guid stringlengths 32 32 | question stringlengths 17 440 | answer stringlengths 1 613 | question_category stringclasses 7 values | img_posFacts listlengths 0 2 | txt_posFacts listlengths 0 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
d5d69f9e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who does Ehrman write about that also appears in the Talmud? | Jesus. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "An early work describing Jesus in the Talmud was Pugio Fidei (\"Dagger of Faith\") (c. 1280) by the Catalan Dominican Ramón Martí, a Jewish convert to Christianity."
},
{
"text": "In the book, written to counter the idea that there was never such a person as Jesus of Nazareth at all, Ehrman s... |
d5d69fc60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Characteristic and wave are both types of what? | Impedance | text | [] | [
{
"text": "In electrical engineering, the wave impedance is an important factor to consider when designing a waveguide. The parameters of the medium must match up such that the wave impedance will be the desired value. For example, coaxial cable used for TV signals has a designated wave impedance of 75 Ω."
},... |
d5d69fe40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How is the landing gear for the Berkut different from what is found on the Rutan Long-EZ? | The landing gear is retractable on the Berkut. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "This article is about the U.S.-made, propeller-driven general aviation aircraft. For the Russian-made, jet-powered experimental fighter called Berkut, see Sukhoi Su-47. The Berkut 360is a tandem-seating, two-seat homebuilt canardaircraft with pusher configurationand retractable landing gear, built pr... |
d5d6a02a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld is part of what kingdom that has the territories Faroe Islands and Greenland? | Denmark | text | [] | [
{
"text": "This is a list of hills and mountains in Denmark . This table lists only hills in the country of Denmark, excluding Danish territories ( Faroe Islands and Greenland ). The listing only considers natural formations. Gunnbjørn, Greenland, 3700 m."
},
{
"text": "Kalaallit Nunaat includes the Isl... |
d5d6a07a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The strong-smelling (Methylthio)methanethiol and the very flammable Methanethiol are both names of what? | Thiols. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "(Methylthio)methanethiol (MeSCH 2 SH; MTMT) is a strong-smelling volatile thiol, also detectable at parts per billion levels, found in male mouse urine. Lawrence C. Katz and co-workers showed that MTMT functioned as a semiochemical, activating certain mouse olfactory sensory neurons, attracting femal... |
d5d6a0980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What size are leaves, usually, in the genus of figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, endemic to Australia? | The leaves of Eremophilas are usually small. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Eremophilas vary in size and habit from low, prostrate shrubs such as E. serpens to small trees in the case of E. bignoniiflora. Leaf size and shape is also variable but the leaves are usually small and are often shiny or hairy. The flowers usually have 5 spreading sepals and 5 petals which are joine... |
d5d6a0e80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the traditional form of Marathi theatre, the region it comes from has what kind of long-standing tradition since the 1st century? | A long theatrical tradition. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The region of Maharashtra, has had a long theatrical tradition, one of the early references was found in the cave inscriptions at Nashik by Gautami Balashri, the mother of the 1st-century Satavahana ruler, Gautamiputras Satakarni. The inscription mentions him organizing Utsava and Samaja, forms off t... |
d5d6a1380dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What do Nicholas Scratch and Sin have in common? | Both are children of well-known villains. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "She is a powerful witch, typically portrayed as a sinister heroine and teacher of Wanda Maximoff, as well as the mother of Nicholas Scratch."
},
{
"text": "Sin ( Sinthea Schmidt) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is the dau... |
d5d6a1600dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The intensity of a "Wide beam" would be studied in what field as measure of the wavelength -weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye? | Photometry | text | [] | [
{
"text": "\"Wide beam\" illumination is the only type that has the light source set wide open. Its main purpose is to illuminate as much of the eye and its adnexa at once for general observation. Observation with an optical section or direct focal illumination is the most frequently applied method."
},
{
... |
d5d6a1880dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Gamma delta type and the cells that turn into cytotoxic CD8+ cells when presented with antigens are both kinds of what cell? | T cells. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Antigen presentation stimulates T cells to become either \"cytotoxic\" CD8+ cells or \"helper\" CD4+ cells. The T-cell receptor ( TCR) is a protein complex found on the surface of T cells, or T lymphocytes, that is responsible for recognizing fragments of antigen as peptides bound to major histocompa... |
d5d6a2000dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | LMS KDLT-TV and KLAF-LD both share what virtual channel number? | 46 | text | [] | [
{
"text": "LMS KDLT-TV, virtual channel46 (UHFdigitalchannel 21), is a dual NBC/Fox-affiliatedtelevision stationlicensedto Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, serving eastern South Dakotaand southwestern Minnesota. The station is owned by Gray Television, as part of a duopolywith ABCaffiliate KSFY-TV(chan... |
d5d6a2500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What aircraft carrier is difficult to define in the 21st century and has a large flight deck that occupies a large part of the ship? | A helicopter carrier. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A helicopter carrier has a large flight deck that occupies a large part of the ship, which can extend the full length of the ship like HMS Ocean of the Royal Navy (RN), or only partway, usually aft, as in the Soviet Navy 's Moskva class, the Chinese Navy 's Type 0891A or the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's (... |
d5d6a2780dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Thebe Hypoplakia and the place founded by the hero Heracles are both what? | Cities | text | [] | [
{
"text": "According to one account, the city of Thebe was founded by the hero Heracles after his sack of Troy during the reign of King Laomedon and named after his birthplace, Thebes in Boeotia. At the time of the Trojan War, Hypoplacian Thebe was in the hands of a people known as the Cilicians, and ruled by K... |
d5d6a2c80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name of both lymph nodes that extend beyond the posterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle into the subclavian triangle and spine disorders are illnesses that affect the upper first seven vertebrae? | Cervical. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Superficial lymph glands and lymphatic vessels of head and neck. (Inferior deep cervical glands labeled at bottom right.) The inferior deep cervical lymph nodes extend beyond the posterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle into the subclavian triangle, where they are closely related to the bra... |
d5d6a2f00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Hungarian documents of a township called Olahteluk and Herodotus both mention what people? | People living in Romania | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The earliest written evidence of people living in the territory of present-day Romania comes from Herodotus in Book IV of his Histories, which was written in c. 440 BC; He writes that the tribal confederation of the Getae were defeated by the Persian Emperor Darius the Great during his campaign again... |
d5d6a3180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith is an organization of a people who are part of what type of Slavs? | East Slavs | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Alternately, the Ukrainian organisation Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith has established groups in both Moldova and Germany. In Ukraine, much like in Russia, Rodnovery is very popular among Cossacks, and the variety that they embrace, Assianism, is linked to a rediscovery of Scythian ident... |
d5d6a3680dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What term can be between the soprano and tenor in size are a range in choral music? | Alto. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The alto range in choral music is approximately from F 3 (the F below middle C) to F 5 (the F in the second octave above middle C). In common usage, alto is used to describe the voice type that typically sings this part, though this is not strictly correct."
},
{
"text": "The alto is between ... |
d5d6a3d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Is it possible to go to Johns Mountain in both Georgia and New York? | Yes, there is a Johns mountain in the state of Georgia and there is a Johns mountain in the Catskill Mountains of New York. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Johns Mountain is a summit in the U.S. state of Georgia. With an elevation of 1,683 feet (513 m), Johns Mountain is the 666th highest summit in the state of Georgia. The mountain is located inside the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Johns Mountain was named in honor of John Fields, a local Cher... |
d5d6a4260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name of the Korean alphabet that is usually written horizontally from left to right? | Hangul | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Hangul is usually written horizontally, from left to right and sometimes from right to left. It is also written vertically, from top to bottom. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characte... |
d5d6a44e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The what, which can be been effected with boranes and alanes, of phosphine oxides has been extensively developed because many useful stoichiometric reactions convert tertiary phosphines to the corresponding oxides? | Deoxygenation | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Deoxygenation has been effected with boranes and alanes. Phosphine oxides are ligands in various applications of homogeneous catalysis. In coordination chemistry, they are known to have labilizing effects to CO ligands cis to it in organometallic reactions."
},
{
"text": "The deoxygenation of... |
d5d6a4760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Strada statale 7 Via Appia and Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia both connect what city to other places? | Rome | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Strada statale 7 Via Appia ( SS 7) is a motorway that - following the path of the Roman consular road of the same name - connects Rome to Brindisi. In the stretch from Cisterna di Latina to Terracina, the SS 7 is called \"fettuccia di Terracina\" due to its straight line."
},
{
"text": "Strad... |
d5d6a49e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Saussure developed a concept of what, of which all examples have nouns and vowels, or if spoken have consonants and vowels? | Language and speech | text | [] | [
{
"text": "For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to the study of linguistic typology, and intends to reveal generalizations across languages, likely tied to cognition, perception, or other a... |
d5d6a4c60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Pairwise linked keyrings mimic part of the fibration is important in which theory that deals with dimensional spaces that are a fixed distance from a central point? | Twistor theory | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Hopf fibration is important in twistor theory . -dimensional space which are a fixed distance from a central point. For concreteness, the central point can be taken to be the origin, and the distance of the points on the sphere from this origin can be assumed to be a unit length."
},
{
"t... |
d5d6a50c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which occurred first: The obliteration of Chang'an or Emperor Shizong's order of the destruction of Buddha statues? | The obliteration of Chang'an took place first. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Chang'an never recovered after this obliteration, and it was followed by the decline of the Tang dynasty. During the systematic persecution of Buddhists in AD 845 by the Taoist Emperor Wuzong of Tang, more than 4,600 Buddhist temples were destroyed across the empire."
},
{
"text": "During the... |
d5d6a5340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The subfamily that contains 71 species including the baboons, the macaques, and the vervet monkeys is recognized alongside what other subfamily? | Colobinae | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Two subfamilies are recognized, the Cercopithecinae, which are mainly African, but include the diverse genus of macaques, which are Asian and North African, and the Colobinae, which includes most of the Asian genera, but also the African colobus monkeys."
},
{
"text": "The Cercopithecinae are... |
d5d6a55c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What beverage tastes better because of the same chemical byproduct that causes cramped muscles when built-up in people's bodies? | Wine. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Malolactic fermentation (also known as malolactic conversion or MLF) is a process in winemaking in which tart -tasting malic acid, naturally present in grape must, is converted to softer-tasting lactic acid."
},
{
"text": "Lactic acid fermentation produces lactic acid. It happens in muscles o... |
d5d6a5840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Various types of washing machines are also available in the market to use laundry what, a plural form of which is also the name of an American music group consisting of Ronnie (Ron) Dante, Danny Jordan, and Tommy Wynn? | Detergent | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Laundry detergent is used exclusively for washing clothes. Various types of washing machines are also available in the market to use laundry detergent. Laundry detergent should always be used correctly in washing machines. To use laundry detergent, there are washing machines of front load and top loa... |
d5d6a5ac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Mount Elbert is an example of a thing of which the highest example in the United States and North America is located where? | Alaska | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Colorado. The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado ."
},
{
"text": "Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain ... |
d5d6a6240dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type animals are Trogon meanurus, Bar-tailed Trogon, and Black Throated trogons? | Birds | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The black-tailed trogon ( Trogon melanurus) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. It is found in humid forest in the Amazon basin, north-western South America and adjacent Panama."
},
{
"text": "The bar-tailed trogon averages about 28 cm (11 inches) long. The bill and feet are yellow... |
d5d6a6420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Nagapattinam District and Odisha are both located in what country? | India | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Kambar flourished in Therazhundur, a village in the culturally rich Nagapattinam District in the modern state of Tamil Nadu in South India. Kambar is generally dated after the vaishnavite philosopher, Ramanuja, as the poet refers to the latter in his work, the Sadagopar Andhadhi."
},
{
"text"... |
d5d6a66a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Nurhak and Zagros are both names of what? | Mountains | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The ecoregion extends along the Zagros Mountains, stretching from eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to southern Iran . The Zagros Mountains are a belt of folded mountains formed by the collision of the African Plate with the Eurasian Plate. On the west, south, and east, the mountains are surrounded by... |
d5d6a6880dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An imperial court is the royal court of a what, which the Imperium Romanum is an example of? | Empire | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Roman Empire ( Latin: Imperium Romanum [ɪmˈpɛri.ũː roːˈmaːnũː]; Koinē Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, romanized: Basileía tōn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Northern Africa, and Wes... |
d5d6a7280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Achelata is an infra-order of the decapod crustaceans, includes the spiny what, which are large crustaceans that live in the sea? | Lobster | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Lobsters are large crustaceans that live in the sea. They form the family of Nephropidae, which is sometimes also called Homaridae. People make a lot of money from catching lobsters and selling them to make seafood . Lots of different kinds of animals that live in the sea are called lobsters."
},
... |
d5d6a7780dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Carboxyglutamic and carboxylic are both what? | Acids. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "R and R′ are organic groups; R′ ≠ H. A carboxylate ion is the conjugate base of a carboxylic acid, RCOO − (or RCO 2− ). It is an ion with negative charge . Carboxylate ions can be formed by deprotonation of carboxylic acids."
},
{
"text": "Carboxyglutamic acid (or the conjugate base, carboxyg... |
d5d6a7c80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the difference in funding between the Netherlands health care model and what the United States refers to as socialized medicine? | Neither the government nor direct private payments fund health care in the Netherlands but the United States funding for socialist medicine would be entirely through the government. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "This is the model used in the Netherlands . Other countries are largely funded by contributions by employers and employees to sickness funds. With these programs, funds come from neither the government nor direct private payments. This system operates in countries such as Germany and Belgium."
},
... |
d5d6a7f00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Fort Snelling is near what longest river that is entirely within Minnesota? | Minnesota River | text | [] | [
{
"text": "It is joined by the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling, by the St. Croix River near Hastings, by the Chippewa River at Wabasha, and by many smaller streams. The Red River, in the bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, drains the northwest part of the state northward toward Canada's Hudson Bay."
},
{
"tex... |
d5d6a80e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Mississippi and Bridge are both names of what? | Rivers | text | [] | [
{
"text": "However, the area across the Mississippi River from New Madrid, Missouri on the Kentucky and Tennessee shore was known during the Civil War simply as Madrid Bend. The town of New Madrid (pronounced MAD-rid), which gives the bend its name, is at the northern apex of the second turn."
},
{
"tex... |
d5d6a85e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is neurulation and what does neural development refer to? | The development of the nervous system, or neural development, or neurodevelopment, refers to the processes that generate, shape, and reshape the nervous system of animals, from the earliest stages of embryonic development to adulthood. The formation of the neural tube from the ectoderm is called neurulation. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Beginning in the future neck region, the neural folds of this groove close to create the neural tube. The formation of the neural tube from the ectoderm is called neurulation. The ventral part of the neural tube is called the basal plate; the dorsal part is called the alar plate."
},
{
"text"... |
d5d6a8ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How much taller can Achnatherum nelsonii grow than Achnatherum latiglume? | Approximately 65 centimeters | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Achnatherum latiglume is a perennial bunchgrass forming tight bunches of erect stems up to 110 centimeters tall. It has hairlike leaves under 3 millimeters wide. The inflorescence is up to about 30 centimeters long."
},
{
"text": "Achnatherum nelsonii is a species of grass known by the common... |
d5d6a8d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ra'y and Alfaz are both found in what? | Islamic jurisprudence. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The term Ra'y as a principle of Islamic jurisprudence has its roots in the early debate between Muslim scholars as to the interpretation of the divine texts. The idea of the followers of Ra'y was to use reason as the basis of Islamic legal interpretation."
},
{
"text": "Alfaz in the principle... |
d5d6a8f40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of insect group of about 2000 species does the Distoleon tetragrammicus come from? | antlion | text | [] | [
{
"text": "This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Antlion (disambiguation). The antlions are a group of about 2,000 species of insect in the family Myrmeleontidae, known for the fiercely predatory habits of their larvae, which in many species dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey."
},
{... |
d5d6a91c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sol and Re are both gods related to what? | The Sun. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "From at least the 4th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, the Sun was worshipped as the deity Re (pronounced probably as Riya, meaning simply 'the sun ' ), and portrayed as a falcon headed god surmounted by the solar disk, and surrounded by a serpent."
},
{
"text": "Sol is the personification of the Su... |
d5d6a9440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Cantharidus capillaceus belongs to what genus where the shells have an ovate-conic or pyramidal shape? | Cantharidus. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Cantharidus capillaceus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Former subspecies within this species included: The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 28 mm. The imperforate shell has an ovate-conical shape. It is nearly smooth."
},
... |
d5d6a96c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In what genus will you find the venomous blue-banded sea snake? | Hydrophis | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Hydrophis is a genus of sea snakes. They are typically found in Indo-Australian and Southeast Asian waters. Currently, around 36 species are recognized. There are more than 30 recognized species in the genus. *) Not including the nominate subspecies (typical form)."
},
{
"text": "Hydrophis cy... |
d5d6a9e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Nativism which says that certain concepts like grammer are hard-wired into the brain at birth is in contrast with what view that says brain does not have such innate beliefs? | Tabula rasa | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Nativism (psychology), a concept in psychology and philosophy which asserts certain concepts are \"native\" or in the brain at birth Linguistic nativism, a theory that grammar is largely hard-wired into the brain"
},
{
"text": "This is in contrast to the \"blank slate\" or tabula rasa view, w... |
d5d6aa520dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which ocean can the Scophthalmus maximus and the Gadus ogac be found? | Atlantic Ocean. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The turbot ( Scophthalmus maximus) is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea."
},
{
"text": "The Greenland cod (Gadus ogac), commonly known a... |
d5d6aaa20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the main prey of Pennsylvania's state insect? | The main prey of the Pennsylvania lightning bug, Pennsylvania's state insect, is other insects. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Pennsylvania lightning bug ( P. pensylvanica) is the state insect of Pennsylvania . At least 64 species are currently recognized, all restricted to temperate North America. They mainly occur from the East Coast to Texas."
},
{
"text": "P. pensylvanica is a somewhat flattened beetle 11 mil... |
d5d6aaca0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Marine Corps Recruit Depot is a military installation in what California city immediately adjacent to the Mexican border and is the second most populous city in the state? | It's in San Diego, CA. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "/ 32.74194°N 117.19722°W / 32.74194; -117.19722 Marine Corps Recruit Depot (commonly referred to as MCRD) San Diego is a United States Marine Corps military installation in San Diego, California. It lies between San Diego Bay and Interstate 5, adjacent to San Diego International Airport and the f... |
d5d6aaf20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The federal state with sixteen partly sovereign federated states and a system of federalism is from what country? | Germany. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen partly sovereign federated states ( German: Land (state), plural Länder (states); commonly informally Bundesland / federated state, plural Bundesländer / federated states)."
},
{
"text": "Federalism in Germany is made of... |
d5d6ab1a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who created the integrative approach to behavioral analysis and personality assessment which is published into several volumes? | Levis. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Formal Theory of Behavior seeks to qualify the physical properties of behavior through applying principles of Physics to the study of emotional energetic transformation. Levis has published several volumes on this research, including Conflict Analysis: The Formal Theory of Behavior and Conflict A... |
d5d6ab420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A tool or cleaning aid made of soft, porous material shares a name with what organisms that do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems? | Sponges | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A sponge is a tool or cleaning aid made of soft, porous material. Typically used for cleaning impervious surfaces, sponges are especially good at absorbing water and water-based solutions. Vegetable fiber sponge: wood fiber sponge combined with scouring pad. Animal fiber sponge: A Greek natural spong... |
d5d6ab6a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What, examples of which are Balıkesir and Antalya, were divided into sanjaks? | Provinces | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Antalya Province ( Turkish: Antalya ili) is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea . Antalya Province is the centre of Turkey's tourism industry, attracting 30% of foreign tourists visiting Turkey."
},
{
"text": "Neighbo... |
d5d6ab880dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Millardia meltada lives in what specific countries? | The soft-furred rat lives in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The soft-furred rat ( Millardia meltada ), or soft-furred metad, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to central Asia. Head and body length is 13–16 cm. Tail ss 12–14 cm. Yellowish to brownish gray dorsally and whitish in the underparts. Tail naked, blackish above, paler beneath."
},... |
d5d6abb00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims adhere to the Jaʽfari school of jurisprudence? | The Nizaris. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Nizaris ( Arabic: النزاريون , romanized : al-Nizāriyyūn, Persian: نزاریان , romanized : Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers."
},
{
"text": "Nizaris, along with Twelvers, adhere to the Jaʽfari schoo... |
d5d6abd80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The fossil remains for this species that is the only one of its type, and whose maximum wingspan reaches 28.5 ft, were found where? | Tropeognathus mesembrinus's fossil remains were found in the Romualdo Formation, in northeastern Brazil. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The type and only species is Tropeognathus mesembrinus. Fossil remains of Tropeognathus have been recovered from the Romualdo Formation, which is a Lagerstätte located in the Santana Group of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil."
},
{
"text": "The maximum wingspan estimate for Tropeognat... |
d5d6ac1e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What makes up the national dress worn by men and women in the country where the world's largest earth filled dam is located? | Shalwar kameez, the national dress of Pakistan, includes loose trousers and shirts. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Topi is located in the east of Swabi District of the Khyber Pukhtoonkwa Province of Pakistan. Topi is located to the west of the Tarbela Dam, the world's largest earth filled dam."
},
{
"text": "The shalwar kameez is national dress of Pakistan and is worn by men and women in all Five province... |
d5d6ac6e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The son of Louis I of Vaud of the House of Savoy served as regent for where? | The County of Savoy | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Louis II (1283×94 – 1348×49), son of Louis I of Vaud of the House of Savoy, was the Baron of Vaud from 1302 until his death. A military man, he fought widely in Italy and, during the first phase of the Hundred Years' War, in France."
},
{
"text": "A military man, he fought widely in Italy and... |
d5d6ac960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What caused the baronet who reaffirmed the influence of the Yoga Sutras on later systematizations of yoga to become interested in India? | He became interested in India by reading Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim as a teenager. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Yoga tradition holds the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali to be one of the foundational texts of classical Yoga philosophy. However, the appropriation - and misappropriation - of the Yoga Sutras and its influence on later systematizations of yoga has been questioned by scholars such as David Gordon White, bu... |
d5d6acbe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | British armed forces are currently deployed at what base in a country where the Argentinians tried to sabotage one of their ships during a battle? | They are based at Mount Pleasant. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Operation Algeciras was a foiled Argentine plan to sabotage a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar during the Falklands War. The Argentine reasoning was that if the British military felt vulnerable in Europe, they would decide to keep some vessels in European waters rather than send them to the Falklands ... |
d5d6acdc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The International Network of Engaged Buddhists connects members from around the world of a type of Buddhism practiced by what community? | The Plum Village community | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Since the founding of Plum Village in France, the Plum Village name has been widely associated with Nhat Hanh and his Sangha, and Engaged Buddhism has been referred to as the type of Buddhism that is practiced by the Plum Village community."
},
{
"text": "The International Network of Engaged ... |
d5d6ad040dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The sedimentary rock that includes mainly organic remains and precipitated carbonate shares its name with the first women's college in what state? | Limestone University was the first women's college in South Carolina. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Limestone was the first women's college in South Carolina and one of the first in the nation; it is the third-oldest college in South Carolina. Ten buildings on the campus, as well as the Limestone Springs and limestone quarry itself, are on the National Register of Historic Places."
},
{
"te... |
d5d6ad2c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The western tiger swallowtail and the pipevine swallowtail are both types of what? | Butterflies. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Papilio rutulus, the western tiger swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Papilionidae family. It is a member of the genus Papilio, of which Papilio appalachiensis and Papilio xuthus are also members."
},
{
"text": "Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowta... |
d5d6ad540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Elbow strikes and chokes are not allowed during the tournaments of what sport that is often held along talou events in wushu competition? | Sanda | text | [] | [
{
"text": "For safety reasons, some techniques from the self-defense form such as elbow strikes, chokes, and joint locks, are not allowed during tournaments."
},
{
"text": "Chinese martial artists also compete in non-Chinese or mixed combat sports, including boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts. Sa... |
d5d6adc20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The right-eyed flatfish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus and the Dover sole are both found in what continent? | Europe. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "In northern Europe it has some importance in fisheries as a food fish. Glyptocephalus cynoglossus is a right-eyed flatfish with a small mouth which reaches the forward edge of the lower eye. The mouth contains a single series of small, incisor like teeth."
},
{
"text": "A partial list of comm... |
d5d6ae120dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The four members of the genus Dacelowhich are native to where? | Australia and New Guinea | text | [] | [
{
"text": "It is one of four members of the genus Dacelowhich are commonly known as kookaburras. Alternative common names include barking or howling jackass, or Leach's kookaburra. [3]"
},
{
"text": "Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus Dacelo native to Australia and New Guinea, whi... |
d5d6ae620dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | City Hospital and what other show hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle, and Heather Mills was produced by Topical Television? | The General | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The General was a BBC fly-on-the-wall Television series hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle and Heather Mills. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital."
},
{
"text": "City Hospital later moved fr... |
d5d6ae8a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How can fluids to move through soil unimpeded? | Good porosity and high permeability | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Fine grained soils have a layer of adsorbed water strongly attached to their surface. This adsorbed layer is not free to move under gravity. It causes an obstruction to the flow of water in the pores and hence reduces the permeability of soils."
},
{
"text": "Soil bulk density, when determine... |
d5d6aeb20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Preston is a city in what place that has over 140 scheduled monuments including burial mounds, Roman remains, medieval sites, mining relics, castles and various bridges? | Lancashire | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Preston is a city in Lancashire, England, that contains about 340 listed buildings. Its recorded history goes back to the Roman era, and in the medieval period it was a market town and a port, its first charter being granted in 1179."
},
{
"text": "Lancashire has over 140 scheduled monuments ... |
d5d6aeda0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A conflict occurred that was a continuation of the Chinese Civil War and first strait crisis of what country, which in recent years a spate of military incidents have fueled mounting worries about the reliability of the older aircraft in its aging military fleet? | Taiwan | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The conflict was a continuation of the Chinese Civil War and First Taiwan Strait Crisis. The Republic of China (ROC) had begun to build military installations on the island of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu archipelago. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) began firing artillery at both Kinmen a... |
d5d6af0c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | If one reference frame assigns precisely the same time to two events that are at different points in space, a reference frame that is moving relative to the first will generally assign different values of what to the two events, which slows down the lower the gravitation potential is? | Time | text | [] | [
{
"text": "If one reference frame assigns precisely the same time to two events that are at different points in space, a reference frame that is moving relative to the first will generally assign different times to the two events (the only exception being when motion is exactly perpendicular to the line connect... |
d5d6af2a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which corner term refers to law and which to a metaphor of testing conditions? | The Four Corners Rule refers to law and the corner case refers to testing conditions. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The term \"corner case\" comes about by physical analogy with \"edge case\" as an extension of the \" flight envelope \" metaphor to a set of testing conditions whose boundaries are determined by the 2 n combinations of extreme (minimum and maximum) values for the number n of variables being tested, ... |
d5d6af520dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Virginia creeper "climbs" surfaces using what method? | It climbs smooth surfaces using small forked tendrils tipped with small strongly adhesive pads. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering plant in the grape family, Vitaceae. It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah... |
d5d6af7a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Why is the Heterometrus kanarensis unlikely to ever rival P. imperator in terms of status? | P. imperator holds the status of being one of the most popular pet scorpions. Heterometrus kanarensis is unlikely to ever ascend to that status given it is an endangered species. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Heterometrus kanarensis is a scorpion species found in Karnataka, India. It is mostly found in the Western Ghats, which is a biodiversity hotspot and a Pro player World Heritage Site. It is an endangered species. Habitat destruction is the reason for its dwindling numbers."
},
{
"text": "Pand... |
d5d6afa20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Quadric and Two-dimensional hyperbolic are both types of what? | Surfaces | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A hyperboloid is a quadric surface, that is, a surface defined as the zero set of a polynomial of degree two in three variables. Among quadric surfaces, a hyperboloid is characterized by not being a cone or a cylinder, having a center of symmetry, and intersecting many planes into hyperbolas."
},
... |
d5d6afca0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name of the language variety that has undergone substantial codification of grammar and occasionally refers to the entirety of a language that includes a standardized forms as one of its varieties? | Standard language | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A standard language (also standard variety, standard dialect, and standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of grammar and usage and is employed by a population for public communication."
},
{
"text": "The term standard language occasionally refers to the ent... |
d5d6b0100dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Varanes was a politician and general of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires who, in 393, was at the court in what city that was the capital of the Roman Empire? | In 393 Varanes was at the court in Constantinople. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Varanes ( floruit 393–410) was a politician and general of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires . His name suggests a Persian origin. In 393, Varanes was at the court in Constantinople."
},
{
"text": "Constantinople (/ˌkɒnstæntɪˈnoʊpəl/;[5] Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις Kōnstantinoupolis; Latin: ... |
d5d6b0420dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Wikipedia of what country, which has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned, has the most anonymous contributions as compared to other major languages in Wikipedia? | Japan | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Japanese has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. In language typology, it has many features divergent from most European languages."
},
{
"text": "The Japanese Wikipedia has the most... |
d5d6b0600dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What would have been the result of growing aconite in the late Roman times? | A death sentence, seeing as aconite is another name for Aconiturn napellus, A. napellus is an abbreviated form of that name, and by the end of the ancient Roman period, anyone growing A. napellus could have been legally sentenced to death. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Aconitum napellus, monk's-hood, aconite or wolfsbane, is a species of highly toxic flowering plant in the genus Aconitum of the family Ranunculaceae, native and endemic to western and central Europe. It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall, with hairless stems and leaves."... |
d5d6b0880dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the difference between the BGM-71 missile and the SM-6 missile? | The BGM-71 is a surface-to-surface missile while the SM-6 is surface-to-air missile. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Contemporary surface-to-surface missiles are usually guided. An unguided surface-to-surface missile is usually referred to as a rocket (for example, an RPG-7 or M72 LAW is an anti-tank rocket whereas a BGM-71 TOW or AT-2 Swatter is an anti-tank guided missile )."
},
{
"text": "Widely used mod... |
d5d6b0ba0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Neanderthals were present both in the Middle East and in where, whose Hominid dispersals refers to the colonisation of that continent by various species of hominid? | Europe | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Hominid dispersals in Europe refers to the colonisation of the European continent by various species of hominid, including hominins and archaic and modern humans . Short and repetitive migrations of archaic humans before 1 million years ago suggest that their residence in Europe was not permanent at ... |
d5d6b0d80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What country are cláirseach and the early mediaeval Loch Erne horn from? | Ireland/ | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to Ireland and Scotland. It is known as cláirseach in Irish and clàrsach in Scottish Gaelic. In Ireland and Scotland, it was a wire -strung instrument requiring great skill and long practice to play, and was associated with the Gaelic ruling clas... |
d5d6b1280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Was Topovske Supe established before or after the Red Cross concentration camp during World War II? | Before | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Red Cross concentration camp; German: KZ Crveni Krst; Serbian: Логор Црвени крст, romanized : Logor Crveni krst ), also known as the Niš concentration camp ( German: Lager Nich ), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during ... |
d5d6b1500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of battery is an automotive battery that is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times? | A rechargeable battery | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell, (or archaically accumulator) is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use. It i... |
d5d6b1780dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of wildflower was named in someones honor? | Trandescantia was named in a persons honor | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Tradescantia / ˌtrædɪˈskæntiə / is a genus of 75 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the New World from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by the common names spiderwort or Indian paint."
},... |
d5d6b1f00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Does the 18th parallel south or 45th parallel south pass through more land? | The 18th parallel south passes through more land. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The 18th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 18 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America . Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18° south passes thr... |
d5d6b2360dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A multiple rocket launcher ( MRL) or multiple launch rocket system ( MLRS) is a type of what system that is notoriously inaccurate? | rocket artillery | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The launcher is constructed using basketry. A multiple rocket launcher ( MRL) or multiple launch rocket system ( MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which assembled onto a same platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volley gun."
},... |
d5d6b25e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Abuja and Bago are both in what territory of Nigeria? | Federal Capital Territory | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Moshood Abiola National Stadium (formerly known as National Stadium, Abuja) is a multipurpose national sports stadium located in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The stadium serves as a home to the Nigerian national football team, as well as a center for various social, cultural, a... |
d5d6b2ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of item is the mixture of phlegmatized HMX and tungsten, that can be used in mining, engineering, or military applications? | An explosive material. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Explosive materials are produced in numerous physical forms for their use in mining, engineering, or military applications. The different physical forms and fabrication methods are grouped together in several use forms of explosives . Explosives are sometimes used in their pure forms, but most common... |
d5d6b2d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The one-handed American Manual Alphabet differs from what two-handed fingerspelling technique? | British Sign Language | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The American Manual Alphabet ( AMA) is a manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language . The letters and digits are signed as follows. In informal contexts, the handshapes are not made as distinctly as they are in formal contexts."
},
{
"text": "The simplest visual fo... |
d5d6b2fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Tongva's coast contains sea mammals, shellfish and what animal who's roe has omega-3s? | Fish | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The roe of marine animals, such as the roe of lumpsucker, hake, mullet, salmon, Atlantic bonito, mackerel, squid, and cuttlefish are especially rich sources of omega-3 fatty acids, but omega-3s are present in all fish roe. Also, a significant amount of vitamin B 12 is among the nutrients present in f... |
d5d6b3260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What British statesman born in 1762 is the only British prime minister to have been assasissinated? | Spencer Perceval KC is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor-general or attorney-general to have become prime minister. The younger son of an Anglo-Irish earl, Perceval was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge."
},
{
"text": "Spencer Percev... |
d5d6b34e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | During what war was the Mittelwerk factory built, and the forced labor camps by the Nazis established? | World War II. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "/ 51.5348; 10.751 Mittelwerk ( [ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for \"Central Works\") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapo... |
d5d6b3760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A CGS and CCO are both what? | Corporate officer. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "A Chief Global Strategist (CGS) is one of the highest-ranking corporate officers, administrators, corporate administrators, executives, or executive officers, in charge of the global strategy and the domestic and international expansion of a corporation, company, organization, or agency ."
},
{
... |
d5d6b3940dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the capital of the current Brazilian state that once included the territory of the Piratini Republic? | Porto Alegre is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, the Brazilian state that once included the territory of the Piratini Republic. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Antônio Parreiras. The Riograndense Republic, often called the Piratini Republic ( Portuguese: República Rio-Grandense or República do Piratini ), was a de facto state that seceded from the Empire of Brazil and roughly coincided with the present state of Rio Grande do Sul."
},
{
"text": "Rio ... |
d5d6b3e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What part of the body that protects the thorax has skin that appears to sink in during respiration? | The ribs protect the thorax and have skin that sinks during respiration. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "In humans and other hominids, the thorax is the chest region of the body between the neck and the abdomen, along with its internal organs and other contents. It is mostly protected and supported by the rib cage, spine, and shoulder girdle ."
},
{
"text": "During supra-sternal retractions, the... |
d5d6b4160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | DUSTOFF and Air Force One are both what? | Call sign. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "One specific call sign used Army wide is DUSTOFF, dating back to the first dedicated Air Ambulance unit in Vietnam . Fixed call signs for the United States Air Force stations begin with A, such as AIR, used by USAF Headquarters. The USAF also uses semi-fixed identifiers consisting of a name followed ... |
d5d6b4340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Chlorocebus sabaeus, Alouatta caraya, and the talapoin are all examples of what? | Monkies | text | [] | [
{
"text": "The black howler ( Alouatta caraya) (also known as black-and-gold howler) is a species of howler monkey, a large New World monkey, from northeastern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, and Paraguay. Together with the brown howler, it is the southernmost member of the Alouatta gen... |
d5d6b45c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Public key algorithms are fundamental security primitives in modern what, which typically consists of three algorithms? | Cryptosystems | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Public key algorithms are fundamental security primitives in modern cryptosystems, including applications and protocols which offer assurance of the confidentiality, authenticity and non-repudiability of electronic communications and data storage."
},
{
"text": "Typically, a cryptosystem cons... |
d5d6b4840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a lifestyle of non-sexual social nudity that naturism highlights an attitude favoring harmony with nature and respect for the environment? | Naturism | text | [] | [
{
"text": "Naturism is a lifestyle of non-sexual social nudity, and the cultural movement which advocates for and defends that lifestyle. Both may also be referred to as nudism."
},
{
"text": "Though the two terms are largely interchangeable, nudism emphasizes the practice of nudity, whereas naturism hi... |
d5d6b4ac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania had a culture relating to it bordering Kunda culture during the Mesolithic? | The Nemunas. | text | [] | [
{
"text": "It was located in the upper basin of the Neman River (present-day northern Poland, southern Lithuania, western Belarus and Kaliningrad Oblast ). In the north, the Neman culture bordered the Kunda culture during the Mesolithic and the Narva culture during the Neolithic."
},
{
"text": "The Nemu... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.