Question: To address the shoddy hardware, what popped up across the United States?
Answer: Nintendo Authorized Repair Centers

Question: What did the repair centers promise?
Answer: ensure that the machines were properly repaired

Question: What was done to have the privilege of working on an NES for repair?
Answer: paying a fee

Question: The HVC-001 featured which kind of mod output?
Answer: radio frequency (RF)

Question: The HVC-101 lost the RF and adopted which output for use in North America and Europe?
Answer: composite video

Question: The Super NES had how many pins in its proprietary connector?
Answer: 12

Question: The re-released NES-101 model in North America went back to what perceived primitive output?
Answer: RF modulator

Question: How many pins did the controller ports have on the NES?
Answer: 7

Question: Unlike the Famicom, the NES controllers possessed what consistent feature?
Answer: identical

Question: The second controller possessed the START and SELECT buttons as what other device?
Answer: primary controller

Question: What did the Legend of Zelda require in certain instances to kill enemies?
Answer: Famicom microphone

Question: What was the name of the NES clone produced in Taiwan?
Answer: Dendy

Question: Where was the Dendy sold?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Which country marketed a clone called "Family Game?"
Answer: Argentina

Question: What was the name of the clone in Poland?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: India's first gaming console was also a clone, called what?
Answer: Samurai

Question: How much does the NES unit weigh in pounds?
Answer: 11.7

Question: How large was the typical television recommended for the device?
Answer: typically 11" to 14"

Question: Where was the Television meant to be placed?
Answer: atop

Question: What's the name of the feature on the front of the front of the NES test device?
Answer: Game Pak slot

Question: According to Sergio DellaPergola, what percent of Jews worldwide do Ashkenazi Jews's make up?
Answer: 74%

Question: During what century did Ashkenazi Jews make up around three percent of the Jewish population worldwide?
Answer: 11th century

Question: Prior to which major event were there approximately 16.7 million Jews in the world?
Answer: Holocaust

Question: During what year did Ashkenazi Jews account for 92 percent of Jews worldwide?
Answer: 1931

Question: By 1931, what percentage of the world’s Jews were Ashkenazi Jews?
Answer: 92 percent

Question: How many Jews were there in the world just prior to the Holocaust?
Answer: 16.7 million

Question: From the 11th century until 1931, the population of Ashkenazi Jews grew by what percent?
Answer: three percent of the world's Jewish population, while at their peak in 1931 they accounted for 92 percent

Question: Who made rough calculations and implied that Ashkenazi Jews make up less than 74% of the Jewish population worldwide?
Answer: Sergio DellaPergola

Question: The present-day population of Ashkenazi Jews is thought to be between which two numbers?
Answer: 10 million and 11.2 million

Question: In which tractate of the Babylonian Talmud is the name Gomer given as Germania?
Answer: Yoma

Question: Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, which is viewed as what?
Answer: cradle of Germanic tribes

Question: Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or what territories?
Answer: Slavic

Question: Who identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories?
Answer: Saadia Gaon

Question: Even though Gomer is rendered as Germania in the Yoma tractate of the Babylonian Talmud, in other rabbinical literature it was identified with what?
Answer: Germanikia in northwestern Syria

Question: Who expelled the Jews from his Merovingian kingdom in 629?
Answer: King Dagobert I of the Franks

Question: Does the archeological record suggest that there was a rather large or small population of Jews in Gaul and Germany?
Answer: very few Jews

Question: In antiquity, most Jews in Gaul or Germany probably occupied what two roles?
Answer: traders or artisans

Question: In what year did Jewish communities exist in Brittany?
Answer: 465 CE

Question: During the Middle Ages, some Jews assimilated into the dominant Greek and Latin cultures by doing what?
Answer: conversion to Christianity

Question: What percentage of Israeli Jews are people of Ashkenazi descent?
Answer: 47.5%

Question: When Israel was in its infancy as a state, there were cultural conflicts between which two groups?
Answer: Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews

Question: What was the conflict between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews attributed to?
Answer: the concept of the "melting pot"

Question: What percentage of all Israelis are thought to be of Ashkenazi descent?
Answer: 35–36%

Question: When Israel was in its infancy as a state, the Ashkenazi Jews involved in conflicts with Sephardic Jews were mainly what type of Jews?
Answer: east European Ashkenazim

Question: Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by what concept?
Answer: Yiddishkeit

Question: Is there a larger or smaller number of Jews that speak Yiddish today than in the past?
Answer: a far smaller number of Jews still speak Yiddish

Question: What does Yiddishkeit mean in the Yiddish language?
Answer: "Jewishness"

Question: In the past most Jews prayed in what language?
Answer: liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew

Question: In the past, while most Jews prayed in one language, they used which other language in their secular lives?
Answer: Yiddish

Question: For what period of time were the Ashkenazim a reproductively isolated population in Europe?
Answer: For roughly a thousand years

Question: A 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA was conducted by what university?
Answer: University of Huddersfield in England

Question: In an ethnic sense, Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to Jews who settled where?
Answer: Central Europe

Question: In the last 50-60 years, have more or less Ashkenazi Jews intermarried with people outside of their community?
Answer: many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities and with people of other nations and faiths

Question: Human geneticists argue that genetic variations have been identified that show high or low frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews?
Answer: high frequencies

Question: In the past have relations between Ashkenazim and Sephardim tended to be warm or cold?
Answer: have not always been warm

Question: What did Saadia Marciano do with the Israeli Black Panthers?
Answer: led to protest movements

Question: How did the Ashkenazim view north African Sepharadim and Berber Jews?
Answer: as second-class citizens

Question: Who led the Israeli Black Panthers?
Answer: Saadia Marciano

Question: Where was Saadia Marciano from?
Answer: Moroccan Jew

Question: What percentage of the modern Ashkenazi genome could possibly be of European origin?
Answer: 35 to 55 percent

Question: Is the percentage of admixture in the modern Ashkenazi genome higher or lower than previously thought?
Answer: admixture is considerably higher

Question: Were Ashkenazi Jews found to be a more or less genetically divergent population than Russians, Orcadians, French, and Basques?
Answer: a genetically more divergent population

Question: In one study it was found that the Ashkenazim were more or less diverse than their Middle Eastern relatives?
Answer: more diverse

Question: Were the Ashkenazim thought to be a subset or superset of their assumed geographical source population?
Answer: Ashkenazim are supposed to be a subset, not a superset

Question: Genetic studies on Ashkenazim have found a significant prevalence of what type of origins?
Answer: ancient Levantine origins

Question: Have studies on the genetics of the Ashkenazim come to similar or divergent conclusions regarding the degree and sources of their European ancestry?
Answer: they have arrived at diverging conclusions