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d5d5588c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What Anglo-Irish word descending from Old Irish luchorpán describes a diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore? | A leprechaun. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Anglo-Irish ( Hiberno-English) word leprechaun is descended from Old Irish luchorpán or lupracán, via various ( Middle Irish) forms such as luchrapán, lupraccán, (or var. luchrupán ). The current spelling leipreachán is used throughout Ireland, but there are numerous regional variants."
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d5d558b40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Hindu god Indra and Zeus are both gods of what? | Thunder. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Indra, the Hindu god of thunder. Polytheistic peoples of many cultures have postulated a thunder god, the personification or source of the forces of thunder and lightning; a lightning god does not have a typical depiction, and will vary based on the culture."
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d5d558dc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who wrote the narrative for the game with the main characters of Yata, Ovan, and Pi? | Tatsuya Hamazaki. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The main characters of the series: (top row) Yata, Ovan, (2nd row) Pi, Kuhn, Alkaid, (3rd row) Endrance, Haseo, Atoli, Aina, (bottom row) Saku, Bo. The main playable character of .hack//G.U. is Haseo, a player of The World whose friend Shino fell into a coma after being attacked by a PK named \"Tri-E... |
d5d5592c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the display of the tale of Pelops just before the chariot race placed near to in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia? | The Twelve Labours of Heracles | text | [] | [
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"text": "The depiction of this chariot race on the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, along with that of the Twelve Labours of Heracles on the metopes of the frieze, relate to the location of the temple in Olympia; the chariot race and Heracles were both believed to have started the tradition of ... |
d5d5595e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Nun, the embodiment of the primordial waters, and Hermaphroditus, the child of Aphrodite and Hermes and both names of what kind of figures? | Mythological. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Nun, the embodiment of the primordial waters, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra into the sky at the moment of creation. Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them."
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d5d559860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Phoebus and Artemis are both names of what? | Gods | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the version of the myth told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Phaethon ascends into heaven, the home of his suspected father. His mother Clymene had boasted that his father was the Sun-God or Phoebus. Phaethon went to his father who swore by the river Styx to give Phaethon anything he would ask for i... |
d5d559ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Amleth and Völsung are both examples of what? | Mythological figures | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Norse mythology, Völsung ( Old Norse: Vǫlsungr) was the son of Rerir and the eponymous ancestor of the ill-fated Völsung clan ( Vǫlsungar ), which includes the well known Norse hero Sigurð. He was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir and later avenged by one of his sons, Sigmund, and his daughter ... |
d5d559d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A Japanese Amabie is a type of what being that is spiritual or has supernatural abilities? | Yōkai. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Akubōzu – A spirit that lives in the ashes of hearths from Akita Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture. Akugyo – An enormous species of mermaid found in the waters around Japan. Amabie – A Japanese mermaid yōkai."
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d5d559fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The chupacabras meaning "goat-sucker" and the Kraken meaning "octopus" in old Norwegian are both types of what? | Legends. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to biologists and wildlife management officials, the chupacabra is an urban legend. Chupacabras can be literally translated as 'goat-sucker', from chupar ('to suck') and cabras ('goats')."
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d5d55a4e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What in the prose and verse were a major genre of literature among the Greeks that was common in ancient Egypt in a letter-writing variant? | Epistles. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Epistles in prose and verse were a major genre of literature among the Greeks and particularly the Romans. The letters of Cicero are one of the most important sources on the history of the late Roman Republic and preserve features of colloquial Latin not always in evidence in his speeches and treatis... |
d5d55aa80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Odin is a widely revered god in which mythology that sometimes include the giants? | Germanic mythology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Odin ( / ˈoʊdɪn /; from Old Norse: Óðinn, IPA: [ˈoːðinː]) is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology."
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"text": "This is a list of Germanic deities that are in Norse mythology . Divided between the Æsir and the Vanir, and sometimes including the jötnar (giants), the dividing line betwe... |
d5d55ad00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Helios and Mars were both names of what? | Gods | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Medea ( / mɪˈdiːə /; Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia means \"planner / schemer\") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios."
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"text": "The Romans equated him with Mars, god of war and hunting, and also with S... |
d5d55af80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of boat was sailing towards the town that had a castle 2 miles on the coast road to the east of it called Vygos? | An ancient caïque. | text | [] | [
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d5d55b480dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Wassermann that appears as a naked old man with a frog -like face and the invisible kobold that can materialize in the form of an animal are both mythological creatures from what culture? | German. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Vodník (or in Germanized form: Hastrman ), in Czech fairy tales, is the same creature as the Wassermann or nix of German fairy tales. Vodyanoy is said to appear as a naked old man with a frog -like face, greenish beard, and long hair, with his body covered in algae and muck, usually covered in black ... |
d5d55b660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Welsh Bendith y Mamau and the Czech Vodník both appear in what type of story? | A fairy tale. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Vodník (or in Germanized form: Hastrman ), in Czech fairy tales, is the same creature as the Wassermann or nix of German fairy tales. Vodyanoy is said to appear as a naked old man with a frog -like face, greenish beard, and long hair, with his body covered in algae and muck, usually covered in black ... |
d5d55bb60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which mythology does the stag Dáinn chomp at the branches of Yggdrasill and has a constellation named after it? | Norse mythology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the World Tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr an... |
d5d55c060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In literature, what word means the speed at which a story is told that also is used to translate similar formal units in other systems of measurement? | Pace | text | [] | [
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"text": "The word \"pace\" is also used for units inverse to speed, used mainly for walking and running, commonly minutes per kilometer. The word \"pace\" is also used to translate similar formal units in other systems of measurement."
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d5d55c4c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Perry Index is a widely used index of what, one of which is also known as The Bundle of Sticks? | Aesop's Fables | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Old Man and his Sons, sometimes titled The Bundle of Sticks, is an Aesop's Fable whose moral is that there is strength in unity. The story has been told about many rulers. It is numbered 53 in the Perry Index . An old man has a number of sons who constantly quarrel with each other."
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d5d55c740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Planeswalker cards' uniqueness rule was heavily influenced by a rule which is another word for what kind of creature? | A mythological creature | text | [] | [
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"text": "Because the cards are different, one of each card can be in play without counting as the same legend, even though they represent the same character. Most legendary cards are creatures; legendary artifacts, lands, sorceries and enchantments also exist. Planeswalker cards' uniqueness rule was heavily i... |
d5d55c9c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Most cards of what type, which also means mythological, are creatures? | Legendary | text | [] | [
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"text": "Because the cards are different, one of each card can be in play without counting as the same legend, even though they represent the same character. Most legendary cards are creatures; legendary artifacts, lands, sorceries and enchantments also exist. Planeswalker cards' uniqueness rule was heavily i... |
d5d55cc40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What must the line of a maker not contain? | female siblings | text | [] | [
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"text": "The seventh son must come from an unbroken line with no female siblings born between and, in turn, be born to such a seventh son. The number seven has a long history of mystical and biblical significance: seven virtues, seven deadly sins, Seven Sleepers, Seven Heavens, etc."
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d5d55d1e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What collection of tales and beliefs out of Celtic folklore were preserved in medieval literature with the arrival of Christianity? | Irish mythology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Irish mythology is the collection of tales and beliefs out of Celtic folklore and religion in Ireland, mostly prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity. Major legendary cycles that have survived to the present day include the Tain and the Fenian cycle . I am working on the Elijah page and ... |
d5d55d460dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the collection of tales and beliefs out of Celtic folklore, A Dirty Job written by Christopher Moore had which three mythological figures? | Badb, along with Nemain, and Macha. | text | [] | [
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d5d55d6e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra that was about to be killed but Artemis instead accepted a deer in her place? | Iphigenia. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Other sources, such as Iphigenia at Aulis, say that Agamemnon was prepared to kill his daughter, but that Artemis accepted a deer in her place, and whisked her away to Tauris in the Crimean Peninsula. Hesiod said she became the goddess Hecate . Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Greeks durin... |
d5d55d960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who was the father to Iphigenia that was prepared to kill her after he made a mistake? | Agamemnon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Other sources, such as Iphigenia at Aulis, say that Agamemnon was prepared to kill his daughter, but that Artemis accepted a deer in her place, and whisked her away to Tauris in the Crimean Peninsula. Hesiod said she became the goddess Hecate . Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Greeks durin... |
d5d55dc80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The tales of whom in the Pentamerone are set in Basilicata and Campania? | Giambattista Basile. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Pentamerone ( Neapolitan subtitle: Lo cunto de li cunti, \"The Tale of Tales\") is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile ."
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d5d55e040dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Laran, Hades and Fufluns are all examples of what? | Gods | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Etruscan religion, Fufluns or Puphluns was a god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is mentioned twice among the gods listed in the inscriptions of the Liver of Piacenza, being listed among the 16 gods that rule the Etruscan astrological houses. He is the 9th of t... |
d5d55e540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In Tolkien's fictional continent where the Elves inhabit some areas of it, what is the north-west of the continent suggestive of? | Europe. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium, Elves are a fictional race inhabiting some areas in Middle-earth. They appear in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, but their history is described more fully in The Silmarillion."
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d5d55e860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Heracles and the Calydonian boar hunt are both related to the stories of what culture? | Greek | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Calydonian boar hunt is one of the great heroic adventures in Greek legend. It occurred in the generation prior to that of the Trojan War, and stands along side the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the Argonauts, which preceded it."
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d5d55eae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Regarding the malicious entity that brings nightmares in Slavic folklore, what does their name not have any relation to? | A female horse. | text | [] | [
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"text": "There is no direct relation between the female horse and the folkloric creature. Their modern names might be the same, but the words have different origins."
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"text": "A mare ( Old English: mære, Old Dutch: mare, Proto-Slavic * mara; mara in Old High German, Old Norse, and Swedish) is a m... |
d5d55ed60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who is the malicious entity that shares a name with a female horse in Germanic folklore that brings nightmares? | Mare. | text | [] | [
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"text": "There is no direct relation between the female horse and the folkloric creature. Their modern names might be the same, but the words have different origins."
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d5d55efe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who created the fantasy world where one character usually has many names like Anieb, who is also called Flag? | Ursula K. Le Guin. | text | [] | [
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"text": "This is a list of the names of characters in the stories about the fantasy world of Earthsea, created by Ursula K. Le Guin . In Earthsea, one character often has several names. This is because in Earthsea, the true name of a person has power and a wizard can wield total power over someone whose name ... |
d5d55f260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What fantasy world created by Ursula K. Le Guin has a character who lost her magical powers? | Earthsea. | text | [] | [
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"text": "This is a list of the names of characters in the stories about the fantasy world of Earthsea, created by Ursula K. Le Guin . In Earthsea, one character often has several names. This is because in Earthsea, the true name of a person has power and a wizard can wield total power over someone whose name ... |
d5d55f760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A Walking Song and The Song of Eärendil are both names of what? | Poems in The Lord of the Rings | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Song of Eärendil is the longest poem in The Lord of the Rings. In the fiction, it is sung and composed by the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the Elvish sanctuary of Rivendell. The work is described by the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey as exemplifying \"an elvish streak ... signalled ... by barely-preceden... |
d5d55fe40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the series written by K. A. Applegate, who assumes that the Animorphs are a strike force sent by an alien race? | The Yeerks. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Throughout the series, the Animorphs carefully protect their identities; the Yeerks assume that the Animorphs are a strike force sent by the Andalites, the alien race to which Ax belongs that created the transformation technology, to prevent them from conquering Earth."
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d5d5600c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what dynasty of the country that uses the surname Nguyễn features the semi-mythical king 'Dragon King of Lạc'? | Hồng Bàng Dynasty. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Quân."
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"text": "'Dragon King of Lạc'; also called Hùng Hiền Vương) is a semi-mythical King of Hồng Bàng Dynasty of ancient Vietnam. Quân was the son ... |
d5d5605c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The what of the Parthenon share a name with a river-nymph, the daughter of the river Ladon? | The metopes | text | [] | [
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"text": "The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias."
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d5d560ac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ninshubur and Isimud are both associated with what culture? | Sumerian | text | [] | [
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"text": "Neti - a minor underworld god; the chief gatekeeper of the netherworld and the servant of Ereshkigal Ninshubur - Sumerian messenger goddess and second-in-command to Inanna, later adapted by the Akkadians as the male god Papsukkal Kur - the first dragon, born of Abzu and Ma."
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d5d560d40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What character created dragon curves to simulate the actions that were to take place in the park, and once got attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex, breaking his leg? | Ian Malcolm. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Nedry's actions cause the electrified fences to shut down as well, allowing the dinosaurs to escape from their paddocks. Malcolm is attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex, which breaks his leg. Malcolm is found by employee Robert Muldoon and lawyer Donald Gennaro and taken back to one of the lodges to be lo... |
d5d560fc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who portrayed the Jurassic Park character that was looked after Dr. Harding when he got attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex? | Goldblum. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Malcolm is the most popular character in the franchise. Goldblum was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal in Jurassic Park alongside Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry, but both lost to Lance Henriksen in Hard Target."
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d5d561240dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What fictional Marvel supervillain used his abilities to gain control over Doctor Strange and force him to summon Shuma-Gorath? | Ebony Maw. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ebony Maw is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a prominent member of the Black Order, a team of aliens who work for Thanos ."
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"text": "Ebony Maw used his abilities to gain control over Doctor Strange and force him to summon Shuma... |
d5d5614c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Marvel supervillain who used his abilities to gain control over Doctor Strange is a prominent member of what team of aliens who work for Thanos? | Black Order. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ebony Maw is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a prominent member of the Black Order, a team of aliens who work for Thanos ."
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"text": "Ebony Maw used his abilities to gain control over Doctor Strange and force him to summon Shuma... |
d5d5619c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the Hindu Epic with The Pandavas Brothers, who was referred to as Krishnaa? | Daughter of Drupada. | text | [] | [
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"text": "'Daughter of Drupada '), also referred to as Krishnaa, Panchali and Yajnaseni, is the heroine of the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. According to the epic, she was the common wife of the five Pandava brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva."
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d5d561c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What Hindu epic contained the heroine named Yajnaseni and the main characters called The Pandavas? | Mahabharata. | text | [] | [
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"text": "'Daughter of Drupada '), also referred to as Krishnaa, Panchali and Yajnaseni, is the heroine of the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. According to the epic, she was the common wife of the five Pandava brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva."
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d5d561ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Baitz was born in Los Angeles to what kind of family that is the subject matter of Leon Uris ' Exodus? | Jewish. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Arguably the most influential of all American Jewish novels was Leon Uris ' Exodus. Its story of the struggle to create the modern state of Israel translated into Russian became the inspiration for hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants to Israel."
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d5d562140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and the kingdom of Gondor belong to whose writings? | J. R. R. Tolkien. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Legolas (pronounced [ˈlɛɡɔlas]) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings. He is a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and one of the nine members of the Fellowship who set out to destroy the One Ring. He and the Dwarf Gimli are close friends."
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d5d5623c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Aetolus and the Naiads are both figures in the mythology of what people? | Greek | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, the Naiads ( / ˈnaɪædz, - ədz /; Greek: Ναϊάδες, translit. Naïádes) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water ."
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d5d562640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many brothers was it possible for Moriarty to have as Vincent Starrett wrote, and commentators interpreted in the same way? | One or two. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Commentators have variously interpreted Professor Moriarty as having one brother (who is a colonel and station master) or two brothers (one a colonel and the other a station master)."
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"text": "Vincent Starrett wrote that it is possible that Moriarty had one or two brothers, though Starre... |
d5d562aa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What term consists of ethnic or regional religious customs under the umbrella of a religion is not used inside China? | Chinese folk religion. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The term 'Chinese folk religion' is not used inside China. Xuanyuan Temple in Huangling, Shaanxi, dedicated to the worship of the Yellow Emperor. The Temple of the City God of Wenao, Magong, Taiwan. Temple of Hebo (\"River Lord\"), the god (Heshen, \"River God\") of the sacred Yellow River, in Hequ, ... |
d5d562dc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In China, what forms an important part of the ethnic or regional religious customs under the umbrella of a religion? | Chinese mythology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Like many mythologies, Chinese mythology has in the past been believed to be, at least in part, a factual recording of history. Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion."
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d5d562fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In mythology, someone that was a Puer aeternus would have what in common with Peter Pan? | Never growing up | text | [] | [
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"text": "A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children... |
d5d5632c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who wrote the universe containing dwellings, schools, and the Burrow which was described as a pig-sty that had extra rooms added to it? | J.K. Rowling. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Burrow was described as a pig-sty that had extra rooms added to it. When a new child was born, Molly and Arthur Weasley just added an extra room onto the house. Outside the front door were a jumble of wellington boots and a rusty old cauldron."
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d5d563540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what universe by J.K. Rowling had settings like dwellings, schools, and the Burrow which was described as a pig-sty that had extra rooms added to it? | Harry Potter. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Burrow was described as a pig-sty that had extra rooms added to it. When a new child was born, Molly and Arthur Weasley just added an extra room onto the house. Outside the front door were a jumble of wellington boots and a rusty old cauldron."
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d5d563720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | There is no proof that Hubal was a god of what thing that Mångha is associated with? | The moon | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mångha ( måŋha) is the Avestan for \" Moon, month \", equivalent to Persian Māh (Old Persian māha ). It is the name of the lunar deity in Zoroastrianism."
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"text": "The most prominent idol in Mecca was a god called Hubal, and there is no proof that he was a moon god. It is sometimes claim... |
d5d5639a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | 20th century scholarship postulates that Allah was originally a god associated with what thing that Mångha is associated with? | The moon | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mångha ( måŋha) is the Avestan for \" Moon, month \", equivalent to Persian Māh (Old Persian māha ). It is the name of the lunar deity in Zoroastrianism."
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"text": "The postulation that Allah (the name of God in Islam) historically originates as a moon god (who was worshipped in pre-Islam... |
d5d563c20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who was accused of murder and forced to carry guests on her back as punishment in the mythology of the region that had lost or altered oral records? | Rhiannon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Rhiannon is accused of killing him and forced to carry guests on her back as punishment. The child has been taken by a monster, and is rescued by Teyrnon and his wife, who bring him up as their own, calling him Gwri of the Golden hair, until his resemblance to Pwyll becomes apparent."
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d5d564260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Heraion of Perachora is a sanctuary of what goddess associated with a temple in Paestum, Campania, Italy? | Hera | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Temple of Hera II(also erroneously called the Temple of Neptuneor of Poseidon), is a Greek templein Paestum, Campania, Italy. It was built in the Doric orderaround 460–450 BC, just north of the first Hera Temple."
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d5d564580dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The son of Tros of Dardania shares a name with a moon of what planet? | Jupiter | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ganymede [p] is the largest of over 66 moons of the planet Jupiter. It is also the largest moon in the Solar System. Ganymede is larger in diameter than the planet Mercury, but has only about half of its mass. Ganymede is much less dense. Ganymede is part of a group called the Galilean Satellites."
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d5d5649e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Longmu is a character in the mythology of what country for whom the Jiao is a unit of currency? | China | text | [] | [
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d5d564c60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What monstrous creatures within Middle Eastern lore are not explicitdly mentioned within canonical Islamic scriptures? | Div. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Div or dev ( Persian: Dīv: دیو) are monstrous creatures within Middle Eastern lore. They have their origin in Persian mythology and spread to surrounding cultures including Armenia, Turkic countries and Albania."
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"text": "They have their origin in Persian mythology and spread to surround... |
d5d564ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Regarding the monstrous creatures within Middle Eastern lore, how were they accepted by the Muslims? | Well accepted, just as other supernatural creatures. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Div or dev ( Persian: Dīv: دیو) are monstrous creatures within Middle Eastern lore. They have their origin in Persian mythology and spread to surrounding cultures including Armenia, Turkic countries and Albania."
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"text": "They have their origin in Persian mythology and spread to surround... |
d5d565160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Alcinous is a character in what mythology that is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore? | Greek mythology | text | [] | [
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"text": "Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous by Francesco Hayez. The blind minstrel Demodocus is playing the harp. In Greek mythology, Alcinous ( / ælˈsɪnoʊəs /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκίνους or Ἀλκίνοος Alkínoös means \"mighty mind\") was a son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor."
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d5d5658e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Melampus and Agamemnon were both charatcers in the mythology of what culture? | Greek | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Agamemnon ( / æɡəˈmɛmnɒn /; Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike (Λαοδίκη), Orestes and Chrysothemis."
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d5d565b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Iacchus and Budha are both names of what? | Deities | text | [] | [
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"text": "The plural form, Aurae ( Greek: Αὔραι) is sometimes found. According to Nonnus, Aura was the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the North-wind."
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d5d565de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Blessed Realms is a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium which is the home to what beings, whom are mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, but were developed earlier in material published posthumously in The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth? | The Valar | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Valar are mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, but were developed earlier in material published posthumously in The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth . Scholars have noted that the Valar resemble angels in Christianity, but that Tolkien presented them rather more like pagan gods... |
d5d566060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The beings that are mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, but were developed earlier in material published posthumously in The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth, live on what continent? | Aman | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Valar are mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, but were developed earlier in material published posthumously in The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth . Scholars have noted that the Valar resemble angels in Christianity, but that Tolkien presented them rather more like pagan gods... |
d5d5662e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Brahma Purana and The Matsya Purana are both texts coming from eighteen of what? | Major Puranas. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Brahma Purana ( Sanskrit: ब्रह्म पुराण, Brahma Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas genre of Hindu texts in Sanskrit language. It is listed as the first Maha-Purana in all the anthologies, and therefore also called Adi Purana."
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"text": "The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa)... |
d5d566560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The 108 Stars of Destiny are at the core of the plot of what work which features the fictional character Tong Meng? | Water Margin | text | [] | [
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"text": "In this Chinese name, the family name is Tong. Tong Meng is a fictional character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed \"River Churning Clam \", he ranks 69th among the 108 Stars of Destiny and 33rd among the 72 Earthly Fiends."
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d5d5669c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who voices the Holographic Assistant for Gordon Freeman in the series containing mysterious recurring character The G-Man? | Kathy Levin. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The G-Man (voiced by Michael Shapiro) is a mysterious recurring character in the Half-Life series of first-person shooter computer games. He is known to display peculiar behavior and capabilities beyond that of a normal human, and his identity and motives remain almost completely unexplained."
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d5d566c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Mixcoatl and Freyr were both names of what? | Gods | text | [] | [
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"text": "A hunting deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with the hunting of animals and the skills and equipment involved. They are a common feature of polytheistic religions. Mixcoatl, god of hunting."
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"text": "In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál the four stags of Yggdrasil are descr... |
d5d566ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Cocidius, Mixcoatl, and Freyr are all names of what? | Gods | text | [] | [
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"text": "A hunting deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with the hunting of animals and the skills and equipment involved. They are a common feature of polytheistic religions. Mixcoatl, god of hunting."
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"text": "In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál the four stags of Yggdrasil are descr... |
d5d567140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who portrays the profit-obsessed boss and friend of Darrin in the show with the witch protagonist named Samantha Stephens? | David White. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Larry Tate ( David White) is Darrin's profit-obsessed boss and friend. Tate is a regular character. Tate's opinions turn on a dime to appease a client in an attempt to land a deal. However, there are three episodes that show evidence that Larry has deep feelings as well as having a sense of integrity... |
d5d5673c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who is the character portrayed by Elizabeth Montgomery married to that has a profit-obsessed boss and friend named Larry Tate? | Darrin Stephens. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Larry Tate ( David White) is Darrin's profit-obsessed boss and friend. Tate is a regular character. Tate's opinions turn on a dime to appease a client in an attempt to land a deal. However, there are three episodes that show evidence that Larry has deep feelings as well as having a sense of integrity... |
d5d567640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Fintan mac Bóchra and Morgens are both examples of what? | Mythological creatures | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Irish mythology, several primordial beings that personify old age and ancient knowledge are described as taking the shape of a salmon. Most notably, this includes Fintan mac Bóchra and Tuan mac Cairill ."
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"text": "A Kelpie is a less dangerous sort of water horse. There are many simila... |
d5d5678c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Scottish what, which in the Irish version several primordial beings that personify old age and ancient knowledge are described as taking the shape of a salmon, is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Scotland? | Mythology | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Irish mythology, several primordial beings that personify old age and ancient knowledge are described as taking the shape of a salmon. Most notably, this includes Fintan mac Bóchra and Tuan mac Cairill ."
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"text": "Scottish mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged through... |
d5d568040dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Unicorns and Minotaurs have what in common? | They are combinations of features from multiple animals | text | [] | [
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"text": "Uma-no-ashi ( Japanese) – Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby Unicorn ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Horse-like creature with the legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion and a single magical healing horn."
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"text": "Minotaur – A creature that has the body of a human with t... |
d5d568220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Unicorns and goat people have what in common? | They are combinations of features from multiple animals | text | [] | [
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"text": "Uma-no-ashi ( Japanese) – Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby Unicorn ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Horse-like creature with the legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion and a single magical healing horn."
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"text": "Minotaur – A creature that has the body of a human with t... |
d5d568540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the mythology of what people, whom the use of the word auspices is associated with the earliest citizens of their titular city, the caladrius is a snow-white bird that lives in the king's house? | Romans | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to unanimous testimony from ancient sources the use of auspices as a means to decipher the will of the gods was more ancient than Rome itself. The use of the word is usually associated with Latins as well as the earliest Roman citizens."
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"text": "Copperplate by Pieter van der B... |
d5d568720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The mother of the Greek god of Wine was worshipped by the sacrifice of what? | A Yearling bull | text | [] | [
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"text": "It depicts a moment from the classical myth of the mortal woman Semele, mother of the god Dionysus, and her lover, Jupiter, the king of the gods. She was treacherously advised by the goddess Juno, Jupiter's wife, to ask him to appear to her in all his divine splendor."
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"text": "For the N... |
d5d5689a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Semele bore what Greek God of wine with the king of the gods? | Dionysus | text | [] | [
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"text": "It depicts a moment from the classical myth of the mortal woman Semele, mother of the god Dionysus, and her lover, Jupiter, the king of the gods. She was treacherously advised by the goddess Juno, Jupiter's wife, to ask him to appear to her in all his divine splendor."
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"text": "For the N... |
d5d568c20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Deiphobus, and his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of Argive during what war where they eventually vied against each other for Helen of Troy? | The Trojan War. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to the Iliad (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deipho... |
d5d568ea0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What two brothers in the Trojan war killed many at the siege of Argive and eventually vied against each other for Helen of Troy? | Deiphobus and Helenus. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to the Iliad (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deipho... |
d5d569120dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The universe of the Avatar film series and the town of Little Whinging, Surrey are both what? | Fictional | text | [] | [
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"text": "The central character in the series is Harry Potter, a boy who lives in the fictional town of Little Whinging, Surrey with his aunt, uncle, and cousin – the Dursleys – and discovers at the age of eleven that he is a wizard, though he lives in the ordinary world of non-magical people known as Muggles.... |
d5d5693a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The setting on Prince Edward Island, Canada for a series of novels featuring the character Anne Shirley had what in common with the town of Little Whinging, Surrey? | They were both fictional. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The central character in the series is Harry Potter, a boy who lives in the fictional town of Little Whinging, Surrey with his aunt, uncle, and cousin – the Dursleys – and discovers at the age of eleven that he is a wizard, though he lives in the ordinary world of non-magical people known as Muggles.... |
d5d569940dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What Aetolian princess became a Spartan queen in the mythology of the country that had the land Paeonia in antiquity? | Leda. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Leda ( / ˈliːdə, ˈleɪ -/; Ancient Greek: Λήδα [lɛ͜ɛ́da͜a]) was an Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan . Leda was the daughter of the Aetolian King Thestius hence she was also called... |
d5d569da0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Regarding the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology, he was the original priest to whom? | Demeter. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries. Diocles, Eumolpos, Triptolemus and Polyxeinus were the others of the first priests."
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"text": "Cel... |
d5d56a020dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what Hymn to Demeter had the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology as one of the original priests of Demeter? | The Homeric Hymn. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries. Diocles, Eumolpos, Triptolemus and Polyxeinus were the others of the first priests."
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"text": "Cel... |
d5d56a2a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Regarding the Greek goddess who chose the manner of each person's death, what was her Roman equivalent? | Morta. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Atropos or Aisa ( / ˈætrəpɒs /; Ancient Greek: Ἄτροπος \"without turn\"), in Greek mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ."
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"text": "Atropos ( / ˈætrəpɒs /, Greek Ἄτροπος, [átropos], \"inexorable\" or \"inevitable\", literal... |
d5d56ae80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Hesiod described Echidna as a flesh-eating what, an example of which is Zargon from Dungeons & Dragons? | Monster | text | [] | [
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"text": "Tyson, Percy Jackson's half-brother in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is a Cyclops. However Cyclopes also appear as villains. Zargon, a giant one-eyed monster in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Ahgg, the witches' giant spider with one eye in the center of his forehead in My Little Pony: T... |
d5d56b100dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The ancient Egyptian Sia and Erra who was assimilated to Nergal are both names of what? | Gods. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Sia or Saa, an ancient Egyptian god, was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny. He also had a connection with writing and was often shown in anthropomorphic form holding... |
d5d56b6a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Vināyaka who can appear in the form of Ganesha killed what demon in a temple with an unknown building date? | Sindhu. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A Hindu legend relates the temple to killing of the demon Sindhu by Ganesha. The exact date of building of the temple is unknown, though the Ganapatya saint Moraya Gosavi is known to be associated with it. The temple flourished due to the patronage of the Peshwa rulers and descendants of Moraya Gosav... |
d5d56bb00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The mythological Hindu Vaitarani and the Greek Styx that originates near Pheneus are both names of what? | Rivers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to Herodotus, the river Styx originates near Pheneus. Styx is also a goddess with prehistoric roots in Greek mythology as a daughter of Tethys, after whom the river is named and because of whom it had miraculous powers."
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"text": "Vaitarna or Vaitarani (Vaitaraṇî) river, as ment... |
d5d56c280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who wrote the description of a Mooncalf in the world of the Harry Potter series? | Rowling | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Care of Magical Creatures Class take care of creatures such as Hippogriffs, Unicorns and Owls. Rowling has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British ... |
d5d56c500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who wrote the description of the shy, nocturnal creature with a smooth, pale grey body, bulging eyes and four spindly legs with large flat feet in the world of the Harry Potter series? | Rowling | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Care of Magical Creatures Class take care of creatures such as Hippogriffs, Unicorns and Owls. Rowling has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British ... |
d5d56ca00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the series set hundreds of years after the original Shannara trilogy, what force has been seen poisoning the land? | The Shadowen. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Only the rebel Free-born, led by Padishar Creel, dare to resist. The series begins with The Scions of Shannara, when the Ohmsford descendants are summoned by the shade of Allanon to combat the Shadowen that have been poisoning the land, each charged with a quest only they can embark on."
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d5d56ce60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus was also that of a Nereid? | Galatea | text | [] | [
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"text": "Acis and Galatea are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid 's Metamorphoses. The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit... |
d5d56d0e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The twin engine aeroplane built in Australia known as the GAF Nomad, and the plane with an excellent safety record with the captain John Zhen Chang are both called what? | N22. | text | [] | [
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"text": "N22, a postcode district in the N postcode area The GAF Nomad, or N22 Nomad, a twin engine aeroplane built in Australia N-22 (radiolocation vehicle), a Polish radiolocation vehicle based on Dana self-propelled howitzer and used for locating aircraft flying at low altitudes"
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d5d56d540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What series containing a major faction called the Dark Axis has humanity co-existing with Mobile Citizens? | Superior Defender Gundam Force. | text | [] | [
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"text": "This is a list of fictional characters from Superior Defender Gundam Force . Neotopia, as its name implies, is a utopian city seemingly existing in Earth's future. Humanity and robots (designated Mobile Citizens) live together in harmony. In order to keep this peace, the conflict with the Dark Axis i... |
d5d56d7c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The individual who venerated Hercules for dispatching the giant Cacus aided whom in his war against Turnus and the Rutuli? | Aeneas. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The oldest tradition of its founding ascribes to Evander the erection of the Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum Boarium. In Aeneid, VIII, where Aeneas and his crew first come upon Evander and his people, they were venerating Hercules for dispatching the giant Cacus."
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"text": "Because o... |
d5d56dc20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In a reference to the set of books regarded as scripture, what term is now known as material accepted as officially part of the story? | Canon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The use of the word \"canon\" originated in reference to a set of texts derived from Biblical canon, the set of books regarded as scripture, as contrasted with non-canonical Apocrypha."
},
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"text": "In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in an individual u... |
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