LucaSailor/old huggingface dataset:
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West has additionally appeared and participated in many fundraisers, benefit concerts, and has done community work for Hurricane Katrina relief, the Kanye West Foundation, the Millions More Movement, 100 Black Men of America, a Live Earth concert benefit, World Water Day rally and march, Nike runs, and a MTV special helping young Iraq War veterans who struggle through debt and PTSD a second chance after returning home.

Q1: What are some charitable efforts Kanye west has participated in?
A1: 100 Black Men of America, a Live Earth concert benefit, World Water Day rally
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West has been an outspoken and controversial celebrity throughout his career, receiving both criticism and praise from many, including the mainstream media, other artists and entertainers, and two U.S. presidents. On September 2, 2005, during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief on NBC, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, West (a featured speaker) accused President George W. Bush of not "car[ing] about black people". When West was presenting alongside actor Mike Myers, he deviated from the prepared script to criticize the media's portrayal of hurricane victims, saying:

Q1: During what show did Kanye take an opportunity to criticize the efforts of a U.S. President?
A1: A Concert for Hurricane Relief
Q2: Which U.S. President did Kanye criticize after the events of Hurricane Katrina? 
A2: George W. Bush
Q3: Which President did Kanye West accuse of "Not caring for black people"?
A3: George W. Bush
Q4: On what day did the Kanye's famous George W. Bush criticism take place?
A4: September 2, 2005
Title: Gramophone_record
Topic: Music

West in 1930 and later P. G. A. H. Voigt (1940) showed that the early Wente-style condenser microphones contributed to a 4 to 6 dB midrange brilliance or pre-emphasis in the recording chain. This meant that the electrical recording characteristics of Western Electric licensees such as Columbia Records and Victor Talking Machine Company in the 1925 era had a higher amplitude in the midrange region. Brilliance such as this compensated for dullness in many early magnetic pickups having drooping midrange and treble response. As a result, this practice was the empirical beginning of using pre-emphasis above 1,000 Hz in 78 rpm and 33 1⁄3 rpm records.

Q1: Whom found Wente-style condenser microphones helpful?
A1: P. G. A. H. Voigt
Q2: How were Wente-Style condenser microphones helpful?
A2: pre-emphasis in the recording
Q3: When was a pre-emphasis most useful?
A3: above 1,000 Hz
Q4: On which recording types were pre-emphasis used most in the 1920s?
A4: 78 rpm and 33 1⁄3 rpm
Q5: In which Era was this finding most significant?
A5: 1925 era
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West is among the most critically acclaimed artists of the twenty-first century, receiving praise from music critics, fans, fellow musicians, artists, and wider cultural figures for his work. AllMusic editor Jason Birchmeier writes of his impact, "As his career progressed throughout the early 21st century, West shattered certain stereotypes about rappers, becoming a superstar on his own terms without adapting his appearance, his rhetoric, or his music to fit any one musical mold." Jon Caramanic of The New York Times said that West has been "a frequent lightning rod for controversy, a bombastic figure who can count rankling two presidents among his achievements, along with being a reliably dyspeptic presence at award shows (when he attends them)." Village Voice Media senior editor Ben Westhoff dubbed him the greatest hip hop artist of all time, writing that "he's made the best albums and changed the game the most, and his music is the most likely to endure," while Complex called him the 21st century's "most important artist of any art form, of any genre." The Guardian has compared West to David Bowie, arguing that "there is nobody else who can sell as many records as West does (30m-odd album sales and counting) while remaining so resolutely experimental and capable of stirring things up culturally and politically."

Q1: How is Kanye viewed as a 21st century artist?
A1: among the most critically acclaimed
Q2: What famous English artist was Kanye compared to by The Guardian?
A2: David Bowie
Q3: What reporter compared Kanye West to a lightning rod?
A3: Jon Caramanic
Q4: Who said Kanye West was the greatest hip hop artist of all time?
A4: Ben Westhoff
Q5: What magazine compared Kanye to David Bowie?
A5: The Guardian
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 32 million albums and 100 million digital downloads worldwide. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time and the most Grammy-awarded artist of his age. Three of his albums rank on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list; two of his albums feature at first and eighth, respectively, in Pitchfork Media's The 100 Best Albums of 2010–2014. He has also been included in a number of Forbes annual lists. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015.

Q1: How many albums has Kanye sold?
A1: 32 million
Q2: How many downloads do Kanye's tracks have across the globe?
A2: 100 million
Q3: Kanye is known for having the most of what type of award for his age?
A3: Grammy
Q4: How many albums does Kanye have on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list?
A4: 3
Q5: What popular magazine placed Kanye on their annual list in 2005 and 2015?
A5: Time
Q6: How many CDs has Kanye West sold?
A6: 32 million
Q7: How many Grammy Awards has Kanye West won?
A7: 21
Q8: How many of Kanye West's albums were recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine?
A8: 3
Q9: Which years was Kanye West mentioned in Time Magazine?
A9: 2005 and 2015
Title: List_of_numbered_streets_in_Manhattan
Topic: Geography and places

West of Fort Washington Avenue, 181st Street is largely residential, bordering Hudson Heights and having a few shops to serve the local residents. East of Fort Washington Avenue, the street becomes increasingly commercial, becoming dominated entirely by retail stores where the street reaches Broadway and continues as such until reaching the Harlem River. It is the area's major shopping district.

Q1: In which direction is 181st Street largely residential?
A1: West
Q2: In which direction is 181st Street mostly commercial?
A2: East
Q3: Which street marks the western boundary of the shopping distrit?
A3: Fort Washington Avenue
Q4: Which river touches the major shopping district near 181st Street?
A4: Harlem
Title: Mexico_City
Topic: Geography and places

West of the Historic Center (Centro Histórico) along Paseo de la Reforma are many of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods such as Polanco, Lomas de Chapultepec, Bosques de las Lomas, Santa Fe, and (in the State of Mexico) Interlomas, which are also the city's most important areas of class A office space, corporate headquarters, skyscrapers and shopping malls. Nevertheless, areas of lower income colonias exist in some cases cheek-by-jowl with rich neighborhoods, particularly in the case of Santa Fe.

Q1: Where are many of the wealthy neighborhoods located? 
A1: West of the Historic Center
Q2: What is the Mexican name for the historic center?
A2: Centro Histórico
Q3: Which rich neighborhood has a strong problem of impoverished lands around it?
A3: Santa Fe
Q4: Where are many of the corporate headquarters and other tall buildings located?
A4: along Paseo de la Reforma
Title: Geography_of_the_United_States
Topic: Geography and places

West of the Rocky Mountains lies the Intermontane Plateaus (also known as the Intermountain West), a large, arid desert lying between the Rockies and the Cascades and Sierra Nevada ranges. The large southern portion, known as the Great Basin, consists of salt flats, drainage basins, and many small north-south mountain ranges. The Southwest is predominantly a low-lying desert region. A portion known as the Colorado Plateau, centered around the Four Corners region, is considered to have some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. It is accentuated in such national parks as Grand Canyon, Arches, Mesa Verde National Park and Bryce Canyon, among others. Other smaller Intermontane areas include the Columbia Plateau covering eastern Washington, western Idaho and northeast Oregon and the Snake River Plain in Southern Idaho.

Q1: What is the name of the plateau that lies west of the Rocky Mountains?
A1: Intermontane Plateaus
Q2: What is the name of the large southern portion of the Intermontane Plateaus?
A2: the Great Basin
Q3: What type of flats compose the Great Basin?
A3: salt flats
Q4: What region is centered around the Four Corners?
A4: Colorado Plateau
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West spent much of the late-1990s producing records for a number of well-known artists and music groups. The third song on Foxy Brown's second studio album Chyna Doll was produced by West. Her second effort subsequently became the very first hip-hop album by a female rapper to debut at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release. West produced three of the tracks on Harlem World's first and only album The Movement alongside Jermaine Dupri and the production duo Trackmasters. His songs featured rappers Nas, Drag-On, and R&B singer Carl Thomas. The ninth track from World Party, the last Goodie Mob album to feature the rap group's four founding members prior to their break-up, was co-produced by West with his manager Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie. At the close of the millennium, West ended up producing six songs for Tell 'Em Why U Madd, an album that was released by D-Dot under the alias of The Madd Rapper; a fictional character he created for a skit on The Notorious B.I.G.'s second and final studio album Life After Death. West's songs featured guest appearances from rappers such as Ma$e, Raekwon, and Eminem.

Q1: Kanye produced the third song from the second album of what artist?
A1: Foxy Brown
Q2: What rappers were featured in the songs that Kanye produced for Tell 'Em Why U Madd?
A2: Ma$e, Raekwon, and Eminem.
Q3: Which U.S. Billboard 200 chart topper did Kanye West produce a song for?
A3: Foxy Brown
Q4: What was the name of the CD produced by Kanye that was by a made-up character?
A4: Tell 'Em Why U Madd
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West was arrested again on November 14, 2008 at the Hilton hotel near Gateshead after another scuffle involving a photographer outside the famous Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was later released "with no further action", according to a police spokesperson.

Q1: What was Kanye second arrest for?
A1: scuffle involving a photographer outside the famous Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle
Q2: What was the date of Kanye's second arrest?
A2: November 14, 2008
Q3: Where was Kanye arrested at for the second time?
A3: Hilton hotel near Gateshead
Q4: At what location did the incident leading to West's second arrest take place?
A4: Tup Tup Palace nightclub
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's breakthrough came a year later on October 23, 2002, when, while driving home from a California recording studio after working late, he fell asleep at the wheel and was involved in a near-fatal car crash. The crash left him with a shattered jaw, which had to be wired shut in reconstructive surgery. The accident inspired West; two weeks after being admitted to the hospital, he recorded a song at the Record Plant Studios with his jaw still wired shut. The composition, "Through The Wire", expressed West's experience after the accident, and helped lay the foundation for his debut album, as according to West "all the better artists have expressed what they were going through". West added that "the album was my medicine", as working on the record distracted him from the pain. "Through The Wire" was first available on West's Get Well Soon... mixtape, released December 2002. At the same time, West announced that he was working on an album called The College Dropout, whose overall theme was to "make your own decisions. Don't let society tell you, 'This is what you have to do.'"

Q1: What track did Kanye compose and perform while injured from his accident?
A1: Through The Wire
Q2: What was the name of Kanye's 2002 mixtape that he wrote while in the hospital?
A2: Get Well Soon...
Q3: After dropping his mixtape, Kanye revealed the name of his debut album to be what?
A3: The College Dropout
Q4: What was the date of Kanye's car wreck?
A4: October 23, 2002
Q5: What song did Kanye record about his experience with what happened after the wreck?
A5: "Through The Wire"
Q6: What was the name of the mixtape Kanye released in December of 2002?
A6: Get Well Soon
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's controversial incident the following year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was arguably his biggest controversy, and led to widespread outrage throughout the music industry. During the ceremony, West crashed the stage and grabbed the microphone from winner Taylor Swift in order to proclaim that, instead, Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated for the same award, was "one of the best videos of all time". He was subsequently withdrawn from the remainder of the show for his actions. West's tour with Lady Gaga was cancelled in response to the controversy, and it was suggested that the incident was partially responsible for 808s & Heartbreak's lack of nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

Q1: Where did Kanye's famous mic-grab incident occur at?
A1: 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
Q2: From who did Kanye grab the mic from to make his statement?
A2: Taylor Swift
Q3: Kanye's tour with what artist was cancelled following his outburst at the VMA's?
A3: Lady Gaga
Q4: In what year did Kanye's biggest controversy so far take place?
A4: 2009
Q5: What artist did Kanye West interrupt Taylor Swift to defend?
A5: Beyoncé
Q6: Which artist was Kanye supposed to tour with, but couldn't due to the Taylor Swift controversy?
A6: Lady Gaga
Q7: What awards ceremony did Kanye not receive any nominations for after the MTV controversy?
A7: 52nd Grammy Awards
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been noted by writers for its maximalist aesthetic and its incorporation of elements from West's previous four albums. Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson perceives that such elements "all recur at various points", namely "the luxurious soul of 2004's The College Dropout, the symphonic pomp of Late Registration, the gloss of 2007's Graduation, and the emotionally exhausted electro of 2008's 808s & Heartbreak". Sean Fennessey of The Village Voice writes that West "absorb[ed] the gifts of his handpicked collaborators, and occasionally elevat[ed] them" on previous studio albums, noting collaborators and elements as Jon Brion for Late Registration, DJ Toomp for Graduation, and Kid Cudi for 808s & Heartbreak.

Q1: What is Kanye's fifth album titled? 
A1: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Q2: What journalist drew comparisons between My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and other Kanye albums?
A2: Simon Vozick-Levinson
Q3: What musician collaborated with Kanye West for his album Late Registration?
A3: Jon Brion
Q4: What artist worked with Kanye on his album Graduation?
A4: DJ Toomp
Q5: Kid Cudi joined Kanye for which album?
A5: 808s & Heartbreak
Q6: Which album by Kanye West has been talked about by writers for having maximalist aesthetic?
A6: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's first six solo studio albums, all of which have gone platinum, have received numerous awards and critical acclaim. All of his albums have been commercially successful, with Yeezus, his sixth solo album, becoming his fifth consecutive No. 1 album in the U.S. upon release. West has had six songs exceed 3 million in digital sales as of December 2012, with "Gold Digger" selling 3,086,000, "Stronger" selling 4,402,000, "Heartless" selling 3,742,000, "E.T." selling over 4,000,000, "Love Lockdown" selling over 3,000,000, and "Niggas in Paris" selling over 3,000,000, placing him third in overall digital sales of the past decade. He has sold over 30 million digital songs in the United States making him one of the best-selling digital artists of all-time.

Q1: How many songs has Kanye had that have exceeded 3 million digital sales?
A1: 6
Q2: How many songs has Kanye sold digitally in his career?
A2: over 30 million
Q3: How many of West's six albums have gone platinum?
A3: 6
Q4: What was Kanye's fifth consecutive number one album?
A4: Yeezus
Q5: As of 2012, how many downloads have there been of "Golddigger"?
A5: 3,086,000
Q6: What rank is West in total sales for the last decade?
A6: third
Q7: How many total digital songs has Kanye West sold in the US?
A7: 30 million
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak (2008), marked an even more radical departure from his previous releases, largely abandoning rap and hip hop stylings in favor of a stark electropop sound composed of virtual synthesis, the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and explicitly auto-tuned vocal tracks. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Gary Numan, TJ Swan and Boy George, and maintaining a "minimal but functional" approach towards the album's studio production, West explored the electronic feel produced by Auto-Tune and utilized the sounds created by the 808, manipulating its pitch to produce a distorted, electronic sound; he then sought to juxtapose mechanical sounds with the traditional sounds of taiko drums and choir monks. The album's music features austere production and elements such as dense drums, lengthy strings, droning synthesizers, and somber piano, and drew comparisons to the work of 1980s post-punk and new wave groups, with West himself later confessing an affinity with British post-punk group Joy Division. Rolling Stone journalist Matthew Trammell asserted that the record was ahead of its time and wrote in a 2012 article, "Now that popular music has finally caught up to it, 808s & Heartbreak has revealed itself to be Kanye’s most vulnerable work, and perhaps his most brilliant."

Q1: What kind of sound did Kanye abandon a rap and hiphop one for with his fourth album?
A1: electropop
Q2: Who did Kanye become inspired by while creating 808s & Heartbreak?
A2: Gary Numan, TJ Swan and Boy George
Q3: What types of instruments are present on his fourth album?
A3: dense drums, lengthy strings, droning synthesizers, and somber piano
Q4: What other artist besides Gary Numan and TJ Swan helped inspire Kanye's fourth album?
A4: Boy George
Q5: What other type of 1980s group was Kanye's fourth album compared to other than new wave?
A5: post-punk
Q6: The article about Kanye's fourth album written by Matthew Trammell was published in what magazine?
A6: Rolling Stone
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's life took a different direction when his mother, Donda West, died of complications from cosmetic surgery involving abdominoplasty and breast reduction in November 2007. Months later, West and fiancée Alexis Phifer ended their engagement and their long-term intermittent relationship, which had begun in 2002. The events profoundly affected West, who set off for his 2008 Glow in the Dark Tour shortly thereafter. Purportedly because his emotions could not be conveyed through rapping, West decided to sing using the voice audio processor Auto-Tune, which would become a central part of his next effort. West had previously experimented with the technology on his debut album The College Dropout for the background vocals of "Jesus Walks" and "Never Let Me Down." Recorded mostly in Honolulu, Hawaii in three weeks, West announced his fourth album, 808s & Heartbreak, at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, where he performed its lead single, "Love Lockdown". Music audiences were taken aback by the uncharacteristic production style and the presence of Auto-Tune, which typified the pre-release response to the record.

Q1: Following the loss of his mother, who did Kanye end his long-term relationship with?
A1: Alexis Phifer
Q2: What vocal technology did Kanye pick up for his next set of artistic endeavors?
A2: Auto-Tune
Q3: In what year did Kanye West's mother pass away?
A3: 2007
Q4: What was the name of Kanye's ex-fiance?
A4: Alexis Phifer
Q5: What was the name of Kanye's 2008 music tour?
A5: Glow in the Dark Tour
Q6: In what state did Kanye West record them majority of his fourth album?
A6: Hawaii
Q7: What was the first song released off of Kanye's fourth album?
A7: "Love Lockdown"
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's middle-class background, flamboyant fashion sense and outspokenness have additionally set him apart from other rappers. Early in his career, he was among the first rappers to publicly criticize the preponderance of homophobia in hip hop. The sales competition between rapper 50 Cent's Curtis and West's Graduation altered the direction of hip hop and helped pave the way for new rappers who did not follow the hardcore-gangster mold. Rosie Swash of The Guardian viewed the sales competition as a historical moment in hip-hop, because it "highlighted the diverging facets of hip-hop in the last decade; the former was gangsta rap for the noughties, while West was the thinking man's alternative." Rolling Stone credited West with transforming hip hop's mainstream, "establishing a style of introspective yet glossy rap [...]", and called him "as interesting and complicated a pop star as the 2000s produced—a rapper who mastered, upped and moved beyond the hip-hop game, a producer who created a signature sound and then abandoned it to his imitators, a flashy, free-spending sybarite with insightful things to say about college, culture and economics, an egomaniac with more than enough artistic firepower to back it up." His 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak polarized both listeners and critics upon its release, but was commercially successful and impacted hip hop and pop stylistically, as it laid the groundwork for a new wave of artists who generally eschewed typical rap braggadocio for intimate subject matter and introspection, including Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Drake, Future, Kid Cudi, Childish Gambino, Lil Durk, Chief Keef, and Soulja Boy. According to Ben Detrick of XXL magazine, West effectively led a new wave of artists, including Kid Cudi, Wale, Lupe Fiasco, Kidz in the Hall, and Drake, who lacked the interest or ability to rap about gunplay or drug-dealing.

Q1: What overabundance of themes did Kanye criticize early in his career?
A1: homophobia in hip hop
Q2: The shift away from what genre of rap is Kanye credited for?
A2: gangsta rap
Q3: What kind of background did Kanye West grow up in?
A3: middle-class
Q4: Who did Kanye West have a sales competition with during his album release of Graduation?
A4: 50 Cent
Q5: Who said that Kanye West effectively led a new wave of artists that weren't only interested in rapping about gunplay or drug dealing?
A5: Ben Detrick
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's musical career has been defined by frequent stylistic shifts, and has seen him develop and explore a variety of different musical approaches and genres throughout his work. When asked about his musical inspirations, he has named A Tribe Called Quest, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, George Michael, LL Cool J, Phil Collins and Madonna as early interests. He has further described musician David Bowie as one of his "most important inspirations," and named producer Puff Daddy as the "most important cultural figure in my life." Early in his career, West pioneered a style of production dubbed "chipmunk soul" which utilized pitched-up vocal samples, usually from soul and R&B songs, along with his own drums and instrumentation. His first major release featuring his trademark soulful vocal sampling style was "This Can't Be Life", a track from Jay-Z’s The Dynasty: Roc La Familia. West has said that Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA influenced him in his style, and has named Wu-Tang rappers Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard as inspirations. RZA spoke positively of the comparisons, stating in an interview for Rolling Stone, "All good. I got super respect for Kanye [...] [he] is going to inspire people to be like him." West further developed his style on his 2004 debut album, The College Dropout. After a rough version was leaked, he meticulously refined the production, adding string arrangements, gospel choirs, and improved drum programming.

Q1: What English musician did Kanye cite as one of his biggest inspirations?
A1: David Bowie
Q2: Kanye has stated that members from which rap group influenced his early style?
A2: Wu-Tang Clan
Q3: What name did Kanye's early production style coin.
A3: chipmunk soul
Q4: What artist was named by Kanye West to be his "most important inspiration"?
A4: David Bowie
Q5: Who was Kanye's greatest cultural figure?
A5: Puff Daddy
Q6: What was the name of the song that first featured Kanye's "chipmunk soul" style?
A6: "This Can't Be Life"
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's outspoken views and ventures outside of music have received significant mainstream attention. He has been a frequent source of controversy and public scrutiny for his conduct at award shows, on social media, and in other public settings. His more publicized comments include his declaration that President George W. Bush "doesn't care about black people" during a live 2005 television broadcast for Hurricane Katrina relief, and his interruption of singer Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. West's efforts as a designer include collaborations with Nike, Louis Vuitton, and A.P.C. on both clothing and footwear, and have most prominently resulted in the Yeezy Season collaboration with Adidas beginning in 2013. He is the founder and head of the creative content company DONDA.

Q1: What President did Kanye West insult on air in 2005?
A1: George W. Bush
Q2: Whose speech did Kanye West ruin at the 2009 MTV Awards?
A2: Taylor Swift
Q3: What fashion items does Kanye West design?
A3: clothing and footwear
Q4: What company did Kanye West begin?
A4: DONDA
Q5: What year did Kanye West begin working with Adidas?
A5: 2013
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West's third studio album, Graduation, garnered major publicity when its release date pitted West in a sales competition against rapper 50 Cent's Curtis. Upon their September 2007 releases, Graduation outsold Curtis by a large margin, debuting at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and selling 957,000 copies in its first week. Graduation once again continued the string of critical and commercial successes by West, and the album's lead single, "Stronger", garnered the rapper his third number-one hit. "Stronger", which samples French house duo Daft Punk, has been accredited to not only encouraging other hip-hop artists to incorporate house and electronica elements into their music, but also for playing a part in the revival of disco and electro-infused music in the late 2000s. Ben Detrick of XXL cited the outcome of the sales competition between 50 Cent's Curtis and West's Graduation as being responsible for altering the direction of hip-hop and paving the way for new rappers who didn't follow the hardcore-gangster mold, writing, "If there was ever a watershed moment to indicate hip-hop's changing direction, it may have come when 50 Cent competed with Kanye in 2007 to see whose album would claim superior sales."

Q1: What was the name of Kanye's third album?
A1: Graduation
Q2: Kanye released Graduation at the same time of what other famous rapper, thus drawing media comparison?
A2: 50 Cent
Q3: How many copies did Graduation sell in its first week of release? 
A3: 957,000
Q4: What famous electronic duo did Kanye sample on his third album?
A4: Daft Punk
Q5: What was the name of Kanye West's third CD?
A5: Graduation
Q6: What artist was Kanye's third album release competing against?
A6: 50 Cent
Q7: What music group was in Kanye's first release off of Graduation?
A7: Daft Punk
Title: Kanye_West
Topic: Music

West, alongside his mother, founded the "Kanye West Foundation" in Chicago in 2003, tasked with a mission to battle dropout and illiteracy rates, while partnering with community organizations to provide underprivileged youth access to music education. In 2007, the West and the Foundation partnered with Strong American Schools as part of their "Ed in '08" campaign. As spokesman for the campaign, West appeared in a series of PSAs for the organization, and hosted an inaugural benefit concert in August of that year.

Q1: With the help of his mom, what foundation did Kanye create early in his career?
A1: Kanye West Foundation
Q2: What is the goal of the Kanye West Foundation?
A2: battle dropout and illiteracy rates, while partnering with community organizations to provide underprivileged youth access to music education
Q3: What was founded by Kanye West and his mother?
A3: Kanye West Foundation
Q4: In What year did the Kanye West Foundation Partner with Strong American Schools? 
A4: 2007
Q5: Where was the "Kanye West Foundation" founded?
A5: Chicago
Q6: What other mission besides dropout and illiteracy rates did the Kanye West Foundation seek to improve?
A6: music education
Q7: What campaign did the Kanye West Foundation partner with in 2007?
A7: "Ed in '08"
Q8: In what month was the inaugural concert held for the "Ed in '08" campaign?
A8: August
Title: Aspirated_consonant
Topic: Language and literature

Western Armenian has a two-way distinction between aspirated and voiced: /tʰ d/. Western Armenian aspirated /tʰ/ corresponds to Eastern Armenian aspirated /tʰ/ and voiced /d/, and Western voiced /d/ corresponds to Eastern voiceless /t/.

Q1: What language has two-way distinctions between aspirated and voiced?
A1: Western Armenian
Q2: Western Armenian /tʰ/ compares to eastern Armenian /tʰ/ and what?
A2: /d/
Q3: The Western Armenian voiced /d/ compares to the Eastern Armenian voiceless what?
A3: /t/
Title: Catalan_language
Topic: Language and literature

Western Catalan comprises the two dialects of Northwestern Catalan and Valencian; the Eastern block comprises four dialects: Central Catalan, Balearic, Rossellonese, and Alguerese. Each dialect can be further subdivided in several subdialects.

Q1: What two dialects does Western Catalan include?
A1: Northwestern Catalan and Valencian
Q2: How many dialects are in the eastern group?
A2: four
Q3: To what division does Central Catalan belong?
A3: Eastern block
Q4: What other divisions can be made of dialects?
A4: subdialects
Q5: What block does Northwestern Catalan and Valencian belong to?
A5: Western Catalan
Title: Jews
Topic: History

Western Europe's largest Jewish community, and the third-largest Jewish community in the world, can be found in France, home to between 483,000 and 500,000 Jews, the majority of whom are immigrants or refugees from North African Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (or their descendants). The United Kingdom has a Jewish community of 292,000. In Eastern Europe, there are anywhere from 350,000 to one million Jews living in the former Soviet Union, but exact figures are difficult to establish. In Germany, the 102,000 Jews registered with the Jewish community are a slowly declining population, despite the immigration of tens of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thousands of Israelis also live in Germany, either permanently or temporarily, for economic reasons.

Q1: Where is Western Europe's largest Jewish community?
A1: France
Q2: How many Jews live in France?
A2: between 483,000 and 500,000
Q3: What is the population of Jews in the United Kingdom?
A3: 292,000
Title: Daylight_saving_time
Topic: Engineering and technology

Western France, Spain, and other areas skew time zones and shift clocks, in effect observing DST in winter with an extra hour in summer. Nome, Alaska, is at 165°24′ W longitude, which is just west of center of the idealized Samoa Time Zone (165° W), but Nome observes Alaska Time (135° W) with DST, so it is slightly more than two hours ahead of the sun in winter and three in summer. Double daylight saving time has been used on occasion; for example, it was used in some European countries during and shortly after World War II when it was referred to as "Double Summer Time". See British Double Summer Time and Central European Midsummer Time for details.

Q1: Places like Spain and parts of France effectively go by DST in the winter but add what in the summer?
A1: an extra hour
Q2: During the summer in Nome, about how many hours ahead of the sun do they set their clocks?
A2: three
Q3: What term was used in Britain for double daylight saving time?
A3: Double Summer Time
Q4: What's a third name for double daylight saving time or Double Summer Time used in Europe?
A4: Central European Midsummer Time
Title: Madrasa
Topic: Language and literature

Western commentators post-9/11 often perceive madaris as places of radical revivalism with a connotation of anti-Americanism and radical extremism, frequently associated in the Western press with Wahhabi attitudes toward non-Muslims. In Arabic the word madrasa simply means "school" and does not imply a political or religious affiliation, radical or otherwise. Madaris have varied curricula, and are not all religious. Some madaris in India, for example, have a secularised identity. Although early madaris were founded primarily to gain "knowledge of God" they also taught subjects such as mathematics and poetry. For example, in the Ottoman Empire, "Madrasahs had seven categories of sciences that were taught, such as: styles of writing, oral sciences like the Arabic language, grammar, rhetoric, and history and intellectual sciences, such as logic." This is similar to the Western world, in which universities began as institutions of the Catholic church.

Q1: What is the common western perception of the teaching received at madaris?
A1: anti-Americanism and radical extremism
Q2: What type of content is delivered at madaris?
A2: varied curricula
Q3: What type of teaching is provided at Indian madaris?
A3: secularised
Q4: What are the origins of western schools?
A4: institutions of the Catholic church
Q5: How many science disciplines were taught at madaris in the Ottoman Empire?
A5: seven
Title: Emotion
Topic: Natural sciences

Western philosophy regarded emotion in varying ways. In stoic theories it was seen as a hindrance to reason and therefore a hindrance to virtue. Aristotle believed that emotions were an essential component of virtue. In the Aristotelian view all emotions (called passions) corresponded to appetites or capacities. During the Middle Ages, the Aristotelian view was adopted and further developed by scholasticism and Thomas Aquinas in particular. There are also theories of emotions in the works of philosophers such as René Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. In the 19th century emotions were considered adaptive and were studied more frequently from an empiricist psychiatric perspective.

Q1: What school of thought saw emotion as an impediment to virtue?
A1: stoic
Q2: What thinker believed that emotions were necessary for virtue?
A2: Aristotle
Q3: What did the Aristotelians call emotions?
A3: passions
Q4: Who was a notable scholastic thinker?
A4: Thomas Aquinas
Q5: Along with Descartes, Machiavelli and Hume, what notable philosopher developed a theory of emotions?
A5: Baruch Spinoza
Title: Political_philosophy
Topic: History

Western political philosophy originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, where political philosophy dates back to at least Plato. Ancient Greece was dominated by city-states, which experimented with various forms of political organization, grouped by Plato into four categories: timocracy, tyranny, democracy and oligarchy. One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato's Republic, which was followed by Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Politics. Roman political philosophy was influenced by the Stoics, including the Roman statesman Cicero.

Q1: Western political philosophy originates in what philosophy?
A1: ancient Greece
Q2: What philosophy has dates back to at least Plato?
A2: philosophy of ancient Greece
Q3: Ancient Greece was dominated by what?
A3: city-states
Title: Westminster_Abbey
Topic: Art and architecture

Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster and a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. The members of the Chapter are the Dean and four canons residentiary, assisted by the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk. One of the canons is also Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, and often holds also the post of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Q1: What kind of church is Westminster Abbey?
A1: collegiate church
Q2: Who created Westminster Abbey as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster?
A2: Queen Elizabeth I
Q3: Who governs the church?
A3: the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Q4: Who are the members of the chapter of Westminster?
A4: the Dean and four canons residentiary
Q5: Who assist the chapter of Westminster?
A5: the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk
Title: Westminster_Abbey
Topic: Art and architecture

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom and has been the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556 the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign. The building itself is the original abbey church.

Q1: What is the formal name of Westminster Abbey?
A1: the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
Q2: Where is Westminster Abbey located?
A2: City of Westminster, London
Q3: When was Westminster Abbey a cathedral?
A3: Between 1540 and 1556
Q4: What has been the status of Westminster Abbey since 1560?
A4: Church of England "Royal Peculiar"
Title: Westminster_Abbey
Topic: Art and architecture

Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School are also in the precincts of the abbey. It was natural for the learned and literate monks to be entrusted with education, and Benedictine monks were required by the Pope to maintain a charity school in 1179. The Choir School educates and trains the choirboys who sing for services in the Abbey.

Q1: What are also in the precincts of Westminster Abbey?
A1: Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School
Q2: Who required the Benedictine monks to maintain a charity school?
A2: the Pope
Q3: When were the Benedictine monks required to maintain a charity school?
A3: 1179
Q4: The choirboys of the abbey are trained where?
A4: Westminster Abbey Choir School
Title: Westminster_Abbey
Topic: Art and architecture

Westminster diocese was dissolved in 1550, but the abbey was recognised (in 1552, retroactively to 1550) as a second cathedral of the Diocese of London until 1556. The already-old expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul" may have been given a new lease of life when money meant for the abbey, which is dedicated to Saint Peter, was diverted to the treasury of St Paul's Cathedral.

Q1: When was Westminster Diocese dissolved?
A1: 1550
Q2: The abbey was recognised as what until 1556?
A2: a second cathedral of the Diocese of London
Q3: Who is the abbey dedicated to?
A3: Saint Peter
Title: The_Blitz
Topic: History

Wever argued that the Luftwaffe General Staff should not be solely educated in tactical and operational matters. He argued they should be educated in grand strategy, war economics, armament production, and the mentality of potential opponents (also known as mirror imaging). Wever's vision was not realised; the General Staff studies in those subjects fell by the wayside, and the Air Academies focused on tactics, technology, and operational planning, rather than on independent strategic air offensives.

Q1: Who said the Luftwaffe General Staff should be taught grand strategy?
A1: Wever
Q2: What is the mentality of potential opponents also known as?
A2: mirror imaging
Q3: What did the Air Academies not focus on?
A3: independent strategic air offensives
Q4: What army does the general staff belong to?
A4: the Luftwaffe
Title: Circadian_rhythm
Topic: Natural sciences

What drove circadian rhythms to evolve has been an enigmatic question. Previous hypotheses emphasized that photosensitive proteins and circadian rhythms may have originated together in the earliest cells, with the purpose of protecting replicating DNA from high levels of damaging ultraviolet radiation during the daytime. As a result, replication was relegated to the dark. However, evidence for this is lacking, since the simplest organisms with a circadian rhythm, the cyanobacteria, do the opposite of this - they divide more in the daytime. Recent studies instead highlight the importance of co-evolution of redox proteins with circadian oscillators in all three kingdoms of life following the Great Oxidation Event approximately 2.3 billion years ago. The current view is that circadian changes in environmental oxygen levels and the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the presence of daylight are likely to have driven a need to evolve circadian rhythms to preempt, and therefore counteract, damaging redox reactions on a daily basis.

Q1: What is theorized to have evolved with circadian rhythms?
A1: photosensitive proteins
Q2: What is thought that circadian rhythm evolved to protect?
A2: replicating DNA
Q3: From what did  DNA need to be protected in the earliest cells? 
A3: ultraviolet radiation
Q4: One possible reason for the development of the circadian system is the need to counteract what ?
A4: redox reactions
Q5: What environmental event occurred 2.3 million years ago?
A5: Great Oxidation Event
Title: Child_labour
Topic: Social sciences and society

What industries children work in depends on if they grew up in a rural area or an urban area. Children who were born in urban areas often found themselves working for street vendors, washing cars, helping in construction sites, weaving clothing, and sometimes even working as exotic dancers. While children who grew up in rural areas would work on farms doing physical labour, working with animals, and selling crops. Of all the child workers, the most serious cases involved street children and trafficked children due to the physical and emotional abuse they endured by their employers. To address the issue of child labour, the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child Act was implemented in 1959. Yet due to poverty, lack of education and ignorance, the legal actions were not/are not wholly enforced or accepted in Africa.

Q1: Where did children from urban areas primarily work?
A1: street vendors, washing cars, helping in construction sites, weaving clothing, and sometimes even working as exotic dancers
Q2: Where did children from rural areas work?
A2: farms
Q3: When was the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child Act implemented?
A3: 1959
Q4: What was the most serious aftereffects of child labour?
A4: physical and emotional abuse
Title: Iranian_languages
Topic: Language and literature

What is known in Iranian linguistic history as the "Middle Iranian" era is thought to begin around the 4th century BCE lasting through the 9th century. Linguistically the Middle Iranian languages are conventionally classified into two main groups, Western and Eastern.

Q1: When did the age of Middle Iranian come to a close?
A1: 9th century
Q2: What are the two main divisions of Middle Iranian?
A2: Western and Eastern
Title: Central_African_Republic
Topic: Geography and places

What is today the Central African Republic has been inhabited for millennia; however, the country's current borders were established by France, which ruled the country as a colony starting in the late 19th century. After gaining independence from France in 1960, the Central African Republic was ruled by a series of autocratic leaders; by the 1990s, calls for democracy led to the first multi-party democratic elections in 1993. Ange-Félix Patassé became president, but was later removed by General François Bozizé in the 2003 coup. The Central African Republic Bush War began in 2004 and, despite a peace treaty in 2007 and another in 2011, fighting broke out between various factions in December 2012, leading to ethnic and religious cleansing of the Muslim minority and massive population displacement in 2013 and 2014.

Q1: Who established CAR's borders?
A1: France
Q2: What country ruled CAR as a colony?
A2: France
Q3: When did CAR become independent?
A3: in 1960
Q4: Who was the first democratically elected President?
A4: Ange-Félix Patassé
Q5: What religion is a minority in CAR?
A5: Muslim minority
Title: Neoclassical_architecture
Topic: Art and architecture

What little there was, started with Charles de Wailly's crypt in the church of St Leu-St Gilles (1773–80), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux's Barriere des Bonshommes (1785–89). First-hand evidence of Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French, due to the influence of Marc-Antoine Laugier's doctrines that sought to discern the principles of the Greeks instead of their mere practices. It would take until Laboustre's Neo-Grec of the second Empire for the Greek revival to flower briefly in France.

Q1: What is the earliest example of Greek architecture in France?
A1: Charles de Wailly's crypt in the church of St Leu-St Gilles (1773–80
Q2: How concerned was France with Greek architecture?
A2: Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French
Q3: Who's influence brought about Greek revival in France?
A3: Laboustre
Q4: In which wave of neoclassical was the greek revival in France?
A4: second Empire
Title: PlayStation_3
Topic: Video games

What's New was announced at Gamescom 2009 and was released on September 1, 2009, with PlayStation 3 system software 3.0. The feature was to replace the existing [Information Board], which displayed news from the PlayStation website associated with the user's region. The concept was developed further into a major PlayStation Network feature, which interacts with the [Status Indicator] to display a ticker of all content, excluding recently played content (currently in North America and Japan only).

Q1: What new feature for PS3 was released in September of 2009?
A1: What's New
Q2: At what event did Sony announce What's New?
A2: Gamescom
Q3: What did What's New replace?
A3: Information Board
Q4: What type of information is disseminated through What's New?
A4: news
Q5: What's geographical area does What's New tailor information to for each user?
A5: region
Title: Mandolin
Topic: Music

When Cowan Powers and his family recorded their old-time music from 1924-1926, his daughter Orpha Powers was one of the earliest known southern-music artists to record with the mandolin. By the 1930s, single mandolins were becoming more commonly used in southern string band music, most notably by brother duets such as the sedate Blue Sky Boys (Bill Bolick and Earl Bolick) and the more hard-driving Monroe Brothers (Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe). However, the mandolin's modern popularity in country music can be directly traced to one man: Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music. After the Monroe Brothers broke up in 1939, Bill Monroe formed his own group, after a brief time called the Blue Grass Boys, and completed the transition of mandolin styles from a "parlor" sound typical of brother duets to the modern "bluegrass" style. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1939 and its powerful clear-channel broadcast signal on WSM-AM spread his style throughout the South, directly inspiring many musicians to take up the mandolin. Monroe famously played Gibson F-5 mandolin, signed and dated July 9, 1923, by Lloyd Loar, chief acoustic engineer at Gibson. The F-5 has since become the most imitated tonally and aesthetically by modern builders.

Q1: What family recorded an old-time music in 1924-1926?
A1: Cowan Powers and his family
Q2: Who was the earliest known southern music artist?
A2: Orpha Powers
Q3: What type of mandolin was becoming popular by 1930's? 
A3: single mandolins
Q4: Who was considered the father of Bluegrass music?
A4: Bill Monroe
Q5: What was Bill Monroe's group called? 
A5: Blue Grass Boys