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[ { "answer": "TCM", "query": "\n Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (cov...
[ { "answer": "various means", "query": "\n CHAPTER XCII. \n\nOF THE INSOLENT DEFIANCE OF TARFE THE MOOR, AND THE DARING EXPLOIT OF HERNAN PEREZ DEL PULGAR. \n\nWhen the Moorish knights beheld that all courteous challenges were unavailing, they sought various means to provoke the Christian warriors to the ...
[ { "answer": "Gary Anderson", "query": "\n San Francisco (CNN) -- Barry Bonds' former trainer was freed Friday from the prison where he's been held since he refused to testify in the baseball legend's perjury trial two weeks ago. \n\nWith the jury now deliberating the perjury and obstruction of justice ca...
[ { "answer": "a long finger", "query": "\n Steve had a very long finger. It was the longest finger anyone in his town had. One day Steve shut the toilet seat, and his finger got caught in it. He couldn't get it out. It was very cold in the bathroom. This is why his sister brought him a coat. He was in the...
[ { "answer": "Dave", "query": "\n Dave and John were playing catch in the living room. Rose told them that was dumb, but she did not stop them. She kept writing in her notebook. If they wanted to get in trouble, then they could. It was not her responsibility. \n\nDave told John to go long. Dave did not ha...
[ { "answer": "Five", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Answers to the quiz are in bold. \n\n1. What is the 5-digit number in which the first, third and last digits are the same, the first digit is four less than the second, the last is four less than the fourth and the second and fourth are the same? (Hint: The sum o...
[ { "answer": "Malay", "query": "\n Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesi...
[ { "answer": "a prophet", "query": "\n Moses () is a prophet in the Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was adopted by an Egyptian princess, and later in life became the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah, or acquisition of the Torah from Heaven i...
[ { "answer": "An estimated 16.2%", "query": "\n (CNN) -- When people want to give back to their community, they typically pull out their checkbooks. \n\nJayson Black decided to pull out his running shoes. \n\nThe 28-year-old IT consultant pledged to run 26.2 miles a day for 26 days -- a total of 681.2 mil...
[ { "answer": "at a woman's prison", "query": "\n A Sudanese woman sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her Christianity gave birth to a baby girl in prison Tuesday, her lawyers said. \n\nMeriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, delivered her baby at a women's prison in Khartoum, but her husband was not allowed to b...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n (CNN)The bored teenager who gunned down a college baseball player in Oklahoma simply because he and his two friends \"had nothing to do,\" is now a convicted murderer. \n\nChancey Allen Luna was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday for his role in the August 2013 driv...
[ { "answer": "Littleson", "query": "\n CHAPTER XI \n\nMR. LITTLESON, FLATTERER \n\nOnce more a little luncheon was in progress at the corner table in the millionaires' club. This time Littleson also was of the party. He had been describing his luncheon of the day before to his friends. \n\n\"I am dead sur...
[ { "answer": "the main entrance to the temple", "query": "\n CHAPTER XVI. \n\nDISCOVERED. \n\nCummings was bringing up the rear during this march across the city, and when Jake halted he naturally thought it was in obedience to some signal made by Poyor, therefore he remained silent until hearing Neal say...
[ { "answer": "the members of Little Big Town", "query": "\n Maybe you've heard of many musical bands, but have you heard of Little Big Town, a country musical group? There are four members in this band, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet. They had a hard time when they b...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is \"ρ\" (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter \"D\" can also be used. Mathematically, density is defined a...
[ { "answer": "he had a stroke", "query": "\n (CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has added his brother-in-law to a military board in a move analysts say paves the way for an heir, according to South Korea's state-sponsored Yonhap news agency. \n\nKim Jong-il has named his brother-in-law Jang Song Tha...
[ { "answer": "Bobby Coon", "query": "\n CHAPTER XII BOBBY COON AND REDDY FOX PLAY TRICKS \n\nIt was night. All the little stars were looking down and twinkling and twinkling. Mother Moon was doing her best to make the Green Meadows as light as Mr. Sun did in the daytime. All the little birds except Hooty ...
[ { "answer": "three persons", "query": "\n Chapter III \n\nWHO WAS IT? \n\nWho had taken it? This question tormented Treherne all that sleepless night. He suspected three persons, for only these had approached the fire after the note was hidden. He had kept his eye on it, he thought, till the stir of brea...
[ { "answer": "a sovereign state", "query": "\n Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagoes, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, t...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n Private schools, also known as independent schools, non-governmental, or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuitio...
[ { "answer": "Bill Elliott and Wendell Scott", "query": "\n (CNN) -- NASCAR's Hall of Fame class for 2015 includes Bill Elliott, one of its most popular drivers ever, and Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a top-level race, the auto racing sanctioning body announced Wednesday. \n\nThree other...
[ { "answer": "Chen", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Long before Chen Guangcheng became internationally known as a human rights crusader, villagers near his home knew him as the man to go to when they had trouble with local authorities. \n\nDespite having little formal legal education, Chen began advocating on beha...
[ { "answer": "her diamond ring", "query": "\n On February 9 th,2013,Sarah Darling was walking along the street when she met a homeless man named Billy Ray Harris.She reached into her change purse,emptied out all the coins she had and gave them to the homeless man.Neither of them realized that this small g...
[ { "answer": "yes", "query": "\n Baltimore (CNN) -- Erika Brannock, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, anxiously purses her lips. \n\nHer eyes jump and she is quick to smile and laugh. \n\nThis is what someone looks like waiting to meet the person, a stranger, who she believes saved her life. \n\n...
[ { "answer": "Three", "query": "\n A Scottish woman has given birth to twins for the third time. Karen Rodger, 41, welcomed her first pair of girls rowan and Isla after having twice given birth to twin boys. \n\n\"I still haven't really taken it on board because I was convinced I was having two boys,\" Ro...
[ { "answer": "TWO deer", "query": "\n TWO deer jumped out in front of 16-year-old Amanda Floyd's car. She stepped on the brakes . and stopped just in time. \n\nBut then she started texting. Distracted , Amanda turned left and right, then crashed into another car. \n\nLuckily she wasn't in a real car. She ...
[ { "answer": "s a maximum of 25 meters in length,", "query": "\n Gymnasts sprint down a runway, which is a maximum of 25 meters in length, before hurdling onto a spring board. The gymnast is allowed to choose where they start on the runway. The body position is maintained while \"punching\" (blocking usin...
[ { "answer": "King of England, Scotland and Ireland", "query": "\n Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 un...
[ { "answer": "Katie Roche", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Here's what Katie Roche expected when she went into the hospital for spine surgery: two titanium rods, a bone graft, 17 screws in her vertebrae, eight hours in the operating room, and a week's stay in the hospital to recover. \n\nHere's what she didn't exp...
[ { "answer": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "query": "\n NEW YORK (CNN) -- It's been five years since Carrie Bradshaw journeyed to Paris in search of true love on the series finale of \"Sex and the City.\" She appeared to have found it in the arms of Mr. Big, and she returned to New York -- and her now-settled f...
[ { "answer": "Libya,", "query": "\n (CNN) -- In a televised address Monday night, U.S. President Barack Obama explained the reasons he involved the U.S. military in the U.N.-authorized mission in Libya, saying \"it was not in our national interest\" to let the citizens of a rebel stronghold suffer a massa...
[ { "answer": "Yorkshire", "query": "\n Passage 1 Mobile Phone Madness How much do you love your mobile phone? A Chinese student had to call 110 for help this week after he got his arm stuck in a toilet trying to rescue his mobile phone. After dropping his phone in the toilet, he decided to wrap(,) his arm...
[ { "answer": "his partner David Furnish", "query": "\n Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish. \n\nThe guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have be...
[ { "answer": "Jessica Moon", "query": "\n Not everyone can sit around and daydream while twirling hair or worrying about how they are going to style it for school pictures or a special event. Some kids have no hair at all due to illness. Locks of Love is an organization that helps kids deal with their hai...
[ { "answer": "Macedonia or Macedon", "query": "\n Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal Argead dynasty, which was followed by the Antipatrid ...
[ { "answer": "1789", "query": "\n Libertarianism (, \"freedom\") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle. Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, individual judgment, and sel...
[ { "answer": "John Clayton,", "query": "\n Chapter 1 \n\nKidnapped \n\n\"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,\" said D'Arnot. \"I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know...
[ { "answer": "scissors", "query": "\n Sarah looked up high. She could see the scissors up on top of the cabinet. If she could only reach them, she could cut the gum out of her baby sister's hair and her mom would never know. Her mom was still busy helping her brother take out the trash. Sarah quickly push...
[ { "answer": "Dijon", "query": "\n Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was traveling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy s...
[ { "answer": "Tom", "query": "\n As a young man, Tom was a famous artist with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son was ill. Tom and his wife thought it was nothing serious. But the boy died suddenly that night.. After his son died, Tom always felt very sad. To make matters worse, his wife al...
[ { "answer": "Because you meet more people.", "query": "\n Young women are more adventurous than young men when travelling abroad in gap years.One in three female backpackers visits more than three countries during a year out and travels alone, according to new research. \n\nBy contrast, the majority of t...
[ { "answer": "Omar bin Laden's father", "query": "\n CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Omar bin Laden has a message for his father, Osama: \"Find another way.\" \n\nOmar bin Laden says he last saw his father in 2000 when the son decided to leave al Qaeda. \n\nThe son of the most-wanted man in the world spoke Sunday t...
[ { "answer": "An Israeli soldier with his hands to Abu Ein's neck", "query": "\n A senior Palestinian Authority official died Wednesday after a confrontation with Israeli troops, prompting President Mahmoud Abbas to halt security coordination with Israel, according to Palestinian officials. \n\nZiyad Abu ...
[ { "answer": "Snorro and Olaf", "query": "\n CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. \n\nANXIOUS TIMES--A SEARCH ORGANISED AND VIGOROUSLY CARRIED OUT. \n\nIt is not easy to conceive the state of alarm that prevailed in the settlement of the Norsemen when it came to be known that little Snorro and Olaf were lost. The terrible f...
[ { "answer": "They don't have to pay for school.", "query": "\n Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though the...
[ { "answer": "It combines a cosmogonic dualism and eschatological monotheism in a manner unique [...] among the major religions of the world\"", "query": "\n Zoroastrianism, or more natively Mazdayasna, is one of the world's oldest extant religions, \"combining a cosmogonic dualism and eschatological mono...
[ { "answer": "Eon Productions", "query": "\n Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series...
[ { "answer": "Maud Stanton", "query": "\n CHAPTER XIX \n\nMAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM \n\nMy mother used to say to me: \"Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl.\" Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that whe...
[ { "answer": "hospital", "query": "\n Jack is an 11-year-old boy. One day he was playing with a ball. The ball went into the street, and Jack ran for the ball. A car hit him. Jack's parents took him to the hospital. The doctors told them, \"Jack's head is hurt. Maybe he will wake up very soon. Maybe he wi...
[ { "answer": "the turf.", "query": "\n CHAPTER LXXVI Some Pleasant, Shady Talk In The Groves, Between My Lords Abrazza And Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, And Yoomy \n\nAbrazza had a cool retreat--a grove of dates; where we were used to lounge of noons, and mix our converse with the babble of the rills; and mix ...
[ { "answer": "chemistry class", "query": "\n Steve and Yaser first met in their chemistry class at an American university. Yaser was an international student from Jordan. He wanted to learn more about American culture and hoped that he and Steve would become good friends. At first, Steve seemed very frien...
[ { "answer": "the British recorded music industry's trade association", "query": "\n The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association. \n\nIts membership comprises hundreds of music com...
[ { "answer": "Lady Monogram", "query": "\n CHAPTER LXV - MISS LONGESTAFFE WRITES HOME \n\nLady Monogram, when she left Madame Melmotte's house after that entertainment of Imperial Majesty which had been to her of so very little avail, was not in a good humour. Sir Damask, who had himself affected to laugh...
[ { "answer": "capital of Andhra Pradesh", "query": "\n Hyderabad (i/ˈhaɪdərəˌbæd/ HY-dər-ə-bad; often /ˈhaɪdrəˌbæd/) is the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.[A] Occupying 650 square kilometres (250 sq mi) along the banks of the Musi River, it has a po...
[ { "answer": "the \"Giant of Africa\"", "query": "\n Modern-day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia. The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century, and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Niger...
[ { "answer": "early this morning", "query": "\n Johnny wakes up early this morning. He is so happy. Today Daddy is taking him to the aquarium. Johnny wants to see blue fish, red fish, yellow fish, and green fish. He also wants to see really big fish. \n\nDaddy and Johnny are at the aquarium. \n\n\"Look!\"...
[ { "answer": "THUNDERSTORM THE FIRST", "query": "\n CHAPTER XI: THUNDERSTORM THE FIRST \n\n\n\nBut what had become of the 'bit of writing' which Harry Verney, by the instigation of his evil genius, had put into the squire's fly- book? Tregarva had waited in terrible suspense for many weeks, expecting the ...
[ { "answer": "Yale University Press", "query": "\n Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. \n\n, Yale Uni...
[ { "answer": "Matt", "query": "\n CHAPTER XIII. \n\nTHE CORN SALVE DOCTOR. \n\nAfter supper the two partners found that time hung a little heavily upon their hands. Matt suggested that they walk around the city a bit, taking in the sights, but Andy was too tired. \n\n\"I'll tell you what I will do, though...
[ { "answer": "Rama", "query": "\n Ramayana, originally titled as Kaavyam Ramayanam Kritsnam Sitaayaas Charitham Mahat, is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana. Along with the Mahabharata, it forms the Sanskrit ...
[ { "answer": "1967", "query": "\n Below are reviews for three books and two book series. Each has been read and loved by students across the country. \n\nThe Outsiders \n\nThis book, first published in 1967. has become a classic for teens across the nation. It focuses on Ponyboy , who has been labeled all...
[ { "answer": "during the Great European War", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXIII \n\nI \n\nWHEN America entered the Great European War, Vida sent Raymie off to an officers' training-camp--less than a year after her wedding. Raymie was diligent and rather strong. He came out a first lieutenant of infantry, and was...
[ { "answer": "yes", "query": "\n CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty. \n\nCoyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain. \n\nThere is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. S...
[ { "answer": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", "query": "\n (CNN) -- It's a number that even astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is having a hard time wrapping his brilliant mind around. \n\nHis Christmas Day tweet commemorating the birthday of Isaac Newton was retweeted more than 69,000 times as of this writing, mak...
[ { "answer": "Eric Holder", "query": "\n Attorney General Eric Holder is not entirely ruling out a scenario under which a drone strike would be ordered against Americans on U.S. soil, but says it has never been done previously and he could only see it being considered in an extraordinary circumstance. \n\...
[ { "answer": "handfuls of dirt", "query": "\n CHAPTER XI \n\nDOWN IN THE CORNFIELD \n\nThe other boys gathered around in curiosity as Fred brought forth from the stack of cornstalks his missing suitcase. Beside the bag were several newspapers crumpled up into a wad. \n\n\"Those must be the newspapers he h...
[ { "answer": "No", "query": "\n One day when Jack was walking in the park, he saw a woman, who lived a few miles away, sitting on a bench with a dog beside her. The dog was looking up at the woman. Jack walked up to the woman and said, \"Hello, Sue, how are you? May I sit and talk with you for a while?\" ...
[ { "answer": "Stoke City.", "query": "\n (CNN) -- England international defender Ashley Cole turned goal scorer as his late winner at Stamford Bridge Saturday gave Chelsea a 1-0 win over Stoke City to stay top of the English Premier League. \n\nCole was finding the net for the first time in over two years...
[ { "answer": "Joan Fontaine", "query": "\n Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who rose to fame during Hollywood's golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitch.cock classics, died from natural causes at her home in Carmel, northern California on December 16, 2013 aged 96, US media reports said. \n\nBor...
[ { "answer": "June 2.", "query": "\n (CNN) -- A June trial has been set for a Detroit-area man who said he accidentally shot and killed a 19-year-old woman he thought was breaking into his home. \n\nTheodore Paul Wafer, 54, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday to second-degree murder charges in...
[ { "answer": "actor", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Jeanne Cooper, who played Katherine Chancellor, the \"Dame of Genoa City,\" on \"The Young and the Restless,\" has died. She was 84. \n\nHer death was confirmed by her son, actor Corbin Bernsen, on his Twitter account. \n\n\"Mom passed this morning,\" Bernsen po...
[ { "answer": "Taormina", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXVIII \n\nDREAMS AND DRESS-MAKING \n\nTato was now one of the family. They left Taormina the next day, and Frascatti drove all the girls in his victoria to the station. \n\n\"You must come again, signorini,\" said he, looking regretful at their departure. \"N...
[ { "answer": "Wednesday", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Wednesday night's CNN debate lands at a critical moment in the Republican race. \n\nThis season, each debate has set the tone for the primary to follow. Newt Gingrich's savaging of the media helped propel him to victory in South Carolina. Mitt Romney's savag...
[ { "answer": "French Canadian", "query": "\n Lynn was a young French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community. At the age of l6, her father thought that she had enough schooling and forced her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income. In l922, with limited education and skills, t...
[ { "answer": "quarreling", "query": "\n Long long ago, the colours of the world started to quarrel. Green said, \"Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and hope. Without me, all animals would die.\" Blue said, \"You only think about the earth instead of the sky and the sea. Without my pea...
[ { "answer": "Nic Robertson", "query": "\n London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally took the stand Monday at the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague to defend himself against genocide charges stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. \n\nFor CNN's Senior Inte...
[ { "answer": "a foreign visitor", "query": "\n An Englishman was showing a foreign visitor around London. \"What's that strange building?\" asked the visitor. \"That's the Tower of London.\" \"I see. How long did it take to build it?\" \"About 500 years.\" \"In my country we can build it in five months,\"...
[ { "answer": "\"Amazing Grace\"", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Bagpipers sounded \"Amazing Grace\" on a snowy day at a Utah cemetery as military pallbearers marched to rest the casket of Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, one of 13 people gunned down last week in Ford Hood, Texas. \n\nA throng of mourners arrived for th...
[ { "answer": "provides comfort", "query": "\n Coral Polge is a person who has provided comfort to thousands. She has a remarkable talent which may prove the survival of the human spirit after death, for Coral is a medium who draws the portraits of spirits who contact her. \n\nCoral, whose parents were spi...
[ { "answer": "Spielberg", "query": "\n In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing hu...
[ { "answer": "Alice's mother", "query": "\n Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present. She tells her father about her problem. \"I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard ,\" her father says. \"You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're re...
[ { "answer": "Lyon", "query": "\n Lyon ( or ; , ; ), also known as \"Lyons\" , is a city in east-central France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, about from Paris, from Marseille and from Saint-Étienne. Inhabitants of the city are called \"Lyonnais\". \n\nLyon had a population of 506,615 in 2014 and is...
[ { "answer": "Guy", "query": "\n CHAPTER 6 \n\nCan piety the discord heal, Or stanch the death-feud's enmity? --Scott \n\nIt must not be supposed that such a history of Guy's mind was expressed by himself, or understood by Mrs. Edmonstone; but she saw enough to guess at his character, perceive the sort of...
[ { "answer": "dinner", "query": "\n \"Which meal do we all need most, breakfast, lunch or dinner?\" Miss Baker asks. Boys and girls wave their hands in the air. They know the answer. \"What do you think, Jim?\" Miss Baker asks. \"Dinner,\" Jim answers. \"Dinner is the big meal of the day,\" says Miss Bake...
[ { "answer": "Andorra", "query": "\n Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra (), also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra (), is a sovereign landlocked microstate in Southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. Created under a chart...
[ { "answer": "reddish", "query": "\n CHAPTER XI. THE ASHBURNS \n\nGregory Ashburn pushed back his chair and made shift to rise from the table at which he and his brother had but dined. \n\nHe was a tall, heavily built man, with a coarse, florid countenance set in a frame of reddish hair that hung straight...
[ { "answer": "East Asia", "query": "\n The city of Yangzhou came into being at the Spring and Autumn Period ( about 500 AC ). As the key transportation link at joint place of the Great Canal ( Beijing-Hangzhou) and Changjiang (Yangtze River), Yangzhou has been from the Sui Dynasty (600 AD.) an economicall...
[ { "answer": "Helsinki", "query": "\n Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Helsinki has a population of , an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over 1.4 million, making it the most...
[ { "answer": "satire", "query": "\n Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although ...
[ { "answer": "M. le Duc d'Aumont", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXII \n\nPATERNAL ANXIETY \n\nM. le Duc d'Aumont, Prime Minister of His Majesty King Louis XV of France, was exceedingly perturbed. He had just had two separate interviews, each of half an hour's duration, and he was now busy trying to dissociate wha...
[ { "answer": "to his rooms", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXIII. \n\nGUY IN LUCK. \n\n\n\n\n\nGuy Waring reached Waterloo ten minutes too late. Nevitt had gone on by the West of England express. The porter at the labelling place \"minded the gentleman well.\" He was a sharp-looking gentleman, with a queer look ab...
[ { "answer": "Liberty Tree", "query": "\n CHAPTER V. \n\nA NIGHT OF TERROR. \n\nAmos and Jim were early astir on Monday morning, the fifth of March, but before noon came both were convinced that the threatened trouble would blow over without the slightest semblance of a conflict between the soldiers and t...
[ { "answer": "Ayala", "query": "\n CHAPTER LV. \n\nIN THE CASTLE THERE LIVED A KNIGHT. \n\nAyala was compelled to consent to remain at Stalham. The \"I don't think\" which she repeated so often was, of course, of no avail to her. Sir Harry would be angry, and Lady Albury would be disgusted, were she to go...
[ { "answer": "Thought.", "query": "\n Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Its origins are often attributed to the philosophers William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce later described it in his pragmatic maxim: \"Consider the practical ...
[ { "answer": "film", "query": "\n 110 is a cartridge-based film format used in still photography. It was introduced by Kodak in 1972. 110 is essentially a miniaturised version of Kodak's earlier 126 film format. Each frame is , with one registration hole. There were 24 frames per cartridge that occasional...
[ { "answer": "Dick", "query": "\n CHAPTER XVI \n\nMORE DISCOVERIES \n\n\"You settled up with him in full?\" gasped Rick. \n\n\"Yes-- some time ago.\" \n\n\"Not for that stock in the Sunset Irrigation Company.\" \n\n\"I was not talking about the Irrigation Company. That is another affair. Your father was t...
[ { "answer": "Coffee", "query": "\n Legends about the development of coffee are varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political tricks, and the pursuit of wealth and power. \n\nAccording to one story, a sheepherder named Kaldi, as he tended his sheep, noticed the effect of coffee beans. He...
[ { "answer": "no precise area", "query": "\n Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are \"almost as many defin...
[ { "answer": "Sony Music Entertainment Inc.", "query": "\n Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (sometimes known as Sony Music or by the initials, SME) is an American music corporation managed and operated by Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. In 1929, the ...
[ { "answer": "monthly spikes in their water bills", "query": "\n Atlanta (CNN) -- Imagine paying as much for water as you do for your mortgage. \n\nResidents throughout Atlanta are outraged by hundreds, even thousands of dollars in monthly spikes in their water bills, and have questioned the legitimacy of...