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d5d543d80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A seedless version of what high yield mandarin hybrid target is in demand in developed countries? | Kinnow | text | [] | [
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"text": "Only 2.6 percent of Kinnow exports target the markets of developed countries, which is due to the emerging demand for seedless Kinnow by the developed countries. About 61 percent of total world exports of oranges and mandarins are of seedless varieties."
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d5d544280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are basidiomycetes and Hygrocybe coccinea? | Fungi | text | [] | [
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"text": "They are a morphological group of basidiomycetes -like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi, and not all polypores are closely related to each other. Polypores are also called bracket fungi, and their woody fruiting bodies are called conks ."
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"text": "P. Kumm. Hygrocybe coccinea, sometimes... |
d5d544500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Counter-Guerrilla is the branch of the NATO Operation Gladio in what country, who operates the website e-Devlet kapısı? | Turkey | text | [] | [
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"text": "The organization has long been a prominent suspect in investigations into the Turkish \" deep state \", and is suspected of having had close dealings in the past with the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of the NATO Operation Gladio, as well as the Turkish mafia."
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d5d544820dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Many Turko-Persian states were founded in modern-day Eastern what, a country in which Counter-Guerrilla is a branch of the NATO Operation Gladio? | Turkey | text | [] | [
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"text": "The organization has long been a prominent suspect in investigations into the Turkish \" deep state \", and is suspected of having had close dealings in the past with the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of the NATO Operation Gladio, as well as the Turkish mafia."
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d5d544aa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What do Kopi, from Coffee and Kopi luwak have in common? | Both are coffee beverages | text | [] | [
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"text": "Kopi (from Coffee) is a type of traditional coffee originating from Singapore. It is a highly caffeinated black coffee served with milk and sugar. This drink has Hainanese roots, being also otherwise known as Nanyang coffee."
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"text": "Kopi luwak is brewed from coffee beans that transvers... |
d5d544fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what sort of water or seas can you find both P. serratus and Crangon crangon? | Salt or open ocean | text | [] | [
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"text": "P. serratus is pinkish brown, with reddish patterns, and is typically 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, making it the largest of the native shrimp and prawns around the British Isles."
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"text": "Crangon crangon is a commercially important species of caridean shrimp fished mainly in the south... |
d5d5454a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What different genus of plants might be found, at least in trace amounts in mint candies? | Mentha and Gaultheria | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mints are commonly believed to soothe the stomach given their association with natural byproducts of the plant genus Mentha. Mints sometimes contain derivatives from plants such as peppermint oil or spearmint oil, or wintergreen from the plant genus Gaultheria."
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d5d545900dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Leyden and Beemster are both what? | Cheese. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Leyden, from Dutch: Leidse kaas, is a semi-hard, cumin and caraway seed flavoured cheese made in the Netherlands from cow's milk. It is made both in factories and on farms, historically in the Leiden area. Leidse kaas is the most common type of komijnekaas —cheese including cumin as an ingredient—in ... |
d5d545b80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Rice, and horchata de chufa can both be what type of beverage? | Milk. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Rice milk is mostly used for baking because of its sweet taste, but in case of a nut or soy allergy a grain milk processed from rice may be preferable. When fortified, this milk can be a source of calcium, vitamin B12, and vitamin D2. Hemp milk is made by grinding hemp seeds with water, which are the... |
d5d545e00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Hemp, rice and almond are all used to make what type of beverage? | Milk. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Rice milk is mostly used for baking because of its sweet taste, but in case of a nut or soy allergy a grain milk processed from rice may be preferable. When fortified, this milk can be a source of calcium, vitamin B12, and vitamin D2. Hemp milk is made by grinding hemp seeds with water, which are the... |
d5d546080dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Nepeta × faassenii and Glechoma hederacea are both what type of plants? | Perennial. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Nepeta × faassenii, a flowering plant also known as catmint and Faassen's catnip, is a primary hybrid of garden origin. The parent species are Nepeta racemosa and Nepeta nepetella . It is an herbaceous perennial, with oval, opposite, intricately veined, gray—green leaves, on square stems. The foliage... |
d5d546300dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The addition of what sets the brewing process apart from the process of pureeing? | Mixed grains | text | [] | [
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"text": "Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. A purée (or mash) is cooked food, usually vegetables, fruits or legumes, that has been ground, pressed, blended or sieved to the consistency of a creamy paste or liquid."
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d5d546580dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What British blend of sweet spices is similar to the popular baking blend of pumpkin pie spice? | Mixed spice | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mixed spice, also called pudding spice, is a British blend of sweet spices, similar to the pumpkin pie spice used in the United States. Cinnamon is the dominant flavour, with nutmeg and allspice."
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"text": "Blends such as chili powder, curry powder, herbes de Provence, garlic salt, and ot... |
d5d546800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What spice that has been used in antiquity and traded in the Eastern World before the Christian era is the dominant flavor of Mixed spice? | Cinnamon | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mixed spice, also called pudding spice, is a British blend of sweet spices, similar to the pumpkin pie spice used in the United States. Cinnamon is the dominant flavour, with nutmeg and allspice."
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"text": "Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known... |
d5d546d00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae has an elongate body which has a standard length that is 2.9 to 3.7 times its depth? | Orange-spotted grouper | text | [] | [
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"text": "The orange-spotted grouper has an elongate body which has a standard length that is 2.9 to 3.7 times its depth. The dorsal profile of the head is flat or slightly convex between the eyes, the preopercle has enlarged serrations at its angle and a shallow notch just above the angle."
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d5d547200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What extra flavor would fritessaus be considered? | It would be a condiment. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Many things can be put on them to make them taste better, such as salt and vinegar, gravy, curry, cheese, ketchup or mayonnaise. These extra flavours are called condiments . In the UK, a chip shop is a shop which sells cooked chips, usually to take home to eat."
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d5d547700dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The fruit that got its name from the Italian word for sheep grows in clusters of what? | They grow in clusters of 15 to 300. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Grapes are a type of fruit that grow in clusters of 15 to 300, and can be crimson, black, dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. \"White\" grapes are actually green in color, and are evolutionarily derived from the purple grape."
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"text": "Ampelographers believe that the grape's name... |
d5d547980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What sauce typically made from the juices of meats is combined in a meal with fries and cheese? | Gravy is the sauce. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The meaning \"fries with cheese and gravy\" of poutine is among those held as probably unrelated to pudding, provided the latter view is correct. According to Merriam-Webster, a popular etymology is that poutine is from a Québécois slang word meaning \"mess\". La Banquise in Montreal serves more than... |
d5d547f20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What word for a food may have been sourced from a magpie and is defined by it's crust? | Pie | text | [] | [
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"text": "The source of the word \"pie\" may be the magpie, a \"bird known for collecting odds and ends in its nest\"; the connection could be that Medieval pies also contained many different animal meats, including chickens, crows, pigeons and rabbits."
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d5d5481a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What food may have contained many different animal means and is defined by it's crust? | Pie | text | [] | [
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"text": "The source of the word \"pie\" may be the magpie, a \"bird known for collecting odds and ends in its nest\"; the connection could be that Medieval pies also contained many different animal meats, including chickens, crows, pigeons and rabbits."
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d5d548420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is pollinated by fig wasps that has been cultivated since ancient times? | Figs | text | [] | [
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"text": "Figs are pollinated by fig wasps . Many figs are grown for their fruit, though only the common fig is grown to any amount for eating. The fig is a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds grow together to form a single mass."
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d5d5486a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What has been cultivated since ancient times that is pollinated by fig wasps? | Figs | text | [] | [
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"text": "Figs are pollinated by fig wasps . Many figs are grown for their fruit, though only the common fig is grown to any amount for eating. The fig is a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds grow together to form a single mass."
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d5d548920dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The cuts of what are the different parts of the pig which are consumed as food by humans that sausages, bacon and ham are the most common uses of in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other parts of the Western world? | Pork | text | [] | [
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"text": "The cuts of pork are the different parts of the pig which are consumed as food by humans. The terminology and extent of each cut varies from country to country."
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d5d548ba0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sausages, bacon and ham are the most common uses of what that the cuts of are different pars of the pig which are consumed as food by humans? | Pork | text | [] | [
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"text": "The cuts of pork are the different parts of the pig which are consumed as food by humans. The terminology and extent of each cut varies from country to country."
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"text": "Sausages, bacon and ham are the most common uses of pork in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other parts of... |
d5d548e20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of fruit can asparagus plants produce a that is in the same plant category as a banana? | Berries | text | [] | [
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"text": "Botanical berries not commonly known as berries include bananas, tomatoes, grapes, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons, watermelons, and pumpkins . Cloudberry, common flowering plant in the cool temperate regions, alpine and arctic tundra and boreal forest. Picture of cloudberry from the Northern Finl... |
d5d5490a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Can a human ingest more grapes or asparagus berries in one sitting before it causes them to become ill? | Grapes; a human can only ingest more than five to seven ripe asparagus berries before they become sick. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Botanical berries not commonly known as berries include bananas, tomatoes, grapes, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons, watermelons, and pumpkins . Cloudberry, common flowering plant in the cool temperate regions, alpine and arctic tundra and boreal forest. Picture of cloudberry from the Northern Finl... |
d5d549320dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | During a bisha'a, the accused has to lick what? | They have to lick a hot metal spoon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The most well-known of the trials by ordeal is the bisha'a, a custom practiced among the Bedouin of Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula. It is a protocol for lie detection, and is enacted only in the harshest of civil or criminal violations, such as in a case of a blood feud, usually in the absence of ... |
d5d549640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The organic compounds that include flavonoids, tannic acid, and ellagitannin, are also found in what popular drink? | Polyphenols are found in tea. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Polyphenols ( / ˌpɒliˈfiːnoʊl, - nɒl /) are a large family of naturally occurring organic compounds characterized by multiples of phenol units. They are abundant in plants and structurally diverse. Polyphenols include flavonoids, tannic acid, and ellagitannin, some of which have been used historicall... |
d5d5498c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The soybean native to Australia, studied for its potential to improve the cultivated soybean, has its genus name derived from the Greek word for what? | Glycine is from the Greek word for sweet (glykós). | text | [] | [
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"text": "The etymology of the genus, Glycine, comes from Linnaeus. When naming the genus, Linnaeus observed that one of the species within the genus had a sweet root. Based on the sweetness, the Greek word for sweet, glykós, was Latinized."
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"text": "Glycine canescens, called the silky glycine, is... |
d5d549b40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What scientific family does Spilocuscus maculatus belong to? | It belongs to the family Phalangeridae. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The common spotted cuscus ( Spilocuscus maculatus ), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands. It is known as aklang or gabi in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea."
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d5d549d20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The common name generally given to the species within the four genera of Australasian possum of the family is known as what in Kalam? | The cuscus is known as aklang or gabi in Kala. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The common spotted cuscus ( Spilocuscus maculatus ), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands. It is known as aklang or gabi in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea."
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d5d549fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Indo-Pacific horseshoe crab is one of how many living species of horseshoe crabs in Asia? | It is one of three. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In common with other horseshoe crabs, T. gigas also has ventral eyes near the mouthparts, and photoreceptors in the caudal spine. T. gigas is one of three living species of horseshoe crabs in Asia, the others being Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. The fourth living species, Li... |
d5d54a220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The southern horseshoe crab has what in its caudal spine? | It has photoreceptors there. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In common with other horseshoe crabs, T. gigas also has ventral eyes near the mouthparts, and photoreceptors in the caudal spine. T. gigas is one of three living species of horseshoe crabs in Asia, the others being Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. The fourth living species, Li... |
d5d54a4a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Laverbread has a high content of which two dietary minerals? | iodine and iron | text | [] | [
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"text": "Laverbread ( / ˈlɑːvərbrɛd /; Welsh: bara lafwr or bara lawr; Irish: sleabhac) is a food product, made from the edible seaweed (littoral alga) consumed mainly in Wales as part of local traditional cuisine. The seaweed is commonly found around the west coast of Great Britain, and the coasts of Ireland... |
d5d54af40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the flavor of the substance that is considered to be the first cottage cheese? | This cheese has a dry, crumbly and smoky flavor. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The first cottage cheese is of Indo-Portuguese origins and is known as Bandel Cheese . † Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults."
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"text": "It is made by separating the curds from whey with lemon juice. It is then molded and drained in small baskets and s... |
d5d54b1c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what year was the sister pepper to the dorset naga pepper certified by the Guinness World Records to be the hottest pepper in the world? | 2007 | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Naga Morich, also known as the \"Dorset Naga Pepper\", is a chilli pepper native to the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. It is known as the sister chilli to the Bhut Jolokia, or Ghost Chilli. The Naga Morich bears many similarities to its sister, but is genetically different. It is also one of the ho... |
d5d54b8a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Duck-potato, Russet, red rascal, and King Edward potatoes can have a range of colors due to what? | Accumulation of anthocyanins in the tubers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, duck-potato, Indian potato, or wapato. This plant produces edible tubers that have traditionally been extensively used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas."
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d5d54bb20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Of what species is Aji Limon? | Aji Limons are Capsicum baccatums. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Lemon Drop chili or Ají Limón, is a hot, citrus-like, lemon-flavored pepper which is a popular seasoning pepper in Peru, where it is known as qillu uchu. A member of the baccatum species, the lemon drop is a cone pepper that is around 60 mm (2.4 in) long and 12 mm (0.47 in) wide with some crinkli... |
d5d54c2a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Besides the Algonquin which native Americans would have used Cardamine diphylla for illness? | The Micmac and Malecite use it as a tonic. | text | [] | [
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"text": "As with Pieris oleracea, Pieris virginiensis mistakes garlic mustard for its host plants, making eradication of it important for their continued survival. Garlic mustard also competes with the plants for space and nutrients. The ground root is mixed with vinegar by the Algonquin people of Quebec and ... |
d5d54c520dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What charity receives eight percent of sales from the company that uses coffee beans collected from the waste of elephants? | Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation | text | [] | [
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"text": "Black Ivory Coffee is a brand of coffee produced by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in northern Thailand from Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected from their waste. The taste of Black Ivory coffee is influenced by elephants' digestive enzymes, which breaks down the coffee's pro... |
d5d54c7a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where did the earliest written record of a seed, fruit, root, bark or other plant substance that is primarily used for flavoring or coloring food, come from? | The earliest written record of spices came from Ancient Egypt, China, and India. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish. Spices are sometimes used in medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics ... |
d5d54ca20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Why did the method that is used to cure pancetta become less popular? | It became less popular because refrigeration was invented. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pancetta ( Italian pronunciation: [panˈtʃetta]) is a salume made of pork belly meat that is salt-cured. Pancetta in Italy is typically cooked to add depth to soups and pastas."
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"text": "Salt-cured meat or salted meat is meat or fish preserved or cured with salt. Salting, either with dry ... |
d5d54cc00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where was the coffee first produced by the company that uses digestive enzymes from elephants to break down protein in the beans? | Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation | text | [] | [
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"text": "Black Ivory Coffee is a brand of coffee produced by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in northern Thailand from Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected from their waste. The taste of Black Ivory coffee is influenced by elephants' digestive enzymes, which breaks down the coffee's pro... |
d5d54ce80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The ruins of Erythrae are found north of the town Ildırı in the Çeşme district of Izmir Province in what country whose largest city is Istanbul? | The ruins are in Turkey. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is recorded that excellent wine was produced in the peninsula. Erythrae was notable for being the seat of the Erythraean Sibyl. The ruins of the city are found north of the town Ildırı in the Çeşme district of Izmir Province, Turkey ."
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d5d54d100dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What colorful early to midseason fruit gets their color from lycopene? | The Cara Cara navel orange. | text | [] | [
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"text": "For other uses, see Caracara. The Cara Cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orangebelieved to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a Washington navel orange tree. [1][2][3][4] Cara cara navel orange"
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d5d54d420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name of the hybrid of the mandarin orange and sweet orange that is part of a genus that is native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia? | It is called a tangor. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes . The genus Citrus is native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia."
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"text": "The tangor ( C. reticulata × C. sinensis) is a citrus f... |
d5d54d6a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | King Edward, Russet, and broadleaf arrowhead are examples of what? | Tubers | text | [] | [
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"text": "Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, duck-potato, Indian potato, or wapato. This plant produces edible tubers that have traditionally been extensively used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas."
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d5d54d880dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What spices made the group of islands where the red lory lives desirable to Europe in the sixteenth century? | nutmeg, mace and cloves | text | [] | [
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"text": "Lories and Lorikeets live in Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific. The red lory in particular is endemic to the Moluccas and surrounding islands in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical mangrove forests."
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d5d54dd80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When osmanthus is added to tea, it gives it the flavor of what fruit? | peach | text | [] | [
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"text": "Osmanthus: In China, osmanthus tea (called guì huā chá, 桂花茶) is produced by combining dried sweet osmanthus ( Osmanthus fragrans) flowers ( guì huā, 桂花) with black or green tea leaves in much the same manner the more familiar jasmine tea combines jasmine flowers with tea leaves."
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d5d54e280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What substance is used to age the crumbly, flavorful Greek cheese that is probably similar in texture to the earliest cheeses? | This cheese is aged in brine. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The earliest cheeses were likely quite sour and salty, similar in texture to rustic cottage cheese or feta, a crumbly, flavorful Greek cheese. Cheese produced in Europe, where climates are cooler than the Middle East, required less salt for preservation."
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d5d54e780dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the most widely grown species of the second largest genus in the family Annonaceae? | The sugar-apple is the fruit of Annona squamosa. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The sugar-apple, or sweetsop, (Urdu: شریفا and Hispanic America: cachimán) is the fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of tropical climate in the Americas and West Indies. The Spanish traders of Manila galleons brought it to Asia."
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d5d54ea00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What species of wheat, sometimes known as dinkle wheat, was popular in the Swabian-Alemannic region? | Spelt was grown widely in the Swabian-Alemannic area. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Spelt was grown widely in the Swabian-Alemannic area at the time. The cereal grows on poor soils and was very popular in the region, which was home to small farmers and characterised by poverty."
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"text": "Spelt (Triticum spelta), also known as dinkel wheat[2] or hulled wheat,[2] is a spe... |
d5d54ec80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What members of the order Stomatopoda are sometimes referred to as "thumb-splitters because of their ability to inflict painful wounds if handled incautiously? | Mantis shrimps | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mantis shrimps, or stomatopods, are marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda. Some species have specialised calcified \"clubs\" that can strike with great power, while others have sharp forelimbs used to capture prey. They branched from other members of the class Malacostraca around 340 million ye... |
d5d54f180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What stew popular in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent originated from from an Arabic dish called Harees? | Haleem is a type of stew that originated from Harees. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Originating from an Arabic dish called Harees, Haleem was introduced to the region during the Mughal period by foreign migrants. In the Indian subcontinent, both haleem and khichra are made with same ingredients."
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"text": "Haleem is a type of stew popular in the Middle East, Central Asia... |
d5d54f680dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the natural sweetener and sugar substitute native to Brazil and Paraguay, what part of it does the human body not metabolize resulting in zero calories? | Glycosides. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The active compounds are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside ), which have 30 to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH -stable, and not fermentable. The body does not metabolize the glycosides in stevia, so it contains zero calories, like artificial sweeteners."
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d5d54fb80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the freshwater pearl mussel and when was the oldest living specimen caught? | The freshwater pearl mussel ( Margaritifera margaritifera) is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Margaritiferidae. The oldest known specimen in Europe was caught in 1993 in Estonia when it was 134 years old. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The freshwater pearl mussel ( Margaritifera margaritifera) is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Margaritiferidae ."
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"text": "The freshwater pearl mussel is one of the longest-living invertebrates in existence.[6] The oldest known specime... |
d5d54ff40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Central Anatolian deciduous forests, also known as the Central Anatolian woodlands and steppe, is located in what country straddling Western Asia and Southeast Europe and whose capital is Ankra? | It's located in Turkey. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Central Anatolian deciduous forests, also known as the Central Anatolian woodlands and steppe, is a Palearctic ecoregion of the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest biome. It is located in Central Anatolia, Asian Turkey ."
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d5d5501c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Tang dynasty withdrew it's control of Xinjiang after what uprising that took place from 755 to 763? | The Tang dynasty withdrew its control of Xinjiang after the An Lushan Rebellion. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Tang dynasty withdrew its control of Xinjiang in the Protectorate General to Pacify the West and the Four Garrisons of Anxi after the An Lushan Rebellion, after which the Turkic peoples living in the area converted to Islam."
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d5d550440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Qâlat daqqa is a spice blend originating from what northernmost country in Africa? | Qâlat daqqa is a spice blend originating from Tunisia. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Qâlat daqqa (also spelled gâlat dagga ), or Tunisian Five Spices, is a spice blend originating from Tunisia. It is made of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, peppercorns, and grains of paradise mixed and ground, depending on its use, between a coarse grind and a fine powder."
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d5d550940dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where is glutinous rice grown and what colors does it have? | Glutinous rice is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, Northeastern India and Bhutan. They have black and white colors. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Both black and white glutinous rice can be cooked as discrete grains, or ground into flour and cooked as a paste or gel. Sticky rice is used in many recipes throughout Southeast and East Asia . Sticky rice called bora saul is the core component of indigenous Assamese sweets, snacks, and breakfast."
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d5d550bc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What kind of dumpling that is made with one of the two major crops in the semiarid and impoverished regions of southeast Asia did the folk-Momotarō use to recruit his three beastly retainers? | Kibi dango | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semiarid, impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and southeast Asia. Millets are not only adapted to poor, droughty, and infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops."
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d5d550e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The card game of Swedish origin in which the goal is to avoid taking the last trice is played with what set of playing cards? | Cucumber is played with a regular pack of French-suited playing cards without the Jokers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Cucumber ( Danish: Agurk, Swedish: Gurka) is a north European card game of Swedish origin for two or more players. The goal of the game is to avoid taking the last trick."
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"text": "Cucumber is played with a regular pack of French-suited playing cards without the Jokers. The Ace is the hi... |
d5d551340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In their definitions of Middle Eastern Americans, the U.S. Census Bureau includes peoples from present-day Iran, Israel, Armenia and what country straddling Western Asia and Southeast Europe, whose capital is Ankara and largest city is Istanbul? | Peoples from Turkey are considered Middle Eastern by the Census Bureau. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The population of Middle Eastern Americans includes both Arabs and non-Arabs. In their definitions of Middle Eastern Americans, U.S. Census Bureau and the National Health Interview Survey include peoples (diasporic or otherwise) from present-day Iran, Israel, Turkey and Armenia."
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d5d5515c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is tea blending and what is its aim? | Tea blending is the blending of different teas together to produce a final product. The aim of blending is to create a well-balanced flavour using different origins and characters. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Tea blending is the blending of different teas together to produce a final product. This occurs chiefly with black tea that is blended to make most tea bags but can also occur with such teas as Pu-erh, where leaves are blended from different regions before being compressed."
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d5d551840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What does the olive branch symbolize and where can it be found? | The olive branch is a symbol of peace or victory allegedly deriving from the customs of ancient Greece, particularly regarding supplication to both the gods and persons in power and is found in most cultures of the Mediterranean basin. Olive branches can be found in many police patches and badges across the world to signify peace. The emblem and flag of the United Nations bear a pair of stylized olive branches surrounding a world map. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Olive branches can be found in many police patches and badges across the world to signify peace. The emblem and flag of the United Nations bear a pair of stylized olive branches surrounding a world map. The olive branch is a symbol of peace in Arab folk traditions."
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d5d551b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is England's short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes ( geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications? | GB-ENG | text | [] | [
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"text": "Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes ( geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this."
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d5d551de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The group of 27 districts in South West England and the group of 20 districts in part of north-west Surrey are both what kinds of areas? | Postcode areas. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The TR postcode area, also known as the Truro postcode area, is a group of 27 postcode districts in South West England, within 15 post towns. These cover west Cornwall, including Truro, Penzance, Camborne, Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Marazion, Newquay, Penryn, Perranporth, Redruth, St Agnes, St Columb ... |
d5d552060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Weibull, Wishart and Gamma/Gompertz are all types of what? | Distributions | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Weibull distribution is the maximum entropy distribution for a non-negative real random variate with a fixed expected value of xk equal to λk and a fixed expected value of ln ( xk) equal to ln ( λk ) − . by numerical means. by numerical means."
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d5d5522e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Weibull, matrix gamma, Wishart and Gamma/Gompertz are all types of what? | Distributions | text | [] | [
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"text": "In statistics, a matrix gamma distribution is a generalization of the gamma distribution to positive-definite matrices. It is a more general version of the Wishart distribution, and is used similarly, e.g. as the conjugate prior of the precision matrix of a multivariate normal distribution and matrix... |
d5d5524c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | On the table comprising the 118 known elements which of the seven complete periods is the smallest? | The first period | text | [] | [
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d5d552740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many complete higher numbered periods are there than the period within which Potassium (K) falls on the periodic table? | 3 | text | [] | [
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"text": "There are currently seven complete periods in the periodic table, comprising the 118 known elements. Any new elements will be placed into an eighth period; see extended periodic table. The elements are colour-coded below by their block: red for the s-block, yellow for the p-block, blue for the d-bloc... |
d5d5529c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Planar and antenna are both a type of what? | Array | text | [] | [
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"text": "Phased array or electronically scanned array - A planar array in which the beam can be steered electronically to point in any direction over a wide angle in front of the array, without physically moving the antenna. The current from the transmitter is fed to each component antenna through a phase shi... |
d5d552c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What, consisting of 175 folded dipole antennas, are used extensively for FM broadcasting on VHF? | Phased arrays | text | [] | [
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"text": "Large planar array antenna of a VHF Russian mobile air defense radar, the Nebo-M. It consists of 175 folded dipole antennas. An early phased array, the antenna radiated a vertical fan-shaped beam which could be swept horizontally across the airspace in front of the antenna."
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d5d552ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The virtual address where the first what of the file will be loaded, 2 to the 48th power of which fit into 256 TB, is called image base address? | Byte | text | [] | [
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"text": "The AMD64 architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address format, of which the low-order 48 bits are used in current implementations. This allows up to 256 TB (2 48 bytes) of virtual address space."
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d5d553140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The virtual address of an object from the file once it is loaded into memory, minus the base address of the file image, is not to be confused with what? | Standard virtual addresses | text | [] | [
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"text": "The virtual address where the first byte of the file will be loaded is called image base address. The rest of the file is not necessarily loaded in a contiguous block, but in different sections . Relative virtual addresses (RVAs) are not to be confused with standard virtual addresses."
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d5d5535a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | One of the technologies which has changed the world is accomplished on a computer with what peripheral machine? | A printer | text | [] | [
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"text": "Printing is one of the technologies which has changed the world. It is an efficient way to multiply writing, so that copies may be made available to all people. Printing is therefore the continuation of writing by mechanical means. Writing originated after people had settled in permanent dwellings."
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d5d553aa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is associated with the art of memory or a type of memory aid? | Mnemonics. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A mnemonic, a type of memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists, but they may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be rela... |
d5d553fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Lode and Cartesian are both what? | Coordinate systems. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The two lines of foci ) in the Cartesian coordinate system . Coordinate surfaces of the bipolar cylindrical coordinates. The yellow crescent corresponds to σ, whereas the red tube corresponds to τ and the blue plane corresponds to z =1. The three surfaces intersect at the point P (shown as a black sp... |
d5d554220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The FLAGS register and hardware registers both deal with what? | Processors. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The hardware registers inside a central processing unit (CPU) are called processor registers . Strobe registers have the same interface as normal hardware registers, but instead of storing data, they trigger an action each time they are written to (or, in rare cases, read from). They are a means of s... |
d5d5547c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What can be described as a limited capacity system that allows one to temporarily store and process information or tasks with visual objects activate mostly areas in the left hemisphere of the brain? | Working memory. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Working memory (WM) can be described as a limited capacity system that allows one to temporarily store and process information. This temporary store enables one to complete or work on complex tasks while being able to keep information in mind. For instance, the ability to work on a complicated mathem... |
d5d5549a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are both Pinyin and t-latn-pre? | Input methods. | text | [] | [
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"text": "t-latn-pre and t-latn-post are two input methods that provide an easy way for composing accented characters, either by preceding regular characters with diacritic marks (in the case of t-latn-pre), or by adding the marks subsequently (in the case of t-latn-post)."
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d5d554c20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who created the first example of the system that was later improved by Wang, the magistrate of Jingde in Anhui province from 1290 to1 301? | Bi Sheng created the first known movable type system. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. Movable type allowed for much more flexible processes than hand copying or block printing. Around 1040, the first known movable type system was created in C... |
d5d554f40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In most the letterpress era, how was the output that could also be the product of the system first created by Bi Sheng of China composed? | During much of the letterpress era, movable type was composed by hand for each page by workers called compositors via cast metal sorts. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. Movable type allowed for much more flexible processes than hand copying or block printing. Around 1040, the first known movable type system was created in C... |
d5d5551c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | If listed by their IATA acronyms, which would be listed first alphabetically: Toronto Pearson International Airport or Heathrow Airport? | Heathrow Airport would come first. | text | [] | [
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"text": "^4 YTO is common IATA code for Toronto Pearson International Airport ( IATA: YYZ), John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport ( IATA: YHM), Region of Waterloo International Airport ( IATA: YKF), Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ( IATA: YTZ) and Buttonville Municipal Airport ( IATA: YKZ)."
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d5d555440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Of the IATA acronyms for Toronto Pearson International Airport and Chicago Executive Airport, whose first initial in the acronym is farther away from what the city it is in starts with? | Chicago Executive Airport's IATA first initial is farther away. | text | [] | [
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"text": "^4 YTO is common IATA code for Toronto Pearson International Airport ( IATA: YYZ), John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport ( IATA: YHM), Region of Waterloo International Airport ( IATA: YKF), Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ( IATA: YTZ) and Buttonville Municipal Airport ( IATA: YKZ)."
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d5d555620dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | On which continent would on find the plants Vitis amurensis and Tilia amurensis? | They're both found in Asia. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Vitis amurensis, the Amur grape, is a species of grape native to the Asian continent. Its name comes from the Amur Valley in Russia and China . It is very resistant to frost, but is not tolerant to drought."
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"text": "Tilia amurensis, the Amur lime or Amur linden, is a species of Tilia na... |
d5d5558a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who coined the term for the type of memory that is a result of specific incidents in a lifetime? | The term 'episodic memory' was coined by Endel Tulving in 1972, referring to the distinction between knowing and remembering. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Episodic memory, types of memory that result from specific incidents in a lifetime In Geology, episodic refers to events that occur or have occurred periodically Episodic writing, a publishing format by which a single large work is presented in contiguous (typically chronological) installments"
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d5d555b20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Two sub-unit performances and a pre-release single were released prior to the release of this album in 2016 by Mamamoo, which was produced by who? | Memory was produced by Mamamoo and Kim Do-Hoon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mamamoo produced Memory with Kim Do-Hoon, an executive of Rainbow Bridge World who led them to their current success. 1. \"Memory\" (그리고 그리고 그려봐; geuligo geuligo geulyeobwa; lit."
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"text": "On October 26, 2016, Mamamoo announced that a new album, Memory, would be released in the next mont... |
d5d555e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Microlophus yanezi is endemic to what southernmost country in the world? | Yanez's lava lizard is endemic to Chile. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Microlophus yanezi, commonly called Yanez's lava lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is endemic to the Chilean Matorral within the nation of Chile."
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"text": "Chile,[a] officially the Republic of Chile,[b] is a country in western South America. It occupi... |
d5d556340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Eurypylus and Therianthropes are both figures in what? | Mythology | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Eurypylus / jʊəˈrɪpɪləs / ( Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος Eurypylos) was a Thessalian king. Eurypylus was the son of Euaemon and Ops. Another source gives his mother's name as either Deipyle or Deityche. Alternate genealogies made him a son of Hyperochus and father of Ormenus."
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d5d5565c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Eurypylus and Narcissus are both figures in the mythology of what country? | Greece | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Eurypylus / jʊəˈrɪpɪləs / ( Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος Eurypylos) was a Thessalian king. Eurypylus was the son of Euaemon and Ops. Another source gives his mother's name as either Deipyle or Deityche. Alternate genealogies made him a son of Hyperochus and father of Ormenus."
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d5d556840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of being is Dionysus who is connected to wine, and the Greek mythology's Gaia who is connected to the earth? | They are deities. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Dionysus is an agriculture and vegetation deity. His connection to wine, grape-harvest, orchards, and vegetation displays his role as a nature god. As the god of viticulture and grapes, he is connected to the growth and harvest of the fruit."
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Gaia ( / ˈɡeɪə, ... |
d5d556ac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Tasha Yar and Guinan both served on a ship named what? | Enterprise | text | [] | [
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"text": "Portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg, Guinan is a bartender in the Ten-Forward lounge aboard the starship USS Enterprise -D. She was also played as a child by Isis Carmen Jones in the episode \" Rascals \"."
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"text": "Hayne, however, after learning of Tasha Yar's service aboard the Enterprise, in... |
d5d556f20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who created the franchise called Code Age and designed the game world and characters in it such as Ace and Jack? | Yusuke Naora. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is part of the Code Age series, a franchise created by video game artist Yusuke Naora and designed to span different interweaved titles in multiple platforms and media. The series consists of Commanders, the mobile phone game Code Age Brawls, and the manga Code Age Archives ."
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d5d557420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which alphabet is the 10th-century Irk Bitig written in that sources Turkic mythology that may include Etugen, the Earth Goddess? | Old Turkic. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Yer Tanry – Earth Goddess / God. As a fertility goddess, she was recognized as the giver of crops and abundance. Etugen – Earth Goddess. Her name originates from Ötüken, the holy mountain of the earth and fertility goddess of the ancient Turks."
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"text": "Irk Bitig, a 10th-century manuscr... |
d5d557c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Beyla, wife of Byggvir, and Belus, a king of Egypt, are both part of what? | Mythology | text | [] | [
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"text": "Beyla is one of Freyr 's servants along with her husband, Byggvir, in Norse mythology. Beyla is mentioned in stanzas 55, 66, and the prose introduction to the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna."
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Belus ( Ancient Greek: Βῆλος Bē̂los) was a king of Egypt and father of ... |
d5d557ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are Giulia la bella and Belus from Greek Mythology associated with the same country? | The former is associated with Italy while the latter is associated with Egypt | text | [] | [
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"text": "She was known as Giulia la bella, meaning \"Julia the beautiful\" in Italian. Giulia comes from the noble Farnese family, who were prominent leaders in the Italian regions Parma and Piacenza. Lorenzo Pucci described her as \"most lovely to behold\"."
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Belus ( ... |
d5d558140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Of what nature are both the Greek Nemean lion and the Chinese hybrid Pixiu? | They are mythical. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Nemean lion ( / nɪˈmiːən /; Greek: Νεμέος λέων Neméos léōn; Latin: Leo Nemeaeus) was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. It was eventually killed by Heracles."
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"text": "Pixiu ( 貔貅; píxiū; P'i-hsiu) is a Chinese mythical hybrid creature. Pixiu are considered powe... |
d5d5583c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What ancient nation described the Indus Worm in its writings and has the Nemean lion as a part of its mythology? | Greece. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The skōlex ( Indus Worm ), in ancient Greek writings, was a supposed giant, white, carnivorous worm with a large pair of teeth that lived in the Indus River. Bhramari is 'the Goddess of bees' or 'the Goddess of black bees'. She is associated with bees, hornets and wasps, which cling to her body."
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d5d558640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ire was the site of a temple built in honor of what person who was fathered a child with Deianira? | Heracles | text | [] | [
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"text": "When Hyllus and the Dorians were defeated by the Achaeans, it is said that Abia, nurse of Glenus the son of Heracles, withdrew to Ire, and settling there built a temple to Heracles, and that afterwards for this reason Cresphontes, amongst other honors assigned to her, renamed the city after Abia."
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