Red

qas: question: What spectrum of light is red within?
answers: text: visible light
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question: Which color is opposite of red on the visible spectrum?
answers: text: violet
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question: On the spectrum of light, where is red found?
answers: text: 620–740 nanometres
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question: What color is beside red in the visible spectrum of light?
answers: text: orange
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question: Red Yellow and Blue are what kind of colors?
answers: text: subtractive primary colors
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question: What is the color opposite orange and next to violet on the spectrum of visible light?
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question: What has a predominant light wavelength of 640-720 nanometres?
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question: What does RBG stand for?
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question: What color were Roman villas painted?
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question: In ancient greek, what is coccus referred to as?
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question: What continent is Laccifer lacca found on?
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context: Red is the color at the end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange and opposite violet. Red color has a predominant light wavelength of roughly 620–740 nanometres. Red is one of the additive primary colors of visible light, along with green and blue, which in Red Green Blue (RGB) color systems are combined to create all the colors on a computer monitor or television screen. Red is also one of the subtractive primary colors, along with yellow and blue, of the RYB color space and traditional color wheel used by painters and artists.

qas: question: From where does the color red in blood come from?
answers: text: hemoglobin
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question: What does hemoglobin contain?
answers: text: iron
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question: What causes the color of hematite and red ochre?
answers: text: iron oxide
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question: Why does a sky turn red when the evening comes?
answers: text: Rayleigh scattering
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question: What pigment is responsible for the color of leaves in fall?
answers: text: anthocyanins
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question: Where does hemoglobin come from?
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question: What is the Grand Canyon considered a form of?
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question: What effect is responsible for the red color of Mars?
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question: What are the pigments in the red sky called?
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question: What percent of the population has red lips?
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question: What was mentioed in the 8th century? 
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question: What was kermes lake made from?
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question: What was carmine made from?
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context: In nature, the red color of blood comes from hemoglobin, the iron-containing protein found in the red blood cells of all vertebrates. The red color of the Grand Canyon and other geological features is caused by hematite or red ochre, both forms of iron oxide. It also causes the red color of the planet Mars. The red sky at sunset and sunrise is caused by an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering, which, when the sun is low or below the horizon, increases the red-wavelength light that reaches the eye. The color of autumn leaves is caused by pigments called anthocyanins, which are produced towards the end of summer, when the green chlorophyll is no longer produced. One to two percent of the human population has red hair; the color is produced by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin (which also accounts for the red color of the lips) and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin.

qas: question: During what period did people use Kermes vermilio to make red dye?
answers: text: Neolithic Period
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question: What does Kermes vermilio eat to survive?
answers: text: the sap of certain trees, especially Kermes oak trees
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question: From where did Romans acquire Kermes?
answers: text: Spain
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question: What kind of bural was at Adaoutse, Bouches-du-Rhône?
answers: text: Neolithic cave-burial
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question: What was the earliest known writing about dye from Aermenian cochineal?
answers: text: 8th century BC
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question: How was Kermes made in the 8th century BC?
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question: The insects only live on what tree in the Mediterranean?
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question: Where have jars of Kermes been found in Adoutse caves?
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question: Who imported Kermes oak trees from the Romans?
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question: What was mentioed in the 8th century? 
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question: How were pigments like red lake created?
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question: What did a red flag signal in the Middle Ages?
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question: During which revolution was red a symbol of liberty?
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context: A red dye called Kermes was made beginning in the Neolithic Period by drying and then crushing the bodies of the females of a tiny scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. The insects live on the sap of certain trees, especially Kermes oak trees near the Mediterranean region. Jars of kermes have been found in a Neolithic cave-burial at Adaoutse, Bouches-du-Rhône. Kermes from oak trees was later used by Romans, who imported it from Spain. A different variety of dye was made from Porphyrophora hamelii (Armenian cochineal) scale insects that lived on the roots and stems of certain herbs. It was mentioned in texts as early as the 8th century BC, and it was used by the ancient Assyrians and Persians.

qas: question: In which book of the Bible did God reference gifts of Blue Purple and Scarlet?
answers: text: the Book of Exodus
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question: What does coccumque bis tinctum translate to in english?
answers: text: colored twice with coccus
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question: In ancient greek, what is coccus referred to as?
answers: text: Kokkos
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question: What does Kokkos mean in english?
answers: text: a tiny grain
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question: In what century did the latin vulgate bible use the term coccumque bis tinctum?
answers: text: 4th century
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question: Who did Moses instruct to bring him cloth?
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question: What color cloth did Moses have the Israelites bring him?
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question: What does tinctum bis coccumque translate to?
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question: What Greek word does Kokkos derive from?
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question: What color jersey does Bayern Munich wear?
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question: In which century did Saint Valentine's day become connected with lovers?
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question: What color has an sRBG number of 220, 20, 60?
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context: Kermes is also mentioned in the Bible. In the Book of Exodus, God instructs Moses to have the Israelites bring him an offering including cloth "of blue, and purple, and scarlet." The term used for scarlet in the 4th century Latin Vulgate version of the Bible passage is coccumque bis tinctum, meaning "colored twice with coccus." Coccus, from the ancient Greek Kokkos, means a tiny grain and is the term that was used in ancient times for the Kermes vermilio insect used to make the Kermes dye. This was also the origin of the expression "dyed in the grain."

qas: question: When did Egyptians start to make red pigment?
answers: text: 4000 BC
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question: What pigment was used for male skin tone in ancient wall art?
answers: text: Red ochre
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question: What root did Egyptians use to source their red pigment alizarin?
answers: text: the rubia
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question: What type of palette was found in Tutankhamun's tomb?
answers: text: ivory painter's palette
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question: What dye did the Egyptians make using the madder plant?
answers: text: alizarin
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question: What did a prayer to God say in regard to the color red?
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question: Who began manufacturing pigments in about 400 BC?
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question: What color was widely used for wall paintings by ivory painters?
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question: Who used the white alizarin to make crimson pigment?
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question: What is the color opposite orange and next to violet on the spectrum of visible light?
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question: What began in 1709?
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question: What pigment accounts for the majority of color in red hair?
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context: But, like many colors, it also had a negative association, with heat, destruction and evil. A prayer to god Isis said: "Oh Isis, protect me from all things evil and red." The ancient Egyptians began manufacturing pigments in about 4000 BC. Red ochre was widely used as a pigment for wall paintings, particularly as the skin color of men. An ivory painter's palette found inside the tomb of King Tutankhamun had small compartments with pigments of red ochre and five other colors. The Egyptians used the root of the rubia, or madder plant, to make a dye, later known as alizarin, and also used it to color white power to use as a pigment, which became known as madder lake, alizarin or alizarin crimson.

qas: question: Which color was said to be the Emperor's color in ancient Rome?
answers: text: Tyrian purple
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question: At what time were togas with red were worn by Romans?
answers: text: holidays
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question: What is a flammeum?
answers: text: a red shawl
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question: What color was correlated with the Army in ancient Rome?
answers: text: Red
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question: After what event would a general of the Roman army be painted red?
answers: text: triumph
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question: What was the color of the emperor in Ancient Tryian?
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question: What are the red stripes on togas called?
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question: What were the red tunics worn by Roman soldiers called?
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question: Where were the gold letters SQRP found?
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question: What happened during a 1971 demonstration?
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question: On the spectrum of light, where is red found?
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question: What did Lisle de Rouget write?
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context: In Ancient Rome, Tyrian purple was the color of the Emperor, but red had an important religious symbolism. Romans wore togas with red stripes on holidays, and the bride at a wedding wore a red shawl, called a flammeum. Red was used to color statues and the skin of gladiators. Red was also the color associated with army; Roman soldiers wore red tunics, and officers wore a cloak called a paludamentum which, depending upon the quality of the dye, could be crimson, scarlet or purple. In Roman mythology red is associated with the god of war, Mars. The vexilloid of the Roman Empire had a red background with the letters SPQR in gold. A Roman general receiving a triumph had his entire body painted red in honor of his achievement.

qas: question: What pigment was used to paint villas in ancient Rome?
answers: text: vermilion
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question: From where did vermilion originate?
answers: text: the mineral cinnabar
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question: Cinnabar is an ore of what metal?
answers: text: mercury
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question: What mines did Romans use to acquire cinnabar?
answers: text: Almadén, southwest of Madrid, in Spain
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question: Along with slaves, who was sent to work in cinnabar mines in Rome?
answers: text: prisoners
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question: What color were Roman villas painted?
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question: What was the pigment called that was used for the painting of Roman villas?
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question: What is Mercury a common ore of?
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question: What city is southwest of Almaden?
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question: The Community Party of China gained power in China, what year did it happen?
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question: What trees are found only in the Mediterranean?
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question: What does RBG stand for?
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context: The Romans liked bright colors, and many Roman villas were decorated with vivid red murals. The pigment used for many of the murals was called vermilion, and it came from the mineral cinnabar, a common ore of mercury. It was one of the finest reds of ancient times – the paintings have retained their brightness for more than twenty centuries. The source of cinnabar for the Romans was a group of mines near Almadén, southwest of Madrid, in Spain. Working in the mines was extremely dangerous, since mercury is highly toxic; the miners were slaves or prisoners, and being sent to the cinnabar mines was a virtual death sentence.

qas: question: Which European emperor painted their palace red?
answers: text: Emperor Charlemagne
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question: In what year did cardinals in the Roman Catholic church start wearing red?
answers: text: 1295
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question: When was Saint Denis Basilica rebuilt?
answers: text: 12th century
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question: Who rebuilt the basilica of Saint Denis?
answers: text: Abbe Suger
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question: Christ and which other Christian figure were often painted red in medieval painting?
answers: text: Virgin Mary
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question: Who wore red shoes as a symbol of authority?
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question: What began in 1259?
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question: What did Suger Abbe rebuild?
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question: What did Suger Abbe add to the Saint Denis Basilica?
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question: Aside from pheomelanin what color pigment contributes to red hair?
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question: From where does the color red in blood come from?
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question: What was invented in 1906?
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context: Red was the color of the banner of the Byzantine emperors. In Western Europe, Emperor Charlemagne painted his palace red as a very visible symbol of his authority, and wore red shoes at his coronation. Kings, princes and, beginning in 1295, Roman Catholic cardinals began to wear red costumes. When Abbe Suger rebuilt Saint Denis Basilica outside Paris in the early 12th century, he added stained glass windows colored blue cobalt glass and red glass tinted with copper. Together they flooded the basilica with a mystical light. Soon stained glass windows were being added to cathedrals all across France, England and Germany. In Medieval painting red was used to attract attention to the most important figures; both Christ and the Virgin Mary were commonly painted wearing red mantles.

qas: question: What status did the wearing of red in medieval times represent?
answers: text: wealth
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question: On what occasion would townspeople wear red?
answers: text: holidays
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question: What root was used for red clothing owned by commoners?
answers: text: rubia tinctorum
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question: Outside of sun exposure in what circumstance did pigment made from rubia tinctorum fade?
answers: text: during washing
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question: What was carmine made from?
answers: text: the carminic acid in tiny female scale insects
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question: What trees are found only in the Mediterranean?
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question: Where in Europe are kermes only found?
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question: What brick color is produced by kermes?
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question: What causes kermes dye to fade easily? 
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question: Why is the color red worn in the Catholic Church?
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question: Red was chosen as part of the Nazi flag to do what?
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question: Who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian war?
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context: Red clothing was a sign of status and wealth. It was worn not only by cardinals and princes, but also by merchants, artisans and townpeople, particularly on holidays or special occasions. Red dye for the clothing of ordinary people was made from the roots of the rubia tinctorum, the madder plant. This color leaned toward brick-red, and faded easily in the sun or during washing. The wealthy and aristocrats wore scarlet clothing dyed with kermes, or carmine, made from the carminic acid in tiny female scale insects, which lived on the leaves of oak trees in Eastern Europe and around the Mediterranean. The insects were gathered, dried, crushed, and boiled with different ingredients in a long and complicated process, which produced a brilliant scarlet.

qas: question: How many elements did the Chinese philosophers think the world was made of?
answers: text: five
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question: What element was red associated with in Chinese philosophy?
answers: text: fire
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question: At the time of the Han dynasty where would one fine the color Red?
answers: text: all court ceremonies
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question: In the time of the Ming Dynasty one would find what color used during sacrificial offerings?
answers: text: Red
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question: Outside of Fire and Earth, what three other elements did Chinese philosophers say the world was composed from?
answers: text: metal, wood, water
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question: What is the color of Chinese philosophy?
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question: What five elements is the world made of according to the Ming dynasty?
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question: What color was associated with water?
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question: When did the 19th century workers of Paris construct barricades and hoist red flags to protest their new government?
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question: On what date was the Garde Nationale empowered to hoist a red flag to signal their intervention in a riot?
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question: What is the Grand Canyon considered a form of?
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context: Red played an important role in Chinese philosophy. It was believed that the world was composed of five elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and that each had a color. Red was associated with fire. Each Emperor chose the color that his fortune-tellers believed would bring the most prosperity and good fortune to his reign. During the Zhou, Han, Jin, Song and Ming Dynasties, red considered a noble color, and it was featured in all court ceremonies, from coronations to sacrificial offerings, and weddings.

qas: question: During what years did the Song dynasty occur?
answers: text: 906–1279
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question: Which number of ranks wore purple clothing in the Song dynasty?
answers: text: three
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question: What color did sixth rank Song dynasty officials wear?
answers: text: green
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question: What ranks in the Song dynasty wore blue?
answers: text: eighth and ninth
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question: What dynasty took place from 909-1276?
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question: What did the Song dynasty say about an official who had talent?
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question: What officials of the top three ranks wore bright red?
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question: What officials of the fourth and fifth rank wore purple?
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question: The Laccifer lacca was crucial to making what pigment?
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question: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?
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question: What trait do people most commonly link red with?
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context: Red was also a badge of rank. During the Song dynasty (906–1279), officials of the top three ranks wore purple clothes; those of the fourth and fifth wore bright red; those of the sixth and seventh wore green; and the eighth and ninth wore blue. Red was the color worn by the royal guards of honor, and the color of the carriages of the imperial family. When the imperial family traveled, their servants and accompanying officials carried red and purple umbrellas. Of an official who had talent and ambition, it was said "he is so red he becomes purple."

qas: question: Who painted their mansions red during the Song and Tang dynasties?
answers: text: nobles
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question: who wrote A dream of Red Mansions?
answers: text: Cao Xueqin
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question: During what years was Cao Xueqin alive?
answers: text: 1715–1763
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question: Who painted the walls of the Forbidden city red after the fall of the Ming dynasty?
answers: text: Qing Dynasty
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question: In late Chinese dynasties red was used only on what kind of architecture?
answers: text: temples and imperial residences
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question: What did Xueqin Cao write?
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question: When was Xueqin Cao alive?
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question: Who did the Ming ruler conquer? 
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question: What was Xueqin Cao's book about?
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question: In what year did people of the French Communist party go to Moscow to give the Soviet government a Paris Commune banner?
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question: What color gowns are generally worn by recent Doctors of Philosophy at Oxford?
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question: Who was the Party leader of the Communist Party of China when it took power?
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context: Red was also featured in Chinese Imperial architecture. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, gates of palaces were usually painted red, and nobles often painted their entire mansion red. One of the most famous works of Chinese literature, A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin (1715–1763), was about the lives of noble women who passed their lives out of public sight within the walls of such mansions. In later dynasties red was reserved for the walls of temples and imperial residences. When the Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty conquered the Ming and took over the Forbidden City and Imperial Palace in Beijing, all the walls, gates, beams and pillars were painted in red and gold.

qas: question: What plant was used to make the most used red dye in Venice?
answers: text: Rubia
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question: Which group in Europe used Kermes dye?
answers: text: the wealthy
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question: The wealthiest in Europe used what red dye?
answers: text: Polish Cochineal
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question: What dye was known as the Blood of Saint John?
answers: text: Kermes vermilio
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question: The Blood of Saint John was made from an insect, which one?
answers: text: Margodes polonicus
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question: What was the Venice plant used to make?
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question: How was the finest red of Kermes vermilio made?
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question: What city was rubia used to make dyes for the wealthy?
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question: What insect was found in Persia?
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question: In what year did a red helium-neon laser come to be?
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question: In what century did quilts in America commonly use Turkey red?
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question: In what year was the Little Red Book published?
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context: There were guilds of dyers who specialized in red in Venice and other large Europeans cities. The Rubia plant was used to make the most common dye; it produced an orange-red or brick red color used to dye the clothes of merchants and artisans. For the wealthy, the dye used was Kermes, made from a tiny scale insect which fed on the branches and leaves of the oak tree. For those with even more money there was Polish Cochineal; also known as Kermes vermilio or "Blood of Saint John", which was made from a related insect, the Margodes polonicus. It made a more vivid red than ordinary Kermes. The finest and most expensive variety of red made from insects was the "Kermes" of Armenia (Armenian cochineal, also known as Persian kirmiz), made by collecting and crushing Porphyophora hamelii, an insect which lived on the roots and stems of certain grasses. The pigment and dye merchants of Venice imported and sold all of these products and also manufactured their own color, called Venetian red, which was considered the most expensive and finest red in Europe. Its secret ingredient was arsenic, which brightened the color.

qas: question: In what century did a new kind of red pigment arrive in Europe from the Aztec Empire?
answers: text: 16th
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question: Which conquistador from Spain conquered the Aztec Empire?
answers: text: Hernán Cortés
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question: During what years was the Aztec Empire conquered?
answers: text: 1519-1521
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question: How often could the Mexican cochineal be harvested?
answers: text: several times a year
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question: In what year did Cortes send the first cochineal to Spain?
answers: text: 1523
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question: What Aztec conquistador conquered the Spanish Empire?
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question: What happened in 1519?
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question: Who conquered the Spanish Empire in 1519-1521?
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question: Who sent the first shipment to Spain in 1532?
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question: What happened in 1532?
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question: In what year did people of the French Communist party go to Moscow to give the Soviet government a Paris Commune banner?
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question: What happened in 1912?
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question: What was invented in 1906?
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context: But early in the 16th century, a brilliant new red appeared in Europe. When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his soldiers conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519-1521, they discovered slowly that the Aztecs had another treasure beside silver and gold; they had the tiny cochineal, a parasitic scale insect which lived on cactus plants, which, when dried and crushed, made a magnificent red. The cochineal in Mexico was closely related to the Kermes varieties of Europe, but unlike European Kermes, it could be harvested several times a year, and it was ten times stronger than the Kermes of Poland. It worked particularly well on silk, satin and other luxury textiles. In 1523 Cortes sent the first shipment to Spain. Soon cochineal began to arrive in European ports aboard convoys of Spanish galleons.

qas: question: What was kermes lake made from?
answers: text: kermes insects
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question: What was madder lake made from?
answers: text: rubia tinctorum plant
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question: What did Renaissance painters call the pigment made from cochineal?
answers: text: carmine
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question: During what century did carmine start to see use?
answers: text: 15th
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question: What would to the carmine pigment if not used diligently?
answers: text: change color
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question: What was used by all painters?
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question: Who were the great painters of the 15th century?
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question: What 16th century painters used carmine?
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question: What did J.W.M Turner use?
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question: What alternative colors does the Red Cross use in certain parts of Africa?
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question: What color causes people to be seen as further away even though distance is the same?
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question: Who first used synthetic pigments in 1962?
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context: The painters of the early Renaissance used two traditional lake pigments, made from mixing dye with either chalk or alum, kermes lake, made from kermes insects, and madder lake, made from the rubia tinctorum plant. With the arrival of cochineal, they had a third, carmine, which made a very fine crimson, though it had a tendency to change color if not used carefully. It was used by almost all the great painters of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Diego Velázquez and Tintoretto. Later it was used by Thomas Gainsborough, Seurat and J.M.W. Turner.

qas: question: During which revolution was red a symbol of liberty?
answers: text: French Revolution
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question: What kind of cap did the Jacobins wear?
answers: text: red Phrygian cap, or liberty cap
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question: Women with red caps crowded around guillotines during the Reign of Terror to do what?
answers: text: celebrate
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question: During what years did the Reign of Terror take place?
answers: text: 1792 and 1793
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question: Who was Saint Denis?
answers: text: Christian martyr and patron saint of Paris
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question: What became a symbol of liberty during the Phrygian Revolution?
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question: What did red become a symbol of during the Phrygian Revolution?
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question: Who used red as a symbol of liberty and personal freedom during the Phrygian Revolution?
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question: When did the Terror Reign take place?
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question: What colors did France go back to during the Reign of Terror?
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question: What dynasty took place from 909-1276?
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question: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?
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question: What type of laser is used in Raman spectroscopy?
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context: During the French Revolution, Red became a symbol of liberty and personal freedom used by the Jacobins and other more radical parties. Many of them wore a red Phrygian cap, or liberty cap, modeled after the caps worn by freed slaves in Ancient Rome. During the height of the Reign of Terror, Women wearing red caps gathered around the guillotine to celebrate each execution. They were called the "Furies of the guillotine". The guillotines used during the Reign of Terror in 1792 and 1793 were painted red, or made of red wood. During the Reign of Terror a statue of a woman titled liberty, painted red, was placed in the square in front of the guillotine. After the end of the Reign of Terror, France went back to the blue, white and red tricolor, whose red was taken from the traditional color of Saint Denis, the Christian martyr and patron saint of Paris.

qas: question: What was Turkey red called in France?
answers: text: rouge d'Adrinople
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question: In what years did Turkey red begin to be used to dye cotton in England?
answers: text: the 1740s
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question: What did turkey red get its color from?
answers: text: madder
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question: What other pigment was Turkey red compared to?
answers: text: carmine
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question: In what century did quilts in America commonly use Turkey red?
answers: text: 19th
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question: What was red known as in Turkey?
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question: What popular color was imported from France in the 18th century?
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question: What began in 1740?
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question: What was cotton widely used for in 19th century Europe?
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question: Who imported Kermes oak trees from the Romans?
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question: In terms of a beach, why might one see a red flag?
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question: In the United States states that vote for Democratic presidential candidates are known as what?
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context: As the Industrial Revolution spread across Europe, chemists and manufacturers sought new red dyes that could be used for large-scale manufacture of textiles. One popular color imported into Europe from Turkey and India in the 18th and early 19th century was Turkey red, known in France as rouge d'Adrinople. Beginning in the 1740s, this bright red color was used to dye or print cotton textiles in England, the Netherlands and France. Turkey red used madder as the colorant, but the process was longer and more complicated, involving multiple soaking of the fabrics in lye, olive oil, sheep's dung, and other ingredients. The fabric was more expensive but resulted in a fine bright and lasting red, similar to carmine, perfectly suited to cotton. The fabric was widely exported from Europe to Africa, the Middle East and America. In 19th century America, it was widely used in making the traditional patchwork quilt.

qas: question: In which century did color theory begin to be systematically studied?
answers: text: 19th
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question: Who painted the Night Cafe?
answers: text: Vincent van Gogh
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question: In what year was The Night Cafe painted?
answers: text: 1888
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question: What was the name of vincent van Gogh's brother?
answers: text: Theo
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question: What occurred when red and green were put next to one another?
answers: text: red and green reinforced each other
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question: What century saw red to only imitate nature?
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question: Who did Theo write to in 1888?
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question: What did Theo write to Van Gogh about human passions in 1888?
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question: Who painted the Cafe Night?
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question: In what years did Turkey red begin to be used to dye cotton in England?
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question: What was mentioed in the 8th century? 
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question: In what year did people of the French Communist party go to Moscow to give the Soviet government a Paris Commune banner?
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context: The 19th century also saw the use of red in art to create specific emotions, not just to imitate nature. It saw the systematic study of color theory, and particularly the study of how complementary colors such as red and green reinforced each other when they were placed next to each other. These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Describing his painting, The Night Cafe, to his brother Theo in 1888, Van Gogh wrote: "I sought to express with red and green the terrible human passions. The hall is blood red and pale yellow, with a green billiard table in the center, and four lamps of lemon yellow, with rays of orange and green. Everywhere it is a battle and antithesis of the most different reds and greens."

qas: question: During which century did Matisse work?
answers: text: 20th
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question: Placing red and green next to each other causes their color to be what?
answers: text: strengthened
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question: What color did Matisse say could penetate ones soul?
answers: text: blue
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question: What color did Matisse claim would impact ones blood pressure?
answers: text: red
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question: What part in the paintings of Matisse did color play?
answers: text: the central element
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question: Who was the first to make color the central element of the painting?
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question: What theory did Matisse say his choice of colors was based on?
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question: Who was the first 20th century artist to use color for feelings?
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question: What did a red flag signal in the Middle Ages?
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question: Outside of sun exposure in what circumstance did pigment made from rubia tinctorum fade?
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question: Who was the Party leader of the Communist Party of China when it took power?
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context: Matisse was also one of the first 20th-century artists to make color the central element of the painting, chosen to evoke emotions. "A certain blue penetrates your soul", he wrote. "A certain red affects your blood pressure." He also was familiar with the way that complementary colors, such as red and green, strengthened each other when they were placed next to each other. He wrote, "My choice of colors is not based on scientific theory; it is based on observation, upon feelings, upon the real nature of each experience ... I just try to find a color which corresponds to my feelings."

qas: question: In what year did Rothko donate Passion of Christ murals?
answers: text: 1962
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question: To whom did Rothko donate Passion of Christ murals?
answers: text: Harvard University
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question: What organic reds did Rothko use in the Passion of Christ murals?
answers: text: Naphtol and Lithol
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question: In what year had the Passion of Christ murals by Rothko end up ruined?
answers: text: 1979
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question: What was the result of the change in color in the Rothko Passion of the Christ murals?
answers: text: ruined and had to be taken down
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question: What year were synthetic pigments first used?
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question: Who first used synthetic pigments in 1962?
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question: What university did Rothko attend?
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question: What happened in 1997?
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question: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?
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question: Which British law forbade cars from following a bearer of a red flag as a warning to horse drawn vehicles?
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question: What does PCR stand for?
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context: Rothko also began using the new synthetic pigments, but not always with happy results. In 1962 he donated to Harvard University a series of large murals of the Passion of Christ whose predominant colors were dark pink and deep crimson. He mixed mostly traditional colors to make the pink and crimson; synthetic ultramarine, cerulean blue, and titanium white, but he also used two new organic reds, Naphtol and Lithol. The Naphtol did well, but the Lithol slowly changed color when exposed to light. Within five years the deep pinks and reds had begun to turn light blue, and by 1979 the paintings were ruined and had to be taken down.

qas: question: What was red ochre composed of?
answers: text: minerals
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question: How were pigments like red lake created?
answers: text: mixing organic dyes
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question: What was red lake composed of?
answers: text: insects or plants, with white chalk or alum
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question: What was the source of color in Red lac?
answers: text: the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects
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question: The Laccifer lacca was crucial to making what pigment?
answers: text: Red lac
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question: What color lake pigments were made from minerals?
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question: What was made from red gum?
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question: What continent is Laccifer lacca found on?
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question: What country was carmine found?
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question: What year were synthetic pigments first used?
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question: What is the cross on the banners used during the First Crusade known as?
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question: What does hemoglobin contain?
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context: Unlike vermilion or red ochre, made from minerals, red lake pigments are made by mixing organic dyes, made from insects or plants, with white chalk or alum. Red lac was made from the gum lac, the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, particularly the Laccifer lacca from India. Carmine lake was made from the cochineal insect from Central and South America, Kermes lake came from a different scale insect, kermes vermilio, which thrived on oak trees around the Mediterranean. Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree.

qas: question: Which colors are part of the RGB model?
answers: text: red, green and blue
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question: What color light is created when one mixes red, green, and blue?
answers: text: white
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question: The RGB color model has three colors in it that are described as what kind of colors?
answers: text: additive primary colors
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question: Which era did Cennino Cennini actively paint in?
answers: text: the Renaissance
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question: What colors are used to create purple on a computer screen?
answers: text: red and blue
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question: What RBG stand for?
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question: What colors are in the RBG model?
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question: What color did Cennini Cennino make?
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question: When did Cennini Cennino make violet? 
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question: When was Saint Valentine martyred?
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question: The Community Party of China gained power in China, what year did it happen?
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question: Which group gained power in China in 1949?
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context: In modern color theory, also known as the RGB color model, red, green and blue are additive primary colors. Red, green and blue light combined together makes white light, and these three colors, combined in different mixtures, can produce nearly any other color. This is the principle that is used to make all of the colors on your computer screen and your television. For example, purple on a computer screen is made by a similar formula to used by Cennino Cennini in the Renaissance to make violet, but using additive colors and light instead of pigment: it is created by combining red and blue light at equal intensity on a black screen. Violet is made on a computer screen in a similar way, but with a greater amount of blue light and less red light.

qas: question: Over what numerical scale is color measured on a computer screen?
answers: text: zero to 255,
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question: What is the total number of possible sRGB colors?
answers: text: 16,777,216
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question: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?
answers: text: 255, 00, 00
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question: Crimson is identified by what sRGB number?
answers: text: 220, 20, 60
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question: What is an sRBG?
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question: What is measure on a scale from 0 to 525?
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question: What are there 16,777,126 of?
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question: What color has an sRGB number of 250, 05, 00?
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question: What color has an sRBG number of 220, 20, 60?
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question: What did Karl Marx publish in 1884?
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question: What took place in 1986?
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question: What was red known as in Turkey?
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context: So that the maximum number of colors can be accurately reproduced on your computer screen, each color has been given a code number, or sRGB, which tells your computer the intensity of the red, green and blue components of that color. The intensity of each component is measured on a scale of zero to 255, which means the complete list includes 16,777,216 distinct colors and shades. The sRGB number of pure red, for example, is 255, 00, 00, which means the red component is at its maximum intensity, and there is no green or blue. The sRGB number for crimson is 220, 20, 60, which means that the red is slightly less intense and therefore darker, there is some green, which leans it toward orange; and there is a larger amount of blue,which makes it slightly blue-violet.

qas: question: What type of scattering is responsible for the shift in the color of sunlight?
answers: text: Rayleigh
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question: What occurs to colors of short wavelengths in Rayleigh scattering?
answers: text: scatter more strongly
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question: What is the effect on blue and green light experiencing Rayleigh scattering during sunrise?
answers: text: removed almost completely
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question: In comparison to blue and green, what would describe the wavelength of orange or red light?
answers: text: longer
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question: Why does white sunlight travel through the atmosphere? 
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question: How do colors with longer wavelengths scatter?
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question: What colors have a longer wavelength than orange and red?
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question: What colors have shorter wavelengths than blue and green?
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question: In the United States states that vote for Democratic presidential candidates are known as what?
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question: What color to brides wear in Christian countries?
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question: What team did the Cincinnati Red Stockings become?
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context: As a ray of white sunlight travels through the atmosphere to the eye, some of the colors are scattered out of the beam by air molecules and airborne particles due to Rayleigh scattering, changing the final color of the beam that is seen. Colors with a shorter wavelength, such as blue and green, scatter more strongly, and are removed from the light that finally reaches the eye. At sunrise and sunset, when the path of the sunlight through the atmosphere to the eye is longest, the blue and green components are removed almost completely, leaving the longer wavelength orange and red light. The remaining reddened sunlight can also be scattered by cloud droplets and other relatively large particles, which give the sky above the horizon its red glow.

qas: question: When was the first ruby laser invented?
answers: text: 1960
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question: In what year did a red helium-neon laser come to be?
answers: text: 1962
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question: What type of laser is used in a LaserDisc player?
answers: text: Red helium–neon
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question: What type of laser diode is used in a DVD player?
answers: text: a 660 nm laser
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question: What type of laser is used in Raman spectroscopy?
answers: text: 671 nm diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers
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question: What was invented in 1906?
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question: What was invented in 1926?
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question: What uses a 606 nm laser diode technology?
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question: What have been introduced with a 617 nm diode-pumped solid state?
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question: What does DSPS stand for?
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question: What pigment accounts for the majority of color in red hair?
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question: What country decided to keep their old flag in 1960?
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question: In what year was The Night Cafe painted?
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context: Lasers emitting in the red region of the spectrum have been available since the invention of the ruby laser in 1960. In 1962 the red helium–neon laser was invented, and these two types of lasers were widely used in many scientific applications including holography, and in education. Red helium–neon lasers were used commercially in LaserDisc players. The use of red laser diodes became widespread with the commercial success of modern DVD players, which use a 660 nm laser diode technology. Today, red and red-orange laser diodes are widely available to the public in the form of extremely inexpensive laser pointers. Portable, high-powered versions are also available for various applications. More recently, 671 nm diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers have been introduced to the market for all-DPSS laser display systems, particle image velocimetry, Raman spectroscopy, and holography.

qas: question: At which period of the year are phosphates high?
answers: text: the summer growing season
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question: What causes sugar created by chlorophyll to breakdown?
answers: text: phosphate
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question: Where does phosphate within a leaf move in the fall?
answers: text: the stem of the plant
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question: What is created in fall when phosphates retreat to the stems of plants?
answers: text: anthocyanin pigments
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question: What occurs in bright light to leaves during fall?
answers: text: greater the production of anthocyanins
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question: What does chlorophyll have a vital role in breaking down?
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question: What moves from the leaf into the stem during the summer?
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question: What does the chloropyll breakdown process lead to?
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question: What leads to the production of anthocyanin chlorophyll pigments?
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question: Why does white sunlight travel through the atmosphere? 
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question: How many heads did the scarlet beast which a woman sat on have?
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question: Who was the 4th century Santa Claus in Turkey?
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context: During the summer growing season, phosphate is at a high level. It has a vital role in the breakdown of the sugars manufactured by chlorophyll. But in the fall, phosphate, along with the other chemicals and nutrients, moves out of the leaf into the stem of the plant. When this happens, the sugar-breakdown process changes, leading to the production of anthocyanin pigments. The brighter the light during this period, the greater the production of anthocyanins and the more brilliant the resulting color display. When the days of autumn are bright and cool, and the nights are chilly but not freezing, the brightest colorations usually develop.

qas: question: What pigment accounts for the majority of color in red hair?
answers: text: pheomelanin
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question: There is another part of the face which gets its red color from the pigment pheomelanin, what is it?
answers: text: the lips
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question: Aside from pheomelanin what color pigment contributes to red hair?
answers: text: eumelanin
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question: In what year can the earliest used of redhead be traced to?
answers: text: 1510
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question: What type of temper are people with red hair considered to have?
answers: text: fiery
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question: How does copper hair vary?
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question: Copper color is characterized by what?
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question: What was hede redd the original term for?
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question: What has been in use since 1015?
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question: What does a red flag signify in football?
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question: What year were synthetic pigments first used?
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question: In what year did the nation of George get a new national flag?
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context: Red hair varies from a deep burgundy through burnt orange to bright copper. It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin (which also accounts for the red color of the lips) and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The term redhead (originally redd hede) has been in use since at least 1510. Cultural reactions have varied from ridicule to admiration; many common stereotypes exist regarding redheads and they are often portrayed as fiery-tempered. (See red hair).

qas: question: In alpha male mandrills what party of the body is most red according to their rank?
answers: text: the face
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question: Wearing red is connected to what result in humans, in terms of sport?
answers: text: increased performance
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question: In what sport have judges been shown to favor athletes wearing red?
answers: text: tae kwon do
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question: What is the effect of exposing a human to red when it comes to cognitive skills?
answers: text: decreases performance
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question: The amount of red in mandrill males is directly related to levels of what?
answers: text: testosterone
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question: What are blue shapes most likely to win?
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question: What does exposure to red increase performance in?
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question: What has wearing blue been linked with?
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question: What can blue affect the perception of by others?
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question: Where in Europe are kermes only found?
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question: After what event would a general of the Roman army be painted red?
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question: Why does a sky turn red when the evening comes?
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context: Red is associated with dominance in a number of animal species. For example, in mandrills, red coloration of the face is greatest in alpha males, increasingly less prominent in lower ranking subordinates, and directly correlated with levels of testosterone. Red can also affect the perception of dominance by others, leading to significant differences in mortality, reproductive success and parental investment between individuals displaying red and those not. In humans, wearing red has been linked with increased performance in competitions, including professional sport and multiplayer video games. Controlled tests have demonstrated that wearing red does not increase performance or levels of testosterone during exercise, so the effect is likely to be produced by perceived rather than actual performance. Judges of tae kwon do have been shown to favor competitors wearing red protective gear over blue, and, when asked, a significant majority of people say that red abstract shapes are more "dominant", "aggressive", and "likely to win a physical competition" than blue shapes. In contrast to its positive effect in physical competition and dominance behavior, exposure to red decreases performance in cognitive tasks and elicits aversion in psychological tests where subjects are placed in an "achievement" context (e.g. taking an IQ test).

qas: question: What trait do people most commonly link red with?
answers: text: courage
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question: Why did the Popes of the middle ages wear red?
answers: text: to symbolize the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs
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question: What was depicted on the banners of Christians in the First crusade?
answers: text: a red cross on a white field
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question: What is the cross on the banners used during the First Crusade known as?
answers: text: St. George's Cross
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question: Who was Saint George believed to be?
answers: text: a Roman soldier
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question: Why is the color red worn in the Catholic Church?
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question: What was the banner of the Catholic soldiers in the First Crusade?
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question: What is the Catholic cross of the First Crusade called?
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question: Who was Saint George according to Catholic tradition?
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question: What cross became the Roman flag in the 16th century?
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question: How many small crosses are on the Georgian flag?
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question: Why does white sunlight travel through the atmosphere? 
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question: During what century did carmine start to see use?
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context: Surveys show that red is the color most associated with courage. In western countries red is a symbol of martyrs and sacrifice, particularly because of its association with blood. Beginning in the Middle Ages, the Pope and Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church wore red to symbolize the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs. The banner of the Christian soldiers in the First Crusade was a red cross on a white field, the St. George's Cross. According to Christian tradition, Saint George was a Roman soldier who was a member of the guards of the Emperor Diocletian, who refused to renounce his Christian faith and was martyred. The Saint George's Cross became the Flag of England in the 16th century, and now is part of the Union Flag of the United Kingdom, as well as the Flag of the Republic of Georgia.

qas: question: When was Saint Valentine martyred?
answers: text: 296 AD
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question: Who was Saint Valentine?
answers: text: a Roman Catholic Bishop or priest
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question: In which century did Saint Valentine's day become connected with lovers?
answers: text: 14th
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question: In what kind of countries is the celebration of Valentine's day forbidden?
answers: text: Islamic
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question: Which nation forbade the sale of Valentine's Day products in 2002 and 2011?
answers: text: Saudi Arabia
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question: Who was martyred in about 269 AD?
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question: Where was Saint Valentine's Day condemned in 2002?
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question: What type of holiday does China consider Saint Valentine's Day to be?
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question: When did Japan begin to celebrate Saint Valentine's Day?
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question: Why is the color red worn in the Catholic Church?
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question: What did the Song dynasty say about an official who had talent?
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question: Which color is opposite of red on the visible spectrum?
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context: Saint Valentine, a Roman Catholic Bishop or priest who was martyred in about 296 AD, seems to have had no known connection with romantic love, but the day of his martyrdom on the Roman Catholic calendar, Saint Valentine's Day (February 14), became, in the 14th century, an occasion for lovers to send messages to each other. In recent years the celebration of Saint Valentine' s day has spread beyond Christian countries to Japan and China and other parts of the world. The celebration of Saint Valentine's Day is forbidden or strongly condemned in many Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran. In Saudi Arabia, in 2002 and 2011, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, as the day is considered a Christian holiday.

qas: question: What color gowns are generally worn by recent Doctors of Philosophy at Oxford?
answers: text: Scarlet
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question: What good traits is the color red associated with in China?
answers: text: good fortune and prosperity
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question: In what century did Saint Nicholas become the influence for red being worn by Santa Claus?
answers: text: 4th
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question: Who was Saint Nicholas?
answers: text: the Greek Christian Bishop of Myra
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question: In what nation is Myra?
answers: text: Turkey
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question: What color to brides wear in Christian countries?
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question: Who was the 4th century Santa Claus in Turkey?
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question: What color gowns are worn on red carpets?
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question: What do all Doctors of Philosophy wear?
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question: In ancient greek, what is coccus referred to as?
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question: In what year did nations standardize on red as a color for stop lights?
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question: What insect was found in Persia?
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context: Red is the color most commonly associated with joy and well being. It is the color of celebration and ceremony. A red carpet is often used to welcome distinguished guests. Red is also the traditional color of seats in opera houses and theaters. Scarlet academic gowns are worn by new Doctors of Philosophy at degree ceremonies at Oxford University and other schools. In China, it is considered the color of good fortune and prosperity, and it is the color traditionally worn by brides. In Christian countries, it is the color traditionally worn at Christmas by Santa Claus, because in the 4th century the historic Saint Nicholas was the Greek Christian Bishop of Myra, in modern-day Turkey, and bishops then dressed in red.

qas: question: What did a red flag signal in the Middle Ages?
answers: text: defenders of a town or castle would fight to defend it
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question: What was the importance of a red flag flown by a warship in the Middle Ages?
answers: text: they would show no mercy to their enemy
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question: Which British law forbade cars from following a bearer of a red flag as a warning to horse drawn vehicles?
answers: text: the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896
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question: Under what circimstance is a red flag flown in auto racing?
answers: text: if there is danger to the drivers
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question: What is a football player shown before being ejected from a match?
answers: text: a red penalty card
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question: What did the Highway Act of 1869 abolish?
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question: What does a red flag signify in football?
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question: What did motor cars have to follow in the Middle Ages?
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question: What occurred when red and green were put next to one another?
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question: What happened in 1912?
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question: When was the Communist Manifesto first created?
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context: Red is the traditional color of warning and danger. In the Middle Ages, a red flag announced that the defenders of a town or castle would fight to defend it, and a red flag hoisted by a warship meant they would show no mercy to their enemy. In Britain, in the early days of motoring, motor cars had to follow a man with a red flag who would warn horse-drawn vehicles, before the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896 abolished this law. In automobile races, the red flag is raised if there is danger to the drivers. In international football, a player who has made a serious violation of the rules is shown a red penalty card and ejected from the game.

qas: question: In what city did the standardization of red as a color of stop lights occur?
answers: text: Vienna
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question: In what year did nations standardize on red as a color for stop lights?
answers: text: 1968
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question: At what event did the color red become the standard color of stop lights?
answers: text: Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968
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question: Red is the color of stoplights due to its universal affiliation with what?
answers: text: danger and warning
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question: At what time is red at its brightest?
answers: text: daytime
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question: What took place in 1986?
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question: What was standardized as the international color at the Vienna Road Signs Convention?
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question: What color next to red is the brightest in the daytime?
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question: What is orange considered during twilight?
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question: The Community Party of China gained power in China, what year did it happen?
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question: On what date was the Garde Nationale empowered to hoist a red flag to signal their intervention in a riot?
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question: When did the Cincinnati Red Stockings come to be?
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context: Red is the international color of stop signs and stop lights on highways and intersections. It was standarized as the international color at the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968. It was chosen partly because red is the brightest color in daytime (next to orange), though it is less visible at twilight, when green is the most visible color. Red also stands out more clearly against a cool natural backdrop of blue sky, green trees or gray buildings. But it was mostly chosen as the color for stoplights and stop signs because of its universal association with danger and warning.

qas: question: In what way is red used in contemporary fashion?
answers: text: to attract the eyes of the viewer to the person
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question: What is the main impact of people wearing red as it relates to the perception of distance?
answers: text: People wearing red seem to be closer
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question: Why do monarchs sometimes wear red?
answers: text: to be visible from a distance in a crowd
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question: Some professions require employees to wear red because it allows them to be what?
answers: text: easily found
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question: What older period was red used in fashion?
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question: What color causes people to be seen as further away even though distance is the same?
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question: What color is used in modern fashion so the person can be easily found?
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question: What prominent people do not wear red because they can be easily found in a crowd?
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question: What color was correlated with the Army in ancient Rome?
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question: What was the source of color in Red lac?
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question: Why is the color red worn in the Catholic Church?
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context: Red is used in modern fashion much as it was used in Medieval painting; to attract the eyes of the viewer to the person who is supposed to be the center of attention. People wearing red seem to be closer than those dressed in other colors, even if they are actually the same distance away. Monarchs, wives of Presidential candidates and other celebrities often wear red to be visible from a distance in a crowd. It is also commonly worn by lifeguards and others whose job requires them to be easily found.

qas: question: How many heads did the scarlet beast which a woman sat on have?
answers: text: seven heads
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question: The horned scarlet beast that a woman sat on had how many horns?
answers: text: ten
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question: What kind of cup did the woman on the scarlet horned beast have?
answers: text: golden
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question: What was on the forehead of the woman on the scarlet horned beast?
answers: text: a name
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question: Outside of the blood of the saints, on what did the woman on the scarlet horned beast become drunken?
answers: text: the blood of the martyrs of Jesus
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question: What had seven horns?
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question: What had ten heads?
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question: Where was "Mother the Great, Babylon of Harlots" written on the woman?
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question: Who wore red shoes as a symbol of authority?
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question: What color is prominently featured in the flag of the United States Corps Marines?
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question: Which group gained power in China in 1949?
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context: "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: "And upon her forehead was a name written a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of all the abominations of the earth: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

qas: question: Which cardinal direction is signified by red in China?
answers: text: south
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question: What season is red identified with in China?
answers: text: summer
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question: Red paper is used to wrap gifts of money during what special celebration in China?
answers: text: Chinese New Year
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question: Who wrote the Little Red Book?
answers: text: Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
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question: In what year was the Little Red Book published?
answers: text: 1966
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question: What does red signify in southern cultural traditions?
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question: What is hong bao the Cantonese word for?
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question: What is lai see the Mandarin word for?
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question: What does PCR stand for?
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question: Who does the Red Little Book quote?
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question: What lasted 93 days in 2000?
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question: What appeared after the Bastille Revolution?
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question: What appeared after the Bastille Revolution?
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context: In China, red (simplified Chinese: 红; traditional Chinese: 紅; pinyin: hóng) is the symbol of fire and the south (both south in general and Southern China specifically). It carries a largely positive connotation, being associated with courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, happiness, passion, and summer. In Chinese cultural traditions, red is associated with weddings (where brides traditionally wear red dresses) and red paper is frequently used to wrap gifts of money or other objects. Special red packets (simplified Chinese: 红包; traditional Chinese: 紅包; pinyin: hóng bāo in Mandarin or lai see in Cantonese) are specifically used during Chinese New Year celebrations for giving monetary gifts. On the more negative side, obituaries are traditionally written in red ink, and to write someone's name in red signals either cutting them out of one's life, or that they have died. Red is also associated with either the feminine or the masculine (yin and yang respectively), depending on the source. The Little Red Book, a collection of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), was published in 1966 and widely distributed thereafter.

qas: question: What central African warriors are said to cover themselves in red for celebrations?
answers: text: Ndembu warriors
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question: What does the Ndembu culture believe red symbolizes?
answers: text: life and health
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question: What color do the Ndembu believe is better than red?
answers: text: white
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question: What alternative colors does the Red Cross use in certain parts of Africa?
answers: text: green and white
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question: What warriors in Africa rub themselves with red paint during celebrations?
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question: How is red seen in Africa?
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question: What color did the Red Cross change to in Central Africa?
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question: What color are sick people painted with in Africa?
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question: What flag symbolizing China was displayed in 1949?
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question: What does DSPS stand for?
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question: What color causes people to be seen as further away even though distance is the same?
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context: In Central Africa, Ndembu warriors rub themselves with red paint during celebrations. Since their culture sees the color as a symbol of life and health, sick people are also painted with it. Like most Central African cultures, the Ndembu see red as ambivalent, better than black but not as good as white. In other parts of Africa, however, red is a color of mourning, representing death. Because red bears are associated with death in many parts of Africa, the Red Cross has changed its colors to green and white in parts of the continent.

qas: question: When did the Cincinnati Red Stockings come to be?
answers: text: 1869
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question: What team did the Cincinnati Red Stockings become?
answers: text: the Atlanta Braves
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question: What political movment was red identified with in the 1950s?
answers: text: communism
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question: What name did the Cincinnati Red Stockings become known as for a time in the 1950s?
answers: text: Redlegs
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question: Where did the Cincinnati Red Stockings move after leaving Cincinnati?
answers: text: Boston
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question: What is the oldest professional baseball team dating back to 1896?
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question: What dates back to 1896?
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question: Where did the 1896 Cincinnati Red Stockings relocate to?
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question: What year was red associated with communism?
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question: What color are the Anaheim Angels known for?
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question: What did Lisle de Rouget write?
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question: When did the Cincinnati Red Stockings come to be?
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question: What do all Doctors of Philosophy wear?
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context: Major League Baseball is especially well known for red teams. The Cincinnati Red Stockings are the oldest professional baseball team, dating back to 1869. The franchise soon relocated to Boston and is now the Atlanta Braves, but its name survives as the origin for both the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox. During the 1950s when red was strongly associated with communism, the modern Cincinnati team was known as the "Redlegs" and the term was used on baseball cards. After the red scare faded, the team was known as the "Reds" again. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are also known for their color red, as are the St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Philadelphia Phillies.

qas: question: What color jersey does Bayern Munich wear?
answers: text: red
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question: What is the nickname given to A.C. Milan?
answers: text: i rossoneri
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question: What has to occur for a player in association football to be shown a red penalty card?
answers: text: a serious infraction
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question: What occurs when a player in association football is shown a red penalty card?
answers: text: the player is immediately disqualified from further play
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question: How is an association football team impacted when a player is shown a red penalty card?
answers: text: his team must continue with one less player for the game's duration
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question: What association football teams wear all red jerseys?
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question: What other sports teams wear all red jerseys?
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question: What color card is given for an infraction?
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question: Who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian war?
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question: What are the pigments in the red sky called?
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question: Who was Saint Valentine?
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context: In association football, teams such as Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Arsenal, Toronto FC, and S.L. Benfica primarily wear red jerseys. Other teams that prominently feature red on their kits include A.C. Milan (nicknamed i rossoneri for their red and black shirts), AFC Ajax, Olympiacos, River Plate, Atlético Madrid, and Flamengo. A red penalty card is issued to a player who commits a serious infraction: the player is immediately disqualified from further play and his team must continue with one less player for the game's duration.

qas: question: In Christian nations what does the color red often become associated with?
answers: text: Christ's blood
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question: What cross is on the British flag?
answers: text: the cross of Saint George
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question: As it relates to England, who is Saint George?
answers: text: patron saint of England
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question: Which US armed force uses red as the main color of its flag?
answers: text: the United States Marine Corps
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question: In terms of a beach, why might one see a red flag?
answers: text: bad water conditions
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question: What is the most common color used on national flags?
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question: What colors do all former British colonies use on their flags?
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question: What color do all of the former colonies of Spain have on their flag?
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question: What color is prominently featured in the flag of the United States Corps Marines?
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question: What colors are on the Spanish Navy flag?
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question: What are the pigments in the red sky called?
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question: What colors are used to create purple on a computer screen?
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question: When did Cennini Cennino make violet? 
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context: Red is one of the most common colors used on national flags. The use of red has similar connotations from country to country: the blood, sacrifice, and courage of those who defended their country; the sun and the hope and warmth it brings; and the sacrifice of Christ's blood (in some historically Christian nations) are a few examples. Red is the color of the flags of several countries that once belonged to the former British Empire. The British flag bears the colors red, white, and blue; it includes the cross of Saint George, patron saint of England, and the saltire of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, both of which are red on white. The flag of the United States bears the colors of Britain, the colors of the French tricolore include red as part of the old Paris coat of arms, and other countries' flags, such as those of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, carry a small inset of the British flag in memory of their ties to that country. Many former colonies of Spain, such as Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Venezuela, also feature red-one of the colors of the Spanish flag-on their own banners. Red flags are also used to symbolize storms, bad water conditions, and many other dangers. Navy flags are often red and yellow. Red is prominently featured in the flag of the United States Marine Corps.

qas: question: When did the Slavic solidarity movement choose red blue and white as their colors?
answers: text: the late nineteenth century
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question: In what year did the nation of George get a new national flag?
answers: text: 2004
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question: What is in the middle of the Georgian flag?
answers: text: one big red cross
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question: How many small crosses are on the Georgian flag?
answers: text: four
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question: What were the Pan-Slavic colors originally?
answers: text: the colors of the Russian flag
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question: What colors were adopted by the Pan solidarity movement?
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question: When did the Pan solidarity movement take place?
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question: Why do Georgia and Poland use red on their flags?
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question: What color flag did the Czech Republic adopt in 2004?
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question: What color did Matisse claim would impact ones blood pressure?
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question: What colors are on the Spanish Navy flag?
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question: What was the source of color in Red lac?
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context: Red, blue, and white are also the Pan-Slavic colors adopted by the Slavic solidarity movement of the late nineteenth century. Initially these were the colors of the Russian flag; as the Slavic movement grew, they were adopted by other Slavic peoples including Slovaks, Slovenes, and Serbs. The flags of the Czech Republic and Poland use red for historic heraldic reasons (see Coat of arms of Poland and Coat of arms of the Czech Republic) & not due to Pan-Slavic connotations. In 2004 Georgia adopted a new white flag, which consists of four small and one big red cross in the middle touching all four sides.

qas: question: During what time period did the German Empire use the colors red white and black?
answers: text: 1870 to 1918
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question: What did red white and black become associated with in Germany?
answers: text: German nationalism
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question: In what era did red white and black become part of the Nazi flag?
answers: text: 1920s
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question: Red was chosen as part of the Nazi flag to do what?
answers: text: attract attention
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question: Whose design was the Nazi flag?
answers: text: Hitler's personal design
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question: What were the colors of the German Empire from 1818 to 1970?
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question: What flag were the colors black, red, and white associated with in 1920?
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question: Who explained the colors in Kampf Mein?
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question: What workers was the social program of the Germans aimed at?
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question: When was Xueqin Cao alive?
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question: What did Suger Abbe rebuild?
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question: What was invented in 1906?
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context: Red, white, and black were the colors of the German Empire from 1870 to 1918, and as such they came to be associated with German nationalism. In the 1920s they were adopted as the colors of the Nazi flag. In Mein Kampf, Hitler explained that they were "revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past." The red part of the flag was also chosen to attract attention - Hitler wrote: "the new flag ... should prove effective as a large poster" because "in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement." The red also symbolized the social program of the Nazis, aimed at German workers. Several designs by a number of different authors were considered, but the one adopted in the end was Hitler's personal design.

qas: question: After the demise of what was the red flag linked to the French Revolution?
answers: text: Bastille
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question: On what date was the Garde Nationale empowered to hoist a red flag to signal their intervention in a riot?
answers: text: October 20, 1789
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question: On what date did the Garde Nationale kill as many as fifty people on Champs de Mars?
answers: text: July 17, 1791
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question: Who wrote the words "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny?"
answers: text: Rouget de Lisle
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question: In what year did the most ardent revolutionaries in France adopt a red flag to symbolize the blood of their fallen comrades?
answers: text: 1790
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question: What appeared after the Bastille Revolution?
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question: What did an October 20, 1879 law state?
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question: What happened during a 1971 demonstration?
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question: What did Lisle de Rouget write?
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question: What began in 1709?
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question: When did the Pan solidarity movement take place?
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question: How is red seen in Africa?
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question: What brick color is produced by kermes?
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context: The red flag appeared as a political symbol during the French Revolution, after the fall of Bastille. A law adopted by the new government on October 20, 1789 authorized the Garde Nationale to raise the red flag in the event of a riot, to signal that the Garde would imminently intervene. During a demonstration on the Champs de Mars on July 17, 1791, the Garde Nationale fired on the crowd, killed up to fifty people. The government was denounced by the more radical revolutionaries. In the words of his famous hymn, the Marseillaise, Rouget de Lisle wrote: "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny!" (Contre nous de la tyrannie, l'entendard sanglant est leve). Beginning in 1790, the most radical revolutionaries adopted the red flag themselves, to symbolize the blood of those killed in the demonstrations, and to call for the repression of those they considered counter-revolutionary.

qas: question: When was the Communist Manifesto first created?
answers: text: February 1848
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question: Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
answers: text: Karl Marx
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question: The French Revolution resulted in the fall of which monarch?
answers: text: Louis Philippe
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question: When did the 19th century workers of Paris construct barricades and hoist red flags to protest their new government?
answers: text: June 1848
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question: Who was tasked with stopping the late 19th century worker uprisings in France?
answers: text: the French Army
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question: What did Karl Marx publish in 1884?
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question: Who published the Communist Manifesto in 1884?
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question: What did Paris workers do in June 1488?
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question: Who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian war?
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question: During what years was Cao Xueqin alive?
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question: What continent is Laccifer lacca found on?
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context: Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in February 1848, with little attention. However, a few days later the French Revolution of 1848 broke out, which replaced the monarchy of Louis Philippe with the Second French Republic. In June 1848, Paris workers, disenchanted with the new government, built barricades and raised red flags. The new government called in the French Army to put down the uprising, the first of many such confrontations between the army and the new worker's movements in Europe.

qas: question: Who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian war?
answers: text: the French Army
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question: After Paris was seized as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, what did revolutionaries and workers create?
answers: text: the Paris Commune
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question: For how long did the Paris Commune exist?
answers: text: two months
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question: Next to whom was a a Paris Commune banner placed?
answers: text: Vladimir Lenin
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question: In what year did people of the French Communist party go to Moscow to give the Soviet government a Paris Commune banner?
answers: text: 1921
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question: Who did the French Army defeat in 1870?
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question: What war did the French Army defeat the Germans in?
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question: What happened in 1912?
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question: Why do monarchs sometimes wear red?
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question: What effect is responsible for the red color of Mars?
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question: What were the Pan-Slavic colors originally?
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context: In 1870, following the stunning defeat of the French Army by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War, French workers and socialist revolutionaries seized Paris and created the Paris Commune. The Commune lasted for two months before it was crushed by the French Army, with much bloodshed. The original red banners of the Commune became icons of the socialist revolution; in 1921 members of the French Communist Party came to Moscow and presented the new Soviet government with one of the original Commune banners; it was placed (and is still in place) in the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, next to his open coffin.

qas: question: In the USA red states are known to do what, in terms of politics?
answers: text: vote for Republican candidates in presidential elections
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question: In the United States states that vote for Democratic presidential candidates are known as what?
answers: text: blue states
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question: How many days did the recount after the 2000 US election last for?
answers: text: 39
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question: In what year did the concept of red and blue states become relatively fixed?
answers: text: 2000
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question: In 2000, what did commentators refer to as blue states?
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question: What lasted 93 days in 2000?
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question: What happened in 2000 causing a 93 day ordeal?
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question: In what nation is Myra?
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question: Where did the 1896 Cincinnati Red Stockings relocate to?
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question: What color did the Red Cross change to in Central Africa?
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context: In the United States, political commentators often refer to the "red states", which traditionally vote for Republican candidates in presidential elections, and "blue states", which vote for the Democratic candidate. This convention is relatively recent: before the 2000 presidential election, media outlets assigned red and blue to both parties, sometimes alternating the allocation for each election. Fixed usage was established during the 39-day recount following the 2000 election, when the media began to discuss the contest in terms of "red states" versus "blue states".

qas: question: In what year was the Community Party of China created?
answers: text: 1920
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question: The Community Party of China gained power in China, what year did it happen?
answers: text: 1949
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question: Who was the Party leader of the Communist Party of China when it took power?
answers: text: Mao Zedong
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question: In terms of the Communist Party of China, what is "The East is Red?"
answers: text: the Party anthem
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question: How many members does the contemporary Communist Part of China have?
answers: text: eighty million members
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question: What was founded in 1902?
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question: What flag was adopted by China in 1920?
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question: Who took power of China in 1994?
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question: What did the party anthem become under Zedong Mao?
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question: What has eighty members?
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question: What uses a 606 nm laser diode technology?
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question: What part in the paintings of Matisse did color play?
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question: When was the first ruby laser invented?
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context: The Communist Party of China, founded in 1920, adopted the red flag and hammer and sickle emblem of the Soviet Union, which became the national symbols when the Party took power in China in 1949. Under Party leader Mao Zedong, the Party anthem became "The East Is Red", and Mao Zedong himself was sometimes referred to as a "red sun". During the Cultural Revolution in China, Party ideology was enforced by the Red Guards, and the sayings of Mao Zedong were published as a small red book in hundreds of millions of copies. Today the Communist Party of China claims to be the largest political party in the world, with eighty million members.

qas: question: What did the biggest star on the flag of China in 1949 represent?
answers: text: the Communist Party
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question: In the mid 20th century the flag of Laos was primarily what color?
answers: text: red
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question: What does the red color in the Nepalese flag represent?
answers: text: the national flower
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question: In what year during the 20th century did the Chinese flag become red?
answers: text: 1949
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question: Which group gained power in China in 1949?
answers: text: the Communist Party of China
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question: Who took power in China in 1994?
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question: What flag symbolizing China was displayed in 1949?
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question: What happened in 1950?
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question: What country decided to keep their old flag in 1960?
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question: Red was chosen as part of the Nazi flag to do what?
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question: What trees are found only in the Mediterranean?
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question: What officials of the top three ranks wore bright red?
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context: After the Communist Party of China took power in 1949, the flag of China became a red flag with a large star symbolizing the Communist Party, and smaller stars symbolizing workers, peasants, the urban middle class and rural middle class. The flag of the Communist Party of China became a red banner with a hammer and sickle, similar to that on the Soviet flag. In the 1950s and 1960s, other Communist regimes such as Vietnam and Laos also adopted red flags. Some Communist countries, such as Cuba, chose to keep their old flags; and other countries used red flags which had nothing to do with Communism or socialism; the red flag of Nepal, for instance, represents the national flower.