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"text": "Coghlan is a barrio (neighbourhood), of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina . It is the name of a middle class neighbourhood located between Belgrano, Saavedra, Núñez and Villa Urquiza; it was originally inhabited by Irish and English immigrants."
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d5d734e00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the capital of the state that includes the Indian parliamentary constituency of Birbhum? | Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal, the Indian state that includes the parliamentary constituency of Birbhum. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the western part of Birbhum district in West Bengal."
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d5d7353a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Pan-Nigerian and Romani are both examples of what? | Alphabets | text | [] | [
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"text": "The letter is also used in some Romani alphabets . In Emilian-Romagnol ä is used to represent [æ], occurring in some Emilian dialects, e.g. Bolognese bän [bæŋ] \"well\" and żänt [zæŋt] \"people\"."
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d5d735800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Lebanese Armed Forces are composed entirely of what? | Volunteers | text | [] | [
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d5d735d00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a type of both dodecahedron and triacontahedron? | Rhombic. | text | [] | [
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d5d735f80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome is a form of a disorder that is part of group of disorders that has been separated into how many classes? | 3 | text | [] | [
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"text": "Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome ( ALPS ), is a form of lymphoproliferative disorder (LPDs). It affects lymphocyte apoptosis. It is a rare genetic disorder of abnormal lymphocyte survival caused by defective Fas mediated apoptosis."
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d5d736160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The 1st Lord of Annandale was also an Earl of where? | Carrick | text | [] | [
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"text": "As Earl of Carrick, Robert the Bruce supported his family's claim to the Scottish throne and took part in William Wallace 's revolt against Edward I of England."
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"text": "Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, the first of the Bruce (de Brus) line, arrived in Scotland with David I in 112... |
d5d7363e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type fruit do dodo trees have? | drupes | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Sideroxylon grandiflorum fruit is analogous to the peach. They are both termed drupes because both have a hard endocarp, or pit, surrounding the seed, with the endocarp naturally splitting along a fracture line during germination. Preserved seeds."
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d5d736660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a rocket assisted projectile ( RAP) and what did the German Sturmtiger use as its main projectile? | A rocket assisted projectile ( RAP) is a cannon, howitzer, mortar, or recoilless rifle round incorporating a rocket motor for independent propulsion. The German Sturmtiger (1944) used a 380 mm Rocket Propelled Round as its main projectile. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A rocket assisted projectile ( RAP) is a cannon, howitzer, mortar, or recoilless rifle round incorporating a rocket motor for independent propulsion."
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d5d736b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 and the 30mm Type 5 cannon were both what? | Autocannons | text | [] | [
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"text": "The 30mm Type 5 cannon was a Japanese Navy autocannon used near the end of World War II. It was an indigenous 30 mm design with better performance than the Navy's earlier Oerlikon-derived Type 2 or the Imperial Army's Browning-derived Ho-155, although it was considerably heavier."
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d5d736de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, what is the former last name of the businesswoman in a family business who was unaware of her biological father? | Whedon. | text | [] | [
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d5d7374c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the number approximately equal to 2.71828 named after a Swiss mathematician, what is it a base of? | The natural logarithm. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The number e, known as Euler's number, is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828, and can be characterized in many ways. It is the base of the natural logarithm. It is the limit of (1 + 1/n)n as n approaches infinity, an expression that arises in the study of compound interest."
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d5d737740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Whose people had a vigesimal positional numeral system calling the number 20 kal, and the number 8,000 pic? | The Mayans. | text | [] | [
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d5d7379c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What does the word "Han" mean when used in reference to the emperor who Xiao Yan started his career as a Southern Qi official by serving the son of? | A reference to the Han dynasty of which he was a part | text | [] | [
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"text": "Xiao Yan was considered intelligent and handsome in his youth, and he started his career as a Southern Qi official by serving as military assistant for Emperor Wu 's son Xiao Zilun (蕭子倫) the Prince of Baling, and later served on the staff of the prime minister Wang Jian."
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d5d737e20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the year of discovery of the first particle that contains the quark whose symbol is s? | The first strange particle, a particle containing the quark whose symbol is s, was discovered in 1947. | text | [] | [
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d5d7385a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Gametophore and Androecium are both names of what? | parts of plants | text | [] | [
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d5d738820dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The medical procedure that delivers chemotherapy directly to the liver has a term in common with a branch of the celiac artery: what is this term? | The Hepatic Arterial Infusion and the common hepatic artery both have the term 'hepatic' in common. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It raises from the common hepatic artery, a branch of the celiac artery. The hepatic artery proper arises from the common hepatic artery and runs alongside the portal vein and the common bile duct to form the portal triad. A branch of the common hepatic artery –the gastroduodenal artery gives off the... |
d5d738aa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The town in Kerala whose name means "humpback mango tree" is in a district that has what town as its headquarters? | Koonammavu, the town in Kerala whose name means "humpback mango tree", is located in Ernakulam District, whose headquarters is in Kakkanad. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The name Koonammavu is derived from Koonan-Mavu, which means Humpback MangoTree. It is believed that the great ruler Tippu Sultan once passed by the town and forgot his sword and he remembered he placed it in a humpback mango tree thus got the name Koonamavu."
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d5d738fa0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The membrane what, which Phospholipidosis is characterized by the excess accumulation of in tissues, incorporate fatty acids of varying length and saturation? | Phospholipids | text | [] | [
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"text": "Phospholipidosis is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by the excess accumulation of phospholipids in tissues. Certain cases may be triggered by medications. The traditional method to evaluate DIPL is visual confirmation of myeloid bodies in tissues by electron microscopy."
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d5d739220dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Great Unconformity of Powell in the Grand Canyon is a regional what, which is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous? | An uncomformity | text | [] | [
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"text": "An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous."
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d5d7394a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What country was in conflict with the powerful city-state Venice that used to extend over modern Liguria and Piedmont. Sardinia, Corsica, Nice? | Genoa | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Republic of Genoa extended over modern Liguria and Piedmont, Sardinia, Corsica, Nice and had practically complete control of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Through Genoese participation on the Crusades, Genoese colonies were established in the Middle East, in the Aegean, in Sicily and Northern Africa ."
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d5d739720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The romantic Chinese folk tale between Zhinü and Niulang inspired what festivals of China, Japan, and Korea? | Qixi, Tanabata, and Chilseok. | text | [] | [
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d5d739cc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where can you find Cellana sandwicensis, Polyscias sandwicensis, and Polyscias racemosa? | Hawaii | text | [] | [
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d5d73a3a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What family came to be known as Kolathiri over the centuries that would have started out as a branch of the Cheras and the Ay? | The Mushika Family. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Kolathiri would have started out as a branch of the Cheras and the Ay in the period it was known as Mushika."
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d5d73a620dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Mongols practiced biological warfare by catapulting diseased cadavers into the cities they besieged, with fleas acting as vectors to spread what bubonic plague pandemic that is the most fatal in human history? | They were believed to have spread The Black Death. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Mongols practised biological warfare by catapulting diseased cadavers into the cities they besieged. It is believed that fleas remaining on the bodies of the cadavers may have acted as vectors to spread the Black Death. About half the population of Kievan Rus' may have died during the Mongol inva... |
d5d73a8a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are there more parts of the Codename: Panzers series or more episodes of the Codename TV series? | There are more episodes of Codename. | text | [] | [
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d5d73ab20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ulmus pumila is sometimes miscalled as what country's Elm, that the Varinga repens Raf. Ficus pumila is native to? | Chinese. | text | [] | [
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d5d73ada0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | If a strange quark and an up quark were combined, what would their mass be? | 493.677 ± 0.013 MeV | text | [] | [
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d5d73b020dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name for the type of climate of places above the tree line that has plants that can adapt to harsh conditions like wind, drought, and low temperatures? | Alpine climate | text | [] | [
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"text": "Alpine plants are adapted to the harsh conditions of the alpine environment, which include low temperatures, dryness, ultraviolet radiation, wind, drought, poor nutritional soil, and a short growing season. Some alpine plants serve as medicinal plants ."
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d5d73b340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon used in WWII was deployed onto what kinds of ships? | Convoy escort warships. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Hedgehog (also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector) was a forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon that was used primarily during the Second World War. The device, which was developed by the Royal Navy, fired up to 24 spigot mortars ahead of a ship when attacking a U-boat."
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d5d73b5c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What process is environmentally friendly because it prevents hazardous waste in regards to computer parts that are packed into low stacks on wooden pallets? | Recycling. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. Computer recycling, electronic recycling or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics."
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d5d73b840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Northern Bavarian is a dialect of the Bavarian language, together with Southern Bavarian and what, which forms a subgroup of Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on the northern side of the Eastern Alps? | Central Bavarian | text | [] | [
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d5d73bac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An ischemic stroke and cerebrovascular disease both affect what part of the body? | Brain. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It results from a blockage or narrowing in the arteries supplying blood and oxygen to the brain. The restricted oxygen due to the restricted blood supply causes an ischemic stroke, which can result in an infarction if the blood flow is not restored within a relatively short period of time."
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d5d73c240dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Mira Furlan and Bruce Boxleitner both played what? | Lead characters in Babylon 5 | text | [] | [
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d5d73c4c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which substance have a subfamily of which Serritermitidae is also a family been discovered? | Amber | text | [] | [
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"text": "A new subfamily, genus and species of termite (Isoptera) from New Jersey Cretaceous amber. In D. Grimaldi (ed.) Studies on fossils in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden."
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d5d73c740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The structure that was originally built in the second half of the ninth century by the Muslims, then extended and enlarged over the centuries, particularly after 1560, and La Latina are both in what city? | Madrid | text | [] | [
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"text": "La Latina is a historic neighborhood in the Centro district of downtown Madrid, Spain. La Latina occupies the place of the oldest area in Madrid, the Islamic citadel inside the city walls, with narrow streets and large squares. It is administratively locked almost entirely within the district of Pala... |
d5d73c9c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What rivers pass through Rotherham? | River Don and River Rother. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It rises near Clay Cross in Derbyshire and flows in a generally northwards direction through the centre of Chesterfield, where it feeds the Chesterfield Canal, and on through the Rother Valley Country Park and several districts of Sheffield before joining the River Don at Rotherham in Yorkshire ."
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d5d73cc40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Peter the Apostle and the Desert Mother who claimed descent from Agamemnon are both what kind of holy individual? | A Saint. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Saint Paula of Rome (AD 347–404) was an ancient Roman saint and early Desert Mother. A member of one of the richest senatorial families which claimed descent from Agamemnon, Paula was the daughter of Blesilla and Rogatus, from the great clan of the Furii Camilli."
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d5d73cec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Stretches and scorpion holds are both names for what? | Submission holds | text | [] | [
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d5d73d140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall can be found at St Austell? | The Cornubian batholith. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The lines represents the 20 mGal Bouguer anomaly. The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall, the south-western peninsula of Great Britain."
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d5d73d3c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | ATC code C08 and ATC code A are both part of what system? | The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System | text | [] | [
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"text": "ATC code C08 Calcium channel blockers is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a system of alphanumeric codes developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the classification of drugs and other medical products."
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d5d73d640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was introduced by Leonhard Euler to describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system that can be defined by elemental geometry or by composition of rotations? | Euler angles | text | [] | [
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"text": "Euler angles can be defined by elemental geometry or by composition of rotations. The geometrical definition demonstrates that three composed elemental rotations (rotations about the axes of a coordinate system) are always sufficient to reach any target frame."
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d5d73d8c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The 29th Assembly District of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts of the State Assembly of a state with how many districts in its State Senate? | 33 | text | [] | [
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"text": "The 12th Senate District of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the Wisconsin State Senate. Located in northern Wisconsin, the district comprises Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Menominee, and Oneida counties, and most of Marinette, Oconto, and Vilas counties, as well as parts of northern Marath... |
d5d73db40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Siamese neural network is considered as what kind of neural network that is an interconnected group of nodes, inspired by a simplification of neurons in a brain? | Artificial neural network. | text | [] | [
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d5d73e040dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What do people usually purchase ready-made during the year and only prepare it at home during Diwali that is popular in Western India, especially in north India specially Uttar Pradesh? | shankarpali | text | [] | [
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"text": "Shankarpali is popular in Western India, especially in north India specially Uttar Pradesh . It's North Indian variant known as khurma or laktho is also popular in states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, and eastern Uttar Pradesh."
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d5d73e540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the country where glaciers and ice caps cover 11% of the total land area, what is the first glacier to have lost that title? | Ok, formerly Okjökull, was the first glacier in Iceland to lose its title as a glacier. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The glaciers and ice caps of Iceland cover 11% of the land area of the country (about 11,400 km² out of the total area of 103,125 km²) and have a considerable impact on its landscape and meteorology."
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d5d73e7c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ali ibn Abi Talib and Uthman ibn al-Affan were both what? | Cliphs | text | [] | [
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d5d73ef40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In Slovenia where it is a a parliamentary democracy and a republic, how are bills normally passed there? | By a majority of the present MPs. | text | [] | [
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"text": "By Constitution of Slovenia the country is a parliamentary democracy and a republic. Within its government, power is shared between a directly elected president, a prime minister, and an incompletely bicameral legislature."
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d5d73f1c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The central element of Eastern Orthodox theology comprised of the teachings of Gregory Palamas was canonized as dogma in what year? | The Palamite doctrine was canonized as Eastern Orthodox dogma in 1351. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The central idea of the Palamite theology is a distinction between the divine essence and the divine energies that is not a merely conceptual distinction. Palamism is a central element of Eastern Orthodox theology, being made into dogma in the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Hesychast councils."
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d5d73f440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What British comedy show was filmed at the island where the Silures settled and left settlements nearby? | Gavin & Stacey | text | [] | [
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"text": "Together with much of South Wales, Barry Island was settled by a Celtic British tribe called the Silures. There have been five Bronze Age burial mounds, or cairns, recorded on Friars Point. Although the Roman occupation left no physical impression on Barry Island, there were Romano-British settlement... |
d5d73f6c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Commission concluded that what country, whose most important security body within the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs was The Main Directorate of State Security, was responsible for the massacre? | The Soviet Union | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Main Directorate of State Security ( Russian: Glavnoe upravlenie gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, Главное управление государственной безопасности, ГУГБ, GUGB) was the name of the Soviet most important security body within the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) USSR."
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d5d73fbc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Is the single most common diagnosis for spinal surgery the only area of the body that can be diagnosed with that problem? | Stenosis can be diagnosed in any blood vessel or tubular organ, not just the spine. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A stenosis (from Ancient Greek στενός, \"narrow\") is an abnormal narrowing in a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure such as foramina and canals. It is also sometimes called a stricture (as in urethral stricture )."
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d5d740160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ganapathi S Poduval and Bala Palanisamy both work in what? | Film | text | [] | [
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"text": "Bala at Salim Movie Audio Launch. Bala Palanisamy is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Often considered to be one of the finest Indian directors, Bala is widely acclaimed for \"revolutionizing Tamil cinema\" through his realistic, dark and disturbing depict... |
d5d740660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many governorates is Syria divided into how many districts make up a governorate? | Syria is divided into fourteen governorates which are in turn divided into sixty districts. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The governorates are divided into sixty districts ( manāṭiq, singular minṭaqah ), which are further divided into subdistricts ( nawāḥī, singular nāḥiyah ). The nawāḥī contain villages, which are the smallest administrative units."
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d5d740980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Modern versions of the most common type of golf club found in a standard set are usually made out of what type of alloy? | Modern irons are investment-cast out of steel alloys. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Irons are the most common type of club; a standard set of 14 golf clubs will usually contain between 7 and 11 irons, including wedges."
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"text": "Modern irons are investment-cast out of steel alloys, which allows for better-engineered ‘cavity-back’ designs that have lower centers of mass ... |
d5d740c00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The thing that commonly target protein phosphatases encodes what unique domain? | the LT-stabilization domain | text | [] | [
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"text": "Polyomavirus small T antigens commonly target protein phosphatase 2A ( PP2A ), a key multisubunit regulator of multiple pathways including Akt, the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, and the stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) pathway."
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d5d740e80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS has a small village called New York found in Tyne and Wear? | North East England. | text | [] | [
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"text": "North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. The region includes the counties of Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Northumberland and a small part of North Yorkshire."
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d5d741100dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What cat-sized marsupial has a prehensile tail to aid in climbing is living in the Cape York region of Australia? | The common spotted cuscus. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The common spotted cuscus ( Spilocuscus maculatus ), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands. It is known as aklang or gabi in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea."
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d5d741380dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What does the latin name for pixie cup lichen mean? | arbuscula means bush or shrub, perhaps because the lichen resembles a bush. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Cladonia arbuscula is a species of lichen in the family Cladoniaceae . The species name \"arbuscula\" is Latin for the word \"bush\" or \"shrub\", which may be due to the fact that the lichen has branches that resemble a bush. C. arbuscula has 6 subspecies:"
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"text": "Cladonia asahinae, t... |
d5d7417e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which lagoon is the last lagoon that the Tano River reaches in the country that is home to the Akan people? | The Aby Lagoon is the last lagoon the Tano River reaches in Ivory Coast where the Akan people live. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ivory Coast has more than 60 ethnic groups, usually classified into five principal divisions: Akan (east and center, including Lagoon peoples of the southeast), Krou (southwest), Southern Mandé (west), Northern Mandé (northwest), Sénoufo/ Lobi (north center and northeast)."
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"text": "The ... |
d5d741d80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What South Indian culture created the architecture of the Peruvudaiyaar Temple and had the poets Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar? | Tamil. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Peruvudaiyaar Temple, also called Rajarajeswaram , is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located in South bank of Kaveri river in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the largest South Indian temples and an exemplary example of a fully realized Tamil architecture."
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d5d742000dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Tyler Okonama's mother comes from what society with a population majority consisting of Old World immigrants and their descendants? | Canada. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants."
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"text": "Tyler Okonama, better known as Tyler, the Creator, r... |
d5d742460dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The sexes of the only member of the genus Clytoceyxis can be distinguished how? | Both sexes of the shovel-billed kookaburra are similar in appearance, but are easily recognized from the color of the tail. The male has a dark bluish tail while female's is rufous. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The single member of the genus Clytoceyxis commonly called the shovel-billed kookaburra. Behaviour[edit] Kookaburras are almost exclusively carnivorous, eating mice, snakes, insects, small reptiles, and the young of other birds; unlike many other kingfishers, they rarely eat fish, although they have ... |
d5d742be0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where was Caesar's alleged homosexual lover Nicomedes from? | Bithynia | text | [] | [
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"text": "With regard to the alleged \"affair\" with Nicomedia, the \"accusation\" was that Caesar played the \"female role\" during sexual encounters. His having sex with another male would not have been the problem. For the noble classes and rulers to engage in such acts was not at all unusual."
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d5d742e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | During the Civil War, were the Border states more aligned economically with the Union or with the Confederacy. | Economically, the border states were aligned with the union. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Border states were those states that during the American Civil War did not leave the Union. The border states were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. After West Virginia separated from Virginia, it was also considered a border state."
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"text": "Most border states had strong t... |
d5d7430e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The breakdown of food is done first mechanically by chewing in what process? | Digestion. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Digestion is a form of catabolism that is often divided into two processes based on how food is broken down: mechanical and chemical digestion. The term mechanical digestion refers to the physical breakdown of large pieces of food into smaller pieces which can subsequently be accessed by digestive en... |
d5d7435e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | triheptagonal tiling and snub square tiling are examples of what type of tiling? | Semiregular | text | [] | [
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"text": "In geometry, the triheptagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane, representing a rectified Order-3 heptagonal tiling. There are two triangles and two heptagons alternating on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of r {7,3}. Compare to trihexagonal tiling with vertex configuration ... |
d5d743860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The National Republican Guard or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of what country which is the westernmost sovereign state in mainland Europe? | It's the national gendarmerie force of Portugal. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The National Republican Guard ( Portuguese: Guarda Nacional Republicana) or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal . Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Public Security Police (PSP) ."
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d5d743ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The UK's foremost diplomatic representative in Afghanistan is a representative of the what? | Crown | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Afghanistan is the United Kingdom 's foremost diplomatic representative in Afghanistan, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Kabul. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ."
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"text": "Al... |
d5d743fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What item does evangelical, low church, and non-conformist Christian movement that included Hudson Taylor think is the supreme authority for church doctrine? | This Christian movement thinks that the Bible is the supreme authority for church doctrine. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Most faith missionaries are not financially supported by denominations. Early advocates of faith missions included many Plymouth Brethren missionaries such as: Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission, who advocated \"Moving men, by God, through prayer alone\" and n... |
d5d744260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The squid -based snack called Rabas are eaten by what people that had their mythology diluted by Celtic mythology and Roman mythology? | The Cantabrians. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Rabas are squid -based snack commonly consumed by Cantabrians. Seafood is widely used, from the entire coast and the Bay of Santander in particular, including clams, mussels, pod razors, cockles, crabs, barnacles, crayfish, snails, lobster, and squid. Fish include sea bass, hake, scorpion fish, ancho... |
d5d7444e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ibrahim ibn Muhammad was the third son of what person born approximately 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca? | Muhammad | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ( Arabic: إِبْرَاهِيم ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ) was the third son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Maria al-Qibtiyya."
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"text": "Born approximately 570 CE ( Year of the Elephant) in the Arabian city of Mecca, Muhammad was orphaned at the age of six. He was raised under the ... |
d5d7449e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | To classify islands, rocks and reefs, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics uses data from the Geographical Department of the Faculty of Science of what university, that's the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe, | They use data from the University of Zagreb to classify islands, rocks and reefs. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Croatian Bureau of Statistics uses data from the Geographical Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb, which classifies a total of 1,185 islands, rocks and reefs: 48 inhabited islands, 670 uninhabited islands ( Croatian: otoci ), 389 rocks ( hridi) and 78 reefs ( grebeni ... |
d5d744ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An eyepiece is a type of what, which the eye is considered a system of two of? | Lens | text | [] | [
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"text": "An eyepiece, or ocular lens, is a type of lens that is attached to a variety of optical devices such as telescopes and microscopes. It is so named because it is usually the lens that is closest to the eye when someone looks through the device."
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d5d745160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | At a minimum an activity measure by a performance indicator must have an input and what else? | Output | text | [] | [
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"text": "A performance indicator or key performance indicator ( KPI) is a type of performance measurement. KPIs evaluate the success of an organization or of a particular activity (such as projects, programs, products and other initiatives) in which it engages."
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d5d745660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What condition is represented by Midgetville and the Kingdom of the Little People? | Both have people with dwarfism. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Midgetville (also known as \"tiny towns\") refers to real or legendary communities of \" midgets \", people with forms of dwarfism who are normally proportioned, or collections of small \"midget-sized\" houses. Real or legendary, they are at times given fanciful qualities (see Little people (mytholog... |
d5d7458e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The ninth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also served as a member of the National Advisory Committee to what conference? | Marion Isabelle Sims Smith served as a member of the National Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Spafford served as a member of the National Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging. She was the vice president of the American Mothers Committee and Advisory Board. Spafford was the first female member of the Board of Governors of the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City."
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d5d745b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many years were between the event of Greece and Afghanistan first having contact and the event of Greece losing Bactria? | There were 185 years in between these events. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Because of their dual territorial possessions in Bactria and India, these kings, starting with Demetrius I, are variously described as Indo-Greek, Indo-Bactrian, or Greco-Bactrian. After losing Bactria around circa 145 BCE during the rule of Eucratides and Menander I, the Greeks were generally called... |
d5d745de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Paschal II and Innocent II were both what? | Popes | text | [] | [
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"text": "Omne datum optimum (Latin for \"Every perfect gift\", a quotation from the Epistle of James) was a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent II in 1139 that initially endorsed the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon ( Knights Templar ), in which the Templar Rule was officially a... |
d5d7462e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A tumulus is a mound of what material that Mottes are structures made of in addition to stone? | Earth | text | [] | [
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"text": "A tumulus or barrow is a mound of earth created over a tomb. A cross dyke or cross-ridge dyke is a bank and ditch, or sometimes a ditch between two banks, that crosses a ridge or spur of high ground. Found in Europe and often belonging to the later Bronze Age or Iron Age."
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d5d746600dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The daughter of Hippodamia and Autonous was named after what living organism? | A plant. | text | [] | [
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"text": "For this reason he named his children after such plants: Acanthus, Schoeneus and Acanthis, and his oldest son Erodius, because his lands had been eroded. Erodius was extremely fond of these herds of horses which he pastured in the meadows."
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"text": "In Greek mythology, Acanthis (Ancient ... |
d5d7471e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who existed first: Marcus Valerius Senecio or Marcus Aemilius Scaurus? | Marcus Aemilius Scaurus existed first. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (161–89 BC) was a Roman statesman who served as consul in 115 BC. He was also a long-standing princeps senatus, occupying the post from 115 until his death in late 89 or early 88 BC, and as such was widely considered one of the most prestigious and influential politicians of t... |
d5d747460dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What bomber designed by Gowadia features a low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses? | The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber | text | [] | [
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"text": "As a design engineer, Gowadia was reportedly one of the principal designers of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, who conceived and conceptually designed the B-2 bomber's entire propulsion system and billed himself as the \"father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking m... |
d5d7476e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What fish are eaten by a parasitic carnivorous species that is suspected to have used canals to gain access to the North American Great Lakes? | lake trout | text | [] | [
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"text": "There are about 38 known extant species of lampreys and five known extinct species. Parasitic carnivorous species are the most well-known, and feed by boring into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood; but only 18 species of lampreys engage in this micropredatory lifestyle."
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d5d747a00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | HFO-1233zd and the substance prepared from pentaerythritol are both in what color? | They are colorless. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is a colorless liquid. Featuring two allylic chloride substituents, it is di alkylating agent . It is prepared from pentaerythritol via a multistep procedure, beginning with the partial chlorination."
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"text": "1-Chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HFO-1233zd) is the unsaturated chlorofluor... |
d5d747c80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A cunningham is used to change the shape of a thing whose names of corners do what? | Vary | text | [] | [
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"text": "The names of corners of sails vary, depending on shape and symmetry. Head – In a triangular sail, the corner where the luff and the leech connect is called the head. On a square sail, the top corners are head cringles, where there are grommets, called cringles."
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"text": "In sailing, a cu... |
d5d748180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the world's largest metropolis by population that is found in the fastest-growing continent in the world? | Tokyo. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Asian continent is one of the fastest-growing continents in the World, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo in Japan is the world's largest metropolitan area by population."
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"text": "The largest city by population using the city proper definition, whi... |
d5d748400dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Would middle age adults have an upper range higher or lower than the maximum amount delivered by the SACD format? | Their range was lower. | text | [] | [
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"text": "This gives the format a greater dynamic range and wider frequency response than the CD. The SACD format is capable of delivering a dynamic range of 120 dB from 20 Hz to 20 kHz and an extended frequency response up to 100 kHz, although most currently available players list an upper limit of 70–90 kHz,... |
d5d748b80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The laws of classical what, a branch of which is Mechanics, are good enough to study objects that move much slower than the speed of light, and are not microscopic? | Physics | text | [] | [
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"text": "The laws of classical physics are good enough to study objects that move much slower than the speed of light, and are not microscopic. When scientists first studied quantum mechanics, they had to create a new set of laws, which was the start of modern physics."
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"text": "Mechanics, a bran... |
d5d748d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What recreational opioid also has practical medical effects to relieve pain in childbirth or heart attacks? | Heroin. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Diamorphine is used medically in several countries to relieve pain, such as during childbirth or a heart attack, as well as in opioid replacement therapy. It is typically injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be smoked, snorted, or inhaled."
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"text": "Heroin, also known as diacet... |
d5d748fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What has been found to be ubiquitous throughout the entire body related to adenosine which has an inhibitory function to the CNS? | The adenosine A 1 receptor. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The adenosine A 1 receptor has been found to be ubiquitous throughout the entire body. This receptor has an inhibitory function on most of the tissues in which it is expressed. In the brain, it slows metabolic activity by a combination of actions."
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"text": "In general, adenosine has an i... |
d5d749440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was Western equivalent of the title that was held by the son-in-law of Andronikos Palaiologos from 1252 to 1253? | The Western equivalent of this title was grand seneschal. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Following the Fourth Crusade, it appears that in the Latin Empire and the other Latin states formed on Byzantine soil, the title of megas domestikos was used as the Greek equivalent of the Western title of [grand] seneschal ( Latin: [magnus] senescallus )."
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"text": "Considered, according... |
d5d7499e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | L. tigrinum was once the erroneous scientific name of what plant with the Chinese common name of dào chuí lián? | Tiger lily. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Its common name is tiger lily. Although this name is ambiguous across several species, it is correctly applied to this species alone. The Chinese common names include juǎn dān ( 卷 丹, lit. \"reflexed red\"), hǔ pí bǎi hé ( 虎 皮 百合, lit. \"tiger-skin lily\") and dào chuí lián ( 倒 垂 蓮, lit. \"upside-down... |
d5d749ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The cholinesterase inhibitor that has been used by scientists to study acute and chronic effects of organophosphate intoxication can be used to try to combat what eye condition? | Glaucoma. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Paraoxon has been used by scientists to study acute and chronic effects of organophosphate intoxication. It is easily absorbed through skin, and was allegedly used as an assassination weapon by the apartheid-era South African chemical weapons program Project Coast."
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d5d74a160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Ustaše 's largest genocidal massacres were carried out in Bosanska Krajina and in places in what puppet state created by the Axis powers? | Independent State of Croatia | text | [] | [
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"text": "The majority of massacres were committed by Yugoslav factions during the civil war, while a number were committed by invading Axis forces. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, puppet-state Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was created by Axis powers in the areas of most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia... |
d5d74a660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What disease from the beech scale insect can infect the oriental beech trees in Europe? | The beech bark disease. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The natural range extends from southern Sweden to northern Sicily, west to France, southern England, northern Portugal, central Spain, and east to northwest Turkey, where it intergrades with the oriental beech ( Fagus orientalis ), which replaces it further east."
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"text": "Beech bark dis... |
d5d74b060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is considered theft, and therefore immoral in a number of political philosophies considered radical and the study or determination of tax on a person or business subject to the tax laws? | Taxation. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The position that taxation is theft, and therefore immoral, is found in a number of political philosophies considered radical. It marks a significant departure from conservatism and classical liberalism. This position is often held by anarcho-capitalists, objectivists, most minarchists, right-wing li... |
d5d74b600dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How much bigger is the interior angle in a concave shape classification that includes a tetragon in analogy to a pentagon and hexagon? | 180°. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A Hjelmslev quadrilateral is a quadrilateral with two right angles at opposite vertices. In a concave quadrilateral, one interior angle is bigger than 180°, and one of the two diagonals lies outside the quadrilateral. A dart (or arrowhead) is a concave quadrilateral with bilateral symmetry like a kit... |
d5d74bce0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | JFACC is given the authority necessary to accomplish what? | Mssions and tasks assigned by the establishing commander | text | [] | [
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"text": "The joint force air component commander is given the authority necessary to accomplish missions and tasks assigned by the establishing commander.\""
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"text": "Joint force air component commander ( JFACC) is a United States Department of Defense doctrinal term. It is pronounced \"Jay-Fack\... |
d5d74bec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Hellraiser film franchise is based on a novella by what English playwright and novelist born in 1952? | The franchise is based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by English author Clive Barker | text | [] | [
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"text": "The franchise is based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by English author Clive Barker, who also wrote and directed the film adaptation of his story, Hellraiser. The films, as well as the comic book series, continually feature the Cenobite Pinhead ."
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"text": "Clive Barker (born 5 Octob... |
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