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Article: Every Breath You Take
Section: Origins and songwriting

Question: What does Sting insists that the song is all about?

The lyrics are the words of a sinister, controlling character, who is watching "every breath you take; every move you make".
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is.
He insists it's about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow.
"One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!'
I thought, 'Well, good luck.'"
When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite.
"According to the "Back to Mono" box-set book, "Every Breath You Take" is influenced by a Gene Pitney song titled "Every Breath I Take".
The song's structure is a variation on the Classical rondo form with its AABACABA structure, a form rarely found in modern popular music.
The demo of the song was recorded in an eight track suite in North London's Utopia studios and featured Sting singing over a Hammond organ.
While recording, Summers came up with a guitar part inspired by Béla Bartók that would later become a trademark lick, and played it straight through in one take.
He was asked to put guitar onto a simple backing track of bass, drums, and a single vocal, with Sting offering no directive beyond "make it your own.
"The recording process was fraught with difficulties as personal tensions between the band members, particularly Sting and Stewart Copeland, came to the fore.
Producer Hugh Padgham claimed that by the time of the recording sessions, Sting and Copeland "hated each other", with verbal and physical fights in the studio common.
The tensions almost led to the recording sessions being cancelled until a meeting involving the band and the group's manager, Miles Copeland (Stewart's brother), resulted in an agreement to continue.
The drum track was largely created through separate overdubs of each percussive instrument, with the main backbeat created by simultaneously playing a snare and a gong drum.
Keyboard parts were added from Roland guitar synthesisers, a Prophet-5 and an Oberheim synthesiser.
The single-note piano in the middle eight was recommended by Padgham, inspired by similar work that he had done with the group XTC.
Article: Korean War
Section: Media

Question: How many maps came out of the West Point Atlas?

 The Korean War You Never Knew & Life in the Korean War – slideshows by "Life magazine"
 QuickTime sequence of 27 maps adapted from the West Point Atlas of American Wars
 Animation for operations in 1950
 Animation for operations in 1951
 US Army Korea Media Center official Korean War online image archive
 Rare pictures of the Korean War from the U.S. Library of Congress and National Archives
 "Land of the Morning Calm Canadians in Korea" – multimedia project including veteran interviews
 Pathé Online newsreel archive featuring films on the war
 CBC Digital Archives—Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War
Article: Life Is Beautiful
Section: Reception

Question: When was the release date of Life is Beautiful?

"Life is Beautiful" became commercially successful.
After Miramax Films released the film on 23 October 1998 in the United States, the film went on to gross $57,563,264 in North America, and $171,600,000 internationally, with a worldwide gross of $229,163,264.
It is the highest grossing movie to be made in Italy, and the second highest grossing foreign film in the United States.
The film also received mostly positive reviews, with the film aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a "Fresh" 80% rating.
Despite its acclaim, actor-director Roberto Benigni received criticism for its comedic elements incorporated into the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1/2 stars, stating, "At Cannes, it offended some left-wing critics with its use of humor in connection with the Holocaust.
What may be most offensive to both wings is its sidestepping of politics in favor of simple human ingenuity.
The film finds the right notes to negotiate its delicate subject matter."
Article: Fight Club
Section: Writing

Question: Who did the director invite to revise the script?

Screenwriter Jim Uhls started working on an early draft of the adapted screenplay, which excluded a voice-over because the industry perceived at the time that the technique was "hackneyed and trite".
When Fincher joined the film, he thought that the film should have a voice-over, believing that the film's humor came from the narrator's voice.
The director described the film without a voice-over as seemingly "sad and pathetic".
Fincher and Uhls revised the script for six to seven months and by 1997 had a third draft that reordered the story and left out several major elements.
When Pitt was cast, he was concerned that his character, Tyler Durden, was too one-dimensional.
Fincher sought the advice of writer-director Cameron Crowe, who suggested giving the character more ambiguity.
Fincher also hired screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker for assistance.
The director invited Pitt and Norton to help revise the script, and the group drafted five revisions in the course of a year.
Chuck Palahniuk praised the faithful film adaptation of his novel and applauded how the film's plot was more streamlined than the book's.
Palahniuk recalled how the writers debated if film audiences would believe the plot twist from the novel.
Fincher supported including the twist, arguing, "If they accept everything up to this point, they'll accept the plot twist.
If they're still in the theater, they'll stay with it."
Palahniuk's novel also contained homoerotic overtones, which the director included in the film to make audiences uncomfortable and accentuate the surprise of the film's twists.
The bathroom scene where Tyler Durden bathes next to the narrator is an example of the overtones; the line, "I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need," was meant to suggest personal responsibility rather than homosexuality.
Another example is the scene at the beginning of the film in which Tyler Durden puts a gun barrel down the narrator's mouth.
The narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the narrator is placed in a mental institution.
Norton drew parallels between redemption in the film and redemption in "The Graduate", indicating that the protagonists of both films find a middle ground between two divisions of self.
Fincher considered the novel too infatuated with Tyler Durden and changed the ending to move away from him: "I wanted people to love Tyler, but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing."
Article: China
Section: Cuisine

Question: What is China's staple food?

Chinese cuisine is highly diverse, drawing on several millennia of culinary history.
The dynastic emperors of ancient China were known to have many dining chambers in their palaces, with each chamber divided into several departments, each responsible for a specific type of dish.
China's staple food is rice.
Pork is the most popular meat in China, accounting for about three-fourths of the country's total meat consumption.
Spices are central to Chinese cuisine.
Numerous foreign offshoots of Chinese food, such as Hong Kong cuisine and American Chinese food, have emerged in the various nations that play host to the Chinese diaspora.
Article: Free Bird
Section: Origins

Question: Who was "Free Bird" written in memory of?

According to guitarist Gary Rossington, for two years after Allen Collins wrote the initial chords, vocalist Ronnie Van Zant insisted that there were too many for him to create a melody in the belief that the melody needed to change alongside the chords.
After Collins played the unused sequence at rehearsal one day, Van Zant asked him to repeat it, then wrote out the melody and lyrics in three or four minutes.
The guitar solos that finish the song were added in originally to give Van Zant a chance to rest, as the band was playing several sets per night at clubs at the time.
Soon afterward, the band learned piano-playing roadie Billy Powell had written an intro to the song; upon hearing it, they included it as the finishing touch and had him formally join as their keyboardist.
The song was originally written in memory of Duane Allman.
Allen Collins's then-girlfriend, Kathy, whom he later married, asked him, "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"
Collins noted the question and it eventually became the opening line of "Free Bird".
Article: Doctor Who
Section: Official websites

Question: Does BBC have a Doctor Who website?

 Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Official BBC Worldwide Site – Doctor Who Doctor Who
 BBC: The Changing Face of Doctor Who – many press cuttings and articles from 1963 onwards
 BBC America "Doctor Who" website
 SPACE Channel "Doctor Who" website
Article: Nigeria
Section: Democratization (1999-)

Question: When was Umaru Yar'Adua elected?

Democratization (1999-).
Nigeria regained democracy in 1999 when it elected Olusegun Obasanjo, the former military head of state, as the new President of Nigeria ending almost 33 years of military rule (from 1966 until 1999) excluding the short-lived second republic (between 1979 and 1983) by military dictators who seized power in coups d'état and counter-coups during the Nigerian military juntas of 1966–1979 and 1983–1998.
Although the elections which brought Obasanjo to power in 1999 and again in 2003 were condemned as unfree and unfair, Nigeria has shown marked improvements in attempts to tackle government corruption and to hasten development.
Ethnic violence over the oil producing Niger Delta region and inadequate infrastructures are some of the issues in the country.
Umaru Yar'Adua of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) came into power in the general election of 2007 – an election that was witnessed and condemned by the international community as being severely flawed.
Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010.
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as Yar'Adua's replacement on 6 May 2010, becoming Nigeria's 14th Head of State, while his vice, a former Kaduna State governor, Namadi Sambo, an architect, was chosen on 18 May 2010, by the National Assembly following President Goodluck Jonathan's nomination for Sambo to be his Vice-President.
Goodluck Jonathan served as Nigeria's president till 16 April 2011, when a new presidential election in Nigeria was conducted.
Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP was declared the winner on 19 April 2011, having won the election by a total of 22,495,187 of the 39,469,484 votes cast to stand ahead of Muhammadu Buhari from the main opposition party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), which won 12,214,853 of the total votes cast.
The international media reported the elections as having run smoothly with relatively little violence or voter fraud in contrast to previous elections.
Article: Croquet
Section: Garden

Question: What is the starting positions for the balls in croquet?

Garden croquet is widely played in the UK.
The rules are easy to learn and the game can be played on lawns of almost any size but usually around by .
The rules are similar to those described above for Association Croquet with three major differences:
 The starting point for all balls is a spot three feet in from the boundary directly in front of hoop1.
 If a strikers ball goes off, there is no penalty, it comes back on three feet and the turn continues.
 In a croquet stroke the croqueted ball does not have to move when the strikers ball is struck.
This version of the game is easy for beginners to learn.
The main Garden Croquet Club in the UK is the Bygrave Croquet Club which is a private club with five lawns.
Other clubs also use garden croquet as an introduction to the game, notably the Hampstead Heath Croquet Club and the Watford Croquet Club.
Article: Brazil
Section: Demographics

Question: What was the reason for Brazil's population increase between the years of 1940 and 1970?

The population of Brazil, as recorded by the 2008 PNAD, was approximately 190 million (), with a ratio of men to women of 0.95:1 and 83.75% of the population defined as urban.
The population is heavily concentrated in the Southeastern (79.8 million inhabitants) and Northeastern (53.5 million inhabitants) regions, while the two most extensive regions, the Center-West and the North, which together make up 64.12% of the Brazilian territory, have a total of only 29.1 million inhabitants.
The first census in Brazil was carried out in 1872 and recorded a population of 9,930,478.
From 1880 to 1930, 4 million Europeans arrived.
Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, because of a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline.
In the 1940s the annual population growth rate was 2.4%, rising to 3.0% in the 1950s and remaining at 2.9% in the 1960s, as life expectancy rose from 44 to 54 years and to 72.6 years in 2007.
It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050 thus completing the demographic transition.
In 2008, the illiteracy rate was 11.48% and among the youth (ages 15–19) 1.74%.
It was highest (20.30%) in the Northeast, which had a large proportion of rural poor.
Illiteracy was high (24.18%) among the rural population and lower (9.05%) among the urban population.
Article: Poutine
Section: Variations

Question: What is routinely used other then fresh curds?

There are many variations of poutine.
Some restaurants offer poutine with such additions as chicken, bacon, or Montreal-style smoked meat.
Some such restaurants even boast a dozen or more variations of poutine.
For instance, more upscale poutine with three-pepper sauce, merguez sausage, foie gras or even caviar and truffle can be found.
Some variations eliminate the cheese, but most Québécois would call such a dish a "frite sauce" ("french fries with sauce") rather than poutine.
Shawinigan and some other regions have "patate-sauce-choux" where shredded raw cabbage replaces cheese.
Fast food combination meals in Canada often have the option of getting french fries "poutinized" by adding cheese curds (or shredded cheese in the Prairies and Western Canada) and gravy.
Over the years, there have been many variations to this Classic Canadian Dish.
Sweet potato, for example, has been invented to be a healthy alternative to french fries.
The idea of adding dietary fiber and vitamins in this classic dish is widely appraised by the public.
Outside Canada, poutine is found in northern border regions of the United States such as New England, the Pacific Northwest and the Upper Midwest.
These regions offer further variations of the basic dish.
Cheeses other than fresh curds are commonly used (most commonly mozzarella cheese), along with beef, brown or turkey gravy.
In the county culture especially, a mixed fry can also come with cooked ground beef on top and is referred to as a hamburger mix, though this is less popular than a regular mix.
Article: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Section: Eve of the attacks

Question: Ilic began handing out weapons on what day?

Ilić began handing out the weapons on 27 June.
Until 27 June Ilić had kept the identities of the assassins from Belgrade secret from those he had recruited locally and vice-versa.
Then, that night, as Mehmedbašić told Albertini: "On the eve of the outrage Ilić introduced me to Princip in a Sarajevo café with the words 'Mehmedbašić who to-morrow is to be with us.'"
The three sent a postcard to Black Hand Provincial Director for Bosnia-Herzegovina Vladimir Gaćinović in France.
The following morning, on 28 June 1914, Ilić positioned the six assassins along the motorcade route.
Ilić walked the street, exhorting the assassins to bravery.
Article: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Section: Background

Question: Following the California primary, Kennedy was in what place?

Kennedy visited the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and wrote dispatches at the time for the "Boston Post" about his trip and the effect it had on him when he was twenty-two years old.
During his stay, he wrote that he grew to admire the Jewish inhabitants of the area.
As a Senator, he later became a strong supporter and advocate for Israel.
Kennedy was United States Attorney General from January 1961 until September 3, 1964, when he resigned to run for election to the United States Senate.
He took office as Senator from New York on January 3, 1965.
The run up to the 1968 presidential election saw the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, serving during a period of social unrest.
There were riots in the major cities despite Johnson's attempts to introduce anti-poverty and anti-discrimination legislation, and there was significant opposition to the ongoing military action in Vietnam.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968 led to further riots across the US.
Kennedy entered the race for the Democratic Party's nomination for president on March 16, 1968—four days after Senator Eugene McCarthy received a large percentage of the vote in the New Hampshire primary against the incumbent President (42% to Johnson's 49%).
Two weeks later, a demoralized Johnson announced he was no longer seeking re-election.
One month later, Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced he would seek the presidency.
Humphrey did not participate in any primaries but he did obtain the support of many Democratic Party delegates.
Following the California primary, Kennedy was in second place with 393 delegates compared to Humphrey's 561.
Article: Swans Reflecting Elephants
Section: Abstract

Question: From which time period is Dali's painting Swans Reflecting Elephants from?

Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.
This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period.
Painted using oil on canvas, it contains one of Dalí's famous double images.
The double images were a major part of Dalí's "paranoia-critical method," which he put forward in his 1935 essay "The Conquest of the Irrational."
He explained his process as a "spontaneous method of irrational understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of delirious phenomena."
Dalí used this method to bring forth the hallucinatory forms, double images and visual illusions that filled his paintings during the Thirties.
As with earlier "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", "Swans Reflecting Elephants" uses the reflection in a lake to create the double image seen in the painting.
In "Metamorphosis", the reflection of Narcissus is used to mirror the shape of the hand on the right of the picture.
Here, the three swans in front of bleak, leafless trees are reflected in the lake so that the swans' heads become the elephants' heads and the trees become the bodies of the elephants.
In the background of the painting is a Catalonian landscape depicted in fiery fall colors, the brushwork creating swirls in the cliffs that surround the lake, to contrast with the stillness of the water
Article: The Big Bang Theory
Section: Awards and nominations

Question: When was Parsons' second Peoples' Choice Award won?

In August 2009, the sitcom won the best comedy series TCA award and Jim Parsons (Sheldon) won the award for individual achievement in comedy.
In 2010, the show won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy, while Parsons won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
On January 16, 2011, Parsons was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical, an award that was presented by co-star Kaley Cuoco.
On September 18, 2011, Parsons was again awarded an Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
On January 9, 2013, the show won People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy for a second time.
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Article: The Cabin in the Woods
Section: Production

Question: What TV Shows did Goddard work on?

With a production budget of $30 million, principal photography began on March 9, 2009 in Vancouver, and concluded in May 2009.
Joss Whedon co-wrote the script with "Cloverfield" screenwriter Drew Goddard, who also directed the film, marking his directorial debut.
Goddard previously worked with Whedon on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" as a writer.
In November 2010, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, but the film was still released as one of MGM's last pre-Spyglass films in development.
Whedon described the film as an attempt to revitalize the horror genre which he, along with director/co-writer Goddard, felt had "devolved" with the introduction of "torture porn".
He called it a "loving hate letter" to the genre, continuing:Concerning the sheer number of creatures to be designed and made for the film, AFX Studio's David LeRoy Anderson estimated that "close to a thousand" people were turned into one of around 60 different monster types.
The task necessitated renting a much larger facility to use as a workspace, as a crew of around 60 people were recruited.
The producers told them to commence work on December 15, 2008, ahead of the official January 1, 2009 start date.
They only completed the work by the March 9, 2009 production date because, as Anderson stated "We had nearly seventy people at peak, but in effect we had a hundred and forty people, because everybody had at least two jobs...it was crazy, but people had an incredible time...none of us are ever going to forget it, and we're never all going to be in the same room again.
"The underground complex, elevators, and the control room were all sets, but for several wide shots, the British Columbia Institute of Technology's Aerospace building was used.
Production designer Martin Whist referenced Stanley Kubrick and commented: "It's very high-tech industrial, and it's a brand new building, never been shot in before...I wanted elevators to be without any controls...to almost feel like a glamorized freight elevator...
The lobby I wanted to look slightly utilitarian, contemporary and institutional...sharp and almost characterless."
Goddard called the control room "mission control at NASA", with production design aimed at grounding the room's look in the reality of governments and institutions.
Article: Cake
Section: Abstract

Question: How were the first cakes made?

Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food.
In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet baked dessert.
In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape.
Determining whether a given food should be classified as bread, cake, or pastry can be difficult.
Modern cake, especially layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid (typically milk or water) and leavening agents (such as yeast or baking powder).
Flavorful ingredients like fruit purées, nuts, dried or candied fruit, or extracts are often added, and numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients are possible.
Cakes are often filled with fruit preserves or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders or candied fruit.
Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays.
There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old.
Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.