pupils are mainly taught in mixed ability groups, although there is some ability related setting in Mathematics and Languages. At Key Stage 4 (years 10-11) all pupils are prepared for GCSE qualifications. Most pupils are entered for 9 - 10 GCSEs. They study English Literature, English Language, Mathematics, Science, a modern",
"title": "Woodbridge High School, Woodford Green"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.56,
"text": "at Corpus Christi have been a part of a Learning Circle Program to enhance their experience at the School. Learning Circles are split up into stages. Stage 4 Learning Circles consist of Year 7 and 8 Students. Stage 5 Learning Circles consist of Year students and Stage 6 Learning Circles consist only of Year 11 or Year 12 students, Students in this phase of learning are paired with Learning Advisors that can help them most in their course areas. From 2006-2009 Learning Circles were picked at random and students were put into Learning Circles in no real order. More often",
"title": "Corpus Christi Catholic High School, Wollongong"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "Philosophy education Philosophy education is the practice of teaching and learning philosophy along with the associated scholarly research. It is not philosophy of education, nor the philosophical study of education in general. Education in the subject is usually divided into 4 main stages: pre-school (i.e. pre-primary; e.g. kindergarten) and primary education levels (e.g. elementary school), lower (e.g. middle school) and upper secondary education level (e.g. high school), tertiary (higher) education level (e.g. college, university), and post-tertiary education level. Sometimes the stage referred to as \"\"post-secondary non-tertiary\"\" is also included (in a fashion similar to the ISCED levels). Not all countries",
"title": "Philosophy education"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "children develop confidence in themselves and work with others. There are trips to museums, historical places, national parks, art galleries, theaters, nature, colleges and, of course, to Khazar University. The school is divided into four departments related to stages of school education: Preschool (3–5 years old), Primary (1st - 5th grades), Basic or Middle or Lower Secondary (6th - 9th grades), and Secondary or Upper Secondary (10th - 11th grades). Parent and Teacher Association organizes and supports events and programs and serves as an important link between parents and the school. The school has an internal quality evaluation (self-evaluation) system",
"title": "Dunya School"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.5,
"text": "key messages and information to the students. The other assembly is usually led by either a member of the senior leadership team or a visiting guest speaker and based upon a topical theme. Themes can be religious, but many support the citizenship curriculum and thereby promote global awareness. Houses also support their choice of charitable organisations. Assemblies may be linked to associate fundraising activities for the chosen charity. The range of subjects taught at Hartford High School is extensive. The following subjects are taught at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4: Art, Business Studies, Design and Technology, Drama, English,",
"title": "Hartford High School"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.5,
"text": "called \"\"reflexes\"\". Piaget identified four stages in cognitive development. The four stages are sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage and formal operational stage. To understand the characteristics of learners in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, educational psychology develops and applies theories of human development. Often represented as stages through which people pass as they mature, developmental theories describe changes in mental abilities (cognition), social roles, moral reasoning, and beliefs about the nature of knowledge. For example, educational psychologists have conducted research on the instructional applicability of Jean Piaget's theory of development, according to which children mature through four",
"title": "Educational psychology"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.42,
"text": "Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16. (In some schools, KS4 work is started in Year 9.) The term is defined in the Education Act 2002 as \"\"the period beginning at the same time as the school year in which the majority of pupils in his class attain the age of fifteen and ending at the same time as the school year in",
"title": "Key Stage 4"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.41,
"text": "are only ten years of compulsory education. School starts on the first or second week of June, while school ends in the last week of March or first week of April. There are three stages of education in the Philippines — elementary, junior high school, and senior high school. The original ten years of compulsory education, was raised to twelve years of education. This policy was implemented in June, 2012. Here is the table: In Russia, compulsory education lasts eight or nine years and begins the year the child turns seven (8 years) or, sometimes, six (9 years). The first",
"title": "Educational stage"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "for England is published in the National Curriculum, which covers key stage 1 (KS1), key stage 2 (KS2), key stage 3 (KS3) and key stage 4 (KS4). The four key stages can be grouped a number of ways; how they are grouped significantly affects the way the science curriculum is delivered. In state schools, the four key stages are grouped into KS1–2 and KS3–4; KS1–2 covers primary education while KS3–4 covers secondary education. But in independent or public (which in the United Kingdom are historic independent) schools (not to be confused with 'publicly funded' schools), the key stage grouping is",
"title": "Science education in England"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "Key Stage 1 (age 5-7) are the first stages of a child’s education within the system. Primary Key Stage 2 (age7-11), Secondary Key Stage 3 (11-14), Key Stage 4 (14-16) and Key Stage 5 (16-18) then follow. Each educational DAB BOI builds upon the foundations set by the previous one. The Cambridge International Curriculum is used for Key Stages 4 and 5 and a modified version of the National Curriculum for England and Wales (often generically referred to as the ‘British’ or ‘UK’’ curriculum) is used between the EYFS and the End of Key Stage 3. Modifications take place so",
"title": "ABC International School"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "on a more advanced academic approach to education. All other types of high schools except gymnasiums and conservatories (e.g. lyceums) accept only students that finished Grade 9. The 4th and last level of \"\"educación general básica\"\" (ages 12–14) is roughly equivalent to middle school. In Egypt, middle school precedes high school. It is called the preparatory stage and consists of three phases: first preparatory in which students study more subjects than primary with different branches. For instance, algebra and geometry are taught instead of \"\"mathematics.\"\" In the second preparatory phase, students study science, geography, the history of Egypt starting with",
"title": "Middle school"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "learning in the curriculum, some of which include specific subject strands: Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16. (In some schools, KS4 work is started in Year 9.) The term is defined in the Education Act 2002 as \"\"the period beginning at the same time as the school year in which the majority of pupils in his class attain the age of fifteen",
"title": "Key Stage 4"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "years. The major finding for the high school phase was that stability and not turmoil, was the overriding characteristic of normal adolescents. This finding contradicted the then current notion of normal development. At that time it was believed that all adolescents go through major turmoil as they move through the high school years. The four years of the post high school phase of the school substantiated this finding. Two books resulted from the adolescent phase of the study. In 1996-7 94% of the original sample were reinterviewed. They were now 48. The original finding held. All were well adjusted late",
"title": "Daniel Offer"
}
] |
who plays grace in the american girl movie? | [
"Olivia Rodrigo"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.72,
"text": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success is a 2015 family-drama film starring newcomer Olivia Rodrigo in the title role, Virginia Madsen, Eloise Webb, Caitlin Carmichael, Notlim Taylor, Lili Bordán, Fabrice Michel, Roxane Bret, Krisztina Peremartoni and András Bálint in supporting roles, along with an appearance from restaurateur Joe Bastianich as himself. As with the previous films, \"\"Grace\"\" was directed by Vince Marcello, with screenplay by Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin. The film focuses on 2015 \"\"Girl of the Year\"\" , as she takes an unexpected trip to Paris and finds a way",
"title": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.33,
"text": "Community Center in International Falls, Minnesota on June 23, 2015. Similar film-viewing events were also held at all American Girl Place stores. An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success is a 2015 family-drama film starring newcomer Olivia Rodrigo in the title role, Virginia Madsen, Eloise Webb, Caitlin Carmichael, Notlim Taylor, Lili Bordán, Fabrice Michel, Roxane Bret, Krisztina Peremartoni and András Bálint in supporting roles, along with an appearance from restaurateur Joe Bastianich as himself. As with the previous films, \"\"Grace\"\" was directed by Vince Marcello, with screenplay by Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin.",
"title": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.7,
"text": "Girl of the Year 2014 Isabelle Palmer entitled \"\"\"\" was released July 22, 2014, starring Erin Pitt as the title character. A film based on Girl of the Year 2015 Grace Thomas entitled \"\"An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success\"\", with Olivia Rodrigo playing the title role, was released June 23, 2015. In November 2015, short independent films were uploaded on American Girl's YouTube page, based on the Maryellen Larkin and Julie Albright characters, the latter in lieu of the previously-announced musical film project slated in 2007. The films star Harlie Galloway and Jolie Ledford as Maryellen and Julie, respectively,",
"title": "American Girl (film series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.88,
"text": "2015 Girl of the Year Grace Thomas was released under the title \"\"\"\", with Olivia Rodrigo playing the title role. A live-action web special based on Melody Ellison's stories entitled \"\"An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win\"\" was released by Amazon, starring Marsai Martin as the title character. \"\"Love Has to Win\"\" was then followed by \"\"An American Girl Story - Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas\"\", starring Alyvia Alyn Lind as Maryellen Larkin and released by Amazon on November 25, 2016. The American Girl store sells American Girl dolls, clothes, and accessories. The first store, American Girl",
"title": "American Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "Ruby Jerins Ruby Jerins (born April 10, 1998) is an American actress best known for playing Grace Peyton in the drama/comedy series \"\"Nurse Jackie\"\", and Caroline Hawkins in the 2010 film \"\"Remember Me\"\". Jerins is the daughter of the artist Edgar Jerins and actress Alana Jerins, and the older sister of Sterling Jerins, an actress who appeared in \"\"The Conjuring\"\". Jerins made her acting debut in the film \"\"The Wedding\"\" in 2001, alongside Jaid Barrymore and Stephen C. Bradbury, playing the flower girl. Jerins has also guest starred in television series such as \"\"Kidnapped\"\", \"\"Law & Order\"\", \"\"Guiding Light\"\", \"\"As",
"title": "Ruby Jerins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "Teresa. In April 2012, Lizzie Brocheré was cast to play Grace, a character described originally as \"\"a fierce, ferocious, extremely sexual, and dangerous wild-child sexpot\"\" to rival Jessica Lange's character, but the role was later heavily revamped. In May 2012, James Cromwell signed on to co-star as Dr. Arthur Arden, a man who works in the asylum, and who is revealed to have been a Nazi. Chloë Sevigny played the role of Shelley, a nymphomaniac whose husband has her placed in the asylum. In June 2012, actor Joseph Fiennes joined the main cast as Monsignor Timothy Howard, a possible love",
"title": "American Horror Story: Asylum"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "Play Girl Play Girl is a 1941 romantic comedy film, starring Kay Francis as an aging gold digger who decides to pass on her skills to a young protegée, and featuring James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce, Margaret Hamilton and Katherine Alexander. Grace Herbert (Kay Francis) is a 30-something woman who has made her living from seducing wealthy men and suing them for breach of promise. At the end of her finances, she and her maid, Josie (Margaret Hamilton) head to Miami where Grace hopes to find another rich man. When that plan falls through, she stumbles upon Ellen Daley",
"title": "Play Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "and accessories of which Breslin is a fan. \"\"Kit Kittredge: An American Girl\"\" garnered favorable reviews and grossed $17 million at the box office. Breslin's performance in the film was praised by critics; Joe Morgenstern of \"\"The Wall Street Journal\"\" wrote that she \"\"carries the event-stuffed story with unflagging grace.\"\" In 2009, Breslin appeared in \"\"My Sister's Keeper\"\", where she played the role of Anna Fitzgerald, a young girl who was conceived to be a donor for her sister, Kate, who suffers from leukemia. Elle and Dakota Fanning were slated to play the roles of Anna and Kate respectively; however,",
"title": "Abigail Breslin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.08,
"text": "Pryde in the 2006 film \"\"\"\", but in July, auditions were reportedly being held for her replacement. The role ultimately went to Ellen Page, and Grace later revealed that she had never been contacted about the role and was surprised to read that she was up for the part in question. Grace's next role was in the 2007 independent film \"\"Suburban Girl\"\", alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin. In 2007, she starred in \"\"The Jane Austen Book Club\"\", based on Karen Joy Fowler's novel of the same name. She is a fan of Jane Austen and had read Fowler's",
"title": "Maggie Grace"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.94,
"text": "in a film magazine, Grace Goodright (Trevelyn) is the beautiful but extravagant wife of Warren Goodright (de Grasse), an American playwright living in Paris. Grace is living beyond her means and owes her modeste Renee Malot (George) money. Malot suggests that Grace contact a wealthy American, army officer Captain Rex Strong (Clyde Fillmore), who might be able to assist her financially. Rex offers Grace a loan, but only if as \"\"security\"\" for the loan she grants him sexual favors. Grace refuses, and Malot, angered at losing an opportunity for obtaining a commission for the loan, attempts to trap Grace in",
"title": "The Devil's Pass Key"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.88,
"text": "of Grace. During the episode 'Disaster Show' of series Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Grace is impersonated by Sarah Paulson as part of a sketch on the titular show within a show. In the episode, Paulson's character, Harriet Hayes, is performing a parody of the Nancy Grace show. It is widely acknowledged, by the media and by Grace herself, that the character of \"\"Ellen Abbot\"\" in the 2014 film \"\"Gone Girl\"\" is based on Grace. In an interview with actress Missi Pyle, who played Abbot in the film, Grace told pundits she was \"\"very flattered\"\" and that she \"\"laugh[ed]",
"title": "Nancy Grace"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight (2014) is the eighth film in the American Girl series, starring Erin Pitt as Isabelle Palmer, along with Melora Hardin, Grace Davidson as Jade Palmer, Devyn Nekoda as Luisa, Genneya Walton as Renata, Alyssa Trask as Emma, Avery Trask as Hip Hop Dancer, Daniel Fathers, Kolton Stewart, Mathew Edmondson, and Saara Chaudry. The screenplay was written by Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin. The movie was directed by Vince Marcello. The film revolves around Isabelle Palmer, a 9-year-old dancer and aspiring fashion designer from Washington,",
"title": "An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "(Mildred Coles), a young lady who is looking for a job as a secretary. Instead, Grace decide to make the girl her protege and teach her how to make money leading older wealthier men on for money. They leave for Chicago, and on the way meet Tom Dice (James Ellison) when he fixes their flat tire. All they know is that he's a cowboy, and while Ellen is attracted to him, Grace dismisses him. Grace introduces Ellen to Bill Vincent (Nigel Bruce), a vain man who likes young women, and who coaches Ellen on exactly how to lead a man",
"title": "Play Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "David O. Russell Jiro Dreams of Sushi Her Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity\"\" Matthew McConaughey – \"\"Dallas Buyers Club\"\" as Ron Woodroof Brie Larson – \"\"Short Term 12\"\" as Grace Jared Leto – \"\"Dallas Buyers Club\"\" as Rayon Scarlett Johansson – \"\"Her\"\" as Samantha (voice) American Hustle Brie Larson – \"\"Short Term 12\"\" (actress) Spike Jonze – \"\"Her\"\" Stories We Tell Boyhood Richard Linklater – \"\"Boyhood\"\" Michael Keaton – \"\"Birdman\"\" as Riggan Thomson Rosamund Pike – \"\"Gone Girl\"\" as Amy Elliott-Dunne J. K. Simmons – \"\"Whiplash\"\" as Terence Fletcher Patricia Arquette – \"\"Boyhood\"\" as Olivia Evans \"\"Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue",
"title": "Detroit Film Critics Society"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "of the competition. Reminded about the \"\"je ne sais quoi\"\" lesson from her uncle in developing her next dessert, Grace impresses the judges again and wins. Bernard, Sophie, Sylvie and Lily fly to Bentwick to congratulate Grace, surprising her even more when Bonbon appears. The community, having watched Grace on \"\"Masterchef Junior\"\", comes to support the bakery, with Bernard giving business a boost for the celebration. The direct-to-video film was released on video-on-demand services on June 9, 2015, and was released for DVD and Blu-Ray on June 23. A limited theatrical screening of the film was held at the Backus",
"title": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success"
},
{
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"score": 22.59,
"text": "Girl in Progress Girl in Progress is a 2012 American drama film directed by Patricia Riggen. The film received a limited release on May 11, 2012. The film received the Favorite Movie Award at the 2012 ALMA Awards, which honors the accomplishments made by Hispanics in film, television, and music. Cierra Ramirez won the Favorite Movie Actress Supporting Role Award. Grace is a single mom raising her fourteen-year-old daughter, Ansiedad. Grace is busy juggling work, bills and her relationship with the married Dr. Hartford, leaving Ansiedad to take care of herself as well as her mother most of the time.",
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"text": "The Country Girl (1954 film) The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden. Adapted by George Seaton from Clifford Odets' 1950 play of the same name, the film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he has been given to resurrect his career. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It was entered in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Kelly won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, which previously had earned Uta Hagen her first",
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"text": "Grace (2009 film) Grace is a 2009 horror film written and directed by Paul Solet. It is based on the 2006 short film of the same name. The short film was used to obtain funding for the feature version. Michael Matheson (Stephen Park) and his pregnant wife Madeline (Jordan Ladd) are involved in a car accident. Michael dies, and doctors tell Madeline that her unborn child is dead, too. Madeline, desperate after trying to have a child for years, decides to carry her baby to term anyway. The child, a girl, initially appears stillborn. After a while, though, she seems",
"title": "Grace (2009 film)"
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"score": 22.12,
"text": "Piper Goodwin, the daughter of Jimmy Goodwin played by T.J. Miller Maher is on the film Russell Madness, directed by Robert Vince, playing the voice of Grace. This film was released on February 21, 2015 (United States) \"\"You Were Meant to Be\"\" (2009, Universal Music; 11 tracks, 39 minutes) Kaitlyn Maher Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10, 2004) is an American child singer and actress born in Michigan, and raised in Ashburn, Virginia. In 2008, at the age of 4, she appeared on the third season of \"\"America's Got Talent\"\" and for her audition sang \"\"Somewhere Out There\"\". She reached",
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"score": 22.11,
"text": "Drake Doremus and written by Richard Greenberg. In 2014, Grace starred in the indie thriller \"\"The Calling\"\", alongside Susan Sarandon, and appeared in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi adventure \"\"Interstellar\"\", in a supporting role. In October 2013, Grace joined HBO comedy pilot \"\"People In New Jersey\"\" with Sarah Silverman, but in January 2014, the pilot was passed on. Grace co-starred in the comedy film \"\"American Ultra\"\" (2015), alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, playing a CIA agent. That same year, he co-starred in \"\"Truth\"\", with Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett, and based on the story of CBS's \"\"60 Minutes\"\" report that George",
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who played shaggy in scooby doo curse of the lake monster? | [
"Nick Palatas"
] | [
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"text": "2010. School has just ended for the summer, and Velma (Hayley Kiyoko), Shaggy (Nick Palatas), and Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker) meet up with Fred (Robbie Amell) and Daphne (Kate Melton) so they can go to meet Daphne's uncle, Thornton \"\"Thorny\"\" Blake V, who has given them summer jobs at his country club in Erie Point. That night at the club's opening party, a huge frog-like monster suddenly appears and wreaks havoc. The gang decides to solve the mystery. They decide to investigate the only person who has ever taken a picture of the lake monster, Mr. Uggins, the lighthouse keeper. He",
"title": "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster"
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"text": "Welker as the voice of Scooby-Doo. A second live-action TV movie, \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\", retained the same cast and aired on October 16, 2010 and a direct-to-video spin-off \"\"Daphne & Velma\"\" in 2018. The three films serve as prequels taking place before the events of the 2002 film. A feature-length live-action film version of \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 14, 2002. Directed by Raja Gosnell, the film starred Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini as Velma. Scooby-Doo, voiced by Neil Fanning, was",
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"text": "Nick Palatas Nicholas Edward \"\"Nick\"\" Palatas (born January 22, 1988) is an American actor. Palatas has appeared in two short films, titled \"\"The Erogenous Zone\"\" and \"\"Love\"\" and has been in several ads. In 2009, he played Norville \"\"Shaggy\"\" Rogers in the film, \"\"Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins\"\" and reprised the role in \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\" which aired in October 2010. A newcomer to the Scooby-Doo series, Palatas took over for Matthew Lillard. Palatas has two brothers, Phillip Palatas and actor Cameron Palatas. He is married to Marissa Denig (sister of actress Maggie Grace), with whom he has",
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"text": "Kiyoko as Velma and Nick Palatas as Shaggy. Scooby-Doo was created using computer-generated imagery and his voice is provided by Frank Welker, who also was a cast member of the animated series, \"\"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!\"\" and \"\"The Scooby-Doo Show\"\", providing the voice of Fred. The music is scored by Academy Award-nominee David Newman, who had previously scored the theatrical films \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" (2002) and \"\"\"\" (2004). The film is dedicated to Lorena Gale, who died during production. Its sequel, \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\", was released on October 16, 2010. In Coolsville, Ohio, four teenagers are accidentally involved in",
"title": "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins"
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"text": "one daughter, Vienna. Nick Palatas Nicholas Edward \"\"Nick\"\" Palatas (born January 22, 1988) is an American actor. Palatas has appeared in two short films, titled \"\"The Erogenous Zone\"\" and \"\"Love\"\" and has been in several ads. In 2009, he played Norville \"\"Shaggy\"\" Rogers in the film, \"\"Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins\"\" and reprised the role in \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\" which aired in October 2010. A newcomer to the Scooby-Doo series, Palatas took over for Matthew Lillard. Palatas has two brothers, Phillip Palatas and actor Cameron Palatas. He is married to Marissa Denig (sister of actress Maggie Grace), with",
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"text": "voiced Scooby since 2002, taking over beginning with \"\"What's New, Scooby-Doo?\"\" and other spin-offs including the live-action prequels \"\"Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins\"\" and \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\". Dave Coulier and Seth Green have both voiced the character in \"\"Robot Chicken\"\". Voiced By: Voiced by in unofficial material and other languages: Casey Kasem, the previous voice actor for Shaggy Rogers, said that Scooby is \"\"the star of the show—the Shaquille O'Neal of the show.\"\" Kasem explained \"\"People love animals more than they love people. Am I right or wrong? They give more love to their pets than they give",
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"score": 25.08,
"text": "short trailer of the film was shown on Cartoon Network on August 1, 2010, depicting Scooby and Shaggy at the beach. The television premiere drew 5.1 million viewers. The film was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 1, 2011. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment distributed the film on Blu-ray Disc. Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (also known as Scooby-Doo 4 or Scooby-Doo 4: Curse of the Lake Monster) is a 2010 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Brian Levant for Cartoon Network and based on the Saturday morning cartoon series \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\"",
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"text": "the way to Erie Point. Shaggy asks Velma out on a date. Things go well until he lights a match to light some candles. Velma flings herself back in terror, though she is unsure why. Shaggy calls out the waiter, who turns out to be Scooby, who is angry at Shaggy for ignoring him and tries to ruin the date. Scooby bites Shaggy, causing Shaggy to knock over the table and drop the moonstone on the ground that he was going to give to Velma as a surprise. Fred and Daphne go to see the boat. The gang drives to",
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"score": 23.45,
"text": "song. Velma joins in, and manages to break free of the witch's control. The ghost of Wanda tries to grab her staff, but Scooby Doo arrives just in time and smashes it into a rock, destroying Wanda and turning the monsters back into frogs. Fred and Daphne reconcile with each other and run back to Shaggy, who is confessing how much he really likes Velma. Velma and Shaggy kiss, but afterwards both agree that they did not feel a single spark, and it's better if they are just friends and they all agree as they do a group hug. A",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.42,
"text": "on the beach. They begin to zoom in on the figure to see its face, but Velma accidentally spills her green tea on the computer and destroys the footage. The next morning, they find Velma unconscious on the beach. Shaggy begins to tell her that he was very worried, but stops when he notices warts on her hand. Velma looks surprised, but guiltily assures them that it's nothing. After they fill her in on the latest monster attack, Daphne says that she saw purple paint on the figure's cloak, and suggests they check out a boat that they saw on",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.33,
"text": "that should have proved Velma was up to something. The woman says that Wanda probably would have gone to the underwater caves. They arrive in the cave and Shaggy bursts out of hiding and commands Velma to stop. Wanda creates three new frog monsters and sends them after the gang, and while Scooby, Fred and Daphne run for their lives, Shaggy stays back and tries to help Velma fight the witch. Meanwhile, Fred and Daphne reach a dead end. The lake monsters then burst through the wall. At the same time, Shaggy tries to save Velma by singing her favorite",
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"score": 22.3,
"text": "hands on. If I ever have to see another episode of \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\", it will be way too soon.\"\" Lillard would continue voicing Shaggy in the rest of the \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" media. Jim Carrey was originally attached to play Shaggy, while Mike Myers also expressed interest in playing Shaggy. In January 2001, it was reported that Rowan Atkinson was in negotiations to play Mondavarious. Prinze said of his character, \"\"[He] always showed more arrogance than everyone else. So in the movie, I took the opportunity to make him as narcissistic and self-loving as possible.\"\" Fisher grew up watching \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" in Australia, and",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "in 1997 and Casey Kasem, a strict vegetarian, relinquished the role of Shaggy after having to provide the voice for a 1995 Burger King commercial. Therefore, Scott Innes took over as both Scooby-Doo and Shaggy (Billy West voiced Shaggy in \"\"Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island\"\"). B.J. Ward took over as Velma, and Mary Kay Bergman voiced Daphne until her death in November 1999, and was replaced by Grey DeLisle. These first four direct-to-video films differed from the original series format by placing the characters in plots with a darker tone and pitting them against actual supernatural forces. \"\"Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island\"\",",
"title": "Scooby-Doo"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.06,
"text": "sequences of interplay between Shaggy and Scooby for him. After Don Messick's death, Scott Innes replaced Messick as the voice of Scooby-Doo. Casey Kasem did not reprise his role as Shaggy Rogers as he wished to only voice Shaggy if the character became a vegetarian, like himself. Instead, Billy West provided the voice for Shaggy. Mary Kay Bergman was cast as Daphne when the character was taken in a new direction. B.J. Ward, who played Velma in the \"\"Johnny Bravo\"\" crossover episode, reprised her role in this film. Frank Welker is the only actor from the original series to reprise",
"title": "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "became the most watched telecast ever on Cartoon Network. He reprised the role in the 2010 sequel \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\". In 2013, Amell received his biggest role to date, lead character Stephen Jameson in CW's sci-fi drama \"\"The Tomorrow People\"\", a remake of the British series of the same name. In May 2014, Amell joined \"\"The DUFF\"\" as Wesley, the potential love interest for co-star Mae Witman as \"\"The DUFF\"\". On July 9, 2014, Amell was cast as a major recurring character on the CW series \"\"The Flash\"\" as Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm, based on the DC Comics character.",
"title": "Robbie Amell"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "2010, Matthew Lillard, who also played Shaggy in the 2002 and 2004 live-action films, took over the voice of Shaggy. Lillard also played Shaggy in \"\"Robot Chicken\"\" and \"\"MAD\"\". Nick Palatas played Shaggy in the 2009 and 2010 live-action films. Voiced By: Portrayed By: Relatives of Shaggy shown during the series include: In some of the \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" series, Shaggy is born in Coolsville, Ohio. When he was old enough to go to school he adopted Scooby–Doo from the Knittingham Puppy Farm. Later on, he met Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley. They became friends and they decided to be",
"title": "Shaggy Rogers"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.91,
"text": "in her hair). The series is also the animated debut of Matthew Lillard as the voice of Shaggy, after he portrayed the character in two live-action films, \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" (2002) and \"\"\"\" (2004). Casey Kasem, the original voice of Shaggy, voiced Shaggy's father in five episodes; this would be his last voice-acting role before his death. Linda Cardellini, who played Velma in the live-action movies, voiced Hot Dog Water, a recurring character in the series. The show also brought back characters seen in previous Scooby-Doo series such as the eco-goth rock band The Hex Girls and Vincent Van Ghoul from \"\"The",
"title": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated"
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"score": 21.84,
"text": "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (also known as Scooby-Doo 4 or Scooby-Doo 4: Curse of the Lake Monster) is a 2010 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Brian Levant for Cartoon Network and based on the Saturday morning cartoon series \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" by Hanna-Barbera. It is the fourth installment in the \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" live-action film series and a sequel to the 2009 film \"\"Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins\"\", whose cast reprise their roles again here. The film was shot in Santa Clarita, California and Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California and premiered on October 16,",
"title": "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.8,
"text": "Daphne and Velma both inquire as to why Fred always wants to split up with Daphne, and Daphne visibly becomes jealous when Fred is enamored by Thorn, the lead singer of The Hex Girls. In \"\"Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster\"\", the two are caught kissing at the beginning of the film, it is later stated by Daphne that they are better off just as friends for the sake of Mystery Incorporated. In \"\"Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated\"\", Daphne is in love with Fred, and in the episode \"\"Dead Justice\"\" they have their first kiss and Fred asks her to marry him.",
"title": "Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "played Stevo in the independent film \"\"SLC Punk!\"\", and supporting character Dennis Rafkin in \"\"Thirteen Ghosts\"\". Lillard was cast as Shaggy Rogers in the 2002 live-action \"\"Scooby-Doo\"\" film, a role he later reprised in the 2004 sequel \"\"\"\". When Casey Kasem, who had voiced the character from the show's debut in 1969, retired due to declining health in 2009, Lillard was chosen as his replacement and voiced Shaggy in the two subsequent animated series, \"\"Mystery Incorporated\"\" and \"\"Be Cool Scooby-Doo!\"\", as well as every direct-to-video film since 2010's \"\"Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo\"\". In 2011, Lillard guest starred on the Fox series \"\"House\"\".",
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who won the 2017 wimbledon men's singles? | [
"Roger Federer"
] | [
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"score": 27.72,
"text": "2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Andy Murray was the defending champion, and top seed, but was defeated by Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals. Despite his loss, Murray retained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking at the end of the tournament, as Rafael Nadal, Stan Wawrinka, and Novak Djokovic all failed to gain enough ranking points to surpass him. Roger Federer won the title, achieving his unprecedented eighth Wimbledon Gentleman's Singles Title and 19th Grand Slam men's singles title, defeating Marin Čilić in the final, 6–3, 6–1, 6–4. Federer thus became the only player to win the Gentleman's singles title",
"title": "2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.88,
"text": "eight times, surpassing Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who had each won it seven times. Federer also became only the second man in the Open era, after Björn Borg in 1976, to win Wimbledon without losing a set. This was Federer's 70th appearance at a Grand Slam, tying the record for male players and a record-breaking 11th men's singles final at the same Grand Slam tournament. In addition, by virtue of his third-round win over Mischa Zverev, Federer won his 317th Grand Slam singles match, surpassing Serena Williams' record of 316 match wins and giving him the all-time record for",
"title": "2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.31,
"text": "the most Grand Slam singles wins by any player, male or female. The tournament marked the fifth time that Nadal and Federer won the French Open and Wimbledon respectively in the same year. This was also the first Grand Slam tournament since the 2009 French Open in which Murray, Nadal and Djokovic all failed to reach the semifinals, and the first time since 2004 that no player reached all 4 quarterfinals in a year. With his win over Murray, Querrey became the first American man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Andy Roddick at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and",
"title": "2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
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"score": 26.05,
"text": "2017 Wimbledon Championships The 2017 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main draw matches commenced on 3 July 2017 and concluded on 16 July 2017. Roger Federer won the Gentlemen's Singles title for a record eighth time, surpassing Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who both won the Gentlemen's Singles title seven times. Garbiñe Muguruza won the Ladies' Singles title. The 2017 tournament was the 131st edition of the championships, the 50th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam",
"title": "2017 Wimbledon Championships"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.03,
"text": "advance to his 11th Wimbledon final, subsequently setting the record for the highest number of men's singles finals made at a single major. In the final, Federer defeated Marin Čilić in straight sets to win a record 8th Wimbledon Gentleman's singles title, breaking his previous tie with William Renshaw and Pete Sampras, and his 19th Grand Slam singles title overall. He became the second male player in the Open Era to win the championships without dropping a set, after Björn Borg in 1976. Following his victory, he also qualified for the 2017 ATP Finals for a record 15th time along",
"title": "2017 Roger Federer tennis season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "losing to Miloslav Mečíř in the quarterfinals, it would not be until 2010 that hard court, clay and grass Grand Slam titles would be won by one man in a single calendar year, when Rafael Nadal won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. As of 2017, Rod Laver's record of winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the same calendar year has not been broken. John McEnroe competed for the first time since 1985, losing in the second round to Wally Masur. This tournament also featured the first appearance of future champion Goran Ivanišević. Ivan Lendl \"\"(Semifinals)\"\"",
"title": "1988 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.55,
"text": "the second time to beat a world No 1 player, the first was Djokovic at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships. For the first time since the 2005 Australian Open, David Ferrer was not seeded at a Grand Slam and the first time since the 2004 US Open that fellow Spaniard Guillermo García López did not play at a Grand Slam, ending his streak of 50 consecutive Grand Slam appearances. 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Andy Murray was the defending champion, and top seed, but was defeated by Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals. Despite his loss, Murray retained the ATP No.",
"title": "2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Roger Federer was the defending champion and top seed, but lost in the quarterfinals to Kevin Anderson despite leading by two sets to love and having a match point in the third set. Novak Djokovic claimed his fourth Wimbledon title, defeating Anderson in the final 6–2, 6–2, 7–6. The win moved him to 13 grand slam titles, and outright fourth place on the all time men's singles grand slam wins list, passing Roy Emerson. The win was also Djokovic's first title on the ATP tour for over 12 months, his last win coming at",
"title": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.19,
"text": "In July 2017, in a repeat of the final a year earlier, Hewett won the 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Doubles, alongside Reid, winning 6-7(5-7), 7-5, 7-6(7-3) against Houdet and Peifer. Hewett won the 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough, UK. He ended 2017 ranked No 2 in the world, a career-high for him. On 29 January 2018 Hewett became the world number 1. In March 2018 Hewett won his first Super Series singles title at the Cajun Classic in Baton Rouge, USA. On 2 September 2018 he claimed his second Super Series title at the US Open",
"title": "Alfie Hewett"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "2000 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Pete Sampras successfully defended his title for the fourth consecutive year, defeating Pat Rafter in the final, 6–7, 7–6, 6–4, 6–2 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships. Sampras' 7th Wimbledon title equalled William Renshaw's record, and was an Open Era record in the Gentleman's Singles until 2017, when Roger Federer won his 8th title. His victory was his 13th Grand Slam title, surpassing Roy Emerson as the overall leader in Grand Slam singles titles. This was to be Sampras' last Wimbledon title. With his first round victory against",
"title": "2000 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.89,
"text": "Slam champion since Ken Rosewall had won the 1972 Australian Open at 37 years and 63 days old. Andy Murray \"\"(Fourth round)\"\" 2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the second round to the 117th ranked Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. It was the first time since the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to Marat Safin, that Djokovic failed to make it past the second round of a major and the first time since the 2006 Australian Open that he failed to make it to the third round in Melbourne. Roger",
"title": "2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.89,
"text": "2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the second round to the 117th ranked Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. It was the first time since the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to Marat Safin, that Djokovic failed to make it past the second round of a major and the first time since the 2006 Australian Open that he failed to make it to the third round in Melbourne. Roger Federer won his fifth Australian Open title, and 18th Major title overall, defeating Rafael Nadal in the final in five sets. With",
"title": "2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "men's singles Grand Slam defeating four top 10 players for the title was 35 years ago, accomplished by the unseeded 17 year-old Mats Wilander at the 1982 French Open - Men's Singles. The 2017 Australian Open men's singles final also marked Federer's 100th Australian Open match. Winning the 2017 Australian Open catapulted Federer back into the top 10 rankings at No. 10. Nadal's runner-up position advanced his rank from No. 9 to No. 6. Nadal and Federer would continue their resurgent form throughout the season, each winning two of the four majors (Federer winning a record eighth Wimbledon title, Nadal",
"title": "2017 Australian Open – Men's singles final"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.84,
"text": "defeating Alexander Zverev in the final. At the Wimbledon Championships, Federer made it to the final without dropping a set, where he defeated Marin Čilić in straight sets to win a record-breaking eighth Wimbledon gentlemen's singles title and his record-extending 19th major title overall, becoming the oldest male player to win Wimbledon in the Open era. At the opening of the summer hard court swing Federer was defeated in the final of the Rogers Cup by Alexander Zverev. Due to a back injury, he opted to withdraw from the Western & Southern Open. However, Federer lost to Juan Martin Del",
"title": "2017 ATP Finals"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but they were defeated in the second round by Jonathan Erlich and Marcin Matkowski. Mike Bryan and Jack Sock won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 6–3, 6–7, 6–3, 5–7, 7–5. It was Bryan's 17th Grand Slam men's doubles title (a new Open Era record), and his first with a partner other than his brother Bob. Bryan regained the ATP No. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament, becoming the oldest no. 1 player in the history of",
"title": "2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.75,
"text": "the second and fourth rounds, respectively. For the first time since the 2004 French Open, both No. 1 seeds lost before the quarterfinals, with both Andy Murray and Kerber defeated in the fourth round. Roger Federer won his eighteenth men's singles Grand Slam title by defeating Rafael Nadal in a five-set final. It was his first major title since 2012 Wimbledon and a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Nadal won in five sets. Serena Williams overcame her sister Venus in the women's singles final, surpassing Steffi Graf to become the player with the most major wins in",
"title": "2017 Australian Open"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.75,
"text": "and Federer, won French Open and Wimbledon respectively, both without dropping a set. Nadal also won the US Open later the same year. In 2018, Federer successfully defended his Australian Open title, defeating finalist Marin Čilić in 5 sets. Pat Cash criticized Federer's 'lengthy break' after the 4th set due to a medical time-out, accusing him of \"\"legal\"\" cheating and criticized the tournament for allowing Federer to do so. In response, Federer said that Cash was unfair and exaggerating in his criticism, elaborating that his quad and groin began to hurt through the second and third sets respectively and finally",
"title": "2017 Australian Open – Men's singles final"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "Federer in 2017 when he became the first man to win eight singles titles at Wimbledon. The Renshaw brothers were also unbeaten in doubles for seven years. The men's doubles were played after completion of the singles competitions. William Renshaw defeated Ernest Renshaw, 6–4, 6–1, 3–6, 6–0 Blanche Hillyard defeated Lena Rice, 4–6, 8–6, 6–4 Ernest Renshaw / William Renshaw defeated George Hillyard / Ernest Lewis 6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 0–6, 6–1 1889 Wimbledon Championships The 1889 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran",
"title": "1889 Wimbledon Championships"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.64,
"text": "last time where an American male player reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam until Sam Querrey reached the semifinals of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships eight years later. Rafael Nadal \"\"(Withdrew)\"\" 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendinitis. In a repeat of the 2004 and 2005 finals, Roger Federer defeated Andy Roddick in the final, 5–7, 7–6, 7–6, 3–6, 16–14 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships for the sixth time. It became the longest men's singles final (in terms of",
"title": "2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "Greg Rusedski, Vince Spadea ended his \"\"historic\"\" losing streak of 21 matches, the longest such streak in open era. Pete Sampras (Champion) 2000 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Pete Sampras successfully defended his title for the fourth consecutive year, defeating Pat Rafter in the final, 6–7, 7–6, 6–4, 6–2 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships. Sampras' 7th Wimbledon title equalled William Renshaw's record, and was an Open Era record in the Gentleman's Singles until 2017, when Roger Federer won his 8th title. His victory was his 13th Grand Slam title, surpassing Roy Emerson as",
"title": "2000 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles"
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oprah winfrey's character in the color purple? | [
"Sofia Johnson"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "role of Celie was played by Detroit native Dayna Jarae Dantzler. The role of Shug Avery was played by New Orleans native Taprena Augustine. Tour stops include Omaha, Nashville, Fort Lauderdale, Mobile, Durham, and more. Due to an overwhelming demand, the tour returned to New Orleans where it played a 5-show limited-engagement at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts from February 11–13, 2011. In August 2010, Oprah Winfrey announced the traveling company of \"\"The Color Purple\"\" would be raising funds for the relief organization SBP along with the novel's author, Alice Walker. A third national tour with a",
"title": "The Color Purple (musical)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.48,
"text": "the form of Cabrini Green Jackson], and \"\"mammy\"\"-style maids/house slaves in Civil War-based sketches). The last type of role was made evident during the episode hosted by Oprah Winfrey in spring of 1986 where in the cold opening, Vance played Lorne Michaels' personal slave (who was actually supposed to be the character Celie from the movie \"\"The Color Purple\"\") who convinces Michaels to force Oprah into performing stereotypically black roles by beating her, only to have Oprah choke Lorne in a headlock while opening the show with \"\"Live from New York, it's \"\"Saturday Night!\"\"\"\" In a short musical sketch on",
"title": "Danitra Vance"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.31,
"text": "In the end, Albert realizes that he has mistreated Celie and seeks a friendship with her. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Danny Glover as Albert, and Oprah Winfrey as Sofia. Though nominated for eleven Academy Awards, it won none. This perceived snubbing ignited controversy because many critics considered it the best picture that year, including Roger Ebert. On December 1, 2005, a musical adaptation of the novel (based on the film) opened at The Broadway Theatre in New York City.",
"title": "The Color Purple"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "a media columnist for \"\"The Washington Post\"\", stated: \"\"Oprah doesn't do follow-up questions unless you're an author who's embarrassed her by fabricating portions of a supposed memoir she's plugged for her book club.\"\" In 1985, Winfrey co-starred in Steven Spielberg's \"\"The Color Purple\"\" as distraught housewife Sofia. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The Alice Walker novel went on to become a Broadway musical which opened in late 2005, with Winfrey credited as a producer. In October 1998, Winfrey produced and starred in the film \"\"Beloved\"\", based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning",
"title": "Oprah Winfrey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "The show was produced by Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones, Harvey Weinstein, and Oprah Winfrey, who was also an investor. It garnered five 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, including Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score. That same year, the show was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theater, and Best Leading Actress in a Musical (LaChanze). LaChanze did win the Tony Award, though the show itself won no other awards. LaChanze's win was attributed to the variety of roles for which she had garnered positive attention, as well as for a",
"title": "The Color Purple"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "Sanders, and gave her permission and support. Sanders thought that it had similarities to \"\"Fiddler on the Roof\"\" – \"\"a community of people that the audience would follow over time,\"\" and told her so. \"\"The Color Purple\"\", which premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York City in December 2005, had an all-black cast and Oprah Winfrey as an investor. Sanders promoted the production with television advertising, and had hired Fantasia, an \"\"American Idol\"\" winner, for the lead role. The production was noted for its contribution to a \"\"redefinition of the Broadway",
"title": "Scott Sanders (producer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "Chocolate Factory on July 17, 2013. The limited run ended on September 14, 2013. The cast included Cynthia Erivo (Celie), Nicola Hughes (Shug) and Christopher Colquhoun (Mister/Albert). On January 9, 2015, producers Scott Sanders, Roy Furman, and Oprah Winfrey announced that the Menier Chocolate Factory production would be mounted on Broadway. Jennifer Hudson would make her Broadway debut in the role of Shug, Danielle Brooks would play the role of Sofia, and Cynthia Erivo would reprise her role as Celie. Kyle Jean-Baptiste was slated to be in it as well, but he died in August 2015. Previews began November 10,",
"title": "The Color Purple (musical)"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.73,
"text": "theater at a very young age. She has been seen internationally in such productions as Oprah Winfrey presents \"\"The Color Purple\"\", for which she was nominated in 2008 for an NAACP Theater Award for Best Supporting Female - Equity for her role as \"\"Squeak\"\". Stephanie received the 2010 San Francisco Broadway World Fan Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical Local, for her role as Mimi in \"\"Rent\"\" at 6th Street Playhouse in Northern California. Stephanie was also honored with the 2011 FREC Award by The Film Recording Entertainment Council in 2011 for Acting Coach of South Florida. Stephanie",
"title": "Stephanie St. James"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "of American actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in \"\"The Color Purple\"\" with inspiring her to pursue a professional acting career. Nyong'o later attended St. Mary's School in Nairobi, where she received an IB Diploma in 2001. She went to the United States for college, graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies. Nyong'o started her career working as part of the production crew for several films, including Fernando Meirelles's \"\"The Constant Gardener\"\" (2005), Mira Nair's \"\"The Namesake\"\" (2006), and Salvatore Stabile's \"\"Where God Left His Shoes\"\" (2007). She cites Ralph Fiennes, the British star of",
"title": "Lupita Nyong'o"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "released an album of gospel songs, titled \"\"So Glad I Know\"\". Her performance of \"\"I Surrender All\"\" on the album won the Grammy Award for Best Female Soul Gospel Performance. Oprah Winfrey has stated that the hymn played a pivotal role in her life. While she was still a minor Chicago talk-show host, she had auditioned for the role of Sofia in the 1985 film \"\"The Color Purple\"\", and desperately wanted the part. After being told that real actresses were being considered instead, she went to a weight-loss camp to slim down in a last effort to be considered. As",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "The Color Purple (film) The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Rae Dawn",
"title": "The Color Purple (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "The Color Purple. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, the show's score was written by Brenda Russell and lyricists-composers Allee Willis and Stephen Bray. Russell and her co-writers were nominated for a Tony Award (for Best Score) and a Grammy Award (in the Best Musical Show Album category). http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002984 http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/D/Doctor_Music.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081011114018/http://www.tripletrecords.com/dougriley.htm http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/08/28/doug-riley-obit.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091112103313/http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/Catalogue/Musicians/KO/10591/Default http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=14362 Dr. Music Dr. Music was a Toronto jazz group founded in 1969 by producer, arranger and performer Doug Riley. The band recorded three albums and toured across Canada. The personnel of the band changed throughout its history, with Riley remaining at the core of the group. In 1969,",
"title": "Dr. Music"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "It was on this project that Spielberg also met his future wife, actress Kate Capshaw. In 1985, Spielberg released \"\"The Color Purple,\"\" an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about a generation of empowered African-American women during depression-era America. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and future talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey, the film was a box office smash and critics hailed Spielberg's successful foray into the dramatic genre. Roger Ebert proclaimed it the best film of the year and later entered it into his Great Films archive. The film received eleven Academy Award nominations, including two for Goldberg",
"title": "Steven Spielberg"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "with actors Alfonso Ribeiro and Jai Rodriguez. In April 2006, Williams performed \"\"America the Beautiful\"\" at World Wrestling Entertainment's event WrestleMania 22, which was in her hometown of Chicago. Beginning in April 2007, Williams joined Oprah Winfrey's Chicago-based cast of the hit Broadway musical \"\"The Color Purple\"\" for its national tour, starting with an extended run at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Williams described the opportunity as \"\"a dream come true\"\", playing the part of blues singer Shug Avery, which earned her positive reception. In March 2008, Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment revealed that Williams would be releasing her third",
"title": "Michelle Williams (singer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "and \"\"Caroline, or Change\"\" as well as the Encores! production of \"\"Hair\"\". Massey left \"\"Wicked\"\" on December 17, 2006 in order to concentrate on recording an album. Massey is currently touring around North America with the National tour of Oprah Winfrey's \"\"The Color Purple\"\" understudying the characters of Celie and Nettie. Brandi starred as \"\"Mary Magdeline\"\" in Jesus Christ Superstar at North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh, NC from February 24 - March 4, 2007. Brandi starred at Lorell in the Atlanta production of Dreamgirls at The Fox Theater from July 18-29th, 2007 alongside Original Broadway Cast member Jennifer Holliday. Brandi",
"title": "Brandi Chavonne Massey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.59,
"text": "design by John Lee Beatty, lighting by Brian MacDevitt, costumes by Paul Tazewell and sound by Jon Weston. The musical opened on Broadway at The Broadway Theatre on December 1, 2005. It was directed by Gary Griffin, produced by Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey, with choreography by Donald Byrd and musical direction by Linda Twine. The musical closed on February 24, 2008, after 30 previews and 910 regular performances. The Broadway production recouped its $11 million investment within its first year on Broadway, and had grossed over $103 million by the time it closed. The original Broadway production",
"title": "The Color Purple (musical)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "minister Martin Ferguson said \"\"I think it's money well spent\"\". In addition, Tourism Victoria spent a further A$650,000. The farewell season featured several notable cast reunions, including \"\"The Sound of Music\"\", \"\"The Color Purple\"\", and \"\"The Way We Were\"\". In May 2011, Winfrey interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, her first-ever interview with a sitting president and First Lady. They talked about the challenges of parenting at the White House, the strength of their relationship, and their concern for the country's future. President Obama also thanked Winfrey for her contributions to the country. \"\"You've got a",
"title": "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "extension of its Chicago engagement until September 30, 2007. The original expectation was that the show would run in Chicago until November. In all, the show produced respectable business results bringing in about $1 million per week for the first half of the engagement, but less during the summer months when the ticket prices were reduced to $39.50 to keep the theater full. Chicago was notable as a starting point of the national tour because Oprah Winfrey, a 1986 Academy Awards nominee in the film adaptation is a Chicago resident. In addition, Felicia Fields is a Chicago native and resident.",
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},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "to The Beatles\"\", \"\"Forbidden Broadway\"\", \"\"Spring Awakening\"\", \"\"Mamma Mia!\"\", \"\"Wicked\"\", \"\"101 Dalmatians Musical\"\", Oprah Winfrey Presents \"\"The Color Purple\"\", \"\"Chicago\"\", \"\"Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy\"\", \"\"Cats\"\", \"\"Annie\"\", \"\"The Wizard of Oz\"\", \"\"Avenue Q\"\", \"\"Monty Python's Spamalot\"\", \"\"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\"\", \"\"My Fair Lady\"\", \"\"Twelve Angry Men\"\" starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt, \"\"Wicked\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"Rent\"\", \"\"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels\"\", and \"\"The Light in the Piazza\"\". Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts The Arsht Center is a performing arts center and is located Miami, Florida. It is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States.",
"title": "Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "but on their heart.\"\" \"\"The Color Purple\"\" was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey. It failed to win any of them, tying the record set by 1977's \"\"The Turning Point\"\" for the most Oscar nominations without a single win. The film was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards at the 43rd Golden Globe Awards, with Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Meyjes was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 40th awards ceremony and",
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}
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who wrote the tales of beedle the bard? | [
"J. K. Rowling"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 27.42,
"text": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories by British author J. K. Rowling. There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in \"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\", the last book of the \"\"Harry Potter\"\" series. The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. One of them was offered for auction through Sotheby's in late 2007 and was expected to sell for £50,000 (US$77,000, €69,000); ultimately it was bought for £1.95 million ($3 million, €2.7",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 27.22,
"text": "by Albus Dumbledore, former headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is described as a popular collection of Wizarding children's fairy tales, so that while Ron Weasley is familiar with the stories, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger had not previously heard of them due to their non-magical upbringing. The book Hermione receives in Dumbledore's will is a copy of the original edition of the fictional book. It is described as an ancient-looking small book with its binding \"\"stained and peeling in places\"\". In the novel it is also said the book has a title on its cover, written",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.58,
"text": "both Voldemort's and Harry Potter's ancestors. Towards the end of the novel, Albus Dumbledore also confirms Harry's connection to the Peverells, and states that the three brothers might in fact have been the creators of the Hallows. The introduction (written by Rowling) to the publications released in December 2008 mentions that the fictional character Beedle the Bard was born in Yorkshire, lived in the 15th century, and had \"\"an exceptionally luxuriant beard\"\". Rowling started writing the book soon after finishing work on the seventh \"\"Harry Potter\"\" novel. During an interview with her fandom she also stated that she used other",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.44,
"text": "books as a source of inspiration for the tales. More specifically, \"\"The Tale of the Three Brothers\"\", the only story included entirely in \"\"The Deathly Hallows\"\", was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's \"\"The Pardoner's Tale\"\" from \"\"The Canterbury Tales\"\". Originally \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\" had only been produced in a limited number of seven handmade copies, all handwritten and illustrated by the author herself. The books were bound in brown morocco leather, and decorated with hand-chased silver ornaments and mounted semiprecious stones by silversmith and jeweller Hamilton & Inches of Edinburgh. Each of the silver pieces represents one of",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.73,
"text": "Through the Ages\"\" (two other books mentioned in the \"\"Harry Potter\"\" novels that have also been printed) the standard and collector's editions of \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\" feature commentary and footnotes from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts and one of the main characters of the series. The standard edition also includes illustrations reproduced from the handwritten edition auctioned in December 2007 and the introduction by the author. The limited collector's edition features ten illustrations by J.K. Rowling not included in the standard edition or the original handcrafted edition, as well as an exclusive reproduction of J.K. Rowling's handwritten",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "introduction, and other miscellaneous objects such as replica gemstones and an emerald ribbon. The book, released on 4 December 2008, was published in the United Kingdom and Canada by Bloomsbury, while the US edition was published by Scholastic, and the limited collector's edition of the book, available in all three countries, by Amazon. The limited edition retailed for £50 ($100, €100), and around 100,000 copies have been printed. The book has been translated into 28 languages. Profits from the sale of the book were offered to the Children's High Level Group. Initial sale estimates were roughly £4 million ($7.6 million,",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.48,
"text": "the five stories in the book. Rowling also asked that each of the seven copies be embellished using a different semiprecious stone. Six of these original handwritten copies were uniquely dedicated and given by Rowling to six people who were most involved with the \"\"Harry Potter\"\" series. The recipients of these copies were not initially identified. Since then, two of these people have been named. One is Barry Cunningham, Rowling's very first editor. Another is Arthur A. Levine, editor for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the \"\"Harry Potter\"\" books. Cunningham and Levine had lent their personal copies as part of",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.45,
"text": "€4.7 million); as of January 2010 an estimated £11 million ($17 million, €13 million) were generated from sales for the charity. Rowling wrote five stories for the book. One, \"\"The Warlock's Hairy Heart\"\", is not mentioned in \"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\"; three others, \"\"The Wizard and the Hopping Pot\"\", \"\"The Fountain of Fair Fortune\"\", and \"\"Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump\"\", receive cursory attention. \"\"The Tale of the Three Brothers\"\" is the only story also included entirely in \"\"The Deathly Hallows\"\". This story is about the legacy of an old man who, in his generosity, used his pot",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "\"\"funny, sinister, wise and captivating\"\" and likening them to the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. \"\"The Telegraph\"\" reviewed it unfavourably, noting that they \"\"would be unremarkable were it not for the body of work that lies behind it\"\" and that there was \"\"an element of padding to make it a respectable length\"\". A live puppet show of \"\"The Fountain of Fair Fortune\"\" and \"\"The Tale of the Three Brothers\"\" is presented daily at the Diagon Alley expansion of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida. The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Tales of Beedle the",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "million) by Amazon, making the selling price the highest achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript. The money earned at the auction of the book was donated to The Children's Voice charity campaign. The book was published for the general public on 4 December 2008, with the proceeds going to the Children's High Level Group (renamed Lumos in 2010). \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\" first appeared as a fictional book in J. K. Rowling's 2007 \"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\", the seventh and final novel of the \"\"Harry Potter\"\" series. The book is bequeathed to Hermione Granger",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.23,
"text": "In 2007, Rowling composed seven handwritten copies of \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\", a collection of fairy tales that is featured in the final novel, one of which was auctioned to raise money for the Children's High Level Group, a fund for mentally disabled children in poor countries. The book was published internationally on 4 December 2008. Rowling also wrote an 800-word prequel in 2008 as part of a fundraiser organised by the bookseller Waterstones. All three of these books contain extra information about the wizarding world not included in the original novels. In 2016, she released three new",
"title": "Harry Potter"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "She has also added a note about the stone as “traditionally associated with love, balance and joy in daily life”. On 31 July 2008, it was announced \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\" would also be made available for the public, in both standard and collector's editions. The book was published by Children's High Level Group and printed and distributed by Bloomsbury, Scholastic, and Amazon.com. The decision was taken due to disappointment among \"\"Harry Potter\"\" fans after it had initially been announced a wide public release was not intended. Similarly to \"\"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\"\" and \"\"Quidditch",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "sold as a collector's item, and the money from the sales also has been donated to The Children's Voice. Another copy of the same book was put into auction on November 2016. It was auctioned for £368,750 on 12 December 2016. The book was auctioned by Sotheby in London. The book is a leather bound manuscript decorated with Rhodochrosite (A precious stone) and a silver skull. The copy does have a note by Rowling to Mr. Cunningham as follows “To Barry, the man who thought an overlong novel about a boy wizard in glasses might just sell … THANK YOU.”",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "exceeded all prior projections, as ultimately the book was purchased by a representative from London fine art dealers Hazlitt Gooden and Fox on behalf of Amazon, for a total of £1.95 million ($3.98 million, €2.28 million). This was the highest purchase price for a modern literary manuscript at that date. The money earned at auction later was donated by Rowling to The Children's Voice charity campaign. Sotheby's printed a forty-eight-page promotional catalogue for the auction. The catalogue featured illustrations from the book, as well as comments from J. K. Rowling on \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\". The catalogue was",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.45,
"text": "initial print run of 3.7 million copies. Over 1.3 million copies were sold on the first day. The novel won Meyer her first British Book Award, despite competition from J. K. Rowling's \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\". The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide in 37 languages. In 2008, the four books of the series claimed the top four spots on \"\"USA Today\"\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s year-end bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to ever achieve this feat, as well as being the bestselling author of the year. The \"\"Twilight\"\" novels held the top four spots on \"\"USA Today\"\"s",
"title": "Stephenie Meyer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.25,
"text": "burning, which was cited as the reason behind the introduction of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, and wizards going into hiding from the Muggle world. This is further explored in other novels, and is notably covered in some depth in \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\", where Albus Dumbledore writes notes after each story that often concern Wizard-Muggle relationships. Part of these 'observations' note how The Tales were modified in the face of anti-Muggle sentiments, in order to remove any pro-Muggle messages for wizards who did not want their children exposed to those messages. This included Lucius Malfoy, who",
"title": "Fictional universe of Harry Potter"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "and MEP Emma Nicholson founded the Children's High Level Group (now Lumos). In January 2006, Rowling went to Bucharest to highlight the use of caged beds in mental institutions for children. To further support the CHLG, Rowling auctioned one of seven handwritten and illustrated copies of \"\"The Tales of Beedle the Bard\"\", a series of fairy tales referred to in \"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\". The book was purchased for £1.95 million by online bookseller Amazon.com on 13 December 2007, becoming the most expensive modern book ever sold at auction. Rowling gave away the remaining six copies to those",
"title": "J. K. Rowling"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.88,
"text": "\"\"Beedle the Bard\"\" exhibits in December 2008. Rowling also decided to create a seventh handwritten copy (distinguished from the others by its moonstone jewelling) to sell at auction in order to raise funds for The Children's Voice charity campaign. The 157-page \"\"Moonstone edition\"\" of the book was first put on display prior to bidding on 26 November in New York and on 9 December in London. The book was auctioned 13 December 2007, at Sotheby's in London. The starting price was £30,000 ($62,000, €46,000), and originally it was expected to sell for approximately £50,000 ($103,000, €80,000). The closing bid far",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "in embossed runic symbols. The book acts as the vehicle for introducing the Deathly Hallows to the trio. Above the story \"\"The Tale of the Three Brothers\"\", Hermione Granger finds a strange symbol which later is revealed by Xenophilius Lovegood to be the symbol of the Hallows. The triangle from the symbol represents the Invisibility Cloak, the circle inside the triangle symbolises the Resurrection Stone, and the vertical line represents the Elder Wand. These three objects are also mentioned in the story itself (see below), and are said to belong to the Peverell brothers, who are later revealed as being",
"title": "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.7,
"text": "manages to find, as he stays hidden under his Cloak. Many years later, the brother removes his cloak and gives it to his son. Pleased with his achievements, he greets Death as an old friend and chooses to leave with him as equals. Sotheby's deputy director Philip W. Errington described the handmade edition as \"\"one of the most exciting pieces of children's literature\"\" to have passed through the auction house. After buying the book, Amazon also released a review, describing it as \"\"an artifact pulled straight out of a novel\"\". \"\"The Times\"\" reviewed the published book favourably, calling the tales",
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}
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who plays walter denton on our miss brooks? | [
"Richard Crenna"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "also provided the voice of Squeaky Voiced Teen, whose voice is lifted from actor Richard Crenna's character Walter Denton in the sitcom \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\". Moleman's voice was also provided by Castellaneta. He was given the name Moleman by Groening, who thought the character looked like a mole. The scene with Skinner climbing the bell tower to get a better look of where the sodium tetrasulfate smell is coming from is a reference to final scene of the 1958 film \"\"Vertigo\"\". Moleman's drivers license says his name is Ralph Melish, a reference to the Monty Python sketch \"\"The Adventures of",
"title": "Principal Charming"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "roles until 1948. In the following year, he started playing Walter \"\"Bronco\"\" Thompson on \"\"The Great Gildersleeve\"\", and played it until the show's end in 1957. He appeared as a delivery boy in \"\"My Favorite Husband\"\" episode \"\"Liz Cooks Dinner for 12\"\", was Oogie Pringle on \"\"A Date With Judy\"\" episode \"\"The Competitive Diet\"\" and several other episodes from the show and as a teenager on \"\"The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show\"\" episode \"\"Watching the Neighbor's Daughter\"\". From 1948, Crenna played Walter Denton on radio's \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\" remaining with the cast when it moved into television in 1952.",
"title": "Richard Crenna"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.06,
"text": "for Shaggy on those of Richard Crenna's character Walter Denton from the radio/television sitcom \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\". Kasem stated that as he continued to voice Shaggy, the character evolved. Kasem explained that the \"\"voice dynamics\"\" improved and that his laughs increasingly gained quality. Kasem added that Shaggy in 2002 is \"\"more frightened today than he was at the beginning.\"\" Kasem convinced the producers that Shaggy should be a vegetarian, like himself, in 2002. Radio disc-jockey, comedian, and actor Casey Kasem created the character's voice. Kasem voiced Shaggy for 28 years, from \"\"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!\"\" in 1969 until the Bravo",
"title": "Shaggy Rogers"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.27,
"text": "her to be cast in her best-known role, Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\". Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film. Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin (played by Gale Gordon), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton (played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler, and later on radio, then on television, by Robert Rockwell). Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna (Walter",
"title": "Eve Arden"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.91,
"text": "Crahan Denton Crahan Denton (born Arthur Denton, March 20, 1914 – December 4, 1966) (pronunciation: \"\"kran\"\") was an American stage and television actor. One of his most famous film roles was in \"\"To Kill A Mockingbird\"\" where he portrays \"\"Walter Cunningham,\"\" a client of the main character, Atticus Finch, and the leader of a mob which attempts to lynch another of Finch's clients. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Denton, he was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. He studied drama at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York",
"title": "Crahan Denton"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.73,
"text": "Richard Crenna Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. Richard Crenna starred in such motion pictures as \"\"The Sand Pebbles\"\", \"\"Wait Until Dark\"\", \"\"Un Flic\"\", \"\"Body Heat\"\", the first three \"\"Rambo\"\" movies, \"\"Hot Shots! Part Deux\"\", and \"\"The Flamingo Kid\"\". Crenna's first success came on radio in 1948 as high school student \"\"Walter Denton\"\" co-starring with Eve Arden and Gale Gordon in the CBS network series \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\". Crenna continued with the long running comedy in its 1952 move into television. He also",
"title": "Richard Crenna"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.52,
"text": "persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script—Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal—Arden agreed to give the newly revamped show a try. Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\" premiered on CBS July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very \"\"feline\"\" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast—blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis,",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.11,
"text": "underwent a change in format, the character of Walter Denton was dropped. Crenna then joined the cast of the comedy series \"\"The Real McCoys\"\", as Luke McCoy. Kathleen Nolan was cast as his young wife, Kate McCoy. Later, Crenna became one of the four directors of the series during its six-year run (1957–63). In the 1960s, Richard Crenna directed many episodes of \"\"The Andy Griffith Show\"\" credited as \"\"Dick Crenna\"\". He also directed episodes of \"\"Lou Grant\"\", which ran on CBS from 1977-82. Crenna portrayed California state senator James Slattery in the CBS-TV series, \"\"Slattery's People\"\" (1964–65). For his acting",
"title": "Richard Crenna"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.06,
"text": "years old. Denton won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performances in Supporting Roles for 1954-1955 for his work in \"\"Bus Stop\"\" (1955). Crahan Denton Crahan Denton (born Arthur Denton, March 20, 1914 – December 4, 1966) (pronunciation: \"\"kran\"\") was an American stage and television actor. One of his most famous film roles was in \"\"To Kill A Mockingbird\"\" where he portrays \"\"Walter Cunningham,\"\" a client of the main character, Atticus Finch, and the leader of a mob which attempts to lynch another of Finch's clients. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Denton, he was born in Seattle,",
"title": "Crahan Denton"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.06,
"text": "The show's full cast, minus Jeff Chandler, played the same characters in the television version (with most of the scripts adapted from radio), which continued to revolve largely around Connie Brooks' daily relationships with Madison High students, colleagues, and principal. Philip Boynton was played by Robert Rockwell, who also succeeded Jeff Chandler on the radio series. The television show, sponsored by General Foods, shifted focus later in its run, moving Connie Brooks and Osgood Conklin from a public high school to an exclusive private school in the fall of 1955. It also changed the title character's romantic focus: Gene Barry",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.45,
"text": "four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role. Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was committed to \"\"My Favorite Husband\"\" and did not audition. Then CBS chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden,",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.3,
"text": "clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright—also received positive reviews. Jeff Chandler played Boynton and stayed with the role for five years, even after becoming a movie star. He ultimately resigned because it was too exhausting to juggle a regular radio role with his film commitments. Others in the cast included Anne Whitfield as Conklin's daughter, Harriet. Arden won a radio listeners' poll by \"\"Radio Mirror\"\" magazine as the top-ranking comedienne of 1948–49, receiving her award at the end of an \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\" broadcast that March. \"\"I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.28,
"text": "of her dresses, and Baby turns into a more appropriate teen-ager. Lottie succeeds in winning over the affections of the young lady, and they go off to the midway where they find Mickey and Dennis, with a happy romantic ending. The critics praised Booth's performance. \"\"Everyone has long since lost his heart to Miss Booth,\"\" wrote Brooks Atkinson in \"\"The New York Times\"\". Walter Kerr praised her \"\"ease and self-assurance\"\". \"\"She is so radiantly confident that the marquee outside glows brighter for having her in the neighborhood.\"\" In reviewing the 1999 concert, Martin Denton (NYTheatre.com) commented: \"\"...although it finds none",
"title": "By the Beautiful Sea (musical)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.23,
"text": "Walter Massey (actor) Walter Edward Hart Massey (August 19, 1928 – August 4, 2014) was a Canadian actor, best known for voicing Principal Herbert Haney on the animated series \"\"Arthur\"\" and The Doctor in the English version of \"\"The Mysterious Cities of Gold\"\". He played Dr. Donald Stewart on the 1990s version of \"\"Lassie\"\", and had numerous roles on stage, and in films and television, for more than six decades. Massey was the cousin of actor Raymond Massey and was a founding member of Canadian Actors' Equity. Walter Massey's father, Denton, was an engineer and Ontario politician. Massey died in",
"title": "Walter Massey (actor)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.97,
"text": "role of Walter Skinner was played by actor Mitch Pileggi, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for two or three other characters on \"\"The X-Files\"\" before getting the part. At first, the fact that he was asked back to audition for the recurring role slightly puzzled him, until he discovered the reason he had not previously been cast in those roles — Chris Carter had been unable to envision Pileggi as any of those characters, due to the fact that the actor had been shaving his head. When the actor had attended the audition for Walter Skinner, he had been in a",
"title": "Walter Skinner"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.91,
"text": "to the particular case. Comic relief is provided by Frost's interactions with the bureaucratically-minded Superintendent Norman \"\"Horn-rimmed Harry\"\" Mullett, played by Bruce Alexander. A number of young actors had their major debut as supporting cast in the show, including: Matt Bardock, Ben Daniels, Neil Stuke, Mark Letheren, Colin Buchanan, Jason Maza, Damian Lewis and Marc Warren. The series is set in the fictional South Midlands town of Denton, and is marked by a gritty tone. It is believed that Denton is in either Berkshire or Oxfordshire, though there are many references to Reading, Oxford, and in particular, Swindon. In the",
"title": "A Touch of Frost"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.89,
"text": "they begin dating. Boynton, however, is unwilling to commit to the relationship, and several years of platonic dating pass (to Miss Brooks' consternation). When student Gary Nolan (Nick Adams) does poorly in her class, his father—wealthy local newspaper publisher Lawrence Nolan (Don Porter)—accuses Miss Brooks of being incompetent. Brooks convinces Mr. Nolan that he's working too hard and neglecting his son. Mr. Nolan hires Miss Brooks to tutor his son in English, and agrees to spend more time with Gary. As Gary becomes a better-adjusted youth, Mr. Nolan begins to romance Miss Brooks. Meanwhile, high school principal Osgood Conklin (Gale",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.83,
"text": "episode \"\"The Misfortune Cookie\"\". She was a regular on at least two other series, as Clara Randolph the ebullient neighbor with the shrill voice married to Joe Randolph played by Hollywood veteran Lyle Talbot on \"\"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet\"\" and on \"\"Our Miss Brooks\"\" on CBS, in which she reprised her radio role as Miss Daisy Enright, the title character's rival. She provided the voice for Cleo the basset hound in Jackie Cooper's NBC series \"\"The People’s Choice\"\" (1955–58). Late in the weekly run of the original \"\"I Love Lucy\"\" series, the major characters moved to Connecticut. There",
"title": "Mary Jane Croft"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.59,
"text": "(played by Hart), has become rich from years of prospecting. He takes his fortune and leaves to visit his ill mother, Mrs. Denton (played by Claire). In the town of Yellow Ridge, however, he is detained by a seductive dance hall girl named Trixie (played by Glaum). Also known as \"\"the firefly,\"\" Trixie not only cheats him out of his gold, but also conceals a message that was wired to him by his dying mother. Learning the next day that his mother is dead, Denton is infuriated about being cheated and betrayed by Trixie, who pretended to be good, and",
"title": "The Aryan"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.53,
"text": "Our Miss Brooks (film) Our Miss Brooks is a 1956 American comedy film based on the radio and TV sitcom hit on CBS of the same name. Directed by Al Lewis, who was the chief writer for the radio and TV editions, and written by both him and Joseph Quillan, the movie disregarded the past four years of television and started with a new storyline. Unmarried, sarcastic English literature and grammar teacher Connie Brooks (Eve Arden) arrives in a small Midwestern town to teach at the local high school. She meets handsome, athletic biology teacher Phillip Boynton (Robert Rockwell), and",
"title": "Our Miss Brooks (film)"
}
] |
when did the first diary of a wimpy kid come out? | [
"2004"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.53,
"text": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a satirical realistic fiction comedy novel for children and teenagers written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. It is the first book in the \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series. The book is about a boy named Greg Heffley and his struggles to fit in as he begins middle school. \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" first appeared on FunBrain in 2004, where it was read 20 million times. The abridged hardcover adaptation was released on April 1, 2007. The book was named a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller, among other awards",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.94,
"text": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School is a children's novel written by American author Jeff Kinney first published in 2015. It is the tenth book of \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series, preceded by \"\"\"\" and followed by \"\"\"\". The book was released on November 3, 2015 worldwide, though an extract from the book was released online on October 27, 2015. This book debuted at No.1 on bestseller charts in India. Greg Heffley's grandfather has been living with his family due to being unable to pay for the rent at the retirement",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "in the \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" film series. It was released on August 3, 2012 and is based on the third book \"\"The Last Straw\"\" and the fourth book \"\"Dog Days\"\". The film was directed by David Bowers and features the same familiar cast of characters, introducing a few new ones, and also focusing on lesser characters not elaborated on in previous films, including Frank Heffley (Steve Zahn), Mr. Robert Jefferson (Alf Humphreys) and Holly Hills (Peyton List). \"\"Dog Days\"\" is the first film in the series not to be released in March. \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film series)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.59,
"text": "sequel was announced in March 2016 and the title, color, and cover of the book was revealed on April 28, 2016. The sequel is called \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down\"\" and was released on November 1, 2016. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School is a children's novel written by American author Jeff Kinney first published in 2015. It is the tenth book of \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series, preceded by \"\"\"\" and followed by \"\"\"\". The book was released on November 3, 2015 worldwide, though an extract from the",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.53,
"text": "book. The film was released on March 19, 2010. It was released on DVD, iTunes, and Blu-ray on August 3, 2010. The movie stars Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley, Robert Capron as Rowley Jefferson, Steve Zahn as Frank Heffley (Dad), Rachael Harris as Susan Heffley (Mom), Devon Bostick as Rodrick Heffley, Chloë Grace Moretz as Angie Steadman, and Connor & Owen Fielding as Manny Heffley, Greg's brother. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a satirical realistic fiction comedy novel for children and teenagers written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. It is the first book in",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway is the twelfth book in the \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series by Jeff Kinney. The book was unveiled during the 2017 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Virtually Live Event which was live streamed via YouTube as part of the 10th anniversary of the first book. The book was published and released on November 7, 2017. When Greg Heffley's family try to prepare for Christmas, Greg's parents decide to skip Christmas and travel by plane to Isla De Corales after seeing an ad for it, the",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.14,
"text": "Century Fox. The website \"\"Poptropica\"\" has released two islands themed after \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\", called Wimpy Wonderland and Wimpy Boardwalk. In January 1998, \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" officially began, when Kinney brought up an idea about a middle-school weakling named Greg Heffley, who wrote about his personal life. In May 2004, FunBrain and Kinney released an online version of \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\". The website made daily entries until June 2005. He worked on his book for almost eight years, before showing it to a publisher in New York. In February 2006, during the New York",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.09,
"text": "is the 12th book in the series, and was released everywhere except Canada and China on November 7, 2017. A week since its release, it has received 4.5/5 stars on Waterstones with 786 reviews. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway is the twelfth book in the \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series by Jeff Kinney. The book was unveiled during the 2017 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Virtually Live Event which was live streamed via YouTube as part of the 10th anniversary of the first book. The book was published and released",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.09,
"text": "Long Haul\"\" was released on May 19, 2017, and is the first film to feature an entirely new cast. Jason Drucker and Charlie Wright portray Greg and Rodrick Heffley, and Tom Everett Scott and Alicia Silverstone as their parents, Frank and Susan. The film follows Greg and Rodrick convincing their family to go on a road trip for their great grandmother's 90th birthday, but they actually plan on attending a video game convention. An animated short film set after the events of Dog Days, \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown\"\", was released on the home media release of \"\"Dog",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "in the United Kingdom. The ninth, \"\"\"\", was released on November 4, 2014, in the US and November 5, 2014, in the UK. The tenth, \"\"\"\", was released globally on November 3, 2015. The eleventh, \"\"\"\", was published on November 1, 2016. The twelfth book, \"\"\"\", was published on November 7, 2017, followed by the thirteenth, \"\"\"\", on October 30, 2018. The book won the Blue Peter Book Award 2012, revealed live on British kids channel CBBC on March 1, 2012. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a 2010 American comedy directed by Thor Freudenthal and based on Jeff Kinney's",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "The film was released on March 25, 2011. Talks of a sequel were announced after the release of the first, but was not officially announced until May 12, 2010, announcing that it would be released March 25, 2011. Filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia and New Westminster, British Columbia from August 23 to October 27, 2010. The mall scene was filmed at Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver. Director Thor Freudenthal was replaced by director David Bowers (\"\"Flushed Away\"\" and \"\"Astro Boy\"\"). The film's trailer was shown with \"\"Gulliver's Travels\"\" on December 25, 2010. It was later online on",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "January 3, 2011. A poster was released there after on January 14, 2011. In February 2011, an exclusive online-only trailer was released on the \"\"Wimpy Kid Movie\"\" YouTube channel, officialwimpmovie. Due to the success of the first film in Singapore, the film was released there eight days before the US release on March 17, 2011. The film was released in Brazil on September 16, 2011. A TV spot of the movie was released in March 2011. \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules\"\" was released on a stand-alone DVD, a special edition double DVD pack, and a Blu-ray/DVD/digital copy combo",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.92,
"text": "March 9, 2015. The cover, color, and title were revealed on April 27, 2015 during a live stream co-hosted by Jeff Kinney, with appearances from Robert Capron live on stage, and Zachary Gordon through a video call. At the 2015 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Virtually Live Event, Jeff Kinney stated that the book was black because he believes that black is a cartoonist's favorite color. An extract from the book was released exclusively by The Guardian on June 29, 2015. The book was released on November 3, 2015, in more than 90 countries and territories around the world. A",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.81,
"text": "released an online version of \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\". The website made daily entries until June 2005. The book became an instant hit and the online version had received about 20 million views as of 2007. Many online readers requested a printed version. At the 2006 New York Comic-Con Kinney proposed \"\"Diary\"\" to Charles Kochman, Editorial Director of the ComicArts division of Abrams Books, who purchased the rights to the book. According to Kochman, the two initially conceived it as a book for adults, believing it would appeal to audiences similar to that of the TV series \"\"The Wonder",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "such as Air Buddies, etc. FunBrain FunBrain is an educational browser game website for children and adults. It was on this site that \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" was first published before being turned into a successful book series and movie franchise. The website was founded in May 1992 and is owned by Poptropica Worldwide; a division of Family Education Network. The current publisher is Jess Brallier. The company said the site has 65,000 teachers registered, 35 million visits per month, and 60,000 page visits per day, and provides mathematics and kid style games. On January 31, 2007, the site",
"title": "FunBrain"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.56,
"text": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever is a 2011 bestselling and award-winning children's book and the sixth book in the \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" series, written by American author Jeff Kinney. The book was released on November 15, 2011 and was the fastest-selling book of 2011, giving him the third-strongest opening-week sales for a children's author. \"\"Cabin Fever\"\" had a first printing run of six million copies, which Amulet Books stated was one of their most significant titles for that year. In 2012 Kinney won a \"\"Best Author\"\" \"\"Children's Choice Award\"\"",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.55,
"text": "a chance to be cruel to Greg. He is known for sleeping excessively in the morning and for his rebellious attitude. Rodrick is part of a basement band (garage band in the movies) called \"\"Löded Diper\"\". Rodrick will do anything to embarrass Greg and will even cause problems for Manny to make everyone's life miserable. \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" is the first book in an ongoing franchise. The second, \"\"\"\", was released February 1, 2008, and was listed on the \"\"New York Times\"\" Best Sellers list for 117 weeks. \"\"\"\", the third book in the series, released on January",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.53,
"text": "It is the only film in the series to be directed by Freudenthal, who was replaced by David Bowers for the rest of the installments. The film was theatrically released on March 19, 2010 in the United States by 20th Century Fox. Greg Heffley, a small 11 year old who constantly fights with his teenage brother Rodrick and younger brother Manny, is apprehensive about beginning middle school. On his first day, he quickly discovers the ups and downs, such as the missing stall doors in the boys' bathroom and the difficulties of obtaining a seat during lunch. During P.E. class,",
"title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "FunBrain FunBrain is an educational browser game website for children and adults. It was on this site that \"\"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\"\" was first published before being turned into a successful book series and movie franchise. The website was founded in May 1992 and is owned by Poptropica Worldwide; a division of Family Education Network. The current publisher is Jess Brallier. The company said the site has 65,000 teachers registered, 35 million visits per month, and 60,000 page visits per day, and provides mathematics and kid style games. On January 31, 2007, the site had an Alexa rating of",
"title": "FunBrain"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.47,
"text": "Kid: The Musical\"\" is being produced by the Children's Theatre Company. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (book series) Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of fiction books written by the American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. All the main books are the journals of the main character, Greg Heffley. Befitting a teen's diary, the books are filled with hand-written notes and simple drawings of Greg's daily adventures. Since the release of the online version in May 2004, most of the books have garnered positive reviews and commercial success. , it had been purchased one million times. The first,",
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who was known as the father of psychology? | [
"Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt"
] | [
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"score": 25.91,
"text": "Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (; ; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the \"\"father of experimental psychology\"\". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. This marked psychology as an independent field of study. By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology",
"title": "Wilhelm Wundt"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.38,
"text": "at the University of Würzburg), Ernst Meumann (a professor in Leipzig and Hamburg and pioneer in pedagogical psychology), Hugo Münsterberg a professor in Freiburg and at Harvard University, a pioneer in applied psychology), Willy Hellpach (in Germany known for cultural psychology). The Americans listed include James McKeen Cattell (the first professor of psychology in the United States), Granville Stanley Hall (the father of the child psychology movement and adolescent developmental theorist, head of Clark University), Charles Hubbard Judd (Director of the School of Education at the University of Chicago), Walter Dill Scott (who contributed to the development of industrial psychology",
"title": "Wilhelm Wundt"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.38,
"text": "Vladimir Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (; January 20, 1857 – December 24, 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease. Moreover, he is known for his competition with Ivan Pavlov regarding the study of conditioned reflexes. Vladimir Bekhterev was born in Sorali, a village in the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. . V.M. Bekhterev's father – Mikhail Pavlovich – was a district police officer; his mother, Maria Mikhailovna",
"title": "Vladimir Bekhterev"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential U.S. philosophers, and has been labelled the \"\"Father of American psychology\"\". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. A \"\"Review of General Psychology\"\" analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the",
"title": "William James"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential U.S. philosophers, and has been labelled the \"\"Father of American psychology\"\". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. A \"\"Review of General Psychology\"\" analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the",
"title": "William James"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "Juan Luis Vives Juan Luis Vives March (; ; ; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the Southern Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the \"\"father\"\" of modern psychology. Vives was the first to shed light on some key ideas that established how we perceive psychology today. Vives was born in Valencia to a family which had converted from Judaism to Christianity. As a child, he saw his",
"title": "Juan Luis Vives"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "Wundt and the making of a scientific psychology. Springer Science & Business Media. Caution: Earlier translations of Wundt's publications are of a highly questionable reliability. Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (; ; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the \"\"father of experimental psychology\"\". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological",
"title": "Wilhelm Wundt"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "scholar.\"\" Francis Sumner Francis Cecil Sumner (December 7, 1895 - January 12, 1954) was an American leader in education reform. He is commonly referred to as the \"\"Father of Black Psychology.\"\" He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D in psychology (in 1920). He worked closely with G. Stanley Hall during his time at Clark University, and his dissertation—published in Pedagogical Seminary, which later became the \"\"Journal of Genetic Psychology\"\"—focused on \"\"Psychoanalysis of Freud and Adler.\"\" Francis Cecil Sumner was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on December 7, 1895. He was the second son",
"title": "Francis Sumner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.14,
"text": "human being. Juan Luis Vives Juan Luis Vives March (; ; ; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the Southern Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the \"\"father\"\" of modern psychology. Vives was the first to shed light on some key ideas that established how we perceive psychology today. Vives was born in Valencia to a family which had converted from Judaism to Christianity. As a child, he",
"title": "Juan Luis Vives"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "Francis Sumner Francis Cecil Sumner (December 7, 1895 - January 12, 1954) was an American leader in education reform. He is commonly referred to as the \"\"Father of Black Psychology.\"\" He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D in psychology (in 1920). He worked closely with G. Stanley Hall during his time at Clark University, and his dissertation—published in Pedagogical Seminary, which later became the \"\"Journal of Genetic Psychology\"\"—focused on \"\"Psychoanalysis of Freud and Adler.\"\" Francis Cecil Sumner was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on December 7, 1895. He was the second son of",
"title": "Francis Sumner"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.89,
"text": "George Kelly (psychologist) George Kelly (born George Alexander Kelly; April 28, 1905–March 6, 1967) was an American psychologist, therapist, educator and personality theorist. He is considered the father of cognitive clinical psychology and is best known for his theory of personality, personal construct psychology. George Alexander Kelly was born in 1905 on a farm near Perth, Sumner County, Kansas to two strictly religious parents. He was their only child. They moved frequently during his childhood years, resulting in a fragmented early education. He later attended Friends University and Park College, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics.",
"title": "George Kelly (psychologist)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "1870s, when it developed as an independent scientific discipline in Germany and the United States. Psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879, in Leipzig Germany, when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research in Germany. Wundt was also the first person to refer to himself as \"\"a psychologist\"\". Other important early contributors to the field include Hermann Ebbinghaus (a pioneer in the study of memory), William James (the American father of pragmatism), and Ivan Pavlov (who developed the procedures associated with classical conditioning). Soon after the development of experimental psychology, various kinds",
"title": "History of psychology"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.59,
"text": "Harvey A. Carr Harvey A. Carr (April 30, 1873 – June 21, 1954), a founding father of functionalist psychology, was renowned for a methodical and thorough approach to his science. His work was largely devoted to studies of animal cognition and perception. Carr collaborated with John B. Watson on his most well-known project: the famous Kerplunk experiment. Carr held his post as chairman of the Psychology department at the University of Chicago from 1926-1938. He also served as the president of the American Psychological Association in 1926. Harvey A. Carr was born in Morris, Illinois on April 30, 1873 to",
"title": "Harvey A. Carr"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.52,
"text": "where two centuries earlier Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed his philosophy and theoretical psychology, which strongly influenced Wundt's intellectual path. Wundt’s admiration for Ernst Heinrich Weber was clear from his memoirs where he proclaimed that Weber should be regarded as the father of experimental psychology. . “I would rather call Weber the father of experimental psychology…It was Weber’s great contribution to think of measuring psychic quantities and of showing the exact relationships between them, to be the first to understand this and carry it out.” In 1879, at the University of Leipzig, Wundt opened the first laboratory ever to be",
"title": "Wilhelm Wundt"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.36,
"text": "Ulric Neisser Ulric Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-born American psychologist and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has been referred to as the \"\"father of cognitive psychology.\"\" Neisser researched and wrote about perception and memory. He posited that a person's mental processes could be measured and subsequently analyzed. In 1967, Neisser published \"\"Cognitive Psychology\"\", which he later said was considered an attack on behaviorist psychological paradigms. \"\"Cognitive Psychology\"\" brought Neisser instant fame and recognition in the field of psychology. While \"\"Cognitive Psychology\"\" was considered unconventional, it was Neisser's \"\"Cognition and",
"title": "Ulric Neisser"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.33,
"text": "research laboratories. He was convinced by Cautela that the practical applications of psychology can only advance through a scientific approach to the subject. In the summer of 1966, Barlow worked with Joseph Wolpe, widely known as the father of behavior therapy, to gain clinical experience in Wolpe's emerging techniques of systematic desensitization, assertiveness training, and reciprocal inhibition. In the same fall, Barlow left Boston to attend the University of Vermont for his doctoral degree. He worked under Harold Leitenberg and Stewart Agras who were collaborating on a clinical research program at the time. They developed a new experimental approach to",
"title": "David H. Barlow"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.25,
"text": "Virgilio Enriquez Dr. Virgilio G. Enriquez, also known as Doc E, is the Father of Filipino Psychology \"\"\"\"Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino\"\"\"\". He was born on November 24, 1942 at Santol, Balagtas formally Bigaa, Bulacan. He is the founder of the \"\"Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino\"\", (corporate name: National Association for Sikolohiyang Pilipino, Inc.). According to Dr. Enriquez, Sikolohiyang Pilipino is the fruit of experience, ideas, and orientation of Filipinos. He also said that through this study, a Filipino can better understand himself and in turn, be able to improve his life more. Dr. Virgilio Enriquez stated that the core value",
"title": "Virgilio Enriquez"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "Monte B. Shapiro Monte B. Shapiro (May 31, 1912 – April 29, 2000) was considered to be one of the founding fathers of clinical psychology in the United Kingdom (as noted by the University of Kent as well), along with Hans Eysenck. He is credited by Kings College London as developing the scientist-practitioner model in the UK. Shapiro developed the first science oriented training program in clinical psychology in the UK at the Maudsley Hospital. He published as MB Shapiro. The British Psychological Society identified Shapiro as one of the \"\"influential clinicians\"\" who created case formulation—among others such as Eysenck,",
"title": "Monte B. Shapiro"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "and supported. Floyd Henry Allport Floyd Henry Allport (August 22, 1890 – October 15, 1979) was an American psychologist who is often considered \"\"the father of experimental social psychology\"\", having played a key role in the creation of social psychology as a legitimate field of behavioral science. His book \"\"Social Psychology\"\" (1924) impacted all future writings in the field. He was particularly interested in public opinion, attitudes, morale, rumors, and behavior. He focused on exploration of these topics through laboratory experimentation and survey research. Allport was born on August 22, 1890, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to John Edward and Nellie Allport.",
"title": "Floyd Henry Allport"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "function of memory. Moreover, his influence to psychology was immeasurable. Bekhterev’s works laid the groundwork for the future of psychology. His ideas regarding Objective psychology as well as his views on reflexes were the cornerstone of Behaviorism and as a result, the future of psychology. \"\"Parts of the Brain\"\": \"\"Other Accomplishments\"\": Vladimir Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (; January 20, 1857 – December 24, 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease. Moreover, he is known for his",
"title": "Vladimir Bekhterev"
}
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who does scars voice in the lion king? | [
"Jeremy Irons",
"Jim Cummings"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.7,
"text": "is not a lion to be trifled with.\"\" A film that features the voices of several well-known A-list actors, namely Irons as Scar, Matthew Broderick as Simba, James Earl Jones as Mufasa and Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi, \"\"The Lion King \"\"has since gone on to be acclaimed as \"\"one of the most impressive arrays of voice talents ever utilized in an animated film.\"\" Critics have repeatedly singled out Irons's performance, praising it extensively: Cindy White of IGN called Irons's performance \"\"deliciously smarmy,\"\" while Andy Patrizio of IGN wrote that Irons voices Scar \"\"in perfect Shakespearean villain mode.\"\" \"\"Rolling Stone\"\"s Peter",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.23,
"text": "Irons' prominent British accent, critics have compared both the actor and Scar to Shere Khan, the villain of Disney's \"\"The Jungle Book \"\"(1967), voiced by English actor George Sanders. Chiwetel Ejiofor was officially chosen on November 1, 2017 for the role of Scar for the CGI live action remake, \"\"The Lion King\"\" (2019) directed by Jon Favreau, as he had impressed him after watching his antagonistic performance as Baron Mordo in the Marvel film \"\"Doctor Strange\"\" (2016). The studio originally dismissed \"\"The Lion King \"\"as a risk because, at the time, it was believed that the greatest films starred people.",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.12,
"text": "\"\"handle[s] all of the dramatic heavy lifting.\"\" Even film critics who generally disliked the film tended to enjoy Scar's characterization and Irons's performance. Terrence Rafferty of \"\"The New Yorker\"\" wrote, \"\"Among the celebrity voices on the soundtrack, two performances stand out,\"\" namely, \"\"Jeremy Irons, as the villainous lion Scar\"\" who \"\"does an elegant, funny George Sanders impersonation.\"\" (Sanders himself had voiced Shere Khan for Disney in their 1967 version of \"\"The Jungle Book\"\"). Stephen Hunter of \"\"The Baltimore Sun \"\"described Irons's voice as \"\"plummy-rich with rancid irony.\"\" Television Without Pitys Ethan Alter admitted to enjoying Scar, praising the character as",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.86,
"text": "Nala, but she had not accepted the role yet due to a pregnancy. In April 2017, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen joined the film as Timon and Pumbaa, respectively. Two months later, John Oliver was cast as Zazu. At the end of July 2017, had reportedly entered final negotiations to play Nala and contribute the soundtrack as well. The following month, Chiwetel Ejiofor entered talks to play Scar. Later on, Alfre Woodard and John Kani joined the film as Sarabi and Rafiki, respectively. On November 1, 2017, and Chiwetel Ejiofor were officially confirmed to voice Nala and Scar with Eric",
"title": "The Lion King"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.8,
"text": "Scar appears as a fiery spirit in a volcano in season 2 (voiced by David Oyelowo) starting in the one-hour long special \"\"The Rise of Scar\"\", when Kion unknowingly summons him after using the Roar of the Elders in anger when Janja the hyena provokes him. After being summoned, Scar conspires with Janja and the other animals in the Outlands to take over the Pride Lands and defeat the new Lion Guard and Simba, who were initially unaware that Scar had returned. Later in the season, the Lion Guard finds out that Scar has returned while they are in the",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "he may occasionally remind you of Claus, comes from the fact that they both share the same voice box.\"\" While recording Scar's song \"\"Be Prepared,\"\" Irons encountered challenges with his voice. The actor reportedly \"\"blew out his voice\"\" upon belting the line \"\"you won't get a sniff without me,\"\" rendering him incapable of completing the musical number. Consequently, Disney was forced to recruit American voice actor Jim Cummings, who had also been providing the voice of \"\"The Lion King\"\"s laughing hyena Ed at the time, to impersonate Irons and record the rest of the song. Jim Cummings told \"\"The Huffington",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.5,
"text": "of Hercules. The character appears in the 1994 video game \"\"The Lion King.\"\" According to AllGame, Scar appears towards the end of video game as Simba finally \"\"must defeat his Uncle Scar\"\" and \"\"stop Scar and reclaim what is rightfully his.\"\" Scar plays a similar role in the video game \"\" \"\"(2000); Simba's climactic \"\"battle with Scar concludes the first six levels of the game.\"\" According to IGN, the video game features the voices of the film's cast, including Jeremy Irons as Scar. Voiced by James Horan, Scar appears as a non-player character in \"\"Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure \"\"(2003)\"\" \"\"and",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.42,
"text": "Jim Cummings as the voice of Scar. In the Pride Lands of Africa, King Simba and Queen Nala's newborn daughter, Kiara, is presented to the assembled animals by Rafiki, a baboon who serves as shaman and advisor. Simba's father Mufasa proudly watches over the ceremony from the Heavens above. Kiara becomes annoyed with her father's overprotective parenting. Simba assigns Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and warthog, to follow her. After entering the forbidden \"\"Outlands,\"\" Kiara meets a young cub, Kovu, and they escape from crocodiles while befriending each other. When Kovu retaliates to Kiara's playing, Simba confronts the young cub",
"title": "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.38,
"text": "David di Donatello Award ceremonies of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. As a voice actor, Solenghi provided the Italian voice of Scar in \"\"The Lion King\"\". Tullio Solenghi Tullio Alberto Solenghi (born March 21, 1948) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, television presenter and impressionist. Together with fellow actors Anna Marchesini and Massimo Lopez, he has been a member of the comic group known as \"\"Il Trio\"\" (\"\"The Trio\"\"). At the age of 17, Solenghi attended the Genoa Stable Theater School, where he met Massimo Lopez and in 1970 he began his acting career. After several experiences",
"title": "Tullio Solenghi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "For the hyenas, the original intention was to reunite Cheech & Chong, but while Cheech Marin accepted to play Banzai, Tommy Chong was unavailable. Thus his role was changed into a female hyena, Shenzi, who was voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. Matthew Broderick was cast as adult Simba early during production, and during the three years of voice acting only recorded with another actor once, and only discovered Moira Kelly voiced Nala at the premiere. English actors Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell were originally considered for the role of Scar, however, Curry left the role due to \"\"\"\", and it was",
"title": "The Lion King"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "are few figures within Disney's body of work that are as deliciously reprehensible and vile as Scar ... heightened by Jeremy Irons' gloriously smug voice work.\"\" Nusair also included Irons among the \"\"Top 5 Celebrity Voice Performances in Animated Films\"\", acknowledging the fact that although the actor \"\"has played a lot of villains over the course of his career ... none have had the lasting impact as Scar from \"\"The Lion King\"\".\"\" The \"\"Orlando Sentinel\"\" ranked Scar the sixth \"\"greatest Disney villain of all time\"\". Similarly, Babble.com also placed the character at number six. Included in the website's \"\"12 most",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "Mufasa \"\"bores in comparison.\"\" Janet Maslin of \"\"The New York Times \"\"called Scar a \"\"delectably wicked\"\" villain. Maslin went on to praise Irons's voice acting, writing that the actor \"\"slithers through the story in grandiose high style, with a green-eyed malevolence that is one of film's chief delights.\"\" Leah Rozen of \"\"People\"\" described Scar as \"\"a flawless realization of Irons's special talent.\"\" Gene Siskel of the \"\"Chicago Tribune\"\" lauded Scar as the film's \"\"best character,\"\" jokingly describing him as \"\"Irons' Claus von Bulow with fur.\"\" Similarly, ComingSoon.net's Joshua Starnes hailed Scar as \"\"the best part of the film.\"\" Praising both",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "Mecchi. American actor John Vickery originated the role of Scar. In one scene in the musical, Scar, during the song \"\"The Madness of King Scar\"\", tries to seduce a young adult Nala and make her his queen and mother of his children. Nala however, rejects Scar's advances and leaves Pride Rock. Having been killed during the end of \"\"The Lion King\"\", Scar's appearance and presence in its sequel \"\" \"\"(1998) is limited. Story-wise, however, his role remains vital. Upon Scar's demise, a rivaling pride of lions known as the Outsiders decide to remain loyal to him. The pride is led",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "to agree to voice an animated character, especially immediately after winning an Academy Award. In fact, the Oscar-winning actor nearly declined because, in fear of jeopardizing his successful career, he was \"\"[h]esitant to jump from a dramatic role to an animated feature.\"\" Prior to \"\"The Lion King\"\", Irons was famous for starring as several villains and antagonists in live-action films \"\"geared towards adults.\"\" Although he had starred in a children's film before, the actor admitted that it did not mirror the success of \"\"The Lion King\"\", a film that has since gained notoriety for its cast of well known, award-winning",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.98,
"text": "had already begun recording alongside another actress who had been cast as Nala before that actress was replaced with Kelly. Broderick was not informed that his original co-star had been recast, and only learned that Nala was voiced by Kelly at the film's premiere. The film's entire recording process took approximately three years to complete, during which Kelly's sessions were held in both the United States and Canada, while her co-stars Broderick and Jeremy Irons, voice of Scar, were recording in the United States and England, respectively. Each main cast member recorded their dialogue separately, which took Kelly some time",
"title": "Nala (The Lion King)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.91,
"text": "Travers hailed Irons for \"\"deliver[ing] a triumphantly witty vocal performance that ranks with Robin Williams' in \"\"Aladdin\"\".\"\" Peter Stack of the \"\"San Francisco Chronicle \"\"commended Disney for \"\"nail[ing] the voice talents,\"\" specifically Irons. \"\"The Philadelphia Daily News\"\" Bill Wedo described Irons's voice as \"\"silken,\"\" while Graham Young of the \"\"Birmingham Mail \"\"hailed the actor's performance as \"\"magnificent.\"\" \"\"Radio Times\"\" Tom Hutchinson wrote, \"\"Jeremy Irons [is] a vocal standout as the evil uncle Scar.\"\" Annette Basile of \"\"Filmink \"\"echoed Hutchinson's statement, writing that Scar is \"\"voiced with relish by stand-out Jeremy Irons.\"\" \"\"The Guardian\"\"s Philip French opined, \"\"Jeremy Irons is excellent",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "began voicing Tasmanian Devil on the animated series \"\"Taz-Mania\"\" (he would voice the character on other Warner Brothers shows, such as \"\"Animaniacs\"\", and reprise the voice in 2006 in \"\"Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas\"\"). When actor Jeremy Irons, the voice of Scar in \"\"The Lion King\"\", developed vocal problems during recording of the song \"\"Be Prepared\"\", Cummings was chosen to replace him for the rest of the song. Cummings would later be hired as the singing double for Russell Means in \"\"Pocahontas\"\" and Christopher Lloyd in \"\"Anastasia\"\". Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Cummings relocated to New Orleans, where he designed",
"title": "Jim Cummings"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "Beast \"\"(1991)\"\" \"\"and \"\"Aladdin \"\"(1992), respectively. Initially, Deja had been considering the idea of animating a hero as opposed to a villain for a change, contemplating taking on the task of animating Simba instead. However, Deja soon relented upon learning that Scar would be voiced by Irons, feeling that it would be \"\"fun\"\" to animate a character voiced by such a prestigious actor. Meanwhile, Minkoff and Allers had already had Deja in mind for animating Scar long before the animator approached the directors about the position. The level anthropomorphism used in \"\"The Lion King\"\" exceeded that of any Disney animated",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.75,
"text": "\"\"a fantastic villain and easily the most fully realized of the film's characters, thanks both to Jeremy Irons's marvelously wicked vocal performance and some clever character flourishes on behalf of the animators.\"\" David Denby of \"\"New York\"\", who otherwise criticized the film, felt that \"\"Irons ... sounds like he's having a better time than he's ever had in movies before.\"\" In a rare lukewarm review, Anthony Quinn of \"\"The Independent\"\" felt that Irons's performance was too campy: \"\"more Liberace than George Sanders.\"\" According to IGN, Scar, Simba and Mufasa have since become \"\"household names thanks to the [film's] enormous popularity",
"title": "Scar (The Lion King)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "as the suavely villainous lion Scar.\"\" David Sterritt of \"\"The Christian Science Monitor \"\"exalted Irons's acting, describing him as \"\"positively brilliant.\"\" Also hailing the film's cast as \"\"incredible,\"\" Desson Howe of \"\"The Washington Post \"\"highlighted Irons as a \"\"standout.\"\" Praising the film for successfully combining \"\"grand-opera melodrama and low-comedy hi-jinks,\"\" the \"\"Orlando Sentinel\"\"s Jay Boyar concluded that \"\"One reason they work so well together is that even most of the serious sections contain an undercurrent of humor, provided ... by the deliciously droll voice-performance of Jeremy Irons as Scar.\"\" Mathew DeKinder of the \"\"St. Louis Post-Dispatch \"\"felt that Irons successfully",
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}
] |
when did the song american pie come out? | [
"November 1971"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 27.19,
"text": "American Pie (song) \"\"American Pie\"\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the \"\"American Pie\"\" album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the UK, the single reached number 2, where it stayed for 3 weeks, on its original 1971 release while a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. A truncated version of the song was covered",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.72,
"text": "the video. Credits and personnel adapted from \"\"American Pie\"\" single liner notes. American Pie (song) \"\"American Pie\"\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the \"\"American Pie\"\" album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the UK, the single reached number 2, where it stayed for 3 weeks, on its original 1971 release while a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.56,
"text": "had convinced her to cover the song for the film's soundtrack. It was latter added as a bonus track to her album, \"\"Music\"\". Released in March 2000, the song was a worldwide hit, reaching No. 1 in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Italy, Germany (her first since \"\"La Isla Bonita\"\", in 1987), Switzerland, Austria, and Finland. The song was the 19th best selling of 2000 in the UK and the 9th best selling of 2000 in Italy. The single was not released commercially in the United States, but it reached No. 29 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.44,
"text": "showing the first five digits of π (pi). American singer Madonna released a cover version of the song in March 2000 to promote the soundtrack of her film \"\"The Next Best Thing\"\" (2000), with the song being serviced to radio on February 2. Her cover is much shorter than the original (it contains only the beginning of the first verse and all of the second and sixth verses) and was recorded as a dance-pop song. It was co-produced by Madonna and William Orbit and released on the singer's Maverick label, after Rupert Everett (Madonna's co-star in \"\"The Next Best Thing\"\")",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.39,
"text": "performed, McLean insists that the song made its debut in Philadelphia at Temple University when he opened for Laura Nyro on March 14, 1971. Except to acknowledge that he first learned about Buddy Holly's death on February 3, 1959—McLean was age 13—when he was folding newspapers for his paper route on the morning of February 4, 1959 (the line \"\"February made me shiver/with every paper I'd deliver\"\"), McLean has generally avoided responding to direct questions about the song's lyrics; he has said: \"\"They're beyond analysis. They're poetry.\"\" He also stated in an editorial published in 2009, on the 50th anniversary",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.12,
"text": "American Pie (Don McLean album) American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records on 24 October 1971. The folk/rock album reached number one on the Billboard 200, containing the chart-topping singles \"\"American Pie\"\" and \"\"Vincent.\"\" Recorded in May and June 1971 at The Record Plant in New York City, the LP is dedicated to Buddy Holly, and was reissued in 1980 minus the track \"\"Sister Fatima\"\". The album was released to much acclaim, later being included in the book \"\"1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die\"\". \"\"American Pie\"\" is",
"title": "American Pie (Don McLean album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.75,
"text": "dedicated the album to Buddy Holly, one of his childhood icons, and it was released in 1971. It has a melancholy feel and rather sparse arrangements. At the time of the writing McLean’s first marriage was failing and the optimism and hopefulness of the 1960s was giving way to the nihilism and hedonism of the 1970s. The album was recorded in Studio A at The Record Plant on West 44th street in New York City. The producer, Ed Freeman, decided to use accomplished musicians who were not \"\"studio musicians who could act like a metronome\"\" because he wanted to capture",
"title": "American Pie (Don McLean album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.58,
"text": "by Madonna in 2000 and reached No. 1 in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. McLean's combined version is the fourth longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, at the time of release it was the longest, in addition to being the longest song to reach number one. The repeatedly mentioned phrase \"\"the day the music died\"\" refers to the plane crash in 1959 which killed early rock and roll performers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. (The crash was not known by that name until after McLean's song became a hit.) The meaning",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.48,
"text": "the crash. The song was recorded on May 26, 1971, and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York's WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of Fillmore East, the famous New York concert hall. \"\"American Pie\"\" reached number one on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 from January 15 to February 5, 1972, and remains McLean's most successful single release. The single also topped the \"\"Billboard\"\" Easy Listening chart. With a total running time of 8:36 encompassing both sides of the single, it is also the longest song to reach number 1. Some stations played only part one",
"title": "Don McLean"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.33,
"text": "The video was hailed as a fantastic performance by many including Roger Ebert, who said it was \"\"the greatest music video ever made\"\". On March 21, 2013, Harmonix announced that \"\"American Pie\"\" would be the final downloadable track made available for the \"\"Rock Band\"\" series of music video games. On March 14, 2015, the National Museum of Mathematics announced that one of two winners of its songwriting contest was \"\"American Pi\"\" by mathematics education professor Dr. Lawrence M. Lesser. The contest was in honor of \"\"Pi Day of the Century\"\" because \"\"3/14/15\"\" would be the only day in the 21st-century",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.31,
"text": "the 1980s and into the early 1990s, when the popularity of the easy listening format began to decline nationwide and KDEA went into competition with KTDY with a mainstream adult contemporary format. On August 21, 1992, at 6 pm KDEA started playing the song \"\"American Pie\"\" by Don McLean on a continuous loop. Between each playing of the song, a voice could be heard saying, \"\"A new day begins Monday.\"\" The song continued to play over and over until 6 am Monday, August 24, when a jingle played announcing that the station was now \"\"Hot Country 99.1, KXKC\"\". This was",
"title": "KXKC"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.3,
"text": "what was becoming a fragmented music scene. The album was reissued in 1980 without the song \"\"Sister Fatima\"\", and again on June 27, 2003 with the track restored, along with the addition of two bonus tracks. Also the first Spanish issue delivered by Hispavox was released without \"\"Sister Fatima\"\". In February 2003 George Michael recorded a cover of \"\"The Grave\"\" as a protest against the imminent Iraq War. All songs written by Don McLean except where noted. American Pie (Don McLean album) American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records",
"title": "American Pie (Don McLean album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.28,
"text": "Other Visual Media\"\". In March 2000, Madonna released a cover version of Don McLean's \"\"American Pie\"\" (1971) as part of the soundtrack of the film \"\"The Next Best Thing\"\". The song received mixed reviews, and was a success in European charts. Although not released commercially in the United States, it reached number 29 on the Hot 100 chart due to strong radio airplay. By 2000, she became pregnant with her son Rocco, from her relationship with director Guy Ritchie. Wanting to distract herself from the media frenzy surrounding this news, Madonna concentrated on the development of her eighth studio album,",
"title": "Music (Madonna album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "about the environment.\"\" In February 2015, McLean announced he would reveal the meaning of the lyrics to the song when the original manuscript went for auction in New York City, in April 2015. The lyrics and notes were auctioned on April 7, and sold for $1.2 million. In the sale catalogue notes, McLean revealed the meaning in the song's lyrics: \"\"Basically in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction. ... It [life] is becoming less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense.\"\" The catalogue confirmed",
"title": "American Pie (song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "American Pie (Groove Holmes album) American Pie is an album by American jazz organist Groove Holmes recorded in 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label. Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: \"\"The soulful \"\"American Pie\"\" pairs Groove Holmes with electric pianist Larry Willis, suggesting a more nuanced and restrained interpretation of the organ/electric piano formula that energizes Holmes' Blue Note classic \"\"Comin' on Home\"\". ... Holmes and Willis weave a mellow, stoned-soul groove that twists and turns with lazy precision – although the material derives from sources spanning from Don McLean to Anthony Newley to Holmes himself ... the mood and",
"title": "American Pie (Groove Holmes album)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.83,
"text": "McLean’s second album; his first, \"\"Tapestry\"\", having been released to only moderate commercial success and acclaim in 1970. McLean was a protégé of Pete Seeger, having played with him in the 1960s. The album \"\"American Pie\"\" was intended as a unified work, as McLean has said that he was influenced by the Beatles' \"\"Sgt Pepper\"\" album and envisioned \"\"American Pie\"\" to be a similar album. Believing that an artist's work should stand by itself, McLean generally did not offer explanations for his work's themes or meaning, though he did describe the title song as involving \"\"a sense of loss\"\". McLean",
"title": "American Pie (Don McLean album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.31,
"text": "lifelong friends have come home as adults for their thirteenth high school class reunion, to reminisce about – and get inspired by – the hormonal teens they once were. The film series began with \"\"American Pie\"\", released on July 9, 1999. This was followed by three sequels: \"\"American Pie 2\"\", released on August 10, 2001, \"\"American Wedding\"\", released on August 1, 2003, and \"\"American Reunion\"\", released on April 6, 2012. A fifth theatrical film, under the working title \"\"American Pie 5\"\" was announced on August 4, 2012, with Hurwitz and Schlossberg returning as directors and screenwriters.<ref name=\"\"Cooking Universal/\"\"></ref> In May",
"title": "American Pie (film series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "tenor of the set never wavers, but the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts\"\". All compositions by Richard \"\"Groove\"\" Holmes except where noted American Pie (Groove Holmes album) American Pie is an album by American jazz organist Groove Holmes recorded in 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label. Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: \"\"The soulful \"\"American Pie\"\" pairs Groove Holmes with electric pianist Larry Willis, suggesting a more nuanced and restrained interpretation of the organ/electric piano formula that energizes Holmes' Blue Note classic \"\"Comin' on Home\"\". ... Holmes and Willis weave a mellow, stoned-soul groove that",
"title": "American Pie (Groove Holmes album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.25,
"text": "a track featuring Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, titled \"\"Get Over Me\"\". \"\"All American\"\" was released on November 25, 2015, a day after Dancing With The Stars finale, where he is one of the four finalists. The musical style of the album combined with pop, rock, and pop punk, and features some rock music instruments such as drum and rock guitar. The song \"\"Cherry Pie\"\" has the throwback type feel like Mark Ronson. There are some songs have a guitar sound of punk rock music, such as \"\"19 in 99\"\", \"\"Tijuana\"\", \"\"All American\"\" and \"\"Left For Dead\"\". The songs like \"\"Get",
"title": "All American (Nick Carter album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "label for his second album, \"\"American Pie.\"\" The album launched two number one hits in the title song and \"\"Vincent\"\". \"\"American Pie\"\"'s success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release. McLean's magnum opus, \"\"American Pie\"\", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash in 1959, and developments in American youth culture in the subsequent decade. The song popularized the expression \"\"The Day the Music Died\"\" in reference to",
"title": "Don McLean"
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who won the skeleton in the 2018 olympics? | [
"Yun Sung-bin",
"Lizzy Yarnold"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.95,
"text": "in the previous two years. The 2017–18 Junior World Championships were held on 25 January 2018 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the winners were Anna Fernstädt of Germany and Nikita Tregubov of Russia. The skeleton event in the Winter Olympics uses the same two-day, four-heat format as the World Championships, but team quotas are significantly smaller. The International Olympic Committee assigns athlete quotas to national Olympic committees in cooperation with the IBSF and using the IBSF ranking system to determine qualification; 20 women and 30 men competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea, with one automatic quota going",
"title": "Skeleton (sport)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.83,
"text": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's The men's skeleton event at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 15 and 16 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Ryu Seung-min, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Ivo Ferriani, International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation president and member of the International Olympic Committee. 30 athletes qualified. Qualification is based on the combined rankings (across all four tours) as of 14 January 2018. The top three countries received three quotas each, the next six received two each",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "she established a significant new track record, thereby becoming the first double Olympic champion (male or female) in the history of skeleton, and the first multiple woman medalist. Jacqueline Lölling was consistent throughout the event to come second, and Laura Deas came in third. For both of them, these were the first Olympic medals. Janine Flock, leading after three runs despite never being better than third in any single run, and placed under pressure by Yarnold's hot final run, had a mediocre last run, which took her out of the podium entirely. Simidele Adeagbo was ahiked as the first athlete",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.19,
"text": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's The women's skeleton event at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 16 and 17 February at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. The defending champion, Lizzy Yarnold had struggled in the season leading to the Games, but set a new track record in the first run. Affected by the middle ear disorder which had impeded her season, she had a mediocre second run, but a strong slide brought her back to second, and only two hundredths of a second off gold after the third run. In the fourth run,",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.02,
"text": "as well. On 1 February 2018, their results were restored as a result of the decision of CAS Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's The men's skeleton event at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Sliding Center Sanki on 14–15 February. The gold medal won in this event featured Chelyabinsk meteor fragment to commemorate at first anniversary of this meteor strike. In the first run, Aleksandr Tretyakov established the track record (55.95) and the start record (4.47). TR – Track Record. Top finish in each run is in boldface. On 22 November 2017, gold medalist Aleksandr",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "Maria Orlova were also disqualified. On 1 February 2018, their results were restored as a result of the successful appeal. Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's The women's skeleton event at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Sliding Center Sanki on 13–14 February. In the first run, Lizzy Yarnold established the track record of 58.43 seconds and the start record of 4.95 seconds. The start record was improved to 4.89 seconds in the same run by Elena Nikitina. In the third run, Yarnold improved her own track record to 57.91. Winning all four runs, Yarnold became",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.75,
"text": "won silver in sprint, and both women were on a relay team that won the silver medal. They were disqualified and stripped of their medals on 27 November 2017. The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation suspended four Russian skeleton sliders. They were Alexander Tretyakov, Elena Nikitina, Maria Orlova and Olga Potylitsina. Tretyakov won a gold medal, and Nikitina won a bronze. On November 22, 2017, the IOC stripped these medals and imposed lifetime Olympic bans on all four. Skeleton racer Sergei Chudinov was sanctioned on 28 November 2017. Seven Russian female ice hockey players were to have hearings before the",
"title": "Doping at the Olympic Games"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.73,
"text": "their medals on 27 November 2017. The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation suspended four Russian skeleton sliders. They were Alexander Tretyakov, Elena Nikitina, Maria Orlova and Olga Potylitsina. Tretyakov won a gold medal, and Nikitina won a bronze. On 22 November 2017, the IOC stripped these medals and imposed lifetime Olympic bans on all four. Seven Russian female ice hockey players were to have hearings before the Oswald Commission on 22 November 2017. The identities of the seven players have not been revealed. Two of the seven are accused of submitting samples showing readings that were physically impossible to be",
"title": "2014 Winter Olympics medal table"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.56,
"text": "from Great Britain. Great Britain is the most successful nation in Skeleton winning a medal at every Games in which the sport has been included and has won at least one medal in each of the five contests of Women's skeleton since its introduction with five different athletes. Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful Skeleton rider of all time winning back to back Gold Medals in 2014 and 2018. No other rider has successfully defended a Gold Medal. Great Britain was the third most successful nation in swimming in 2008, with 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes, with Rebecca",
"title": "Great Britain at the Olympics"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.56,
"text": "prior to the 2010 Games took place in Igls, Austria (southeast of Innsbruck), on 23 January 2010 and was won by Latvia's Martins Dukurs who also won the overall World Cup title. Canada's Jon Montgomery took the gold medal, 0.07 seconds ahead of Latvia's Martins Dukurs who had been leading heading into the final run. Bronze was won by Aleksandr Tretyakov of Russia. While the IOC does not consider skeleton times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes. These records were set during the test",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "Jimmy Shea won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Antoine and John Daly were named to represent the U.S. at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang; He finished 11th. Matthew Antoine Matthew Antoine (born April 2, 1985) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. Antoine graduated from the California University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a degree in sports management, wellness and fitness. Antoine won gold in the mixed team event at the FIBT World Championships 2012 in Lake Placid, New York. His best World Cup race finish was first at Lake Placid in December 2013. He",
"title": "Matthew Antoine"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "the expansion of the Winter Olympics to include sports such as Curling, Snowboarding, Skeleton and Freestyle skiing has brought some increased success. Currently Great Britain is the most successful nation in women's skeleton, having won a medal six times, at least one for each time the event has been held, including a gold medal for Amy Williams in 2010, and the same for Lizzy Yarnold in 2014 and 2018. Great Britain enjoyed a period of significant success between 1976 and 1984 in figure skating, winning golds in three successive games on the rink. Prior to the 2014 Games all Britain's",
"title": "Great Britain at the Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.19,
"text": "50 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) participated. The number of athletes each National Olympic Committee (NOC) entered are shown in parentheses. Seven nations made their Winter Olympics debut in the sport: Belgium, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Netherlands, Nigeria and Ukraine. Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. The events were scheduled to take place between 15 and 17 February 2018. A total of two skeleton events were held, one each for men and women. A total of",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.17,
"text": "one gold, three silver and two bronze. Yun won the overall 2017–18 World Cup, becoming the first Asian athlete to ever win the overall title in the Skeleton World Cup. Despite opting to miss the World Cup finale in Königssee, he managed to score a total of 1,545 points from five wins and two silver medals, giving him enough to win the overall standings ahead of Axel Jungk (1,507 points) and Tomass Dukurs (1,464). At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Yun captured a gold medal, becoming the first athlete from outside Europe and North America to win an Olympic",
"title": "Yun Sung-bin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.16,
"text": "woman to win back-to-back golds at the 500m. Yuna Kim is the champion of figure skating, she won all the gold medals till 2010. Yoon Seongbin won a gold medal at Pyeongchang 2018, a skeleton for the first time and also became a skeleton king. On November 2, 2018, officials from both North and South Korea announced that their countries would participate at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan, as a unified Korean team. South Korea at the Olympics The Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea) first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has",
"title": "South Korea at the Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.11,
"text": "daughter was born in 2013. Tretyakov's bottles of urine had scratch marks so he was provisionally suspended in 2016. On 22 November 2017, he was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics and had his gold medal stripped from him. On 1 February 2018, the ban was lifted and his results were restored as a result of the successful appeal. Aleksandr Tretyakov (skeleton racer) Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov (; born 19 April 1985) is a Russian skeleton rider. Tretyakov is the first Russian who won the World Championships (2013 in St. Moritz), the overall Skeleton World Cup (2008–09) and an Olympics bronze",
"title": "Aleksandr Tretyakov (skeleton racer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's The men's skeleton event at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Sliding Center Sanki on 14–15 February. The gold medal won in this event featured Chelyabinsk meteor fragment to commemorate at first anniversary of this meteor strike. In the first run, Aleksandr Tretyakov established the track record (55.95) and the start record (4.47). TR – Track Record. Top finish in each run is in boldface. On 22 November 2017, gold medalist Aleksandr Tretyakov was stripped of his gold medal. On November 27, 2017, the results by Sergey Chudinov were annulled",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's The men's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Cesana Pariol. Canadians Duff Gibson and Jeffrey Pain won gold and silver despite Pain nearly losing control of his sled coming around the penultimate corner. Switzerland's Gregor Stähli finished third, beating out Canadian Paul Boehm by only two tenths of a second to prevent a Canadian sweep of the podium. Gibson dedicated his medal to his father, Andy, who had died in December 2005 after an 11-year battle with cancer. A picture of Gibson in action during",
"title": "Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.98,
"text": "and 2017. Skeleton alumni include Omri Geva and Aliyah Snyder. On December 2, 2011, Chalupski earned Israel's first ever medal in Skeleton, finishing in fifth place at the Americas Cup race in Lake Placid, NY. Chalupski is also the first skeleton athlete to represent Israel in the World Cup. In the 2017/2018 season Israel won 3 sliding medals. Joel Seligstein took a 5th place medal at the North Americas cup race in Calgary, Canada, and Adam (AJ) Edelman took home 2 fifth place medals at the two North Americas Cup races in Lake Placid, NY. Israel has qualified for the",
"title": "Israel national bobsleigh team"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.97,
"text": "Lizzy Yarnold Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. She won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup (only once finishing off the podium the whole season), followed by a gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Yarnold was selected to be one of the two women skeleton drivers representing Team GB at the 2018",
"title": "Lizzy Yarnold"
}
] |
where does the xbox 360 controller plug in? | [
"an attached USB hub"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.55,
"text": "blue button, and amber button. The lower right houses the right analog stick, in lower left is a digital D-pad and on the left face is the left analog stick. Both analog sticks can also be \"\"clicked in\"\" to activate a digital button beneath. In the center of the controller face are digital \"\"Start\"\", \"\"Back\"\" and \"\"Guide\"\" buttons. The \"\"Guide\"\" button is labelled with the Xbox logo, and is used to turn on the console/controller and to access the guide menu. It is also surrounded by the \"\"ring of light\"\", which indicates the controller number, as well as flashing when",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "or to an attached USB hub. The Xbox 360 controller has the same basic familiar button layout as the Controller S except that a few of the auxiliary buttons have been moved. The \"\"back\"\" and \"\"start\"\" buttons have been moved to a more central position on the face of the controller, and the \"\"white\"\" and \"\"black\"\" buttons have been removed and replaced with two new bumpers that are positioned over the analog triggers on the back of the controller. The controller has a 2.5 mm TRS connector on the front, allowing users to connect a headset for voice communication. It",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "also features a proprietary serial connector (which is split into 2 parts on either side of the headset connector) for use with additional accessories, such as the chatpad. On August 31, 2010, Microsoft's Larry Hryb (a.k.a. Major Nelson) revealed a new design of the Xbox 360 controller which is set to replace the Wireless controller bundled with the Play & Charge Kit. Among small changes such as the shape of the analog stick tops and grey-colored face buttons, the new controller features an adjustable directional pad which can be changed between a disc type D-pad or a plus shaped D-pad.",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "connecting and to provide notifications. The left and right \"\"shoulders\"\" each feature a digital shoulder button, or \"\"bumper\"\", and an analog trigger. Wired controllers are only available in white and black (Xbox 360 S color scheme). However, wireless controllers are available in numerous different colors including: The Xbox 360 controller has a guide button in the center of its face that provides a new functionality. This button is surrounded by a ring of lights divided into four quadrants that provide gamers with different types of information during game play. For instance, during a split screen multiplayer match, a particular quadrant",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "Xbox 360 controller The Xbox 360 controller is the primary controller for the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console that was introduced at E3 2005. The Xbox 360 controller comes in both wired and wireless versions. Original Xbox controllers are not compatible with the Xbox 360. The wired and wireless versions are also compatible with Microsoft PC operating systems, such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. The wireless controllers run on either AA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack. The wired controllers may be connected to any of the USB ports on the console,",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "The control pad was released in North America exclusively with Play & Charge Kits on November 9, 2010 and was released in Europe during February 2011. The Xbox 360 controller provides a standard USB Human interface device software interface, but is designed for the Microsoft XInput interface library. Although many PC video games support the XInput library, some games might not work with this controller. A standard Xbox 360 controller features eleven* digital buttons, two analog triggers, two analog sticks, and a digital D-pad. The right face of the controller features four digital action buttons: a green button, red button,",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.06,
"text": "games is based on the Gibson Explorer, a type of electric guitar. It is also the only guitar controller officially supported by Aspyr Media (developer of the PC and Macintosh releases). The guitar controller plugs into the Xbox 360 via the USB ports. The PC and Macintosh releases have the same software limitation of two local players at a time. The guitar's cord uses the break away cord connection, like controllers of the original Xbox console. The controller includes two input connections: The insides of the guitar show a few interesting things: When the controller is connected to a Windows",
"title": "RedOctane X-Plorer Controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "above. The only cable is the USB cable used to attach the Xbox controller to the console. The PS3 controller is wireless and uses a small USB transceiver to connect to the console. The Gyroxus comes with a controller for either Xbox 360 or PS3. Both of the controllers have an on/off switch and a switch that changes between the left thumbstick or the Gyroxus. On a standard controller, the left and right thumbsticks are spring-loaded so that they return to a \"\"hard center\"\" position; the console registers this hard center position when it is first turned on. Since the",
"title": "Gyroxus"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "as \"\"Crossfire Wireless Gaming Receiver\"\" in the UK) allows wireless Xbox 360 accessories, such as wireless gamepads, racing wheels and headsets, to be used on a Windows-based PC. The device acts in a similar manner to an Xbox 360, allowing up to 4 controllers and 4 headsets at a time to be connected to the receiver. The device has a 30-foot (10 meter) range and a six-foot (2 meter) USB cable. It is specifically designed to work with games bearing the \"\"Games for Windows\"\" logo, but will function with most games that permit a standard PC gamepad. The official Xbox",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "website noted that the adapter will work with \"\"all future wireless devices\"\". The Messenger Kit consists of a wired Xbox 360 headset and a small keyboard known as the \"\"Chatpad\"\". The Chatpad connects to the front of the controller and may be used for any standard text input on the console. It is not currently compatible with the wireless gaming receiver. The United States Navy has announced that it plans to use Xbox 360 controllers to control periscopes on new \"\"Virginia\"\"-class submarines, for both cost and familiarity reasons. The Xbox 360 controller received positive reviews when it was released. Before",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.41,
"text": "USB (wired versions of Xbox 360 controllers were marketed by Microsoft as PC gamepads, while the Xbox One controller can be connected to a PC via its Micro USB slot). Gamepad A gamepad, joypad, or simply controller is a type of game controller held in two hands, where the fingers (especially thumbs) are used to provide input. They are typically the main input device for video game consoles. Gamepads generally feature a set of buttons handled with the right thumb and a direction controller handled with the left. The direction controller has traditionally been a four-way digital cross (also named",
"title": "Gamepad"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "Unlike the Xbox 360 controller, the Xbox One controller features a white backlit Xbox logo on its guide button and does not feature the \"\"ring of light\"\" that served as an indicator for the controller's assigned number (1 to 4). The left and right \"\"shoulders\"\" each feature a digital shoulder button, or \"\"bumper\"\", and an analog trigger. On June 9, 2015, Microsoft unveiled a revised version of the standard controller. Its shoulder buttons were redesigned for improved responsiveness, a 3.5 mm headphone jack was added near the controller's expansion port, and support for wireless firmware updates was added. A third",
"title": "Xbox One controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.33,
"text": "The right face of the controller features four digital actions buttons; a green \"\"A\"\" button, red \"\"B\"\" button, blue \"\"X\"\" button, and yellow \"\"Y\"\" button. The lower right houses the right analog stick, in lower left is a digital D-pad and on the left face is the left analog stick. Both analog sticks can also be \"\"clicked in\"\" to activate a digital button beneath. In the center of the controller face are digital \"\"View\"\", \"\"Menu\"\" and \"\"Guide\"\" buttons. The \"\"Guide\"\" button is labelled with the Xbox logo, and is used to turn on the console/controller and to access the Dashboard.",
"title": "Xbox One controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "directional pad, two analog triggers, a Back button, a Start button, two accessory slots and six 8-bit analog action buttons (A/Green, B/Red, X/Blue, Y/Yellow, and Black and White buttons). The standard Xbox controller (originally nicknamed the \"\"Fatty\"\" and later the \"\"Duke\"\") was originally the controller bundled with Xbox systems for all territories except Japan. Released in 2005, the Xbox 360 controller for the Xbox 360 succeeded its predecessor. A standard Xbox 360 controller features eleven digital buttons, two analog triggers, two analog sticks and a digital D-pad. The right face of the controller features four digital actions buttons; a green",
"title": "Xbox"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "controllers, the wireless networking adapter, the Xbox Live Vision camera and USB storage devices. Although the number of wired controllers is limited by the number of ports, up to four may be used through the use of a USB hub. The Xbox 360 also features wireless connectivity of accessories via a proprietary 2.4 GHz radio system. This is mainly used to connect the official wireless controllers, but is also used for other devices such as the wireless racing wheel and wireless headsets. With the exception of some rhythm game controllers, and the Fanatec CSR wheel, this wireless connectivity is limited",
"title": "Xbox 360 technical specifications"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "two directional buttons at once. History: The Evil D-Pad was originally conceived as a solution for accessible gaming. By repositioning the A,B,X and Y buttons on the Xbox 360 controller from the right side of the controller to the left side, where the original Xbox Controller D-Pad rests, Evil Controllers could design controllers for use with only one hand. A major step for allowing accessible controllers to be easily available for one handed gamers. These controllers are currently available at Evil Controllers today. The Adroit is an accessible controller requiring external 3.5 mm switches to operate. The Adroit allows gamers",
"title": "Evil Controllers"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.97,
"text": "Xbox One controller Xbox One Wireless Controller is the primary controller for the Microsoft Xbox One console. The controller maintains the overall layout found in the Xbox 360 controller, but with various tweaks to its design, such as a revised shape, redesigned analog sticks, shoulder buttons, and triggers, along with new rumble motors within the triggers to allow for directional haptic feedback. It has had three revisions with several changes to the controller's design and functionality. Microsoft also markets the Elite Wireless Controller, a premium version geared towards professional gamers, including interchangeable parts and programmability features. In turn, each of",
"title": "Xbox One controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.94,
"text": "video game controller ever by IGN editor Craig Harris. The \"\"Controller S\"\" (codenamed \"\"Akebono\"\"), a smaller, lighter Xbox controller, was originally the standard Xbox controller only in Japan, designed for users with smaller hands. The \"\"Controller S\"\" was later released in other territories by popular demand and by 2002 replaced the standard controller in the Xbox's retail package, with the larger original controller remaining available as an accessory. The Xbox runs a custom operating system which is based on the Windows architecture kernel. It exposes APIs similar to APIs found in Microsoft Windows, such as Direct3D 8.1. The system software",
"title": "Xbox (console)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.92,
"text": "will light up to indicate to a player which part of the screen he or she is playing on at that time. In this case, when the user pushes the button, he or she accesses the Xbox guide; a menu which provides access to features like messaging friends, downloading content, voice chat and customizing soundtracks, while staying in the game. The Guide button also allows users to turn off the controller or the console by holding the button for a few seconds (rather than simply pressing it). The Rechargeable Battery Pack is a nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery pack, which",
"title": "Xbox 360 controller"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.91,
"text": "controller number, as well as flashing when connecting and to provide notifications. The left and right \"\"shoulders\"\" each feature a digital shoulder button, or \"\"bumper\"\", and an analog trigger. Kinect (stylized as KINECT) is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360's",
"title": "Xbox"
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which act lead to the disintegration of the whig party? | [
"Kansas–Nebraska Act"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "as the root cause of Liberal Party disintegration. This unorthodoxy combined with heavy defeats on other Commons bills in the House of Lords which began to hemorrhage more Whigs led to electoral landslide victories for the Conservative party in 1886 and 1895 to break the deadlock. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, a concept in",
"title": "Redistribution of Seats Act 1885"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "the Consolidation Act largely as a favor to his friend Erastus Corning, one of the financial backers of the project, though Corning was a Democrat and opposed to Weed politically. In 1852, the leading Whig candidates for president were incumbent Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and General Winfield Scott. Fillmore, a former Weed protegé, rejected Weed's influence, so Weed refused to support him for election to a full term. Seward, long a Fillmore rival, decided to back Scott. Weed concluded that support for the unpopular Compromise of 1850 meant the Whig Party was on the verge of disintegrating",
"title": "Thurlow Weed"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Barnburners were against the permission of slavery in new Territories or States, but were now the minority in the party. The small faction of the Free Soil Party which advocated abolition of slavery, now known as the \"\"Free Democratic Party\"\", endorsed the Whig nominees Clark and Raymnond. The Whig Party was in the process of disintegrating. The radical anti-slavery Whigs formed the Anti-Nebraska Party, the moderate anti-slavery wing became the Republican Party in other States, but still retained the Whig label in New York. Most of the Whigs which favored a compromise, or preferred to sidestep the",
"title": "78th New York State Legislature"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.06,
"text": "and the governorship during the passage of the act and the subsequent bankruptcy, though only nine members of both houses voted against the bill. After the scope of the financial disaster became apparent to the state, the Whig party gradually began to collapse in the state, leading to a period of Democratic control of the General Assembly that lasted until the middle of the American Civil War. Despite the dire immediate effects on the state's finances, the project ultimately fed a 400% increase in state land values, and provided numerous other direct and indirect benefits to Indiana. The Wabash and",
"title": "Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.95,
"text": "United States House of Representatives, but failed to win the support of Democratic representatives Long John Wentworth and William Henry Bissell, as well as all Whigs. The act was passed on May 30, 1854, sparking a political upheaval. The Whig party dissolved and anti-slavery Democrats, including Bissell and Wentworth, abandoned their party; they united in a \"\"de facto\"\" Anti-Nebraska party, known as the Opposition Party. After its ratification, Douglas spoke in the state capital of Springfield during the Illinois State Fair on behalf of the act. During the fair, prominent abolitionist Owen Lovejoy attempted to organize a convention against slavery,",
"title": "Bloomington Convention"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.31,
"text": "Act led to his departure from the Democratic Party. In 1855, Houston began to be publicly associated with the American Party, the political wing of the nativist and unionist Know Nothing movement. The Whig Party had collapsed after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and the Know Nothings and the anti-slavery Republican Party had both emerged as major political movements. Houston's affiliation with the party stemmed in part from his fear of the growing influence of Catholic voters; though he opposed barring Catholics from holding office, he wanted to extend the naturalization period for immigrants to twenty-one years. He was",
"title": "Sam Houston"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.69,
"text": "seeking to organize a new political party devoted to anti-slavery-extension principles, while others did not intend to repudiate their existing political affiliations, but merely wished to ally with those of diverse political views on the single issue of opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Simultaneously, the Whig Party was disintegrating at the national level, and there was competition between those who wished to take advantage of this situation to organize a major new party based on anti-slavery-extension principles, and those who wished to organize a new party based on anti-immigration and anti-Catholicism. At first in many areas the \"\"American Party\"\" or Know-Nothings",
"title": "Anti-Nebraska movement"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.42,
"text": "Democratic Party. The collapse of the Whig Party after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act left an opening for the emergence of a new major party in opposition to the Democrats. The Know Nothings elected congressman Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts and several other individuals in the 1854 elections and created a new party organization known as the American Party. Particularly in the South, the American Party served as a vehicle for politicians opposed to the Democratic Party. Many also hoped that it would seek a middle ground between the pro-slavery positions of many Democratic politicians and the anti-slavery positions",
"title": "Know Nothing"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.23,
"text": "to pass. With the end of the Parliamentary session came the first general election under the Triennial Act 1694, which required the Monarch to dissolve Parliament every 3 years, causing a general election. This led to the \"\"golden age\"\" of the English electorate, and allowed for the forming of two major political parties - the Whigs and Tories. At the same time, with the failure to renew the Licensing Act, a political press developed. While the Act had been in force only one official newspaper existed; the \"\"London Gazette\"\", published by the government. After its demise, a string of newspapers",
"title": "Statute of Anne"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.17,
"text": "rotten part of our Constitution\"\" (hence the term \"\"rotten borough\"\"). Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs. He instead proposed that a third member be added to each county, to countervail the borough influence. The Whigs failed to unite behind the expansion of county representation; some objected to the idea because they felt that it would give too much power to the aristocracy and gentry in rural areas. Ultimately, despite Chatham's exertions, Parliament took no action on his proposals. The cause of parliamentary reform was next taken up by Lord Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger",
"title": "Reform Act 1832"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.09,
"text": "of the 36°30' parallel. Douglas met privately with Dixon and in the end, despite his misgivings on Northern reaction, agreed to accept Dixon's arguments. From a political standpoint, the Whig Party had been in decline in the South because of the effectiveness with which it had been hammered by the Democratic Party over slavery. The Southern Whigs hoped that by seizing the initiative on this issue, they would be identified as strong defenders of slavery. Many Northern Whigs broke with them in the Act. The party eventually died by the division over the issue. A similar amendment was offered in",
"title": "Kansas–Nebraska Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "of slavery. No one found a compromise that would keep the party united. Furthermore, the burgeoning economy made full-time careers in business or law much more attractive than politics for ambitious young Whigs; thus, the Whig Party leader in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, simply abandoned politics after 1849, instead attending to his law business. When new issues of nativism, prohibition and anti-slavery burst on the scene in the mid-1850s, few looked to the quickly disintegrating Whig Party for answers. In the North, most ex Whigs joined the new Republican Party and in the South, they flocked to a new short-lived American",
"title": "Whig Party (United States)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "in the House of Commons. This motion was carried, against the government's wishes, by 8 votes. Thereafter, the ministry lost a vote on a procedural motion by 22 votes. As these divisions indicated that Parliament was against the Reform Bill, the ministry decided to request a dissolution and take its appeal to the people. The political and popular pressure for reform had grown so great that pro-reform Whigs won an overwhelming House of Commons majority in the general election of 1831. The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten",
"title": "Reform Act 1832"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "the Democratic efforts to expand slavery into western territories, particularly Kansas, led to organized political opposition, which coalesced in Congress as the \"\"Opposition Party.\"\" As the Whig Party disintegrated, many local and regional parties grew up, some ideological, some geographic. When they realized their numbers in Congress, they began to caucus in the same way US political parties had arisen before the Jacksonian national party conventions. Scholars such as Kenneth C. Martis have adopted a convention to explain the Congressional coordination of anti-Pierce and anti-Buchanan factions as the \"\"Opposition Party\"\". In the Congressional election of 1854 for the 34th United",
"title": "Opposition Party (Northern U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.92,
"text": "accession of William III a new Act was passed that prohibited the importation of French goods. The Whigs passed the Trade with France Act 1704 that renewed protectionism against France. However, in 1710 Queen Anne appointed the mostly-Tory Harley Ministry, which favoured free trade. When the Tory Lord Bolingbroke proposed a commercial treaty with France in 1713 that would lead to freer trade the Whigs were vehemently against it and it had to be abandoned. In 1786, Pitt's government negotiated the Eden Agreement, a commercial treaty with France which led to freer trade between the two countries. All of the",
"title": "Whigs (British political party)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.88,
"text": "it. In this move, Stephens broke irrevocably with many of his former Whig colleagues. When the Whig Party disintegrated after the election of 1852, some Whigs flocked to the short-lived Know-Nothing Party, but Stephens fiercely opposed the Know-Nothings both for their secrecy and their anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic position. Despite his late arrival in the Democratic Party, Stephens quickly rose through the ranks. He even served as President James Buchanan's floor manager in the House during the fruitless battle for the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas Territory in 1857. He was instrumental in framing the failed English Bill after it became clear",
"title": "Alexander H. Stephens"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.84,
"text": "only able to conduct successful campaigns as long as the slavery issue was ignored. By the mid-1850s, the question of slavery dominated the political landscape, and the Whigs, unable to agree on an approach to the issue, began to disintegrate. A few Whigs lingered, claiming that, with the alternatives being a pro-Northern Republican party and a pro-Southern Democratic party, they were the only political party that could preserve the Union. In 1856, the remaining Whigs endorsed the Know-Nothing campaign of Millard Fillmore and in 1860 they endorsed the Constitutional Union ticket of John Bell, but, with the outbreak of the",
"title": "Second Party System"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.84,
"text": "the four-way Whig campaign at the previous election. After the negative views of Freemasonry among a large segment of the public began to wane in the mid 1830s, the Anti-Masonic Party had begun to disintegrate. Its leaders began to move one by one to the Whig party. Party leaders met in September 1837 in Washington, D.C., and agreed to maintain the party. The third Anti-Masonic Party National Convention was held in Philadelphia on November 13-14, 1838. By this time, the party had been almost entirely supplanted by the Whigs. The delegates unanimously voted to nominate William Henry Harrison for president",
"title": "United States presidential election, 1840"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "their support for Jacobitism and local Tory parliamentary candidates) led to the Whig government strengthening their power by passing the Riot Act, suspending \"\"habeas corpus\"\" and increasing the army (including by importing 6,000 Dutch troops). Louis XIV had promised them arms but no troops, as France was exhausted by war, despite Bolingbroke's claim that just one-tenth of the number of troops William of Orange brought with him in 1688 would have sufficed. However, this promise of arms disappeared when Louis died in September 1715. The conspirators intended to abandon the rising they had planned for the West Country, but the",
"title": "Tories (British political party)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.77,
"text": "was secured in the Catholic Relief Act 1829, which removed the most substantial restrictions on Roman Catholics in Britain. The Whigs also passed the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 that reformed the administration of relief to the poor. It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill. This view led to serious distortions in later portrayals of 17th-century and 18th-century",
"title": "Whigs (British political party)"
}
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what other kingdom claimed ownership of the northern islands of scotland? | [
"Pictish"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "in succeeding centuries to refer to individuals of mixed Scandinavian–Celtic descent and/or culture who became dominant in southwest Scotland, parts of northern England and the isles. According to the ', in about 872 Harald Fairhair became king of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland including the Hebrides of the west coast, and the Northern Isles. Harald pursued his enemies and incorporated the Northern Isles into his kingdom in 875 and then, perhaps a little over a decade later, the Hebrides as well. The following year the local Viking chieftains of the Hebrides",
"title": "Kingdom of the Isles"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "in 877 and was certainly held by them by 900. The Northern Isles were \"\"Pictish in culture and speech\"\" prior to the Norse incursions, and although it is recorded that Orkney was \"\"destroyed\"\" by King Bridei in 682 it is not likely that the Pictish kings exerted a significant degree of ongoing control over island affairs. According to the \"\"Orkneyinga Saga\"\", about 872 Harald Fairhair became King of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland. Harald pursued his enemies and incorporated the Northern Isles into his kingdom in 875 and then, perhaps a",
"title": "Scandinavian Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "the trauma caused by Viking invasions, most strenuously felt in the Pictish kingdom's heartland of Fortriu. The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The islands were known to the Norse as the \"\"Suðreyjar\"\", or \"\"Southern Isles\"\" as distinct from the \"\"Norðreyjar\"\" or \"\"Northern Isles\"\" of Orkney and Shetland, which were held by the Earls of Orkney as vassals of the Norwegian crown throughout the High Middle Ages. After Ragnall ua Ímair, Amlaíb Cuarán, who fought at the Battle of",
"title": "Scotland in the High Middle Ages"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "Scottish vassal as a Norwegian one. Descendants of the Gaelic Mormaers of Angus ruled Orkney for much of the 13th century. In the early 14th century, another Scottish Gaelic noble, Maol Íosa V of Strathearn became Earl of Orkney, although formal Scottish sovereignty over the Northern Isles did not come for more than another century. The conquest of the west, the creation of the Mormaerdom of Carrick in 1186 and the absorption of the Lordship of Galloway after the Galwegian revolt of 1135 meant that the number and proportion of Gaelic speakers under the rule of the Scottish king actually",
"title": "Kingdom of Alba"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "absorbed into the Kingdom of Scotland in the 15th century and remained part of the country following the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, and later the United Kingdom after 1801. The islands played a significant naval role during the world wars of the 20th century. Tourism is important to both archipelagos, with their distinctive prehistoric ruins playing a key part in their attraction, and there are regular ferry and air connections with mainland Scotland. The Scandinavian influence remains strong, especially in relation to local folklore, and both island chains have strong, although distinct, local cultures. The",
"title": "Northern Isles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "is to the east. The island of Ireland lies only from the south-western peninsula of Kintyre; Norway is to the east and the Faroe Islands, to the north. The territorial extent of Scotland is generally that established by the 1237 Treaty of York between Scotland and the Kingdom of England and the 1266 Treaty of Perth between Scotland and Norway. Important exceptions include the Isle of Man, which having been lost to England in the 14th century is now a crown dependency outside of the United Kingdom; the island groups Orkney and Shetland, which were acquired from Norway in 1472;",
"title": "Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.78,
"text": "in 1164 during an invasion of the Scottish mainland. At this point Godred the Black, grandson of Godred Crovan re-took possession of the northern Hebrides and the southern isles were distributed amongst Somerled's sons, his descendant's eventually becoming known as the Lords of the Isles, and giving rise to Clan MacDougall, Clan Donald and Clan Macruari. However, both during and after Somerled's life the Scottish monarchs sought to take a control of the islands he and his descendants held. This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonarson, King of Norway. After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs,",
"title": "Inner Hebrides"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "of Alba, whilst the Kings of Mann and the North Isles were vassals of the Kings of Norway. However, both during and after Somerled's life the Scottish monarchs sought to take control of the islands he and his descendants held. Diplomacy having failed to achieve much, in 1249 Alexander II took personal command of a large fleet that sailed from the Firth of Clyde and anchored off the island of Kerrera. Alexander became ill and died there, but the action was continued by his successor Alexander III. This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonarson, King of Norway.",
"title": "Kingdom of the Isles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.61,
"text": "union. In 1707, the two kingdoms were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the terms of the Acts of Union. Following the annexation of the Northern Isles from the Kingdom of Norway in 1472 and final capture of the Royal Burgh of Berwick by the Kingdom of England in 1482, the territory of the Kingdom of Scotland corresponded to that of modern-day Scotland, bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. The Crown was the most important element of",
"title": "Kingdom of Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.52,
"text": "some of the later rulers claimed that title. At times the rulers were independent of external control, although for much of the period they had overlords in Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland or Orkney. At times there also appear to have been competing claims for all or parts of the territory. The islands involved have a total land area of over and extend for more than from north to south. Viking influence in the area commenced in the late 8th century, and whilst there is no doubt that the dynasty played a prominent role in this early period, the records for",
"title": "Kingdom of the Isles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.48,
"text": "Scotland. Furthermore, two records in the \"\"Annals of Innisfallen\"\" hint that the Western Isles may not have been \"\"organised into a kingdom or earldom\"\" at this time but rather that they were \"\"ruled by assemblies of freeholders who regularly elected lawmen to preside over their public affairs\"\". At this point the ' once again becomes the main source of information about the north. In 990 Sigurd the Stout, Earl of Orkney took control of the Hebrides, and placed a ' called in charge. By 1004 the isles' independence had been re-asserted under 's son , who died in that year.",
"title": "Kingdom of the Isles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.48,
"text": "rule instead, describing him as a vigorous and hardier man. The chronicle states that Rögnvaldr began his reign the following year, in 1188. The \"\"Chronicle of Mann\"\" states that Rögnvaldr gave Óláfr possession of Lewis, which is described as an island; Lewis is in fact the northern part of the island of Lewis and Harris, which is by far the largest island in Scotland. The northern part of the island is rather flat and boggy, while the southern part, Harris, is more mountainous. The chronicle seems, however, to have conflated the northern and southern parts as it describes Óláfr's island",
"title": "Olaf the Black"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.45,
"text": "Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain, with a border with England to the south, and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the east, the Irish Sea to the south-west, and more than 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707. By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became",
"title": "Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.45,
"text": "the fate of the existing indigenous population being uncertain. According to the \"\"Orkneyinga Saga\"\", Vikings then made the islands the headquarters of pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland. In response, Norwegian king Harald Hårfagre (\"\"Harald Fair Hair\"\") annexed the Northern Isles in 875 and Rognvald Eysteinsson received Orkney and Shetland from Harald as an earldom as reparation for the death of his son in battle in Scotland. (Some scholars believe that this story is apocryphal and based on the later voyages of Magnus Barelegs.) The islands were fully Christianised by Olav Tryggvasson in 995",
"title": "Northern Isles"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.44,
"text": "Kingdom of Scotland The Kingdom of Scotland (; ) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. It suffered many invasions by the English, but under Robert I it fought a successful war of independence and remained an independent state throughout the late Middle Ages. In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal",
"title": "Kingdom of Scotland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.44,
"text": "Kingdom of the Isles The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The islands were known to the Norse as the ', or \"\"Southern Isles\"\" as distinct from the ' or Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland. In Scottish Gaelic, the kingdom is known as '. The historical record is incomplete, and the kingdom was not a continuous entity throughout the entire period. The islands concerned are sometimes referred to as the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, although only",
"title": "Kingdom of the Isles"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.44,
"text": "III of Scotland. As the money was never paid, the connection with the Crown of Scotland became permanent. In 1470, William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness ceded his title to James III, and the following year the Northern Isles were directly annexed to the Crown of Scotland, an action confirmed by the Parliament of Scotland in 1472. Nonetheless, Shetland's connection with Norway has proved to be enduring. From the early 15th century on the Shetlanders sold their goods through the Hanseatic League of German merchantmen. The Hansa would buy shiploads of salted fish, wool and butter, and import salt, cloth,",
"title": "Shetland"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "at this time although the extent to which he ruled territory in western and northern Scotland including the Hebrides and Northern Isles is unknown as contemporary sources are silent on this matter. Dumbarton, the capital of the Kingdom of Strathclyde had been sacked by the Uí Ímair in 870. This was clearly a major assault, which may have brought the whole of mainland Scotland under temporary Uí Imair control. The south-east had been absorbed by the English Kingdom of Bernicia/Northumbria in the seventh century. Galloway in the south west was a Lordship with some regality. In a Galwegian charter dated",
"title": "Scotland in the High Middle Ages"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "a trading centre, while Orkney, the Hebrides and Man had more natural ties with the Scottish mainland. Although traditionally having had ties with the community of Norse settlers in northern Scotland, Scottish rulers had increasingly asserted their sovereignty over the entire mainland. Haakon had at the same time gained stronger control of the Hebrides and Man than any Norwegian ruler since Magnus Barefoot. As part of a new development the Scottish king Alexander II claimed the Hebrides and requested to buy the islands from Norway, but Haakon staunchly rejected the proposals. Following Alexander II's death, his son Alexander III continued",
"title": "Haakon IV of Norway"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "land are in the ownership of the Scottish Indian business tycoon Bobby Sandhu, purchased for £85,000 from the Northern Lighthouse Board. A five-star hotel was to be built; however, planning regulations prevented this development. The only surviving buildings on the island are the lighthouse on its east coast facing the Scottish mainland, a ruined towerhouse, that was built by Clan Hamilton to protect the area from Philip II of Spain in the 16th century and the old quarry manager's house that is used by the RSPB. Mrs Margaret Girvan ran a tearoom in a wooden building that stood next to",
"title": "Ailsa Craig"
}
] |
when did the name of canada begin appearing on maps? | [
"the mid 1500s"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "de Canada\"\" during his second voyage in 1535. By the mid 1500s, European books and maps began referring to this region as Canada. \"\"Canada\"\" became the name of a colony in New France that stretched along the St. Lawrence River. The terms \"\"Canada\"\" and \"\"New France\"\" were often used interchangeably during the colonial period. After the British conquest of New France (including ceding of the French colony, Canada) in 1763, the colony was renamed the Province of Quebec. Following the American revolution and the influx of United Empire Loyalists into Quebec, the colony was split on 26 December 1791 into",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "France's claim and activities in the colony of Canada, the name \"\"Canada\"\" was found on international maps showing the existence of this colony within the St. Lawrence river region. In 1604, a North American fur trade monopoly was granted to Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Mons. The fur trade became one of the main economic ventures in North America. Du Gua led his first colonization expedition to an island located near the mouth of the St. Croix River. Among his lieutenants was a geographer named Samuel de Champlain, who promptly carried out a major exploration of the northeastern coastline of",
"title": "History of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "1497 and 1498. In 1498 to 1500, the Portuguese mariner João Fernandes Lavrador visited the north Atlantic coast, accounting for the appearance of the name \"\"Labrador\"\" on topographical maps of the period. In 1501 and 1502 Miguel and Gaspar Corte-Real explored present day Newfoundland claiming the land in the name of Portuguese Empire. The extent and nature of Portuguese activity on the Canadian mainland during the 16th century remains unclear and controversial. In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of Francis I of France. In 1600, a trading post",
"title": "Former colonies and territories in Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.8,
"text": "of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word \"\"Canada\"\" to refer not only to that particular village but to the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this small region along the Saint Lawrence River as \"\"Canada\"\". From the 16th to the early 18th century \"\"Canada\"\" referred to the part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada",
"title": "Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.77,
"text": "in February 1867, and it was unanimously accepted by the other delegates. There appears to have been little discussion, though other names were suggested. While the provinces' delegates spent little time, if any, in settling on \"\"Canada\"\" as the name for the new country, others proposed a variety of other names: Walter Bagehot of \"\"The Economist\"\" newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called \"\"Northland\"\" or \"\"Anglia\"\" instead of Canada. On these names, the statesman Thomas D'Arcy McGee commented, \"\"Now I would ask any honourable member of the House how he would feel if he woke up",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "Seven Years' War. In 1775-1776 the Island of Montreal was under attack from America, Fort Senneville was destroyed in 1776. Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the American Revolutionary War. The nation of Canada formed July 1, 1867. Historical maps show boundary lines of the farmers fields using the Seigneurial system with names associated to the land. From East to West the names on the Henry Whitmer Hopkins map (year 1879) are Aerial photographs of 1947 show that the Cheval Blanc land was agricultural at that time. When the Deux-Montagnes (original name Canadian Northern Railway) railway was built through the land",
"title": "Rapides du Cheval Blanc"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.36,
"text": "Canada (New France) Canada was a French colony within New France first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier. The word \"\"Canada\"\" at this point referred to the territory along the Saint Lawrence River, then known as the Canada river, from Grosse Island in the east to a point between Quebec and Three Rivers, although this territory had greatly expanded by 1600. French explorations continued \"\"unto the Countreys of Canada, Hochelaga, and Saguenay\"\" before any permanent settlements were established. Even though a permanent trading post and habitation was established",
"title": "Canada (New France)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "the appearance of \"\"Labrador\"\" on maps of the period. In 1501 and 1502 the Corte-Real brothers explored Newfoundland (Terra Nova) and Labrador claiming these lands as part of the Portuguese Empire. In 1506, King Manuel I of Portugal created taxes for the cod fisheries in Newfoundland waters. João Álvares Fagundes and Pêro de Barcelos established fishing outposts in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1521 CE; however, these were later abandoned, with the Portuguese colonizers focusing their efforts on South America. The extent and nature of Portuguese activity on the Canadian mainland during the 16th century remains unclear and controversial. French",
"title": "History of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "shores of the Great Lakes. Later the area became two British colonies, called Upper Canada and Lower Canada until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was officially adopted for the new Dominion, which was commonly referred to as the \"\"Dominion of Canada\"\" until after World War II. The name \"\"Canada\"\" is now generally accepted as originating from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word or , meaning \"\"village\"\" or \"\"settlement\"\". Related translations include \"\"land\"\" or \"\"town\"\", with subsequent terminologies meaning \"\"cluster of dwellings\"\" or \"\"collection of huts\"\". This explanation is historically",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "Canada East for representation by population, but the roles reversed as Canada West's population surpassed the east's. The single colony remained governed in this way until 1 July 1867, often with coalition governments. A new capital city was being built at Ottawa, chosen in 1857 by Queen Victoria, and became a national capital. At the conferences held in London to determine the form of confederation that would unite the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), the Province of New Brunswick and the Province of Nova Scotia, a delegate from either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick proposed the name \"\"Canada\"\"",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.14,
"text": "Nothing\"\" in Spanish) on that part of their maps. An alternative explanation favoured by philologist Marshall Elliott linked the name to the Spanish word \"\"cañada\"\", meaning \"\"glen\"\" or \"\"valley\"\". The earliest iterations of the Spanish \"\"nothing here\"\" theory stated that the explorers made the declaration upon visiting the Bay of Chaleur, while later versions left out any identifying geographic detail. The known Portuguese presence in modern Canadian territory, meanwhile, was located in Newfoundland and Labrador. Neither region is located anywhere near Iroquoian territory, and the name \"\"Canada\"\" does not appear on any Spanish or Portuguese maps of the North American",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.11,
"text": "of \"\"one Dominion under the name of Canada\"\". Nonetheless, the term \"\"Dominion of Canada\"\" appears in the Constitution Act, 1871 — usage of which was \"\"sanctioned\"\" — and both appear in other texts of the period, as well as on numerous Canadian banknotes before 1935. Until the 1950s, the term \"\"Dominion of Canada\"\" was commonly used to identify the country. As Canada acquired political authority and autonomy from the United Kingdom, the federal government began using simply \"\"Canada\"\" on state documents. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.91,
"text": "New Brunswick are, however, more likely to be descended from the settlers of the French colony of Acadia, and therefore still call themselves Acadians. Canada (New France) Canada was a French colony within New France first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier. The word \"\"Canada\"\" at this point referred to the territory along the Saint Lawrence River, then known as the Canada river, from Grosse Island in the east to a point between Quebec and Three Rivers, although this territory had greatly expanded by 1600. French explorations continued",
"title": "Canada (New France)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "Upper and Lower Canada, sometime being collectively known as \"\"The Canadas\"\", the first time that the name \"\"Canada\"\" was used officially, in the British regime. Some reports from the 1840s suggest that in that era, the word \"\"Canada\"\" was commonly pronounced \"\"Kaugh-na-daugh\"\" rather than its more contemporary pronunciation. Upper and Lower Canada were merged into one colony, the Province of Canada, in 1841, based on the recommendations of the Durham Report. The former colonies were then known as Canada East and Canada West, and a single legislature was established with equal representation from each. Underpopulated Canada West opposed demands by",
"title": "Name of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.81,
"text": "Macdonald and the other Fathers of Confederation had viewed the new nation as a kingdom, calling for the official name of the country to be the \"\"Kingdom of Canada\"\". Though it is still considered that Canada became a \"\"kingdom in her own right\"\" in 1867, it was felt by the Colonial Office in London that a name such as Kingdom of Canada was too \"\"premature\"\" and \"\"pretentious.\"\" Instead the term \"\"Dominion\"\" was adopted. In 1879, July 1 was formally established as \"\"Dominion Day\"\" to celebrate Confederation. While the BNA Act gave Canada a high degree of autonomy within the British",
"title": "Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.64,
"text": "interest in the New World began with Francis I of France, who in 1524 sponsored Giovanni da Verrazzano's navigation of the region between Florida and Newfoundland in hopes of finding a route to the Pacific Ocean. Although the English had laid claims to it in 1497 when John Cabot made landfall somewhere on the North American coast (likely either modern-day Newfoundland or Nova Scotia) and had claimed the land for England on behalf of King Henry VII, these claims were not exercised and England did not attempt to create a permanent colony. As for the French, however, Jacques Cartier planted",
"title": "History of Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.61,
"text": "began to appear. The CPR established Point Grey for development as an exclusive neighbourhood in 1908. Shaughnessy Heights was also established for the well-heeled. The founding of the University of British Columbia in 1915 represented a significant development in the cultural field. During this period, the centre of Canada quickly shifted west and south leaving St. John's, Halifax, Saint John, Quebec and Sherbrooke far from the centre but still close enough, through marine and rail connections, for them to retain residual economic and demographic weight. Until 1921 Canada was a largely rural nation. However, by that date the balance had",
"title": "History of cities in Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "redress is underway, which started with the appointment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by the Government of Canada in 2008. The first known attempt at European colonization began when Norsemen settled briefly at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland around 1000 AD. No further European exploration occurred until 1497, when Italian seafarer John Cabot explored and claimed Canada's Atlantic coast in the name of King Henry VII of England. Then Basque and Portuguese mariners established seasonal whaling and fishing outposts along the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. In 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier explored the Gulf",
"title": "Canada"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.3,
"text": "Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, Prince Edward, Simcoe, Talbot, Victoria, Wellington, and Western. In 1849, the districts of southern Ontario were abolished by the Province of Canada, and county governments took over certain municipal responsibilities. The Province of Canada also began creating \"\"districts\"\" in sparsely populated Northern Ontario with the establishment of Algoma District and Nipissing District in 1858. The borders of Ontario, its new name in 1867, were provisionally expanded north and west. When the Province of Canada was formed, its borders were not entirely clear, and Ontario claimed eventually to reach all the way to the Rocky Mountains and",
"title": "Ontario"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.27,
"text": "photographing a beautiful woman who has just awakened from a six-month coma,\"\" he wrote. In early October 2009, the first Canadian cities began to appear on Street View; several, including Saskatoon, were not included in the initial roll-out. One city that was included, Calgary, included images taken in both summer and winter. Images of Saskatoon were rolled out on December 2, 2009. In October 2010, Stoddart said that Google violated the privacy of thousands of Canadians when the cars inadvertently collected personal data about them while filming Street View in the country. Google apologized for the breach. As with other",
"title": "Google Street View in Canada"
}
] |
9 letter word for nut grown in iran? | [
"Pistachio"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.31,
"text": "flowers, three-sided ovate-oblong nut and broad red winged dull brown seeds. Stem solid, warty, leafy below, leafless above. Irano-Turanian Region or Iran-Turan Plant Geography Region element. The edible part of the plant is the stem, which is eaten raw or cooked (\"\"ekşili ışgın\"\" and \"\"ışkınlı yumurta\"\" [lit. 'eggs with wild rhubarb, Rheum ribes'] in Elâzığ, Turkey; \"\"khoresh rivas\"\" [خورش ریواس] or \"\"Persian rhubarb stew\"\" in Iran) by the local people of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. The leaves and petiole are often eaten raw as salad, sometimes sold in the local markets of Northern Balochistan. \"\"Rheum ribes\"\" is the",
"title": "Rheum ribes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.17,
"text": "the genus is the Persian walnut (\"\"J. regia\"\", literally \"\"royal walnut\"\"), native from the Balkans in southeast Europe, southwest and central Asia to the Himalaya and southwest China. Walnuts are a traditional feature of Iranian cuisine; the nation has extensive orchards which are an important feature of regional economies. In Kyrgyzstan alone, there are 230,700 ha of walnut-fruit forest, where \"\"J. regia\"\" is the dominant overstory tree (Hemery and Popov 1998). In non-European English-speaking nations, the nut of the \"\"J. regia\"\" is often called the \"\"English walnut\"\"; in Great Britain, the \"\"common walnut.\"\" The eastern black walnut (\"\"J. nigra\"\") is",
"title": "Juglans"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.16,
"text": "producer and exporter followed by USA and Turkey. After oil and carpets, pistachios are Iran's biggest exports: about 200,000 tons for $840 million in 2008. More than 350,000 people earn a living from the nut, most of them in vast groves of the desert oases in southeast. Iran's share in the global pistachio market reached 50 percent in 2010. Saffron: Saffron is cultivated in many regions of the country, the provinces of North Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan in the northeast have the highest production share. Iran's saffron is exported to the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Japan, Turkmenistan, France,",
"title": "Agriculture in Iran"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.12,
"text": "(\"\"Juglans\"\"), pecan (\"\"Carya illinoinensis\"\"), and hickory (\"\"Carya\"\"). The Persian walnut, \"\"Juglans regia\"\", is one of the major nut crops of the world. Walnut, hickory, and gaulin are also valuable timber trees. The known living genera are grouped into subfamilies, tribes, and subtribes as follows: Modern molecular phylogenetics suggest the following relationships: Some fruits are borderline and difficult to categorize. Hickory nuts (\"\"Carya\"\") and walnuts (\"\"Juglans\"\") grow within an outer husk; these fruits are sometimes considered to be drupes or drupaceous nuts, rather than true botanical nuts. \"\"Tryma\"\" is a specialized term for such nut-like drupes. The fruits of the Juglandaceae",
"title": "Juglandaceae"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.92,
"text": "exporters of dried fruits, nuts and spices from Iran. Asgaroladi is the president of Hasas Co. which is the leading exporter of nuts and pistachios from Iran since 1953. Asgaroladi increased his wealth dramatically in the 90's when there were two official exchange rates for the US dollar. Those with trade license could obtain the lower exchange rate of 1750 rials but the market value of US dollars was at 8000 rials. During this period his brother Habibollah Asgaroladi was the commerce minister responsible for handing out trade licenses to obtain the lower exchange rate. He used his connections to",
"title": "Asadollah Asgaroladi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.7,
"text": "Nougat Nougat ( , , or ; ; Azerbaijani: لوکا; Persian: ) is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates. The word \"\"nougat\"\" comes from Occitan \"\"pan nogat\"\" (), seemingly from Latin \"\"panis nucatus\"\" 'nut bread' (the late colloquial Latin adjective \"\"nucatum\"\" means 'nutted' or 'nutty'). There are three basic kinds of nougat. The first, and most common, is white nougat",
"title": "Nougat"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.67,
"text": "Pinus gerardiana Pinus gerardiana, known as the chilgoza pine (Urdu: چلغوزا پائن in Persian it means 40 nuts in one cone:چهل و غوزه), \"\"noosa\"\", or \"\"neoza\"\", is a pine native to the northwestern Himalayas in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest India, growing at elevations between 1800 and 3350 metres. It often occurs in association with Cedrus deodara and Pinus wallichiana. The trees are 10-20(-25) m tall with usually deep, wide and open crowns with long, erect branches. However, crowns are narrower and shallower in dense forests. The bark is very flaky, peeling to reveal light greyish-green patches, similar to the",
"title": "Pinus gerardiana"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.38,
"text": "found in the Balkan peninsula and much of Turkey was most likely introduced from eastern Turkey by commerce and settlement several thousand years ago. In the fourth century BC, Alexander the Great introduced this \"\"Persian nut\"\" (Theophrastus' καρυα ή Περσική) in Macedonian and Greek ancestral forms with lateral fruiting from Iran and Central Asia. They hybridized with terminal-bearing forms to give lateral-bearing trees with larger fruit. These lateral-bearers were spread in southern Europe and northern Africa by Romans. Recent prospections in walnut populations of the Mediterrean Basin allowed to select interesting trees of this type. In the Middle Ages, the",
"title": "Juglans regia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.33,
"text": "of commercial hazelnuts are propagated from root sprouts. Some cultivars are of hybrid origin between common hazel and filbert. Common hazel is cultivated for its nuts in commercial orchards in Europe, Turkey, Iran and Caucasus. The name \"\"hazelnut\"\" applies to the nuts of any of the species of the genus \"\"Corylus\"\". This hazelnut or cobnut, the kernel of the seed, is edible and used raw or roasted, or ground into a paste. The seed has a thin, dark brown skin which has a bitter flavour and is sometimes removed before cooking. The top producer of hazelnuts, by a large margin,",
"title": "Corylus avellana"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.33,
"text": "Areca is a Malayan language word which means \"\"cluster of nuts\"\". It is generally believed to be native to Malaysia or Philippines where it is grown in many varieties. It is a tropical crop which grows from West Indies to the East Coast of Africa, and in Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka and Malaya. The practice of chewing the areca nuts is attributed to Vietnam and Malaysia. It was from Southeast Asia that the crop spread to Asia and India where it is cultivated as a cash crop. It is conjectured that ancient Indian literature provide information on betel nut and",
"title": "Areca nut production in India"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.28,
"text": "Fruit and Nut (film) Fruit and Nut is a 2009 Bollywood comedy film directed by well-known comedian Kunal Vijaykar and starring Boman Irani, Cyrus Broacha, Dia Mirza and Mahesh Manjrekar in pivotal roles. The film was produced and distributed by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, and was released on 23 October 2009. Monica Gokhale (Dia Mirza) works for Bombay Heritage Society under Khandar Zala (Mahesh Manjrekar). Her plans of revamping the city's old buildings go against Maharaja Harry Holkar (Boman Irani). To stop Gokhale, Holkar has her kidnapped. However, she is rescued by Jolly Maker (Cyrus Broacha), an innocent and not",
"title": "Fruit and Nut (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.27,
"text": "the point that its name guarantees a healthy product for the consumers. It started only with one taste and today it provides more than 15 tastes in Chips product as well as snacks, and dried nuts in Iran and even at International level. The Kishchips (1990) and Felix (2011) are companies that sell their products by this brand. Maz Maz has grown into a leading manufacturer of high quality potato chips, processed nuts and snacks, and today it provides many kind of tastes in chips product as well as snacks and dried nuts in Iran, and also at an international",
"title": "Maz Maz"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.23,
"text": "(North of Iran) and Thailand (where their name means \"\"open-mouth nut\"\"). In some Arab countries, the fava bean is used for a breakfast dish called \"\"ful medames\"\". Fava beans are common in Latin American cuisines, as well. In central Mexico, mashed fava beans are a common filling for many corn flour-based \"\"antojito\"\" snacks such as \"\"tlacoyos\"\". In Colombia, they are most often used whole in vegetable soups. Dried and salted fava beans are a popular snack in many Latin countries. Broad beans are widely cultivated in the Kech and Panjgur districts of Balochistan Province in Pakistan, and in the eastern",
"title": "Vicia faba"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.19,
"text": "46% of the world total (table). Other major producers were the United States and Iran (table). The two most commercially important species are \"\"J. regia\"\" for timber and nuts, and \"\"J. nigra\"\" for timber. Both species have similar cultivation requirements and are widely grown in temperate zones. Walnuts are light-demanding species that benefit from protection from wind. Walnuts are also very hardy against drought. Interplanting walnut plantations with a nitrogen fixing plant, such as \"\"Elaeagnus × ebbingei\"\" or \"\"Elaeagnus umbellata\"\", and various \"\"Alnus\"\" species, results in a 30% increase in tree height and girth (Hemery 2001). When grown for nuts,",
"title": "Juglans"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.09,
"text": "in a hectare of land, 146 ton for apples and 70 tons for oranges. In 2010 Iran exported $2 billion worth of fruit to neighboring countries and the European Union, 46 percent more than the previous year. In the second half of 2010 the import of agricultural goods in Iran increased 30 percent in weight and 14 percent in value which shows the country’s good progress in the field of agricultural goods production. Since 1963 Iran is one of the leading producers and exporters of dried fruit and nuts such as all kinds of pistachios, Sultana raisins, golden raisins, sun-dried",
"title": "Fruit production in Iran"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.05,
"text": "peanuts,\"\" although the mix may contain M&M's and other nuts rather than oats and granola. The \"\"Oxford English Dictionary\"\" cites a 1913 reference to the verb \"\"gorp\"\", meaning \"\"to eat greedily.\"\" In Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and several other European countries, trail mix is called \"\"student fodder\"\", \"\"student oats\"\", or \"\"student mix\"\" in the local languages. In Iran mixed nuts is called \"\"ajil\"\", eaten at festivals like Yalda night or just a social \"\"mehmooni\"\". Common ingredients may include: Trail mix Trail mix is a type of snack mix, specifically a combination of granola, dried fruit, nuts, and sometimes",
"title": "Trail mix"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 16.94,
"text": "exports include fresh and dried fruits, nuts, animal hides, processed foods, caviar and spices. Pistachio, raisins, dates and saffron are the first four export products, from the viewpoint of value. Close to 8 million tons of agricultural products are exported annually (2008). But according to the Central Bank of Iran, only 3.2 million tons of \"\"agricultural products\"\" were exported in 2008 with a total value of $3.2 billion \"\"which showed a 6.1 percent increase over the previous year\"\". Agricultural and food stuff exports in years 2012-13 ending 21 March stood at $5.2 billion. During years 2013-14 ending 21 March agricultural",
"title": "Agriculture in Iran"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.67,
"text": "which (by way of the French) we have the English word \"\"peach.\"\" As did Tulips, which were also first cultivated in ancient Persia and spinach, the word Spinach itself derived from the Persian word اسفناج Esfenaj. The Chinese referred to it in 647CE as 'the herb of Persia'. In 400BCE, a form of ice cream was in use in Persia, and the ancestor of the cookie is said to have come from Persia (from the Persian koolucheh) in the 7th century according to many sources. Fifth century BCE Persia was even the source for introduction of the domesticated chicken into",
"title": "Agriculture in Iran"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.66,
"text": "unfruitful watch, you feel completely let down.\"\" Kaveri Bamzai of India Today Group gave the film 1 star out of 5, and said, \"\"Unfortunately, the writers seem to have exhausted themselves thinking of the funny names and the interesting premise. There is nothing beyond it, except for two senseless item songs, one each for Irani and Mirza to stretch their legs.\"\" Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, and stated, \"\"Despite juvenile jokes like peeing on open electric wires, Fruit & Nut is mercifully not the sort of vulgar comedy we’ve got used to seeing",
"title": "Fruit and Nut (film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 16.66,
"text": "Siberian dwarf pine (\"\"Pinus pumila\"\"), Chinese white pine (\"\"Pinus armandii\"\") and lacebark pine (\"\"Pinus bungeana\"\"), are also used to a lesser extent. Russia is the largest producer of \"\"Pinus sibirica\"\" nuts in the world followed by Mongolia which produces over 10,000 tonnes of forest grown nuts annually, the majority of harvest is exported to China. Afghanistan is an important source of pine nuts, behind China and Korea. Pine nuts produced in Europe mostly come from the stone pine (\"\"Pinus pinea\"\"), which has been cultivated for its nuts for over 5,000 years, and harvested from wild trees for far longer. The",
"title": "Pine nut"
}
] |
what central american country was a british colony until 1981? | [
"Guatemala"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "Belize) in Central America in 1981, the last major colony that remained was Hong Kong, with a population of over 5 million. With 1997 approaching, the United Kingdom and China negotiated the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which led to the whole of Hong Kong becoming a \"\"special administrative region\"\" of China in 1997, subject to various conditions intended to guarantee the preservation of Hong Kong's capitalist economy and its way of life under British rule for at least 50 years after the handover. George Town in the Cayman Islands has consequently become the largest city in the Overseas Territories. In 2002,",
"title": "British Overseas Territories"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1862 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. The colony grew out of the Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, which gave the British rights to cut logwood between the Hondo and Belize rivers. The Convention of London (1786) expanded this concession to include the area between the Belize and",
"title": "British Honduras"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "was also an agreement for a cart road to be built from Guatemala City through British Honduras to the Caribbean Sea. Since the cart road was never built, Guatemala declared the treaty null and void. British Honduras, as the British called it, and Belize as the Spaniards and Guatemalans said, gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981 and adopted the name \"\"Belize\"\". Guatemala still disputes the Belizean territory. From the 16th century through 1821, Central America formed the [Captaincy General of Guatemala], sometimes known also as the Kingdom of Guatemala, composed by a part of the state of [Chiapas]",
"title": "History of Central America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "in 1946 to just under 60,000. However, by 1970 the population doubled to just under 120,000. On the eve of independence in 1980, the population stood at over 145,000. British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1862 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. The colony grew out of the Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, which",
"title": "British Honduras"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.64,
"text": "British America British America comprised the British Empire's colonial territories in North America, Bermuda, Central America, the Caribbean, and Guyana from 1607 to 1783. The American colonies were formally known as British America and the British West Indies before 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and formed the United States of America. After that, the term British North America was used to describe the remainder of Britain's continental North American possessions. That term was first used informally in 1783 by the end of the American Revolution, but it was uncommon before the",
"title": "British America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.31,
"text": "Kitts & Nevis (1983). In addition British Honduras in Central America became independent as Belize (1981), British Guiana in South America became independent as Guyana (1966), and Dutch Guiana also in South America became independent as Suriname (1975). It should be noted that as of the early 21st century, not all Caribbean islands have become independent. Several islands continue to have government ties with European countries, or with the United States. French overseas departments and territories include several Caribbean islands. Guadeloupe and Martinique are French overseas regions, a legal status that they have had since 1946. Their citizens are considered",
"title": "History of the Caribbean"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.72,
"text": "to regain control over British Honduras, the British continued to inhabit the country and and eventually colonized it. When Guatemala gained its independence, they assumed inheritance of British Honduras from Spain. British Honduras had been a British settlement, not a colony (the treaty between Spain and The United Kingdom prohibited British colonies in the territory) for several years. After many years of controversy, a treaty was signed between Guatemala and the United Kingdom in which the Guatemalan President of the time recognized the original territory (granted by the kingdom of Spain to the British Crown) of Belize. Within this treaty,",
"title": "History of Central America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.64,
"text": "and named it British Honduras. It became independent as Belize in 1981. Panama, situated in the southernmost part of Central America on the Isthmus of Panama, has for most of its history been culturally linked to South America. Panama was part of the Province of Tierra Firme from 1510 until 1538 when it came under the jurisdiction of the newly formed \"\"Audiencia Real de Panama\"\". Beginning in 1543, Panama was administered as part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, along with all other Spanish possessions in South America. Panama remained as part of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1739, when it",
"title": "Central America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.52,
"text": "which collapsed following the loss of its two largest members. Barbados achieved independence in 1966 and the remainder of the eastern Caribbean islands in the 1970s and 1980s, but Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands opted to revert to British rule after they had already started on the path to independence. The British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Montserrat opted to retain ties with Britain, while Guyana achieved independence in 1966. Britain's last colony on the American mainland, British Honduras, became a self-governing colony in 1964 and was renamed Belize in 1973, achieving full independence in 1981. A dispute",
"title": "British Empire"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.11,
"text": "created for America, but it was disbanded in 1782 when the Home Office took responsibility. The Thirteen Colonies formed the original states of the United States: Several British colonies and territories were ruled by Britain from 1763 after the Seven Years' War, but were ceded to Spain (the Floridas) or the United States (the Indian Reserve and Southwestern Quebec). Others became part of Canada. Territories that became part of the United States of America: British colonies and territories that became part of Canada: British America British America comprised the British Empire's colonial territories in North America, Bermuda, Central America, the",
"title": "British America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.95,
"text": "categorised as part of Central America. 1,252 people born in Belize were recorded living in England and Wales, 79 in Scotland and 22 in Northern Ireland. Based on a variety of official sources and extrapolating from figures for England alone, Ceri Peach estimates that the number of people in Britain born in the West Indies grew from 15,000 in 1951, to 172,000 in 1961 and 304,000 in 1971, and then fell slightly to 295,000 in 1981. He estimates the population of West Indian ethnicity in 1981 to be between 500,000 and 550,000. In many parts of Britain, African-Caribbean people have",
"title": "British African-Caribbean people"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.8,
"text": "The assault was part of a larger plan by Gálvez to eliminate British influence in Central America. Although he met with temporary successes, the British were able to maintain a colonial presence in the area. Following the entry of Spain into the American War of Independence in 1779, both Spain and Great Britain contested territories in Central America. Although most of the territory was part of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, the British had established logging rights on the southern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula (present-day Belize), and had established informal settlements (lacking formal colonial authority) on the Mosquito",
"title": "Battle of Roatán"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.77,
"text": "American seize control of the Dominican Republic. British rule was fully restored to Anguilla in 1969. On July 10, 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent from the UK, but retained membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. On February 7, 1974 Grenada gains independence from the UK. On November 3, 1978 Dominica became an independent nation from the UK. On September 19, 1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis became an independent nation from the United Kingdom. Territorial evolution of the Caribbean This is a timeline of the territorial evolution of the Caribbean and nearby areas of North, Central, and South America, listing",
"title": "Territorial evolution of the Caribbean"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.7,
"text": "with the first one being in Washington, D.C.. Then the last vestiges of Canada's constitutional dependency upon Britain remained until Canadians from various provinces agreed on an internal procedure for amending the Canadian Constitution. This agreement was implemented when the British Parliament passed the Canada Act 1982 at the request of Parliament of Canada. The colonies that existed before the signing of the 1846 Oregon Treaty: Besides the local colonial governments in each colony, British North America was administered directly via London. From 1783 through 1801, British North America was administered by the Home Office and by the Home Secretary,",
"title": "British North America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.66,
"text": "War in 1898, after which Cuba attained its independence in 1902, and Puerto Rico became an unincorporated territory of the United States, being the last of the Greater Antilles under colonial control. Between 1958 and 1962 most of the British-controlled Caribbean was integrated as the new West Indies Federation in an attempt to create a single unified future independent state—but it failed. The following former British Caribbean island colonies achieved independence in their own right; Jamaica (1962), Trinidad & Tobago (1962), Barbados (1966), Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Dominica (1978), St. Lucia (1979), St. Vincent (1979), Antigua & Barbuda (1981), St.",
"title": "History of the Caribbean"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.64,
"text": "of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Los Altos, Mosquito Coast, and Nicaragua. The lowlands of southwest Chiapas, including Soconusco, initially belonged to the Republic until 1824, when Mexico annexed most of Chiapas and began its claims to Soconusco. The Republic lasted from 1823 to 1838, when it disintegrated as a result of civil wars. The territory that now makes up Belize was heavily contested in a dispute that continued for decades after Guatemala achieved independence (see History of Belize (1506–1862). Spain, and later Guatemala, considered this land a Guatemalan department. In 1862, Britain formally declared it a British colony",
"title": "Central America"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.61,
"text": "of the 19th, independence movements that sprung up across the continent, led to the creation of the modern countries in the area. The 13 British colonies on the North Atlantic coast declared independence in 1776, becoming the United States of America. Canada was formed from the unification of northern territories controlled by Britain and France. New Spain, a territory that stretched from modern-day southern US to Central America, declared independence in 1810, becoming the First Mexican Empire. In 1823 the former Captaincy General of Guatemala, then part of the Mexican Empire, became the first independent state in Central America, officially",
"title": "North America"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.17,
"text": "reasons, no operations were launched until after the American victory at Yorktown in October 1781. The British loss opened the possibility that the British would be able to deploy troops to Central America to better defend the area. Gálvez' plans called for assaults on the British presence in the Bay Islands (principally Roatán), followed by a sweep along the coast to eliminate the British from the mainland. Troops from central Guatemala were staged in early 1782 at Trujillo for the assault on Roatán, while additional forces moved overland from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador toward the principal British settlement of Black",
"title": "Battle of Roatán"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.17,
"text": "successful offensive to conquer British West Florida, culminating in the Siege of Pensacola in 1781. Britain made two attempts to capture Spanish territory in Central America: in 1779 at the Battle of San Fernando de Omoa; and in 1780 in the San Juan Expedition. In both cases initial British military success was defeated by tropical diseases, with the 2,500 dead of the San Juan Expedition giving it the highest British death toll of the war. Europe was the setting of three of the largest engagements of the entire war. The unsuccessful Franco-Spanish attempt to invade England, unsuccessful attempt to capture",
"title": "British Army during the American Revolutionary War"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.08,
"text": "and withdrew from the negotiations, and the opposition in Belize engaged in violent demonstrations against it. With the prospect of independence celebrations in the offing, the opposition's morale fell and independence came to Belize on 21 September 1981, without an agreement with Guatemala. Before 1884 the colonial administration of British Honduras was rather haphazard. In the early days, the colonists governed themselves under a public meeting system, similar to the town meeting system used in New England. A set of regulations called \"\"Burnaby's Code\"\" was adopted in 1765, which continued in force until 1840, when an executive council was created.",
"title": "British Honduras"
}
] |
who plays the man in the yellow hat on curious george? | [
"Jeff Bennett"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.78,
"text": "Frog and Toad). An animated film, \"\"Curious George\"\", featuring Will Ferrell as the voice of the originally unnamed Man With the Yellow Hat, was released on February 10, 2006. In this film (in which The Man is referred to as \"\"Ted\"\"), Curious George secretly follows The Man onto the ship to the city on his own accord. Frank Welker provided the vocal effects of Curious George. On March 2, 2010, a direct to video sequel to the film was released, titled \"\"\"\", which featured Jeff Bennett replacing Ferrell as the voice of the Man. Bennett also provides the Man's voice",
"title": "Curious George"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.44,
"text": "Curious George (TV series) Curious George is an American animated educational children's television series based on the children's book series of the same name which features Jeff Bennett as the voice of The Man with the Yellow Hat. Frank Welker, who voiced George in the 2006 feature film, returns as the voice of George. The series has no connection to the 2006 film of the same name. As of October 2018, reruns of the show are still broadcasting on PBS Kids. The show premiered on September 4, 2006, and ended on April 1, 2015. \"\"Curious George\"\" is a production of",
"title": "Curious George (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "no arms or legs, in the short-lived animated television series \"\"The Oblongs\"\". He has had several guest appearances on \"\"Family Guy\"\", where he played the Black Knight in \"\"Mr. Saturday Knight\"\", as well as Fat Greek Guy and Miles \"\"Chatterbox\"\" Musket in \"\"Fifteen Minutes of Shame\"\". Ferrell also starred as Ted (a.k.a. The Man in the Yellow Hat) in the film \"\"Curious George\"\" and guest voiced on an episode of the FOX sitcom \"\"King of the Hill\"\" as a politically correct soccer coach. He voiced the title character in the 2010 DreamWorks Animation film \"\"Megamind\"\" as well as President Business",
"title": "Will Ferrell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "the \"\"movie comes close to denying he's any sort of troublemaker\"\". He noted somewhat negatively the few modern anachronisms in the film. Brian Lowry of \"\"Variety\"\" was negative about the film, criticizing the quality of the animation, the music, and other aspects. Lowry states that there are some updates to the story, such as that \"\"The Man in the Yellow Hat\"\" from the books is finally given a name. He also notes that David Cross' animated character bears a strong resemblance to the actor himself. Colin Covert of the \"\"Minneapolis Star Tribune\"\" noted that the film's use of \"\"traditional cell",
"title": "Curious George (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.56,
"text": "Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! is a 2009 American animated comedy film of the children's stories by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey. It is a sequel to the successful 2006 theatrical feature film \"\"Curious George\"\". It was originally titled \"\"Curious George 2: Monkey on the Run\"\". It was released straight to DVD. Frank Welker reprises his role as George while Will Ferrell the voice of Ted (The Man With Yellow Hat) was replaced by Jeff Bennett and Drew Barrymore the voice of Maggie was replaced by Nickie Bryar and Dick Van Dyke the",
"title": "Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "taking him somewhere, and even more often resolves the tension by intervening just in time to get George out of a tight spot. He is always seen wearing a bright yellow suit and a wide brimmed yellow hat. The Man is never mentioned by name in the original adventures or in any subsequent content over more than six decades. He is always referred to as \"\"The Man\"\" or fully \"\"The Man with the Yellow Hat\"\". When people speak to George about the Man, they often refer to him as \"\"Your friend\"\", though the Man is more like a father to",
"title": "Curious George"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.16,
"text": "so large that he could not see and this gives the man in the yellow hat the chance to capture him and put him in a bag. The Man takes George to his cruise ship where he tells him that he is taking him to a zoo in a big city and that he will like it there. He then gives George the run of the ship and tells him not to get into trouble. On deck, George sees some seagulls, tries to fly with them, and falls overboard. Luckily, the crew notices that George is missing, and spot him",
"title": "Curious George (book)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.14,
"text": "live at his house. The remaining five stories describe George's adventures while living at the house of the Man with the Yellow Hat. Sometimes dubbed the \"\"Original Adventures\"\", these original seven titles are completely by the series creators, Margret & H. A. Rey. Before appearing in his own series, Curious George appeared as a character in another children's book written and illustrated by H. A. Rey, \"\"Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys\"\" (1939). A second series of books, based on the telefilm series, was edited by Margret & H.A. Rey and Alan J. Shalleck. These appeared between 1984 and 1993.",
"title": "Curious George"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "[sic] painting and digital effects\"\" complements the original watercolor illustrations, and thought the film entertaining and yet still quite simple. He considered the difficulties in adapting the original stories (in which George basically causes trouble and the Man in the Yellow Hat fixes it all up) into a film, and how some conflict and a slight romantic subplot were added. \"\"Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George\"\" is the soundtrack to the film, featuring songs by Jack Johnson and Sally Williams. In its first week on \"\"Billboard\"\" 200 albums chart, the soundtrack made it to the #1 spot, making",
"title": "Curious George (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.97,
"text": "Man in the Yellow Hat in \"\"Curious George\"\", Raoul in \"\"A Monster in Paris\"\", Kevin in \"\"\"\", Barry in \"\"Bee Movie\"\", Bunnymund in \"\"Rise of the Guardians\"\", Guy in \"\"The Croods\"\" and Kristoff in \"\"Frozen (2013 film)\"\". Mehrdad Raissi studied computer software engineering at University of Science and Culture in Tehran. He started dubbing animations and movies in 2003. Different channels of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, i.e. Channel 2, Namayesh, Pouya Cartoon Channel, home video companies having the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance permit, directors, domestic and foreign animation producers, the UN and Radio Javan have broadcast his",
"title": "Mehrdad Raissi Ardali"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "They are mostly out of print, though several have been re-released with new cover art. A third series of books, the Curious George \"\"New Adventures,\"\" began to appear in 1998, and continues to the present. These books are \"\"illustrated in the style of H. A. Rey\"\" by a variety of credited and uncredited artists including Mary O'Keefe Young, Martha Weston, Anna Grossnickle Hines, Michael Jensen, and Vipah Interactive. Aside from George himself, the only recurring character in the original adventures is the unnamed Man with the Yellow Hat who is George’s best friend. The Man often facilitates George's adventures by",
"title": "Curious George"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "With the Yellow Hat and also voices neighborhood farmer Mr. Renkins in the PBS Kids TV series \"\"Curious George\"\". The series was awarded Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Children's Animated Program in 2008, 2010 and 2012. Bennett has also done the voices of the Joker and other characters on \"\"\"\", Dorkus in \"\"Planet Sheen\"\", several characters (Keswick, Larry and Ollie) on \"\"T.U.F.F. Puppy\"\", Red Tornado on \"\"Young Justice\"\", and Kowalski, Chuck Charles and the team's computer in \"\"The Penguins of Madagascar\"\". In 2012, he was awarded the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in a Television Production for",
"title": "Jeff Bennett"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "Curious George Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children's books by the same name, written by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey with illustrations by Alan J. Shalleck. The books feature a chimp named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by \"\"The Man with The Yellow Hat\"\" as his best friend to live with him in a giant city. When the first story, \"\"Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys\"\" was published in France in 1939, George was named Fifi. In the United Kingdom, George was originally called \"\"Zozo\"\" in 1941, apparently to avoid",
"title": "Curious George"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "in this book. At the end of the film it falls out of the book and rises floating through the air again. Jarrod, the titular character and protagonist from the NBC series \"\"The Pretender\"\", read Curious George books in Season One and developed a fascination with them. He likened himself to George and Sydney Green, the psychiatrist whom he saw as a surrogate father, to the Man with the Yellow Hat. The books have inspired others, for example \"\"Bangkok Bob\"\", written for and published by Big Brother Mouse, a Lao publishing project. The character has been translated variously into other",
"title": "Curious George"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "newspaper where The Man with the Yellow Hat reads it and makes a beeline to the hospital to claim him. During that time, George gets out of his bed (his leg having healed) and tampers with a bottle of ether, which knocks him out. The Man and the nurse find him this way and put him in a cold shower to wake him up, then George is taken to a movie studio to record a movie about his life, which he and all of his friends (whom he met during the story) are seen in a theater watching at the",
"title": "Curious George Takes a Job"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man in the Yellow Hat. They wrote seven stories in all, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margret working mostly on the stories, though they both admitted to sharing the work and cooperating fully in every stage of development. At first, however, covers omitted Margret's name. In later editions, this was changed, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories. \"\"Curious George Takes a Job\"\" was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1960. The Reys",
"title": "H. A. Rey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "where George lives in an apartment building with The Man in the Yellow Hat or the country, where they share a small house near a lake called Lake Wanasinklake. This allows George to mirror the experiences of kids who live in an urban environment and those who live on farms and in suburbs. A few episodes take place in alternate but familiar settings, like an airport or a train station. United States United Kingdom Canada Indonesia Sweden Iceland Emmy Award Curious George (TV series) Curious George is an American animated educational children's television series based on the children's book series",
"title": "Curious George (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.17,
"text": "a piece of candy and inadvertently eats it. Later, The Man with the Yellow Hat comes home and discovers that George has already opened the puzzle and they both proceed to work on it. Unfortunately, the last piece is missing, and they try to find it, but give up for the night and head to bed. The next morning, George is too sick to eat breakfast, so The Man calls a doctor who, upon examining him, recommends he go to the hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital, a nurse named Carol takes George and The Man back, gives George a",
"title": "Curious George Goes to the Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.06,
"text": "the bear and rehire him so he could participate in the show with his bike and bugle, and The Man With The Yellow Hat, the newspaper boy and all of George's other friends come to see him in the show. He is a great success, when the show ends, the workers give George the bugle as a gift and then George goes home to bed. Curious George Rides a Bike Curious George Rides a Bike is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1952. It is the third",
"title": "Curious George Rides a Bike"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.02,
"text": "languages: \"\"Others\"\" Curious George Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children's books by the same name, written by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey with illustrations by Alan J. Shalleck. The books feature a chimp named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by \"\"The Man with The Yellow Hat\"\" as his best friend to live with him in a giant city. When the first story, \"\"Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys\"\" was published in France in 1939, George was named Fifi. In the United Kingdom, George was originally called \"\"Zozo\"\" in 1941, apparently",
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}
] |
who is doing the halftime show during the superbowl? | [
"Justin Timberlake"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.73,
"text": "artist under the age of AARP eligibility\"\" to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. Initial reports mentioned that Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z was a potential collaborator on the show. However, he did not appear during the show, and a source told to \"\"Us Weekly\"\" that he changed his decision at the last minute as he wanted the performance \"\"to be her moment and didn't want to take away from it\"\". The halftime show was produced by Ricky Kirshner and directed by Hamish Hamilton. During the performance Beyoncé was dressed in an oversized black jacket, lace-and-leather bodysuit and thigh-high stockings. Kelly Rowland",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVII halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.47,
"text": "surfaced stating that multiple acts would perform during the halftime show. Coldplay was confirmed as the lead half time performer for Super Bowl 50 on December 3, 2015, one day before the release of their seventh studio album \"\"A Head Full of Dreams\"\". It was confirmed that Beyoncé and Bruno Mars would join Coldplay as special guests. Chris Martin called Mars to ask him to perform with Coldplay; however, Mars declined the offer. Nevertheless, the singer of Coldplay invited Mars to his studio in Malibu where he was working. There, Martin revealed to Mars that he wanted for him to",
"title": "Super Bowl 50 halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.41,
"text": "NFL spokeswoman, the request had, according to the \"\"Journal\"\", received a \"\"chilly\"\" response from those involved. Fans of \"\"Weird Al\"\" Yankovic launched an unsuccessful campaign to have Yankovic perform the halftime show to promote his album \"\"Mandatory Fun\"\". On October 9, 2014, \"\"Billboard\"\" announced that Katy Perry would perform at halftime, and the NFL confirmed the announcement on November 23, 2014. On January 10, 2015, Perry announced that Lenny Kravitz would also appear at the halftime show. On January 30, 2015, it was revealed that Missy Elliott, who previously worked with Perry on \"\"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)\"\" (Remix), would be",
"title": "Super Bowl XLIX halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.2,
"text": "Diana Ross, James Brown, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, The Black Eyed Peas, U2, Prince, Beyoncé and Mars. The show concluded with the band performing \"\"Fix You\"\" and \"\"Up&Up\"\" with Beyoncé, Mars and everyone taking part in the show. At the end of the performance, the audience participated in a card-stunt creating a rainbow and the phrase, \"\"Believe in love\"\", the closing lyrics to Coldplay's \"\"A Head Full of Dreams\"\". The performance received generally mixed review from critics, who complimented Beyoncé and Mars' part of the performance but were critical of Coldplay. Jon Caramanica of \"\"The New York Times\"\" stated that",
"title": "Super Bowl 50 halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.19,
"text": "Boitano and Dorothy Hamill skated on sheets of Teflon that were embedded on the tops of large platforms that were placed on the field for the show. Singer Gloria Estefan performed during the show's finale. To compete with the halftime show, Fox decided to broadcast a special live episode of \"\"In Living Color\"\" and was able to attract and keep Super Bowl viewers. It was decided that Michael Jackson would perform at halftime during Super Bowl XXVII, followed by more big-name talent during subsequent Super Bowl halftimes in order to maintain Super Bowl viewership. Both teams entered the game as",
"title": "Super Bowl XXVI"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.09,
"text": "Super Bowl XLVII halftime show The Super Bowl XLVII halftime show occurred on February 3, 2013, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans as part of Super Bowl XLVII and featured American entertainer Beyoncé with special guests Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams from Destiny's Child. The show was produced by Ricky Kirshner and directed by Hamish Hamilton. It received acclaim from music critics who commented that Beyoncé once more proved her abilities during live performances. It became the then second most watched show in Super Bowl history by garnering 110.8 million viewers. The performance, and the stadium blackout that followed,",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVII halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.08,
"text": "club now has to do the halftime show. With the football team down to half strength and the glee club without its cheerleader members, football players Finn and Puck settle their differences; Puck convinces the non-glee football players to perform in the halftime show, which will also get them back on the team, while Finn convinces Quinn, Santana, and Brittany (Heather Morris) to quit the Cheerios and perform in the halftime show instead. The show is a great success, and the football team wins the championship game. Emboldened by leading the team to the championship, Finn sets his eyes on",
"title": "Finn Hudson"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.05,
"text": "Roberts, Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak and Jean-Claude Van Damme would all guest star in \"\"The One After the Superbowl\"\". Actors and comedians Fred Willard and Dan Castellaneta also made minor guest appearances in the episode, as the zookeeper and the zoo janitor respectively. Bright commented that Shields' performance was \"\"a little into silly land\"\" at first, but it \"\"eventually turned in a very funny performance.\"\" Shields commented that when she was asked to appear on the show, she \"\"said yes basically sight unseen. I don't know where I was on the list. Maybe everybody else said no.\"\" The writers had",
"title": "The One After the Superbowl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18,
"text": "singer Faith Hill then sang the national anthem. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Bowl IV, the following participants of the game were featured during the coin toss ceremony: Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Alan Page, and Jan Stenerud. The E-Trade halftime show was produced by Disney and titled \"\"Tapestry of Nations\"\" after the Epcot parade of the same name. The show, narrated by actor Edward James Olmos, was inspired by Walt Disney World's millennium celebration. It featured a full symphony orchestra conducted by Steven Byess; a multi-generational, 80-person choir; and singers Phil Collins,",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXIV"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.94,
"text": "pre-game show. The halftime show featured pop artists Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, along with rock band Marianas Trench and balladeer Gordon Lightfoot. CFL commissioner Mark Cohon explained that the lineup was \"\"quintessentially Canadian and undoubtedly world class\"\", spanned multiple generations of music, and would \"\"command a huge and diverse audience, entertaining our most loyal fans and attracting new ones to our game's greatest showcase.\"\" Despite the CFL's endorsement, many questioned the league's choice of performers. In particular, the selection of Justin Bieber was criticized for his lack of appeal to the demographic attending the game. During the halftime",
"title": "100th Grey Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.91,
"text": "halftime and Saxophonist Mike Phillips and violinist Lee England, Jr. performed together during the National Game halftime show. Other standouts in the game included Nigel Williams-Goss (Henderson, NV/Washington), who had 17 points for the West team and Andrew Wiggins (Huntington, VA/Kansas) who had 19 points for the East. The event concluded a week of activities around Brooklyn and New York City, including a special movie screening with director Spike Lee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, an awards dinner at ThreeSixity and a tour of the legendary Gleason's Boxing Gym with Team Jordan athlete Andre Ward. Shabazz Muhammad (UCLA) earned",
"title": "Jordan Brand Classic"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.89,
"text": "Super Bowl 50 halftime show The Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show took place on February 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California as part of Super Bowl 50. It was headlined by the British rock group Coldplay with special guest performers Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, who previously had headlined the Super Bowl XLVII and Super Bowl XLVIII halftime shows, respectively. Coldplay, Rihanna, and Katy Perry were considered as potential acts for the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in 2015. Perry was soon confirmed as the headliner of the halftime show in October 2014. In late November, 2015, reports",
"title": "Super Bowl 50 halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.88,
"text": "Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show The Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show occurred on February 2, 2014 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as part of Super Bowl XLVIII and was headlined by American singer Bruno Mars alongside his band The Hooligans with special guests The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The show was produced by Ricky Kirshner and directed by Hamish Hamilton. At the time of airing the halftime show attracted the largest audience in the history of the Super Bowl, attracting 115.3 million viewers. The show was later surpassed by the following year's Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in which",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.83,
"text": "Super Bowl XLIX halftime show The Super Bowl XLIX halftime show took place on February 1, 2015, at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, as part of Super Bowl XLIX. It featured American singer Katy Perry, with singer Lenny Kravitz and rapper Missy Elliott as special guests. The halftime show was critically acclaimed and its broadcast on NBC attracted 118.5 million viewers in the United States and 120.7 million worldwide, receiving the largest ratings in the history of the Super Bowl and becoming the most watched of all-time. The halftime show was watched by more viewers than the",
"title": "Super Bowl XLIX halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.75,
"text": "Super Bowl XII), Chuck Noll (Super Bowl IX), Tom Flores (Super Bowl XV), Mike Ditka (Super Bowl XX), and George Seifert (Super Bowl XXIV). Hank Stram was given the honor of doing the coin toss. The halftime show was titled \"\"Blues Brothers Bash\"\" and featured actors Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, and Jim Belushi as the Blues Brothers. The show highlighted blues music and also had performances by the rock band ZZ Top and singer James Brown. While practicing for the show, stuntwoman Laura \"\"Dinky\"\" Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, jumped from the 100-foot high uppermost terrace",
"title": "Super Bowl XXXI"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.73,
"text": "the game. After trumpeter Wynton Marsalis performed the national anthem, Bart Starr, MVP of Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II, tossed the coin. The performance event group Up with People performed during the halftime show titled \"\"Beat of the Future\"\". Up with People dancers portrayed various scenes into the future. This was the last Super Bowl to feature Up with People as a halftime show, though they later performed in the Super Bowl XXV pregame show. The halftime show was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (the first observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day",
"title": "Super Bowl XX"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.69,
"text": "show before a final choice (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) was announced. The halftime entertainer selection process in late 2007 was not unusual: however, since the site selection process four years earlier was of special interest, it is necessary to also mention some of the acts who might have performed, but did not do so. According to the entertainment publication \"\"Variety\"\", a wish list of potential halftime performers was developed by the NFL. Among those on the wish list were Bruce Springsteen (who performed during halftime at Super Bowl XLIII the following year), Norah Jones and the Eagles. In addition,",
"title": "Super Bowl XLII"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.67,
"text": "resolved the issue by talking with the team. Set designer Bruce Rodgers, who had worked with Madonna on the Drowned World Tour in 2001, was familiar with the singer's work ethic. Rodgers, director Hamish Hamilton and executive producer Ricky Kirshner met several times with Madonna's team, represented by choreographer Jamie King (who presented the show's initial concept). Rodgers developed a large, cross-shaped stage with a central platform accessible by five hidden lifts, bleachers with an escape system at the rear, four positions for the band to play, an area for slacklining at one edge and ramps at the two ends",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVI halftime show"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.66,
"text": "included a program called \"\"Dynamic Duo\"\", featuring Sarah Kwak, concertmaster for the Oregon Symphony, and pianist Cary Lewis. Additional concerts will include: \"\"Quartets with Guts!\"\", with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; an American music-themed concert called \"\"Superbowl Saturday\"\" featuring the bluegrass band Jackstraw; and \"\"Transfigured Night\"\", which will include the Arnold Schoenberg piece of the same name plus works by Johannes Brahms and Peter Maxwell Davies. Performance venues include The Old Church, Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, and Alberta Rose Theatre. According to Ewer, concerts during the first two seasons averaged more than 200 attendees.",
"title": "45th Parallel (organization)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.66,
"text": "Super Bowl XLVI halftime show The Super Bowl XLVI halftime show took place on February 5, 2012 at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana as part of Super Bowl XLVI. It featured Madonna and guests LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and CeeLo Green. In 2011, the National Football League (NFL) announced that Madonna would perform at the Super Bowl XLVI show. The singer collaborated with Cirque du Soleil for the show, where her longtime choreographer Jamie King was music director; King, in turn, enlisted the multimedia-show producer Moment Factory. Madonna performed four songs, beginning with \"\"Vogue\"\" in a Roman-Egyptian setting",
"title": "Super Bowl XLVI halftime show"
}
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who sings i kissed a girl and i liked it? | [
"Katy Perry"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.47,
"text": "116. An incomplete, unreleased version of the song was covered in the pilot episode of \"\"Glee\"\", and a second version was released during the third-season episode named after the song: \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\". The song is alluded to by Smurfette, voiced by Perry, in the 2011 film \"\"The Smurfs\"\". When discussing songs with Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris), Smurfette mentions \"\"I Kissed a Smurf (and I Liked It)\"\". On March 9 (UK) and March 10 (US), metalcore band Attack Attack! released a cover for the song for the \"\"Punk Goes Pop 2\"\" compilation. Because of the success of the",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.2,
"text": "I Kissed a Girl \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a song recorded by American singer Katy Perry for her second studio album, \"\"One of the Boys\"\" (2008). It was released on April 28, 2008, by Capitol Records as the lead single from the record. Perry co-wrote the song with Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, and its producer Dr. Luke, with additional production from Benny Blanco. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a pop rock song with elements of new wave. Perry stated its lyrics are \"\"about the magical beauty of a woman\"\". The song sparked controversy for its homosexual themes. The song",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.05,
"text": "to 1\"\", \"\"The Big Bang Theory\"\", and \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars\"\". I Kissed a Girl \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a song recorded by American singer Katy Perry for her second studio album, \"\"One of the Boys\"\" (2008). It was released on April 28, 2008, by Capitol Records as the lead single from the record. Perry co-wrote the song with Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, and its producer Dr. Luke, with additional production from Benny Blanco. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a pop rock song with elements of new wave. Perry stated its lyrics are \"\"about the magical beauty of",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.03,
"text": "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song) \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a 1995 song by Jill Sobule. It reached No. 20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, #67 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 and #36 on the ARIA Charts. In 2008, new pop-singer Katy Perry issued a song of her own called \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" for her debut album \"\"One of the Boys\"\". The song received mixed reviews, with much of the negative reception originating to comparative inferiority with the Jill Sobule song. \"\"Hiponline.com\"\" wrote that the song is \"\"not nearly as interesting or exciting as you’d expect.",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.94,
"text": "features young women in 1960s-style hair and dresses. I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song) \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" is a 1995 song by Jill Sobule. It reached No. 20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, #67 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 and #36 on the ARIA Charts. In 2008, new pop-singer Katy Perry issued a song of her own called \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" for her debut album \"\"One of the Boys\"\". The song received mixed reviews, with much of the negative reception originating to comparative inferiority with the Jill Sobule song. \"\"Hiponline.com\"\" wrote that the song is \"\"not",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.58,
"text": "Caffrey, and Tina Kennedy. Kitty Purty assisted in the engineering while Tim Roberts assisted in the engineering for mix, which was done by John Hanes. The song was mixed by Serban Ghenea at his studio MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Cathy Dennis was on background vocals while Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco were featured on drums and programming. Steven Wolf provided the live drums on the song while Mike Caffrey recorded and produced the drums at Monster Island in New York City. In an interview for \"\"The New Gay\"\", Perry describes the song to be about girls. She defends",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.5,
"text": "cover versions, the official release of Perry's version was brought forward from September 1 to July 30, 2008. On August 3, 2008, the song, which had entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 139 the week before, climbed 135 places to reach position No. 4. The German Industrial band Terminal Choice also performed a cover of this song which was released in 2010. The song was sung by Chris Schummert over the end credits of the 2014 German film \"\"Coming In\"\" (about a gay man who falls in love with a pretty girl) and therefore his version can be heard",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.41,
"text": "the following sentence in its garden in September 2008: \"\"I kissed a girl and liked it. So I went to hell.\"\" To promote the album Perry embarked on three tours: the Warped Tour 2008, her first solo world tour, the Hello Katy Tour, with 89 shows performed, and No Doubt's Summer Tour 2009 as its opening act. The album's lead single, \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" was released in late April and subsequently soared up the charts. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" was a commercial success. It topped the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 chart, becoming the 1000th chart-topper of the rock era. The",
"title": "One of the Boys (Katy Perry album)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "songs from the episode have been released as singles including \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" and \"\"Jolene\"\"; the other four are k.d. lang's \"\"Constant Craving\"\" sung by Rivera, Menzel and Colfer, Cyndi Lauper's \"\"Girls Just Want to Have Fun\"\" in the Greg Laswell version sung by Monteith, Melissa Etheridge's \"\"I'm the Only One\"\" sung by Salling and a clean version of Pink's \"\"Fuckin' Perfect\"\" entitled \"\"Perfect\"\", sung by Colfer and Criss. On August 6, 2012, co-creator Ryan Murphy uploaded a deleted scene in which Santana comes out to Sue and her fellow Cheerios to YouTube. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" was first",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl (Glee)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "calls. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" has a length of three minutes. The song is a pop rock track. It contains influences of new wave and runs through a throbbing beat and an organic instrumental thump, according to About.com's Bill Lamb. The track features instrumentation provided by drums, guitars and bass, courtesy of Dr. Luke. The song was produced by Dr. Luke, which was coordinated by Gary 'G' Silver and aided by American producer and songwriter Benny Blanco. There were a number of personnel who engineered the track for the album, including Emily Wright, Sam Holland, Nick Banns, Aniela Gottwald, Mike",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "Miley Cyrus has claimed it's about her. In an interview with the German online web show MalcolmMusic, Macy Gray revealed that \"\"I Kissed A Girl\"\" was initially offered to her before Katy ended up releasing the song. The song is written in the key of A minor in common time with a tempo of 130 beats per minute. It follows a chord progression of Am[BC]Dm[FEm] in the verses, Am-C-Dm-[F-Em] in the choruses (except for the Dm chord being major in the third segment of the second and third choruses), and F-Em-Am-G in the bridge, which ends with an extra Dm",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.34,
"text": "the support of one of the label's radio promoters to convince people to believe in the record, otherwise Perry would have likely been dropped again. Dennis Reese, Capitol's senior vice president of promotions, saw the vision and helped push the single on national radio. The first station to pick it up and take a chance was 107.5 The River in Nashville. Rich Davis, then PD, was played the song by Joe Rainey of Capitol Records outside his favorite sushi spot in Nashville and immediately put it on the air. After playing it for three days, they were inundated with enthusiastic",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The song has been certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, Denmark, and the US. The accompanying music video for the song was released on May 16, 2008. The video, directed by Kinga Burza, features Perry in a setting inspired by burlesque and Moulin Rouge styles. It features appearances from Perry's friends, including actress Shannon Woodward and singer Kesha. The song is recognized as the 10th best-selling single in the 21st century. \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" was performed and a nominee at the 51st Grammy Awards (Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance). It was",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.09,
"text": "It’s not even half as good as Jill Sobule’s song 'I Kissed a Girl'\"\". \"\"Glitterati Gossip\"\" wrote that Sobule's song \"\"was ten times better, because there was actual emotional content to her lyrics\"\". Sobule shared her feelings about Perry's song and use of the title in a July 2009 interview with The Rumpus: In a later interview, Sobule later stated that the interview in \"\"The Rumpus\"\" was tongue-in-cheek and in an article she wrote for \"\"The Huffington Post\"\", she stated The music video featured Italian model Fabio playing Sobule's supposed heterosexual love interest. It parodies his romance novel covers, and",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "Mellencamp, Jason Mraz, Gretchen Wilson, and Marv Green. The majority of the lyrics were written on paper and signed by the songwriter, with the exception of Katy Perry's \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\". Many of the artists in addition to writing and signing lyrics, drew pictures to illustrate their lyrics. The auction ran from December 1, 2008, to December 18, 2008, promoted by CMT and Virgin Music. Some of the lyrics that were up for auction included hits such as \"\"So Small\"\", \"\"Foolish Games\"\", \"\"I'm Yours\"\", \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\", \"\"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)\"\", \"\"Live Like You Were Dying\"\",",
"title": "Jewel (singer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "track also made history by reaching the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart by three weeks, a first for a solo act with a debut single. The song topped the Hot 100 for seven weeks in a row before being dethroned by Rihanna's \"\"Disturbia\"\". It was the second longest running No. 1 on the Hot 100 of 2008 (tied with T.I.'s \"\"Whatever You Like\"\"), with only Flo Rida's \"\"Low\"\" topping the chart for longer. As of 2017, the song has sold 4.7 million copies in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the single debuted at No.",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24,
"text": "Hummel (O'Malley), Coach Beiste (Jones), cheerleader Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter), school reporter Jacob Ben Israel (Josh Sussman), Troubletones member Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies) and New Directions member Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty). Music in the episode includes the song from which it gets its title, Katy Perry's \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\", which was previously sung by Tina for her glee club audition in the show's pilot. Jones performs Dolly Parton's \"\"Jolene\"\" during the episode, her second time singing on the show; her first was a duet with Matthew Morrison in the second season episode \"\"Blame It on the Alcohol\"\". All six",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl (Glee)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.95,
"text": "the lyrics, saying that \"\"When we're young, we're very touchy-feely. We have slumber party sing-a-longs, we make up dance routines in our pajamas. We're a lot more intimate in a friendship than guys can be. It's not perverse but just sweet...\"\" The song was partially inspired by Scarlett Johansson. Perry also stated that the lyrics were inspired by her friendship with a girl as a teenager, commenting that \"\"I did kiss her. I was totally obsessed with her. She was beautiful — porcelain skin, perfect lips.\"\" While Perry hasn't explicitly revealed the main person behind the inspiration of the song,",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "4 on the UK Singles Chart on August 3, 2008 ― for the week ending date August 9, 2008. A week later, it topped the chart, where it remained for five weeks (a feat which would not be matched again until \"\"Someone Like You\"\" by Adele in 2011) until it was dethroned by \"\"Sex on Fire\"\" by Kings of Leon. Alongside Basshunter's \"\"Now You're Gone\"\" and \"\"Mercy\"\" by Duffy, \"\"I Kissed a Girl\"\" spent more weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart than any other single in 2008. According to the Official Charts Company, the single has sold",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "chord. Perry's vocals span from A to E. \"\"Blogcritics\"\" Magazine called it \"\"an instantly catchy number\"\". About.com said, \"\"fueled by an instrumental wallop provided courtesy of producer Dr. Luke, 'I Kissed a Girl' is the perfect breakthrough\"\". However, \"\"Rolling Stone\"\" magazine, while giving her album 2/5 stars, described the song as a \"\"new wave-y club single\"\", saying the supposedly rebellious \"\"attention-grabbing\"\" lyrics are \"\"a vanilla recounting of her chick-on-chick exploits\"\" and that this \"\"acting out\"\" is \"\"just to get a dude's attention\"\". AllMusic praises \"\"the stomping Gary Glitter beat\"\" before criticizing the producers for turning it \"\"into a leaden stumble",
"title": "I Kissed a Girl"
}
] |
youngest person to have a baby in the united states? | [
"Estelle P."
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.64,
"text": "made the determination of being \"\"viable\"\" somewhat more complicated. The youngest child thought to have survived a premature birth in the United States was Amillia Taylor (born on 24 October 2006 in Miami, Florida, at 21 weeks and 6 days gestational age, approx. 153 days vs. possibly expected gestational period of 40 weeks, approx. 280 days). In comparison to other developed countries, the procedure is more available in the United States in terms of how late the abortion can legally be performed. However, in terms of other aspects such as government funding, privacy for non-adults, or geographical access, some U.S.",
"title": "Abortion in the United States by state"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "are a few weeks less than 24 weeks old to survive outside the woman's womb. These scientific achievements, while life-saving for premature babies, have made the determination of being \"\"viable\"\" somewhat more complicated. , the youngest child to survive a premature birth in the United States was a girl born at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii at 21 weeks and 3 days gestation. Because of the split between federal and state law, legal access to abortion continues to vary by state. Geographic availability varies dramatically, with 87 percent of U.S. counties having no abortion provider. Moreover, due to the",
"title": "Abortion in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.7,
"text": "mostly related to care in neonatal intensive care units, but the real tab may top $50 billion. James Elgin Gill (born on 20 May 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) was the earliest premature baby in the world, until that record was broken in 2014. He was 128 days premature (21 weeks and 5 days' gestation) and weighed . He survived. In 2014, a baby girl born in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. became the youngest premature baby in the world. The daughter of Courtney Stensrud was born at 21 weeks 4 days and weighed 410 grams (less than a pound). Kaashif",
"title": "Preterm birth"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.08,
"text": "of 29 in 2018. Currently the youngest US Senator is Tom Cotton, born on , and first elected in 2014; Cory Gardner is the second youngest senator, and Chris Murphy is the third youngest. Baby of the House Baby of the House is the unofficial title given to the youngest member of a parliamentary house. The term is most often applied to members of the British parliament from which the term originated. The title is named after the Father of the House, which is given to the \"\"longest serving\"\" member of the British and other parliaments. In Australia the term",
"title": "Baby of the House"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "5 years, 7 months, and 21 days, the youngest known person in history to give birth. The caesarean birth was necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Lozada and Dr Busalleu, with Dr Colareta providing anaesthesia. When doctors performed the caesarean to deliver her baby, they found she already had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty. Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel in the medical journal \"\"La Presse Médicale\"\", including the additional details that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to a past report stating that she",
"title": "Lina Medina"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "generally seek election to the state legislature (which generally have lower minimum ages for entry) or other state office before seeking to serve in Washington. In the 115th Congress, which began on 3 January 2017, the youngest member of the United States House of Representatives is Elise Stefanik, who was born on , and was first elected in 2014. Stefanik is five days younger than the second youngest member, Conor Lamb, who was elected in a 2018 special election. She was also the youngest woman elected to the House in U.S. history, until Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was elected at the age",
"title": "Baby of the House"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.3,
"text": "Keating who were both elected at age 25 in 1955 and 1969 respectively. The youngest Baby of the House was Wyatt Roy. He was elected at age 20 in 2010, being the youngest person ever to be elected to an Australian parliament. The current Baby of the House is the new Member for Perth Patrick Gorman (age ). The current Baby of the Senate is Senator Jordon Steele-John (age ). The youngest-ever elected member of the House of Commons of Canada is Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who was elected at the age of 19 years and 11 months in 2011. Dusseault is",
"title": "Baby of the House"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.27,
"text": "peerage(s) while under age was entitled to take a seat on his or her 21st birthday. In theory, such a hereditary peer could be elected to sit in the House at that age; in practice, the youngest hereditary peer is Lord Freyberg (born 15 December 1970), who was elected in October 1999 at the age of 28. This is a list of youngest members of the Scottish Parliament created in 1999. While the term is used in the Commonwealth Parliaments, Baby of the House or Senate is not in general contemporary use in the United States, nor does being the",
"title": "Baby of the House"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19,
"text": "number of hospital stays for teen pregnancies decreased by 47 percent from 2000-2012. In 2014, 249,078 babies were born to women aged 15 – 19 years old. This is a birth rate of 24.2 per 1000 women. However, most adolescents who give birth are over the age of 18. In 2014, 73% of teen births occurred in 18-19 year olds. Pregnancies are much less common among girls younger than 15. In 2008, 6.6 pregnancies occurred per 1,000 teens aged 13–14. In other words, fewer than 1% of teens younger than 15 became pregnant in 2008. Pregnant teenagers tend to gain",
"title": "Teenage pregnancy in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.89,
"text": "in the United States are reported to have Goltz Syndrome. As a result of the syndrome, Trivedi's daughter was born without a leg, missing fingers and lacked muscle on one side of her face. To date, Trivedi's daughter has been through over 25 surgeries before the age of 5. She is also the youngest child In the United States to receive a prosthetic leg at 7 months old. According to her book, living life as a special needs mother puts the world into prospective and Trivedi has channeled her talents and business acumen to cultivate a sense of business and",
"title": "Lina Trivedi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.8,
"text": "Cleveland Clinic transplanted a face donated from Adrea Schneider, who had died of a drug overdose, to Katie Stubblefield, whose face had been disfigured in a suicide attempt by rifle. , Katie is the youngest person in the United States to have had a face transplant, age 21 at the time. Surgeons originally planned to leave her cheeks, eyebrows, eyelids, most of her forehead, and the sides of her face alone. However, because the donor face was larger and darker than Katie's, they made the decision to transplant the donor's full face. This holds the risk that in case of",
"title": "Face transplant"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.75,
"text": "both delivered at University of Chicago Medical Center by their parents' friend and physician Anita Blanchard. Sasha was the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961. In 2014 Malia and Sasha were named two of \"\"The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014\"\" by \"\"Time\"\" magazine. Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in \"\"Parade\"\" magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: \"\"to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your",
"title": "Family of Barack Obama"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.7,
"text": "U.S. Championships less than eight months after giving birth to her first child. At the same time, some of the younger American figure skaters progressed more quickly due to the lack of senior skaters standing in their way. Scott Allen won a silver medal at the 1962 U.S. Championships when he was just twelve years old, and then won bronze at the 1964 Winter Olympics the week of his fifteenth birthday, becoming one of the youngest Olympic medalists in history. It was not until 1965 that the U.S. would start to win medals at the World Championships again; and the",
"title": "Sabena Flight 548"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.62,
"text": "Ahmad resuscitated the baby after she was born. As of 2017, the girl was in preschool and on par with her peers. Amillia Taylor is also often cited as the most premature baby. She was born on 24 October 2006 in Miami, Florida, U.S. at 21 weeks and 6 days' gestation. This report has created some confusion as her gestation was measured from the date of conception (through \"\"in vitro\"\" fertilization) rather than the date of her mother's last menstrual period, making her appear 2 weeks younger than if gestation was calculated by the more common method. At birth, she",
"title": "Preterm birth"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.59,
"text": "10 million copies in the United States alone. The album was later certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making Spears the youngest artist to receive that award, breaking Alanis Morissette's record, who was 21 years old when she released \"\"Jagged Little Pill\"\" (1995). The album was the 14th album since 1991 to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, and Spears became the best-selling female artist of 1999. \"\"...Baby One More Time\"\" spent a total of 51 weeks in the top 10 of the \"\"Billboard\"\" 200. The album spent a total of one-hundred-and-three weeks",
"title": "...Baby One More Time (album)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.58,
"text": "Watergate Babies Watergate Babies are Democrats first elected to the United States Congress in 1974, following President Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal, on August 9, 1974. Tom Downey of New York was the youngest among the \"\"babies\"\", aged 25 upon his election, the minimum age at which one may serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Future Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) was also elected to Congress in this election cycle. In November 1974, Democrats picked up 49 seats in the House and 5 in the Senate. This group greatly increased the strength of Northerners and liberals in the",
"title": "Watergate Babies"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.56,
"text": "Svetlana Alliluyeva Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (; ; ; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furore when she defected to, and later became a naturalised citizen of, the United States. In 1984, she returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship returned. She later went back to the United States and also spent time in France, before settling in the United Kingdom and becoming a British citizen in 1992.",
"title": "Svetlana Alliluyeva"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.48,
"text": "proficient, multilingual workforce, speaking over 130 languages. Many residents of Utah lived and worked abroad which contributes to the flexibility and capabilities of immediately contributing to companies. Utah also maintains the youngest population in the United States due to its higher-than-average birth rate. The median age in Utah is 29.6 years, compared to the nationwide median of 37.3 years. This young labor force is very attractive to employers as baby boomers throughout the nation retire and many states find it difficult to replenish their workforce due to falling birth rates. Prominent schools that contribute to the Utah workforce include three",
"title": "Silicon Slopes"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.44,
"text": "U.S. studies show that women who bear their first child at an early age bear more children rapidly and have more unwanted and out-of-wedlock births. Children of teenage parents are more likely to have lower academic achievements and tend to repeat the cycle of early marriage and early childbearing of their parents. Since the Great Recession, young people take three times longer to gain financial independence than it took for young people three decades ago. It is much harder for teenage parents to be able to support a family compared to the past due to the competitive work environment. More",
"title": "Teenage pregnancy in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.33,
"text": "400 cases, the adult was aged over 40. And in 31 cases, they were over 60. In 2010 in Idaho, a 65-year-old man married a 17-year-old girl. In Alabama, a 74-year-old man married a 14-year-old girl, though the state has since raised their minimum age to 16. According to Frontline, who looked at almost 200,000 cases of child marriage from 2000-2015: According to Unchained At Last, the youngest girls to marry in 2000-2010 were three Tennessee 10-year-old girls who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001. The youngest boy was an 11-year-old who married a 27-year-old woman in",
"title": "Child marriage in the United States"
}
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"score": 24.66,
"text": "in diboron, which is a pi bond. In contrast, the double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond, and a triple bond consists of one sigma bond and two pi bonds (Moore, Stanitski, and Jurs 396). The number of component bonds is what determines the strength disparity. It stands to reason that the single bond is the weakest of the three because it consists of only a sigma bond, and the double bond or triple bond consist not only of this type of component bond but also at least one additional bond. The single bond has the",
"title": "Single bond"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.86,
"text": "formation of one sigma bond and two pi bonds. In the bent bond model, the triple bond can also formed by the overlapping of three sp lobes without the need to invoke a pi-bond. Triple bond A triple bond in chemistry is a chemical bond between two atoms involving six bonding electrons instead of the usual two in a covalent single bond. The most common triple bond, that between two carbon atoms, can be found in alkynes. Other functional groups containing a triple bond are cyanides and isocyanides. Some diatomic molecules, such as dinitrogen and carbon monoxide, are also triple",
"title": "Triple bond"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "order of three. The types of bonding can be explained in terms of orbital hybridization. In the case of acetylene each carbon atom has two sp orbitals and two p-orbitals. The two sp orbitals are linear with 180° angles and occupy the x-axis (cartesian coordinate system). The p-orbitals are perpendicular on the y-axis and the z-axis. When the carbon atoms approach each other, the sp orbitals overlap to form a sp-sp sigma bond. At the same time the p-orbitals approach and together they form a p-p pi-bond. Likewise, the other pair of p-orbitals form a p-p pi-bond. The result is",
"title": "Triple bond"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "bonds and are due to head-on overlapping of orbitals on two different atoms. A single bond is usually a σ bond. Pi (π) bonds are weaker and are due to lateral overlap between p (or d) orbitals. A double bond between two given atoms consists of one σ and one π bond, and a triple bond is one σ and two π bonds. Covalent bonds are also affected by the electronegativity of the connected atoms which determines the chemical polarity of the bond. Two atoms with equal electronegativity will make nonpolar covalent bonds such as H–H. An unequal relationship creates",
"title": "Covalent bond"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "capacity for rotation, a property not possessed by the double bond or the triple bond. The structure of pi bonds does not allow for rotation (at least not at 298 K), so the double bond and the triple bond which contain pi bonds are held due to this property. The sigma bond is not so restrictive, and the single bond is able to rotate using the sigma bond as the axis of rotation (Moore, Stanitski, and Jurs 396-397). Another property comparison can be made in bond length. Single bonds are the longest of the three types of covalent bonds as",
"title": "Single bond"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.08,
"text": "bond angle, alkynes are rod-like. Correspondingly, cyclic alkynes are rare. Benzyne is highly unstable. The C≡C bond distance of 121 picometers is much shorter than the C=C distance in alkenes (134 pm) or the C–C bond in alkanes (153 pm). The triple bond is very strong with a bond strength of 839 kJ/mol. The sigma bond contributes 369 kJ/mol, the first pi bond contributes 268 kJ/mol and the second pi-bond of 202 kJ/mol bond strength. Bonding usually discussed in the context of molecular orbital theory, which recognizes the triple bond as arising from overlap of s and p orbitals. In",
"title": "Alkyne"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22,
"text": "to give a bond order of 2, meaning that there exists a double bond between the two carbons in a dicarbon (C) molecule. The molecular orbital diagram of diatomic carbon would show that there are two pi bonds and no sigma bonds. However, a recent paper by S. Shaik et al. has suggested that a quadruple bond exists in diatomic carbon. Quadruple bond A quadruple bond is a type of chemical bond between two atoms involving eight electrons. This bond is an extension of the more familiar types double bonds and triple bonds. Stable quadruple bonds are most common among",
"title": "Quadruple bond"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "bonds in compounds called alkenes or triple bonds in compounds called alkynes. A double bond is formed with an sp-hybridized orbital and a p-orbital that is not involved in the hybridization. A triple bond is formed with an sp-hybridized orbital and two p-orbitals from each atom. The use of the p-orbitals forms a pi bond. Carbon is one of the few elements that can form long chains of its own atoms, a property called catenation. This coupled with the strength of the carbon–carbon bond gives rise to an enormous number of molecular forms, many of which are important structural elements",
"title": "Carbon–carbon bond"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.42,
"text": "of the constituent p orbitals. For homonuclear diatomic molecules, bonding π molecular orbitals have only the one nodal plane passing through the bonded atoms, and no nodal planes between the bonded atoms. The corresponding \"\"anti\"\"bonding, or π* (\"\"pi-star\"\") molecular orbital, is defined by the presence of an additional nodal plane between these two bonded atoms. A typical double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond; for example, the C=C double bond in ethylene. A typical triple bond, for example in acetylene, consists of one sigma bond and two pi bonds in two mutually perpendicular planes containing the",
"title": "Pi bond"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.33,
"text": "in a degenerate pi bonding set of orbitals. This gives a bond order of 2, meaning that there should exist a double bond between the two carbons in a C molecule. One analysis suggests instead that a quadruple bond exists, an interpretation that was disputed. CASSCF calculations indicate that the quadruple bond based on molecular orbital theory is also reasonable. Bond dissociation energies of B, C, and N show increasing BDE, indicating single, double, and triple bonds, respectively. In certain forms of crystalline carbon, such as diamond and graphite, a saddle point or “hump” occurs at the bond site in",
"title": "Diatomic carbon"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "of orbitals, and the electrons in these bonds are sometimes referred to as sigma electrons. The symbol σ is the Greek letter sigma. When viewed down the bond axis, a σ MO has a circular symmetry, hence resembling a similarly sounding \"\"s\"\" atomic orbital. Typically, a single bond is a sigma bond while a multiple bond is composed of one sigma bond together with pi or other bonds. A double bond has one sigma plus one pi bond, and a triple bond has one sigma plus two pi bonds. Sigma bonds are obtained by head-on overlapping of atomic orbitals. The",
"title": "Sigma bond"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.08,
"text": "In the case of triplet dioxygen, each 2c-3e bond consists of two electrons in a π bonding orbital and one electron in a π antibonding orbital to give a net bond order contribution of ½. The usual rules for constructing Lewis structures must be modified to accommodate molecules like triplet dioxygen or nitric oxide that contain 2c-3e bonds. There is no consensus in this regard; Pauling has suggested the use of three closely spaced collinear dots to represent the three-electron bond (see illustration). The unusual electron configuration prevents molecular oxygen from reacting directly with many other molecules, which are often",
"title": "Triplet oxygen"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21,
"text": "the formation of bonds. The overlapping atomic orbitals can differ. The two types of overlapping orbitals are sigma and pi. Sigma bonds occur when the orbitals of two shared electrons overlap head-to-head. Pi bonds occur when two orbitals overlap when they are parallel. For example, a bond between two \"\"s\"\"-orbital electrons is a sigma bond, because two spheres are always coaxial. In terms of bond order, single bonds have one sigma bond, double bonds consist of one sigma bond and one pi bond, and triple bonds contain one sigma bond and two pi bonds. However, the atomic orbitals for bonding",
"title": "Valence bond theory"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.91,
"text": "ketones, esters, carboxylic acids and many more. Internal C=O bonds are found in positively charged oxonium ions. In furans, the oxygen atom contributes to pi-electron delocalization via its filled p-orbital and hence furans are aromatic. Bond lengths of C=O bonds are around 123 pm in carbonyl compounds. The C=O bond length in carbon dioxide is 116 pm. The C=O bonds in acyl halides have partial triple bond character and are subsequently very short: 117 pm. Compounds with formal C–O triple bonds do not exist except for carbon monoxide, which has a very short, strong bond (112.8 pm). Such triple bonds",
"title": "Carbon–oxygen bond"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "atoms corresponds to the sharing of one pair of electrons. The electron density of these two bonding electrons is concentrated in the region between the two atoms, which is the defining quality of a sigma bond. A double bond between two atoms is formed by the sharing of two pairs of electrons, one in a sigma bond and one in a pi bond, with electron density concentrated on two opposite sides of the internuclear axis. A triple bond consists of three shared electron pairs, forming one sigma and two pi bonds. Quadruple and higher bonds are very rare and occur",
"title": "Chemical bond"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.7,
"text": "bond is also stronger, 636 kJ mol versus 368 kJ mol but not twice as much as the pi-bond is weaker than the sigma bond due to less effective pi-overlap. In an alternative representation, the double bond results from two overlapping sp orbitals as in a bent bond. In molecules, with alternating double bonds and single bonds, p-orbital overlap can exist over multiple atoms in a chain, giving rise to a conjugated system. Conjugation can be found in systems such as dienes and enones. In cyclic molecules, conjugation can lead to aromaticity. In cumulenes, two double bonds are adjacent. Double",
"title": "Double bond"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.2,
"text": "that a chemical change is taking place. In Lewis formulas, electrons are paired between atoms to form covalent bonds. Each single bond is made by two valence electrons, localized between the two bonded atoms. Each double bond has two additional localized π electrons, while each triple bond has four additional π electrons (two pairs) between the bonded atoms. In molecules or ions that have a combination of one or more single and multiple bonds, often the \"\"exact\"\" position of the respective bonds cannot be indicated by a single Lewis structure. The π electrons appear to be in an intermediate position.",
"title": "Resonance (chemistry)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.16,
"text": "two or more atoms share valence electrons more or less equally. The simplest and most common type is a single bond in which two atoms share two electrons. Other types include the double bond, the triple bond, one- and three-electron bonds, the three-center two-electron bond and three-center four-electron bond. In nonpolar covalent bonds, the electronegativity difference between the bonded atoms is small, typically 0 to 0.3. Bonds within most organic compounds are described as covalent. The figure shows methane (CH), in which each hydrogen forms a covalent bond with the carbon. See sigma bonds and pi bonds for LCAO-description of",
"title": "Chemical bond"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.12,
"text": "of the double bond uses its three sp hybrid orbitals to form sigma bonds to three atoms (the other carbon and two hydrogen atoms). The unhybridized 2p atomic orbitals, which lie perpendicular to the plane created by the axes of the three sp² hybrid orbitals, combine to form the pi bond. This bond lies outside the main C–C axis, with half of the bond on one side of the molecule and half on the other. With a strength of 65 kcal/mol, the pi bond is significantly weaker than the sigma bond. Rotation about the carbon–carbon double bond is restricted because",
"title": "Alkene"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.05,
"text": "bond axis. Two pi bonds are the maximum that can exist between a given pair of atoms. Quadruple bonds are extremely rare and can be formed only between transition metal atoms, and consist of one sigma bond, two pi bonds and one delta bond. A pi bond is weaker than a sigma bond, but the combination of pi and sigma bond is stronger than either bond by itself. The enhanced strength of a multiple bond versus a single (sigma bond) is indicated in many ways, but most obviously by a contraction in bond lengths. For example, in organic chemistry, carbon–carbon",
"title": "Pi bond"
}
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most number of weeks at no.1 in tennis? | [
"302"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "weeks, Djokovic, the current No. 1, for 226 weeks (fifth since the inception of the ATP Rankings in 1973), Nadal for 196 weeks (6th since 1973), and Murray for 41 weeks. Federer and Djokovic lead among them with 5 year-end No. 1, followed by Nadal with 4 and Murray with 1. They were ranked year-end world top 4 consecutively from 2008 to 2012 which is the longest span of dominance for any quartet of players in tennis history. Since this time the term \"\"Big Four\"\", while used previously, became popular with the media and in tennis literature. The Big Four",
"title": "Big Four (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "entered the season as world number 1, and remained there until July 2012, when he was overtaken by Federer, who reclaimed the top spot for the first time since June 2010. Federer subsequently overtook Sampras' record of 286 weeks at the top, and ultimately extended the record to 302 weeks. Federer relinquished his world No. 1 ranking on 5 November, Djokovic reclaiming the top spot and ending the year there for the second consecutive year. Djokovic was the only player to make at least the semifinals in all four Grand Slam events, and was the losing finalist at Roland Garros",
"title": "Big Four (tennis)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "the all-time record of the most coveted achievement in the sport. The victory also saw Federer return to world No. 1 for the first time since June 2010, allowing him to break Sampras' record of 286 weeks at World no. 1. Just four weeks after Federer defeated Murray in the Wimbledon Final, the two met again on the Wimbledon centre court, this time in the final of the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2012 London Olympics. Murray took revenge on a depleted Federer as he dismantled the world No. 1 in a three set, one sided affair. Federer had",
"title": "Federer–Murray rivalry"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the \"\"Open Era\"\" among female players behind Graf and Martina Navratilova. Williams holds the most Grand Slam titles",
"title": "Serena Williams"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "7–5, 6–3, 6–4. The match enabled Federer to break three of the sport's most prestigious all-time records. He broke his own all-time record of Grand Slams, setting the new mark at seventeen. He also tied Pete Sampras for the most Wimbledon singles titles with seven. Federer secured the world no. 1 position for the first time since June 2010 which enabled him to pass Sampras and set the record for most weeks at the summit of men's tennis. Federer went on to spend an additional 17 weeks at world no. 1 and set the record (since the 1973 inception of",
"title": "2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. He held the top ATP ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men's singles records: 109 titles (he is the only man to win 100), 1535 matches played, and 1256 match wins. His titles include eight majors (five US Open, two Wimbledon, one Australian Open),",
"title": "Jimmy Connors"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.02,
"text": "Furthermore, she is the only tennis player to have won each Grand Slam tournament at least four times. Graf was ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeks—the longest period for which any player, male or female, has held the number-one ranking since the WTA and the Association of Tennis Professionals began issuing rankings. She won 107 singles titles, which ranks her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova (167 titles) and Chris Evert (157 titles). She and Margaret Court are the only players, male or female, to win three",
"title": "Steffi Graf"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "9 consecutive weeks. New world No. 1 was another Serbian Jelena Janković. Though missing nearly all US Open series season, playing just one tournament in preparation for US Open, Ivanovic returned again to No. 1 spot after Olympics, as Jankovic lost points from last year's Rogers Cup which was at the time of this year's Olympics, leaving Jankovic with just one week at No. 1 spot. With playing just that one tournament in Montreal, this was Ivanovic's third tournament in Grand Slam category of all last four tournaments she played. Hard times since dream run at French Open continued for",
"title": "2008 Ana Ivanovic tennis season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (; born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-five major titles. In addition, she won the season-ending WTA Finals two times in singles and three times in doubles, and",
"title": "Martina Hingis"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 3 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player—and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a record total of 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016. He re-entered the top ten following his victory at",
"title": "Roger Federer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.36,
"text": "2016 Serena Williams tennis season The 2016 Serena Williams tennis season officially began on 5 January with the start of the 2016 Hopman Cup. Williams entered the season as the number one ranked player and the defending champion at five tournaments, including the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. On the week of September 5, 2016, Williams tied Steffi Graf for the longest consecutive weeks as World No. 1 at 186 weeks. On July 9, 2016 Williams, defeated Angelique Kerber in the finals at Wimbledon to claim her 22nd major singles title and tie the Open Era record for Grand",
"title": "2016 Serena Williams tennis season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.36,
"text": "over 200 weeks. She was year-end singles No. 1 seven times, including a record of five consecutive years, as well as year-end doubles No. 1 five times, including three consecutive years during which she held the ranking for the entire year. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles, combined marking the open-era record for the most number of Grand Slam titles won by one player, male or female. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including for nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and",
"title": "Martina Navratilova"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.33,
"text": "their victories. With the victories, Federer reclaimed the World No. 1 ranking for the first time since June 2010, thus allowing him to equal, then break, the all-time record of most weeks ranked World No. 1 held by Pete Sampras. Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament. For 2012, the prize money purse was increased to £16,060,000 from £14,600,000 in 2011. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £1,150,000. Roger Federer def. Andy Murray, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4 Serena Williams def. Agnieszka Radwańska, 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 Jonathan Marray / Frederik",
"title": "2012 Wimbledon Championships"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.27,
"text": "18, after 160 weeks at ATP No. 2, Rafael Nadal overtook Roger Federer, breaking his 237-week streak at the top spot, to become the 24th player to hold the No. 1 rank in the twenty-five years of computerised-rankings history. Nadal eventually withdrew in the run-up to the tournament, citing fatigue. Roger Federer started his 2008 campaign with his first exit before the final in a major event since a 2005 defeat by Rafael Nadal at the French Open, when he lost in the Australian Open semifinals to Djokovic. After announcing he had contracted mononucleosis in December 2007, Federer hired clay-court",
"title": "2008 Tennis Masters Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "entered the top four in this period were Juan Martín del Potro (3 weeks) and Robin Söderling (13 weeks). This run was ended when David Ferrer replaced Nadal in the top 4 following a period of injury for Nadal, and retained his place in the top 4 for much of 2013 as Roger Federer dropped down the rankings due to his own back injury problems. All four have been world number one. Federer first reached number one in 2004 after winning his first Australian Open, whereas Nadal did in 2008 following his Olympics victory after three straight years of ending",
"title": "Big Four (tennis)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "Roland Garros and the eighth consecutive Grand Slam (the 21st consecutive Majors in a Top 2 seed) in which Djokovic has been the top seed. He reached 200 weeks at No. 1 in the ATP Rankings (May 23) and also achieved 100 consecutive weeks at No. 1 (May 30) during the tournament. Djokovic won his first French Open title to complete a career Grand Slam. The Serb defeated Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei in one hour and 30 minutes to stretch his undefeated streak to 12-0 in first-round play in Paris. Djokovic defeated the Belgian Steve Darcis in 2 hours",
"title": "2016 Novak Djokovic tennis season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "one week short of equalling Pete Sampras's record number of 286 weeks as the ATP No. 1 ranked men's singles player. This day decided the last two of the four semifinalists in the women's singles. Since none of the four semifinalists (Samantha Stosur, Jelena Janković, Francesca Schiavone, and Elena Dementieva) had won any Grand Slam women's singles titles before, this meant Francesca Schiavone became a first-time women's singles Grand Slam champion in this tournament. Rafael Nadal reclaimed the No. 1 men's singles ATP ranking, leaving Roger Federer only one week short of equalling Pete Sampras's record number of 286 weeks",
"title": "2010 French Open – Day-by-day summaries"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "lost in the quarterfinals to Robin Söderling, ending his six-year streak of consecutive Grand Slam semifinals. Moreover, after the end of tournament, he lost the world no. 1 ranking to Nadal, leaving Federer at 285 weeks of being world no. 1, with Sampras holding the record of 286 weeks at that time. Federer next played at the Gerry Weber Open, where he lost to Hewitt in the final in three sets. In doubles, Federer and Allegro lost in the first round to Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber. Next, Federer attempted to defend his title at the Wimbledon Championships. Since Wimbledon",
"title": "2010 Roger Federer tennis season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "Perry in 1936. Federer defeated Murray in four sets in three hours and 24 minutes, to capture a record equalling seventh Wimbledon championship, and a record breaking seventeenth Major title. The victory was also historic as it caused Federer to depose Djokovic as world No. 1 and break Sampras' record of 286 weeks at the summit of men's tennis (Federer had been just one week short when he lost the number one ranking in June 2010). At the beginning of the third set play was halted by rain and the roof which had been installed in 2009 was closed for",
"title": "Big Four (tennis)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "lead rivalry, and the pair met in the final of both the French Open and Wimbledon. Nadal won both, with the latter described as one of the greatest tennis matches of all time. In August 2008, after winning the 2008 Summer Olympics gold medal, Nadal passed Federer to become world No. 1, after Federer had been at the top for a record 237 consecutive weeks. The year's final Major, the US Open, saw all four players reach the semifinals of the same Major for the first time. Federer defeated Djokovic in the semifinals, while Murray won through to his first",
"title": "Big Four (tennis)"
}
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who played wednesday addams in the tv series? | [
"Lisa Loring"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.19,
"text": "near copies of the original children, now known as Wednesday Sr. and Pugsley Sr., who were once again played respectively by Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, the original Wednesday and Pugsley in the series. Vic Mizzy rewrote and conducted the series theme as an instrumental. Astin reprised his role as Gomez Addams for the 1992 animated adaptation of the series. No other members of the original cast were involved. In 1998, a standalone film, \"\"Addams Family Reunion\"\", aired on the Fox Family Channel, followed by the series \"\"The New Addams Family\"\" that ran from 1998 to 2000. Astin appeared in",
"title": "The Addams Family (1964 TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.5,
"text": "musical Wednesday is older than Pugsley. In the parody web series \"\"Adult Wednesday Addams\"\", Wednesday, as played by Melissa Hunter, recovers her dark, sociopathic and sadistic nature and her long braids, connecting with the events and the depiction of the movies and the original comic-book. This Wednesday deals with being an adult after moving out of her family home. The web series gained media attention with the third episode of Season 2 in which Wednesday punished a pair of catcallers. The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation, copyright owners of The Addams Family, flagged the series for copyright violation resulting in",
"title": "Wednesday Addams"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.39,
"text": "Lisa Loring Lisa Loring (born Lisa Ann DeCinces; February 16, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for having played Wednesday Addams on the 1964–1966 sitcom \"\"The Addams Family\"\". Her parents both served in the United States Navy, but divorced shortly after her birth. She grew up in Hawaii and later moved to Los Angeles with her mother. She began modeling at age three and appeared in an episode of \"\"Dr. Kildare\"\", which aired in 1964. Her mother died of alcoholism in 1974 at age 34. She joined the cast of ABC sitcom \"\"The Pruitts of Southampton\"\" in",
"title": "Lisa Loring"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.12,
"text": "her film debut with a small part in \"\"\"\" playing a \"\"spoiled label queen\"\". She also appeared in the film \"\"Rachel Getting Married\"\" as a counter girl. In August 2008, Ashford played Wednesday Addams in the staged reading for musical adaptation to \"\"The Addams Family\"\" with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, but she was later replaced by Krysta Rodriguez. Other readings include \"\"\"\" as Campbell, \"\"The Black Suits\"\", \"\"C'mon Get Happy\"\", \"\"Pal Joey\"\", and a gender bent version of Stephen Sondheim's \"\"Company\"\". In 2009 it was announced that Ashford would take place as one of the principal characters and singers",
"title": "Annaleigh Ashford"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.98,
"text": "as Gomez and Morticia Addams were Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah, with Pat Thomas as Fester and Nicole Figuere as Wednesday, a role she would later reprise for \"\"The New Addams Family\"\" TV series, the only member of the film's cast to do so. According to Payne, he and Curry both felt that Gomez should be played \"\"weird\"\", in contrast to the Latin lothario Raul Julia had created for the Paramount duology. Much of the film's cast, including Alice Ghostley, Ray Walston, Clint Howard, and Ed Begley Jr., had appeared in numerous direct-to-video movies. \"\"Addams Family Reunion\"\" was shot in",
"title": "Addams Family Reunion"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "was selected to play the role of Wednesday Addams for the 1998 straight-to-video movie \"\"Addams Family Reunion\"\" after spending the summer of 1997 auditioning in Los Angeles. She was later cast again as Wednesday for \"\"The New Addams Family\"\", an updated version of the 1960s sitcom that aired on Fox Family from 1998 to 1999, and she appeared in nearly all of the program's 65 episodes. Nicole Fugere Nicole Marie Fugere (pronounced \"\"foo-zhair\"\") (born September 25, 1986) is an American actress and model. Fugere started modeling at 9 months old, following in her sisters' footsteps. She discovered an interest in",
"title": "Nicole Fugere"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "acted in 656 adult films during his lifetime. In 1987, Butler married former child actress Lisa Loring, who was best known for playing Wednesday Addams on \"\"The Addams Family\"\" television show in the 1960s. They met on the set of the adult film \"\"Traci's Big Trick\"\" (1987), where Lisa was working as a make-up artist. In an interview with NBC's \"\"Dateline\"\" in the 1990s Butler described himself as \"\"addicted to the lifestyle\"\" but claimed to be ashamed of his clandestine behavior and its effect on his marriage. The couple later appeared on the \"\"Sally Jessy Raphael Show\"\", again discussing the",
"title": "Jerry Butler (actor)"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "camera as a movie studio grip and set builder, while making occasional appearances at \"\"Addams Family\"\"-related events with former costar Lisa Loring, who had played Pugsley's younger sister Wednesday Addams on the show. Weatherwax died on December 7, 2014, of a heart attack at his home in West Hills, California, at the age of 59. He was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Ken Weatherwax Kenneth Patrick Weatherwax (September 29, 1955 – December 7, 2014) was an American child actor best known for having played Pugsley Addams on \"\"The Addams Family\"\". Weatherwax was born in Los Angeles, California, into a",
"title": "Ken Weatherwax"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.53,
"text": "as \"\"Feioso\"\" (Ugly). The 1998 series \"\"The New Addams Family\"\" features Pugsley played by Vancouver native Brody Smith. He is essentially the same as the original 1960s incarnation; however the influence of director John Bell's namesake Charlie 'Edge' Bell is undeniable. Also, he is portrayed as the younger sibling, as opposed to Wednesday. In the film \"\"The Addams Family\"\" and its sequel, \"\"Addams Family Values\"\", Pugsley is played by Jimmy Workman. He acts as an unwitting accomplice to his (older?) sister, Wednesday, who makes attempts to inflict lethal harm upon him - although he has returned the favor on occasion.",
"title": "Pugsley Addams"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.48,
"text": "\"\"Los Locos Addams\"\", the name of the TV Series in Mexico, starring Susana Zabaleta as Morticia, Jesús Ochoa as Gomez (Homero), Gloria Aura as Wednesday (Merlina), Miguel Ángel Pérez and Sebastián Gallegos as Pugsley (Pericles), Gerardo González as Uncle Fester (El tío Lucas), Raquel Pankowsky as Grandma (La abuela) and José Roberto Pisano as Lurch; also including Luca Duhart as Lucas (Tomás) Beineke, Tomás Castellanos as Mal (Mauricio) Beineke and Marisol del Olmo as Alice (Alicia) Beineke. The Kankakee Valley Theatre Association will present The Addams Family in October 2017 as a part of their 2017-2018 season. In France, a",
"title": "The Addams Family (musical)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.47,
"text": "the series. The series—shot in Vancouver—featured a new cast and was well received by viewers. Gomez Addams was played by Glenn Taranto, and Morticia by Ellie Harvie. The show reworked several storylines from the original series while incorporating modern elements, jokes, and references to episodes from the original series. John Astin, who played Gomez in the original series, appeared in a recurring role as Grandpapa Addams; Taranto patterned his performance after Astin's original version of Gomez. One of the notable differences between the original show and the new series was that Wednesday and Pugsley (Nicole Fugere and Brody Smith respectively",
"title": "The New Addams Family"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.42,
"text": "Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies, but her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, was used for the opening. \"\"The New Addams Family\"\"",
"title": "The Addams Family"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.42,
"text": "the series being pulled from YouTube. Over the years, Wednesday has been portrayed by a variety of actresses, on television, the movies, and stage: Wednesday Addams Wednesday Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams in his comic strip \"\"The Addams Family\"\". The character has also appeared in television and film, in both the live action and animated formats. In Addams' cartoons, which first appeared in \"\"The New Yorker\"\", Wednesday and other members of the family had no names. When the characters were adapted to the 1964 television series, Charles Addams gave her the name \"\"Wednesday\"\", based",
"title": "Wednesday Addams"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "The Addams Family (1973 TV series) The Addams Family is an animated sitcom adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973. Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy who played Uncle Fester and Lurch respectively from the 1960s television series returned in voice-over roles. The Addams Family consists of husband and wife, Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, as well as Grandmama, Uncle Fester, and their butler, Lurch. The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities. No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series. This series",
"title": "The Addams Family (1973 TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.19,
"text": "and starred most of the original cast, except for Blossom Rock, who was very ill at the time and was replaced as Grandmama by \"\"Phyllis\"\" actress Jane Rose. Elvia Allman portrayed Mother Frump, whom Margaret Hamilton had played in the original series. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles in the original series, also appeared in the movie. The film also included extended family members created specifically for this production, such as Gomez's brother Pancho (played by Henry Darrow) and two additional children, Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr. The latter two were portrayed as",
"title": "The Addams Family (1964 TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.16,
"text": "the morbid but basically good Addams clan\"\". The producers wanted to bridge the gap in continuity between the Paramount films and the new series, and reached out to Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd to reprise their roles as Morticia Addams and Uncle Fester, but both declined. Director Dave Payne, however, denies that Huston and Lloyd were considered for the film's casting. Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman were too old to reprise their roles as Wednesday and Pugsley Addams. The only actors to reprise their roles from the Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch, and Christopher Hart as Thing. Recast",
"title": "Addams Family Reunion"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "1972. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy provided the voices for their respective \"\"Addams Family\"\" characters while voice actors were used to voice Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Cousin Itt. The episode details the Addams Family in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams comics. The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973–1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addams' on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series followed the relationships of the original Addams",
"title": "The Addams Family (1973 TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "4–8, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Nathan Lane as Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Uncle Fester and Zachary James played Lurch. The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8, after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009 to January 10, 2010. The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie",
"title": "The Addams Family"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.98,
"text": "The Addams Family (1991 film) The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced by David Levy. Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raúl Juliá as Gomez Addams, Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester. The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with who they believe to be a",
"title": "The Addams Family (1991 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.95,
"text": "Price for United Theatrical, directed by Shaun Kerrison and conducted by Freddie Tapner. In 2017, she played the role of Wednesday Addams on the UK tour of the musical production of \"\"The Addams Family\"\". The production starred Samantha Womack and Les Dennis and was again produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical, Katy Lipson for Area Entertainment and Music & Lyrics in association with Festival Theatre, Edinburgh In December 2017, she performed in the musical production of \"\"The Christmasaurus\"\". The production starred Tom Fletcher, Giovanna Fletcher, Harry Judd and Matt Willis. In February 2018, it was",
"title": "Carrie Hope Fletcher"
}
] |
who said i think therefore i am quote? | [
"René Descartes"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.02,
"text": "of kettles from glass. This has fragments from her journey in Scotland, inspired by the landscape, the people, and the old Scottish culture. The kettles were given chassis, wheels and fictional royal names. In 2007, she created a bath tub made out of a single block of red granite from Sweden, entitled \"\"I sink, therefore I am\"\", a pun on René Descartes' statement, \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\". On the outside of the tub is a longer quote by Descartes. She received first prize in international competitions in both Murano, Italy (1996) and Ebeltoft, Denmark (1997) for her sculptures in",
"title": "Alena Matejka"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.77,
"text": "Discourse on the Method Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences () is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation \"\"\"\"Je pense, donc je suis\"\"\"\" (English: \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\", or \"\"I am thinking, therefore I exist\"\"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. The similar Latin statement, \"\"Cogito, ergo sum\"\", is found in \"\"Meditations on First Philosophy\"\" (1641) and \"\"Principles of Philosophy\"\" (1644). \"\"Discourse on the Method\"\" is one of the most influential",
"title": "Discourse on the Method"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.36,
"text": "“I am thinking, therefore I exist” appears in the CSMK translation of Descartes's correspondence in French (“, ”) to colleagues at CSMK III 247. The earliest known translation as \"\"I am thinking, therefore I am\"\" is from 1872 by Charles Porterfield Krauth. As put compactly by Prof. Krauth (1872), \"\"That cannot doubt which does not think, and that cannot think which does not exist. I doubt, I think, I exist.\"\" The phrase \"\"cogito, ergo sum\"\" is not used in Descartes's \"\"Meditations on First Philosophy\"\" but the term \"\"the \"\"cogito\"\"\"\" is used to refer to an argument from it. In the",
"title": "Cogito, ergo sum"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.34,
"text": "many different Pooh quotations such as René Descartes's \"\"I think therefore I am\"\" and takes them down to a very simple level. Pooh and the Philosophers Pooh and the Philosophers is a 1995 book by John Tyerman Williams, purporting to show how all of Western philosophy from the last 3,000 years was a long preparation for Winnie the Pooh. It was published in 1995 by Dutton in the United States and by Methuen in the United Kingdom, using A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh, and is both humorous and intellectual. The first chapter, entitled \"\"What this book is about\"\" the",
"title": "Pooh and the Philosophers"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.14,
"text": "which I did not clearly know to be such.\"\" This method of pro-foundational skepticism is considered to be the start of modern philosophy. Discourse on the Method Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences () is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation \"\"\"\"Je pense, donc je suis\"\"\"\" (English: \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\", or \"\"I am thinking, therefore I exist\"\"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. The similar Latin statement, \"\"Cogito, ergo sum\"\",",
"title": "Discourse on the Method"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.11,
"text": "myth of Miller, whose plane went missing in 1944 and was never found. Lister attributes Popeye the Sailor Man's saying \"\"I am what I am\"\" to Descartes (in reference to the latter's famous line, \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\"), but the attribution is corrected by Rimmer. (Kryten later makes the same mistake.) Using the DNA modifier, Holly turns Lister into a super-human fighting machine \"\"Man Plus\"\". The result transforms Lister into a small replica hybrid of RoboCop from the 1987 film of the same name. When Lister is being chased by the vindaloo mutation he parodies Bruce Willis' line from",
"title": "DNA (Red Dwarf)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "that he will write on this topic \"\"as if no one had written on these matters before\"\". His best known philosophical statement is \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\" (; ), found in \"\"Discourse on the Method\"\" (1637; written in French and Latin) and \"\"Principles of Philosophy\"\" (1644; written in Latin). Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the schools on two major points: first, he rejected the splitting of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he",
"title": "René Descartes"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.59,
"text": "which rationality and morality emerge.\"\" He is also known for his comment \"\"I am linked therefore I am\"\" as an answer to Descartes' proposition \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\". Most of these developments are summarized in \"\"Relational Being, Beyond the Individual and Community,\"\" which attempts to demonstrate that what are considered mental processes are not so much \"\"in the head\"\" as in relationships. It also attempts to answer charges of moral relativism with a non-foundational morality of collaborative practice, and to outline a way to bring science together with concerns for the sacred. Gergen's work is associated with social constructionism.",
"title": "Kenneth J. Gergen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.5,
"text": "remains to the Panthéon, he was reburied in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1819, missing a finger and skull. His skull is on display in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. Initially, Descartes arrives at only a single first principle: I think. Thought cannot be separated from me, therefore, I exist (\"\"Discourse on the Method\"\" and \"\"Principles of Philosophy\"\"). Most famously, this is known as \"\"cogito ergo sum\"\" (English: \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\"). Therefore, Descartes concluded, if he doubted, then something or someone must be doing the doubting, therefore the very fact that he doubted proved his existence. \"\"The",
"title": "René Descartes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.44,
"text": "these motions seem to be totally independent of what we think, and concludes that our bodies are separate from our souls. He does not seem to distinguish between mind, spirit and soul, which are identified as our faculty for rational thinking. Hence the term \"\"I think, therefore I am.\"\" All three of these words (particularly \"\"mind\"\" and \"\"soul\"\") can be identified by the single French term \"\"âme.\"\" Descartes begins by noting, without directly referring to it, the recent trial of Galileo for heresy and the condemnation of heliocentrism; he explains that for these reasons he has been slow to publish.",
"title": "Discourse on the Method"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.25,
"text": "consider it. (Descartes, Meditation II: On the Nature of the Human Mind, Which Is Better Known Than the Body). In other words, one's consciousness implies one's existence. In one of Descartes' replies to objections to the book, he summed this up in the phrase, \"\"\"\"I think therefore I am\"\"\"\". Once he secures his existence, however, Descartes seeks to find out what \"\"I\"\" is. He rejects the typical method, which looks for a definition (e.g., Rational Animal), because the words used in the definition would then need to be defined. He seeks \"\"simple terms\"\" that do not need to be defined",
"title": "Meditations on First Philosophy"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.19,
"text": "early philosophical discussion of self-awareness is that of John Locke. Locke was apparently influenced by René Descartes' statement normally translated 'I think, therefore I am' (\"\"Cogito ergo sum\"\"). In chapter XXVII \"\"On Identity and Diversity\"\" of Locke's \"\"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding\"\" (1689) he conceptualized consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject—and therefore punishment and guiltiness justified, as critics such as Nietzsche would point out, affirming \"\"...the psychology of conscience is not 'the voice of God in man'; it is the instinct of cruelty ... expressed, for the first time,",
"title": "Self-awareness"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.16,
"text": "Je lutte donc je suis Je lutte donc je suis (French: \"\"I fight therefore I am\"\") is a documentary film about social and political struggles in Greece and Spain, realized by Yannis Youlountas, in September 2015, in France. The title is made from the aphorisme of the philosopher René Descartes \"\"Cogito ergo sum\"\" (I think therefore I am). Although it was not distributed by any mainstream company, it has had a very large success, and has been shown to numerous theaters, festivals, in France and in Europe. It received two awards. The film is available under a Creative Commons license.",
"title": "Je lutte donc je suis"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.12,
"text": "focus on the beatific vision after death. The 13th century pope Innocent III wrote about the essential misery of earthly existence in his \"\"\"\"On the misery of the human condition\"\"\"\" – a view that was disputed by, for example, Giannozzo Manetti in his treatise \"\"\"\"On human dignity.\"\"\"\" A famous quote of Shakespeare's Hamlet (II, ii, 115-117), expressing the contrast of human physical beauty, intellectual faculty, and ephemeral nature: René Descartes famously and succinctly proposed: \"\"Cogito ergo sum\"\" (French: \"\"\"\"Je pense donc je suis\"\"\"\"; English: \"\"\"\"I think, therefore I am\"\"\"\"). The Enlightenment was driven by a renewed conviction, that, in the",
"title": "Self-reflection"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.11,
"text": "proceeding with logic would open the way to all science. Descartes discovered this basic truth quite soon: his famous \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\". In 1620 Descartes left the army. He visited Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto, then visited various countries before returning to France, and during the next few years spent time in Paris. It was there that he composed his first essay on method: \"\"Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii\"\" (Rules for the Direction of the Mind). He arrived in La Haye in 1623, selling all of his property to invest in bonds, which provided a comfortable income for",
"title": "René Descartes"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.02,
"text": "conquered. \"\"Myślę, więc jestem.\"\" (\"\"Cogito ergo sum\"\"). Literal translation: (I) think, therefore (I) am. Idiomatic translation: I think, therefore I am. In Polish, the subject is omitted almost every time, although it can be present to put emphasis on the subject. \"\"Пришёл, увидел, победил\"\" (\"\"Veni, vidi, vici\"\"). Literal translation: came, saw, conquered. Idiomatic translation: I came, I saw, I conquered. In Spanish, as with Latin and most Romance languages, the subject is encoded in the verb conjugation. Pronoun use is not obligatory. In Spanish, for the most part one may choose whether to use the subject or not. Generally if",
"title": "Null-subject language"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.91,
"text": "and out through our network of beliefs, stopping nowhere. The apparent impossibility of completing an infinite chain of reasoning is thought by some to support skepticism. It is also the impetus for Descartes' famous dictum: \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\". Descartes was looking for some logical statement that could be true without appeal to other statements. Many epistemologists studying justification have attempted to argue for various types of chains of reasoning that can escape the regress problem. Foundationalists respond to the regress problem by asserting that certain \"\"foundations\"\" or \"\"basic beliefs\"\" support other beliefs but do not themselves require justification",
"title": "Epistemology"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.84,
"text": "work of Tony Fry is important. René Descartes, with \"\"je pense donc je suis\"\" or \"\"cogito ergo sum\"\" or \"\"I think, therefore I am\"\", argued that \"\"the self\"\" is something that we can know exists with epistemological certainty. Descartes argued further that this knowledge could lead to a proof of the certainty of the existence of God, using the ontological argument that had been formulated first by Anselm of Canterbury. Certainty about the existence of \"\"the self\"\" and \"\"the other\"\", however, came under increasing criticism in the 20th century. Sociological theorists, most notably George Herbert Mead and Erving Goffman, saw",
"title": "Ontology"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.81,
"text": "most mature column ever to \"\"The Straits Times\"\". The daily posthumously published \"\"I think and feel, therefore I am\"\", on 28 December 1997. In it Hicks argued, Thinking is more than just conceiving ideas and drawing inferences; thinking is also reflection and contemplation. When we take embodied thinking rather than abstract reasoning as a goal for our mind, then we understand that thinking is a transformative act.<br> The mind will not only deduce, speculate, and comprehend, but it will also awaken, will enlighten and inspire.<br> Si, is how I have thought, and always will think. Tu asserts that Hicks' use",
"title": "Bonny Hicks"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 18.8,
"text": "Nîmes. On 4 October 2016, the film received the award \"\"Solidarity film\"\" from the Human Rights Ligue in Orly. Je lutte donc je suis Je lutte donc je suis (French: \"\"I fight therefore I am\"\") is a documentary film about social and political struggles in Greece and Spain, realized by Yannis Youlountas, in September 2015, in France. The title is made from the aphorisme of the philosopher René Descartes \"\"Cogito ergo sum\"\" (I think therefore I am). Although it was not distributed by any mainstream company, it has had a very large success, and has been shown to numerous theaters,",
"title": "Je lutte donc je suis"
}
] |
who wrote many of the classics of the ragtime repertoire? | [
"Scott Joplin"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "Krell also composed the rag Shake Yo' Dusters! or Piccaninny Rag in 1898. The popularity of \"\"Mississippi Rag\"\" resulted in the emergence of the genre known as ragtime. William Henry Krell was a Chicago bandleader and composer whose other compositions included: Mississippi Rag has been recorded by Claude Bolling in 1966, the Firehouse Five Plus Two, Steve Pistorius, Turk Murphy, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra on \"\"More Candy\"\", Richard Zimmerman, Squeek Steele on \"\"Ragtime Volume One\"\", Harmonic Brass Munich on \"\"There's a Man\"\", Knuckles O'Toole on \"\"Knuckles O'Toole: Plays The Greatest All-Time Ragtime Hits\"\", Terry Waldo on \"\"Ragtime Classics Vol. 1\"\", Evergreen",
"title": "William Krell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "to have composed over twenty rags, some of which are often performed today (\"\"Brun Campbell Express,\"\" \"\"Rosebud Rag,\"\" \"\"Corncracker Rag,\"\" \"\"Little Wabash Special\"\") and two of which were published (\"\"Brun Campbell Express\"\" in \"\"They All Played Ragtime\"\", Oak Publications, New York, 1966; and \"\"Trillium Rag\"\" in Max Morath's \"\"Guide to Ragtime\"\", Hollis Music, Inc., New York, 1964). He recorded three albums which contain his compositions: \"\"Classic and Modern Rags\"\" (Ragtime Society Records RSR-1, 1963), \"\"Prairie Ragtime\"\" (Ragtime Society Records RSR-2, 1964) and \"\"Little Wabash Special\"\" (Stomp Off Records, SOS-1022, 1982). Shea died in Raleigh from a heart attack in March",
"title": "Thomas Shea (composer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "Classic rag Classic rag (short for classical ragtime) is the style of ragtime composition pioneered by Scott Joplin and the Missouri school of ragtime composers. These compositions were first considered \"\"classic\"\" by Joplin's publisher, John Stark, as a way to distinguish them from what he considered the \"\"common\"\" rags of other publishers. Today, any composition fitting this particular ragtime structural form is considered classic rag. In the earliest days of ragtime, there was little consensus on how to print the syncopated melodies of ragtime, so there was considerable variety in the formatting of sheet music. Pieces appeared in common meter,",
"title": "Classic rag"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "third phrase repeating the first. There is considerable variation, though. Some composers (such as James Scott) made frequent use of two-bar phrases and others (such as Joseph Lamb) tended to employ eight-bar phrases. Classic rag Classic rag (short for classical ragtime) is the style of ragtime composition pioneered by Scott Joplin and the Missouri school of ragtime composers. These compositions were first considered \"\"classic\"\" by Joplin's publisher, John Stark, as a way to distinguish them from what he considered the \"\"common\"\" rags of other publishers. Today, any composition fitting this particular ragtime structural form is considered classic rag. In the",
"title": "Classic rag"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.12,
"text": "Scott Joplin Scott Joplin ( or November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the \"\"King of Ragtime\"\". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the \"\"Maple Leaf Rag\"\", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers.",
"title": "Scott Joplin"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.03,
"text": "The Entertainer (rag) \"\"The Entertainer\"\" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians, the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film \"\"The Sting\"\". Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached #3 on the",
"title": "The Entertainer (rag)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "Blesh wrote a large book about ragtime, which he dedicated to the memory of Joplin. Although he was penniless and disappointed at the end of his life, Joplin set the standard for ragtime compositions and played a key role in the development of ragtime music. And as a pioneer composer and performer, he helped pave the way for young black artists to reach American audiences of both races. After his death, jazz historian Floyd Levin noted: \"\"Those few who realized his greatness bowed their heads in sorrow. This was the passing of the king of all ragtime writers, the man",
"title": "Scott Joplin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.88,
"text": "composers from Sweden are producing ragtime, chief among them are Peter Lundberg, Sune \"\"Sumpen\"\" Borg, Peter Andersson, Ragnar Hellspong, Oscar Janner, Oleg Mezjuev, Joakim Stenshäll, Kimo Viklund, and Kjell Waltman. In the early 1940s, many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire, and as early as 1936 78 rpm records of Joplin's compositions were produced. Old numbers written for piano were rescored for jazz instruments by jazz musicians, which gave the old style a new sound. The most famous recording of this period is Pee Wee Hunt's version of Euday L. Bowman's \"\"Twelfth Street Rag.\"\" A more significant",
"title": "Ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "classical composer to take a serious interest in ragtime was Antonín Dvořák. French composer Claude Debussy emulated ragtime in three pieces for piano. The best-known remains the \"\"Golliwog's Cake Walk\"\" (from the 1908 Piano Suite \"\"Children's Corner\"\"). He later returned to the style with two preludes for piano: \"\"Minstrels\"\", (1910) and \"\"General Lavine-excentric\"\" (from his 1913 Preludes), which was inspired by a Médrano circus clown. Erik Satie, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and the other members of The Group of Six in Paris never made any secret of their sympathy for ragtime, which is sometimes evident in their works. Consider, in",
"title": "Ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "\"\"Concertino\"\" for piano and orchestra. Igor Stravinsky wrote a solo piano work called \"\"Piano-Rag-Music\"\" in 1919 and also included a rag in his theater piece \"\"L'histoire du soldat\"\" (1918). Maurice Ravel is said to have heard Jimmie Noone and his group perform in Chicago. Despite the imprecise anecdote, Ravel's involvement with jazz is unquestionable, as it influenced many of his important works, for example the fox-trot of \"\"L'enfant et les sortilèges\"\", the blues of the \"\"Sonata for violin and piano\"\", \"\"Concerto in G\"\" and the \"\"Concerto for the left hand\"\", both composed for piano in 1931. From the 1960s on,",
"title": "Ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "1960s by the now foremost authority on Folk Ragtime, Trebor Jay Tichenor (1940-2014). Another exponent of folk ragtime was Thomas Shea (November 14, 1931 - March 12, 1982); his music is sometimes referred to as \"\"prairie ragtime.\"\" The writers of folk ragtime often simply mixed together themes of theirs in a random fashion, in structure loosely resembling the typical Classic Rag structure (IntroAABBACCDD.) Good testimony of this are the legendary multiple takes of Folk Rags by Sanford Brunson Campbell, recorded on acetates in 1947. They illustrate a performer who embellishes and improvises on basic themes, at times seeming as if",
"title": "Folk ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.55,
"text": "in 4/4 time, and in 2/4 time, and often followed conventions of earlier musical forms such as the march. As the 20th century dawned most composers, arrangers, and publishers began to settle on a common set of notational and structural conventions, and because Scott Joplin was the best-selling ragtime composer in that era, his conventions eventually predominated. The \"\"classic rag\"\" form can thus be considered a typical form of a ragtime piano composition, though it is by no means the only form. In idealized form, the classic rag has the following structure: This can be written more succinctly as: INTRO",
"title": "Classic rag"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "Joseph Lamb, James Scott, and Joplin are, together, acknowledged as the three most sophisticated ragtime composers. Other leading ragtime composers include Jelly Roll Morton, Eubie Blake, Charles L. Johnson, Tom Turpin, May Aufderheide, Lyons and Yosco, Mike Bernard, George Botsford, Zez Confrey, Sidney L. Perrin, Ben Harney, Luckey Roberts, Irving Jones, James P. Johnson, Paul Sarebresole, Joe Jordan, Fred S. Stone and Wilbur Sweatman. European Classical composers were influenced by the form. The first contact with ragtime was probably at the Paris Exposition in 1900, one of the stages of the European tour of John Philip Sousa. The first notable",
"title": "Ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.5,
"text": "James Scott (composer) James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 – August 30, 1938) was an African-American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces.",
"title": "James Scott (composer)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.41,
"text": "guitar and banjo soloist. According to David A. Jasen, in his book \"\"Ragtime gems: original sheet music for 25 ragtime classics\"\", sheet music for ragtime songs sometimes sold a million copies (the standard of today's Platinum Record for recorded music). It tended not to happen as quickly as with music sales today, taking as long as 20 years for the hit \"\"Maple Leaf Rag\"\", but it did happen. \"\"Spaghetti Rag\"\" was part of a list of million-selling songs that included Scott Joplin's \"\"Maple Leaf Rag\"\" and Charles L. Johnson's \"\"Dill Pickles Rag\"\". \"\"Spaghetti Rag\"\" was covered by artists such as",
"title": "Lyons and Yosco"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.39,
"text": "Charles L. Johnson Charles Leslie Johnson (December 3, 1876 - December 28, 1950) was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities. He published over 300 songs in his life, nearly 40 of them ragtime compositions such as \"\"Doc Brown’s Cakewalk\"\", \"\"Dill Pickles\"\", \"\"Apple Jack (Some Rag)\"\", and \"\"Snookums Rag\"\". His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called \"\"Sweet and Low\"\", sold over a million copies. Experts believe that had Johnson lived and worked in New York, he would",
"title": "Charles L. Johnson"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.38,
"text": "musicians have again begun to find ragtime and incorporate it into their musical repertoires. Such acts include Jay Chou, Curtains for You, Baby Gramps, and Bob Milne. In 1980, an adaption of E. L. Doctorow's historical novel \"\"Ragtime\"\" was released on screen. Randy Newman composed its music score, which was all original. In 1998, a stage version of \"\"Ragtime\"\" was produced on Broadway. With music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the show featured several rags as well as songs in other musical styles. Ragtime Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style",
"title": "Ragtime"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "Frog Legs Rag \"\"Frog Legs Rag\"\" is a classic rag composed by James Scott and published by John Stillwell Stark in December 1906. It was James Scott's first commercial success. Prior to this composition Scott had published marches. With \"\"Frog Legs Rag\"\", Scott embarked upon a career as a successful and important ragtime songwriter. In 1909, Scott Joplin orchestrated for \"\"Frog Legs Rag\"\" to be published by John Stillwell Stark, Joplin's publisher, and his company, Stark Music Company. Edward A. Berlin, author of the Joplin biography \"\"King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era\"\" asserts that there was no direct",
"title": "Frog Legs Rag"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "1920s party-like atmosphere. A BBC film of \"\"Elite Syncopations\"\" was also made in 1975 and danced by The Royal Ballet's original cast, in Battersea's Big Top. The piece entered the repertory of Birmingham Royal Ballet on 10 February 1978 at Sadler's Wells Theatre. The 'Classic' ragtime composers represented in the production are: Scott Joplin, Scott Hayden, Joseph F. Lamb and James Scott and Robert Hampton. The centrepiece was composed by Scott Joplin. Joplin also wrote a ballet called \"\"The Ragtime Dance\"\" (performed in 1899) as well as two operas, only one of which survived, called 'Treemonisha' (1902). McMillan added some",
"title": "Elite Syncopations (ballet)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "be included alongside Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb as one of the greatest ragtime composers. He wrote more than the other three combined and exemplified a greater range of talent, composing waltzes, tangos, cakewalks, marches, novelty pieces, and other types of music popular at that time. Johnson was born in the Armourdale district of Kansas City, Kansas to James R. and Helen F. Johnson. Clearly a prodigy, he was playing a neighbor’s piano by age six and began studying classical piano, harmony, and music theory a few years later. Although he had classical training, he always preferred popular",
"title": "Charles L. Johnson"
}
] |
where was the most gold found in australia? | [
"Echunga"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.88,
"text": "at Echunga were almost exhausted and the population dwindled to several hundred. During 1869 reef mining was introduced and some small mining companies were established but all had gone into liquidation by 1871. The Echunga goldfields were South Australia's most productive. By 1900 the estimated gold production was 6,000 kg (13,225 lb), compared with 680g (24oz, 1½lb) from the Victoria Mine at Castambul. After the revival of the Echunga goldfields in 1868, prospectors searched the Adelaide Hills for new goldfields. News of a new discovery would set off another rush. Gold was found at many locations including Balhannah, Forest Range,",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "Ranges. On 30 June 1851 gold was definitely found about 36 km (22 miles) north-east of Melbourne in the quartz rocks of the Yarra Ranges at Anderson's Creek, Warrandyte, Victoria by Louis John Michel, William Haberlin, James Furnival, James Melville, James Headon and B.Gruening. This gold was shown at the precise spot where it had been found to Webb Richmond, on behalf of the Gold Discovery Committee, on 5 July, the full particulars of the locality were communicated to the Lieutenant-Governor on 8 July and a sample was brought to Melbourne and exhibited to the Gold Discovery Committee on 16",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.77,
"text": "May to November 1898. In 1896, gold was discovered in the Wiluna region, which was then known as Lake Way, by three prospectors, George Woodley, James Wotton and Jimmy Lennon. On 29 December 1897, a 460-ounce nugget was found in Wiluna, then the largest found in the colony of Australia. The location it was found at was later to become the spot for the power house of the Wiluna Gold Mine Limited, the operators of the early mine. By the end of the 1890s, more than a third of the colony's population was located in the Eastern Goldfields. The political",
"title": "Gold mining in Western Australia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "of Australia. The discovery of gold in Australia is traditionally attributed to Edward Hammond Hargraves, near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. Traces of gold had nevertheless been found in Australia as early as 1823 by surveyor James McBrien. As by English law all minerals belonged to the Crown, there was at first, \"\"little to stimulate a search for really rich goldfields in a colony prospering under a pastoral economy\"\". Richard Broome also argues that the California Gold Rush at first overawed the Australian finds, until \"\"the news of Mount Alexander reached England in May 1852, followed shortly by",
"title": "History of Australia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.56,
"text": "in 1870, Waukaringa in 1873, Teetulpa in 1886, Wadnaminga in 1888 and Tarcoola in 1893. Teetulpa, 11 km (7 miles) north of Yunta, was a rich goldfield where more gold was found than anywhere else in South Australia at that time. Teetulpa had the largest number of diggers of any field at any time in the history of South Australian gold discoveries. By the end of 1886, two months into the rush, there were more than five thousand men on the field. A reporter noted: \"\"All sorts of people are going – from lawyers to larrikins ... Yesterday's train from",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.55,
"text": "Birdwood, Para Wirra, Mount Pleasant and Woodside. Gold was found in Queensland near Warwick as early as 1851, beginning small-scale alluvial gold mining in that state. The first Queensland goldrush did not occur until late 1858, however, after the discovery of what was rumoured to be payable gold for a large number of men at Canoona near what was to become the town of Rockhampton. According to legend this gold was found at Canoona near Rockhampton by a man named Chappie (or Chapel) in July or August 1858. The gold in the area, however, had first been found north of",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.53,
"text": "gold was found at Calliope near Gladstone, with the goldfield being officially proclaimed in the next year. The small rush attracted around 800 people by 1864 and after that the population declined as by 1870 the gold deposits were worked out. In 1863, gold was also found at Canal Creek (Leyburn) and some gold-mining began there at that time, but the short-lived goldrush there did not occur until 1871–72. In 1865, Richard Daintree discovered 100 km (60 miles) south-west of Charters Towers the Cape River goldfield near Pentland in North Queensland. The Cape River Goldfield which covered an area of",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.5,
"text": "like Bendigo but also Ballarat, Ararat and the goldfields close to Mount Alexander turned out to have large gold deposits below the superficial alluvial deposits that had been (partially) mined out. Gold at Bendigo was found in quartz reef systems, hosted within highly deformed mudstones and sandstones or were washed away into channels of ancient rivers. Tunnels as deep as 2000 or even 3000 feet (600 to 900 metres) (Stawell) were possible. Until overtaken in the 1890s by the Western Australia goldfields, Bendigo was the most productive Australian gold area, with a total production of over 20 million ounces (622",
"title": "Bendigo"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.5,
"text": "1882, small finds of gold were being made in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, prompting in 1883 the appointment of a Government Geologist. In 1884 Edward Hardman, Government Geologist, published a report that he had found traces of gold throughout the east Kimberley, especially in the area around the present-day town of Halls Creek. On 14 July 1885, having been prompted by Hardman's report, Charles Hall and Jack Slattery found payable gold at what they called Halls Creek, in the Kimberleys, Western Australia. After working for a few weeks Hall returned to Derby with 200 ounces of gold and",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.47,
"text": "John Gardner found gold-bearing quartz in 1847 on Blythe Creek, near Beaconsfield, on the other side of the Tamar River from George Town. Gold was found by a shepherd named McGregor at Mitchells Creek near Wellington, New South Wales, in 1848 on the Montefiore's squatting run, \"\"Nanima\"\". The Bathurst Free Press noted, on 25 May 1850, that \"\"Neither is there any doubt in the fact that Mr M'Gregor found a considerable quantity of the precious metal some years ago, near Mitchell's Creek, and it is surmised he still gets more in the same locality.\"\" William Tipple Smith found gold near",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "a £1,000 reward as \"\"the first actual producer of alluvial gold for the market\"\". The following goldfields were discovered in New South Wales during July 1851: On 20 July 1851 gold was found near present-day Castlemaine, Victoria (Mt Alexander Goldfields) at Specimen Gully in today's Castlemaine suburb of Barkers Creek. The gold was first found by Christopher Thomas Peters, a shepherd and hut-keeper on the Barker's Creek, in the service of William Barker. When the gold was shown in the men's quarters Peters was ridiculed for finding fool's gold, and the gold was thrown away. Barker did not want his",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.36,
"text": "was found about 30 miles (48 km) from Segenhoe near Aberdeen. The find was described in the newspapers as the discovery of a gold and silver mine about 30 miles from Thomas Potter Macqueen's Segenhoe Estate, by a Russian stockman employed in the neighbourhood of the discovery, which was located on Crown land. Paweł Strzelecki, geologist and explorer, found small amounts of gold in silicate in 1839 at the Vale of Clwyd near Hartley, a location on the road to Bathurst. Gold is believed to have been found in Northern Tasmania at The Den (formerly known as Lefroy or Nine",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.34,
"text": "place by 15 May 1851. Before 14 May 1851 gold was already flowing from Bathurst to Sydney, an example being when Edward Austin brought to Sydney a nugget of gold worth £35, which had been found in the Bathurst District. In 1872 a large gold and quartz \"\"Holtermann Nugget\"\" discovered by the night shift in a mine part owned by Bernhardt Holtermann at Hill End, near Bathurst, New South Wales: the largest specimen of reef gold ever found, 1.5 meters (59 inches) long, weighing 286 kg (630 pounds), in Hill End, near Bathurst, and with an estimated gold content of",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.33,
"text": "specimens of auriferous quartz which he had found to the eastward of Northam, but he failed to locate the spot again.Various small finds were made up to 1882, when Alexander McRae found gold between Cossack and Roebourne, with one nugget weighing upwards of 9 dwt (14g). Edward Hardman, Government Geologist, found traces of gold in the East Kimberley in 1884. His report about his finds subsequently led to the discovery of payable gold and the first Western Australian Goldrush. Gold was found in the Pyrnees Ranges in 1848 by a shepherd, Thomas Chapman. In December 1848 Chapman came into the",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.31,
"text": "auriferous deposit of gold was found 3 kilometres west of Buninyong, Victoria, near Ballarat. The gold was discovered in a gully in the Buninyong ranges, by a resident of Buninyong, Thomas Hiscock. Hiscock communicated the find, with its precise locality, to the editor of the \"\"Geelong Advertiser\"\" on 10 August. In that same month prospectors began moving from the Clunes to the Buninyong diggings. Hiscock was in 1854 to receive £1,000 reward from the Victorian Gold Discovery Committee as the substantial discoverer of the gold deposits of \"\"superior value\"\" in the Ballarat area. On 21 August 1851 gold was found",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.11,
"text": "July 1868. Townsville was opened up in 1868, the Gilbert River goldfield (110 km from Georgetown) in 1869, and Etheridge (Georgetown) in 1870. Gold found about 10 km south-east of Gawler in South Australia in 1868. Gold was found by Job Harris and his partners in Spike Valley near the South Para River. This was unsold Crown Land and was proclaimed an official goldfield with a warden appointed. On the second day there were 40 gold seekers, 1,000 within a week and, within a month, 4,000 licensed and 1,000 unlicensed diggers. Three towns were established nearby with about 6,000 people",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "receiving their wages, may also discover a gold mine. Gold was found in South Australia and Australia's first goldmine was established. From the earliest days of the Colony of South Australia men, including Johannes Menge the geologist with the South Australian Company, had been seeking gold. \"\"Armed with miner's pick, numberless explorers are to be found prying into the depths of the valleys or climbing the mountain tops. No place is too remote\"\". Gold was found in January 1846 by Captain Thomas Terrell at the Victoria Mine near Castambul, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, about 10 miles (16 km)",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "east of Adelaide. Some of the gold was made into a brooch sent to Queen Victoria and samples were displayed at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851. Share prices rose from £2 to £30, but soon fell back to £3 when no further gold was found. Unfortunately for the investors, and everyone else concerned, the mine's total gold production never amounted to more than 24 ounces. Gold was found at Port Phillip (Victoria) by a shepherd. About April 1847 a shepherd took a sample of ore about the size of an apple, that he believed to be",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "dinner, Frencham and his partner Robert Atkinson, with Trooper Synott as an escort, delivered 30 lbs (13.6 Kgs) of gold that they had mined to Assistant Commissioner Charles J.P. Lydiard at Forest Creek (Castlemaine), the first gold received from Bendigo. Gold was found at Omeo in late 1851 and gold mining continued in the area for many years. Due to the inaccessibility of the area there was only a small Omeo gold rush. Woods Almanac, 1857, states that gold was possibly found at Fingal (near Mangana) in 1851 by the \"\"Old Major\"\" who steadily worked at a gully for two",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "It has been claimed that Gold was first found at Bendigo, Victoria in September 1851. The four sets of serious contenders for the first finders of gold on what became the Bendigo goldfield are, in no particular order: According to the Bendigo Historical Society, it has today, contrary to the findings of the Select Committee of 1890, become \"\"generally agreed\"\" or \"\"acknowledged\"\" that gold was found at Bendigo Creek by two married women from the Mount Alexander North Run (later renamed the Ravenswood Run), Margaret Kennedy and Julia Farrell. A monument to this effect was erected by the City Of",
"title": "Australian gold rushes"
}
] |
when does once upon a time in venice come out? | [
"June 16, 2017"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.25,
"text": "2017. It was released in the UK as LA Vengeance. \"\"Once Upon A Time In Venice\"\" was released on Jun 16, 2017 (limited) and totalized 735,353 in combined international box office. \"\"Once Upon A Time In Venice\"\" received a 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews and an average rating of 4.1/10. Metacritic gave the film a score of 28 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, indicating \"\"generally unfavorable reviews\"\". Craig D. Lindsey of \"\"LA Weekly\"\" stated that Willis' performance was \"\"a sterling example of how a lazy star can make a bad movie even worse.\"\" Once",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.67,
"text": "Once Upon a Time in Venice Once Upon a Time in Venice (also known as LA Vengeance in the UK) is a 2017 American comedy film directed and written by Mark and Robb Cullen in their directorial debuts. The film stars Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, John Goodman, Thomas Middleditch, Famke Janssen, and Adam Goldberg with supporting roles by Christopher McDonald, Stephanie Sigman, and Wood Harris. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 16, 2017, by RLJ Entertainment. Los Angeles-based private detective Steve Ford lives a care-free life. After performing a favor for",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.11,
"text": "Willis declined to shoot the scene. The next day, the producers of the film stated that the scene needed to be cut, leaving Garman without an appearance in the film. The story mirrored that of his co-host, director Kevin Smith, who had similar stories of Willis' behaviour during the filming of \"\"Cop Out\"\". Principal photography began on June 29, 2015, in Venice, Los Angeles. The film was shooting under the working title \"\"Going Under\"\". In April 2017, RLJ Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film. It was released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 16,",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.88,
"text": "$5.3 million on a $30 million budget, and became labeled as a box office flop. The financial and critical disaster of the American release almost bankrupted The Ladd Company. Eventually, the film premiered in Leone's native Italy out of competition at the 41st Venice International Film Festival in September 1984. That same month, the film was released wide in Italy on September 28, 1984 in its 229-minute version. Several different versions of \"\"Once Upon a Time in America\"\" have been shown. The original European release version (1984, 229 minutes) was shown internationally. The film was shown in limited release and",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "wants to help Willis' character, while Penn would play a grocery store clerk. On July 13, 2015, Adam Goldberg was set to play Lou the Jew in the film. Next day on July 14, 2015, four more joined the cast of the film, including Tyga, Ken Davitian, David Arquette, and Victor Ortiz. Actor Ralph Garman was meant to play a role in the movie, but he revealed on his \"\"Hollywood Babble-On\"\" podcast that his character was written out of the film when Bruce Willis refused to shoot a scene between them. The Cullen brothers offered him another role, and again,",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "Voltage Pictures financing and selling the film at Cannes. In June 2015, Jason Momoa, Thomas Middleditch and Famke Janssen joined the cast of the film, Momoa to play the gang leader who forces Willis' character to do some jobs for his dog, Middleditch to play Willis' assistant in his operation, while Janssen would play Willis' sister-in-law. Later on June 30, 2015, John Goodman, Stephanie Sigman, Adrian Martinez, Kal Penn, and Emily Robinson round out the remaining cast of the film, Goodman playing Willis' best friend, Sigman playing Momoa's character's girlfriend, Martinez playing the owner of a local pizza store who",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "a friend, Ford runs afoul of a local gang. The gang's leader, Spyder, seeks revenge and steals Ford's dog. In order to recover the dog, Ford is forced into a sequence of convoluted and intertwined tasks across the Venice area. By May 16, 2015, Bruce Willis was cast to star in a comedy playing a Los Angeles private detective whose dog is stolen by a gang. Mark and Robb Cullen would make their directorial debut on the film based on their own script, and they would also produce the film along with Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman, and Laura Ford, while",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Venice"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.12,
"text": "his place. \"\"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\"\" is scheduled to be released July 26, 2019 by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was originally scheduled for release on August 9 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tate–LaBianca murders. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an upcoming mystery crime film centered on the Manson Family murders. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. The film is a British-American venture produced by Columbia Pictures and Heyday Films, and is the ninth directed feature film",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "known to exist. In March 2011, it was announced that Leone's original 269-minute version was to be re-created by a film lab in Italy under the supervision of Leone's children, who had acquired the Italian distribution rights, and the film's original sound editor, Fausto Ancillai, for a premiere in 2012 at either the Cannes Film Festival or Venice Film Festival. The restored film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, but because of unforeseen rights issues for the deleted scenes, the restoration had a runtime of only 251 minutes. However, Martin Scorsese (whose Film Foundation helped with the restoration) stated",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in America"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.28,
"text": "and the film \"\"Once Upon a Time in Venice\"\". \"\"The Oath\"\" is coming up next for her on Sony's Crackle TV, as well as \"\"Love Is All You Need?\"\", \"\"Will Gardner\"\", and \"\"The Tribes of Palos Verdes\"\" with Jennifer Garner. Röhm was a longtime avid equestrienne, but gave up professional equestrianism after a 2005 accident that she spoke about in a 2011 episode of the Biography Channel series \"\"Celebrity Close Calls\"\". She did have a horse-riding scene with Mark Harmon in the aforementioned \"\"NCIS\"\" episode. Röhm was engaged to director Austin Smithard in 2000. On April 11, 2008, Röhm gave",
"title": "Elisabeth Röhm"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an upcoming mystery crime film centered on the Manson Family murders. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. The film is a British-American venture produced by Columbia Pictures and Heyday Films, and is the ninth directed feature film by Tarantino. The film is scheduled for release on July 26, 2019. In 1969 Los Angeles, around the time of the Charles Manson murders, a TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.89,
"text": "and Blu-ray. On September 30, 2014, Warner Bros. released a two-disc Blu-ray and DVD set of the 251-minute restoration shown at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, dubbed the \"\"Extended Director's Cut\"\". This version was previously released in Italy, on September 4, 2012. The initial critical response to \"\"Once Upon a Time in America\"\" was mixed, because of the different versions released worldwide. While internationally the film was well received in its original form, American critics were much more dissatisfied with the 139-minute version released in North America. This condensed version was a critical and financial disaster, and many American critics",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in America"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.78,
"text": "Disneyland, would premiere on May 29, 2014. This nighttime entertainment uses projection mapping technology to produce a three-dimensional effect by projecting images in a way that fits the contours of buildings and other structures. This is the first time for this technology to be used in an entertainment program at Tokyo Disney Resort. The show soft opened on May 26, 2014. Due to inclement weather that evening, a majority of the fireworks were not produced. The show also had performances on May 27 and 28 before the actual opening date. To avoid overcrowding problems, the show features ticket systems for",
"title": "Once Upon a Time (Disney parks)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.53,
"text": "season it chronicled her time in New York. She made her dancing debut in the Korean version of \"\"Dancing with the Stars\"\" on 10 June 2011. She placed third that season. Gomes was in the 2017 film \"\"Once Upon a Time in Venice\"\" starring Bruce Willis. Gomes has a variety of East Coast Hip Hop connections. In January 2012, Gomes was revealed as the voice behind saying the name of Rick Ross's label Maybach Music Group at the beginning of certain tracks that the company produces. She is \"\"name-checked\"\" in the Kanye West GOOD Fridays song \"\"Christian Dior Denim Flow\"\".",
"title": "Jessica Gomes"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.5,
"text": "Once Upon a Time (2017 film) Once Upon a Time () is a Chinese romantic drama fantasy film produced by Alibaba Pictures and directed by Zhao Xiaoding and Anthony LaMolinara. It is based on the fantasy novel \"\"Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles Peach Blossoms\"\", also known as \"\"To the Sky Kingdom\"\", by TangQi Gongzi. The film stars Liu Yifei and Yang Yang. Originally slated to be released in China on 21 July 2017, the film's release date was later pushed back to 3 August 2017. Bai Qian is the youngest of five in the Bai family, a family of",
"title": "Once Upon a Time (2017 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.47,
"text": "in China (3 August), Vietnam (4 August), Cambodia (4 August), North America (11 August), Myanmar (11 August), Malaysia (17 August), UK (18 August), Singapore (24 August), Australia (31 August), Germany, Thailand, South Korea (in September) and Japan. The film's opening day gross was . It grossed a total of US$82,3 million in China. \"\"Variety\"\" reported that \"\"Once Upon a Time\"\" would open in North American screens on 11 August 2017. It grossed US$485,728 in North America. Wanda Vietnam company reported that \"\"Once Upon a Time\"\" have collected VND10 billion (US$440,000) after 9 days released, it can be considered very impressive",
"title": "Once Upon a Time (2017 film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "to rob the Federal Reserve, was shot at the Don CeSar in St. Petersburg, Florida. The New York's railway \"\"Grand Central Station\"\" scene in the thirties flashbacks was filmed in the Gare du Nord in Paris. The interiors of the lavish restaurant where Noodles takes Deborah on their date were shot in the Hotel Excelsior in Venice, Italy. The gang's hit on Joe was filmed in Quebec. The view of the Manhattan Bridge shown in the film's poster can be seen from Washington Street in Brooklyn. The shooting script, completed in October 1981 after many delays and a writers' strike",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.33,
"text": "Once Upon a Time (2013 film) Once Upon A Time is a 2013 Malayalam animated film, directed by Binu Sasidharan and starring Salim Kumar and Mala Aravindan. Released on 24 May 2013, it is the first animated feature film to be produced in the Malayalam language, and it is Binu's first feature film, opting for a wide theatrical release rather than through domestic release as with his previous works. A sage gives Rahul a book containing various chants and spells. When Rahul reads the book, he is enchanted by a magic king and is magically transported with his doll, Kunjan,",
"title": "Once Upon a Time (2013 film)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.31,
"text": "over time limitations. The original version by the director was 166 minutes (2 hours and 46 minutes) when it was first released on December 21, 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on May 28, 1969, \"\"Once Upon a Time in the West\"\" was edited down to 145 minutes (2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is considered by some to be the first installment in Leone's \"\"Once Upon a Time Trilogy\"\", followed by \"\"Duck, You Sucker!\"\",",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in the West"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.31,
"text": "in Mumbai Dobaara!\"\" was released on 15 August 2013. It featured Akshay Kumar replacing Hashmi from the first film alongside Imran Khan. The filming for the sequel began in August 2012 apparently in Qatar. The sequel received negative reviews from both critics and audiences and performed poorly at the box office. The film opens with a suicide attempt by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Agnel Wilson (Randeep Hooda) on the pretext of the Bombay Bombings in 1993. When questioned by his superior over his actions, he breaks down and claims that the recent tragic events are his own fault. Wilson",
"title": "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai"
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where did the tragedy of the commons originate? | [
"in an essay"
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"text": "Tragedy of the commons The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a \"\"common\"\") in Great Britain and Ireland. The concept became widely known",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
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"text": "and non-material incentives to produce better quality products (mainly software). A commons failure theory, now called tragedy of the commons, originated in the 18th century. In 1833 William Forster Lloyd introduced the concept by a hypothetical example of herders overusing a shared parcel of land on which they are each entitled to let their cows graze, to the detriment of all users of the common land. The same concept has been called the \"\"tragedy of the fishers\"\", when over-fishing could cause stocks to plummet. It has been said the dissolution of the traditional land commons played a watershed role in",
"title": "Commons"
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"text": "the higher the benefit to each one. Rose cites as examples commerce and group recreational activities. According to Rose, public resources with the \"\"comedic\"\" characteristic may suffer from under-investment rather than over usage. Tragedy of the commons The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "Tragedy in the Commons Tragedy in the Commons is a book written by the co-founders of Samara Canada, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan (). The book puts forth several arguments about a crisis facing Canadian politics and the institution of Parliament as a whole. It is backed by primary research conducted by Samara including \"\"exit interviews\"\" with 80 former Members of Parliament. \"\"Tragedy in the Commons\"\" is a variation of Garrett Hardin's \"\"Tragedy of the Commons\"\". In Hardin's argument, the commons as a whole suffers when individuals (in Hardin's case, farmers) behave selfishly and contrary to the good of the",
"title": "Tragedy in the Commons"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.53,
"text": "existed and still do exist where members of a community with access to a common resource co-operate or regulate to exploit those resources prudently without collapse. Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating exactly this concept in her book Governing the Commons, which included examples of how local communities were able to do this without top-down regulations. In 1833, the English economist William Forster Lloyd published a pamphlet which included a hypothetical example of over-use of a common resource. This was the situation of cattle herders sharing a common parcel of land on which they are",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her work on the issue, and others revisited Hardin's work in 1999. They found the tragedy of the commons not as prevalent or as difficult to solve as Hardin maintained, since locals have often come up with solutions to the commons problem themselves. For example, it was found that a commons in the Swiss Alps has been run by a collective of farmers there to their mutual and individual benefit since 1517, in spite of the farmers also having access to their own farmland. In general, it is in the users of a commons",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.31,
"text": "stop paying attention to politics, refusing to engage their elected representatives and becoming increasingly sceptical about an MP's purpose, cost, or mandate. Tragedy in the Commons Tragedy in the Commons is a book written by the co-founders of Samara Canada, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan (). The book puts forth several arguments about a crisis facing Canadian politics and the institution of Parliament as a whole. It is backed by primary research conducted by Samara including \"\"exit interviews\"\" with 80 former Members of Parliament. \"\"Tragedy in the Commons\"\" is a variation of Garrett Hardin's \"\"Tragedy of the Commons\"\". In Hardin's",
"title": "Tragedy in the Commons"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "The commons dilemma stands as a model for a great variety of resource problems in society today, such as water, forests, fish, and non-renewable energy sources such as oil and coal. Situations exemplifying the \"\"tragedy of the commons\"\" include the overfishing and destruction of the Grand Banks, the destruction of salmon runs on rivers that have been dammed – most prominently in modern times on the Columbia River in the Northwest United States, and historically in North Atlantic rivers – the devastation of the sturgeon fishery – in modern Russia, but historically in the United States as well – and,",
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "can change its quality. For example, footstool palm is a wild palm tree found in Southeast Asia. Its leaves are used for thatching and food wrapping, and overharvesting has resulted in its leaf size becoming smaller. The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal \"\"Science\"\" in 1968. Central to Hardin's essay is an example which is a useful parable for understanding how overexploitation can occur. This example was first sketched in an 1833 pamphlet by William Forster Lloyd, as a hypothetical and",
"title": "Overexploitation"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "over a century later due to an article written by the American ecologist and philosopher Garrett Hardin in 1968. In this modern economic context, commons is taken to mean any shared and unregulated resource such as atmosphere, oceans, rivers, fish stocks, or even an office refrigerator. It has been argued that the very term 'tragedy of the Commons' is a misnomer, since 'the commons' referred to land resources with rights jointly owned by members of a community, and no individual outside the community had any access to the resource. However, the term is now used in social science and economics",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "each entitled to let their cows graze, as was the custom in English villages. He postulated that if a herder put more than his allotted number of cattle on the common, overgrazing could result. For each additional animal, a herder could receive additional benefits, but the whole group shared damage to the commons. If all herders made this individually rational economic decision, the common could be depleted or even destroyed, to the detriment of all. In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin explored this social dilemma in his article \"\"The Tragedy of the Commons\"\", published in the journal \"\"Science\"\". The essay derived",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "interests to keep the common running and complex social schemes are often invented by the users for maintaining them at optimum efficiency. Similarly, geographer Douglas L. Johnson remarks that many nomadic pastoralist societies of Africa and the Middle East in fact \"\"balanced local stocking ratios against seasonal rangeland conditions in ways that were ecologically sound\"\", reflecting a desire for lower risk rather than higher profit; in spite of this, it was often the case that \"\"the nomad was blamed for problems that were not of his own making and were a product of alien forces.\"\" Independently finding precedent in the",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "of his essay, Hardin develops the theme, drawing in many examples of latter day commons, such as national parks, the atmosphere, oceans, rivers and fish stocks. The example of fish stocks had led some to call this the \"\"tragedy of the fishers\"\". A major theme running through the essay is the growth of human populations, with the Earth's finite resources being the general common. The tragedy of the commons has intellectual roots tracing back to Aristotle, who noted that \"\"what is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it\"\", as well as to Hobbes and his",
"title": "Overexploitation"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "the resource through institutions that it creates . The Digital Library of the Commons defines \"\"commons\"\" as \"\"a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest\"\". The term \"\"commons\"\" derives from the traditional English legal term for common land, which are also known as \"\"commons\"\", and was popularised in the modern sense as a shared resource term by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in an influential 1968 article called The Tragedy of the Commons. As Frank van Laerhoven and Elinor Ostrom have stated; \"\"Prior to the publication of Hardin's article on the tragedy of the commons",
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "tragedy of the commons.\"\" Gladwell describes himself as a Christian. His family attended Above Bar Church in Southampton, UK, and later Gale Presbyterian in Elmira when they moved to Canada. Gladwell wandered away from his Christian roots when he moved to New York, only to rediscover his faith during the writing of \"\"David and Goliath\"\" and his encounter with Wilma Derksen regarding the death of her child. Gladwell is unmarried and has no children. Gladwell was a featured storyteller for the Moth podcast. He told a story about a well-intentioned wedding toast for a young man and his friends that",
"title": "Malcolm Gladwell"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.25,
"text": "commons. As well, each person is demotivated from changing their ways, since they will be putting themselves at an economic disadvantage unless the other individuals agree to live by the same rules. Loat and MacMillan apply this as a metaphor to a \"\"tragedy of the Commons\"\", referring to the House of Commons. The authors interviewed 80 former Members of Parliament from all major political parties, including the Liberal Party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, Bloc Quebecois, and the former Canadian Alliance, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and Reform Party of Canada. Those MPs came",
"title": "Tragedy in the Commons"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "the philosophical aspects of environmental problems. Two papers published in \"\"Science\"\" had a crucial impact: Lynn White's \"\"The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis\"\" (March 1967) and Garrett Hardin's \"\"The Tragedy of the Commons\"\" (December 1968). Also influential was Garett Hardin's later essay called \"\"Exploring New Ethics for Survival\"\", as well as an essay by Aldo Leopold in his \"\"A Sand County Almanac\"\", called \"\"The Land Ethic,\"\" in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical (1949). The first international academic journals in this field emerged from North America in the late 1970s and early",
"title": "Environmental ethics"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "the tragedy of the commons concept suggested that all commons were doomed to failure, they remain important in the modern world. Work by later economists has found many examples of successful commons, and Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize for analysing situations where they operate successfully. For example, Ostrom found that grazing commons in the Swiss Alps have been run successfully for many hundreds of years by the farmers there. Allied to this is the \"\"comedy of the commons\"\" concept, where users of the commons are able to develop mechanisms to police their use to maintain, and possibly improve, the",
"title": "Commons"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "have been warned to desist and if they failed would have punitive sanctions against them. He says that rather than being called \"\"The Tragedy of the Commons\"\", it should be called \"\"the Tragedy of the Failure of the Commons\"\". The geographer David Harvey has a similar criticism, noting that \"\"The dispossession of indigenous populations in North America by 'productive' colonists, for instance, was justified because indigenous populations did not produce value\"\", and asks generally: \"\"Why, for instance, do we not focus in Hardin's metaphor on the individual ownership of the cattle rather than on the pasture as a common?\"\" Hardin's",
"title": "Tragedy of the commons"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "when describing a problem where \"\"all\"\" individuals have equal and open access to a resource. Hence, 'tragedy of open access regimes' or simply 'the open access problem' are more apt terms. The 'tragedy of the commons' is often cited in connection with sustainable development, meshing economic growth and environmental protection, as well as in the debate over global warming. It has also been used in analyzing behavior in the fields of economics, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, game theory, politics, taxation and sociology. Although common resource systems have been known to collapse due to overuse (such as in over-fishing), many examples have",
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}
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who wrote the lyrics to shake it off? | [
"Shellback",
"Taylor Swift",
"Max Martin"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.56,
"text": "by Larry Katz from the \"\"Boston Herald\"\". Reading \"\"Just like the Calgon commercial / I really gotta get up out of here\"\", Carey tells her lover that she is leaving him, making a \"\"clever\"\" reference to a commercial. In regards to the latter lyrics, Lawrence Farber from the \"\"Windy City Times\"\" wrote \"\"they are a playful approach to bitterness—and, more specifically, a cheatin' bad apple.\"\" She then sings \"\"By the time you get this message / It's gonna be too late / So don't bother paging me / 'Cause I'll be on my way,\"\" establishing that the relationship is over,",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
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"text": "Shake It Off \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth album, \"\"1989\"\" (2014). Written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, it is an uptempo dance-pop track considered to be a departure from Swift's earlier country pop music style. \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is the sixth track on the album and serves as the lead single. The song premiered during a Yahoo! live stream session on August 18, 2014 (also streaming internationally online); its music video was also released the same day. Several hours later, the song was made available for digital download. \"\"Shake",
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"score": 25.19,
"text": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song) \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, taken from her tenth studio album, \"\"The Emancipation of Mimi\"\" (2005). It was written and produced by Carey along with Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Johntá Austin. The song was initially solicited to radio on July 12, 2005, by Island and Mercury Records as the album's third single in the United States, while \"\"Get Your Number\"\" served as the album's third single elsewhere. Described by Dupri as \"\"ghetto,\"\" the track is a R&B song that makes use of pop and",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.09,
"text": "adapted from the album's liner notes. Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song) \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, taken from her tenth studio album, \"\"The Emancipation of Mimi\"\" (2005). It was written and produced by Carey along with Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Johntá Austin. The song was initially solicited to radio on July 12, 2005, by Island and Mercury Records as the album's third single in the United States, while \"\"Get Your Number\"\" served as the album's third single elsewhere. Described by Dupri as \"\"ghetto,\"\" the track is a R&B song",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.66,
"text": "didn't have that bounce on her album. \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is a mid-tempo R&B and pop song with a hip hop backbeat and a \"\"thumping\"\", sparse production. Written and produced by Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox and Johntá Austin, the song drew comparisons to several productions from Usher's 2004 album, \"\"Confessions\"\". According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by W.B.M. Music Corporation, \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is set in common time with a tempo of 66 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of D major with Carey's vocal range spanning from the low-note of D to the",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"text": "began working on \"\"The Emancipation of Mimi\"\", her tenth studio effort. By November 2004, Carey had already recorded several songs for the album. Island Records head L.A. Reid suggested Carey to compose a few more strong singles to ensure the project's commercial success. Noting that she had written some of her best work with Jermaine Dupri, Reid recommended that Carey meet with Dupri for a brief studio session. Carey took Reid's advice and headed to Atlanta to collaborate with Dupri. During this two-day trip, the duo wrote and produced \"\"Shake It Off\"\" and \"\"Get Your Number,\"\" which were eventually released",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"score": 23.98,
"text": "Taylor Swift's \"\"Shake it Off\"\") was created in collaboration with the fan site theonering.net, and debuted before the final installment of the Hobbit films. The song debuted as #1 in the comedy genre in Los Angeles on the music website Reverbnation, #2 nationally, and #3 globally in December 2014. The Library Bards continue to hold a top spot in the Comedy genre in Los Angeles. Both Bonnie and Xander collaborate on writing the lyrics to each of their songs, and they employ a third party to create the backing tracks for the music. Past collaborators have included Jake Kaufman, Bonecage,",
"title": "Library Bards"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.95,
"text": "Carey and Dupri wrote and produced \"\"Shake It Off\"\" and \"\"Get Your Number\"\", which were released as the album's third and fourth singles. Following this recording session, \"\"Shake It Off\"\" was briefly selected as the album's lead single, replacing the other contenders, \"\"Stay The Night\"\" and \"\"Say Somethin'\"\". Carey later returned to Atlanta for a second meeting with Dupri; they then penned the last two songs for the album: \"\"We Belong Together\"\" and \"\"It's Like That\"\". In an interview for \"\"Billboard\"\", Carey described her sentiments regarding \"\"It's Like That\"\" during the production stage: I had the chills. I had a",
"title": "The Emancipation of Mimi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "\"\"Billboard\"\", gave the song a positive review, complimenting its lyrics, production and Carey's vocals. He concluded his review with his assurance that the song would be a success, writing \"\"After 'We Belong Together' brought her back to radio big time, 'Shake It Off' will take Carey's good fortune to the next step.\"\" Some critics compared the song heavily to Usher's material from his 2004 album, \"\"Confessions\"\". Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine wrote \"\"Mariah too heavily bites on the styles of her successors: Usher by way of Dupri on 'Shake It Off',\"\" while Dan Gennoe of Yahoo! Music UK said the",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "episode of the third season of \"\"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\"\" titled \"\"Terry Kitties\"\". Digital download/limited edition CD single German CD single Credits are adapted from liner notes of \"\"1989\"\". !scope=\"\"col\"\" colspan=\"\"3\"\"| Streaming Shake It Off \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth album, \"\"1989\"\" (2014). Written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback, it is an uptempo dance-pop track considered to be a departure from Swift's earlier country pop music style. \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is the sixth track on the album and serves as the lead single. The song premiered during a Yahoo! live stream",
"title": "Shake It Off"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "called and said she loved it. From there it was a wrap. That's history. Mariah is known for doing remixes with street cats from Mobb Deep to O.D.B., so to be a part of that was a good look for me and the Def Jam movement. According to Jayanathi Daniel, writer of \"\"The New York Sun\"\", Carey's remixes of \"\"Shake If Off\"\" and \"\"It's Like That\"\" helped cement her impression on the music scene during the release of \"\"The Emancipation of Mimi\"\", writing \"\"the multiple mix tapes, further legitimized her return.\"\" In a review of Jay-Z's material at the time,",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "Martin and Shellback, the song's duration is three minutes and thirty-nine seconds. Musically, \"\"Shake It Off\"\" is an uptempo dance-pop song written in the key of G major at tempo of 160 beats per minute, and exists outside of the traditional country pop musical style of Swift's previous releases. Swift's vocal range spans two octaves from G to G. Swift raps in the song. The song's arrangement features a saxophone. Jason Lipshutz from \"\"Billboard\"\" compared the song's melody to that of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' song \"\"Thrift Shop\"\" (2013). A writer from \"\"Music Times\"\" likened the song to Pharrell Williams'",
"title": "Shake It Off"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.52,
"text": "song was \"\"Usher-lite\"\". Lawrence Ferber from the \"\"Windy City Times\"\" described \"\"Shake It Off\"\" as a \"\"standout\"\" track from the album. When discussing the track with Ferber, Carey described the song as her favorite from \"\"The Emancipation of Mimi\"\": \"\"Shake it off can apply to anything. Whatever personal dramas we go through, put that song on and you lose the anxiety or intensity of the moment. I'll listen to that song when I've just come out of an annoying meeting. I gotta shake this off.\"\" While Todd Burns from \"\"Stylus Magazine\"\" described it as \"\"sultry\"\", a writer from the \"\"Fort",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "an editor at \"\"XXL\"\" rated the remix two out of five stars, criticizing his lyrics and \"\"swag\"\", which he felt were missing during lines reading \"\"The Emancipation of M-I-M-I / I spray semi rrrah, rrrrah / Twenty worldwide nigga get your plaques / Guess who the fuck got his swagger back?\"\". He concluded on a mixed note, writing \"\"With run-of-the-mill punchlines and a dated reference to \"\"How Stella Got Her Groove Back\"\", Jay seems to be missing some of his usual swagger on this white label–only remix.\"\" The song's music video was originally scheduled to be directed by Brett Ratner,",
"title": "Shake It Off (Mariah Carey song)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.38,
"text": "announcement in August 2014. On August 4, she posted a video on Instagram in which she pushes the number 18 in an elevator. On August 6, she tweeted an image of the time 5:00 and the next day a screenshot from a Yahoo! homepage. She later confirmed on August 13, 2014 on \"\"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\"\" that a Yahoo! live stream session would take place on August 18, 2014 at 5pm. During the live stream, Swift announced her upcoming fifth album and premiered its lead single. \"\"Shake It Off\"\" was written by Swift, Martin and Shellback. Produced by",
"title": "Shake It Off"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "Worth Star-Telegram\"\" called it \"\"lyrically crude\"\" and \"\"ghetto\"\". Similarly, \"\"The Michigan Daily\"\"s Chris Gaerig criticized Carey's \"\"airy vocals\"\" and wrote \"\"Carey sounds like a 13-year-old boy going through puberty, singing love songs to a grade school crush.\"\" In the United States, \"\"Shake It Off\"\" entered the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 at number sixty-six the week's highest debut. In its seventh week on the chart, it reached number two behind Carey's previous single, \"\"We Belong Together,\"\" marking the second time a female lead artist occupied the top two positions of the Hot 100. \"\"Shake It Off\"\" was at the number two position",
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},
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"score": 23.33,
"text": "off this lawsuit. Standish ruled that Braham did not have enough factual evidence but could file a new complaint \"\"if his lawsuit deficiencies are corrected.\"\" In February 2018, judges dismissed the case, asserting that the lyrics in question were too 'banal' to be copyrighted. In September 2014, Labrinth performed a cover of the song at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. In that same month, Meghan Trainor played it with a ukulele on 2DayFM's \"\"The Dan & Maz Show\"\". In October, Kelly Clarkson sang the song at a concert in Buffalo, New York. In February 2015, Charli XCX delivered a punk",
"title": "Shake It Off"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.31,
"text": "for Taylor Swift's 2014 hit \"\"Shake It Off\"\", the video finds the members of Hedley surrounded by female dancers who use the men as props in their ballet-style performances. The band performed \"\"Lose Control\"\" on June 19, 2016 at the 2016 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards. Credits adapted from \"\"Hello\"\" album liner notes. Lose Control (Hedley song) \"\"Lose Control\"\" is a song recorded by Canadian pop rock band Hedley for their sixth studio album \"\"Hello\"\" (2015). It was written by lead singer Jacob Hoggard with Jarett Holmes, Brian Howes, and Jason \"\"JVP\"\" Van Poederooyen, and was produced by all but",
"title": "Lose Control (Hedley song)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "hip hop influences and a simple, sparse production. Lyrically, the song follows Carey as she moves on from her relationship with an unfaithful lover, packing her things and breaking up with him over an answering machine. The song was well received by music critics, with many complimenting its simple yet inspirational lyrics, as well as calling it a standout track from the album. It peaked at number two on the US \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100, blocked by Carey's own \"\"We Belong Together\"\" and Kanye West's \"\"Gold Digger\"\" for six weeks. Furthermore, it marked the first time a female lead artist occupied",
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},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "Swift is \"\"smart\"\", \"\"cool\"\" and \"\"successful\"\". The song would have placed in the number 12 position if it had been allowed to compete. In November 2015 Jesse Braham, known by the stage name Jesse Graham, sued Swift for $42 million in damages claiming Swift stole lines from his song \"\"Haters Gonna Hate\"\" stating that Swift's \"\"hook is the same as mine..\"\" and that there would be no \"\"Shake It Off\"\" if he \"\"hadn't written \"\"Haters Gonna Hate\"\". The lawsuit was dismissed by United States District Court Judge Gail Standish and used Taylor's own lyrics from \"\"We Are Never Ever Getting",
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when have we had a total solar eclipse? | [
"February 26, 2017"
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"text": "Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045 A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, August 12, 2045, when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be the fourth longest eclipse of the 21st century with a",
"title": "Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045"
},
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"score": 25.17,
"text": "Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 A total solar eclipse occurred on March 20, 2015. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with a partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It had a magnitude of 1.045. The longest duration of totality",
"title": "Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.12,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. With a maximum duration of 7 minutes 8 seconds, this is",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.05,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1973. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. With a maximum eclipse of 7 minutes and 4 seconds, this",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.05,
"text": "Solar eclipse of August 19, 1887 A total solar eclipse occurred on August 19, 1887. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible across Europe, Asia, and Japan. The Russian chemist",
"title": "Solar eclipse of August 19, 1887"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.98,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 19, 1936. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality crossed Europe and Asia. The full phase",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.98,
"text": "Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896 A total solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1896. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible across Europe, Asia, and Japan. It is a",
"title": "Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.97,
"text": "Solar eclipse of August 21, 1914 A total solar eclipse occurred on August 21, 1914. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The totality of this eclipse was visible from northern Canada, Greenland,",
"title": "Solar eclipse of August 21, 1914"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "Solar eclipse of July 31, 1981 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 31, 1981. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The continental path of totality fell entirely within the Soviet Union,",
"title": "Solar eclipse of July 31, 1981"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979 A total solar eclipse occurred in North America on Monday, February 26, 1979. A solar eclipse is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The central",
"title": "Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 20, 1974 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 20, 1974. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality passed over the Indian Ocean, Amsterdam Island,",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 20, 1974"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.88,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 25, 2150. It will be the longest total eclipse since the 11th century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 13, 2132. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Lasting a maximum of 6 minutes, 55 seconds, it will",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 29, 1927. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality crossed far northern Europe and Asia, including",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 8, 1956 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 8–9, 1956. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It began near sunrise over New Zealand on June 9th, and",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 8, 1956"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "Solar eclipse of October 21, 1930 A total solar eclipse occurred on October 21, 1930. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality was visible from Niuafoʻou in Tonga, Chile, and a tiny",
"title": "Solar eclipse of October 21, 1930"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.84,
"text": "Solar eclipse of July 20, 1963 A total solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, July 20, 1963. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is the same size as the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality was visible from Hokkaido in Japan and",
"title": "Solar eclipse of July 20, 1963"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.83,
"text": "Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1954. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality began at sunrise over the United States over Nebraska, South",
"title": "Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.83,
"text": "Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 10, 1972. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible as a total eclipse along a path of",
"title": "Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "Solar eclipse of September 22, 1968 A total solar eclipse occurred on September 22, 1968. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality was visible from the Soviet Union (today's Russia and Kazakhstan)",
"title": "Solar eclipse of September 22, 1968"
}
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when did the volcano in tenerife last erupt? | [
"1909"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.08,
"text": "eruptions, none of which has led to casualties. The first occurred in 1704, when the Arafo, Fasnia and Siete Fuentes volcanoes erupted simultaneously. Two years later, in 1706, the greatest eruption occurred at Trevejo. This volcano produced great quantities of lava which buried the city and port of Garachico. The last eruption of the 18th century happened in 1798 at Cañadas de Teide, in Chahorra. Finally, and most recently, in 1909 that formed the Chinyero cinder cone, in the municipality of Santiago del Teide, erupted. The island is located between 28° and 29° N and the 16° and 17° W",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.72,
"text": "a national park, with further expansion later on. In addition, in June 2007 it was recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. To the west lies the volcano Pico Viejo (Old Peak). On one side of it, is the volcano Chahorra o Narices del Teide, where the last eruption occurred in the vicinity of Mount Teide in 1798. The Teide is one of the 16 Decade Volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "Eruption of Trevejo (1706) The eruption of the Trevejo volcano also called the eruption of the Arenas Negras volcano was a volcanic eruption that took place from 5 to 14 May 1706, about 8 kilometers south of the Garachico in the north of the island of Tenerife (Spain). The eruption destroyed the old port of Garachico (the most important of Tenerife at the time) and ended the golden period of the town. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the port of Garachico was the most important commercial port on the island, with merchandise exchanges. From it sailed ships loaded with",
"title": "Eruption of Trevejo (1706)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "volcanic phenomenon that has had the greatest economic and social impact on the island of Tenerife. This, despite being an event with a relatively low rate of explosiveness. This eruption did not cause human losses but it did affect the historical, economic and artistic development of Garachico, as it buried the old port and important architectural buildings of the municipality. For example, lava flows stopped at the foot of the church parish \"\"Church of Saint Anne,\"\" however, the castings were close enough that the heat burned part of the temple and had to be rebuilt between 1714 and 1721. The",
"title": "Eruption of Trevejo (1706)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.52,
"text": "central volcanic centre was from Montaña Blanca around 2000 years ago. The last eruption within the Las Cañadas caldera occurred in 1798 from the Narices del Teide or Chahorra (Teide's Nostrils) on the western flank of Pico Viejo. The eruption was predominantly strombolian in style and most of the lava was ʻAʻā. This lava is visible beside the Vilaflor–Chio road. Christopher Columbus reported seeing \"\"a great fire in the Orotava Valley\"\" as he sailed past Tenerife on his voyage to discover the New World in 1492. This was interpreted as indicating that he had witnessed an eruption there. Radiometric dating",
"title": "Teide"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "as its highest point at (MSLP). These mountains have been created due to basaltic fissural volcanism through one of the axis that gave birth to the vulcanism of this area. The Abeque Dorsal was formed by a chain of volcanoes that join the Teno with the central insular peak of Teide-Pico Viejo starting from another of the three axis of Tenerife's geological structures. On this dorsal we find the historic volcano of Chinyero whose last eruption happened in 1909. The South Dorsal or \"\"Dorsal of Adeje\"\" is part of the last of the structural axis. The remains of this massive",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.03,
"text": "entirety a biosphere reserve. It shows no recent signs of volcanic activity, even though the volcano Teneguía entered into eruption last in 1971. In addition, it is the second-highest island of the Canaries, with the Roque de los Muchachos as highest point. Santa Cruz de La Palma (known to those on the island as simply \"\"Santa Cruz\"\") is its capital. Tenerife is, with its area of , the most extensive island of the Canary Islands. In addition, with 906,854 inhabitants it is the most populated island of the archipelago and Spain. Two of the islands' principal cities are located on",
"title": "Canary Islands"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.69,
"text": "geological fragments. After long-term accumulation of these fragments, the birth of the island occurred at the end of the Miocene Epoch. The zones on Tenerife known as Macizo de Teno, Macizo de Anaga and Macizo de Adeje were formed seven million years ago; these formations are called the \"\"Ancient Basaltic Series\"\" or \"\"Series I\"\". These zones were actually three separate islands lying in what is now the extreme west, east, and south of Tenerife. A second volcanic cycle called the \"\"Post-Miocene Formations\"\" or \"\"Latest Series II, III, IV\"\" began three million years ago. This was a much more intense volcanic",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "of fissural volcanic activity occurring amidst the remains of the older Ancient Basaltic Series (Series I). This Dorsal Range emerged as the highest and the longest volcanic structure in the Canary Islands; it was high and long. About 800,000 years ago, two gravitational landslides occurred, giving rise to the present-day valleys of La Orotava and Güímar. Finally, around 200,000 years ago, eruptions started that raised the \"\"Pico Viejo-Teide\"\" area in the centre of the island, over the \"\"Las Cañadas caldera\"\". The uneven and steep orography of the island and its variety of climates has resulted in a diversity of landscapes",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.31,
"text": "wine and sugar) to America and Europe. The Village of Garachico was founded by the Genoese banker Cristóbal de Ponte after the conquest of Tenerife in 1496, making it a stately and prestigious villa. The town had been enriched thanks to its port that allowed palaces, haciendas, stately houses, rich convents and monasteries, as well as lavish churches. Garachico is one of the best preserved and representative historical-artistic hulls of the Canary Islands. During the early hours of May 5, 1706, Trevejo volcano exploded and poured into the sea through the slope of a steep ravine due to the orography",
"title": "Eruption of Trevejo (1706)"
},
{
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"score": 21.08,
"text": "Pico Viejo Pico Viejo is a volcano located on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is the second highest peak of Tenerife and the Canary Islands (after the Teide) with a height of 3,135 m above sea level, a huge crater approximately of 720 metres in diameter. The volcano is part of the Teide volcanic complex, which began forming about 200,000 years ago in the center of Tenerife. Its crater is one of the satellite craters around El Teide. It erupted in 1798, and it is estimated that it ejected around 12 million m³ of lava over three",
"title": "Pico Viejo"
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"score": 21.05,
"text": "car. Pico Viejo Pico Viejo is a volcano located on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is the second highest peak of Tenerife and the Canary Islands (after the Teide) with a height of 3,135 m above sea level, a huge crater approximately of 720 metres in diameter. The volcano is part of the Teide volcanic complex, which began forming about 200,000 years ago in the center of Tenerife. Its crater is one of the satellite craters around El Teide. It erupted in 1798, and it is estimated that it ejected around 12 million m³ of lava over",
"title": "Pico Viejo"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.05,
"text": "(1999), Ward and Day, (2001); and Ward and Day, (2005),) of volcanic material collapsed, forming the Güimar Valle on Tenerife ~830 ka and generating a tsunami. They indicate that this collapse is the only plausible source, and also report that there is no indication that the tsunami propagated beyond Gran Canaria. These deposits date from between 32 thousand and 1.75 million years ago. Scientists at TU Delft in the Netherlands reported in 2006, that the section of the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja that was conjectured as potentially failing and falling into the Atlantic Ocean to create the hypothesised",
"title": "Cumbre Vieja"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21,
"text": "of the seventeenth century. Determination of longitude at sea was not possible without a considerable margin of error until the mid 18th century. One of the methods that was used instead was dead reckoning, from the last point of land sighted. Lizard Point in Cornwall was a famous starting point for this, as was the 3,718 metre Teide volcano of Tenerife. From the early 1640s some Dutch cartographers were using Tenerife as a prime meridian in maps, with a significant increase in use after 1662. Joan Blaeu started using it in 1663, Frederik de Wit in 1670, and German mapmakers",
"title": "Tenerife meridian"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "gave birth to the island around twelve million years ago. The island as it is today was formed three million years ago by the fusion of three islands made up of the mountain ranges of Anaga, Teno and Valle de San Lorenzo, due to volcanic activity from Teide. The volcano is visible from most parts of the island today, and the crater is long at some points. Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands and the Macaronesia region. Tenerife is a rugged and volcanic island sculpted by successive eruptions throughout its history. There are four historically recorded volcanic",
"title": "Tenerife"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.47,
"text": "stages shown in the diagram on the right. Like the other Canary Islands, and volcanic ocean islands in general, Tenerife was built by accretion of three large shield volcanoes, which developed in a relatively short period. This early shield stage volcanism formed the bulk of the emerged part of Tenerife. The shield volcanoes date back to the Miocene and early Pliocene and are preserved in three isolated and deeply eroded massifs: Anaga (to the northeast), Teno (to the northwest) and Roque del Conde (to the south). Each shield was apparently constructed in less than three million years, and the entire",
"title": "Teide"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "of only four to six per millennium, with a predominance (70%) of very low hazard, basaltic eruptions\"\". The authors further commented that \"\"the recent eruptive record, combined with the available petrological and radiometric data, provides a rather optimistic outlook on major volcanic hazards related to Teide and its rift zones, posing only very localized threats to the one million inhabitants of Tenerife and the 4.5 million annual visitors to Teide National Park.\"\" However, another study in 2009 concluded that Teide will probably erupt violently in the future and that its structure is similar to that of Vesuvius and Etna. Thus",
"title": "Teide"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.16,
"text": "Agatha of Catania against eruptions of Mount Etna in Sicily. Between October 1964 and January 1965, the Diocese of Tenerife conducted the largest pilgrimage in the history of the Canary Islands. This time, the statue of the Virgin was walked across the towns, cities and municipalities of the island of Tenerife for the first time in history. In the basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (Israel) is a mosaic of the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the Canary Islands, along with those of other Marian devotions famous in Spain. Every year on February 2 and August 15 is celebrated",
"title": "Virgin of Candelaria"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.14,
"text": "third tallest volcano on Earth on a volcanic ocean island. All the islands except La Gomera have been active in the last million years; four of them (Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro) have historical records of eruptions since European discovery. The islands rise from Jurassic oceanic crust associated with the opening of the Atlantic. Underwater magmatism commenced during the Cretaceous, and reached the ocean's surface during the Miocene. The islands are considered as a distinct physiographic section of the Atlas Mountains province, which in turn is part of the larger African Alpine System division. In the summer of",
"title": "Canary Islands"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.08,
"text": "sedimentary material which has been deposited from its volcanic processes, and is known as Llano de Ucanca. The peak of Teide, at above sea level and more than above the ocean floor, is the highest point of the island, Spanish territory and in the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano is the third largest on the planet, and its central location, substantial size, looming silhouette in the distance and its snowy landscape in winter give it a unique nature. The original settlers considered Teide a god and Teide was a place of worship. In 1954, the whole area around it was declared",
"title": "Tenerife"
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what country did the united states buy the gadsden purchase from? | [
"James Gadsden"
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"text": "Gadsden Purchase The Gadsden Purchase (known in Mexico as , \"\"Sale of La Mesilla\"\") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty that took effect on June 8, 1854. The first draft was signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and by Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico. The U.S. Senate voted in favor of ratifying it with amendments on April 25, 1854, and then transmitted it to President Franklin Pierce. Mexico's government and its General Congress or Congress of the Union",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"text": "to $ today). In the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, the United States purchased a strip of land along the Mexico–United States border for $10 million (equivalent to $ in present-day terms), now in New Mexico and Arizona. The territory was also bought as Americans were passing through the land west to California. After the American Mexican War, over the dispute of border claims, American bought the land to prevent future conflict. Few historians would argue the territory was intended for a southern transcontinental railroad. \"\"Alaska Purchase\"\" from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre) on March 30,",
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"text": "postage stamp commemorating 100 years since the Gadsden Purchase, on December 30, 1953. In 2012, the Gadsden Purchase was featured in a segment on \"\"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\"\" Gadsden Purchase The Gadsden Purchase (known in Mexico as , \"\"Sale of La Mesilla\"\") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty that took effect on June 8, 1854. The first draft was signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and by Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico. The U.S. Senate voted",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"text": "James Gadsden James Gadsden (May 15, 1788December 26, 1858) was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman for whom is named the Gadsden Purchase, land which the United States bought from Mexico and which became the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico. James Gadsden served as Adjutant General of the U. S. Army from August 13, 1821 – March 22, 1822. Between 1853 and 1856, he served as U. S. Minister to Mexico. He was known commonly as General Gadsden, although he never had a rank above Colonel. Little is known about the life of Gadsden, especially his early life.",
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"text": "armies and they recommended against total annexation because of the differences in political culture between the United States and Mexico. In 1854 the United States purchased an additional of desert land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase; the price was $10 million. The goal was to build a rail line through southern Arizona to California. Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna sold Mexican territory to the United States in which is known as the Gadsden Purchase, allowing the U.S. to build a railway line more easily through that region. That purchase played a significant role in the ouster of",
"title": "Mexico–United States relations"
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"text": "$15,000,000. However, tensions between the two countries were still high and over the next six years things only got worse with raids along the border and attacks by Native Americans against Mexican citizens. To defuse the situation, the United States agreed to purchase 29,670 squares miles of land from Mexico for $10,000,000 so a southern railroad could be built to connect the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. This would become known as the Gadsden Purchase. A critical component of U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs took form in the Spanish–American War, which drastically affected the futures of Cuba and Puerto Rico",
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"text": "extending far enough south to include most of the current Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. The Mexican people opposed such boundaries, as did anti-slavery US Senators, who saw the purchase as acquisition of more slave territory. Even the sale of a relatively small strip of land angered the Mexican people, who saw Santa Anna's actions as a betrayal of their country. They watched in dismay as he squandered the funds generated by the Purchase. Contemporary Mexican historians continue to view the deal negatively and believe that it has defined the",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"text": "took final approval action on June 8, 1854, when the treaty took effect. The purchase was the last substantial territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States. The U.S. sought the land as a better route for the construction of the southern transcontinental railway line, and the financially-strapped government of Santa Anna agreed to the sale, which netted Mexico $10 million (equivalent to $ in ). After the devastating loss of Mexican territory to the U.S. in the Mexican–American War (1846–48) and the continued filibustering by U.S. citizens, Santa Anna may have calculated it was better to yield territory by treaty",
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"text": "long as necessary and he would be addressed as \"\"His Most Serene Highness\"\". On December 30 Santa Anna signed the Gadsden Purchase, selling in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua to the United States for 10 million pesos. On January 9, 1854, he imposed a tax levy on doors and windows and on February 23, a tax on the exterior lights of houses. Because of this series of decrees and the sale of national territory, on March 1 General Florencio Villareal proclaimed the Plan of Ayutla (which would remove Santa Anna from office). This marked the beginning of the Plan",
"title": "Second Federal Republic of Mexico"
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"text": "The treaty provided for a joint commission, made up of a surveyor and commissioner from each country, to determine the final boundary between the United States and Mexico. The treaty specified that the Rio Grande Boundary would veer west eight miles (13 km) north of El Paso. The treaty was based on the attached 1847 copy of a twenty-five-year-old map. Surveys revealed that El Paso was further south and further west than the map showed. Mexico favored the map, but the United States put faith in the results of the survey. The disputed territory involved a few thousand square miles",
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"text": "through the territory that had been disputed between Mexico and the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had gone into effect, and before the time of the Gadsden Purchase. The Santa Fe Railroad Company also completed a railroad across Northern Arizona, via Holbrook, Arizona, Winslow, Flagstaff and Kingman in August 1883. These two transcontinental railroads, the Southern Pacific (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) and the Santa Fe (now part of the BNSF), are among the busiest rail lines in the United States. During the early twentieth century, a number of short-lines usually associated with mining booms",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"text": "bought the rights, raising U.S. fears of British colonization in the hemisphere, in violation of the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine. United States interest in the right-of-way increased in 1848 after the gold strikes in the Sierra Nevada, which led to the California Gold Rush. The Memphis commercial convention of 1849 recommended that the United States pursue the trans-isthmus route, since it appeared unlikely that a transcontinental railroad would be built anytime soon. Interests in Louisiana were especially adamant about this option, as they believed that any transcontinental railroad would divert commercial traffic away from the Mississippi and New Orleans,",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"text": "the United States to unilaterally intervene militarily. The United States Senate approved the treaty in early 1851, but the Mexican Congress refused to accept the treaty. In the meantime, Hargous proceeded as if the treaty would be approved eventually. Judah P. Benjamin and a committee of New Orleans businessmen joined with Hargous and secured a charter from the Louisiana legislature to create the Tehuantepec Railroad Company. The new company sold stock and sent survey teams to Mexico. Hargous started to acquire land even after the Mexican legislature rejected the treaty, a move that led to the Mexicans canceling Hargous' contract",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.8,
"text": "On March 21, 1853, a treaty initiated in the Fillmore administration, that would provide joint Mexican and United States protection for the Sloo grant was signed in Mexico. At the same time that this treaty was received in Washington, Pierce learned that New Mexico Territorial Governor William C. Lane had issued a proclamation claiming the Mesilla Valley as part of New Mexico, leading to protests from Mexico. Pierce was also aware of efforts by France, through its consul in San Francisco, to acquire the Mexican state of Sonora. Pierce recalled Lane in May and replaced him with David Meriwether of",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "the war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In the Treaty Mexico gave up more than 500,000 square miles of territory, which today comprises Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The United States in 1853 purchased the Gadsden Purchase, a strip of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona that provided a route for a railroad. The result was unchallenged American control over a wide range of territory once held by Mexico, including the present day states of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. The vast majority of Hispanic",
"title": "History of Mexican Americans"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "accounts take it for granted that the purchase has been a boon to the United States\"\" but he feels that the region produces little tax revenue; most mines are on Indian reservations which receive all royalties. The federal government spent much money during the 19th century to defend the territory from Apaches that would not have been necessary without the purchase. The value of the southern transcontinental rail line is not mentioned in this brief analysis. Another view of the value of the Gadsden Purchase and the resolution of the border between the U.S. and Mexico west from El Paso,",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
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"hasanswer": false,
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"text": "United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853. This purchase was desired when it was found that a much easier route for a proposed transcontinental railroad was located slightly south of the Gila river. This territory had not been explored or mapped when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was negotiated in 1848. The ever-present Santa Anna was in power again in 1853 and needed the money from the Gadsden Purchase to fill his coffers and to pay the Mexican Army for that year.",
"title": "History of New Mexico"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.75,
"text": "to use the right of way. Hargous put his losses at $5 million (equivalent to $ in ) and asked the United States government to intervene. President Fillmore refused to do so. Mexico sold the canal franchise, without the land grants, to A. G. Sloo and Associates in New York for $600,000 (equivalent to $ in ). In March 1853 Sloo contracted with a British company to build a railroad and sought an exclusive contract from the new Franklin Pierce Administration to deliver mail from New York to San Francisco. However, Sloo soon defaulted on bank loans and the contract",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "Texas was given by geologist Harold L. James in 1969: \"\"Although the boundary controversy did not teach any lessons or impart any wisdom, it did lead to the purchase of an extremely valuable strip of territory that has more than paid for itself in subsequent mineral and agricultural resources. Despite the comedy of errors, chaos, and misunderstanding, the Southwest must therefore be grateful.\"\" The consequences of the Gadsden Purchase for Mexicans and Native Americans living in the region form the background of the story in the film \"\"Conquest of Cochise\"\" (Columbia, 1953). The United States Post Office Department issued a",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "to negotiate a treaty to protect Hargous' rights. The United States' proposal gave Mexicans a 20% discount on shipping, guaranteed Mexican rights in the zone, allowed the United States to send in military if necessary, and gave the United States most-favored-nation status for Mexican cargo fees. This treaty, however, was never finalized. The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which guaranteed the neutrality of any such canal, was finalized in April 1850. Mexican negotiators refused the treaty because it would eliminate Mexico's ability to play the US and Britain against each other. They eliminated the right of",
"title": "Gadsden Purchase"
}
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voice of bell in beauty and the beast? | [
"Paige O'Hara"
] | [
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"score": 24.5,
"text": "Danielle Campbell: Mae Whitman: as the Voice of Tinker Bell in: Others: Jamie Lynn Spears: Emilia Clarke: Gillian Zinser: Allison Miller: Nicola Peltz Anneliese van der Pol: Molly Ephraim: Tamzin Merchant: Gabrielle Pietermann Gabrielle Pietermann (born September 2, 1987 in Munich) is a German voice actress. She is most famous for being the German dub-over artist of actresses Emma Watson, Selena Gomez, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Campbell, Meaghan Jette Martin and for the German Voice as Tinker Bell for Mae Whitman. And in 2017 a audiobook publisher named \"\"der Hörverlag\"\" released a Novelization of Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) read",
"title": "Gabrielle Pietermann"
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"text": "Gabrielle Pietermann Gabrielle Pietermann (born September 2, 1987 in Munich) is a German voice actress. She is most famous for being the German dub-over artist of actresses Emma Watson, Selena Gomez, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Campbell, Meaghan Jette Martin and for the German Voice as Tinker Bell for Mae Whitman. And in 2017 a audiobook publisher named \"\"der Hörverlag\"\" released a Novelization of Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) read by Gabrielle Pietermann (). Emma Watson: as Hermione Granger (Hermine Granger) in: Selena Gomez: as Alex Russo in: Anna Kendrick: as Jessica Stanley in: Meaghan Jette Martin: as Tess Tyler in:",
"title": "Gabrielle Pietermann"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "film \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" (1991). Based on the heroine of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Belle was created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton and originally animated by James Baxter and Mark Henn. Originally voiced by Paige O'Hara, Belle is currently voiced by Julie Nathanson. O'Hara did, however, return as the voice of Belle in the 2018 film \"\"Ralph Breaks the Internet\"\". Frustrated with her provincial village life, book-loving Belle longs for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisoned by a hideous beast, Belle sacrifices her own freedom in return for his. At first frightened by",
"title": "Disney Princess"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "the Beast (voice of Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle to become a prince again. To break the curse, Beast must learn to love Belle and earn her love in return before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose or else the Beast will remain a monster forever. The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury. Walt Disney first",
"title": "Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.41,
"text": "her voice\"\", envisioning a voice similar to that of American entertainer Judy Garland. American actress and singer Paige O'Hara was performing on Broadway when she first read about Disney's then-upcoming animated project \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" in an article in \"\"The New York Times\"\". Upon discovering that the studio was holding auditions for the lead role of Belle and, at the behest of lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken, specifically recruiting Broadway performers, O'Hara immediately insisted that her agent get her an audition. Familiar with O'Hara's Broadway stint as Ellie May Chipley in the musical \"\"Show Boat\"\"; Ashman had",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.31,
"text": "The Beast and the Beauty The Beast and the Beauty () is a 2005 South Korean romantic comedy film. Voice actor Gu Dong-gun (Ryoo Seung-bum) is in a predicament as his blind girlfriend Jang Hae-ju (Shin Min-a) suddenly receives surgery to regain her eyesight. Having lied to Hae-ju about his appearance, the insecure Dong-gun chooses to undergo extreme measures to change his appearance, while promising Hae-ju that he will return soon after a project in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Hae-ju bumps into Tak Joon-ha (Kim Kang-woo) - Dong-gun's high school friend whose appearance is how Dong-gun described himself to Hae-ju - and",
"title": "The Beast and the Beauty"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.19,
"text": "by the actor's interpretation. \"\"Varsity\"\" contributor Robert Crawford appreciated Stevens for \"\"add[ing] a welcome, spine-tingling melancholy moment to an otherwise joyous score.\"\" CIHR-FM's Shelby Knox concluded that, despite the actor's limited singing experience, Stevens \"\"shows a lot of promise\"\", dubbing his song the film's \"\"stand out\"\". Meanwhile, MTV included the song at number four on their ranking of \"\"All 14 Songs from Disney's Live-action Beauty and the Beast\"\"; author Crystal Bell claims that she would have ranked \"\"Evermore\"\" higher if Stevens' voice hadn't been manipulated to sound deeper than it is. Bell went on to write that the song sounds",
"title": "Evermore (Beauty and the Beast song)"
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"score": 21.09,
"text": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Belle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" (1991). Originally voiced by American actress and singer Paige O'Hara, Belle is the non-conforming daughter of an inventor who yearns to abandon her predictable village life in return for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisoned by a cold-hearted beast, Belle offers him her own freedom in exchange for her father's, and eventually learns to love the Beast despite his unsightly outward appearance. Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg commissioned \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" as an animated",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.89,
"text": "beautiful young woman named Belle who he imprisons in his castle. All this must be done before the last petal falls from the enchanted rose on his twenty-first birthday. In all animated film appearances, the Beast is voiced by American actor Robby Benson. The 1991 animated film was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1994, with the role being originated by American actor Terrence Mann. Dan Stevens portrays the character in a 2017 live-action adaptation of the original 1991 film. Determining a suitable appearance for the Beast proved challenging. Although entirely fictional, supervising animator Glen Keane felt it essential for",
"title": "Beast (Beauty and the Beast)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "mistakes him for Dong-gun. Hilarity ensues as Dong-gun finds himself struggling to hold onto the woman he loves. The Beast and the Beauty The Beast and the Beauty () is a 2005 South Korean romantic comedy film. Voice actor Gu Dong-gun (Ryoo Seung-bum) is in a predicament as his blind girlfriend Jang Hae-ju (Shin Min-a) suddenly receives surgery to regain her eyesight. Having lied to Hae-ju about his appearance, the insecure Dong-gun chooses to undergo extreme measures to change his appearance, while promising Hae-ju that he will return soon after a project in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Hae-ju bumps into Tak Joon-ha",
"title": "The Beast and the Beauty"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "1992. O'Hara has referred to the studio as her \"\"main employer for 20 years\"\". In 2011, O'Hara was officially replaced by actress Julie Nathanson, who first voiced Belle in the video game \"\"Kinect Disneyland Adventures \"\"(2011). O'Hara revealed to the \"\"Las Vegas Review-Journal\"\" that news of the replacement greatly upset her to the point of which she was willing to re-record much of Belle's dialogue in an attempt to prove to the company that she is still capable of voicing the character. However, O'Hara eventually admitted that she found the process quite difficult as a result of the way in",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.81,
"text": "Afanasieff for successfully making the song his own. Actress and singer Paige O'Hara, who voices Belle, was among the first artists to express interest in recording the pop version of \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\", but Disney dismissed her for being \"\"too Broadway\"\". Unable to afford to hire a \"\"big singer\"\" at the time, Disney settled for rising Canadian recording artist Celine Dion. Because she was relatively unknown to American audiences at the time, the studio doubted that Dion would have much of an impact in the United States on her own and subsequently hired the more well-known American singer Peabo",
"title": "Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.66,
"text": "were revealed to be in talks to play Gaston and the Beast respectively, and Watson confirmed their casting the following day through tweets. The rest of the principal cast, including Josh Gad, Emma Thompson, Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, Ian McKellen, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci were announced between March and April to play LeFou, Mrs. Potts, Maurice, Madame de Garderobe, Cogsworth, Plumette, Lumière and Cadenza, respectively. Susan Egan, who originated the role of Belle on Broadway, commented on the casting of Watson as \"\"perfect\"\". Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in the original animated film and its sequels, offered",
"title": "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "Belle's Magical World Belle's Magical World (also known as Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World) is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It was released on February 17, 1998, and is a followup to the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\", featuring the voices of David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Robby Benson as The Beast, Gregory Grudt, who replaced Bradley Pierce as Chip Potts, Paige O'Hara as Belle, Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, and Jerry Orbach as Lumiere. The film features two songs performed",
"title": "Belle's Magical World"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.55,
"text": "the studio began casting better known talent in subsequent animated projects. Since the November 1991 release of \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\", O'Hara has returned to The Walt Disney Company on several occasions to voice Belle in a variety of media and merchandise, including its direct-to-video sequels \"\" \"\"(1997), \"\"Belle's Magical World \"\"(1998) and \"\"Belle's Tales of Friendship \"\"(1999), as well as various video game releases such as the \"\"Kingdom Hearts\"\" series and several audio and video recordings associated with the Disney Princess franchise. Additionally, O'Hara was hired by Disney to perform the song \"\"Belle\"\" at the 64th Academy Awards in",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.55,
"text": "Beast\"\", she portrayed Angela, a character in a fictional soap opera, for Disney's 2007 live action/traditional 2-D animated movie \"\"Enchanted\"\". For her work as Belle, O'Hara was honored with a Disney Legend Award on August 19, 2011. As of 2011, O'Hara was replaced by Julie Nathanson as the voice of Belle due to her voice changing significantly over the course of twenty years. Despite this, she still paints Belle for Disney Fine Art and also continues to do promotional appearances for Disney. In 2016, O'Hara appeared at numerous special screenings of \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\" in honor of the film's",
"title": "Paige O'Hara"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.45,
"text": "Michael Bell (actor) Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American actor, voice actor, voice director and animal-rights activist who is most active in voice over roles, known for his youthful voice. He has acted in video games and animated series, including \"\"The Transformers\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"The Houndcats\"\", \"\"Rugrats\"\", \"\"The Smurfs\"\", and \"\"Snorks\"\" and appeared on-screen in film and television, including the TV programs \"\"Dallas\"\" and \"\"Star Trek\"\". Bell was described as being \"\"one of the most prominent voice actors of the 1980s.\"\" Both Bell's wife, Victoria Carroll, and his daughter, Ashley Bell, are actresses. Bell had an important part",
"title": "Michael Bell (actor)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.39,
"text": "which the studio agreed despite its costliness. O'Hara credited the filmmaker's decision with developing both the film and Belle and the Beast's relationship. O'Hara and Benson became the first Disney voice actors to record together. In total, the recording process took over two years to complete. O'Hara had already been friends with co-star Richard White, who voices Gaston, for 15 years. Despite her successful stage career, O'Hara was virtually unknown to Hollywood audiences when she was cast in \"\"Beauty and the Beast\"\"; she was one of the last obscure actresses to be cast in a feature-length Disney animated film before",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "in Beauty and the Beast at the Theatre Royal in Windsor during December 2014, During 2016, she appeared as Millie in the play \"\"Small Hours\"\". Georgina Leonidas Georgina Leonidas (born 28 February 1990) is a British actress best known for playing Molly in \"\"The Basil Brush Show\"\", and Katie Bell in \"\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\"\" and \"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\"\". Leonidas was born in London, the daughter of a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother. She also has Welsh ancestry through her mother. Her older brother Dimitri and older sister Stephanie are",
"title": "Georgina Leonidas"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.33,
"text": "which her voice has changed over the course of 20 years. O'Hara would eventually return as the voice of Belle in the 2018 film \"\"Ralph Breaks the Internet\"\". According to producer Don Hahn, Beaumont's Belle is an \"\"incredibly passive\"\" character, the personality of whom he likened to those of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, as well as American actress and animal rights activist Doris Day, describing them as women who are \"\"capable, but filling a role that women might fill in the 1950s and 1960s.” The filmmakers painstakingly reworked Belle into a more three-dimensional character by providing her with goals and",
"title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)"
}
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when does nikolas cassadine return to general hospital? | [
"April 21, 2003"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.61,
"text": "Nikolas Cassadine Nikolas Cassadine is a fictional character from \"\"General Hospital\"\", an American soap opera on the ABC network. Originated by actor Tyler Christopher in 1996, he left the show on July 14, 1999. Due to Nikolas' importance on the soap, he was immediately replaced by Coltin Scott on July 20, 1999. Scott left the role on April 16, 2003, as Christopher made his return on April 21, 2003. Christopher vacated the role on July 28, 2011, after he was let go from the series. Christopher once again reprised the role on a recurring basis in honor of the soaps'",
"title": "Nikolas Cassadine"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.45,
"text": "there just in time to stop Helena from baptizing Spencer with a different name. When they tried to get him back, Helena threatened to kill him with a dagger. Emily offered to trade herself for the infant. Helena accepted. Emily was able to get away, as was Helena. Helena reappears in Port Charles at the General Hospital grand re-opening on April 13, 2009 demanding Nikolas return a painting of Saint Gregoire to her, which he does. Alexis voices her suspicions. Helena has actually orchestrated the recent arrival of Rebecca Shaw, who resembles Nikolas's deceased wife Emily Quartermaine; Nikolas is inclined",
"title": "Helena Cassadine"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "Laura and Kevin go to Cassadine Island to search for more clues along with Dante and Lulu. They are shocked to see Nikolas, who was presumed dead, with Ava Jerome along with Jason and Sam Morgan. A local fisherman named Theo Hart robbs the island, but it was no robbery, and Theo Hart was the long lost evil son of Mikkos Cassadine, Valentin Cassadine. Valentin murders Nikolas, and he shoots Kevin. Laura returns to Port Charles to get Kevin to the hospital to treat his gun shot wound. Laura and Kevin make love one August night; however, the next morning,",
"title": "Laura Spencer (General Hospital)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "Helena is faking her illness but he feels her forehead. It is revealed she is not faking her illness. Her nurse Mischa tells Luke's kids Ethan and Lulu there is another Cassadine, named Valentin, whom even Helena fears. Fearing for her life, Nikolas has Helena flown to General Hospital. After stirring up even more trouble after arriving in Port Charles, Nikolas uses his position in the hospital's board of directors to have Helena sent back to Greece. Helena showed up in Port Charles again on February 10, following her learning of Nikolas' affair with Elizabeth Webber. The following day, Elizabeth",
"title": "Helena Cassadine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "Spencer (Jonathan Jackson). Their stories consisted of their struggle to hide from mobster Frank Smith, the 1994 birth of their daughter Lesley Lu and the introduction of Laura's illegitimate son Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher), who comes to town to save an ailing Lesley Lu. Francis quit the series in 2002, claiming unequal treatment compared to her male costar. Laura was written out after suffering a psychotic breakdown, after killing her adoptive father Rick Webber (Chris Robinson). Francis returned in 2006 to celebrate Luke and Laura's 25th wedding anniversary. The return stint, which only lasted a month, featured Laura's reunions with",
"title": "Laura Spencer (General Hospital)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "boarding school in France, as Nikolas had planned to enroll Spencer there. Laura agrees, and Spencer leaves for boarding school in France. He returns the following summer, intent on getting revenge on Valentin Cassadine, the man who murdered Nikolas. He ends up getting kidnapped again by Garvey, who was trying to draw out Sonny Corinthos, Spencer's uncle. Spencer manages to escape, though, and Laura decides to send him back to boarding school for his own safety. Avery Corinthos is the daughter of Sonny Corinthos and Ava Jerome. Avery was born onscreen in November 2014, and kidnapped by Nina Reeves and",
"title": "Children of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.5,
"text": "2005, Livingston won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Emily. She decided to leave the series, and Emily was murdered in November 2007; however, Livingston continued to appear periodically until May 7, 2008 as a hallucination of Emily seen by her love interest, Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher). On January 15, 2009, Livingston returned to \"\"General Hospital\"\" for eleven (11) months as new character Rebecca Shaw. Livingston also appeared in the films \"\"Popstar\"\" (2005), and \"\"West of Brooklyn\"\" (2008), as well as the upcoming 2012 film \"\"Rough Hustle\"\". Livingston was cast",
"title": "Natalia Livingston"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.05,
"text": "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\"\", notably with Camille Grammer, ex-wife of Kelsey Grammer. On June 17, 2016, Stabile began portraying Nikolas Cassadine on \"\"General Hospital\"\", temporarily filling in for Tyler Christopher. In 2007, Stabile married to actress Tricia Small. They have a daughter, Ella Grace, born in 2008. Nick Stabile Nick Stabile (born March 4, 1971) is an American television actor. Stabile was born on March 4, 1971 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He graduated from Pomona High School in 1988. After graduating from Colorado State University, he attended Denver's National Theater Conservatory, graduating with a Master's of Fine Arts. Stabile",
"title": "Nick Stabile"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.81,
"text": "casting was announced on November 19. Curtis is introduced as a friend of Shawn Butler (Sean Blakemore) whom Hayden Barnes (Rebecca Budig) hires to uncover the truth behind her shooting. Curtis discovers that Hayden's boyfriend, Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher), was actually responsible for the shooting that left Hayden comatose. Curtis is soon revealed to be the brother-in-law of Police Commissioner Jordan Ashford (Vinessa Antoine) and uncle of her son, TJ (Tequan Richmond). Jordan is not happy to see Curtis, and demands that he leave town. Curtis becomes attracted to Valerie Spencer (Brytni Sarpy), an officer in training. Jordan tries to",
"title": "General Hospital characters (2010s)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.67,
"text": "daughter, Lulu, also found out that her husband, Dante, had a one stand with her cousin, Valerie Spencer, on the 4th of July when they were in Canada. Laura’s longtime nemesis, Helena Cassadine, passes away in November 2015 after Nikolas poisoned her with a cup of tea. Helena had Scotty Baldwin represent her last will and testimony, and Laura was surprised to find out that she was included in her will. The will was read in March 2016, and Helena gave Laura a “key to something that she has loved and lost.” The key opened to an old box in",
"title": "Laura Spencer (General Hospital)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "and dad are back together.\"\" Lucky breaks up with Elizabeth in January 2010 when he finds out she's been having an affair with his brother, Nikolas Cassadine. Elizabeth later tells Lucky that Cameron is asking for him, but she has no idea what to tell him. Lucky, who started drinking when he discovered Elizabeth's affair, decides to become sober to remain a father to Cam and Jake after Elizabeth is institutionalized in February 2010. Nikolas brings Cam and Jake to visit Elizabeth, and she tells Cam that she is going to have another baby. On July 19, 2010, Cameron's youngest",
"title": "Children of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "Asher Thomas is revealed to be the apparent killer. Also in 2005, Nikolas Cassadine's doppelgänger Connor Bishop rapes Nikolas' wife Emily, eventually contributing to their divorce. Nikolas gets involved with Courtney Matthews, who is in the midst of a shaky marriage with Jasper Jacks, and they conceive a child. In October 2005, Lucas Jones, played by Ben Hogestyn, began to announce his homosexuality to his friends and family, but the storyline was ultimately dropped when Hogestyn left the series and the character was written off. The November sweeps involved a large train wreck, and was the first story for Laura",
"title": "History of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "brother Aiden Cassadine was born. In March 2011, Cameron's younger brother, Jake was believed to have died after being hit by a car. Cameron has a hard time dealing with his death, since he is young and confused. Lucky later finds out that Aiden is his biological son, not Nikolas', as they believed, and takes Cameron and Aiden on a camping trip. In January 2011, Cameron was on the bus during the General Hospital ski trip when it crashed, but avoids being severely injured. In 2012, Cameron begins to blames Elizabeth for Lucky leaving, and is upset with her. Cameron",
"title": "Children of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.45,
"text": "his siblings Lucky and Lulu Spencer. Spencer is kidnapped soon after by his nanny, Colleen McHenry. Before Nikolas can rescue Spencer, he is taken by Helena Cassadine from Colleen. Nikolas and Emily Quartermaine eventually rescue him. Spencer left town with his father, and later returned with his great-grandmother, Lesley Webber. On his 10th birthday party, Spencer is injured when a fire breaks out, suffering burns and smoke inhalation. Spencer is treated for his injuries, and recovers. After Nikolas was presumed dead, Spencer is now under the care of his grandmother, Laura Spencer. Spencer asks Laura to let him go to",
"title": "Children of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.11,
"text": "to her that he was in love with Brenda, and that wasn't going to change any time soon. Just weeks later, Brenda and Jax learned that their marriage was invalid. After being confronted with his mother's death, Nikolas Cassadine turned to Katherine Bell for support. The two ended up kissing, then Katherine explained to him the proper way to grieve for a woman that he didn't even know. Just as she was getting through to him, Mac burst in and threw Nikolas out. Moments later, a worried Katherine rushed out after him. Shortly before heading to Laura's funeral, Sonny Corinthos",
"title": "General Hospital: Twist of Fate"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.97,
"text": "tried to audition for the role of Stone Cates in 1993 but was turned away. In April 1996, Christopher was one of several actors to audition for casting director Mark Teschner. Christopher hired an acting coach to prepare him for the audition and worked regularly with \"\"General Hospital's\"\" onset acting coach, John Homa. In June 1996, Christopher received a call back to read for executive producer Wendy Riche and was later brought back to screen test with several actors, including Stephen Nichols who would play Stefan. Christopher was hired two days later, signed a three-year contract and filmed his first",
"title": "Nikolas Cassadine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.91,
"text": "Tyler Christopher (actor) Tyler Christopher (born Tyler Christopher Baker; November 11, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Nikolas Cassadine (1996–1999, 2003–2011, 2013–2016) and Connor Bishop (2004–2005) on the ABC soap opera \"\"General Hospital\"\". In August 2017, it was announced that Christopher would be joining the cast of the NBC soap opera \"\"Days of Our Lives\"\" as the son of long-time villains Stefano DiMera and Vivian Alamain. His tenure on the show began December 29, 2017. Christopher was born in Joliet, Illinois and grew up in Delaware, Ohio, the youngest of four children. Both",
"title": "Tyler Christopher (actor)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.88,
"text": "Helena Cassadine Helena Cassadine is a fictional character on the American soap opera \"\"General Hospital\"\", famously originated by film actress Elizabeth Taylor in November 1981. The character later is known to be portrayed by Constance Towers. After a brief stint by Dimitra Arliss in 1996, Towers took over the role in 1997 and has returned — for periods of varying length — nearly every year since. A fan of the series and wildly popular supercouple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber (Anthony Geary and Genie Francis), Taylor called then-Executive Producer Gloria Monty in 1981 and asked for a featured role. She",
"title": "Helena Cassadine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.78,
"text": "visits. Though Charlotte was distant from Lulu at first, the two started to grow closer. Months later, Valentin and Lulu now have shared custody of Charlotte. Spencer Alexi Nikolosovich Cassadine is the son of Nikolas Cassadine and Courtney Matthews, born in February 2006. He was originally believed to be the son of Jasper \"\"Jax\"\" Jacks, and Jax decides to keep the secret after Courtney dies. He named the baby John Michael Jacks, in honor of Jax and Courtney's fathers. Robin Scorpio learns the truth and announces it at the baby's christening. Nikolas renames the baby Spencer Cassadine, in honor of",
"title": "Children of General Hospital"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "televised interview, Francis revealed that Laura's disappearance had to do with Helena Cassadine. Francis had several motivations for returning to the series. She explained \"\"I did this for fans. And I did it for myself. But I'm also doing it for Gloria Monty.\"\" However, Francis was not in the business of recapturing her former glory. \"\"We don't need to... We've already done it\"\" the actress stated. \"\"I'm looking to satisfy my character\"\" Francis continued. \"\"Laura is different and the storyline is very different\"\" Francis explained. Francis returned to the series on November 14, 1983 and left on December 27, 1983.",
"title": "Laura Spencer (General Hospital)"
}
] |
who has been eliminated from big brother 20? | [
"Winston",
"Kaitlyn",
"Rockstar",
"Scottie",
"Swaggy C",
"Bayleigh",
"Rachel"
] | [
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.59,
"text": "won, they would re-enter the game. However, if the non-evicted houseguest won, no one would re-enter the game and all four evicted houseguests would be permanently eliminated. Cody Nickson beat Paul Abrahamian in the final round and re-entered the game. During Season 20, the first four evicted jury members played against each other in one competition. Scottie Salton beat out his competitors Bayleigh Dayton, Angie \"\"Rockstar\"\" Lantry and Faysal Shafaat and re-entered the game. Since its inception, \"\"Big Brother\"\" has been criticized following reports of \"\"HIB\"\" (Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying), violence in the house, obscene language, breach of integrity, and",
"title": "Big Brother (U.S. TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.95,
"text": "double eviction in Big Brother Brasil history, with a female and a male evictees leaving the House on day 20. Housemates Michelly and Rodrigo were both eliminated in a surprise eviction, after losing individual mas first implemented on the third season of the show. On day 43, Big Brother bosses have revealed that two of week 7's three nominated housemates would leave the house in another double eviction, which took place on day 50 in a regular eviction night. Diogo and Janaina, who received the highests percentages of the public vote (44% and 33% respectively) were both eliminated in a",
"title": "Big Brother Brasil 11"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.95,
"text": "the week, while the last four to be eliminated were the Have-Nots for the week. Matt was the winner, while Andrew, Brendon, Enzo, and Ragan were the Have-Nots for the week. Soon after his win, Matt's Brigade alliance began pressuring him to nominate Brendon and Rachel for eviction, however, Matt was upset with Kathy for voting against him the previous week. Matt later made a deal with Brendon and Rachel to keep them safe, with the two promising Matt safety should they win Head of Household the following week. On Day 21, Matt chose to nominate Andrew and Kathy for",
"title": "Big Brother 12 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "scandal. He was the first person to be eliminated on Day 23, finishing in fifth place. Ryan Moloney (born 24 November 1979) is an Australian actor, best known for his portrayal as Jarrod \"\"Toadfish\"\" Rebecchi in the Australian-based soap opera, \"\"Neighbours\"\", since 1995. On Day 1, he was sent to the basement, after losing to Gillian Taylforth. He was the third to be evicted on Day 23, finishing in third place. Ross Richard \"\"Rylan\"\" Clark (born 25 October 1988) is an actor, model and singer from Corringham, Essex, best known as a contestant on the ninth series of \"\"The X",
"title": "Celebrity Big Brother 11 (UK)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.73,
"text": "Big Brother 20 (U.S.) Big Brother 20 is the twentieth season of the American reality television series \"\"Big Brother\"\". It is based upon the Dutch series of the same name. It was renewed in August 2016 as part of a double renewal for seasons nineteen and twenty. Julie Chen, credited as Julie Chen Moonves from episode 35 onwards, returned as host. Sixteen new competitors, known as House Guests, were announced to be competing and their identities were released in June 2018. Each week in the game, House Guests compete in a series of competitions and then vote to eliminate, or",
"title": "Big Brother 20 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.44,
"text": "made a certain statement, and the HouseGuest who is the farthest away from the correct answer is eliminated each round. Amber and Daniele became the last two remaining in the competition, thus won the special trip outside of the house. Daniele was the winner of the Power of Veto. On Day 52, Daniele chose to use the Power of Veto to remove Amber from the block, and chose to nominate Jen in her place. That night, Amber and Daniele left the house and learned that they would be contestants on the CBS game series \"\"Power of 10\"\". Shortly after their",
"title": "Big Brother 8 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.36,
"text": "Matt later offered to go up as a pawn to ensure Monet's eviction. On Day 17, Britney chose to use the Power of Veto to remove herself from the block, with Matt being nominated in her place. On Day 20, Monet became the second HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of seven to two. Following Monet's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Hang Ten\"\" endurance Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests stood atop surfboards that would continuously go into and out of the wall. The first five HouseGuests to be eliminated would earn food for",
"title": "Big Brother 12 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "Day 20, Joe became the second HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of nine to one. Following Joe's eviction, the HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Getting Schooled\"\" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were asked true or false questions in the style of classic high school classes such as History and Geography. Providing an incorrect answer resulted in a HouseGuests elimination; the last HouseGuest remaining was the winner. Dick was the winner. On Day 21, HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Mission InPastaBowl\"\" food competition. For this competition, HouseGuests paired off to jump into two bowls of",
"title": "Big Brother 8 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.33,
"text": "eliminated they had the chance to open a locker and possibly win something. Britney chose Ian and Joe as Have-Nots, Mike Boogie won $10,000 that he shared with Ian whom he gave $3,000 and Jenn who received $1,000. Dan had the opportunity to invite five people to a private sushi & cocktail party. He chose Boogie, Britney, Janelle, Shane & Danielle. Janelle won the Coaches Competition and saved Wil. Later that day, Shane nominated Ashley and Joe for eviction. Also on Day 21; Shane, Ashley, Joe, Wil, Danielle, and Frank had been chosen to compete in the Veto Competition. On",
"title": "Big Brother 14 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.27,
"text": "giving an incorrect answer was eliminated. Donny and Nicole became the new HoHs after a tie-breaker with Caleb, Derrick and Zach. Nicole planned on getting revenge for Amber's eviction by making a big game move by backdooring Frankie while Team America decided to carry out their missions without Donny. When talking to Donny, Caleb said he didn't want to be up next to Victoria. Zach tried to use reverse psychology on Nicole, but she nominated him alongside Jocasta. Donny nominated Caleb and Victoria. The nominated HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Domino Effect\"\" Battle of the Block competition. The objective was to",
"title": "Big Brother 16 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "ball went into a rotating wheel, with various numbers labeling sections in the wheel. The HouseGuest who's ball landed in the highest number each round was eliminated from the competition, with the last HouseGuest remaining winning the competition. When a HouseGuest was eliminated from the competition, they could claim a prize, one of which was the Head of Household position. Jordan was the winner. On Day 44, Jordan chose to nominate Lydia and Natalie for eviction. Shortly afterwards, Kevin, in an attempt to save himself and his allies, lied to Jeff and claimed that he had heard Russell stating he",
"title": "Big Brother 11 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.23,
"text": "this season. Paraguayan Beauty Queen Fiorella Migliore appeared as a Pit Stop Greeter at Leg 3. Leg 8 marks the first time since the inception of the Double U-Turn twist whereas two teams (Brendon & Rachel and Vanessa & Ralph) who were subjected to a U-Turn had survived from elimination. Leg 10 also marked its second occurrence (after Leg 3 of Season 3) where a team (Bopper & Mark) who won the Fast Forward were also eliminated at the same leg. The cast includes former \"\"Big Brother\"\" contestants Brendon Villegas & Rachel Reilly as well as Major League Soccer players",
"title": "The Amazing Race 20"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "first competition \"\"Maze Race\"\" will eliminate the bottom two finishers, permanently eliminating them from the game. Dominique and Jillian lost the competition to Cody and Cameron respectively; The second Competition between Cody and Cameron determined which first four evicted HouseGuest will be the last one standing and battle one of the HouseGuests in the house for a chance to get back to the house. If the evicted HouseGuest wins against the current HouseGuest, the remaining evictee will have a second chance to re-enter the house. However, if the current HouseGuest defeats the returning evictee, no one will be returning to",
"title": "Big Brother 19 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "the person with the lowest score was eliminated and claimed a prize. People eliminated in later rounds could either keep their prize or trade for an already revealed prize. In the end, Cody got penalty kicks to the butt, Brittany had to score 2,400 soccer goals in 24 hours, Caleb won $5,000, Zach claimed a Germany vacation, Nicole was forced to wear a Germitard for a week and Victoria won the POV. When Caleb took the $5,000 over the Veto, Cody seriously considered putting him up as a replacement nominee. But after Frankie told Derrick about this, he talked to",
"title": "Big Brother 16 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "let go of their button, they were eliminated from the competition. Once a HouseGuest was eliminated, they could open a box of their choice in the center of the glass room, with the box holding either a reward or punishment. Jennifer was the winner of the competition, which lasted more than fourteen hours. During the competition, Jennifer promised Kaysar that she would backdoor James that week. On Day 41, Jennifer chose to nominate Janelle and Rachel for eviction. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, Jennifer chose April, Rachel chose Howie, and Janelle chose Kaysar; Maggie was selected",
"title": "Big Brother 6 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.08,
"text": "from Reutlingen. He entered the Secret House on Day 8. Before Big Brother, he took part in Deutschland sucht den Superstar \"\"(the German version of the Idol series)\"\" and the German version of Got Talent: . He was immediately eliminated from both. There are many disputes between him and his housemates because of his tactical and embarrassing behavior but he is very popular with the audience. In the house, he started friendships with Aleksandra and Robert. He often had discussions with th c:D e South Park puppet Eric Cartman. He called him Hans. On Day 124, buhe wiped his bottom",
"title": "Big Brother (German season 10)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23,
"text": "Big Brother 9 (UK) Big Brother 2008, also known as Big Brother 9, was the ninth series of the British reality television series \"\"Big Brother\"\". The show followed twenty-one contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House. Each week, one or more of the housemates were eliminated from the competition, and left the House. The last remaining housemate, Rachel Rice, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £100,000. The series launched on Channel 4 on 5 June 2008 and ended on 5 September 2008,",
"title": "Big Brother 9 (UK)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "competition. James later decided to leave Janelle and Michael nominated, choosing not to use the Power of Veto. On Day 19, Michael became the second HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of nine to one. Following Michael's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Majority Rules\"\" Head of Household competition. For this competition, players had to answer questions while attempting to remain in the majority. If they answered outside of the majority, they were eliminated. When it came down to James, Janelle, Kaysar, and Maggie in a tie-breaker round, Kaysar became the new Head of Household. On Day",
"title": "Big Brother 6 (U.S.)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "was able to remove himself from the chopping block. In week 2, Godderz won the Head of Household competition and nominated Steven and Dan for elimination. He was again nominated for elimination in week 3, but survived the eviction. Godderz was eliminated in week 4 by a 4–3 vote after he was nominated for elimination by April with fellow contestant Memphis. He returned to the house for one day only on Day 60 as part of a luxury competition. The following summer, Godderz returned to \"\"Big Brother\"\" for the 11th season. The twist for the season was that the HouseGuests",
"title": "Jessie Godderz"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "keep him and target Nicole and Hayden for future elimination. On Day 49, Jocasta was evicted by a 6-2 vote, with only Donny and Hayden voting for Zach, making her the first member of the Jury. The HouseGuests competed in the \"\"Mathcathlon\"\" HoH competition. Julie asked math questions based on events that took place in the house. The answer was either be more, less or exactly. A wrong answer meant elimination. In round 3, Caleb and Christine were the last remaining two. After the next round, Caleb was crowned the second HoH of the week. He nominated Hayden and Donny",
"title": "Big Brother 16 (U.S.)"
}
] |
which came first in star wars the book or the movie? | [
"Lucas's original screenplay"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "later wrote the first \"\"Star Wars\"\" expanded universe novel, \"\"Splinter of the Mind's Eye\"\" (1978). The book was first published as \"\"Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker\"\"; later editions were titled simply \"\"Star Wars\"\" (1995) and, later, \"\"Star Wars: A New Hope\"\" (1997), to reflect the retitling of the film. Marketing director Charles Lippincott secured the deal with Del Rey Books to publish the novelization in November 1976. By February 1977, a half-million copies had been sold. Marvel Comics also adapted the film as the first six issues of its licensed \"\"Star Wars\"\" comic book, with the first",
"title": "Star Wars (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "reading books and comics. His first script incorporated ideas from many new sources, including Joseph Campbell's \"\"The Hero with a Thousand Faces\"\". The script would also introduce the concept of a Jedi Master and his son, who trains to be a Jedi under his father's friend; this would ultimately form the basis for the film and, later, the trilogy. However, in this draft, the father is a hero who is still alive at the start of the film. Lucas completed a second draft of \"\"The Star Wars\"\" in January 1975, making heavy simplifications and introducing the young hero on a",
"title": "Star Wars (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "movies. The first main subject of the special discusses the origins of films as they were written in the early 1970s, during a time of social unrest and political upheaval. When \"\"Star Wars\"\" was released it reaffirmed the notion that there is such a thing as good versus evil and evil must be defeated. The films made use of Joseph Campbell's model of the hero's journey as discussed in the book \"\"The Hero With a Thousand Faces\"\". In \"\"Star Wars\"\", two characters embark on the hero's journey, Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke. Luke starts out as a nobody much",
"title": "Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.48,
"text": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel) Star Wars: The Clone Wars, written by Karen Traviss, is the novelization of the animated movie \"\"\"\". The audio book is narrated by Jeff Gurner. It is the first in a series of five novels designed to tie into the events of the movie and the animated series. The book was released almost 3 weeks before the film was released. Because of this there are some discrepancies between the book and the film. This book, like the movie and series, is set between Star Wars: Episodes 2 and 3. The story follows the heroic",
"title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "Star Wars (film) Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original \"\"Star Wars\"\" trilogy and the beginning of the \"\"Star Wars\"\" franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. \"\"Star Wars\"\" was released",
"title": "Star Wars (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.19,
"text": "novel, titled \"\"\"\", to be published in September 2015. The book was the first in a trilogy of new canonical \"\"Star Wars\"\" novels published by Del Rey, bridging the gap between \"\"Return of the Jedi\"\" and the new \"\"Star Wars\"\" movie, \"\".\"\" It was followed by \"\"\"\" (2016) and \"\"\"\" (2017). Wendig's involvement with the books came after asking to write a \"\"Star Wars\"\" licensed novel on Twitter on September 4, 2014. He was approached by LucasBooks in New York Comic Con later that year, after seeing his tweet and reading his novel \"\"Under the Empyrean Sky\"\". \"\"Aftermath\"\" was published",
"title": "Chuck Wendig"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.17,
"text": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novel) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the novelization of the 2015 . The author, Alan Dean Foster, also wrote \"\"\"\", the 1976 novelization of the first \"\"Star Wars\"\" film. Asked to write the novelization by Shelly Shapiro of Del Rey Books, Foster was given access to the screenplay of the film, along with stills from the film of characters and sets. The novelization includes additional scenes and dialogue. These include: To avoid spoilers caused by the book being released before the movie, the hardcover release was delayed until January 5, 2016. The e-book was",
"title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novel)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.16,
"text": "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker is the original title of the novelization of the 1977 film \"\"Star Wars\"\". Ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster, but credited to George Lucas, it was first published on November 12, 1976 by Ballantine Books. In later years, it was republished under the title \"\"Star Wars: A New Hope\"\" to reflect the retroactive addition of a subtitle to the film in 1981. Although the book contains some differences from the film, it also includes references to Palpatine and his rise to power in the prologue,",
"title": "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.89,
"text": "Golden Book adaptations of the first six installments of the \"\"Star Wars\"\" saga on August 25, the Little Golden Book adaptation of \"\"\"\" became the first ever Little Golden Book in history to be based on a film that was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. Months later, on April 12, 2016, a Little Golden Book adaptation of \"\"\"\", the next film in the saga, also rated PG-13, was released. This opened the door for further Little Golden Books that drew upon PG-13 rated licensed film properties, such as the 2016 reboot of \"\"Ghostbusters\"\", characters and storylines from the Marvel Cinematic",
"title": "Little Golden Books"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "wrote a novel called \"\"Splinter of the Mind's Eye\"\", which was originally commissioned by George Lucas for the purpose of being filmed as a low-budget sequel, as a fallback plan in the event that \"\"Star Wars\"\" did not do well. It was published in 1978, a year after the movie's release. This made it the first full-length original novel to be published in the Star Wars expanded universe. The next official novelization of a \"\"Star Wars\"\" movie was \"\"The Empire Strikes Back\"\" by Donald F. Glut in 1980. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker Star Wars: From the",
"title": "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.84,
"text": "that might have been\"\" in the final production design, and that challenges the \"\"authorial singularity and originality\"\" that normally surrounds the works of a Hollywood auteur. The first volume has been called the definitive work on the development of the cinematographic art of Star Wars, a body of creative works that heavily influenced later films. The first book presents some of the earliest concept sketches of a number of now-familiar characters of the \"\"Star Wars\"\" universe, including early impressions of the helmet of Darth Vader, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, Imperial stormtroopers, and the alien clientele of the Mos Eisley",
"title": "The Art of Star Wars"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "Star Wars (1977 comic book) Star Wars is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 12, 1977 to May 27, 1986. Featuring classic \"\"Star Wars\"\" characters Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2, the first six issues adapt the May 1977 film \"\"Star Wars\"\". The series chronicled their subsequent adventures for 107 issues and three annuals, including a six-issue adaptation of the 1980 sequel film \"\"The Empire Strikes Back\"\" in 1980–1981. The \"\"Star Wars\"\" comic was originally written by Roy Thomas with art by Howard Chaykin. Charles Lippincott, Lucasfilm's publicity supervisor, initially approached publisher",
"title": "Star Wars (1977 comic book)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "I, Jedi I, Jedi is a novel, written by Michael A. Stackpole that is set in the \"\"Star Wars\"\" galaxy. It was the first \"\"Star Wars\"\" novel written in the first-person perspective of a character never seen in the movies. The novel takes place around the same time as Kevin J. Anderson's \"\"Jedi Academy Trilogy\"\". Like the \"\"Jedi Academy Trilogy\"\", \"\"I, Jedi\"\" is notable in that it provides a detailed, first-hand look at the training of a Jedi Knight. The novel revisits many of the situations first presented by Anderson. In \"\"I, Jedi\"\", Corran Horn must develop his Jedi powers",
"title": "I, Jedi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.58,
"text": "released on December 18, 2015. The book was a #1 \"\"New York Times\"\" best seller. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novel) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the novelization of the 2015 . The author, Alan Dean Foster, also wrote \"\"\"\", the 1976 novelization of the first \"\"Star Wars\"\" film. Asked to write the novelization by Shelly Shapiro of Del Rey Books, Foster was given access to the screenplay of the film, along with stills from the film of characters and sets. The novelization includes additional scenes and dialogue. These include: To avoid spoilers caused by the book being released",
"title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novel)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.56,
"text": "said, \"\"My joy when I saw the first trailer for \"\"Star Wars\"\" is I saw a little bit of almost everything in the movie, and I had no idea how it connected, and I had to go see the movie. So the last thing I'm going to do is ruin that little kid's experience.\"\" Following the death of Steve Jobs, Stanton dedicated the film in his memory. Although being based on the first book of the series, \"\"A Princess of Mars\"\", the film was originally titled \"\"John Carter of Mars\"\", but Stanton removed \"\"of Mars\"\" to make it more appealing",
"title": "John Carter (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.56,
"text": "The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press. The book uses fictional characters, worlds, and technology from the \"\"Star Wars\"\" universe as starting points for discussion of factual concepts in cosmology, biology, and technology, and discusses in a \"\"semi-serious\"\" fashion the scientific probability of such fictional elements. \"\"It takes the fantastic elements of the movies—like faster-than-light travel—and examines the current state of science to see if they're possible\"\". Chapter 1: Planetary Environments covers topics",
"title": "The Science of Star Wars (book)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "another time.\"\" In place of the opening crawl describing the events just preceding the film, the novelization includes a prologue explaining the political backstory \"\"From the First Saga: \"\"Journal of the Whills\"\"\"\" (referencing the title of Lucas' first story outline for the saga). It contains the first reference to the Emperor's name, Palpatine, though his description is somewhat at odds with his depiction as a Sith Master in \"\"The Empire Strikes Back\"\", \"\"Return of the Jedi\"\", and the prequel trilogy. Lucas later explained that the first film was written in the era of Richard Nixon, when the story was intended",
"title": "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.45,
"text": "Midnight\"\" (1927). One of the first talking movies to be novelized was \"\"King Kong\"\" (1933). Film novelizations were especially profitable during the 1970s before home video became available, as they were then the only way to re-experience popular movies other than television airing or a rerelease in theaters. The novelizations of \"\"Star Wars\"\" (1977), \"\"Alien\"\" (1979) and \"\"\"\" (1979) sold millions of copies. Even after the advent of home video, film novelizations remain popular, with the adaptation of \"\"Godzilla\"\" (2014) being included on \"\"The New York Times\"\" Best Seller list for mass-market paperbacks. This has been attributed to these novels'",
"title": "Novelization"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.44,
"text": "book publishing moved from Bantam Spectra to Del Rey Books. A new series set 25 to 30 years after the original films, \"\"The New Jedi Order\"\" (1999–2003), was written by multiple authors and introduced a new threat: the Yuuzhan Vong, a powerful alien race attempting to invade and conquer the entire galaxy. The first novel in the series, R. A. Salvatore's \"\"Vector Prime\"\", killed off popular character Chewbacca. Before 1999, the bulk of \"\"Expanded Universe\"\" storytelling explored the time periods either after \"\"Return of the Jedi\"\" or long before \"\"A New Hope\"\" (i.e. the \"\"Tales of the Jedi\"\" series). Lucasfilm",
"title": "Star Wars expanded to other media"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.44,
"text": "response, the studio demanded that theaters order \"\"Star Wars\"\" if they wanted the eagerly anticipated \"\"The Other Side of Midnight\"\" based on the novel by the same name. \"\"Star Wars\"\" debuted on Wednesday, May 25, 1977, in fewer than 32 theaters, and eight more on Thursday and Friday. Kurtz said in 2002, \"\"That would be laughable today.\"\" It immediately broke box office records, effectively becoming one of the first blockbuster films, and Fox accelerated plans to broaden its release. Lucas himself was not able to predict how successful \"\"Star Wars\"\" would be. After visiting the set of the Steven Spielberg",
"title": "Star Wars (film)"
}
] |
when did paracetamol become available in the uk? | [
"1956"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "it took several years until it became clear that the disease was unconnected. Paracetamol was marketed in 1953 by Sterling-Winthrop Co. as Panadol, available only by prescription, and promoted as preferable to aspirin since it was safe for children and people with ulcers. In 1955, paracetamol was marketed as Children's Tylenol Elixir by McNeil Laboratories. In 1956, 500 mg tablets of paracetamol went on sale in the United Kingdom under the trade name Panadol, produced by Frederick Stearns & Co, a subsidiary of Sterling Drug Inc. In 1963, paracetamol was added to the \"\"British Pharmacopoeia\"\", and has gained popularity since",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Malta, and Uruguay. In 1955, Panadol was introduced to hospitals in the United Kingdom. It was first marketed by Phillips, Scott & Turner, which was acquired by Frederick Stearns & Co, a subsidiary of Sterling Drug Inc. It was advertised as being \"\"gentle on the stomach\"\", since other analgesic agents at the time contained aspirin, a known stomach irritant. Panadol was originally available only by prescription in the UK, but is now available over the counter. In 1983, Sterling introduced Panadol to the United",
"title": "Paracetamol brand names"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.48,
"text": "then as an analgesic agent with few side-effects and little interaction with other pharmaceutical agents. Concerns about paracetamol's safety delayed its widespread acceptance until the 1970s, but in the 1980s paracetamol sales exceeded those of aspirin in many countries, including the United Kingdom. This was accompanied by the commercial demise of phenacetin, blamed as the cause of analgesic nephropathy and hematological toxicity. In 1988 Sterling Winthrop was acquired by Eastman Kodak which sold the over the counter drug rights to SmithKline Beecham in 1994. Available without a prescription since 1959, it has since become a common household drug. Patents on",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "of paracetemol, which is not an NSAID, became available in Europe in 2009 and then in the US. The Syntex company, of Palo Alto, California developed the ophthalmic solution Acular around 2006. In 2007, there were concerns about the high incidence of reported side effects. This led to restriction in its dosage and maximum duration of use. In the UK, treatment was initiated only in a hospital, although this was not designed to exclude its use in prehospital care and mountain rescue settings. Dosing guidelines were published at that time. Concerns over the high incidence of reported side effects with",
"title": "Ketorolac"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "Panadol night Panadol night is a GlaxoSmithKline painkiller intended for use at night. It consists of 500 milligrams of paracetamol, 25 milligrams of diphenhydramine hydrochloride (a sedating antihistamine) and other \"\"non-hazardous ingredients\"\" It is sold in Australia, Cyprus United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and the Middle East. It became available as an over the counter medication in the UK in 1996. Panadol night tablets contain two active ingredients, paracetamol and diphenhydramine. Although paracetamol has been widely used for more than a hundred years, scientists still don't fully understand its bio-mechanisms. The main belief is that it reduces the production of",
"title": "Panadol night"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.17,
"text": "often required if damage to the liver becomes severe. NAC was usually given following a treatment nomogram (one for people with risk factors, and one for those without), but the use of the nomogram is no longer recommended as evidence to support the use of risk factors was poor and inconsistent, and many of the risk factors are imprecise and difficult to determine with sufficient certainty in clinical practice. NAC also helps in neutralizing the imidoquinone metabolite of paracetamol. Kidney failure is also a possible side effect. Until 2004, tablets were available in the UK (brand-name Paradote) that combined paracetamol",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.92,
"text": "per dose. In the UK, paracetamol is one of the most prescribed drugs by the NHS. In the UK, Paracetamol costs 19p in the supermarket, while the NHS spends 80 m pounds yearly. In Europe, prices differ from country to country; low-cost prices for 10 doses could reach €0.54 in Portugal, €0.91 in France and €1.97 in Germany. Paracetamol is available in a tablet, capsule, liquid suspension, suppository, intravenous, intramuscular and effervescent forms. In some formulations, paracetamol is combined with the opioid codeine, sometimes referred to as co-codamol (BAN) and Panadeine in Australia. In the U.S., this combination is available",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.34,
"text": "life. Many over-the-counter and prescription-only medications contain paracetamol. Because of its wide availability paired with comparably high toxicity, (compared to ibuprofen and aspirin) there is a much higher potential for overdose. Paracetamol toxicity is one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide. In the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, paracetamol is the most common cause of drug overdoses. Additionally, in both the United States and the United Kingdom it is the most common cause of acute liver failure. In England and Wales an estimated 41,200 cases of paracetamol poisoning occurred in 1989 to 1990, with",
"title": "Paracetamol poisoning"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.3,
"text": "Darvon with APAP (for dextropropoxyphene and paracetamol). The British approved name (i.e. the generic name of the active ingredient) of the paracetamol/dextropropoxyphene preparation is co-proxamol (sold under a variety of brand names); however, it has been withdrawn since 2007, and is no longer available to new patients, with exceptions. The paracetamol combination(s) are known as Capadex or Di-Gesic in Australia, Lentogesic in South Africa, and Di-Antalvic in France (unlike co-proxamol, which is an approved name, these are all brand names). Dextropropoxyphene is known under several synonyms, including: Dextropropoxyphene, like codeine, is a weak opioid, known to cause dependency among recreational",
"title": "Dextropropoxyphene"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "is often delayed during migraine attacks, and accelerates the absorption of paracetamol. However the improvement in paracetamol absorption has been questioned. The combination of metoclopramide to the paracetamol has been shown to enhance the analgesia relief when used to treat the pain of arthritis. Whilst the individual component drugs may be prescribed individually, as a combination, it is only available as the branded Paramax preparation in the UK. In the UK there are only two other combination analgesics with antiemetics (i.e., anti-nausea) products available: MigraMax (aspirin with metoclopramide) and the over-the-counter drug Migraleve (paracetamol and codeine for analgesia, with buclizine",
"title": "Paracetamol/metoclopramide"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.14,
"text": "Oxycodone/paracetamol The combination oxycodone/paracetamol (North American trade name Percocet, generic Endocet and Ratio-Oxycocet in Canada) is a combined opioid/non-opioid pain reliever used to treat moderate to severe acute (short-term) pain, marketed by Endo International plc, formerly Endo Pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration first approved Percocet in 1976, under application ANDA 085106. As of August 2014, Endo International produces Percocet in the following dosages. Percocet tablets are available in four combinations of oxycodone hydrochloride with 325 mg of paracetamol / acetaminophen, each having different appearances and usual maximum daily doses: Due to the liver toxicity of paracetamol the manufacturer",
"title": "Oxycodone/paracetamol"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.97,
"text": "pharmaceutical company. Overshadowed in part by aspirin, introduced into medicine by Heinrich Dreser in 1899, phenacetin was popular for many decades, particularly in widely advertised over-the-counter \"\"headache mixtures\"\", usually containing phenacetin, an aminopyrine derivative of aspirin, caffeine, and sometimes a barbiturate. Paracetamol is the active metabolite of phenacetin and acetanilide, both once popular as analgesics and antipyretics in their own right. However, unlike phenacetin, acetanilide and their combinations, paracetamol is not considered carcinogenic at therapeutic doses. Von Mering's claims remained essentially unchallenged for half a century, until two teams of researchers from the United States analyzed the metabolism of acetanilide",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.81,
"text": "from overdose.</poem> Oxycodone/paracetamol The combination oxycodone/paracetamol (North American trade name Percocet, generic Endocet and Ratio-Oxycocet in Canada) is a combined opioid/non-opioid pain reliever used to treat moderate to severe acute (short-term) pain, marketed by Endo International plc, formerly Endo Pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration first approved Percocet in 1976, under application ANDA 085106. As of August 2014, Endo International produces Percocet in the following dosages. Percocet tablets are available in four combinations of oxycodone hydrochloride with 325 mg of paracetamol / acetaminophen, each having different appearances and usual maximum daily doses: Due to the liver toxicity of paracetamol",
"title": "Oxycodone/paracetamol"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.72,
"text": "Canada, China, Egypt, Lebanon, Myanmar, Oman, Philippines, Portugal, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam. Calpol is a brand of children's medicine sold in the UK, Ireland, India, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malta and the Philippines. The main product is a paracetamol suspension, branded as \"\"Calpol Infant Suspension\"\". It is usually a coloured syrup with a sweet taste, and is used to treat fever and pain. In 2016 it was the second biggest selling branded over-the-counter medication sold in Great Britain, with sales of £66.3 million. Calpol also comes in a form containing ibuprofen, marketed under the name Calprofen. Calpol is a",
"title": "Paracetamol brand names"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.61,
"text": "described in the 1960s. Rates of poisoning vary significantly between regions of the world. In the United States more than 100,000 cases occur a year. In the United Kingdom it is the medication responsible for the greatest number of overdoses. Young children are most commonly affected. In the United States and the United Kingdom paracetamol is the most common cause of acute liver failure. The signs and symptoms of paracetamol toxicity occur in three phases. The first phase begins within hours of overdose, and consists of nausea, vomiting, a pale appearance, and sweating. However, patients often have no specific symptoms",
"title": "Paracetamol poisoning"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.55,
"text": "methemoglobinemia, prompted the search for less toxic aniline derivatives. Harmon Northrop Morse had already synthesized paracetamol at Johns Hopkins University via the reduction of \"\"p\"\"-nitrophenol with tin in glacial acetic acid in 1877, but it was not until 1887 that clinical pharmacologist Joseph von Mering tried paracetamol on humans. In 1893, von Mering published a paper reporting on the clinical results of paracetamol with phenacetin, another aniline derivative. Von Mering claimed that, unlike phenacetin, paracetamol had a slight tendency to produce methemoglobinemia. Paracetamol was then quickly discarded in favor of phenacetin. The sales of phenacetin established Bayer as a leading",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.42,
"text": "methemoglobinemia is produced in humans mainly by another metabolite, phenylhydroxylamine. A follow-up paper by Brodie and Axelrod in 1949 established that phenacetin was also metabolised to paracetamol. This led to a \"\"rediscovery\"\" of paracetamol. It has been suggested that contamination of paracetamol with 4-aminophenol, the substance von Mering synthesised it from, may be the cause for his spurious findings. Paracetamol was first marketed in the United States in 1950 under the name Triagesic, a combination of paracetamol, aspirin, and caffeine. Reports in 1951 of three users stricken with the blood disease agranulocytosis led to its removal from the marketplace, and",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.38,
"text": "to the commercially available Metol, has been used as a developer in photography by hobbyists. This reaction is also used to determine paracetamol in urine samples: After hydrolysis with hydrochloric acid, \"\"4\"\"-aminophenol reacts in ammonia solution with a phenol derivate, e.g. salicylic acid, to form an indophenol dye under oxidization by air. Acetanilide was the first aniline derivative serendipitously found to possess analgesic as well as antipyretic properties, and was quickly introduced into medical practice under the name of Antifebrin by A. Cahn and P. Hepp in 1886. But its unacceptable toxic effects, the most alarming being cyanosis due to",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.28,
"text": "recommended doses. In general the recommended maximum daily dose for healthy adults is 3 or 4 grams. Higher doses may lead to toxicity, including liver failure and death. Serious skin rashes may rarely occur. It appears to be safe during pregnancy and when breastfeeding. In those with liver disease, it may still be used, but in lower doses. It is classified as a mild analgesic. It does not have significant anti-inflammatory activity and how it works is not entirely clear. Paracetamol was first made in 1877. It is the most commonly used medication for pain and fever in both the",
"title": "Paracetamol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.28,
"text": "for those with chronic conditions at the pharmacist's discretion. In Ireland, the limits are 24 and 12 tablets, respectively. Subsequent study suggests that the reduced availability in large numbers had a significant effect in reducing poisoning deaths from paracetamol overdose. One suggested method of prevention is to make paracetamol a prescription-only medicine, or to remove it entirely from the market. However, overdose is a relatively minor problem; for example, 0.08% of the UK population (over 50 thousand people) present with paracetamol overdose each year. In contrast, paracetamol is a safe and effective medication that is taken without complications by millions",
"title": "Paracetamol poisoning"
}
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when is the next round of the fa cup played? | [
"27 January 2018"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.72,
"text": "from the competition, allowing Forest Green to progress to the next round. All games were originally scheduled for 29 November 2009. All games were originally scheduled for 13 December 2009. All games were originally scheduled for 10 January 2010. All games were played on 7 or 14 February 2010. The games at Arsenal and Everton were played on their original scheduled date of 14 February. The ties at Aston Villa and barnet, were scheduled to be played a week later, but snow and waterlogged pitch meant they were not played until 7 March. The game at Everton was played on",
"title": "2009–10 FA Women's Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.42,
"text": "and went to replays in the following midweek fixture, of which two went to second replays. The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 13 February 1932. There was one replay, between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday, played in the next midweek fixture. The four Sixth Round ties were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 27 February 1932. There were no replays. The semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 12 March 1932. Newcastle United and Arsenal won their matches to meet in the final at Wembley. The 1932 FA Cup Final was contested by Newcastle United and Arsenal at Wembley in what became",
"title": "1931–32 FA Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.39,
"text": "to the incident, with United struggling to put a team together to play. In a highly emotional game for both the players and the fans, United beat Sheffield Wednesday 3–0 to go through to the next round. The four quarter-final ties were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 1 March 1958. The West Bromwich Albion–Manchester United game went to a replay before United went through. The semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 22 March 1958, with the Manchester United–Fulham match replaying on the 26th. Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United won their ties to meet in the final at Wembley. The",
"title": "1957–58 FA Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "fourth round of the FA Cup to be played on 25 January. The first leg of the League Cup semi-final against Bradford City was next for Villa three days later. The match did not go the way Villa would have thought, wanted or hoped for though as they lost 1–3 to the Bantams at Valley Parade. Bradford took the lead early in the first half as Nahki Wells beat the offside trap to finish neatly past Shay Given after a deflected shot. Matt Duke made a series of inspired saves throughout both halves keeping Villa at bay, before Rory McArdle",
"title": "2012–13 Aston Villa F.C. season"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.34,
"text": "Round of the FA Cup on 3 October 1891, they played at Warmley near Bristol winning comfortably 4–1, with Carter scoring his only goal in a competitive match. The draw for the next round was a home match against Reading to be played on 24 October 1891. Two weeks before the tie at the Antelope Ground, the Saints arranged a friendly against the 93rd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, after which two members of the Highlanders side, Pte. Jock Fleming and Sgt. Alexander McMillan, were signed by the Saints. The FA Cup 2nd Qualifying match was played at the Antelope Ground",
"title": "George Carter (footballer, born 1867)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "played on Saturday 6 October 2018 with all replays completed by Thursday 11 October 2018. The draw took place on 24 September 2018. The 80 winning teams from the Second Qualifying Round took part in this stage of the competition and no additional teams entered at this stage. The round included one team, Dunston UTS, from Level 9 of the football pyramid as the lowest-ranked team still in the competition. The results were as follows: Fourth Qualifying Round fixtures will to be played on Saturday 20 October 2018 with all replays to be completed by Thursday 25 October 2018. The",
"title": "2018–19 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.17,
"text": "Round progressed to the First Round Proper, where League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 entered the competition. The calendar for the 2018–19 FA Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by The Football Association. Extra Preliminary Round fixtures were played on Friday 10, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 August 2018; replays were to take place no later than Thursday 16 August 2018. The draw was held on Friday 6 July 2018. A total of 368 teams, from Level 8, Level 9 and Level 10 of English football, entered at this stage of the competition. The round included 80 teams from",
"title": "2018–19 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.14,
"text": "10, the lowest-ranked teams still in the competition. The results were as follows: First Qualifying Round fixtures were to be played on Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September 2018; replays no later than Thursday 13 September 2018. The draw was held on 28 August 2018. A total of 232 teams took part in this stage of the competition, including the 160 winners from the Preliminary Round and 72 entering at this stage from the four leagues at Level 7 of English football. The round included 8 teams from Level 10, the lowest-ranked teams still in the competition. The",
"title": "2018–19 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "the First Round Proper. The qualifying competition began with the Extra Preliminary Round on 5 August 2017. The final (fourth) qualifying round was played over the weekend of 14 October 2017. The First Round draw took place on 16 October and was broadcast live on BBC Two and BT Sport. All 40 First Round Proper ties were played on the weekend of 4 November. 32 teams from the qualifying competition joined the 48 teams from League One and League Two to compete in this round. The round included two teams from Level 8, Heybridge Swifts and Hyde United, who were",
"title": "2017–18 FA Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "Fourth Qualifying Round progressed to the First Round Proper, where League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 entered the competition. The calendar for the 2017–18 FA Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by The Football Association. Extra Preliminary Round fixtures were played on Friday 4, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 August 2017; replays were to take place no later than Thursday 10 August 2017 but ultimately concluded Wednesday 16 August 2017. The draw was held on 7 July 2017. A total of 370 teams, from Level 9 and Level 10 of English football, entered at this stage of the competition.",
"title": "2017–18 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24,
"text": "Level 10 of English football, the lowest ranked clubs to compete in the tournament. The results were as follows: Preliminary Round fixtures were played on Friday 24, Saturday 25, Sunday 26 and Monday 27 August 2018; replays were to take place no later than Thursday 6 September 2018. The draw was held on 6 July 2018. A total of 320 teams took part in this stage of the competition, including the 184 winners from the Extra Preliminary Round and 136 entering at this stage from Level 7 and Level 8 of English football. The round included 32 teams from Level",
"title": "2018–19 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.97,
"text": "competition. The results were as follows: Fourth Qualifying Round fixtures were played on Saturday 14 October 2017 and Sunday 15 October 2017 and all replays were completed by Tuesday 17 October 2017. The draw took place on 2 October 2017. A total of 64 teams took part in this stage of the competition: the 40 winners from the Third Qualifying Round and the 24 members of the National League who entered at this stage, representing Level 5 of English football. The round included Shildon from Level 9 of the football pyramid, the lowest-ranked team still in the competition. Winners from",
"title": "2017–18 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "was announced on 14 September 2009. Matches in this round will be played on the weekend of 26 September 2009 with possible replays scheduled for no later than 30 September 2009. The draw for the Third Round Qualifying was announced on 28 September 2009. Matches in this round will be played on the weekend of 10 October 2009. The Conference National teams will enter at this stage, along with the winners from the third qualifying round. The draw was made on 12 October, and the ties will be played in the week beginning 24 October 2009. See 2009-10 FA Cup",
"title": "2009–10 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "The round included 76 teams from Level 10 of English football, the lowest ranked clubs to compete in the tournament. The results were as follows: Preliminary Round fixtures were played on Friday 18, Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 August 2017; replays were to take place no later than Thursday 24 August 2017 but ultimately concluded Monday 28 August 2017. The draw was held on 7 July 2017. A total of 320 teams took part in this stage of the competition, including the 185 winners from the Extra Preliminary Round and 135 entering at this stage from the six leagues at",
"title": "2017–18 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "were as follows: Preliminary Round fixtures were due to be played on Saturday 20 August 2016, with replays on or before Thursday 25 August 2016. A total of 320 teams took part in this stage of the competition, including the 184 winners from the Extra Preliminary Round and 136 entering at this stage from the six leagues at Level 8 of English football. The round included 26 teams from Level 10 still in the competition, being the lowest ranked teams in this round. The results were as follows: First Qualifying Round fixtures were due to be played on Saturday 3",
"title": "2016–17 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.88,
"text": "the Premier League or English Football League competed in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 32 available places in the First Round Proper. The qualifying competition began with the Extra Preliminary Round on 11 August 2018. The fourth and final qualifying round was played over the weekend of 20 October 2018. The First Round draw took place on 22 October and was made by Dennis Wise and Dion Dublin. All 40 First Round Proper ties were to be played on the weekend of 10 November with 13 replays to be played on 20 and 21 November. 32 teams from",
"title": "2018–19 FA Cup"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "three leagues at Level 7 of English football. The round included 9 teams from Level 10, the lowest-ranked teams still in the competition. The results were as follows: Second Qualifying Round fixtures were played on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September 2017; replays were to take place no later Thursday 21 September 2017 but ultimately concluded Tuesday 26 September 2017. The draw was held on 4 September 2017. A total of 160 teams took part in this stage of the competition, including the 116 winners from the First Qualifying Round and 44 entering at this stage from the two leagues",
"title": "2017–18 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "the First Round Proper, when League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 enter the competition. The calendar for the 2016–17 FA Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by The Football Association. Extra Preliminary Round fixtures were due to be played on Saturday 6 August 2016, with replays taking place no later than Thursday 11 August 2016. A total of 368 teams, from Level 9 and Level 10 of English football, entered at this stage of the competition. The round includes 76 teams from Level 10 of English football, being the lowest ranked clubs to compete in the tournament. The results",
"title": "2016–17 FA Cup qualifying rounds"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.69,
"text": "were not members of the Premier League or The Football League, had to compete in the qualifying rounds. Teams from Leagues One and Two enter at this stage, along with the winners from the Fourth Round Qualifying. The draw was made on 24 October 2010 with ties to be played on the weekend of 6–7 November 2010 apart from Rochdale vs FC United of Manchester which was the only match played on 5 November 2010. It was broadcast on ESPN kicking off its FA Cup campaign with the Northern Premier League club shocking their League One counterparts 3–2. ESPN's next",
"title": "2010–11 FA Cup"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "the first time in their history. A total of eight clubs played in the quarter-finals, all winners of the fifth round. The draw was held on 19 February 2017 at Ewood Park, home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., immediately following the Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United match. Matches were played between 11 and 13 March 2017. In a break from tradition, the FA officially renamed the stage the 'Quarter-finals', the name that had long been used colloquially to describe what was previously called the Sixth Round Proper. Changes to previous rules meant that tied matches would have gone to extra-time and",
"title": "2016–17 FA Cup"
}
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when did the samsung galaxy prime come out? | [
"June 2015"
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"text": "Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in August 2016. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 3 GB RAM. The Galaxy J7 Prime has a 13megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/1.9 aperture, auto-focus and a 8megapixels with f/1.9 aperture, also equipped with LED flash. The phone is powered by Exyno's 7870 Octa, a 1.6 GHz Quad Core processor, Mali-T830MP1 GPU and 3 GB RAM with 32 GB of internal storage and a 3300mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy J7",
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"text": "Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in November 2016. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 1.5 GB RAM. The Galaxy J2 Prime has a 8megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, auto-focus and a 5megapixels with f/2.2 aperture, also equipped with LED flash. Other names are Samsung Galaxy J2 Ace and Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus. The phone is powered by MediaTek's MT6737T, a 1.4 GHz Quad Core processor, Mali-T720MP2 GPU and 1.5 GB RAM with 8",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime"
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"score": 24.23,
"text": "later, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini was released, and 4 months later, the Ace Neo edition of the phone was unveiled. Then in November of the same year, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt Prime was presented in stores. Finally, the Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime was unveiled and released on December 2016, and the Samsung Galaxy J2 became its main successor. Samsung Galaxy J1 Samsung Galaxy J1 is an Android smartphone developed by Samsung Electronics and was released in February 2015. The phone has 4 GB of storage, 512 MB of RAM, and a Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 CPU. As",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J1"
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"score": 24.16,
"text": "Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in August 2016. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 3 GB RAM. The Galaxy J7 Prime has a 13megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/1.9 aperture, auto-focus and a 8megapixels with f/1.9 aperture, also equipped with LED flash. The phone is powered by Exyno's 7870 Octa, a 1.6 GHz Quad Core processor, Mali-T830MP1 GPU and 3 GB RAM with 32 GB of internal storage and a 3300mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is fitted with a 5.5-inch PLS TFT screen. This phone comes with Android",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J series"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.06,
"text": "Samsung Galaxy Core Prime The Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (also known as the Galaxy Prevail LTE in Boost Mobile) is an Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The Galaxy Core Prime features a WVGA display, 4G LTE connectivity and Android Kitkat 4.4.4. Some variants can be upgraded to Lollipop 5.0.2 or Lollipop 5.1.1. The 4G version of Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (SM-360FY/DS) was launched on 2 June 2015. In Brazil, Core Prime is marketed under the name Win 2, a model optionally with Digital TV. User experience is overall what you would expect from a lower end",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy Core Prime"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is an entry level Android smartphone manufactured and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The Grand Prime line serves as a successor to the Core Prime. It was originally introduced in 2014 as an exclusive for the Pakistani market, but was later released as a budget phone the following year for a number of markets in Asia. It is also made available in the United States through mobile providers such as MetroPCS, Cricket, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. It is also available in Canadian providers, such as Freedom Mobile, Chatr Mobile, Koodo, SpeakOut and",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime"
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"text": "for charging. Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is an entry level Android smartphone manufactured and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The Grand Prime line serves as a successor to the Core Prime. It was originally introduced in 2014 as an exclusive for the Pakistani market, but was later released as a budget phone the following year for a number of markets in Asia. It is also made available in the United States through mobile providers such as MetroPCS, Cricket, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. It is also available in Canadian providers, such as Freedom Mobile, Chatr Mobile, Koodo,",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.36,
"text": "Prime is fitted with a 5.5-inch PLS TFT screen. This phone comes with Android 7.0.It can be upgrade to 8.0.1(Oreo). It supports 4G VOLTE with dual SIM enabled 4G. It also supports Samsung Knox Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in August 2016. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 3 GB RAM. The Galaxy J7 Prime has a 13megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/1.9 aperture, auto-focus and a 8megapixels with f/1.9 aperture, also equipped with LED flash.",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "Public M In 2016, Samsung announced that it will release the successor to the Grand Prime. It was launched as the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, known as the J2 Prime in some territories. The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime includes 9 different parts for it to work. The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is a smartphone powered by Android. The current O.S. (Operating System) this smartphone is using is the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. This screen has a touch-screen display of 5.00 inch 540x960. The headphone slot has a 3.5mm headphone jack, and you would also expect to have a micro-USB port",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "to continue the Nexus series and bring a third-generation Nexus to market were confirmed by Google's senior vice president of mobile platforms Andy Rubin in May 2011. Samsung mobile put out a teaser video for its \"\"Google Episode\"\" of Unpacked on 11 October but later postponed (to 19 October) the product announcement out of respect, following the death of Steve Jobs on 5 October. Before the official announcement, it was also referred to as the Google \"\"Nexus Prime\"\" by the general public and the media. There had been repeated leaks containing almost accurate details about this device. The phone was",
"title": "Galaxy Nexus"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "GB of internal storage and a 2600mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime is fitted with a 5-inch PLS TFT screen. This phone comes with Android 6.0.1. It supports 4G LTE with dual SIM enabled 4G. It also supports Samsung Knox. The phone became popular in 2017. Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in November 2016. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 1.5 GB RAM. The Galaxy J2 Prime has a 8megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/2.2",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "updates or variants are displayed with name additions such as Pro, Duos, Prime, Max etc. \"\"The models listed here only shows released devices and do not include rumored devices.\"\" Samsung Galaxy J2 2017 is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was unveiled and released in October 2017. It has an advanced 64-bit class system on a chip (SoC) backed by 1 GB RAM. The Galaxy J2 2017 has a 5megapixels rear camera with LED flash, f/1.7 aperture, auto-focus and a 2megapixels with f/1.9 aperture. The phone is powered by Exynos 3475 Quad, a 1.3 GHz Quad Core processor,",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy J series"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.06,
"text": "this, Nintendo announced in their January 2015 Nintendo Direct presentation that the compilation would see a re-release alongside \"\"Super Mario Galaxy 2\"\" on the Wii U's Nintendo eShop. It was made available in North America and Europe on January 29, 2015, and in Australia and New Zealand on January 30, 2015. \"\"Metroid Prime: Trilogy\"\" uses a dual-layer disc to allow all three games to fit on a single disc due to the size of the game data. Nintendo of America has stated that some Wii consoles may have difficulty reading the high-density software due to a contaminated laser lens. Nintendo",
"title": "Metroid Prime: Trilogy"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.75,
"text": "2018 2016 2017 The Samsung Galaxy J series is a line of mid-tier 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 The Galaxy E line was quickly replaced by the Galaxy C and Galaxy A series. Samsung Galaxy Core / Galaxy Grand Series The Galaxy Core/Grand series is a line of mid-range devices released between 2013 and 2015. It includes the Core and the Grand, which were separate lines until the release of the Grand Prime, the successor to the Core Prime and the Galaxy Core Series. The line was mainly replaced by the Samsung Galaxy J series starting from 2015. 2013",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.95,
"text": "was released in Indonesia on 21 January 2012, the Philippines on 28 January 2012, Bahrain on 4 March 2012, and Saudi Arabia in March 2012. The device was originally only available in black, developed under the codename \"\"Tuna\"\". A white version (with the front-panel in black) was made available in February 2012. There was a special edition released to Google employees with a unique back cover. Because the device was designed to work with carriers utilizing different network technology, there are several hardware variations of the Galaxy Nexus: The official Samsung accessory range includes a Desktop Dock with an HDMI",
"title": "Galaxy Nexus"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.62,
"text": "writers: E.E. Smith and Isaac Asimov. Smith's \"\"The Galaxy Primes\"\" began serialization in March 1959. Asimov's first published story, \"\"Marooned off Vesta\"\", had appeared in the March 1939 issue of \"\"Amazing\"\", and Goldsmith reprinted it in March 1959 along with a sequel and Asimov's comments on the story. She soon began to publish some of the better new writers. Cordwainer Smith's \"\"Golden the Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!\"\" appeared in April; and by the middle of the following year she had managed to attract stories from Robert Sheckley, Alan E. Nourse, Fritz Leiber, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Bloch, and James Blish.",
"title": "Amazing Stories"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.59,
"text": "Vodafone. It was set for a US release in March 2011 and a European release in April. However, after the iPad 2 release, some specifications were described as \"\"inadequate\"\" by Lee Don-Joo, Samsung's CEO, pointing to a possible model review or a rethink of their market strategy. This led to introducing a new, slimmer model at the Samsung Unpacked Event during CTIA Wireless convention in March 2011, and an 8.9\"\" model, pushing the release date back to 8 June for the US and \"\"early summer\"\" for the latter. The already produced larger 10.1 units were renamed the 10.1v and sold",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "| Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) | Samsung Galaxy A2 (2017) | Samsung Galaxy C5 Pro ! colspan=3 | 2016 ! rowspan=3 |November | Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime | Samsung Galaxy C3 Pro ! rowspan=5 |September | Samsung Galaxy On5 (2016) | Samsung Galaxy On4 (2016) | Samsung Galaxy On3 (2016) | Samsung Galaxy J Prime ! rowspan=2 |July |Samsung Galaxy Note 7 ! rowspan=2 |June | Samsung Galaxy Pro |- ! rowspan=3 |May | Samsung Galaxy C3 | Samsung Galaxy C2 |- ! rowspan=2 |April | Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) |- ! rowspan=3 |March | Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.53,
"text": "Samsung Galaxy (original) The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy is a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile, and the first in what would become the long Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica. The Galaxy is a smartphone, offering quad-band GSM and announced with tri-band HSDPA (900/1700/2100) at 7.2Mbit/s (however, Samsung's official pages for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions only mention dual-band UMTS 900/2100). The phone features",
"title": "Samsung Galaxy (original)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.41,
"text": "April 20, 2014 and on April 26, 2014. On June 15, 2014, the paid version \"\"Plus\"\" will be released in the Google Play. On July 11, 2014, the paid version Prime was released in the Google Play. Finally, on October 25, 2014, the \"\"Premium\"\" paid version, which was the most complete version of the application, was released in the Google Play. On October 25, 2016, the \"\"Premium\"\" version was also released in Amazon Appstore. Recently, a \"\"Beta\"\" version was released on Google Play on 11 July 2017. Starting from mid-May 2018 will start testing with Android P, the future Android",
"title": "Turbo Launcher"
}
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who did snow white fall in love with? | [
"prince"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.45,
"text": "Margarete fell in love with a prince who would later become Philip II of Spain. Margarete’s father and stepmother disapproved of the relationship as it was ‘politically inconvenient’. Margarete mysteriously died at the age of 21, apparently having been poisoned. Historical accounts point to the King of Spain, who opposing the romance, may have dispatched Spanish agents to murder Margarete. Scholar Graham Anderson compares the story of Snow White to the Roman legend of Chione, recorded in Ovid's \"\"Metamorphoses\"\". The name \"\"Chione\"\" means \"\"Snow\"\" in Greek and, in the story, she is described as the most beautiful woman in the",
"title": "Snow White"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.38,
"text": "land, so beautiful that the gods Apollo and Mercury both fell in love with her. Mercury put her to sleep with the touch of his caduceus and raped her in her sleep. Then Apollo, disguised as an old crone, approached her and raped her again. These affections led Chione to openly boast that she was more beautiful than the goddess Diana herself, resulting in Diana shooting her through the tongue with an arrow. Karlheinz Bartels, a pharmacist and scholar from Lohr am Main, a town in northwestern Bavaria, found evidence that Snow White was Maria Sophia Margarethe Catharina, Baroness von",
"title": "Snow White"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "for the prosperity of his mother's farm. King Midas declares David fit to marry his daughter Abigail and unite the kingdoms. However, David wants to marry for love, but George vows to kill his mother if he declines. He falls in love with Snow White, who nicknames him Charming, later inviting her to run away. After continuous interceptions by George, the Evil Queen Regina captures him to convince Snow to willingly eat an apple containing a sleeping curse. He later awakens her and the pair marry, before Regina announces that she will cast a curse to destroy their happiness. Rumplestiltskin",
"title": "David Nolan (Once Upon a Time)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.45,
"text": "to Snow White. Snow White and the Prince fall in love, but the queen has him kidnapped when she suspects his true identity. The Stooges, disguised as cooks, attempt to rescue him, but he falls from a staircase in the palace and is presumed dead. Meanwhile, the queen learns from her magic mirror that Snow White is still alive. With the help of her magician, Count Oga, she transforms herself into a witch and succeeds in getting Snow White to take a bite from a poisoned apple. As she rides back to the palace, she encounters the Stooges, and thanks",
"title": "Snow White and the Three Stooges"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.41,
"text": "to run deep into the dark forest and never return. Snow White, frightened, obeys and runs through the scary woods. While running, she bumps into a handsome young prince hunting in the forest. He immediately falls in love with her, but she is more concerned about getting as far away from her stepmother as possible. The prince vows to see her again and hopes to marry her. Snow White continues to run until she finds a small cottage in the midst of the forest. Tired by the shock, Snow White decides to enter the cottage, have something to eat and",
"title": "Snow White (1995 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.3,
"text": "Elspeth is vain and keeps a room full of magical mirrors which assure her each day that she is the fairest of them all whenever she asks. When Prince Alfred arrives in the kingdom and falls in love with Snow White, Elspeth is furious to discover that images of Snow White are appearing in her mirrors, which means that her stepdaughter is the fairest of them all. Driven with jealousy, Elspeth orders a hunter, Hector, to take Snow White into the forest and kill her, and then return with Snow White's heart for her to consume. In the meantime, Elspeth",
"title": "Snow White: The Fairest of Them All"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.14,
"text": "a shoe at a dance). The prince’s stepmother Narissa (Susan Sarandon) poisons Giselle at a dance. Giselle recovers and later fights Narissa, who has transformed into a dragon. Giselle’s chipmunk friend Pip (Jeff Bennett) sends Narissa falling to her death during the fight. Giselle later falls in love with 6-year-old Morgan’s father and decides to live with them, whereas Morgan’s former stepmom-to-be Nancy moves to Giselle’s hometown and marries the prince. In 2013, a version of Mattel schools of fairy tale characters, \"\"Ever After High\"\", Snow White has a daughter, Apple White (Royal), who disputes with Raven Queen (daughter of",
"title": "Snow White"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24,
"text": "leaves the palace. Arriving at a forest, she meets Prince Andrew Alcott (Armie Hammer), who has been robbed by dwarves. She and the prince fall in love, but go their separate ways. Snow White arrives in the town, and finds the town folk are destitute due to Queen Clementianna's greed. Meanwhile, Prince Alcott finds his way to the palace. Clementianna realizes he comes from a wealthy kingdom and throws a ball to woo him. Snow White secretly attends the ball, planning to ask the prince to help her restore the kingdom. Queen Clementianna notices them dancing and orders her manservant",
"title": "Mirror Mirror (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.91,
"text": "Genie. The Genie expresses the desire to find true love, so King Leopold takes the Genie to his castle as he believes the Genie can find true love there. He falls in love with the King's wife Queen Regina and gives her a hand mirror. The King reads in the Queen's diary that she has fallen in love with the man who gave her the hand mirror and asks the Genie to locate him. The Queen is then locked in her room to prevent her from leaving the King. To free her, her father has the Genie bring her a",
"title": "Magic Mirror (Snow White)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.84,
"text": "Snow White wishes there were a way to get Charming out of her head as she is still in love with him. Red suggests she see Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and Snow takes her advice. Rumplestiltskin takes some water and a piece of Snow's hair to make a potion that will make her forget Charming. He warns that love is a powerful disease and the cure must be extreme. At the palace, Charming struggles with his feelings for Snow. King George (Alan Dale) commands him to forget her because the marriage to Abigail is worth great wealth to the kingdom. Charming",
"title": "7:15 A.M."
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.48,
"text": "in the land His origins are unknown at the beginning, just as those of the object inside which he resides, reflecting the truth. Through enchantments he is able to respond to whoever calls him from the mortal world and is obliged to answer truthfully. The son of King of Albertville, a close ally of Conrad, he falls in love with princess Snow White, but is soon called to join his father in battle. Torn from his beloved not only by his unknowing father but also by the jealous Queen, he fights to find the whereabouts of the princess and to",
"title": "The Legend of Snow White"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.39,
"text": "falls in love with her upon being enchanted by her beauty. The Prince kisses her which revives her. The following is a list of names of the Seven Dwarfs from multiple versions of the Snow White story. There are many adaptations to the story of Snow White; including animation, film, books, plays, etc. This is a listing of the Seven Dwarfs names based on release date. The original Snow White story, written by the Brothers Grimm, did not feature names to any of the dwarfs. \"\"Snow White & the Huntsman\"\" and \"\"Once Upon a Time\"\" feature eight dwarfs, while the",
"title": "Seven Dwarfs"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.16,
"text": "before she can do so, lightning strikes the cliff, causing her to fall to her death. The dwarfs return to their cottage and find Snow White seemingly dead, being kept in a deathlike slumber by the poison. Unwilling to bury her out of sight in the ground, they instead place her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a clearing in the forest. Together with the woodland creatures, they keep watch over her. A year later, a prince who had previously met and fallen in love with Snow White learns of her eternal sleep and visits her coffin. Saddened",
"title": "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "the other to be in the wrong, Snow White and Alcott duel. Alcott returns to the Palace defeated and informs the Queen that Snow White is alive. Clementianna goes to her Mirror House, within which lives her reflection, the Mirror Queen (Lisa Roberts Gillan). Clementianna has the Mirror Queen temporarily turn Brighton into a cockroach, and requests a love potion so she can make the prince fall in love with her. The potion turns out to be a 'puppy love' potion and the prince becomes devoted to her like a puppy dog. Under this spell, the prince agrees to marry",
"title": "Mirror Mirror (film)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "Little Red Riding Hood instead of helping the citizens. A prime example is when Snow White and her friends decide to go to a joust party instead of visiting an orphanage. That day, her father strictly tells her to return before morning and wear the royal robe. Instead, she takes it off and leaves it in the limo. She meets and falls in love with a handsome man. He doesn't return the feeling because of Snow White's behavior towards “riffraff” and his respect for Queen Grace. When Snow White returns, her father is upset because she did not wear the",
"title": "Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "the story of Snow White to the Roman legend of Chione, recorded in Ovid's \"\"Metamorphoses\"\". The name \"\"Chione\"\" means \"\"Snow\"\" in Greek and, in the story, she is described as the most beautiful woman in the land, so beautiful that the gods Apollo and Mercury both fell in love with her. Mercury put her to sleep with the touch of his caduceus and raped her in her sleep. Then Apollo, disguised as an old crone, approached her and raped her again. These affections led Chione to openly boast that she was more beautiful than the goddess Diana herself, resulting in",
"title": "Origin of the Snow White tale"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.86,
"text": "Snow marries Charming and the two were very much in love and quite happy for a time. Charming promises his first wife anything she desires as a wedding gift; to his surprise, she asks him for fencing lessons. Feeling that this is inappropriate for a woman, particularly a noble one, Charming attempts to dissuade her, but she remains resolute and he agrees. Time passes and Snow becomes adept at sword fighting. About this time a dwarf corpse is discovered, roughly hacked to death. Realizing that the King of the Dwarfs will want to know what happened to his subject, Charming",
"title": "Snow White (Fables)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.7,
"text": "of the few residents who go against Regina, making her his deputy. He and Emma are attracted to each other, though he has a secret sexual relationship with Regina, which Emma later discovers, feeling betrayed and disgusted. As he experiences flashbacks of his previous life, he seeks advice from Henry Mills, who tells him of his story. After Graham is unable to locate his heart, he ends his relationship with Regina and starts a new relationship with Emma, regaining his lost memories in the process. However, Regina crushes his heart and he dies in Emma's arms, shortly after thanking Emma",
"title": "Huntsman (Snow White)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "sex with him. In the forest, while the four remaining miners mourn their losses, Lilli notices Will's scars, inflicted by Crusaders. Having fallen in love, the two share a kiss. Claudia disguises herself as an old woman and turns her brother's eviscerated heart into a poisoned apple. Transported to Lilli's refuge, she deceives her into accepting the apple, which puts her into a deathlike state. Will finds Lilli seemingly dead on the ground from a bite of the apple. Dr. Gutenberg eventually finds them and sadly pronounces her dead. The miners place her in a glass coffin and prepare to",
"title": "Snow White: A Tale of Terror"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "Goblin Kingdom, develops an affection towards Snow White's beauty and desires to take her as his wife by force. That is, of course, until Jolly decides to confront him. Close friend and advisor to Gobby, Memole is secretly in love with him and decides to help Snow White escape from the unwanted marriage. A little fairy that Snow White and Jolly encounter along the way, Mylfee can control the wind…or not. Everything she tries to do ends up with a catastrophe until a small being helps her overcome this. Little is known of the past of Mylarka, except the fact",
"title": "The Legend of Snow White"
}
] |
who has the most country music number one hits? | [
"George Strait"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "pull four number-one's from one album. In 2010, with the singles of her third album, \"\"Play On\"\", she achieved ten career number-one singles on the Hot Country Songs, an achievement for which she was named by the \"\"Guinness Book of World Records\"\" as the female country artist with the most number-one hits on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot Country Songs chart (since accurate sales records were introduced in the US in 1991), tied with Reba McEntire. With such a feat, she became the only female artist in country music history to have eleven consecutive top two singles; at that time, she had",
"title": "Carrie Underwood"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.44,
"text": "Number One on the \"\"Billboard\"\" country charts, becoming Strait's 41st Number One hit on that chart, and breaking Conway Twitty's record for the most \"\"Billboard\"\" Number One hits by a country music artist. Following this song was the title track, his 42nd Number One. \"\"Wrapped\"\" was the third single, and finishing out the releases was \"\"How 'Bout Them Cowgirls\"\". As listed in liner notes. All musicians except Jeff Taylor also perform background vocals on \"\"Texas Cookin'.\"\" Strings on tracks #10, #12, and #13 performed by the Nashville String Machine. Arranged and conducted by Bergen White and contracted by Carl Gorodetzky.",
"title": "It Just Comes Natural"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "twelve official country singles: ten number-ones. She also became the first woman to score ten number-ones on such a chart since Rosanne Cash in 1988. She then broke and expanded her \"\"Guinness Book\"\" record by scoring four more number-one singles on the Hot Country Songs between 2011 and 2014, for a total of fourteen number-ones. She is also the woman with the most number-ones in the history of the \"\"Billboard\"\" Country Airplay chart, having had 15 leaders. Underwood's first twenty-seven singles promoted to country radio all reached the top 10 of both the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts,",
"title": "Carrie Underwood"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "number-one hits on \"\"Billboard\"\"s Hot Country Songs chart when his 44 number one singles surpassed Twitty's 40. Counting all music charts, Strait has amassed a total of 60 number-one hits, breaking a record also previously set by Twitty, and giving him more number one songs than any other artist in any genre of music. Strait is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360- degree configuration and introduced festival style tours. For example, the Strait Tours earned $99 million in three years. His concert at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in June 2014 drew 104,793 people, marking",
"title": "George Strait"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "Country Album of the 2000–2009 decade. She has also become the female country artist with the most number one hits on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot Country Songs chart in the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991–present), having 14 No. 1s and breaking her own \"\"Guinness Book\"\" record of ten. In 2007, Underwood won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, becoming only the second Country artist in history (and the first in a decade) to win it. She also made history by becoming the seventh woman to win Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the first woman",
"title": "Country music"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "have become Number One hits on the country charts: \"\"(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing\"\" by Trace Adkins, \"\"Girls Lie Too\"\" by Terri Clark, and \"\"Live Like You Were Dying\"\" by Tim McGraw (which preceded \"\"Girls Lie Too\"\" at #1). \"\"Live Like You Were Dying\"\" also earned Nichols and Craig Wiseman, the song's other co-writer, the Grammy Award for Best Country Song at the 47th Grammy Awards, as well as the Song of the Year award from the Academy of Country Music. Nichols and Wiseman also wrote Faith Hill's \"\"A Baby Changes Everything\"\", a Number One hit on the Adult Contemporary",
"title": "Tim Nichols"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.53,
"text": "Josh Kear Josh Kear is a Nashville-based songwriter who has become known as one of the country genre’s most consistent hit makers. He has spent nearly fourteen years writing for independent powerhouse Big Yellow Dog Music. In 2007, he had his breakthrough number one song with Carrie Underwood’s massive hit “Before He Cheats” which spent five weeks at the top of the charts. In addition, Josh's 11th number one song, \"\"Drinking Class\"\" by country star Lee Brice, was the most played country song of 2015 according to the Billboard country airplay chart. Josh's recent successes include \"\"Most People are Good\"\"",
"title": "Josh Kear"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "in the fall of 1949; However, it wasn't until he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950 that he gained serious significance in the United States. His second release in early 1950, \"\"I'm Moving On\"\" was the first of seven number 1 hits on the country charts. \"\"I'm Moving On\"\" stayed at the top for 21 weeks, setting the all-time record for most weeks at number 1. That same year \"\"The Golden Rocket\"\" and \"\"The Rhumba Boogie\"\" both hit number one with the latter remaining No. 1 for eight weeks. Along with these hits, his other",
"title": "Hank Snow"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "had 11 number one country hits in his career (\"\"Lovesick Blues\"\", \"\"Long Gone Lonesome Blues\"\", \"\"Why Don't You Love Me\"\", \"\"Moanin' the Blues\"\", \"\"Cold, Cold Heart\"\", \"\"Hey, Good Lookin'\"\", \"\"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)\"\", \"\"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive\"\", \"\"Kaw-Liga\"\", \"\"Your Cheatin' Heart\"\", and \"\"Take These Chains from My Heart\"\"), as well as many other top ten hits. On February 8, 1960, Williams' star was placed at 6400 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 and into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1985.",
"title": "Hank Williams"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.41,
"text": "by Jimmy Wakely that went to number one on the magazine's list of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records. Olivia Newton-John reached the top spot on the magazine's pop and Easy Listening charts with \"\"I Honestly Love You\"\", and \"\"A Mi Esposa con Amor (To My Wife with Love)\"\" by Sonny James got as high as number four on the Country singles chart. Tammy Wynette had number one Country hits with \"\"Another Lonely Song\"\" and \"\"My Elusive Dreams\"\", the latter being a duet with David Houston. Jim Croce's \"\"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song\"\" went to",
"title": "You Lay So Easy on My Mind"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "of western swing music, bar-room ballads, honky-tonk style, and traditional country music. He holds the world record for the most #1 hit singles by any artist in the history of music on any chart or in any genre, having recorded 60 #1 hit singles as of 2016. Within country music, the distinct styles of singers such as The Randy Rogers Band, Robert Earl Keen, Kevin Fowler, Cory Morrow, Jack Ingram, Jerry Jeff Walker, Pat Green, Wade Bowen, the Eli Young Band, and others are often dubbed \"\"Texas music\"\". The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame is located in Carthage, Texas.",
"title": "Music of Texas"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "singles have reached top 40 on the country chart, with only nine missing top 10. Twenty-six have gone to number one on the US country chart, starting with 1994's \"\"Don't Take the Girl\"\". Three of his singles—1997's \"\"It's Your Love\"\" (a duet with his wife, Faith Hill), 1998's \"\"Just to See You Smile\"\", and 2004's \"\"Live Like You Were Dying\"\"—are the number one country hit of that year according to Billboard Year-End. \"\"Live Like You Were Dying\"\" is also his longest-lasting number one, at seven non-consecutive weeks. Twenty-seven have also reached the Top 40 on the US \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100.",
"title": "Tim McGraw discography"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.34,
"text": "Earl Thomas Conley Earl Thomas Conley (born October 17, 1941) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One. Conley's eighteen \"\"Billboard\"\" Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade except for Alabama and Ronnie Milsap. Throughout his career, Conley's music has been referred to as",
"title": "Earl Thomas Conley"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "Your Luvin'\"\" (featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.), \"\"Girl Gone Wild\"\" and \"\"Turn Up the Radio\"\". Madonna has collected three number-one songs from her thirteenth studio album, \"\"Rebel Heart\"\". \"\"Living for Love\"\" became her forty-fourth number-one for the chart issue dated March 7, 2015. \"\"Billboard\"\" noted that it was a \"\"historic\"\" milestone, as Madonna tied with country singer George Strait for the most number-ones of any \"\"Billboard\"\" chart, who accumulated the same tally on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart between 1982 and 2009. \"\"Living for Love\"\" also brought the singer's total amount of U.S. number-ones across all \"\"Billboard\"\" charts to",
"title": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.31,
"text": "was won by Clay Ashley, Dan Hair, and Mark Trotter of Sioux City, Iowa. Before the official video, television network CMT aired a live music video which featured Jackson performing the song with Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and George Strait on the \"\"CMT Country Giants\"\" special. \"\"Country Boy\"\" peaked at Number One on the \"\"Billboard\"\" country charts in January 2009, becoming Jackson's twenty-fifth Number One on that chart and matching George Strait's record for the most Number One hits by a country artist since January 1990, when the charts were first tabulated via Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (counting only singles",
"title": "Country Boy (Alan Jackson song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.27,
"text": "Diamonds & Dirt Diamonds & Dirt is an album released in 1988 by American singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell (see 1988 in country music). His fifth studio album, it was also his second release for the Columbia Records label. The album was also his most successful, achieving RIAA gold certification. In addition, all five of its singles reached Number One on the \"\"Billboard\"\" country charts, setting a record for the most Number One hits from a country album. In order of release, these were \"\"It's Such a Small World\"\" (a duet with then-wife Rosanne Cash), \"\"I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried\"\",",
"title": "Diamonds & Dirt"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.23,
"text": "set by Brad Paisley in 2009 for the most consecutive No. 1 singles in the Country Airplay chart's 24-year history, since it was first tracked by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems in January 1990. In 2016, \"\"Came Here to Forget\"\", the lead-off single from Shelton's tenth studio album \"\"If I'm Honest\"\", extended this streak into a record-breaking 17 consecutive number one singles, leading him to surpass Earl Thomas Conley's record of 16 consecutive number one singles. , Shelton remains one of only five country artists to have achieved No. 1 status on the Billboard Artist 100 chart, having charted all 156",
"title": "Blake Shelton"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "at number one on the Top Country Albums charts, thus setting several records upon release. It is the biggest sales debut for a hits collection in any genre of music in more than six years, when Frank Sinatra's \"\"Nothing But the Best\"\" arrived in May 2008. It is the biggest first-week sales for a female hits album in any genre in over nine years, when Reba McEntire's \"\"Reba #1's\"\" opened in November 2005. It is also the biggest debut sales week for a country best-of title since Toby Keith's \"\"35 Biggest Hits\"\" debuted in May 2008. It also logs the",
"title": "Greatest Hits: Decade Number 1"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.19,
"text": "(2000). \"\"I Swear\"\" and \"\"Sold\"\" were also the Number One country singles of 1994 and 1995, respectively, according to the Billboard Year-End charts. Besides his seven Number Ones, Montgomery has had thirteen more Top Ten country hits in the US. One of these, \"\"Friends\"\" (1997), was also a Number One on the \"\"RPM\"\" country charts in Canada, as were all of his US Number Ones except \"\"If You've Got Love\"\" and \"\"I Can Love You Like That\"\". Several of Montgomery's singles also crossed over to the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100, including three which reached Top 40 on that chart: 1998's \"\"Hold",
"title": "John Michael Montgomery discography"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "Brett James, and produced by Underwood's longtime producer Mark Bright. It also has a sample of \"\"Amazing Grace\"\" at the end of the song, sung by Underwood. It became a crossover success, having topped the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot Country Songs chart for seven weeks and the Hot Christian Songs chart for twenty six consecutive weeks. It also reached No. 24 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 chart. On August 10, 2015, \"\"Something in the Water\"\" was certified Platinum by RIAA. At the 57th Grammy Awards, the song won the Grammy award for Best Country Solo Performance. In February 2015,\"\"Little Toy Guns\"\" was",
"title": "Greatest Hits: Decade Number 1"
}
] |
who is the ruling party in himachal pradesh? | [
"the Bharatiya Janata Party"
] | [
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.8,
"text": "Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh (People's Rule Party Himachal Pradesh) was a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in the beginning of the 1970s. LRP was led by Thakur Sen Negi, formerly leader of the Samyukt Vidhayak Dal in the state. Another important leader was the former Congress leader J.B.L. Khachi. LRP contested the 1971 Lok Sabha elections and the 1972 state assembly elections. In the 1972 state assembly elections LRP had put up candidates in 16 out of 68 constituencies. Two were elected. In total the party received 44067 votes (5,02%",
"title": "Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.77,
"text": "the government. As is common in most other first past the post electoral systems, the state's politics are dominated by two parties - the ruling Indian National Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. State elections in India are often fought on central issues, and the results are regarded as a referendum on the central government's policies. This is especially true in the case of states where the two national parties - Congress and BJP are in direct contest with each other. The state units of the parties are not completely independent and the central authority of the parties have",
"title": "2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.72,
"text": "of the votes in the state). Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh (People's Rule Party Himachal Pradesh) was a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in the beginning of the 1970s. LRP was led by Thakur Sen Negi, formerly leader of the Samyukt Vidhayak Dal in the state. Another important leader was the former Congress leader J.B.L. Khachi. LRP contested the 1971 Lok Sabha elections and the 1972 state assembly elections. In the 1972 state assembly elections LRP had put up candidates in 16 out of 68 constituencies. Two were elected. In total",
"title": "Lok Raj Party Himachal Pradesh"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.62,
"text": "Himachal Swabhiman Party The Himachal Swabhiman Party is a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The party was founded by former BJP ideologue Govindacharya on 10 August 2011. Subhash Sharma, a former leader of employees' movements in the state, was appointed as the president of the party. Ahead of the 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the party was assigned 'television' as its election symbol by the Election Commission of India. The party took part in discussions on the formation of a 'Third Front' to contest the elections. The Himachal Swabhiman Party fielded 16 candidates in the",
"title": "Himachal Swabhiman Party"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.41,
"text": "Loktantrik Morcha Himachal Pradesh Loktantrik Morcha (Himachal Pradesh) (LM(HP), Democratic Front (Himachal Pradesh)) is a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. LM(HP) was registered as a political party in 2003. It is led by Mohinder Singh Chaudhury, former Himachal Vikas Congress minister and convenor of Him Loktantrik Morcha. Singh had been Public Works Department Minister in the HVC-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cabinet in the state. But shortly after the 1998 elections, a group of BJP legislators demanded his resignation on ground of corruption. HVC leader Sukh Ram had to bow to their demand, and Singh was expelled",
"title": "Loktantrik Morcha Himachal Pradesh"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.28,
"text": "2012 assembly election. None was elected, together they mustered to get 6,571 votes (0.19% of the votes in the state). Himachal Swabhiman Party The Himachal Swabhiman Party is a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The party was founded by former BJP ideologue Govindacharya on 10 August 2011. Subhash Sharma, a former leader of employees' movements in the state, was appointed as the president of the party. Ahead of the 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the party was assigned 'television' as its election symbol by the Election Commission of India. The party took part in discussions",
"title": "Himachal Swabhiman Party"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.08,
"text": "Himachal Lokhit Party Himachal Lokhit Party was a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The party was founded by few of rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader ahead of 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Maheshwar Singh was named as president of the party and some Senior leaders of BJP like Mahender Nath Sofat, Shyama Sharma also joined the party. The party took part 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and fielded 33 candidates mostly Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress rebels. Only Maheshwar Singh was elected, together they mustered to get 65,165 votes (1.9% of the",
"title": "Himachal Lokhit Party"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.05,
"text": "new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) was formed with Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland too belong to this alliance. Thus, the People's Party of Arunachal joined the BJP led NEDA. All of the 30 MLAs returned to Indian National Congress on 16 July 2016 and Pema Khandu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in",
"title": "People's Party of Arunachal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.05,
"text": "votes in the state). In August 2016, half of the party was merge into Bharatiya Janata Party and in October 2016, rest of its member joined Aam Aadmi Party. Himachal Lokhit Party Himachal Lokhit Party was a political party in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The party was founded by few of rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader ahead of 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Maheshwar Singh was named as president of the party and some Senior leaders of BJP like Mahender Nath Sofat, Shyama Sharma also joined the party. The party took part 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly",
"title": "Himachal Lokhit Party"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "Jai Ram Thakur Jai Ram Thakur (born 6 January 1965) is an Indian politician, who is the 14th and the current Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. He was elected BJP legislative party leader on 24 December 2017 after the defeat of Chief Ministerial candidate of BJP, Prem Kumar Dhumal in the assembly elections held in November 2017. He has been an MLA in Himachal Pradesh Assembly since 1998 and previously served as Cabinet Minister in BJP Government of Himachal Pradesh. He was Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj from 2009-2012. He is elected to Himachal Pradesh Assembly from Seraj",
"title": "Jai Ram Thakur"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "a considerable influence over candidate selection and campaigning. However, state issues do tend to dominate the discourse. The Congress party has projected its current Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the elections. BJP announced Prem Kumar Dhumal as their Chief Ministerial candidate. Dhumal lost his seat from Sujanpur constituency. VVPAT-fitted electronic voting machines were used in all of the 7,521 polling stations, the first time that the entire state will see the implementation of VVPAT to ensure greater transparency to the voter. Over 5 million voters are registered in the state. VVPAT slips were counted in",
"title": "2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on 9 November 2017 to elect all 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The term of previous Legislative Assembly ended on 7 January 2018. Since 2013, the Indian National Congress Party was in power in outgoing assembly with 36 seats. The lone opposition party was Bharatiya Janata Party. The Constitution of India states that the term of Legislative Assemblies is five years, at maximum. The term of current Legislative Assembly ends on 7 January 2018. The previous election, held in 2012 resulted in",
"title": "2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.8,
"text": "lead Gegong Apang government in 2003. People's Party of Arunachal Peoples Party of Arunachal, a regional political party in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It was founded in September 1979 by Bakin Pertin and Tomo Riba as president of the party. Currently, Kamen Ringu is the Chairman of the party. They were in power in Arunachal until all of their MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress. On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party.",
"title": "People's Party of Arunachal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "People's Party of Arunachal Peoples Party of Arunachal, a regional political party in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It was founded in September 1979 by Bakin Pertin and Tomo Riba as president of the party. Currently, Kamen Ringu is the Chairman of the party. They were in power in Arunachal until all of their MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress. On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party. Following the election Pertin organised a",
"title": "People's Party of Arunachal"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "Kumar Sharma is BJP in-charge of Himachal Pradesh to go as minister for 2017 Vidhan sabha Election. Rajesh Kumar Sharma Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 02 November 1978) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Health Minister, Bihar. He has also served as the President of the BJP, Bihar, 2013 to 2017. Sharma, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the Member of Legislative Council since 7 May 2017. Inspired by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he consider him as his political and spiritual guru. Since Rajesh Kumar Sharma taking charge as",
"title": "Rajesh Kumar Sharma"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.72,
"text": "a consecutive fourth term in December, 2012. Currently he is the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Jai Ram Thakur ministry Jai Ram Thakur Jai Ram Thakur (born 6 January 1965) is an Indian politician, who is the 14th and the current Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. He was elected BJP legislative party leader on 24 December 2017 after the defeat of Chief Ministerial candidate of BJP, Prem Kumar Dhumal in the assembly elections held in November 2017. He has been an MLA in Himachal Pradesh Assembly since 1998 and previously served as Cabinet Minister in BJP Government of Himachal Pradesh.",
"title": "Jai Ram Thakur"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party. Though Pema Khandu is still the Chief minister, it is soon expected that either a coalition government will be formed with BJP as the speaker of assembly has also changed sides with the CM, or that the Indian Government will dissolve the state assembly for a fresh general elections. In October 2016, People's Party of Arunachal formally joined hands with Bharatiya Janata Party making Arunachal Pradesh 15th state to have BJP",
"title": "North-East Democratic Alliance"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "won 46% seats with a margin of less than 5%. Elections in Himachal Pradesh have turned out incumbent governments through numerous cycles. The BJP, under Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, has controlled the legislature since the previous election. Himachal Pradesh has 68 assembly seats, with 17 reserved for SCs and 3 for ST. Kaul Singh Thakur, the President of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee, is seen as the INC chief ministerial candidate by the \"\"Indian Express\"\". Municipal elections were held in various cities across Maharashtra on 16 February. In different cities elections results were mixed by party. The capital, Mumbai,",
"title": "2012 elections in India"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "Jagdev Chand Thakur Jagdev Chand was a stalwart leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Himachal Pradesh. He was elected to Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Hamirpur and served as cabinet minister in Government of Himachal Pradesh.He was elected five times uninterrupted. He died in 1993, soon after his fifth victory. During his first term as an MLA and a Cabinet Minister in state government in June 1977, he was given portfolio of Public Transport he was the one who pioneered the idea of introducing Passenger insurance scheme. He was astonished to know that survivor of victims after a bus accident",
"title": "Jagdev Chand"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "from HVC. Initially Singh joined Lok Janshakti Party. Ahead of the 2003 assembly elections he launched LM(HP) as a political party and was elected as its sole member of the assembly. In total LM(HP) had 14 candidates, who together got 66,102 votes (2,17% of the votes in the state). In the 2004 elections LM(HP) supported the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. Ahead of the elections there were discussions on a merger with BJP, but most probably the electoral defeat of BJP had stopped that process. Loktantrik Morcha Himachal Pradesh Loktantrik Morcha (Himachal Pradesh) (LM(HP), Democratic Front (Himachal Pradesh)) is a political",
"title": "Loktantrik Morcha Himachal Pradesh"
}
] |
when did the us increase the drinking age to 21? | [
"1984"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.88,
"text": "from 21 to 18 in 1971 with the 26th amendment. Many states started to lower their minimum drinking age in response, most of this occurring in 1972 or 1973. Twelve states kept their purchase ages at 21 since repeal of Prohibition and never changed them. From 1976 to 1983, several states voluntarily raised their purchase ages to 19 (or, less commonly, 20 or 21), in part to combat drunk driving fatalities. In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which required states to raise their ages for purchase and public possession to 21 by October 1986 or lose",
"title": "U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "states to raise the minimum drinking age to 21 during a news conference on June 13, 1984. Lugar was in attendance to the new conference and stated that Dole and himself had convinced President Reagan to change his mind through \"\"the work of groups like MADD and the concern of hundreds of high school organizations called SADD (Students Against Driving Drunk)\"\" and Lugar noted his commitment to working on bipartisan support for the legislation. In June 1984, Lugar voted in favor of legislation restricting federal highway funds for states that did not raise the minimum age for drinking to 21.",
"title": "Richard Lugar"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "alcoholic beverages. However, these changes were soon followed by studies showing an increase in motor vehicle fatalities attributable to the decreased MLDA. In response to these findings, many states raised the minimum legal drinking age to 19 (and sometimes to 20 or 21). In 1984, the National Minimum Legal Drinking Act, written by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and influenced by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), required all states to enforce a minimum legal drinking age of 21 or else risk losing 10% of all federal highway construction funds. As the MLDA was still left to the discretion of the state,",
"title": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "(MLDA) of 21. Between 1970 and 1975, 29 states lowered the MLDA from 21 to 18, 19, or 20. This was primarily due to the passing of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the required voting age from 21 to 18. During the 1960s, both Congress and the state legislatures came under increasing pressure to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. This was in large part due to the Vietnam War, in which many young men who were ineligible to vote (or legally drink) were conscripted to fight in the war, thus lacking any means to influence the",
"title": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "federal penalty (a 5%—later raised to 10%—loss of federal highway dollars), for states that didn't raise the minimum legal age for the purchase and possession of alcohol to 21. After the United States Supreme Court upheld the law in the 1987 case of \"\"South Dakota v. Dole\"\", every state and the District of Columbia made the necessary adjustments by 1988 (but not the territories of Puerto Rico and Guam). However, in July 2010 Guam raised its drinking age to 21. In 1985, Lightner objected to the shifting focus of MADD, and left her position with the organization. In 1988, a",
"title": "Mothers Against Drunk Driving"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.7,
"text": "2014, he co-authored a review article that found that the United States' legal drinking age of 21 had saved lives since it was raised to that level as a result of a law passed in 1984. DeJong has been critical of designated driver programs, saying in 1994 that there was no evidence that they were effective. In 2001, when California State University adopted a new set of anti-drinking policies such as treatment programs and advisory boards, DeJong said that this represented a major change from the previous approach most schools used to address drinking on their campuses, which previously focused",
"title": "William DeJong"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.64,
"text": "Jackson and Main (College St. to Lewis St.) were razed in the late 1990s to complete this new corridor. Another significant change to local commerce was the increase of the state's legal drinking age to 21 in April 1987, after nearly fifteen years at age 19. Many establishments that relied on revenues from 19- and 20-year-olds from the two university communities had to adjust or cease operations. Prior to the lowering to 19 in July 1972, the drinking age in Idaho was 20 for beer and 21 for liquor and wine. A fixture of the Moscow skyline for nearly a",
"title": "Moscow, Idaho"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1984; and recessed indefinitely shortly before 2 a.m. on July 1. An hour after midnight, on May 30, the State Assembly rejected after a stormy debate of many hours the proposal to raise the legal drinking age from 19 to 21 years; the vote stood 80 to 69. The Legislature met for another special session on December 6, 1984. At this session, the legislators raised the wages of the legislators who were elected to the next Legislature; approved a sales tax increase for Erie County; and extended a corporate tax surcharge used",
"title": "185th New York State Legislature"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.53,
"text": "10% of their federal highway funds. By mid-1988, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had raised their purchase ages to 21 (but not Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, see Additional Notes below). South Dakota and Wyoming were the final two states to comply with the age 21 mandate. The current drinking age of 21 remains a point of contention among many Americans, because of it being higher than the age of majority (18 in most states) and higher than the drinking ages of most other countries. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is also seen as",
"title": "U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.31,
"text": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 () was passed by the United States Congress on July 17, 1984. It was a controversial bill that punished every state that allowed persons below 21 years to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by 10 percent. The law was later amended, lowering the penalty to 8 percent from fiscal year 2012 and beyond. Despite its name, this act did not outlaw the \"\"consumption\"\" of alcoholic beverages by those under 21 years of age, just its \"\"purchase\"\". However, Alabama, Indiana,",
"title": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "illegally consume it school, the state raised the drinking age to 19 in 1980. Citing statistics that indicated an increase in car deaths among drivers under 21, the drinking age was raised back to 21 in 1983. At the same time, the penalties for underage drinking were increased to include a mandatory driver's license suspension. In 1985, the state made it illegal for an adult to give alcohol to a person under 21, with exception for religious services and parents serving alcohol to their own children at home or in a private area. Historically, a few municipalities had ordinances against",
"title": "Alcohol laws of New Jersey"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "students. Several studies, including a 2011 review, were found to disprove the idea that raising the drinking age to 21 actually saved lives in the long run. For example, Miron and Tetelbaum (2009) found that when the federally coerced and non-coerced states were separated out, any lifesaving effect is no longer statistically or practically significant in the coerced states, and even in the voluntary-adopting states the effect does not seem to last beyond the first year or two. They also find that the 21 drinking age appears to have only a minor impact on teen drinking. There is also some",
"title": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.94,
"text": "Amethyst Initiative The Amethyst Initiative is an organization made up of U.S. college presidents and chancellors that in July 2008 launched a movement calling for the reconsideration of U.S. legal drinking age, particularly the minimum age of 21. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 requires all US states to raise their minimum age for purchase and public possession of alcohol to 21 or face a reduction in highway funds under the Federal-Aid Highway Act. The Amethyst Initiative was initiated by John McCardell, founder of Choose Responsibility, a former professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and",
"title": "Amethyst Initiative"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.78,
"text": "in 1984, which tied federal highway funds to states' maintaining a minimum drinking age of 21. Despite a rekindled national debate in 2008 on the established drinking age (initiated by several university presidents), a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found in September 2008 that 76% of New Jerseyans supported leaving the legal drinking age at 21 years. No significant differences emerged when considering gender, political affiliation, or region. However, parents of younger children were more likely to support keeping the age at 21 (83%) than parents of college-age students (67%). Seventeen states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi,",
"title": "Alcohol law"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.69,
"text": "raised the drinking age to 21 and brought the state into compliance with the NMDA (National Minimum Drinking Age) on September 1, 1986. The NMDA law was amended to permit an exception for those persons who were between ages 18 and 21 on the effective date of the law. Wisconsin 19- and 20-year-olds were “grandfathered in” by this exception after enactment of Act 337. In effect, the state did not have a uniform age of 21 until September 1, 1988. Alcohol laws of Wisconsin The alcohol laws of Wisconsin consist of both statewide statutes and local ordinances governing the sale",
"title": "Alcohol laws of Wisconsin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "the act did not violate the 21st amendment which reserved the right to regulate alcohol for all responsibilities not specifically appointed to the federal government to the states. However, as the act controlled the distribution of anywhere from $8 million to $99 million, depending on the size of the state, the act gave a strong incentive for states to change the drinking age to 21. By 1995, all 50 states, two permanently inhabited territories, and D.C. were in compliance, but Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (and Guam until 2010) remained at 18 despite them losing 10% of federal highway",
"title": "National Minimum Drinking Age Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.53,
"text": "Canada enacted prohibition of alcohol sales, consumption and distribution between the years of 1910 and 1920. After prohibition was ended, most provinces had a minimum drinking age of 21 years, while in the early 70s the age limit was lowered to either 18 or 19 years of age. Later a few provinces and territories raised their age limit from 18 to 19 in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The legal age for buying and possessing (but not necessarily for drinking) has been 21 years in every state since shortly after the passage of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act",
"title": "Alcohol law"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.5,
"text": "drinking age for every state in the nation 21, there has been a steady increase in prevalence of alcohol use, heavy use, and frequent use among underage drinkers as the age increases. Across all ages, highest rates for alcohol abuse occur among persons 19 years old due to illegality of their behavior, and peak alcohol dependence is age 22. The US Economy loses hundreds of billions of dollars from lost productivity and earnings with alcohol-related illness being a primary factor. The most dangerous social problem involved in underage drinking is driving under the influence because of its contribution to fatalities",
"title": "Legal drinking age controversy in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.42,
"text": "ruled the Act was constitutional and the States still had the right to set their own drinking ages. However, the Federal Government can give the state a 10% penalty on highway funds if the state chooses to have their drinking age lower than 21. Not even a year later, all 50 states of the United States officially made 21 the minimum legal drinking age. MLDA-21 is not the only variable; the shift in demographics, increased enforcement, increased seat belt use, safer cars, increased parental monitoring and \"\"designated driver\"\" emphasis could also be a reason why after the age was raised,",
"title": "Legal drinking age controversy in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.38,
"text": "getting compromised away, and the group's public appearances and testimony on the issue (and some controversial newsletter articles) seemed to be insufficient. Further, a proposal to raise the state's drinking age from 18 to 21 had succeeded in getting onto state ballots, and the group, which had decided to work on the issue, had to be careful not to use state funds to do so. Members leafleted on college campuses, appeared on TV and radio shows, and spoke at churches and community centers, explaining how statistics on the issue had been distorted by the other side. But leaflets, travel, and",
"title": "Three O'Clock Lobby"
}
] |
who plays diana's aunt in wonder woman? | [
"Robin Wright"
] | [
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.83,
"text": "sort of naked a lot of the time, but this isn’t objectification so much as a cultural reset: having thighs, actual thighs you can kick things with, not thighs that look like arms, is a feminist act. The whole Diana myth, women safeguarding the world from male violence not with nurture but with better violence, is a feminist act. Casting Robin Wright as Wonder Woman’s aunt, re-imagining the battle-axe as a battler with an axe, is a feminist act. A female German chemist trying to destroy humans (in the shape of Dr Poison, a proto-Mengele before Nazism existed) might be",
"title": "Wonder Woman"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.11,
"text": "actress Beatrice Colen joined the cast as Corporal Etta Candy WAAC, General Blankenship's secretary, thereby providing YN1 Prince with a subordinate. Three episodes featured Debra Winger as Diana's younger sister, Drusilla, a.k.a. Wonder Girl, in one of her earliest acting roles. One of the most memorable aspects of the show that was developed during the first season was the transformation sequence that changed Diana Prince into her superheroine alter ego. The sequence in the original specials employed a slow fade between two synchronized shots, both filmed with an overcranked camera to create a slow motion effect. A twirling Diana Prince's",
"title": "Wonder Woman (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "of Wonder Girl named Drusilla appeared in the \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" television series and was played by Debra Winger. Although the pilot episode revealed that Princess Diana was Queen Hippolyta's only child, 2 later episodes featured Diana's younger sister, Drusilla. This version of Drusilla was different than the one-time character in the comics. She was heavily modified for the TV Series. Drusilla first appeared in the two-part episode \"\"The Feminum Mystique.\"\" In that episode, Queen Hippolyta (Carolyn Jones) sends Drusilla to America in order to bring her sister home to Paradise Island to continue her duties as Princess. Drusilla gets tangled",
"title": "Drusilla (DC Comics)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "the island and a weapon, the \"\"Godkiller\"\", to prepare them for Ares's return. Although she initially forbids Diana to be trained as a warrior, Hippolyta reluctantly agrees to let General Antiope, Hippolyta's sister and Diana's aunt, train her, only more rigorously than any other warrior. Diana, now a young woman, rescues US pilot Captain Steve Trevor when his plane crashes off the Themysciran coast. The island is soon invaded by German soldiers that had been pursuing Trevor. The Amazons kill the crew, but Antiope sacrifices herself to save Diana. Steve is interrogated with the Lasso of Hestia and reveals that",
"title": "Wonder Woman (2017 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "or mentioned, though she was played by a new actress, Beatrice Straight, succeeding Carolyn Jones and Cloris Leachman in the role. The post-war fates of General Phil Blankenship, Etta Candy, and Drusilla / Wonder Girl were never revealed. Diana, Steve and Joe Atkinson (Norman Burton), a weathered IADC agent, received their orders from a \"\"Charlie's Angels-like\"\" character who is heard but never seen. Diana and Steve would go out and work the field while Joe assisted from the office. The Atkinson character was dropped after the ninth episode of this season, and Steve was given a promotion, becoming IADC Director,",
"title": "Wonder Woman (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "Fuchs, and co-stars Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, and Elena Anaya. Jenkins' role as director makes her the first female director of a studio superhero movie. Set in 1918, the film tells the story of Princess Diana, who grows up on the Amazon island of Themyscira. After American pilot Steve Trevor (Pine) crashes offshore of the island and is rescued by Diana, he tells her about the ongoing World War. She then leaves her home in order to end the conflict, becoming Wonder Woman in the process. Development for the film began in 1996, with",
"title": "Wonder Woman in other media"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.19,
"text": "Emily Carey Emily Carey (born 30 April 2003) is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Grace Beauchamp in BBC One's \"\"Casualty\"\", which she played from 2014 to 2017. Carey also played the young Diana Prince (Wonder Woman), portrayed by Gal Gadot as an adult, in the Warner Brothers movie \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" (2017). She appeared as a young Lara Croft in the \"\"Tomb Raider\"\" reboot film, released in March 2018. Other notable work includes Mary Conan Doyle in the series \"\"Houdini and Doyle\"\" on FOX/ITV, and West End Theatre roles in \"\"Shrek The Musical\"\" at",
"title": "Emily Carey"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.16,
"text": "Thoms were cast as villain Veronica Cale and Diana's personal assistant Etta Candy, respectively. Pedro Pascal was cast as Ed Indelicato, Wonder Woman's liaison to the police department and Cary Elwes as Henry Detmer, who runs the day-to-day operations of Diana's company. Actor Justin Bruening was cast to play Steve Trevor. The plot is described as \"\"a reinvention of the iconic DC Comic in which Wonder Womanaka Diana Themyscirais a vigilante crime fighter in L.A., but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman, trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.\"\" No clear reference is",
"title": "Wonder Woman (2011 TV pilot)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "and her husband Dan White as the parents of original kid sidekick Marvin, with his connection being the reason he was considered for the role. This was never brought up in the cartoon. His partner Wendy was the niece of one of Batman's earliest mentors as well. In the Golden Age, Diana eventually learned the benefits of keeping her Wonder Woman costume under her military uniform, instead of leaving it at her apartment or in a desk drawer. Her transformation often involved her running out of a room, changing clothes at superspeed, and returning to a room as Wonder Woman.",
"title": "Diana Prince"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.09,
"text": "was supposed to engender interest in a Wonder Woman pilot and an eventual TV series. Harrison played a glamorous mirror image of Wonder Woman, which existed only in the imagination of the homely Diana Prince character, played by Ellie Wood Walker (Robert Walker Jr.'s wife). The \"\"Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?\"\" segment failed to engender any interest in a Wonder Woman pilot, although Lynda Carter had great success in the role eight years later. Harrison next appeared as Carl Reiner's blonde-wigged young inamorata \"\"Miss Stardust\"\" in \"\"A Guide for the Married Man\"\" (1967), a bedroom comedy about marital infidelity directed",
"title": "Linda Harrison (actress)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.81,
"text": "are many power suits and stilettos!\"\" As well as trying to take over Lassiter's, Diana also wants to \"\"settle a score with Paul Robinson\"\". Paul stands in her way of achieving her goal as his place within the company is secure for life as Diana's boss, Rosemary Daniels (Joy Chambers), is Paul's aunt. Badler explained that Diana resents Paul as she is not part of his family and knows that she cannot ever be at the top. Further to that, Paul and Diana were once lovers and Diana fell in love with him, but he walked out on her and",
"title": "Diana Marshall"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "\"\"Wonder twirl\"\" was also shown in the \"\"To Another Shore\"\" episode of \"\"Justice League Unlimited\"\". In 2011, David E. Kelley wrote a Wonder Woman pilot for NBC that was never picked up to be on the air. The story takes place in modern-day Los Angeles, and the character, played by Adrianne Palicki, would have three identities: Wonder Woman (a superhero who fights crime), Diana Themyscira (Wonder Woman's public persona outside of costume, who is a successful businesswoman and owner of Themyscira Industries) and Diana Prince (an ordinary shy woman, the other assistant of Diana Themyscira). The Diana Prince identity would",
"title": "Diana Prince"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.61,
"text": "Amazon warrior who also is the demigoddess daughter of the god Zeus, uses her talents and abilities in order to help humanity during World War I. Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot was cast as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in December 2013 and signed a three-picture deal which included a solo film. In October 2014, \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" was announced by Warner Bros. In November, Michelle MacLaren was confirmed to direct the film from a screenplay by Jason Fuchs. In April 2015, MacLaren left the project due to creative differences. Later that month, Patty Jenkins was announced as the new director of",
"title": "DC Extended Universe"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.59,
"text": "New Original Wonder Woman\"\"). Lynda Carter was cast in the title role, with Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor. Using the World War II era as its setting during Season 1, the series featured elements of the Earth-Two version of Wonder Woman, including Trevor's plane crash on Paradise Island, Princess Diana's tournament victory and departure for Man's World (via the invisible plane) and the Amazon's secret identity in the War Department as Diana Prince (Details of the character's origin involving her birth were omitted). Most of the villains were Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, including Baroness Paula von Gunther (portrayed by Christine",
"title": "Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "down she cares very much for her. Sarah marries the crooked businessman Sam Parry (Christopher Bowen) during Series 2: the marriage does not last long, but it does result in Sarah having a child. The baby girl is the apple of Diana's eye and is named 'Diana' after her great-aunt. Sarah calls Diana \"\"Aunty\"\". Diana hates the term and constantly says, \"\"Don't call me 'Aunty'.\"\" The Reverend Dennis Sparrow (Tim Preece) - the world-weary and inept local vicar, who becomes a semi-regular character from Series 3 onwards, and can generally be relied on to make a hopeless mess of any",
"title": "Waiting for God (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.48,
"text": "her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents. Diana's aunt, Pilar, comes over and witnesses a great deal fighting and tension within the household. She offers solace to Diana by letting her live with her. Diana goes to the mall where she bumps into Braulio (Aarón Díaz). She keeps bumping into him in various places, especially school. Braulio was orphaned when he was about twelve years old. He lives with his wicked aunt; his kind, but oblivious uncle; and his cruel cousin, Esteban (Jorge De Silva).",
"title": "Corazones al límite"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.36,
"text": "to name just a few. In addition to all this, when Aunt Pilar (Erika Buenfil) first registers Diana into school, she meets her long lost love, Álvaro, who works at the school. Álvaro also works with Emma, who has feelings for him, but now that Pilar is back in the picture, Álvaro only has eyes for Pilar. Things change when Alvaro mistakenly thinks Pilar is married, and sleeps with Emma. After finding out his mistake, Álvaro goes back to Pilar, but keeps his affair with Emma a secret, even when Pilar asks if there was anything going on. The jealous",
"title": "Corazones al límite"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.34,
"text": "Diana Prince's personal assistant, in NBC's \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" pilot. Thoms had a role in the 2014 version of \"\"Annie\"\", playing Annie's \"\"fake mother\"\", a character based on Lily St. Regis in the original musical. In 2016 she appeared in the Broadway revival of \"\"Falsettos\"\" as Dr. Charlotte. Tracie Thoms Tracie Nicole Thoms (born August 19, 1975) is an American television, film, and stage actress and singer. She is known for her roles in \"\"Rent\"\", \"\"Cold Case\"\", \"\"The Devil Wears Prada\"\", \"\"Death Proof\"\", and the short-lived Fox television series \"\"Wonderfalls\"\". Thoms was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of",
"title": "Tracie Thoms"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.31,
"text": "In the dimension now hosting Paradise Island, Ares invaded the island and was attempting to force Hippolyta to give him the secret of transdimensional travel. As a last resort, Hippolyta gave Drusilla a magic amulet with the power to allow her to travel between Themyscira and Earth, and sent her to bring Diana to Themyscira and help them against Ares. Drusilla was recreated as Wonder Woman's younger sister when she was featured on the Wonder Woman tv series played by Debra Winger in 1976, and became Wonder Girl instead of Donna Troy. Cassie Sandsmark is the daughter of Dr. Helena",
"title": "Wonder Girl"
},
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"text": "Diana's new IADC boss, Bret Cassiday (Bob Seagren), a genetically enhanced man who was indestructible (the titular character of the episode), as well as a streetwise youngster named T. Burton Phipps III who inexplicably is allowed to hang out at the IADC. Also added to the cast was a chimpanzee who, like Bret, is also indestructible. This episode was actually the last to be produced and should have ended the third season, but was shown out of sequence with the two-parter \"\"The Phantom of the Roller Coaster.\"\" These final three episodes aired by themselves in August–September 1979, months after the",
"title": "Wonder Woman (TV series)"
}
] |