Question: Who are the lowest ranking cardinals in the Catholic church?
Answer: cardinal deacons

Question: Who are the highest ranking cardinals in the Catholic Church?
Answer: cardinal bishops

Question: Which rank has the most cardinals?
Answer: Cardinal priests

Question: What was the original definition of a cardinal priest?
Answer: priests chosen by the pope

Question: Each cardinal priest has what?
Answer: a titular church in Rome

Question: In what year did Pope Sixtus V put a cap on the number of cardinals in the College of Cardinals?
Answer: 1587

Question: What was the maximum number allowed per Pope Sixtus V?
Answer: 70

Question: Who removed the cap on cardinals in the College of the Cardinals?
Answer: Pope John XXIII

Question: What is another term meaning Iranian languages?
Answer: Iranic languages

Question: What are the Iranic languages a subgroup of?
Answer: Indo-Iranian languages

Question: What are Indo-Iranian languages a subset of?
Answer: Indo-European language family

Question: When did the change from Old Iranian to Middle Iranian occur?
Answer: 400 BCE

Question: What is an example of a Sassanid language?
Answer: Middle Persian

Question: How many different Iranian languages exist?
Answer: 86

Question: Iranian languages are all said to be derived from which predecessor?
Answer: Proto-Iranian

Question: From what languages does the word Aryao come?
Answer: Persian and Sanskrit

Question: When was the phrase Iranian language family first used?
Answer: 1836

Question: Who first used the term Iranian language?
Answer: Christian Lassen

Question: Who first used the term Irano-Aryan?
Answer: Robert Needham Cust

Question: When was the phrase Irano-Aryan first used?
Answer: 1878

Question: From where did Iranian languages originate?
Answer: Proto-Iranian

Question: What part of the world is it theorized that Indo-Iranian languages came from?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: What society is a strong contender for the common culture speaking Indo-Iranian?
Answer: Andronovo

Question: When did the Andronovo culture exist?
Answer: 2000 BC

Question: What language family did Thracian and Balto-Slavic belong to?
Answer: Indo-European

Question: Where did early Iranian people establish societies?
Answer: southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia

Question: What characteristic of Middle Iranian civilization is shown by the number of different languages and their speakers?
Answer: linguistic diversity

Question: How many of the Middlie Iranian tongues have remained in existence since ancient time?
Answer: two

Question: In which historical record does Old Persian appear in exemplary form?
Answer: the Behistun inscription

Question: When was the Behistun inscription written?
Answer: 520 BC

Question: During what century was the change from Old to Middle Persian well underway?
Answer: 4th century BC

Question: What ancient religious document exists in two versions and includes Old Iranian language?
Answer: Avestan

Question: What is the contemporary name of the religion which Avesta was part of?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: What language shows a level of maturity corresponding to Old Avestan?
Answer: Rigvedic Sanskrit

Question: What language shows the same level of development as Younger Avestan?
Answer: Old Persian

Question: What language is Carduchi thought to have become?
Answer: Kurdish

Question: What language did Herodotus invent a name for?
Answer: Scythian

Question: What are the two main divisions of Iranian tongues?
Answer: western and eastern

Question: Which language is associated with the western branch of Iranian?
Answer: Old Persian

Question: Which language is associated with the eastern branch of Iranian?
Answer: Avestan

Question: What elements of Proto-Indo-Iranian did not diverge according to the ensuing split between eastern and western variants?
Answer: *ć and *dź

Question: What type of letters are *ć and *dź?
Answer: first-series palatal consonants

Question: What languages share a similar situation?
Answer: Nuristani languages

Question: What other elements of early Iranian languages problematize the east-west division?
Answer: *ćw and *dźw

Question: What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw?
Answer: consonant clusters

Question: What may have also been in use at the time?
Answer: other distinct dialect groups

Question: Precursors of what subset of Scythian are theorized to have existed?
Answer: Alanian/Scytho-Sarmatian

Question: What possible predecessor of Pathian is thought to have existed?
Answer: Old Parthian

Question: When did the age of Middle Iranian come to a close?
Answer: 9th century

Question: What are the two main divisions of Middle Iranian?
Answer: Western and Eastern

Question: Bactrian, Sogdian, and Saka are examples of what type of Iranian language?
Answer: Eastern

Question: Which language bears a resemblance to the diversity of eastern Iranian languages?
Answer: Avestan

Question: Where did the the alphabets used by eastern languages come from?
Answer: Aramaic

Question: What did the Bactrian language use for writing?
Answer: Greek script

Question: What is another term for Middle Persian?
Answer: Pahlavi

Question: When did Middle Persian start being u sed?
Answer: 3rd century CE

Question: What are three languages employed by the Manichaeans?
Answer: Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian

Question: What was the writing of Manichaean documents similar to?
Answer: Syriac script

Question: The proliferation of which religion had a profound effect on the development of Iranian languages?
Answer: Islam

Question: What language displaced Middle Iranian as the court's official tongue?
Answer: Dari

Question: What was the first dynasty to use Dari?
Answer: Saffarid

Question: When did the Saffarid dynasty begin using Dari?
Answer: 875 CE

Question: What area was the name Dari connected to by medieval Iranian thinkers?
Answer: Khorasan

Question: What was the new form of writing introduced by the spread of Islam?
Answer: Arabic script

Question: When did usage of Middle Persian script fall off?
Answer: second half of the 8th century

Question: What script was converted to Latin in the 1920s?
Answer: Tajik script

Question: When was Tajik script converted to Cyrillic?
Answer: the 1930s

Question: Who catalyzed the conversion of Tajik script into Cyrillic?
Answer: the Soviet government

Question: What is another term for Western Iran?
Answer: Khuzestan

Question: What are two languages that were forced out by the spread of Arabic?
Answer: Sogdian and Bactrian

Question: By what century had the area inhabited by Sarmatians been absorbed by pre-Slavic people?
Answer: 6th century AD

Question: Where can the remnants of Yaghnobi be found?
Answer: Zarafshan valley

Question: Ossetic is a version of which Scythian language?
Answer: Saka

Question: What is used a main source of light for a building during the day?
Answer: Daylighting

Question: What kind of effects can natural illumination have on a persons psychological?
Answer: positive

Question: Using natural illumination instead of artificial light sources help with what?
Answer: energy consumption

Question: Lamps and light fixtures are a form of what?
Answer: artificial light sources

Question: The use of light to achieve an aesthetic effect is know as?
Answer: Lighting or illumination

Question: What can be used a main source of light for a building during the day?
Answer: Daylighting

Question: Lamps and light fixtures  are a form of what?
Answer: Lighting

Question: What kind of effects can proper lighting have on a persons psychologically?
Answer: positive

Question: What does using natural illumination instead of artificial lighting help with?
Answer: energy consumption

Question: What is the used to achieve a practical effect?
Answer: Lighting or illumination

Question: What type of fixtures do you use for indoor lighting?
Answer: light fixtures