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Santa_Monica,_California

The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in 1909. The La Monica Ballroom on the pier was once the largest ballroom in the US and the source for many New Year's Eve national network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar Shop is still a leading acoustic performance space as well as retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the California Heritage Museum and the Angels Attic dollhouse and toy museum.

Question: What year was the Sanat Monica Pier buildt?
Answer: 1909

Question: What historic landmark is located on the Pier?
Answer: Looff Hippodrome

Question: La Monica Ballroom used to be what type of ballroom in the United States?
Answer: largest

Question: Where were the Academy Awards held in the 1960's?
Answer: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Question: What place is still considered a prominent acoustic performance area?
Answer: McCabe's Guitar Shop

Question: In what year was the Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome built?

Question: In what decade was the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium built?

Question: In what year was the California Heritage Museum established?

Question: In what building is the Angels Attic dollhouse?

Question: In what year was the toy museum built?
Santa_Monica,_California

The Downtown District is the home of the Third Street Promenade, a major outdoor pedestrian-only shopping district that stretches for three blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and Broadway (not the same Broadway in downtown and south Los Angeles). Third Street is closed to vehicles for those three blocks to allow people to stroll, congregate, shop and enjoy street performers. Santa Monica Place, featuring Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in a three-level outdoor environment, is located at the south end of the Promenade. After a period of redevelopment, the mall reopened in the fall of 2010 as a modern shopping, entertainment and dining complex with more outdoor space.

Question: The Third Street Promenade is located in what part of Santa Monica?
Answer: Downtown District

Question: How large is the Third Street Promenade?
Answer: three blocks

Question: What is Third Street access shut off from?
Answer: vehicles

Question: What two major department stores are located at the Third Street Promenade?
Answer: Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom

Question: What year did the mall reopen?
Answer: 2010

Question: How long is Wilshire Blvd.?

Question: In what year was Third Street closed to vehicles?

Question: In what year did Nordstrom open its store?

Question: What's at the north end of the Promenade?

Question: How long is Broadway?
Santa_Monica,_California

Every fall the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosts The Taste of Santa Monica on the Santa Monica Pier. Visitors can sample food and drinks from Santa Monica restaurants. Other annual events include the Business and Consumer Expo, Sustainable Quality Awards, Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival, and the State of the City. The swanky Shutters on the Beach Hotel offers a trip to the famous Santa Monica Farmers Market to select and influence the materials that will become that evening's special "Market Dinner."

Question: What event does the Chamber of commerce host in the fall?
Answer: The Taste of Santa Monica

Question: Where is the Taste of Santa Monica held each year?
Answer: Santa Monica Pier

Question: What can visitors do at the Taste of Santa Monica?
Answer: sample food and drinks

Question: Who provides the guests with these samples at the event?
Answer: Santa Monica restaurants

Question: What hotel offers a trip to the famer's market to influence dinner?
Answer: The swanky Shutters

Question: In what season is the Business and Consumer Expo?

Question: In what season is the State of the City held?

Question: The Sustainable Quality Awards is held in what season?

Question: What's one of the restaurants that is part of The Taste of Santa Monica?

Question: Where is the Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival held?
Santa_Monica,_California

Classified as a Subtropical Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb), Santa Monica enjoys an average of 310 days of sunshine a year. It is located in USDA plant hardiness zone 11a. Because of its location, nestled on the vast and open Santa Monica Bay, morning fog is a common phenomenon in May, June and early July (caused by ocean temperature variations and currents). Like other inhabitants of the greater Los Angeles area, residents have a particular terminology for this phenomenon: the "May Gray" and the "June Gloom". Overcast skies are common during June mornings, but usually the strong sun burns the fog off by noon. In the late winter/early summer, daily fog is a phenomenon too. It happens suddenly and it may last some hours or past sunset time. Nonetheless, it will sometimes stay cloudy and cool all day during June, even as other parts of the Los Angeles area enjoy sunny skies and warmer temperatures. At times, the sun can be shining east of 20th Street, while the beach area is overcast. As a general rule, the beach temperature is from 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 6 degrees Celsius) cooler than it is inland during summer days, and 5–10 degrees warmer during winter nights.

Question: Roughly how many days of sunshine does Santa Monica get annually? 
Answer: 310

Question: What USDA hardiness zone is Santa Monica located in?
Answer: 11a

Question: What commonly occurs on the mornings in May?
Answer: fog

Question: What have locals coined the morning time in May?
Answer: "May Gray"

Question: What is the beach temperature in Fahrenheit during the summer ? 
Answer: 5 to 10 degrees

Question: What type of weather is common in April?

Question: What's the average temperature during the summer at night in Santa Monica?

Question: What the average temperature in winter in fahrenheit?

Question: How many days is it foggy in Santa Monica each year?

Question: How many days each year is is the beach area overcast?
Santa_Monica,_California

Santa Monica is one of the most environmentally activist municipalities in the nation. The city first proposed its Sustainable City Plan in 1992 and in 1994, was one of the first cities in the nation to formally adopt a comprehensive sustainability plan, setting waste reduction and water conservation policies for both public and private sector through its Office of Sustainability and the Environment. Eighty-two percent of the city's public works vehicles now run on alternative fuels, including nearly 100% of the municipal bus system, making it among the largest such fleets in the country. Santa Monica fleet vehicles and Buses now source their natural gas from Redeem, a Southern California-based supplier of renewable and sustainable natural gas obtained from non-fracked methane biogas generated from organic landfill waste.

Question: In what two years were the first Sustainable City Plan's introduced?
Answer: 1992 and in 1994

Question: Water conservation policies have been adopted by what two sectors?
Answer: public and private

Question: What percent of the city's public work's vehicles use alternate fuels?
Answer: Eighty-two

Question: What percent of the bus systems use alternate fuels?
Answer: 100%

Question: What company provides the city with natural gas?
Answer: Redeem

Question: In what year did Santa Monica convert almost 100% of its municipal bus system to alternative fuels?

Question: In what year was Redeem founded?

Question: In what city is Redeem headquartered?

Question: In what city is the organic landwill that Redeem obtains its non-fracked methane biogas?

Question: How many city public works vehicles are there in total in Santa Monica?
Santa_Monica,_California

An urban runoff facility (SMURFF), the first of its kind in the US, catches and treats 3.5 million US gallons (13,000 m3) of water each week that would otherwise flow into the bay via storm-drains and sells it back to end-users within the city for reuse as gray-water, while bio-swales throughout the city allow rainwater to percolate into and replenish the groundwater supply. The groundwater supply in turn plays an important role in the city's Sustainable Water Master Plan, whereby Santa Monica has set a goal of attaining 100% water independence by 2020. The city has numerous programs designed to promote water conservation among residents, including a rebate of $1.50 per square foot for those who convert water intensive lawns to more local drought-tolerant gardens that require less water.

Question: What is the name of the urban runoff facility?
Answer: (SMURFF)

Question: How many gallons of water does (SMURFF) treat every week?
Answer: 3.5 million

Question: Santa Monica plans on water independence by what year?
Answer: 2020

Question: How much money do residents get back for participating in water conservation per square foot?
Answer: $1.50

Question: If (SMURFF) did not collect water where would it go?
Answer: into the bay

Question: How much does SMURFF charge per gallon for its gray water?

Question: How much rainwater falls in Santa Monica each week?

Question: How much water is used by water intensive lawns each week?

Question: What's the establishment year for the Sustainable Water Master Plan?

Question: How much water a week is used by local drought-tolerant gardens?
Santa_Monica,_California

The city is also in the process of implementing a 5-year and 20 year Bike Action Plan with a goal of attaining 14 to 35% bicycle transportation mode share by 2030 through the installation of enhanced bicycle infrastructure throughout the city. Other environmentally focused initiatives include curbside recycling, curbside composting bins (in addition to trash, yard-waste, and recycle bins), farmers' markets, community gardens, garden-share, an urban forest initiative, a hazardous materials home-collection service, green business certification, and a municipal bus system which is currently being revamped to integrate with the soon-to-open Expo Line.

Question: What year does the city plan on having a bicycle infrastructure?
Answer: 2030

Question: The city's bus system is being over hauled to work with what other program?
Answer: Expo Line

Question: The city has two bike Action Plans of how many years?
Answer: 5-year and 20

Question: What percentages does the city Bike transportation mode's target?
Answer: 14 to 35%

Question: What type of business certification do they plan on expanding?
Answer: green

Question: In what year will the Expo Line be opened?

Question: In what year is the urban forest initiative expected to meet its goal?

Question: For how long has Santa Monica had curbside recycling?

Question: What percentage of yard-waste is recycled?

Question: In what percentage range is trash put into recycle bins?
Santa_Monica,_California

There were 46,917 households, out of which 7,835 (16.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,092 (27.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,510 (7.5%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,327 (2.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 2,867 (6.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 416 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 22,716 households (48.4%) were made up of individuals and 5,551 (11.8%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.87. There were 17,929 families (38.2% of all households); the average family size was 2.79.

Question: What was the total average family size?
Answer: 2.79

Question: What percent of households were made of one person?
Answer: 48.4%

Question: What percent of households had someone over 65 living in it?
Answer: 11.8%

Question: Roughly how many same-sex couples were there?
Answer: 416

Question: What percent of household have children under 18?
Answer: 16.7%

Question: How many people under 18 are there in Santa Monica?

Question: How many people under 65 are there in Santa Monica?

Question: How many same-sex female married couples are there?

Question: What is the average household size for those 65 and older?

Question: What is the average family size for same-sex married couples?
Santa_Monica,_California

As of the census of 2000, there are 84,084 people, 44,497 households, and 16,775 families in the city. The population density is 10,178.7 inhabitants per square mile (3,930.4/km²). There are 47,863 housing units at an average density of 5,794.0 per square mile (2,237.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 78.29% White, 7.25% Asian, 3.78% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 5.97% from other races, and 4.13% from two or more races. 13.44% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 44,497 households, out of which 15.8% have children under the age of 18, 27.5% are married couples living together, 7.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 62.3% are non-families. 51.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.83 and the average family size is 2.80.

Question: How many citizen's were in the year 2000 census?
Answer: 84,084

Question: How many urban families were there?
Answer: 16,775

Question: What is the population density per square mile?
Answer: 10,178.7

Question: What percent in the 2000 census had persons under the age of 18?
Answer: 15.8%

Question: From 2000 what was the average family size?
Answer: 2.80

Question: How many children under the age of 18 live in Santa Monica?

Question: What's the average family size for Latino's?

Question: What's the average household size for Pacific Islander's?

Question: How big is Santa Monica in regards to land space?

Question: What population percentage is male householder with no wife present?
Santa_Monica,_California

Santa Monica College is a junior college originally founded in 1929. Many SMC graduates transfer to the University of California system. It occupies 35 acres (14 hectares) and enrolls 30,000 students annually. The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, associated with the RAND Corporation, is the U.S.'s largest producer of public policy PhDs. The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles is also located in Santa Monica near the Santa Monica Airport. Universities and colleges within a 22-mile (35 km) radius from Santa Monica include Santa Monica College, Antioch University Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Mount St. Mary's College, Pepperdine University, California State University, Northridge, California State University, Los Angeles, UCLA, USC, West Los Angeles College, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Occidental College (Oxy), Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Valley College, and Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

Question: What year was the Santa Monica junior college founded?
Answer: 1929

Question: How many acres of land is the Santa Monica Junior College?
Answer: 35

Question: By what area is the Art institute in Santa Monica?
Answer: Airport

Question: There are a plethora of colleges and universities within what radius of Santa Monica?
Answer: 22-mile

Question: How many students enroll to the SMC annually?  
Answer: 30,000

Question: In what year was the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School established?

Question: How many acres is the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School  campus?

Question: How many students attend the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School?

Question: What's the campus size of The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles?

Question: How many students attend the Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine?
Santa_Monica,_California

Santa Monica has a bike action plan and recently launched a Bicycle sharing system in November 2015. The city is traversed by the Marvin Braude Bike Trail. Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award (Bronze in 2009, Silver in 2013) by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bicycle advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Santa Monica is thought to be one of the leaders for bicycle infrastructure and programming in Los Angeles County.[citation needed]

Question: What plan launched a Bicycle sharing system?
Answer: bike action

Question: When was Santa Monica's Bicycle sharing system launched?
Answer: November 2015

Question: What is the name of the bike trail that goes through Santa Monica?
Answer: Marvin Braude

Question: When was the most recent Bicycle Friendly Community Award given to Santa Monica? 
Answer: 2013

Question: What other year did Santa Monica receive the Bicycle Friendly Community award?
Answer: 2009

Question: When was the Marvin Braude Bike Trail built?

Question: In what month in 2009 did Santa Monica receive the Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community Award?

Question: In what year was the League of American Bicyclists founded?

Question: Where is the headquarters for the League of American Bicyclists?

Question: Who was the founder of the League of American Bicyclists?
Santa_Monica,_California

The Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east. The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinction of being one of the busiest highways in all of North America. After traversing Los Angeles County, I-10 crosses seven more states, terminating at Jacksonville, Florida. In Santa Monica, there is a road sign designating this route as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway. State Route 2 (Santa Monica Boulevard) begins in Santa Monica, barely grazing State Route 1 at Lincoln Boulevard, and continues northeast across Los Angeles County, through the Angeles National Forest, crossing the San Gabriel Mountains as the Angeles Crest Highway, ending in Wrightwood. Santa Monica is also the western (Pacific) terminus of historic U.S. Route 66. Close to the eastern boundary of Santa Monica, Sepulveda Boulevard reaches from Long Beach at the south, to the northern end of the San Fernando Valley. Just east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, the "San Diego Freeway", a major north-south route in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.

Question: What is the name of the Santa Monica Freeway?
Answer: Interstate 10

Question: Where does the Santa Monica Freeway begin around?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: How many more states aside from California does the interstate 10 run through?
Answer: seven more

Question: What city and state does the interstate 10 end at?
Answer: Jacksonville, Florida

Question: What road does state route 2 begin on?
Answer: Santa Monica Boulevard

Question: How many miles is State Route 2?

Question: On what street does the Santa Monica Freeway begin?

Question: How many miles is the Angeles National Forest from Santa Monica?

Question: How long is Interstate 405 in miles?

Question: On what street does State Route 1 originate?
Santa_Monica,_California

Historical aspects of the Expo line route are noteworthy. It uses the right-of-way for the Santa Monica Air Line that provided electric-powered freight and passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica beginning in the 1920s. Service was discontinued in 1953 but diesel-powered freight deliveries to warehouses along the route continued until March 11, 1988. The abandonment of the line spurred concerns within the community and the entire right-of-way was purchased from Southern Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The line was built in 1875 as the steam-powered Los Angeles and Independence Railroad to bring mining ore to ships in Santa Monica harbor and as a passenger excursion train to the beach.

Question: Beginning in what decade did the Santa Monica  Expo Air Line host freight and passenger services?
Answer: 1920s

Question: What year did the Santa Monica freight and passenger service stop running?
Answer: 1953

Question: Diesel powered freight deliveries continued through what date?
Answer: March 11, 1988

Question: What was the result from the discontinuation of using the line for deliveries?
Answer: was purchased

Question: Who bought the Expo line from Southern Pacific?
Answer: Southern Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Question: In what year were diesel-powered freight deliveries to warehouses first used on the Expo Line?

Question: In what year did the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority by the Expo Line from Southern Pacific?

Question: In what year were electric-powered freight trains invented?

Question: It was decade was the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority established?

Question: In what year was Santa Monica harbor built?
Santa_Monica,_California

In 2006, crime in Santa Monica affected 4.41% of the population, slightly lower than the national average crime rate that year of 4.48%. The majority of this was property crime, which affected 3.74% of Santa Monica's population in 2006; this was higher than the rates for Los Angeles County (2.76%) and California (3.17%), but lower than the national average (3.91%). These per-capita crime rates are computed based on Santa Monica's full-time population of about 85,000. However, the Santa Monica Police Department has suggested the actual per-capita crime rate is much lower, as tourists, workers, and beachgoers can increase the city's daytime population to between 250,000 and 450,000 people.

Question: In 2006 what percent of the population was impacted by crime?
Answer: 4.41%

Question: In 2006 what was crime mostly comprised of?
Answer: property

Question: What percent of crime was strictly property in 2006?
Answer: 3.74%

Question: How are the Santa Monica per-capita crime rates calculated?
Answer: computed based

Question: The Santa Monica Police Department suggests that the per-capita crime rate sways in what way?
Answer: much lower

Question: How many officers are there in the Santa Monica Police Department?

Question: In 2006, what was the average crime rate for Los Angeles County?

Question: In 2006, what was the average crime rate for California?

Question: How many beachgoers are there each day in Santa Monica?

Question: How many workers are there each day in Santa Monica?
Santa_Monica,_California

In 1999, there was a double homicide in the Westside Clothing store on Lincoln Boulevard. During the incident, Culver City gang members David "Puppet" Robles and Jesse "Psycho" Garcia entered the store masked and began opening fire, killing Anthony and Michael Juarez. They then ran outside to a getaway vehicle driven by a third Culver City gang member, who is now also in custody. The clothing store was believed to be a local hang out for Santa Monica gang members. The dead included two men from Northern California who had merely been visiting the store's owner, their cousin, to see if they could open a similar store in their area. Police say the incident was in retaliation for a shooting committed by the Santa Monica 13 gang days before the Juarez brothers were gunned down.

Question: In what year was there a double homicide?
Answer: 1999

Question: Where was this homicide perpetrated?
Answer: Westside Clothing store

Question: What gang is mentioned in connection with this crime?
Answer: Culver City

Question: What two people were killed inside the store?
Answer: Anthony and Michael Juarez

Question: Where is the getaway driver of the Culver city gang murder?
Answer: in custody

Question: What was the name of the third Culver City gang member?

Question: What was the name of the Westside Clothing store's owner?

Question: Which Santa Monica 13 gang member committed a shooting just days prior?

Question: What city were the victims from?

Question: In what year was Westside Clothing founded?
Santa_Monica,_California

Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part within the city of Santa Monica. One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline, which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W". The Sylvester Stallone film Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on the Santa Monica Beach, and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) includes Santa Monica settings. Henry Jaglom's indie Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. Heathers (1989) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, particularly the Palisades Park area, and features a radio station that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College. 17 Again (2009) was shot at Samohi. Other films that show significant exterior shots of Santa Monica include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Richard Rossi's biopic Aimee Semple McPherson opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica. Iron Man features the Santa Monica pier and surrounding communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.

Question: What is one of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica?
Answer: Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage

Question: What does this iconic exterior shot display?
Answer: much of 2nd Street

Question: What 1982 movie includes Sylvester Stallone running on the Santa Monica Beach?
Answer: Rocky III

Question: What 1996 movie was set completely in Santa Monica?
Answer: The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Question: What movie was shot at Samohi?
Answer: 17 Again

Question: What is one of the Santa Monica streets seen in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World?

Question: Who played the role of Apollo Creed?

Question: Who directed It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World?

Question: In what year did John Adams Middle School first open its doors?

Question: Who plays the part of Iron Man?
Santa_Monica,_California

Santa Monica is featured in the video games True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional district - Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! (2004), Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), L.A. Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008), Cars Race-O-Rama (2009), Grand Theft Auto V (2013) as a fictional district – Del Perro, Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) as a fictional U.S. military base – Fort Santa Monica, The Crew (2014), Need for Speed (2015)

Question: What type of games is Santa Monica featured in?
Answer: video

Question: In what year did Tony hawk's American Wasteland release?
Answer: 2005

Question: What video game features Santa Monica in 2003?
Answer: True Crime: Streets of LA

Question: Grand theft Auto V was released in what year?
Answer: 2013

Question: What video game featured Santa Monica in 2015?
Answer: Need for Speed

Question: In what year is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines set?

Question: Who was the main character in Grand Theft Auto V?

Question: Who was the lead designer of Cars Race-O-Rama?

Question: What city is Tony Hawk from?

Question: In what year is Destroy All Humans! set?
Washington_University_in_St._Louis

Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U., or WUSTL) is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. Twenty-five Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked 15th by U.S. News and World Report. The university is ranked 32nd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Question: When was Washington University founded?
Answer: 1853

Question: How many Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University?
Answer: Twenty-five

Question: Where is Washington University ranked among Academic Ranking of World Universities?
Answer: 32nd

Question: For whom is Washington University named?  
Answer: George Washington

Question: How many different countries comprise the makeup of faculty and students of Washington University?
Answer: 120

Question: What undergraduate program is ranked first in the United States?

Question: In what was U.S. News and World Report first published?

Question: In what year did the first Nobel laureate graduate from Washington University?

Question: Which university is ranked 1st in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities?

Question: In what year did the first international student at Washington University?
Washington_University_in_St._Louis

The university's first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, and Eliot was named President of the Board of Trustees. Early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John O'Fallon, but Eliot failed to secure a permanent endowment. Washington University is unusual among major American universities in not having had a prior financial endowment. The institution had no backing of a religious organization, single wealthy patron, or earmarked government support.

Question: Who was the first chancellor of Washington University?
Answer: Joseph Gibson Hoyt.

Question: When did Washington University secure its charter?
Answer: 1853

Question: What makes Washington University unique among other American universities?
Answer: not having had a prior financial endowment

Question: Who was the first president of Washington University?
Answer: Eliot

Question: What local businessman help provide support for the Washington University?
Answer: John O'Fallon

Question: In what year was Joseph Gibson Hoyt born?

Question: Who was one of the members of the Missouri General Assembly in 1853?

Question: What did did John O'Fallon do for a living?

Question: What was one of the major American universities that started with a prior financial endowment?

Question: Who named it Washington University?
Washington_University_in_St._Louis

During the three years following its inception, the university bore three different names. The board first approved "Eliot Seminary," but William Eliot was uncomfortable with naming a university after himself and objected to the establishment of a seminary, which would implicitly be charged with teaching a religious faith. He favored a nonsectarian university. In 1854, the Board of Trustees changed the name to "Washington Institute" in honor of George Washington. Naming the University after the nation's first president, only seven years before the American Civil War and during a time of bitter national division, was no coincidence. During this time of conflict, Americans universally admired George Washington as the father of the United States and a symbol of national unity. The Board of Trustees believed that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly divided Missouri. In 1856, the University amended its name to "Washington University." The university amended its name once more in 1976, when the Board of Trustees voted to add the suffix "in St. Louis" to distinguish the university from the nearly two dozen other universities bearing Washington's name.

Question: What was one of the names that was initially considered for Washington University in St. Louis?
Answer: Eliot Seminary

Question: What name was selected by the Board of Trustees in 1854 for Washington University?
Answer: Washington Institute

Question: Why did the Board of Trustees choose to name Washing University after George Washington?
Answer: The Board of Trustees believed that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly divided Missouri

Question: When was the name Washington University amended? 
Answer: 1856

Question: When was the suffix "in St. Louis" added to Washington University?
Answer: 1976

Question: In what year was Washington University founded?

Question: Who was one of Washington University's trustees in 1976?

Question: Who initially wanted Washington University to be a seminary?

Question: Who was the nation's second president?

Question: Who was one of the Board of Trustees members in 1854?
Washington_University_in_St._Louis

Although chartered as a university, for many years Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Owing to limited financial resources, Washington University initially used public buildings. Classes began on October 22, 1854, at the Benton School building. At first the university paid for the evening classes, but as their popularity grew, their funding was transferred to the St. Louis Public Schools. Eventually the board secured funds for the construction of Academic Hall and a half dozen other buildings. Later the university divided into three departments: the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute.

Question: Where was Washington University located? 
Answer: 17th Street and Washington Avenue

Question: When did classes first begin at Washington University?
Answer: October 22, 1854

Question: What building was first used for classes at Washington University?
Answer: Benton School building.

Question: What three departments were Washington University divided?
Answer: the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute

Question: What type of school did Washington University first function?
Answer: a night school

Question: On what road was the Benton School building?

Question: On what road was Academic Hall?

Question: In what year did the university divide into three departments?

Question: On what date did the first school year end?

Question: In what year did Washington University become a day school?
Washington_University_in_St._Louis

In 1867, the university opened the first private nonsectarian law school west of the Mississippi River. By 1882, Washington University had expanded to numerous departments, which were housed in various buildings across St. Louis. Medical classes were first held at Washington University in 1891 after the St. Louis Medical College decided to affiliate with the University, establishing the School of Medicine. During the 1890s, Robert Sommers Brookings, the president of the Board of Trustees, undertook the tasks of reorganizing the university's finances, putting them onto a sound foundation, and buying land for a new campus.

Question: When was did Washington University open its law school?
Answer: 1867

Question: When did Washington University establish its medical school? 
Answer: 1891

Question: Who was Robert Somers Brookings?
Answer: the president of the Board of Trustees

Question: When did St. Louis Medical college affiliate itself with Washington University?
Answer: 1891

Question: In what year was Robert Sommers Brookings born?

Question: In what year was the St. Louis Medical College founded?

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Question: What was the first private sectarian school west of the Mississippi River?
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Washington University spent its first half century in downtown St. Louis bounded by Washington Ave., Lucas Place, and Locust Street. By the 1890s, owing to the dramatic expansion of the Manual School and a new benefactor in Robert Brookings, the University began to move west. The University Board of Directors began a process to find suitable ground and hired the landscape architecture firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot of Boston. A committee of Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse found a site of 103 acres (41.7 ha) just beyond Forest Park, located west of the city limits in St. Louis County. The elevation of the land was thought to resemble the Acropolis and inspired the nickname of "Hilltop" campus, renamed the Danforth campus in 2006 to honor former chancellor William H. Danforth.

Question: Where was Washington University located during the first half of the 1800's. 
Answer: downtown St. Louis

Question: When did Washington University begin to expand west?
Answer: the 1890s

Question: What architecture firm was hired by the Board of Directors at Washington University? 
Answer: Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot of Boston

Question: Who was on the committee that found a new site for Washington University?
Answer: Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse

Question: What nickname was given to the new campus site?
Answer: "Hilltop" campus

Question: In what decade was the Manual School established?

Question: Who was one of the university's Board of Directors members in the 1890s?

Question: What city was Robert Brookings originally from?

Question: Who designed the Manual School?

Question: What is one of the streets that the Danforth campus now lies next to?
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In 1899, the university opened a national design contest for the new campus. The renowned Philadelphia firm Cope & Stewardson won unanimously with its plan for a row of Collegiate Gothic quadrangles inspired by Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The cornerstone of the first building, Busch Hall, was laid on October 20, 1900. The construction of Brookings Hall, Ridgley, and Cupples began shortly thereafter. The school delayed occupying these buildings until 1905 to accommodate the 1904 World's Fair and Olympics. The delay allowed the university to construct ten buildings instead of the seven originally planned. This original cluster of buildings set a precedent for the development of the Danforth Campus; Cope & Stewardson’s original plan and its choice of building materials have, with few exceptions, guided the construction and expansion of the Danforth Campus to the present day.

Question: When did Washington University hold a national design contest for the new campus?
Answer: 1899

Question: What firm won the Washington University national design contest?
Answer: Cope & Stewardson

Question: When was the cornerstone laid for Busch Hall?
Answer: October 20, 1900

Question: What were the names of the three buildings constructed after Busch Hall?
Answer: Brookings Hall, Ridgley, and Cupples

Question: Why did Washington University delay occupying of the new campus buildings until 1905?
Answer: to accommodate the 1904 World's Fair and Olympics

Question: In what year was Oxford founded?

Question: On what date did Brookings Hall have its cornerstone laid?

Question: On what date did construction begin on the Cupples building?

Question: On what date was construction completed on Ridgley?

Question: In what year was Cope & Stewardson founded?
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After working for many years at the University of Chicago, Arthur Holly Compton returned to St. Louis in 1946 to serve as Washington University's ninth chancellor. Compton reestablished the Washington University football team, making the declaration that athletics were to be henceforth played on a "strictly amateur" basis with no athletic scholarships. Under Compton’s leadership, enrollment at the University grew dramatically, fueled primarily by World War II veterans' use of their GI Bill benefits.

Question: What role did Arthur Holly Compton serve at Washington University?
Answer: chancellor

Question: Who reestablished Washington University's football team?
Answer: Arthur Holly Compton

Question: What helped lead to the increase of enrollment at Washington University during Arthur Holly Compton's term as chancellor?
Answer: World War II veterans' use of their GI Bill benefits

Question: What declaration did Arthur Holly Compton make about athletics at Washington University?
Answer: athletics were to be henceforth played on a "strictly amateur" basis with no athletic scholarships.

Question: Where did Arthur Holly Compton work before returning to Washington University?
Answer: the University of Chicago

Question: Who was Washington University's eight chancellor?

Question: In what year did Washington University's first football program get shut down?

Question: In what year did World War II start?

Question: What position did Arthur Holly Compton have at the University of Chicago?

Question: In what year did the University of Chicago get founded?
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The process of desegregation at Washington University began in 1947 with the School of Medicine and the School of Social Work. During the mid and late 1940s, the University was the target of critical editorials in the local African American press, letter-writing campaigns by churches and the local Urban League, and legal briefs by the NAACP intended to strip its tax-exempt status. In spring 1949, a Washington University student group, the Student Committee for the Admission of Negroes (SCAN), began campaigning for full racial integration. In May 1952, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution desegregating the school's undergraduate divisions.

Question: When did Washington University begin desegregation?
Answer: 1947

Question: What were the first schools to become integrated at Washington University? 
Answer: the School of Medicine and the School of Social Work

Question: What student group campaigned for full integration at Washington University in 1949?
Answer: the Student Committee for the Admission of Negroes (SCAN)

Question: What organization sought to strip Washington University of its tax-exempt status in the 1940's?
Answer: the NAACP

Question: When did the Board of Trustees pass a resolution to desegregate the Washington University undergraduate division? 
Answer: May 1952

Question: In what year was the Student Committee for Admission of Negroes established?

Question: What was one of the last school's at Washington University to be desegregated?

Question: In what year was the School of Social Work established at Washington University?

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Question: In what year was the local Urban League established?
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During the latter half of the 20th century, Washington University transitioned from a strong regional university to a national research institution. In 1957, planning began for the construction of the “South 40,” a complex of modern residential halls. With the additional on-campus housing, Washington University, which had been predominantly a “streetcar college” of commuter students, began to attract a more national pool of applicants. By 1964, over two-thirds of incoming students came from outside the St. Louis area.

Question: When did Washington University begin construction of a complex of residential halls?
Answer: 1957

Question: What name was given to the new residential complex constructed at Washington University?
Answer: South 40

Question: How did the construction of the new residential complex at Washington University affect the student population?
Answer: began to attract a more national pool of applicants

Question: What proportion of students at Washington University came from outside the St. Louis area by 1964?
Answer: over two-thirds

Question: When did Washington University transition to a national research institution?
Answer: During the latter half of the 20th century,

Question: In what year did construction start on the "South 40"?

Question: In what year was construction completed on the "South 40"?

Question: What percentage of incoming students came from outside the St. Louis area in 1957?

Question: In what type of housing did the commuter students live in?
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Washington University has been selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates to host more presidential and vice-presidential debates than any other institution in history. United States presidential election debates were held at the Washington University Athletic Complex in 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016. A presidential debate was planned to occur in 1996, but owing to scheduling difficulties between the candidates, the debate was canceled. The university hosted the only 2008 vice presidential debate, between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden, on October 2, 2008, also at the Washington University Athletic Complex.

Question: What years were presidential debates held at Washington University?
Answer: 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016

Question: What building at Washington University was used to host the presidential debates?
Answer: Washington University Athletic Complex

Question: Why was the presidential debate canceled in 1996 at Washington University?  
Answer: scheduling difficulties between the candidates

Question: When was the only vice presidential debate held at Washington University?
Answer: October 2, 2008

Question: Who were the candidates in the vice presidential debate at Washington University?
Answer: Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden

Question: In what year was the Washington University Athletic Complex built?

Question: Who was one of the presidential candidates to debate in 1992?

Question: Who was one of the presidential candidates to debate in 2000?

Question: Who was one of the presidential candidates in 1996?

Question: Was it presidential or vice presidential debate held at Washington University in 2000?
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Although Chancellor Wrighton had noted after the 2004 debate that it would be "improbable" that the university will host another debate and was not eager to commit to the possibility, he subsequently changed his view and the university submitted a bid for the 2008 debates. "These one-of-a-kind events are great experiences for our students, they contribute to a national understanding of important issues, and they allow us to help bring national and international attention to the St. Louis region as one of America's great metropolitan areas," said Wrighton.

Question: What was Chancellor Wrighton's initial sentiment to hosting another presidential debate at Washington University after 2004?
Answer: it would be "improbable" that the university will host another debate and was not eager to commit to the possibility

Question: What did  Chancellor Wrighton state as one of the reasons for hosting another debate at Washington University?
Answer: These one-of-a-kind events are great experiences for our students, they contribute to a national understanding of important issues

Question: What year did Chancellor Wrighton submit another bid for a presidential debate at Washington University after 2004? 
Answer: 2008

Question: In what year did Wrighton become Chancellor?

Question: Who said it would be "probable" that their university would ask to host another debate in 2004?

Question: Who said "These common events are a great experience for our students..." in 2008?

Question: What type of events bring local attention to the St. Louis region?

Question: What was the very first year that Washington University hosted a presidential debate?