Question: When does the Pyx Chamber date to?
Answer: the late 11th century

Question: When were newly minted coins presented to ensure they met standards?
Answer: the Trial of the Pyx

Question: The Pyx Chamber and chapter house are under guardianship of whom?
Answer: English Heritage

Question: Who cares for and manages the Pyx Chamber and chapter house?
Answer: the Dean and Chapter of Westminster

Question: English Heritage has funded what for the chapter house?
Answer: repairs

Question: What is located in the vaulted undercroft beneath the monks' dormitory?
Answer: The Westminster Abbey Museum

Question: The area the museum occupies dates back to when?
Answer: 1065

Question: The vaulted undercroft beneath the monks' dormitory has been a museum since when?
Answer: 1908

Question: What belonging to Henry V is in the museum?
Answer: funeral saddle, helm and shield

Question: What kind of panels are in the museum?
Answer: panels of mediaeval glass

Question: Who modelled the effigies in the museum?
Answer: sculptor Patience Wright

Question: What are the effigies made of?
Answer: wax

Question: What is the effigy of Viscount Nelson wearing?
Answer: some of his own clothes

Question: What was recently added to the museum exhibit?
Answer: 13th-century Westminster Retable

Question: What is the Westminster Retable?
Answer: England's oldest altarpiece

Question: What was the altarpiece designed for?
Answer: high altar of the abbey

Question: What was damaged but cleaned and then conserved?
Answer: altarpiece

Question: What was proposed for the abbey in June 2009?
Answer: major building work

Question: On what date did the Dean and Chapter announce that work would not be continued?
Answer: 4 August 2010

Question: Panter Hudspith refurbished a 14th-century foodstore into what?
Answer: a restaurant

Question: What kind of furniture is in the restaurant?
Answer: English Oak

Question: Who supplied the furniture for the restaurant?
Answer: Luke Hughes and Company

Question: What will be created in the medieval triforium?
Answer: The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries

Question: What has been designed to help with the gallery?
Answer: Gothic access tower with lift

Question: When will the new galleries open?
Answer: 2018

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Answer: ks

Question: j
Answer: Ch

Question: n
Answer: n

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Answer: b

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Answer: v

Question: What is the legal capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: What region is Nanjing in?
Answer: lower Yangtze River region

Question: When was the city given the name Nanjing?
Answer: Ming dynasty

Question: When did Nanjing become the Chinese national capital?
Answer: Jin dynasty

Question: What does Nanjing mean?
Answer: "Southern Capital"

Question: What part of China (North, East, South, West) is Nanjing located?
Answer: East

Question: What does Nanjing have that is considered one of the world's biggest?
Answer: inland ports

Question: What river is Nanjing associated with?
Answer: Yangtze River

Question: What city was awarded the 2008 Habitat Scroll of Honour of China?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: How long has Nanjing been important?
Answer: over a thousand years

Question: How many Great Ancient Capitals does China have?
Answer: Four

Question: What city is considered to be the nominal capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: What mausoleum is in Nanjing?
Answer: Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

Question: What city was the capital of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms era?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: How long ago did "Nanjing Man" live?
Answer: more than 500 thousand years ago

Question: What vessel was found 5000 years ago?
Answer: Zun, a kind of wine vessel

Question: When was the the fort of Yuecheng built?
Answer: 473 BC

Question: How long had Nanjing been the capital city of Yangzhou?
Answer: about 400 years

Question: When was the Wu state created?
Answer: the late period of Shang dynasty

Question: When did Nanjing become a state capital?
Answer: 229 AD

Question: Who founded Eastern Wu?
Answer: Sun Quan

Question: When was Eastern Wu founded?
Answer: during the Three Kingdoms period

Question: Who defeated Nanjing and took over in 280?
Answer: the Western Jin dynasty

Question: When was Nanjing extended?
Answer: 211 AD

Question: What happened prior to the collapse of the Western Jin dynasty?
Answer: the unification of the region

Question: When did the Jin court head South?
Answer: 317

Question: Where did the Jin court re-establish itself, after fleeing?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: Who fled with the Jin court to the South?
Answer: nobles and wealthy families

Question: How long was Nanjing the capital of the Southern dynasties?
Answer: more than two and a half centuries

Question: During the time of the North–South division, what city was the center of East Asia?
Answer: Nanjing

Question: During the time of the North–South division, how many households were in Nanjing?
Answer: 280,000 registered households

Question: What is the estimated population of Nanjing during that time?
Answer: more than 1.4 million residents

Question: Where did the information on registered households during that period originate?
Answer: historical documents

Question: What has survived in Nanjing's suburbs?
Answer: A number of sculptural ensembles

Question: In what district are these sculptural pieces located?
Answer: Qixia and Jiangning District

Question: Which piece is the best, in terms of preservation condition?
Answer: the ensemble of the Tomb of Xiao Xiu

Question: Who was Xiao Xiu?
Answer: a brother of Emperor Wu of Liang

Question: When did Xiao Xiu live?
Answer: 475–518

Question: When was Nanjing made a capital again?
Answer: during the Southern Tang (937–976)

Question: During what dynasty did Nanjing become a thriving textile city?
Answer: the Song dynasty

Question: What was the name of the short-lived puppet court created by the Jurchens?
Answer: The court of Da Chu

Question: Who defeated the court of Song?
Answer: the Mongol empire

Question: Who was the first emperor of the Ming dynasty?
Answer: Zhu Yuanzhang

Question: Who did Zhu Yuanzhang defeat?
Answer: the Yuan dynasty

Question: What did Zhu Yuanzhang build around the city of Nanjing?
Answer: long city wall

Question: How long did it take to finish the wall?
Answer: 21 years

Question: How many workers worked on the wall?
Answer: 200,000

Question: When was Nanjing considered to be the biggest city in the world?
Answer: from 1358 to 1425

Question: What was the number of people in Nanjing in 1400?
Answer: 487,000

Question: When did Nanjing cease to be the capital?
Answer: 1421

Question: Where was the capital moved to?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Who was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty?
Answer: the Yongle Emperor

Question: What is the name of the famous mausoleum in Nanjing?
Answer: Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum

Question: Who decimated the Porcelain Tower?
Answer: the Taipings

Question: When was the Porcelain Tower destroyed?
Answer: in the 19th century

Question: One possibility the Tower was destroyed was to prevent it's use by a hostile enemy. What is the other possibility?
Answer: superstitious fear of its geomantic properties

Question: How far from Nanjing is the Yangshan Quarry?
Answer: 15–20 km (9–12 mi) east of the walled city

Question: What large item is abandoned at the Quarry?
Answer: a gigantic stele

Question: How long ago was the stele abandoned?
Answer: 600 years ago

Question: Why was the stele abandoned?
Answer: it was impossible to move or complete it

Question: Who ordered the creation of the stele?
Answer: the Yongle Emperor

Question: What Admiral called Nanjing his home?
Answer: admiral Zheng He

Question: What visiting king died in China in 1408?
Answer: (Boni 渤泥)

Question: What country did this visiting king come from?
Answer: Borneo

Question: What stele is at Boni's tomb?
Answer: a tortoise stele