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In response to organized crime, on August 25, 1953, the FBI created the Top Hoodlum Program. The national office directed field offices to gather information on mobsters in their territories and to report it regularly to Washington for a centralized collection of intelligence on racketeers. After the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO Act, took effect, the FBI began investigating the former Prohibition-organized groups, which had become fronts for crime in major cities and small towns. All of the FBI work was done undercover and from within these organizations, using the provisions provided in the RICO Act. Gradually the agency dismantled many of the groups. Although Hoover initially denied the existence of a National Crime Syndicate in the United States, the Bureau later conducted operations against known organized crime syndicates and families, including those headed by Sam Giancana and John Gotti. The RICO Act is still used today for all organized crime and any individuals who might fall under the Act.

Question: What was the Top Hoodlum Program a response to?
Answer: organized crime

Question: What did the Top Hoodlum Program gather information on?
Answer: mobsters

Question: After the RICO Act took effect what did the FBI start investigating?
Answer: former Prohibition-organized groups

Question: What groups did Hoover deny the existence of?
Answer: National Crime Syndicate

Question: Is the RICO Act still used today?
Answer: The RICO Act is still used

Question: How did the FBI respond to organized crime before 1953?

Question: What did the FBI do before the RICO Act took effect?

Question: What did Hoover confirm the existence of?

Question: Who was the head of a crime family the CIA targeted?

Question: What act is not longer in use?
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After Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA, 1994), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, 1996), and the Economic Espionage Act (EEA, 1996), the FBI followed suit and underwent a technological upgrade in 1998, just as it did with its CART team in 1991. Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment Center (CITAC) and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) were created to deal with the increase in Internet-related problems, such as computer viruses, worms, and other malicious programs that threatened US operations. With these developments, the FBI increased its electronic surveillance in public safety and national security investigations, adapting to the telecommunications advancements that changed the nature of such problems.

Question: What spurred the FBIs technological upgrade?
Answer: CALEA

Question: What team underwent a technological upgrade in 1991?
Answer: CART

Question: What were CITAC and NIPC created to deal with?
Answer: Internet-related problems

Question: What were computer viruses seen as a threat to?
Answer: US operations

Question: Did the FBI increase electronic surveillance?
Answer: FBI increased its electronic surveillance

Question: When did the FBI undergo a technological downgrade?

Question: What team underwent a technological downgrade in 1991?

Question: What was CITAC and NIPC unable to deal with?

Question: When did Congress get rid of HIPAA?

Question: When did the CIA receive a technological upgrade?
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For over 40 years, the FBI crime lab in Quantico believed lead in bullets had unique chemical signatures. It analyzed the bullets with the goal of matching them chemically, not only to a single batch of ammunition coming out of a factory, but also to a single box of bullets. The National Academy of Sciences conducted an 18-month independent review of comparative bullet-lead analysis. In 2003, its National Research Council published a report whose conclusions called into question 30 years of FBI testimony. It found the analytic model used by the FBI for interpreting results was deeply flawed, and the conclusion, that bullet fragments could be matched to a box of ammunition, was so overstated that it was misleading under the rules of evidence. One year later, the FBI decided to stop doing bullet lead analysis.

Question: What precision did the FBI believe they could reach with chemical signatures?
Answer: single box of bullets

Question: How long was the National Academy of Sciences independent review?
Answer: 18-month

Question: What did the National Academy of Sciences independent review discover about the FBIs analytical model?
Answer: deeply flawed

Question: Why did the FBI stop doing bullet lead analysis?
Answer: National Research Council

Question: What did the CIA crime lab believe about lead in bullets?

Question: Who conducted a 15-month independent review of comparative bullet-lead analysis?

Question: Who published a report confirming that the FBI model was correct?

Question: When did the National Research Council confirm that the FBI's bullet analysis was correct?

Question: What did the CIA stop using bullet lead analysis?
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The FBI's chief tool against organized crime is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The FBI is also charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigating violations of the act in addition to prosecuting such violations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The FBI also shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

Question: What is the FBI's main tool against organized crime?
Answer: RICO

Question: What act is the FBI required to enforce?
Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question: What organization does the FBI prosecute violations of the United States Civil Rights Act with?
Answer: DOJ

Question: What organization does the FBI share jurisdiction with?
Answer: DEA

Question: What Substance act does the FBI enforce?
Answer: Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Question: What is the FBI's least used tool against organized crime?

Question: What is the CIA also responsible for?

Question: What is not required to enforce compliance with the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Question: What enforcement does the FBI not share with the DEA?

Question: Where does the FBI not investigate violations of the Civil Rights Act?
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The FBI often works in conjunction with other Federal agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in seaport and airport security, and the National Transportation Safety Board in investigating airplane crashes and other critical incidents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) has nearly the same amount of investigative man power as the FBI, and investigates the largest range of crimes. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, then-Attorney General Ashcroft assigned the FBI as the designated lead organization in terrorism investigations after the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE-HSI and the FBI are both integral members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Question: When does the FBI work with the US Coast Guard and US Customs and Board Protection?
Answer: seaport and airport security

Question: When does the FBI work with the National Transportation Safety Board?
Answer: investigating airplane crashes

Question: What organization in the US government investigates the largest array of crimes?
Answer: ICE-HSI

Question: What organization did General Ashcroft assign to lead organization in terrorism investigations?
Answer: FBI

Question: What are the FBI and ICE-HSI both members of?
Answer: Joint Terrorism Task Force

Question: What agency usually works alone, without the help of other agencies?

Question: What is an agency the CIA works in conjunction with?

Question: What agency is responsible for investigating automobile crashes?

Question: What agency investigates the smallest range of crimes?

Question: What did General Ashcroft do before the September 11th attacks?
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The FBI Academy, located in Quantico, Virginia, is home to the communications and computer laboratory the FBI utilizes. It is also where new agents are sent for training to become FBI Special Agents. Going through the 21-week course is required for every Special Agent. First opened for use in 1972, the facility located on 385 acres (1.6 km2) of woodland. The Academy trains state and local law enforcement agencies, which are invited to the law enforcement training center. The FBI units that reside at Quantico are the Field and Police Training Unit, Firearms Training Unit, Forensic Science Research and Training Center, Technology Services Unit (TSU), Investigative Training Unit, Law Enforcement Communication Unit, Leadership and Management Science Units (LSMU), Physical Training Unit, New Agents' Training Unit (NATU), Practical Applications Unit (PAU), the Investigative Computer Training Unit and the "College of Analytical Studies."

Question: Where are agents sent to become FBI Special Agents?
Answer: The FBI Academy

Question: Where is the FBI Academy?
Answer: Quantico, Virginia

Question: How long is the course required for all special agents?
Answer: 21-week

Question: What other groups does the FBI Academy train?
Answer: state and local law enforcement agencies

Question: Where is the CIA academy located?

Question: What is not required to become a Special Agent?

Question: When did the FBI Academy close?

Question: What is a CIA unit that resides at Quantico?

Question: Who does the Academy not train?
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The FBI frequently investigated Martin Luther King, Jr. In the mid-1960s, King began publicly criticizing the Bureau for giving insufficient attention to the use of terrorism by white supremacists. Hoover responded by publicly calling King the most "notorious liar" in the United States. In his 1991 memoir, Washington Post journalist Carl Rowan asserted that the FBI had sent at least one anonymous letter to King encouraging him to commit suicide. Historian Taylor Branch documents an anonymous November 1964 "suicide package" sent by the Bureau that combined a letter to the civil rights leader telling him "You are done. There is only one way out for you..." with audio recordings of King's sexual indiscretions.

Question: Did the FBI investigate Martin Luther King Jr.?
Answer: frequently

Question: Who did MLK begin criticizing in the mid-1960s?
Answer: the Bureau

Question: What group did MLK believe needed more attention from the FBI?
Answer: white supremacists

Question: What did Hoover call MLK?
Answer: notorious liar

Question: What kind of letter did the FBI send to MLK?
Answer: anonymous

Question: When did King publicly praise the FBI?

Question: What group did the FBI believe needed more attention?

Question: What did MLK call Hoover?

Question: What kind of letter did MLK send to the FBI?

Question: What year did King send a package to the FBI?
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The National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) crime statistics system aims to address limitations inherent in UCR data. The system is used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and reporting data on crimes. Local, state, and federal agencies generate NIBRS data from their records management systems. Data is collected on every incident and arrest in the Group A offense category. The Group A offenses are 46 specific crimes grouped in 22 offense categories. Specific facts about these offenses are gathered and reported in the NIBRS system. In addition to the Group A offenses, eleven Group B offenses are reported with only the arrest information. The NIBRS system is in greater detail than the summary-based UCR system. As of 2004, 5,271 law enforcement agencies submitted NIBRS data. That amount represents 20% of the United States population and 16% of the crime statistics data collected by the FBI.

Question: What is the goal of the NIBRS?
Answer: address limitations inherent in UCR data

Question: Who uses the NIBRS?
Answer: the United States

Question: What is the NIBRS used for?
Answer: collecting and reporting data

Question: What does the NIBRS collect information on?
Answer: crimes

Question: Does the NIBRS system or UCR system have more detailed data?
Answer: NIBRS

Question: What system do Canadian law enforcement agencies use?

Question: What agencies do not generate NIBRS data?

Question: What are Group C offenses?

Question: What offers less detail than the UCR system?

Question: How many law enforcement agencies submit UCR data?
Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Abizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on the US House of Representatives while in session; although not present, Abizu Campos was considered the mastermind). The FBI operation was covert and did not become known until U.S. Congressman Luis Gutierrez had it made public via the Freedom of Information Act in the 1980s.

Question: What Puerto Rican leader did the FBI spy on?
Answer: Pedro Albizu Campos

Question: What party was Pedro Albizu Campos part of?
Answer: Nationalist

Question: How many times was Pedro Albizu Campos convicted of attacks on US officials?
Answer: three

Question: Who released the Campos operation to the public?
Answer: Luis Gutierrez

Question: When was the Abizu Campos operation made public?
Answer: 1980s

Question: What independence leader did the CIA spy on?

Question: What spied on the Cuban independence leader?

Question: What U.S. congressman covered up the FBI operation?

Question: What act made the Abizu Campos operation secret?

Question: When did Luis Gutierrez cover up the Abizu Campos operation?
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The FBI is organized into functional branches and the Office of the Director, which contains most administrative offices. An executive assistant director manages each branch. Each branch is then divided into offices and divisions, each headed by an assistant director. The various divisions are further divided into sub-branches, led by deputy assistant directors. Within these sub-branches there are various sections headed by section chiefs. Section chiefs are ranked analogous to special agents in charge.

Question: What office contains the FBI's administrative offices?
Answer: Office of the Director

Question: Who manages each FBI branch?
Answer: An executive assistant director

Question: What is a FBI branch divided into?
Answer: offices and divisions

Question: Who heads an office or division?
Answer: an assistant director

Question: Who leaders the sub-divisions of offices or divisions?
Answer: deputy assistant directors

Question: What office contains the CIA's administrative offices?

Question: Who manages each CIA branch?

Question: What is a CIA branch divided into?

Question: What contains only a few FBI administrative offices?

Question: What is not led by an executive assistant director?
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The FBI is headquartered at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., with 56 field offices in major cities across the United States. The FBI also maintains over 400 resident agencies across the United States, as well as over 50 legal attachés at United States embassies and consulates. Many specialized FBI functions are located at facilities in Quantico, Virginia, as well as a "data campus" in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where 96 million sets of fingerprints "from across the United States are stored, along with others collected by American authorities from prisoners in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan." The FBI is in process of moving its Records Management Division, which processes Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, to Winchester, Virginia.

Question: Where is the FBI located?
Answer: J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.,

Question: Where are specialized FBI functions located?
Answer: Quantico, Virginia

Question: Where is the FBI's data campus?
Answer: Clarksburg, West Virginia

Question: What act is the FBI required to process requests for?
Answer: FOIA

Question: How many sets of fingerprints does the FBI have?
Answer: 96 million

Question: Where is the CIA headquarters located?

Question: How many field offices in major cities does the CIA have?

Question: How many legal attaches does the CIA employ?

Question: How many sets of fingerprints from outside the United States does the FBI store?

Question: Where is the CIA moving its Records Management Division to?
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Carnivore was an electronic eavesdropping software system implemented by the FBI during the Clinton administration; it was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. After prolonged negative coverage in the press, the FBI changed the name of its system from "Carnivore" to "DCS1000." DCS is reported to stand for "Digital Collection System"; the system has the same functions as before. The Associated Press reported in mid-January 2005 that the FBI essentially abandoned the use of Carnivore in 2001, in favor of commercially available software, such as NarusInsight.

Question: What was the electronic eavesdropping system used by the FBI during the Clinton presidency?
Answer: Carnivore

Question: What did Carnivore monitor?
Answer: email and electronic communications

Question: What was Carnivore renamed to?
Answer: DCS1000

Question: When did the FBI abandon Carnivore?
Answer: 2001

Question: What kind of software replaced Carnivore?
Answer: commercially available

Question: What was the name DCS1000 changed to?

Question: What software system received prolonged positive coverage in the press?

Question: What administration did the CIA implement Carnivore under?

Question: In what year did the FBI stop using commercially available software?

Question: What is an example of software that is not available commercially?
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FBI Directors are appointed by the President of the United States. They must be confirmed by the United States Senate and serve a term of office of five years, with a maximum of ten years, if reappointed, unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends. J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924, was by far the longest-serving director, serving until his death in 1972. In 1968, Congress passed legislation as part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act Pub.L. 90–351, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 197 that specified a 10-year limit, a maximum of two 5-year terms, for future FBI Directors, as well as requiring Senate confirmation of appointees. As the incumbent, this legislation did not apply to Hoover, only to his successors. The current FBI Director is James B. Comey, who was appointed in 2013 by Barack Obama.

Question: Who appoints FBI directors?
Answer: President of the United States

Question: What legislative body confirms FBI directors?
Answer: United States Senate

Question: How long is the term of a FBI director?
Answer: five years

Question: What made Hoover stop serving as the FBI Director?
Answer: his death

Question: Who is the current FBI director?
Answer: James B. Comey

Question: Who appoints the President of the United States?

Question: What legislative body confirms U.S. presidents?

Question: How long is the term of a U.S. president?

Question: Who was the shortest serving FBI director?

Question: When did FBI Director Comey resign?
Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

The FBI has been frequently depicted in popular media since the 1930s. The bureau has participated to varying degrees, which has ranged from direct involvement in the creative process of film or TV series development, to providing consultation on operations and closed cases. A few of the notable portrayals of the FBI on television are the 1993-2002 series The X-Files, which concerned investigations into paranormal phenomena by five fictional Special Agents and the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agency in the TV drama 24, which is patterned after the FBI Counterterrorism Division. The 1991 movie Point Break is based on the true story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated a gang of bank robbers. The 1997 movie Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrating the Mafia.

Question: When did the FBI first appear in popular media?
Answer: 1930s

Question: What notable TV show was concerned with FBI investigations of the paranormal?
Answer: X-Files

Question: What is the TV drama 24 designed on?
Answer: FBI Counterterrorism Division

Question: Who is the movie Point Break Based on?
Answer: undercover FBI agent

Question: Who is the movie Donnie Brasco based on?
Answer: Joseph D. Pistone

Question: What was frequently depicted in popular media before the 1930s?

Question: What is not a notable portrayal of the FBI on television?

Question: What has the FBI never done with popular media?

Question: What is patterned after the Counter Terrorist Unit?

Question: What 1991 movie is not based on a true story?
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During the period from 1993 to 2011, FBI agents fired their weapons on 289 occasions; FBI internal reviews found the shots justified in all but 5 cases, in none of the 5 cases were people wounded. Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha said the number of shots found to be unjustified was "suspiciously low." In the same time period, the FBI wounded 150 people, 70 of whom died; the FBI found all 150 shootings to be justified. Likewise, during the period from 2011 to the present, all shootings by FBI agents have been found to be justified by internal investigation. In a 2002 case in Maryland, an innocent man was shot, and later paid $1.3 million by the FBI after agents mistook him for a bank robber; the internal investigation found that the shooting was justified, based on the man's actions.

Question: How many times did FBI agents first their weapons from 1993 to 2011?
Answer: 289

Question: How many times were FBI shots not justified?
Answer: 5 cases

Question: How many people were wounded in the cases where FBI shooting was not justified?
Answer: none

Question: How did Samuel Walker describe the number of unjustified shots fired?
Answer: suspiciously low

Question: On what was the shooting of an innocent Maryland man deemed justified?
Answer: the man's actions

Question: How often did FBI agents fire their weapons before 1993?

Question: What professor said the number of shots found to be unjustified was suspiciously high?

Question: How many people did the FBI wound before 1993?

Question: During what period did the FBI find all shooting by FBI agents to be unjustified?

Question: How much did the CIA pay out to an innocent man that was shot?
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In 2005, fugitive Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos died in a gun battle with FBI agents in 2005 in what some charged was an assassination.[citation needed] Puerto Rico Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá criticized the FBI assault as "improper" and "highly irregular" and demanded to know why his government was not informed of it. The FBI refused to release information beyond the official press release, citing security and agent privacy issues. The Puerto Rico Justice Department filed suit in federal court against the FBI and the US Attorney General, demanding information crucial to the Commonwealth's own investigation of the incident. The case was dismissed by the U.S Supreme Court. Ojeda Rios' funeral was attended by a long list of dignitaries, including the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico, Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, ex-Governor Rafael Hernández Colón, and numerous other personalities.

Question: When did Puerto Rican Nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Ríos die?
Answer: 2005

Question: Who killed Filiberto Ojeda Ríos?
Answer: FBI agents

Question: How did some people describe Filiberto Ojeda Ríos's death?
Answer: assassination

Question: How did the FBI respond to requests to release information beyond the initial press release?
Answer: The FBI refused

Question: What US court dismissed the Puerto Rican case for information crucial to their own investigation of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos's killing?
Answer: Supreme Court

Question: What Cuban nationalist leader died in a gun battle with FBI agents?

Question: What Puerto Rican governor praised the FBI assault?

Question: What government was informed of the raid?

Question: Why did the FBI agree to release information?

Question: Who did not attend Ojeda Rios' funeral?
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According to the apocryphal Gospel of James, Mary was the daughter of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Before Mary's conception, Anne had been barren and was far advanced in years. Mary was given to service as a consecrated virgin in the Temple in Jerusalem when she was three years old, much like Hannah took Samuel to the Tabernacle as recorded in the Old Testament. Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old, and he was thirty years old, but such accounts are unreliable.

Question: Who were Mary's parents?
Answer: Saint Joachim and Saint Anne

Question: How old was Mary when she was consecrated as a virgin?
Answer: three years old

Question: Who was Mary betrothed to?
Answer: Joseph

Question: When she was betrothed to Joseph, approximately how old was Mary?
Answer: 12–14 years old

Question: Where was Mary consecrated as a virgin?
Answer: the Temple in Jerusalem

Question: How old was Anne when she gave birth to Mary?

Question: How old was Hannah when Samuel took her to the Tabernacle?

Question: Who was Hannah betrothed to?

Question: Where did Saint Joachim and Saint Anne become betrothed?

Question: Where was Saint Anne consecrated as a virgin?
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The Gospel of Luke begins its account of Mary's life with the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced her divine selection to be the mother of Jesus. According to gospel accounts, Mary was present at the Crucifixion of Jesus and is depicted as a member of the early Christian community in Jerusalem. According to Apocryphal writings, at some time soon after her death, her incorrupt body was assumed directly into Heaven, to be reunited with her soul, and the apostles thereupon found the tomb empty; this is known in Christian teaching as the Assumption.

Question: Which angel appeared to Mary?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: What happened to Mary's body at death?
Answer: assumed directly into Heaven

Question: What did Gabriel announce to Mary at the Annunciation?
Answer: her divine selection to be the mother of Jesus

Question: How was Mary related to Jesus?
Answer: mother of Jesus

Question: Which goespel begins its story of Mary with the Annunciation?
Answer: Gospel of Luke

Question: Where did Mary meet Gabriel?

Question: Where did Gabriel first meet Jesus?

Question: Who else was present at the Crucifixion of Jesus?

Question: What state was the tomb in when the angel Gabriel found it?
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The doctrines of the Assumption or Dormition of Mary relate to her death and bodily assumption to Heaven. The Roman Catholic Church has dogmaically defined the doctrine of the Assumption, which was done in 1950 by Pope Pius XII in Munificentissimus Deus. Whether the Virgin Mary died or not is not defined dogmatically, however, although a reference to the death of Mary are made in Munificentissimus Deus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is believed, and celebrated with her Dormition, where they believe she died.

Question: When was the Assumption dogmatically define by the Catholic Church?
Answer: 1950

Question: In which papal document was the dogma of the Assumption defined?
Answer: Munificentissimus Deus

Question: Which pope authored Munifentissimus Deus?
Answer: Pope Pius XII

Question: Other than the Roman Catholic Church, which church holds the doctrine of the Assumption to be true?
Answer: Eastern Orthodox Church

Question: What is another name for the Assumption of Mary?
Answer: Dormition

Question: What year did Pope Pius XII join The Roman Catholic Church?

Question: In what year did Mary die?

Question: Which Eastern Church did Pope Pius XII visit in 1950?

Question: Who authored the Dormition?
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After Mary continued in the "blood of her purifying" another 33 days for a total of 40 days, she brought her burnt offering and sin offering to the Temple in Jerusalem,[Luke 2:22] so the priest could make atonement for her sins, being cleansed from her blood.[Leviticus 12:1-8] They also presented Jesus –  "As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord" (Luke 2:23other verses). After the prophecies of Simeon and the prophetess Anna in Luke 2:25-38 concluded, Joseph and Mary took Jesus and "returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth".[Luke 2:39]

Question: How long in total was the "blood of her purifying" for Mary?
Answer: 40 days

Question: Where did Mary bring a burnt offering and sin offering?
Answer: the Temple in Jerusalem

Question: Who was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem?
Answer: Jesus

Question: Who prophesized in Luke 2:25-38?
Answer: Simeon and the prophetess Anna in

Question: To which Galilean city did Joseph and Mary take Jesus?
Answer: Nazareth

Question: How many days did Mary bring her burnt offering and sin offering to the Temple in Jerusalem?

Question: Where did Simeon and the prophetess Anna travel to?

Question: Where is the location of the temple where Mary heard Simeon prophecy?

Question: Where is the location of the temple where Joseph continued in the "blood of her purifying"?

Question: To which Galilean city did Joseph and Mary take Simeon?
Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)

According to the writer of Luke, Mary was a relative of Elizabeth, wife of the priest Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah, who was herself part of the lineage of Aaron and so of the tribe of Levi.[Luke 1:5;1:36] Some of those who consider that the relationship with Elizabeth was on the maternal side, consider that Mary, like Joseph, to whom she was betrothed, was of the House of David and so of the Tribe of Judah, and that the genealogy of Jesus presented in Luke 3 from Nathan, third son of David and Bathsheba, is in fact the genealogy of Mary,[need quotation to verify] while the genealogy from Solomon given in Matthew 1 is that of Joseph. (Aaron's wife Elisheba was of the tribe of Judah, so all their descendants are from both Levi and Judah.)[Num.1:7 & Ex.6:23]

Question: What was Zechariah's occupation?
Answer: priest

Question: Which tribe did Elizabeth belong to?
Answer: Levi

Question: Who was Aaron's wife?
Answer: Elisheba

Question: Which tribe did Elisheba belong to?
Answer: Judah

Question: Who was the third son of David and Bathsheba?
Answer: Nathan

Question: What tribe did Luke belong to?

Question: Who was Mary's sister?

Question: What priestly division did Luke belong to?

Question: Who was Zechariah's sister in law?

Question: What tribe did Matthew belong to?
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Mary is also depicted as being present among the women at the crucifixion during the crucifixion standing near "the disciple whom Jesus loved" along with Mary of Clopas and Mary Magdalene,[Jn 19:25-26] to which list Matthew 27:56 adds "the mother of the sons of Zebedee", presumably the Salome mentioned in Mark 15:40. This representation is called a Stabat Mater. While not recorded in the Gospel accounts, Mary cradling the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, called a "pietà" or "pity".

Question: Name the two women present with Mary at the Crucifixion of Jesus?
Answer: Mary of Clopas and Mary Magdalene

Question: In art, what is the name for the motif of Mary cradling the body of Jesus?
Answer: pietà

Question: In Matthew, who else besides Mary of Clopas and Mary Magdalene are with Mary at the Crucifixion?
Answer: Salome

Question: What does pieta mean?
Answer: pity

Question: What is a representation of Mary at the Crucifixion called?
Answer: a Stabat Mater

Question: What is the name for the motif of Jesus cradling the body of Mary?

Question: Who is "the disciple whom Jesus loved"?

Question: What is a representation of Jesus at the Crucifixion called?

Question: Who was the sister of Mary of Clopas?
Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)

The adoption of the mother of Jesus as a virtual goddess may represent a reintroduction of aspects of the worship of Isis. "When looking at images of the Egyptian goddess Isis and those of the Virgin Mary, one may initially observe iconographic similarities. These parallels have led many scholars to suggest that there is a distinct iconographic relationship between Isis and Mary. In fact, some scholars have gone even further, and have suggested, on the basis of this relationship, a direct link between the cult of Mary and that of Isis."

Question: Which Egyptian goddess do some scholars ascribe similarities to?
Answer: Isis

Question: What type of goddess is Isis?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What kind of relationship do some scholars believe exists between Isis and Mary?
Answer: iconographic

Question: What is the name of the goddess that the Virgin Mary met in Egypt?

Question: Who is considered to be a sister of the Egyptian goddess Isis?

Question: What is the relationship between Jesus and the Egyptian goddess Isis?

Question: What is the name of the cult that some scholars subscribe to?
Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)

In the 19th century, a house near Ephesus in Turkey was found, based on the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, an Augustinian nun in Germany. It has since been visited as the House of the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic pilgrims who consider it the place where Mary lived until her assumption. The Gospel of John states that Mary went to live with the Disciple whom Jesus loved,[Jn 19:27] identified as John the Evangelist.[citation needed] Irenaeus and Eusebius of Caesarea wrote in their histories that John later went to Ephesus, which may provide the basis for the early belief that Mary also lived in Ephesus with John.

Question: In which country is Ephesus?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Whose visions led to the identification of the House of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: Anne Catherine Emmerich

Question: Which disciple is known as "the Disciple whom Jesus loved?"
Answer: John the Evangelist

Question: With whom is it believed that Mary lived with in Ephesus?
Answer: John

Question: In which century was the House of the Virgin Mary found?
Answer: 19th

Question: Where did Anne Catherine Emmerich live?

Question: Where did Irenaeus and Eusebius of Caesarea live?

Question: In what century did Anne Catherine Emmerich meet Irenaeus?

Question: In what century did Mary live in Ephesus with John?

Question: What Evangelist did Anne Catherine Emmerich meet in Turkey?
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Devotions to artistic depictions of Mary vary among Christian traditions. There is a long tradition of Roman Catholic Marian art and no image permeates Catholic art as does the image of Madonna and Child. The icon of the Virgin Theotokos with Christ is without doubt the most venerated icon in the Orthodox Church. Both Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians venerate images and icons of Mary, given that the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 permitted their veneration with the understanding that those who venerate the image are venerating the reality of the person it represents, and the 842 Synod of Constantinople confirming the same. According to Orthodox piety and traditional practice, however, believers ought to pray before and venerate only flat, two-dimensional icons, and not three-dimensional statues.

Question: In which year was the Second Council of Nicea?
Answer: 787

Question: In which year did the Synod of Constantinople confirm the veneration of images of Mary?
Answer: 842

Question: Which icon is most venerated in the Orthodox Church?
Answer: icon of the Virgin Theotokos

Question: What is the name given to artistic depictions of Mary?
Answer: Marian art

Question: In the Orthodox church, what types of icons are allowed to be venerated and prayed before?
Answer: flat, two-dimensional icons

Question: Which believers pray to and venerate three-dimensional statues?

Question: In what year was the first image of the Madonna and Child found?

Question: In what year was the first image of the Virgin Theotokos with Christ found?

Question: What is the name given to the artistic depictions of Jesus as an adult?

Question: In what year was the Orthodox Church founded?
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Ephesus is a cultic centre of Mary, the site of the first Church dedicated to her and the rumoured place of her death. Ephesus was previously a centre for worship of Artemis a virgin goddess. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus being regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The cult of Mary was furthered by Queen Theodora in the 6th Century. According to William E. Phipps, in the book Survivals of Roman Religion "Gordon Laing argues convincingly that the worship of Artemis as both virgin and mother at the grand Ephesian temple contributed to the veneration of Mary."

Question: Where is the site of the first Church dedicated to Mary?
Answer: Ephesus

Question: Which goddess was worshipped in Ephesus before Mary?
Answer: Artemis

Question: Who was the author of the book, "Survivals of Roman Religion?"
Answer: William E. Phipps

Question: Which Queen furthered the cult of Mary in the 6th Century?
Answer: Queen Theodora

Question: Where was Mary rumored to have died?
Answer: Ephesus

Question: Where was the place of Artemis' death?

Question: In what century did Queen Theodora meet Gordon Laing?

Question: Who read the book, "Survivals of Roman Religion"?

Question: What Queen regarded The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

Question: Where is the birthplace of Artemis?
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Some titles have a Biblical basis, for instance the title Queen Mother has been given to Mary since she was the mother of Jesus, who was sometimes referred to as the "King of Kings" due to his lineage of King David. The biblical basis for the term Queen can be seen in the Gospel of Luke 1:32 and the Book of Isaiah 9:6, and Queen Mother from 1 Kings 2:19-20 and Jeremiah 13:18-19. Other titles have arisen from reported miracles, special appeals or occasions for calling on Mary, e.g., Our Lady of Good Counsel, Our Lady of Navigators or Our Lady of Ransom who protects captives.

Question: Jesus was known as the "King of Kings" because of his lieage from who?
Answer: King David

Question: Which name is given to Mary because of her role as a protector of captives?
Answer: Our Lady of Ransom

Question: Who was the mother of Jesus?
Answer: Mary

Question: Which New Testament book provides a basis for the term Queen when referring to Mary?
Answer: Luke

Question: What did David call Jesus when he met him?

Question: What did David call Mary when he met her?

Question: When Mary protected the captives of King David, what was she called?

Question: When Mary assisted Kind David in finding his way to Jesus, what was the name given to her?

Question: When Mary provided special counsel for Jesus, what name was she given?
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Despite Martin Luther's harsh polemics against his Roman Catholic opponents over issues concerning Mary and the saints, theologians appear to agree that Luther adhered to the Marian decrees of the ecumenical councils and dogmas of the church. He held fast to the belief that Mary was a perpetual virgin and the Theotokos or Mother of God. Special attention is given to the assertion that Luther, some three-hundred years before the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854, was a firm adherent of that view. Others maintain that Luther in later years changed his position on the Immaculate Conception, which, at that time was undefined in the Church, maintaining however the sinlessness of Mary throughout her life. For Luther, early in his life, the Assumption of Mary was an understood fact, although he later stated that the Bible did not say anything about it and stopped celebrating its feast. Important to him was the belief that Mary and the saints do live on after death. "Throughout his career as a priest-professor-reformer, Luther preached, taught, and argued about the veneration of Mary with a verbosity that ranged from childlike piety to sophisticated polemics. His views are intimately linked to his Christocentric theology and its consequences for liturgy and piety." Luther, while revering Mary, came to criticize the "Papists" for blurring the line, between high admiration of the grace of God wherever it is seen in a human being, and religious service given to another creature. He considered the Roman Catholic practice of celebrating saints' days and making intercessory requests addressed especially to Mary and other departed saints to be idolatry. His final thoughts on Marian devotion and veneration are preserved in a sermon preached at Wittenberg only a month before his death:

Question: Who wrote polemics regarding Roman Catholic beliefs about Mary?
Answer: Martin Luther

Question: In which year was the Immaculate Conception dogmatized?
Answer: 1854

Question: Which pope was responsible for the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception?
Answer: Pope Pius IX

Question: What does Theotokos mean?
Answer: Mother of God

Question: Where did Martin Luther preach a sermon on Marian devotion a month before his death?
Answer: Wittenberg

Question: For how many years were the Roman Catholic opponents adhering to the Marian decrees?

Question: What year did Martin Luther preach at Wittenberg?

Question: In what year did Martin Luther stop celebrating Marian feasts?

Question: With whom did Martin Luther argue about the veneration of Mary?

Question: Who criticized Luther for revering Mary and for blurring the line?
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Differences in feasts may also originate from doctrinal issues—the Feast of the Assumption is such an example. Given that there is no agreement among all Christians on the circumstances of the death, Dormition or Assumption of Mary, the feast of assumption is celebrated among some denominations and not others.  While the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Assumption on August 15, some Eastern Catholics celebrate it as Dormition of the Theotokos, and may do so on August 28, if they follow the Julian calendar. The Eastern Orthodox also celebrate it as the Dormition of the Theotokos, one of their 12 Great Feasts. Protestants do not celebrate this, or any other Marian feasts.

Question: On what date does the Catholic Church celebrate the Feast of the Assumption?
Answer: August 15

Question: What do Eastern Catholics call the Feast of the Assumption?
Answer: Dormition of the Theotokos

Question: On what date of the Julian calendar do Eastern Catholics celebrate the Domition of the Theotokos?
Answer: August 28

Question: How many Great Feasts does the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrate?
Answer: 12

Question: Do Protestants celebrate Marian feasts or not?
Answer: do not

Question: What is the name of the first Feast attended by Mary?

Question: When did Mary attend the Feast of Assumption?

Question: When did Mary attend the Dormition of the Theotokos?

Question: When Mary finished attending all of the Feasts, what were the Feasts referred to as?

Question: Who did Mary not get to go to Feast with?
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In paintings, Mary is traditionally portrayed in blue. This tradition can trace its origin to the Byzantine Empire, from c.500 AD, where blue was "the colour of an empress". A more practical explanation for the use of this colour is that in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, the blue pigment was derived from the rock lapis lazuli, a stone imported from Afghanistan of greater value than gold. Beyond a painter's retainer, patrons were expected to purchase any gold or lapis lazuli to be used in the painting. Hence, it was an expression of devotion and glorification to swathe the Virgin in gowns of blue.

Question: Which color is traditionally used to portray Mary in paintings?
Answer: blue

Question: What rock was used as the source of blue pigment in paints in Medieval and Renaissance Europe?
Answer: lapis lazuli

Question: From which country was lapis lazuli imported?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Lapis lazuli was thought to be more valuable than which precious metal?
Answer: gold

Question: Which ancient empire is thought to have started the tradition of portraying Mary in paintings using the color blue?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: What color does Mary like to paint with?

Question: What year did Mary visit the Byzantine Empire?

Question: What is the name of Mary's favorite stone?

Question: What country were the travelers from that brought Mary the lapis lazuli?

Question: What did Mary use to trade for the lapis lazuli?
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Nontrinitarians, such as Unitarians, Christadelphians and Jehovah's Witnesses also acknowledge Mary as the biological mother of Jesus Christ, but do not recognise Marian titles such as "Mother of God" as these groups generally reject Christ's divinity. Since Nontrinitarian churches are typically also mortalist, the issue of praying to Mary, whom they would consider "asleep", awaiting resurrection, does not arise. Emanuel Swedenborg says God as he is in himself could not directly approach evil spirits to redeem those spirits without destroying them (Exodus 33:20, John 1:18), so God impregnated Mary, who gave Jesus Christ access to the evil heredity of the human race, which he could approach, redeem and save.

Question: According to Nontrinitarian belief, what is Mary's relationship to Jesus?
Answer: biological mother

Question: Which Nontrinitarian theologian says that God cannot approach eveil spirits to redeem them?
Answer: Emanuel Swedenborg

Question: Unittarians, Christadelphians and Jehovah's Witnesses are examples of what kind of church?
Answer: Nontrinitarians

Question: "Mother of God" is an example of what kind of title?
Answer: Marian

Question: Why type of churches did Emanuel Swedenborg visit?

Question: Who did Mary recognize herself as?

Question: Which Nontrinitarian churches once acknowledged Mary as "Mother of God"?

Question: Whom did Mary give access to the evil heredity of the human race?
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The Qur'an relates detailed narrative accounts of Maryam (Mary) in two places, Qur'an 3:35–47 and 19:16–34. These state beliefs in both the Immaculate Conception of Mary and the Virgin birth of Jesus. The account given in Sura 19 is nearly identical with that in the Gospel according to Luke, and both of these (Luke, Sura 19) begin with an account of the visitation of an angel upon Zakariya (Zecharias) and Good News of the birth of Yahya (John), followed by the account of the annunciation. It mentions how Mary was informed by an angel that she would become the mother of Jesus through the actions of God alone.

Question: By what name is Mary referred to in the Qur'an?
Answer: Maryam

Question: Which Sura in the Qur'an describes the visitation of an angel upon Zakariya?
Answer: 19

Question: In how many places does the Qur'an give detailed accounts of Mary?
Answer: two

Question: Which Gospel provides an identical account of the Virgin Birth as Sura 19 in the Qur'an? 
Answer: Luke

Question: Who was visited by an angel in Sura 19 of the Qur'an?
Answer: Zakariya

Question: Who wrote the detailed narrative accounts of Maryam?

Question: Who wrote the account given in Sura 19?

Question: How many accounts in the are written in the Qur'an about Mary?

Question: Who told Jesus that Mary would be the mother of Jesus?

Question: How many Gospel narratives are about Mary?