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d5d843080dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Patagones or Patagonian giants were a race of giant humans rumoured to be living in where, which in a small portion of its northwestern section indigenous peoples practiced agriculture? | Patagonia | text | [] | [
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d5d843800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who is the sister of the character who stars alongside Phoenix Wright in the visual novel game Trials and Tribulations? | Maya Fey | text | [] | [
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"text": "Other featured characters include Maya Fey, Mia's sister and a spirit medium who acts as Phoenix's secretary and assistant, and her young cousin Pearl Fey. After Mia was killed during the events of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Phoenix took over her law practice."
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d5d843a80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The human brain has a limited short-term what that the hippocampus regulated function of? | memory | text | [] | [
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d5d844200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the basic shape of the organism that shares part of a common name with the Polychaetes? | It is in a cylindrical tube-in-a-tube shape. | text | [] | [
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"text": "From front to back, the basic shape of the earthworm is a cylindrical tube-in-a-tube, divided into a series of segments (called metamerisms) that compartmentalize the body."
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d5d844700dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The historic art and history museum located in the only region of Belgium without provinces is part of what? | Belgian Federal Science Policy Office | text | [] | [
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"text": "The third region, the Brussels Capital Region, is not divided into provinces, as it was originally only a small part of a province itself. Most of the provinces take their name from earlier duchies and counties of similar location, while their territory is mostly based on the departments installed du... |
d5d844980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is an example of Organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy in America? | A striking example of OPIDN occurred during the 1930s Prohibition Era when thousands of men in the American South and Midwest developed arm and leg weakness and pain after drinking a medicinal alcohol substitute. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy ( OPIDN ), also called organophosphate-induced delayed polyneuropathy ( OPIDP ), is a neuropathy caused by killing of neurons in the central nervous system, especially in the spinal cord, as a result of acute or chronic organophosphate poisoning ."
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d5d844b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Penrose interpretation speculating about the relationship between quantum mechanics and general relativity is what type of theory? | Objective collapse theory | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Penrose interpretation is a speculation by Roger Penrose about the relationship between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Penrose proposes that a quantum state remains in superposition until the difference of space-time curvature attains a significant level. ."
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d5d844de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the name of the passage that is said to be important for travel from the North through the Salish Sea and is also a major channel between the Georgia and Johnstone Straits? | Discovery Passage | text | [] | [
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d5d845060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Tempo Loss Bishop Exchange and Bishop Exchange Climbing Silver are both what? | Bishop Exchange openings | text | [] | [
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d5d8452e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The American brand of toothpaste and other oral hygiene products mainly manufactured in Greensboro, NC is sold under what name in many countries in Europe? | Crest is sold as Blend-A-Med in many European countries. | text | [] | [
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d5d845560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which state, whose capital and largest city is Boston, is also part of New England? | Massachusetts. | text | [] | [
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d5d845d80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Odes is a book in the Eastern Orthodox version of what thing that The Book of Revelation is the final book in? | The Bible | text | [] | [
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d5d846000dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is Cortana and who is it named after? | Cortana is a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft which uses the Bing search engine to perform tasks such as setting reminders and answering questions for the user. It is named after Cortana, a synthetic intelligence character in Microsoft's Halo video game franchise originating in Bungie folklore, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version. | text | [] | [
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d5d846280dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | MLA, ASA, and APA are all systems regarding what type of reference to a published item? | A bibliographic citation. | text | [] | [
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d5d846460dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which person born on Chios was the first person to write an orderly geometry textbook? | Hippocrates of Chios was born on the isle of Chios. He was the first to write a systematically organized geometry textbook. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The major accomplishment of Hippocrates is that he was the first to write a systematically organized geometry textbook, called Elements (Στοιχεῖα, Stoicheia ), that is, basic theorems, or building blocks of mathematical theory."
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d5d8466e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which practitioners of the practice of influencing the decisions and conduct of foreign governments or organizations through dialogue, negotiation, and other nonviolent means, cannot be arrested? | Diplomats | text | [] | [
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d5d846960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When was the first datable mention of the King that underwent unwitting incest with his sister? | In the 9th-century. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Historia Brittonum, a 9th-century Latin historical compilation attributed in some late manuscripts to a Welsh cleric called Nennius, contains the first datable mention of King Arthur, listing twelve battles that Arthur fought. These culminate in the Battle of Badon, where he is said to have singl... |
d5d846be0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in China, founded by a family of Xianbei ethnicity, changed their name to what word that meant "blanket" in that language? | Tufa" means "blanket"; the Tuoba family that founded Southern Liang changed it to this. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Southern Liang ( Chinese: 南凉; pinyin: Nánliáng, 397-414) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in China. The founding family Tufa was of Xianbei ethnicity and distant relative of the Tuoba imperial house of Northern Wei."
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d5d846e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Cauchy principal value and Schwarzian derivative are both concepts in what? | Mathematics | text | [] | [
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d5d8470e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The voiced palato-alveolar fricative, voiced alveolar lateral flap and voiced alveolar fricatives are all what type of sound? | Consonantal sounds | text | [] | [
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d5d847360dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The nucleus that is a major relay center for unconscious proprioception is a group of interneurons found in the medial part of what? | Lamina VII | text | [] | [
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d5d847860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament who is the only female judge mentioned in the bible? | Deborah in the Book of Judges is the only female judge mentioned in the Bible. | text | [] | [
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"text": "According to the Book of Judges, Deborah ( Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה , Dəḇōrāh, \" bee \"; Arabic: دبوراه , Dabūrāh) was a prophetess of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel and the only female judge mentioned in the Bible."
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d5d847d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The airport located 30 km (19 mi) east of Downtown Port of Spain that is one of two international airports in Trinidad and Tobago is what ranking among the busiest airports in the English Caribbean in terms of passengers served ? | Third | text | [] | [
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d5d847fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Slave Craton includes what rock body exposed on an island about 300 kilometres north of Yellowknife? | Acasta Gneiss | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Slave Craton is one of the blocks that compose the Precambrian core of North America, also known as the palaeocontinent Laurentia."
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d5d848260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly engaged in what, defined as cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime, with the Axis Powers? | Collaborationism | text | [] | [
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"text": "Within nations occupied by the Axis powers in World War II, some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly collaborated with the Axis Powers."
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d5d8484e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The what is the station belonging to the category of transportation system that Holland Village station is a part of that serves the suburbs of Bukit Dukung, Kampung Sekamat, and Sungai Balak in Malaysia? | Bukit Dukung station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station serving these suburbs. | text | [] | [
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d5d848760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An indeterminate symbol and a system of polynomial equations are both under what area of study? | Mathematics. | text | [] | [
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d5d848c60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Andean natural region and The Amazon Region are both region names found where? | In Colombia. | text | [] | [
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d5d848ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | NBC Sports Boston is part of a group of regional sports networks in the United States collectively named what? | NBC Sports Regional Networks | text | [] | [
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d5d849160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are the most widely adopted standards of the association for the industry that engages in the practice of transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems? | TIA-568-C and TIA-569-B | text | [] | [
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d5d8493e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The European pied flycatcher hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher which are both which type of birds? | They are small passerine birds. | text | [] | [
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"text": "One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and across the Western Palearctic. It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa."
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d5d849660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Sikorsky H-5 and the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopters were both built by what corporation? | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. | text | [] | [
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d5d849980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was the successor state in northern China of the dynasty that spanned from 1271–1368? | The Northern Yuan dynasty. | text | [] | [
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"text": "\" Government branch \" or \"Court\" (院), the name for a kind of institution. Northern Yuan dynasty (北元), the Yuan dynasty's successor state in northern China and Mongolia Yuan language, commonly known as Northern Thai language, language of the Thai Yuan people"
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d5d849e80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What island group in the South Pacific contains the Rarotonga volcanic island and The Chief Justice who is head of the islands' judiciary? | The Cook Islands. | text | [] | [
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d5d84a100dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who proposed the name of the genus to which the scops owls belong? | The generic name Otus was proposed by Thomas Pennant in 1769. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Scops owls are typical owls in family Strigidae, most of them belonging to the genus Otus and are restricted to the Old World. Otus is the largest genus of owls in terms of number of species, with approximately 45 living species known to date."
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d5d84a380dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | John J. Sheridan and Satai Delenn were both what? | Lead characters in Babylon 5 | text | [] | [
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d5d84a600dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What percentage of the patients suffering from the most prevalent, potentially lethal, monogenic human disorder develop end stage kidney disease? | Over 50% of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease eventually develop end stage kidney disease. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ( ADPKD) is the most prevalent, potentially lethal, monogenic human disorder. It is associated with large interfamilial and intrafamilial variability, which can be explained to a large extent by its genetic heterogeneity and modifier genes."
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d5d84ad80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The muscarine-responsive mAChR can be found in the CNS and PNS of what organs in the body? | The heart, lungs, upper gastrointestinal tract, and sweat glands. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are found in both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system of the heart, lungs, upper gastrointestinal tract, and sweat glands. Muscles contract when they receive signals from motor neurons."
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d5d84b320dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Asymmetrical federalism, framework and master are all types of what? | Agreements. | text | [] | [
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d5d84b500dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Manatees which may only have six cervical vertebrae due to mutation in the homeotic genes are sometimes known as what? | Sea cows | text | [] | [
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d5d84b780dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What style of radio communication is a continuous wave radio-frequency signal that has its amplitude modulated by an audio waveform before transmission and is much more susceptible to interference? | AM | text | [] | [
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"text": "AM transmissions are much more susceptible to interference than FM or digital signals, and often have lower audio fidelity. Thus, AM broadcasters tend to specialise in spoken-word formats, such as talk radio, all news and sports, with music formats primarily for FM and digital stations. AM and FM mod... |
d5d84ba00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Garneau High School and Kesagami Lake are both located where? | Ontario | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Garneau River originates at the mouth of a lake Garneau (length: 0.3 metres (1 ft 0 in); elevation: 286 metres (938 ft)), in Cochrane District, in Ontario . The mouth of Lake Garneau is located at: 66.9 kilometres (41.6 mi) at southeast of a southern bay of Kesagami Lake (in Ontario )."
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d5d84bc80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In medieval England, prisoners were sometimes dragged to execution behind a what, which have two main categories of harness? | Horse | text | [] | [
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"text": "There are two main categories of horse harness: (1) the \"breaststrap\" or \"breastcollar\" design, and (2) the collar and hames design. For light work, such as horse show competition where light carts are used, a harness needs only a breastcollar."
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d5d84bf00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are two-dimensional examples of the concept that is central to many parts of geometry and modern mathematical physics called? | Surfaces | text | [] | [
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d5d84c180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What waste product can turn acidic in humans when having a diet full of animal protein and can have pheromones in it for male mice? | Urine. | text | [] | [
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d5d84c4a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In the federal state informally known as Bundesland, it contains what type of government that has different tasks and partially competing regions of responsibilities? | Central government. | text | [] | [
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"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)."
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d5d84c720dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Jerry Norman classified traditional dialect groups into a number of larger groups that is how much smaller than the number of minority languages spoken by 8% of the population of China? | 297 | text | [] | [
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"text": "Jerry Norman classified the traditional seven dialect groups into three larger groups: Northern (Mandarin), Central (Wu, Gan, and Xiang) and Southern (Hakka, Yue, and Min)."
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d5d84cc20dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a raw material for dyes and synthetic detergents whose derivative is Toluene? | Benzene. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It is a mono-substituted benzene derivative, consisting of a methyl group (CH₃) attached to a phenyl group. As such, its systematic IUPAC name is methylbenzene. Toluene is predominantly used as an industrial feedstock and a solvent ."
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d5d84cea0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of slaves did the order whose full name is the Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives want to free? | They wanted to free Christian slaves. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Middle Ages also witnessed the emergence of groups like the Mercedarians, who were founded for the goal of freeing Christian slaves. Some Catholic clergy, religious orders, and popes owned slaves, and the naval galleys of the Papal States were to use captured Muslim galley slaves in particular."
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d5d84d3a0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The recessive Arg151Cys on the MC1R is associated with what hair color that occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population? | Ginger hair. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Red hair (or ginger hair) occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, appearing with greater frequency (two to six percent) among people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations."
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d5d84d800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What word with Arabic origins shares a title with a part of the eschatology of the Abrahamic religions ? | Yawm | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Arabic equivalent is yawm or yōm written as يوم . Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom has several literal definitions: Time period of unspecified length. A long, but finite span of time - age - epoch - season."
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d5d84dd00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The constitution of what country, whose capital is Ottawa, gives the federal government the exclusive right to legislate criminal law, while the provinces have exclusive control over much of civil law? | Canada | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Constitution of Canada gives the federal government the exclusive right to legislate criminal law, while the provinces have exclusive control over much of civil law. The provinces have jurisdiction over the Administration of Justice in their territory."
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d5d84df80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The formerly called southern possessions of the Landgraviate of Hesse has a provincial capital named what? | Gießen. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The provincial capital and largest town of the rural provinces was the university town of Gießen . Due to the practice of partible inheritance, the lands of Upper and Lower Hesse were partitioned into separate states several times. All of the rulers of the partitions were considered to be Landgraves ... |
d5d84e200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The fictional superhero Hercules and the fictional supervillain Madman are both within what comic publisher's universe? | The Marvel Comics universe. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Hercules is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character is based on Heracles of Greek mythology. The character has starred in three self-titled limited series and been a perennial member of the superhero... |
d5d84e980dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What plateau that has 350 m of topographic prominence is south of the Nafusa Mountains? | The Tripolitanian Plateau. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Nafusa Mountains form the boundary between the Libyan coastal plain, known as the Jafara, to the north, and the Tripolitanian Plateau to the south."
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"text": "The beds (strata) of the Tripolitanian Plateau slope downwards to the south and tilt upwards towards the north creating the hi... |
d5d84ec00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What active form of vitamin B 6 has a unifying principle of forming an internal lysine-derived aldimine? | Pyridoxal phosphate | text | [] | [
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"text": "The pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent enzymes (PLP enzymes) catalyze myriad reactions. Although the scope of PLP-catalyzed reactions appears to be immense, the unifying principle is the formation of an internal lysine-derived aldimine."
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d5d84f560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of herbaceous perennial has 75 species in it's genus and a road named after it? | Trandescantia has a road named after it off South Lambeth Road in Vauxhall and has 75 species in it's genus | text | [] | [
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"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."
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d5d84f7e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The RB-66C and A-4 Skyhawk are both names of what? | Aircraft | text | [] | [
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d5d84f9c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Byzantium took on the name of Kōnstantinoupolis after its re-foundation under which Roman emporer also known as Constantine the Great? | It took the name after it's re-foundation by Constantine I. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Byzantium took on the name of Kōnstantinoupolis (\"city of Constantine\", Constantinople) after its refoundation under Roman emperor Constantine I, who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 and designated his new capital officially as Nova Roma ( Νέα Ῥώμη) 'New Rome'."
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d5d8501e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | VTZ and RMD are both in what country? | India | text | [] | [
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"text": "Visakhapatnam Airport ( IATA: VTZ, ICAO: VOVZ) is a customs airport in Visakhapatnam, India. It also operates as a civil enclave on an Indian Navy airbase named INS Dega. It lies between the city localities of NAD X Road and Gajuwaka."
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d5d850960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Dina Katabi is a Syrian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at what private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, informally called 'Boston Tech'? | Dina Katabi is a professor at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Dina Katabi, Syrian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. John Makhoul, Lebanese-American computer scientist who works in the field of speech and language processing."
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d5d850be0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What early medieval Lechitic tribe had Henryk Łowmiański arguing that they were tribes of White Croats? | The Vistulans. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Henryk Łowmiański also argued that the Vistulans, and Lendians, were tribes of White Croats, but most other scholars refute these assumptions. Leontii Voitovych believed that the Vistulans were the main tribe among those Silesian and Lechitic tribes who invaded this territory, dividing the Croatian l... |
d5d850e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Large diameter water mains called primary feeders are used to connect between service areas and what component of the water industry? | Water treatment plants | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pipelines laid within public right of way called water mains are used to transport water within a distribution system. Large diameter water mains called primary feeders are used to connect between water treatment plants and service areas. Secondary feeders are connected between primary feeders and di... |
d5d8515e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The crystals of what are the most common semiconducting materials before gallium arsenide used in microelectronics and photovoltaics? | Silicon. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Silicon crystals are the most common semiconducting materials used in microelectronics and photovoltaics. A large number of elements and compounds have semiconducting properties, including: Certain pure elements are found in Group 14 of the periodic table; the most commercially important of these ele... |
d5d851b80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What variant of the two-player strategy board game that is the Japanese variant of chess uses only one type of piece, and the winning objective is not checkmate? | Hasami shogi is a variant of shogi. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈʃoʊɡiː /, Japanese: [ɕo̞ːŋi] or [ɕo̞ːɡʲi]), also known as Japanese chess or the Game of Generals, is a two-player strategy board game that is the Japanese variant of chess. It is the most popular chess variant in Japan. Shōgi means general's ( shō 将) board game ( gi 棋 ).... |
d5d851d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Of the pterostylis concava and the pterostylis sargentii, which of the non-flowering plants have a rosette with more leaves? | The pterostylis concava has a rosette with more leaves. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pterostylis concava, is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. Non-flowering plants have a rosette of between four and eight leaves, each leaf 6–30 mm (0.2–1 in) long and 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide on a stem 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) tall."
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d5d852260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the capital of the state that includes Chapada Diamantina National Park? | Salvador is the capital of Bahia, the state that includes Chapada Diamantina National Park. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Chapada Diamantina National Park ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʃaˈpadɐ d (ʒ)i.amɐ̃ˈt (ʃ)ĩnɐ]; Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina) is a national park in the Chapada Diamantina region of the State of Bahia, Brazil. The terrain is rugged, and mainly covered by flora of the Caatinga bio... |
d5d8524e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What has a particular form of it's pluralism as dualism that states idealism is a subjectivist position in epistemology that holds that what one knows about an object exists only in one's mind | Epistemological | text | [] | [
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"text": "Epistemological idealism is a subjectivist position in epistemology that holds that what one knows about an object exists only in one's mind. It is opposed to epistemological realism ."
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d5d852760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What were commonly used for grinding grain into flour and include undershot, overshot, breastshot and reverse shot waterwheel types? | Mills. | text | [] | [
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"text": "There are two basic types of watermills, one powered by a vertical-waterwheel via a gear mechanism, and the other equipped with a horizontal-waterwheel without such a mechanism. The former type can be further divided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, brea... |
d5d8529e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Membrane-bound transcription factor site-1 protease encodes a member of what family which includes proteases that process protein precursors? | The subtilisin -like proprotein convertase family. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Membrane-bound transcription factor site-1 protease, or site-1 protease ( S1P) for short, also known as subtilisin/kexin-isozyme 1 ( SKI-1 ), is an enzyme (EC 3.4.21.112) that in humans is encoded by the MBTPS1 gene. S1P cleaves the endoplasmic reticulum loop of sterol regulatory element-binding prot... |
d5d852d00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What country in the East Midlands of England was settled by invaders during the Roman conquest of Britain due to its lead ore in the limestone hills? | Derbyshire | text | [] | [
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"text": "During the Roman conquest of Britain, the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire for its lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. They settled throughout the county, with forts built near Brough in the Hope Valley and near Glossop."
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d5d852f80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who does the Western Church consider the ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity? | Only early teachers of Christianity | text | [] | [
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d5d853200dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In which year was potato blight first seen and recorded in the United States? | 1843 | text | [] | [
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"text": "Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a microorganism that causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight. Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is also often called \"potato blight\"."
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d5d853480dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite is often used in drilling mud for oil and gas wells? | Bentonite. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Bentonite ( / ˈbɛntənʌɪt /) is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite. It usually forms from weathering of volcanic ash in seawater, which converts the volcanic glass present in the ash to clay minerals."
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d5d853700dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How much longer is The Verzee than The Merderet, in kilometres? | It is 15.7 kilometres longer. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Verzée ( French: la Verzée) is a 52.1-kilometre-long (32.4 mi) river in the Loire-Atlantique and Maine-et-Loire départements, western France. Its source is at Soudan. It flows generally east-southeast."
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"text": "The Merderet is a 36.4-kilometre-long (22.6-mile) river in Normandy, Fra... |
d5d8544c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | An ossification center of the bone of the tarsus of the foot that constitutes the heal is developed during what period in fetal development? | In the calcaneus, an ossification center, is developed during the 4th – 7th week of fetal development | text | [] | [
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"text": "In humans and many other primates, the calcaneus ( / kælˈkeɪniəs /; from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel. In some other animals, it is the point of the hock . The calcaneus forms the bony part of the heel."
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d5d8549c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who led the fight during the earliest battle in recorded history where details of tactics and formations can be found? | Ramesses II and Muwatalli II | text | [] | [
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"text": "Muwatalli II is best known as the Hittite ruler who fought Ramesses II to a standstill at the Battle of Kadesh around 1274 BC. Although both sides claimed victory in this war, scholars generally believe that the battle ended badly for both sides, especially Ramesses II."
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d5d854c40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sierra Norte is a region in a place where what other region is the largest? | Istmo de Tehuantepec | text | [] | [
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"text": "Istmo de Tehuantepec is the largest region of the state of Oaxaca, located in southwestern Mexico. Istmo coast on the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Salina Cruz, the largest city in Istmo de Tehuantepec."
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"text": "The region is bordered on the east by the Cañada region and on the south by the Sier... |
d5d854ec0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many years after Rome destroyed Carthage did the Battle of Carthage take place? | It took place 844 years later. | text | [] | [
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"text": "After a long conflict with the emerging Roman Republic, known as the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), Rome finally destroyed Carthage in 146 BC. A Roman Carthage was established on the ruins of the first."
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"text": "Battle of Carthage (698), part of the Islamic conquests, between the Byzantine Ex... |
d5d855140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Brahmaputra and the South Pennar River are both what types of river that Bangladesh has the highest number of? | Trans-boundary rivers | text | [] | [
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"text": "The South Pennar River (also known as Dakshina Pinakini in Kannada and Thenpennai or Ponnaiyar or Pennaiyar in Tamil) is a trans-boundary river India . Outskirts of Bangalore, Hosur, Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore are the important cities on the banks of South Pennar river."
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d5d8553c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What kind of animal did the Spartans sacrifice to the winds on Mount Taygetus, and is shown with wings in Mongolia? | A horse. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Spartans were reported to sacrifice a horse to the winds on Mount Taygetus. Astraeus, the astrological deity (sometimes associated with Aeolus ), and Eos / Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, were the parents of the Anemoi, according to the Greek poet Hesiod ."
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"text": "In Mongolian rep... |
d5d8558c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Wikimedia Commons has 52 pages related to what, defined as a long-term, forward-looking approach and an overall game plan of any organization or any business with the fundamental goal of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by understanding the needs and wants of customers? | Marketing strategy | text | [] | [
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"text": "Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marketing strategy. The main article for this category is Marketing strategy. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total."
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"text": "Marketing strategy is a long-term,... |
d5d855be0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The substituted tryptamine alkaloid called psilocin and tryptamine alkaloids are known as what kind of psychedelic stimulant? | A mushroom. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Psilocin (also known as 4-HO-DMT, 4-hydroxy DMT, psilocine, psilocyn, or psilotsin) is a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance. It is present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. Psilocin is a Schedule I drug under t... |
d5d855e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What was the name of a Hereford and a cantref in medieval Wales, located west of the River Wye? | Builth. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Builth was the market for a variant of the Hereford called the Builth Smokey Face. This was the traditional animal of the area but the breed has not existed for many, many decades. The Beulah Speckled Face is a local breed of sheep. Nearby Mynydd Epynt was famous for its horses until it was seized fo... |
d5d8565e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Haute Picardie TGV, Saint Quentin and Amiens are all located near the territory where what battle occurred? | The Battle of the Somme | text | [] | [
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"text": "Geographically, it is located about 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Péronne, between the towns of Saint Quentin and Amiens, in the heart of the Battle of the Somme territory. When built, it was criticised by the press for being too far from any of the neighbouring towns to be useful."
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d5d856ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Sherry has what added to it? | A distilled spirit | text | [] | [
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"text": "Not to be confused with flavored fortified wine. Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added. In the course of some centuries, winemakers have developed many different styles of fortified wine, including port, sherry, madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and th... |
d5d856d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Valley of the Ten Peaks lies in a province that shares a mountainous border with what other province? | British Columbia | text | [] | [
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"text": "Alberta's southwestern boundary is traced on the Continental Divide, along the high ranges of the Rocky Mountains, and many peaks are located on the Alberta– British Columbia border. The peak of Mount Columbia, within Jasper National Park, is the highest point in Alberta, second highest in the Canadi... |
d5d856fe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How long is the grace period for holders of the non-immigrant visa issued by the US to research scholars, professors, and exchange visitors for training purposes? | 30 days | text | [] | [
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"text": "A J-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa issued by the United States to research scholars, professors and exchange visitors participating in programs that promote cultural exchange, especially to obtain medical or business training within the U.S."
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"text": "J-1 visitors may remain in the Unite... |
d5d857260dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Ruth Nussinov made an early attempt at predicting what, which fast and scalable multicore code exists for predicting? | RNA secondary structure | text | [] | [
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"text": "One of the early attempts at predicting RNA secondary structure was made by Ruth Nussinov and co-workers who developed a dynamic programming-based algorithm that maximized the length and number of a series of \"blocks\" (polynucleotide chains)."
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"text": "A deep learning based method for ... |
d5d8574e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of isocyanate like diphenylmethane diisocyanate or oluene diisocyanate can be made by high thermal temperature decomposition? | Aromatic | text | [] | [
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"text": "Isocyanic acid can be made by protonation of the cyanate anion, such as from salts like potassium cyanate, by either gaseous hydrogen chloride or acids such as oxalic acid. HNCO also can be made by the high-temperature thermal decomposition of the trimer cyanuric acid :"
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d5d857760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Daley and Alex the ghost are both what? | Gay | text | [] | [
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"text": "Alex is a gay ghost, and the drummer for the fictional band Julie and the Phantoms. He falls in love with another gay ghost named Willie, an avid skateboarder. Willie is a gay ghost, and an diehard skateboarder."
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"text": "Daley is a sympathetically presented gay character. He loves Clow ... |
d5d8579e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many species are there in the genus that includes the Malabar banded peacock? | There are about 200 species in the genus Papilio, the genus that includes the Malabar banded peacock. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Indian swallowtails are spread over all the biomes / ecoregions of India. The Malabar banded peacock ( Papilio buddha) and the Malabar banded swallowtail ( Papilio liomedon) fly at sea level while the Apollos ( Parnassius species), are to be found only in the highest alpine meadows of the Himalayas."... |
d5d857c60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Natural killer T are a group of what type of cell that can be easily distinguished from other lymphocytes by the presence of a TCR? | T cells | text | [] | [
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"text": "Natural killer T ( NKT) cells are a heterogeneous group of T cells that share properties of both T cells and natural killer cells. Many of these cells recognize the non-polymorphic CD1d molecule, an antigen -presenting molecule that binds self and foreign lipids and glycolipids. They constitute only ... |
d5d857ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Where did the album Nicely Out of Tune, which belatedly made the UK Albums Chart Top 10, place when it charted? | Nicely Out of Tune rose to number 8 on the UK charts. | text | [] | [
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"text": "\"Lady Eleanor\" was reissued as a follow-up to \"Meet Me on the Corner\" and reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 82 in the US. The debut album Nicely Out of Tune belatedly made the UK Albums Chart Top 10 and the band began to attract a larger media following, with some calling Hull the greatest songwrit... |
d5d858160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What would it be called in Nordic folklore if someone leaped off of Beachy Head to their death? | It would be called ättestupa if someone leaped off of Beachy Head. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In Nordic folklore, the ättestupa is a cliff where elderly people were said to leap, or be thrown, to death. While the practice has no historical evidence, the trope has survived as an urban legend, and a metaphor for deficient welfare for the elderly."
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"text": "The cliff is the highest ... |
d5d8583e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The 761 mi long road made up of 30% freeways links the Atlantic coast with what mountain range chain that the Sierra Baguales is secondary to? | The Andes. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It crosses the country from east to west, from the capital ( Buenos Aires) to the border with Chile, thus linking the Atlantic coast with the Andes, crossing the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, San Luis and Mendoza. It has a total length of 1,224 km (761 mi), of which 367 km (228 mi) (3... |
d5d858660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are there more counties of Scotland or more defunct ceremonial counties which were historically counties in the U.K.? | There are more counties in Scotland. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The historic counties of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmorland, Huntingdonshire and Middlesex are the five defunct ceremonial counties which were historically counties."
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"text": "Historically, Scotland was divided into 34 counties or shires. Although these no longer have any administrative ... |
d5d8588e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the only species in the family that the genus Melanogrammus belongs to that is found in the southern hemisphere? | The southern blue whiting is the only Southern Hemisphere species in the Gadidae, the family that the genus Melanogrammus belongs to. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The haddock ( Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Melanogrammus."
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"text": "The Gadidae are a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes, known as the cods, codfishes, o... |
d5d858b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | 1-Chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and n-Propyl chloride are both compounds in what color? | It is colorless. | text | [] | [
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"text": "1-Chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HFO-1233zd) is the unsaturated chlorofluorocarbon with the formula HClC=C (H)CF 3. This colorless gas is of interest as a more environmentally friendly (lower GWP; global warming potential) refrigerant in air conditioners."
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