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301 | The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from .
The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder, Japanese polymath and educator , born . Kano was born into a relatively affluent family. His father, Jirosaku, was the second son of the head priest of the Shinto Hiyoshi shrine in Shiga Prefecture. He married Sadako Kano, daughter of the owner of Kiku-Masamune sake brewing company and was adopted by the family, changing his name to Kano. He ultimately became an official in the Shogunal government.
Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing and, from the age of seven, he studied English, and the under a number of tutors. When he was fourteen, Kano began boarding at an English-medium school, Ikuei-Gijuku in Shiba, Tokyo. The culture of bullying endemic at this school was the catalyst that caused Kano to seek out a at which to train.
Early attempts to find a jujutsu teacher who was willing to take him on met with little success. With the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration of 1868, jujutsu had become unfashionable in an increasingly westernised Japan. Many of those who had once taught the art had been forced out of teaching or become so disillusioned with it that they had simply given up. Nakai Umenari, an acquaintance of Kanō's father and a former soldier, agreed to show him "kata", but not to teach him. The caretaker of Jirosaku's second house, Katagiri Ryuji, also knew jujutsu, but would not teach it as he believed it was no longer of practical use. Another frequent visitor, Imai Genshiro of school of jujutsu, also refused. Several years passed before he finally found a willing teacher.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who grew up in academia?
2. When did he begin to study English?
3. Under a single helper?
4. When did he board at a scholarly institute?
5. What was it called?
6. Located where?
7. What did he create?
8. Was it derived from other forms?
9. Why did he get into fighting forms?
10. Was it easy to locate a helper?
11. What was he trying to learn?
12. Why was it hard to locate a helper?
13. After what event?
14. When did that happen?
15. Had the country fallen deep into eastern ways?
16. Who ended up helping him at first?
17. Did he help him learn the specific form he wanted?
18. What did he help with then?
19. How many other people wouldn't help?
20. Was it because he was poor?
Numbered answers: | 1. Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing
2. seven
3. no
4. When he was fourteen
5. Ikuei-Gijuku
6. in Shiba
7. judo
8. no
9. bullying
10. no
11. jujutsu
12. jujutsu had become unfashionable
13. the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration
14. 1868
15. no
16. Nakai Umenari
17. no
18. "kata"
19. two
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
302 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Have you ever wanted to achieve something really amazing in life? Well, Greg Mortenson wanted to climb a mountain, but he ended up helping thousands of people to have a better life. Greg's story began with failure. In 1993, he set out to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. But Greg never made it to the top. After five days, he stumbled into the village of Korphe in northern Pakistan, injured and hungry. The kind villagers there looked after him for several days. Greg saw that the villagers were very poor and hungry, and some of them were ill. Also, the village school didn't have a roof and the children wrote on the ground with sticks, Greg knew he wanted to do something to help. "I'll build you a school," he told the villagers. "I promise." Greg went back home to the USA to raise money for the school. He even lived in the car to save money! Finally he went back to Korphe and built the school. But _ was just the beginning of something bigger! Since then, Greg's organization has built around 80 schools and runs many others in Pakistan and other countries, too. Greg hasn't finished yet. He does many other things to help people in poor countries. He has got many prizes, but it's the smiles of the children he has helped that makes him happy! Greg has just written a best-selling book about his story called Three Cups of Tea. It's an interesting and exciting book which tells us what ordinary people can do with courage and determination .
1. What did Greg want to do initially?
2. What mountain?
3. Is it the second highest mountain in the world?
4. Did he make it to the top?
5. So did his story begin with failure?
6. What year was it when he went to climb the mountain?
7. What village did he end up?
8. Where exactly?
9. Was he injured?
10. Were the villagers hungry too?
11. Did they look after him?
12. What did Greg promise them?
13. Where did Greg raise the money?
14. What did he do to save the money?
15. did he build the school?
16. How many schools has his organization built?
17. What is Greg's book called?
Numbered answers: | 1. Climb a mountain.
2. K2.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. Yes.
6. 1993.
7. Korphe.
8. In northern Pakistan.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
12. "I'll build you a school,"
13. In the USA.
14. Lived in the car.
15. Yes.
16. Around 80 schools.
17. Three Cups of Tea. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
303 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country. Fred Wang, an MBA student in the US, said, "I dream of equal chance for the young in China. Equality means all young people can compete fairly, based on the rule-of-law no matter whether they are rich or poor." Yujie Zhao, another MBA student in California, said, "I dream of having the best education for my children so they will not lose at the starting line, and I dream of being able to take good care of my parents after they return home from work." Yiqiong Zhang, an MBA graduate from the US, shared her dreams. "I have a dream which I have been holding for many years, that is after working hard for about 20 to 25 years, I can have enough money to build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop. Besides working hard, I am able to enjoy life, to play the piano, to hike and to enjoy a two-month-long vacation every year. This may be a common dream among young Chinese students." There is no doubt that all of these young students have their own China Dream. They all love chasing their dreams. The beautiful China Dream requires everyone's hard work. Everyone should work hard to make their dreams come true.
1. Who was interviewed for this story?
2. Where did they study?
3. What were they asked about?
4. What did Fred Wang hope for?
5. How did he definite equality?
6. What did Yujie Zhao's dream involve?
7. For whom?
8. What does she want for her parents?
9. What does Yiqiong Zhang want to do after working?
10. How long will he work first?
11. How will he enjoy life?
12. What else?
13. Does he want to take holidays?
14. For how long?
15. How often?
Numbered answers: | 1. Chinese students.
2. In the US.
3. Their dreams for China.
4. Equal chances.
5. As competing fairly.
6. Best education.
7. Her children.
8. To take good care of them.
9. Build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop.
10. 20 to 25 years.
11. Play the piano.
12. Hike.
13. Yes.
14. Two-month-long.
15. Every year. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
304 | The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia , is located in the southwest corner of Europe. The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. It also includes Andorra and a small part of France along the peninsula's northeastern edge, as well as Gibraltar on its south coast, a small peninsula that forms an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest European peninsula, after the Scandinavian.
The English word "Iberia" was adapted from the use of the Ancient Greek word Ἰβηρία by Greek geographers under the rule of the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula. At that time, the name did not describe a single political entity or a distinct population of people. Strabo's 'Iberia' was delineated from Keltikē (Gaul) by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass southwest (he says "west") of there.
The ancient Greeks reached the Iberian Peninsula, of which they had heard from the Phoenicians, by voyaging westward on the Mediterranean. Hecataeus of Miletus was the first known to use the term "Iberia", which he wrote about circa 500 BC. Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that "it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with... Iberia." According to Strabo, prior historians used "Iberia" to mean the country "this side of the Ἶβηρος" as far north as the river Rhône in France, but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit. Polybius respects that limit, but identifies Iberia as the Mediterranean side as far south as Gibraltar, with the Atlantic side having no name. Elsewhere he says that Saguntum is "on the seaward foot of the range of hills connecting Iberia and Celtiberia."
Answer this series of questions:
1. What country has an overseas territory on the peninsula
2. Was the territory small>
3. What peninsula is it
4. Where is it located?
5. How many countries share the area?
6. What are the primary countries?
7. Is it the largest peninsula in Europe?
8. Which one is larger?
9. What language does Iberia come from?
10. Did it describe a people group?
11. Who first used the term Iberia?
12. When did he use the term?
13. From who did the Greeks hear about Iberia?
14. What sea did they travel on?
15. In what direction?
16. What is the northern limit of Iberia
Numbered answers: | 1. the United Kingdom
2. yes
3. The Iberian Peninsula
4. in the southwest corner of Europe
5. Five
6. Portugal and Spain
7. no
8. the Scandinavian
9. Ancient Greek
10. no
11. The English
12. t circa 500
13. the Phoenicians
14. the Mediterranean
15. west
16. France | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
305 | CHAPTER IX
The visit of Bertrade de Montfort with her friend Mary de Stutevill was drawing to a close. Three weeks had passed since Roger de Conde had ridden out from the portals of Stutevill and many times the handsome young knight's name had been on the lips of his fair hostess and her fairer friend.
Today the two girls roamed slowly through the gardens of the great court, their arms about each other's waists, pouring the last confidences into each other's ears, for tomorrow Bertrade had elected to return to Leicester.
"Methinks thou be very rash indeed, my Bertrade," said Mary. "Wert my father here he would, I am sure, not permit thee to leave with only the small escort which we be able to give."
"Fear not, Mary," replied Bertrade. "Five of thy father's knights be ample protection for so short a journey. By evening it will have been accomplished; and, as the only one I fear in these parts received such a sound set back from Roger de Conde recently, I do not think he will venture again to molest me."
"But what about the Devil of Torn, Bertrade?" urged Mary. "Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household. He be abroad, Bertrade, and I canst think of naught more horrible than to fall into his hands."
"Why, Mary, thou didst but recently say thy very self that Norman of Torn was most courteous to thee when he sacked this, thy father's castle. How be it thou so soon has changed thy mind?"
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Where were the girls walking through?
2. Were the holding hands?
3. What were their names?
4. Were there six knights for protection for the journey?
5. How many were there?
6. Who did Mary say was courteous when he sacked the castle?
7. How many weeks had passed since Roger de Conde came from the portals of Stutevill?
8. What was Roger de Conde?
9. When was Bertrade going back to Leicester?
10. Did Mary think she should go with only the small escort?
11. Who cam liming toward them with news?
12. What was the news?
13. Who was Mary saying was abroad?
14. Were the girls walking quickly in the gardens?
15. What were they pouring into each other's ears?
16. Where did the girls place their arms while walking?
17. Did Bertrade say her journey would be long?
18. Did she think that Roger de Conde would bother her?
Numbered answers: | 1. The gardens
2. No
3. Bertrade de Montfort and Mary de Stutevill
4. No
5. Five
6. Norman of Torn
7. Three weeks
8. A knight
9. Tomorrow
10. No
11. One of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms
12. Of the awful carnage
13. Devil of Torn
14. No
15. The last confidences
16. Each other's waists
17. No
18. No | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
306 | Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are busily buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy( ) drinks kills pests.
Farmers say scientists advised them to mix pesticides with a sugary juice to control pests, and they found the mixture cheaper and more effective than pure chemicals-- although soft drink makers and scientists dismissed the remarks. N. Hamunayya, who has become a famous person in his village in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, said his crop survived an attack of pests which had resisted other pesticides. "We found that all the colas had uniform effect on pests. The pests became dead and fell to the ground, "he said. He said the drinks had all the elements they needed : they were cheaper, sticky, fizzy, and attracted ants, which ate the young of the pests. But Thinupathi Reddy, assistant director of the Regional Agri-Research Station, Guntur, says tests had proved such results wrong. "We conducted some field trials on cotton crop at our research station. There was no obvious productivity or destruction of pests, "he says.
Statements from Pepsi and Coca-Cola said there was " no scientific basis" for _ . But their dealers are enjoying increasing sales. Mantan Wall, who sells soft drinks in 17 villages in the region, said sales rose up, thanks to the farmers. " For the 10 days between August and September I had successful business. Instead of just 30 cases( each containing a dozen one-litre bottles) of cola, I started selling almost 200 cases, "he said. " We expected the sales to drop after the news over pesticide residues( ) in the cola drinks. Now I have to keep extra supply for the cotton farmers, "he said.
In February, an Indian environment group made a report saying drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained pesticides and called for tougher safety standards. The U. S firms strongly rejected the findings of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment and said their products were safe.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What are cotton farmers busy buying?
2. What are the farmers advised to mix with sugary juices to control pests?
3. What country rejected the discoveries of a New Delhi-located center?
4. What did the USA mention their sodas were?
5. Soda companies mentioned there was what for companies liking soaring revenue?
6. What type of areas were purchasing the sodas?
7. What type of environmental collective designed a summary?
8. What allegedly happened to the bugs?
9. Did the soda companies mention the analysis was strong?
Numbered answers: | 1. Soft drinks
2. Pesticides
3. The USA
4. Safe
5. unknown
6. Farming villages
7. A Regional Agri-Research Station
8. The pests became dead and fell to the ground.
9. No | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
307 | (CNN) -- Abu Yahya al-Libi, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, according to U.S. officials.
Al-Libi's death was "another serious blow to core al Qaeda," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Al-Libi, 49, was a well-regarded figure in jihadist circles and had emerged as one of the terrorist network's most important clerics and propagandists, appearing in countless videos in recent years.
He was killed by a CIA drone strike, according to U.S. officials. Drone strikes remain a highly contentious issue between the United States and Pakistan.
Who is Abu Yahya al-Libi?
By most accounts, al-Libi was effectively al Qaeda's deputy leader.
A Libyan citizen and an Islamic scholar, al-Libi bolstered his credibility within jihad groups after escaping from U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2005.
He became the public face of al Qaeda and used his religious training to justify the organization's actions. As one of the group's chief ideologues and propagandists, al-Libi appeared in numerous recruitment videos in which he cast himself as a sheikh with the legitimacy to issue fatwas.
Other than his appearances in propaganda videos, it's unclear which plots against the West al-Libi was involved in. A wanted ad from the U.S. State Department described him as a "key motivator in the global jihadi movement," and said that "his messages convey a clear threat to U.S. persons or property worldwide."
What does his death mean for al Qaeda?
This is a "very serious blow" to al Qaeda, according to Noman Benotman, a former senior member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group who spent significant time with al-Libi in the 1990s. No one else within the group rivals his legitimacy as a religious scholar nor has the credibility in the Arab world to provide Islamic justifications for al Qaeda's global campaign of terrorism, he said.
1. WHO WAS KILLED?
2. WHERE?
3. WHAT DAY?
4. WHAT RADICAL GROUP WAS HE A PART OF?
5. HOW OLD WAS HE?
6. WHAT CIRCLE WAS HE A WELL REGARDED FIGURE OF?
7. HOW WAS HE KILLED?
8. WHO IS GIVING THIS INFORMATION?
9. BETWEEN WHAT TWO COUNTRIES DO DRONE STRIKES REMAIN A HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS ISSUE?
10. WHAT DID AL-LIBI DO FOR AL QAEDA/
11. WHERE WAS HE A CITIZEN FROM?
12. WHERE DID HE ESCAPE FROM IN 2005?
13. WHAT DID HE USE TO JUSTIFY ORGANIZATION'S ACTIONS?
14. WHAT TYPE OF VIDEOS DID HE OFTEN APPEAR IN?
15. HOW DID A WANTED AD FROM THE US STATE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBE HIM AS?
16. HOW DID THE US CONSIDER HIS MESSAGES?
17. WHAT DOES HIS DEATH MEAN FOR AL QAEDA?
18. WHO SAID THAT?
19. WHO IS HE?
20. DID HE KNOW HIM PERSONALLY?
21. HOW DID THEY KNOW EACH OTHER?
22. WHAT YEAR DID THAT HAPPEN?
23. WHO IS SPOKESMAN OF WHITE HOUSE THAT TALKED ABOUT AL LIBI?
24. WHAT TYPE OF SCHOLAR WAS AL LIBI?
25. WHAT WOULD AL LIBI CAST HIMSELF AS IN HIS VIDEOS?
26. WHAT PLOTS IN THE WEST WERE BEING WORKED ON BY HIM?
27. WHAT POSITION DID HE HAVE IN THE AL QAEDA?
Numbered answers: | 1. Abu Yahya al-Libi
2. Pakistan
3. Monday
4. al Qaeda's
5. 49
6. jihadist circles
7. CIA drone strike
8. U.S. officials
9. United States and Pakistan
10. al Qaeda's deputy leader
11. Libyan citizen
12. U.S. custody in Afghanistan
13. religious training
14. ecruitment videos
15. "key motivator in the global jihadi movement,
16. a clear threat
17. very serious blow" to al Qaeda
18. Noman Benotman
19. former senior member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
20. YES
21. spent significant time with al-Libi
22. 1990s
23. Jay Carney
24. Islamic scholar
25. sheikh with the legitimacy to issue fatwas
26. it's unclear
27. al Qaeda's No. 2 man | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
308 | (CNN) -- Only two Republican presidential candidates will appear on the ballot in Virginia next year, regardless of how many are in the race.
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will have the Dominion State all to themselves. Supporters of Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann will have to be content with yard signs or donations as ways of cheering on their favorite would-be nominee.
That's because their campaigns failed to gain the requisite 10,000 signatures. It is, to be sure, a self-inflicted wound, a measure of some organizational chaos. But it is also a function of illogically restrictive local laws. They not only impede ballot access but end up denying open representative democracy to operate on the road to the Oval Office.
The United States is the only nation in the world, save Switzerland, that does not have uniform federal ballot access laws, according to Ballot Access News, a website run by Richard Winger that is dedicated to the issue. This may reflect the country's closely held federalism, but it can create chaos in a presidential year. In many cases, the rules are imposed by state party bosses who are less interested in democracy than in rigging the system to benefit their favored candidates.
Take, for example, my home state of New York. It votes reliably Democratic in presidential years, at least since Ronald Reagan thrashed Walter Mondale in 1984. But the state's primary delegates can still be a prize in a protracted Republican nomination fight. In 1999, John McCain had to sue to even have his name appear on the ballot alongside George W. Bush because the Republican state party chair and his committee essentially decided that Bush would be their nominee without the inconvenience of putting it to a vote. Local laws allowed them to restrict ballot access until public pressure and a court injunction overruled their attempted end-run around democracy. Each presidential cycle, the corrupt kabuki continues.
1. How many Republicans candidates are on the ballot?
2. In which state?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Two
2. Dominion State | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
309 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.
The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
1. What city is an autonomous district?
2. Is it the province's capital?
3. What year was it federalized?
4. For what reason?
5. Did the political infighting involve tanks and bloodshed?
6. How long had the fighting gone on?
7. What province was the city removed from as a result?
8. Did its borders increase or decrease as a result?
9. What's one of the towns it now included?
10. And the other?
11. Are both still parts of the city?
12. What's the combined population?
13. Is it one of the more populated cities in its country?
14. What country is Buenos Aires in?
Numbered answers: | 1. Buenos Aires
2. yes
3. 1880
4. was removed from Buenos Aires Province.
5. no
6. decades
7. \ Buenos Aires Province.
8. increased
9. Belgrano
10. Flores;
11. yes
12. around 17 million
13. yes
14. Argentina | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
310 | (CNN) -- All big ideas start small, and Calle 13 -- a wildly popular alternative urban band from Puerto Rico -- is no exception.
Its members, Rene Perez, who goes by "Residente," and Eduardo Cabra, "Visitante," are stepbrothers. When their parents divorced, Cabra would visit Perez at his father's house on 13th Street, or Calle 13.
He was required to identify himself to enter, as either a resident, "residente" or visitor, "visitante," in Spanish.
The names stuck.
"Later, it took on another meaning, with the question of whether immigrants are residents or visitors," said Perez, who along with Cabra, recently sat down to talk with CNN en Español's Claudia Palacios. "But that was how it started."
Neither brother could have imagined then what Calle 13 would become -- one of the most highly praised and talked-about groups to come out of Latin America in years. It has won more than 20 Grammys and moved beyond its reggaeton roots to include instruments and sounds from all over the region, winning critical and popular praise in the process.
Though raunchy, the group's lyrics are often hard-hitting on social issues, and Perez is particularly well-known for being outspoken about poverty, Puerto Rican independence and education.
Asked how he views his career now, Perez said he's matured and made some adjustments so that people can better hear and understand his message.
"I liked to use bad words," said Perez, who raps and writes the group's lyrics. "Because it seemed to me it gave a reality that's missing in music."
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Puerto Rico
2. small
3. no
4. They are stepbrothers
5. Cabra
6. CNN en Espanol
7. More than 20
8. no
9. (CNN)
10. Alternative
11. Resident
12. Visitor
13. yes
14. social issues
15. It has matured
16. so that people can better hear and understand his message.
17. Perez
18. yes
Numbered questions: | 1. Where is Calle 13 from?
2. How do all big ideas start?
3. Are the members cousins?
4. What is their relationship?
5. Who was required to identify himself as a visitor or resident?
6. Who does Claudia Palacios work for?
7. How many grammy's has the group won?
8. Does the group always have wholesome lyrics?
9. Where was this article published?
10. What type of band is Calle 13?
11. What does Residente mean in English?
12. What does Visitante mean in English?
13. Is the group well known in Latin America?
14. What kind of issues does the band address?
15. How does Perez describe his career now?
16. Why did the band make adjustments?
17. Who writes the groups lyrics?
18. Does he rap also? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
311 | Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state in which the Nazi Party controlled nearly all aspects of life. The official name of the state was "Deutsches Reich" from 1933 to 1943 and "Großdeutsches Reich" ("Greater German Reich") from 1943 to 1945. The period is also known under the names the Third Reich () and the National Socialist Period (, abbreviated as "NS-Zeit"). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945, ending World War II in Europe.
Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934, and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the powers and offices of the Chancellery and Presidency. A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer (leader) of Germany. All power was centralised in Hitler's person, and his word became above all laws. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but a collection of factions struggling for power and Hitler's favour. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazis restored economic stability and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy. Extensive public works were undertaken, including the construction of "Autobahnen" (motorways). The return to economic stability boosted the regime's popularity.
Answer the following questions:
1. When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
2. Was he elected?
3. How did he get the job?
4. Which one?
5. What was his name?
6. What happened to him?
7. When?
8. What offices did Hitler put together at that point?
9. Did he also combine their powers?
10. When did he officially get all the power in Germany?
11. What made it official?
12. Was he a dictator?
13. What famous highway was built during that time?
14. What time period does Nazi Germany refer to?
15. What was the official name from 1933 to 1943?
16. What was it from 1943 to 1945?
17. What is that in English?
18. Does it have other names?
19. Who took down Germany?
20. When?
Numbered answers: | 1. 30 January 1933
2. no
3. appointed by the President
4. the President of the Weimar Republic
5. Paul von Hindenburg
6. he died
7. 2 August 1934
8. the Chancellery and Presidency
9. yes
10. 19 August 1934
11. A national referendum
12. yes
13. "Autobahnen"
14. 1933 to 1945
15. "Deutsches Reich"
16. "Großdeutsches Reich"
17. Greater German Reich
18. yes
19. the Allied Powers
20. May 1945 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
312 | Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXIV
AGATHA RESUMES HER JOURNEY
There was silence for a minute or two after Agatha had spoken, and then Father Lucien said, "Now we know what Driscoll looked for. Few secrets can be kept."
Thirlwell gave him a warning glance that Agatha did not note. She was gazing across the river, her face towards the North, as if she had forgotten the others, but she presently roused herself.
"Can we start to-morrow?" she asked.
"No," said Thirlwell firmly, "you must rest for two or three days, and there are a number of things to be got."
"I don't think I can rest until I have seen the lode."
"You will have to try. It may be some time yet before we find the spot. For one thing, the directions aren't complete. You see they stop--"
Agatha took the paper. "Yes; I hadn't noticed that. It begins very clearly and then breaks off. I wonder why."
Thirlwell said nothing. It looked as if Strange had been interrupted; the shakiness of the last few lines hinted that they had been written in haste. There was a space between the last and the bottom of the paper. Perhaps Driscoll had joined him and he had distrusted the man, who might have come into the camp while he was writing. Then, when he afterwards sealed the box, he had forgotten that he had not finished what he meant to say; but, if the supposition were correct, this was not remarkable. Strange might have taken some liquor with him. But Agatha must not suspect.
1. Who was Agatha with?
2. What had they received?
3. From whom?
4. Where does Agatha want to go?
5. When?
6. What do they say about it?
7. Why?
8. What is her response?
9. What was funny about the note?
10. What do they want to keep from her?
11. What does she want to see?
12. Where was she looking?
13. Will they have a hard time?
14. Why?
Numbered answers: | 1. Father Lucien and Thirwell.
2. A note.
3. Driscoll.
4. To see the lode.
5. Tomorrow.
6. No,
7. She needs to rest for two or three days.
8. I don't think I can rest until I have seen the lode.
9. The shakiness of the last few lines
10. Strange might have taken some liquor with him.
11. The lode.
12. Across the river,
13. Yes.
14. The directions aren't complete. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
313 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Thenhe told me of his plan. "It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I'll just toss the coin to decide the answers. That way, I'm sure I'll get half the questions right."
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. "Oh, good," he said to the teacher, "Have you got the result of the test?" The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
"I'm terribly sorry, Fred," he said, "You failed!"
1. Did Fred do enough work?
2. Where was he supposed to work?
3. What did he do instead?
4. What was Fred doing the night before the test?
5. Did Fred plan to guess his way through the test?
6. By flipping what?
7. How many questions did he have to get right to pass?
8. What fraction of the total number of test questions was this?
9. Who did Fred see in the hallway?
10. True or False: Fred passed his test.
11. How did the professor determine this?
12. Where did he get the coin from?
13. True or False: The test was multiple-choice.
14. Was Fred confident in the testing room?
15. How long did it take him to finish his test.
16. What was the narrator doing the night before the test?
17. True or False: It was a beginning-of-term test.
18. What is Fred's surname?
19. Was the narrator a dedicated student?
20. How many of his friends worked hard like he did?
Numbered answers: | 1. no
2. in the library
3. played
4. watching TV
5. yes
6. a coin
7. fifty
8. half
9. the professor
10. False
11. flipped a coin
12. his pocket
13. false
14. yes
15. half an hour before the rest
16. studying
17. False
18. Baines
19. yes
20. very few | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
314 | Las Vegas (CNN) -- Declaring victory in Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, Mitt Romney again turned away from his GOP rivals and toward President Barack Obama.
CNN projects that Romney will win the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses, based on results and entrance polling.
With 71% of the votes counted, Romney held about 48% of the vote, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had 23% and Rep. Ron Paul had 18%. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who had largely bypassed the state, had 11% of the vote. Those numbers were gathered from vote counters at caucus sites across the state and the state's Republican Party.
See full Nevada results
Romney thanked supporters at his campaign headquarters in Las Vegas, telling them, "This isn't the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, but this time I'm going to take it to the White House," alluding to his win in Nevada in 2008.
But then he turned his attention to Obama, saying Nevada has had enough of his kind of help in fixing its home mortgage crisis and that he failed at bringing down unemployment.
Entering the race as front-runner, Romney had largely ignored his Republican rivals and focused on Obama. But as Gingrich rose to challenge him in polls, he was forced to address the other candidates in the race.
His victory speech was a one-on-one with Obama.
"This president began his presidency by apologizing for America. He should now be apologizing to America," Romney told cheering supporters.
The only allusion to GOP opponents Romney made was when he told supporters that he was the only one who could fix the economy, "unlike other people running for president."
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who won the republican caucus?
2. When?
3. Who projected this?
4. What evidence did they use?
5. Did he run for president before?
6. When?
7. Who did he talk about in his speech?
8. Who did he mostly leave out of his speech?
9. Who came in last in the results?
10. With what percentage?
11. Who came in right after Romney?
12. What was his job previously?
13. What did he force Romney to do?
14. Why?
15. What did he think Obama failed at in Nevada?
16. Where were his campaign headquarters located?
17. How did he say the president started his term?
18. What does he think he needs to do now?
19. Did his supporters agree?
20. What place was Ron Paul in with 71% of the results?
Numbered answers: | 1. Mitt Romney
2. Saturday
3. CNN
4. results and entrance polling
5. Yes
6. in 2008
7. Obama
8. his GOP opponents
9. Rick Santorum
10. 11
11. Newt Gingrich
12. House Speaker
13. address the other candidates in the race
14. because Gingrich rose to challenge him
15. bringing down unemployment
16. Las Vegas
17. by apologizing for America
18. apologize to America
19. yes
20. Third | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
315 | (CNN) -- He is a superstar in Arab cinema and has acted alongside Hollywood names such as Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Orlando Bloom in worldwide blockbusters.
Now, acclaimed Egyptian movie star Khaled El Nabawy is raring to conquer new heights, starring in gripping drama "The Citizen," his first lead role in a Hollywood film.
The movie, released last year, has a story line based on the September 11 attacks in the United States. El Nabawy's character, Ibrahim Jarrah, is a newly arrived immigrant from Lebanon, who finds himself wrongly accused of being involved in the terrorist attacks.
"The guy didn't do anything except he was infatuated by the American dream," says El Nabawy of his character in "The Citizen."
"This is why he won the green card lottery but [it is] his bad luck that he arrived one day before 9/11 to New York. He loves America and he's educated, he is cultured, he is helpful and it's a great message through 'The Citizen' that gives hope. It talks about the cooperation that can happen instead of creating revenge between each other."
See also: 'Egypt's Brad Pitt' calls for people power in Africa
This is the third time in the Egyptian actor's career that he has landed a role in a major Hollywood production. His two previous outings include a smaller part in Ridley Scott's 2005 epic "Kingdom of Heaven," while in 2010 El Nabawy played an Iraqi scientist in "Fair Game," a thriller based on former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's memoir "Fair Game: My Life As A Spy, My Betrayal By The White House."
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. What is Khaled El Nabawy's profession?
2. Where is he from?
3. Is he well known in the Arab world?
4. Has he acted with any big stars in the past?
5. Who is one of them?
6. Who else?
7. What new movie is he going to be in?
8. When was it released?
9. What is the name of the person he plays?
10. Was he a terrorist?
11. What do they say the character was infatuated with?
12. How many big Hollywood movies has he been in?
13. Name one?
14. What year did that come out?
15. What was another movie he was in?
16. What was his character's nationality in that movie?
17. What was his profession?
18. Who was it based on?
Numbered answers: | 1. movie star
2. Egypt
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Sean Penn
6. Naomi Watts
7. The Citizen,"
8. last year
9. Ibrahim Jarrah
10. No
11. the American dream
12. Three
13. Kingdom of Heaven
14. 2005
15. Fair Game
16. Iraqi
17. scientist
18. Valerie Plame Wilson | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
316 | Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/ FREZ-noh), the county seat of Fresno County, is a city in the U.S. state of California. As of 2015, the city's population was 520,159, making it the fifth-largest city in California, the largest inland city in California and the 34th-largest in the nation. Fresno is in the center of the San Joaquin Valley and is the largest city in the Central Valley, which contains the San Joaquin Valley. It is approximately 220 miles (350 km) northwest of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento, or 185 miles (300 km) south of San Francisco. The name Fresno means "ash tree" in Spanish, and an ash leaf is featured on the city's flag.
In 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterby's—by now a hugely productive wheat farm—for its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, later called Fresno. Many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became an incorporated city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. When did Fresno become an incorporated city?
2. Is it in a valley inside of another valley?
3. How far away from the state capital is it?
4. In 1872 which railroad line went by it?
5. Name the valleys Fresno is it?
6. How far away is San Francisco?
7. What does the word "Fresno" mean?
8. And what is on the city flag?
9. What was the population there in 2015?
10. How does the population rank in the state?
11. And in terms of inland cities in California?
12. And in the country?
13. Is it a good place to live?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1885
2. yes
3. 170 miles
4. the Central Pacific Railroad
5. Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley
6. 185 miles
7. "ash tree"
8. an ash leaf
9. 520,159
10. fifth
11. first
12. 34th
13. unknown | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
317 | John was stuck in the middle of the ocean after his boat crashed and sank. He was worried about his friend who'd been in the boat with him. He knew that his friend has his life jacket on, so he tried not to worry too much about him. John was in a small box that fell out of the boat and kept him out of the water, floating. John had never been to sea before and one would wonder if he would ever after such a scary thing that happened to him. He sat in the box for days with no food or water, in and out of sleep. Three days later he woke up and saw land. Finally a beach was in sight, John could go home.
1. Where was Joe?
2. Why?
3. Was he alone?
4. Who was he with?
5. What did his friend have?
6. Where was JOhn?
7. Where did it come from?
8. Did it help him?
9. how?
10. Was he ever there before?
11. HOw long was he there?
12. What did he not have?
13. Did he sleep?
14. What did he see?
15. when?
16. What was in sight?
17. What could he do?
18. Did he worry about his friend?
Numbered answers: | 1. in the middle of the ocean
2. his boat crashed and sank
3. no
4. his friend
5. life jacket
6. in a small box
7. the boat
8. yes
9. by floating
10. no
11. days
12. food or water
13. In and out
14. land
15. Three days
16. a beach
17. go home
18. tried not to | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
318 | Edward Sims was born in 1892. He was the fifth child and only son of Herbert and Dora Sims. Herbert was a blacksmith , and had a thriving trade making horseshoes. He was determined that his first-born son would follow him into the blacksmith. For this reason, Edward had to leave school at the age of 12,and worked with his father.
However, Edward was _ a blacksmith. Although he has an athletic body, he didn't have strong arms like his father, and he felt dizzy in the heat of the smithy. When he tried to find alternative employment, he found it difficult because he had never learnt to read or write.
One day, he went for an interview at a solictior's office. The job was a runner, taking documents from the office to other offices in the city. The solicitor was pleased to see that Edward was physically fit, but when he discovered that the young man couldn't read or write, he decided against employing him. "How can you deliver documents to other offices," he asked, "if you can't read the addresses on them?"
Bitterly disappointed, Edward left the building and went to wait for a tram to take him back to the suburb where his father's smithy was. Next to the bus stop, a man was selling newspapers from a stand .
"Excuse me, son?" he said. "Would you look after my stand for a moment?"
For the next 20 minutes, Edward sold newspapers, lots of them. When the man came back, he was so delighted with his new assistant's honesty, that he offered him a job. Edward took it immediately.
In the next few months, the two men progressed from working on newspaper stands to selling newspapers, tobacco,confectionery and other goods in a shop. Then they opened a second shop, and a third. Eventually, they had a chain of 25 shops in three cities.
Edward became very rich, so he employed a tutor to teach him to read and write. The tutor was amazed at what Edward had achieved. "Imagine what you could do if you'd been able to read and write when you were younger!" he said.
"Yes!" said Edward. "I could have run myself to exhaustion delivering documents for a solicitor!"
1. Who was offered a job?
2. Because he did what?
3. What occupation did he try to get before that?
4. Did he get it?
5. Why not?
6. How would that impact the work?
7. Was he relieved he didn't get it?
8. How about right after?
9. How did he feel?
10. Did he help sell other stuff for the guy who hired him?
11. Like what?
12. How many stores did they end up having?
13. In only one town?
14. Where then?
15. What had his dad done for a living?
16. Was he good at helping his dad?
17. Why not?
18. How many brothers did he have?
19. What were his parents' names?
20. Did his stores end up going bankrupt?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Edward
2. sold newspapers
3. a runner
4. No
5. he couldn't read or write
6. he couldn't deliver if he couldn't read the addresses
7. Yes, later on.
8. No
9. Bitterly disappointed
10. Yes
11. newspapers, tobacco,confectionery and other goods
12. 25
13. No
14. three cities
15. making horseshoes
16. No
17. he didn't have strong arms
18. none
19. Herbert and Dora Sims
20. No | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
319 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting. They say things like, "My Dad's car is bigger than your Dad's," and "My Mom is smarter than yours." They particularly like to boast about their families. There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, who were always boasting. Gavin was the worst. Everything about his family was always the best or the biggest or the most expensive. Whatever the others said, he could always go on better. One day when they were walking to school, Harry said, "My father had a bath twice a week," Ted spoke next. "That's nothing," he said. "Having a bath twice a week is dirty. My father has a bath every day, sometimes twice a day." Ted looked at Gavin. Now it was his turn. But what could he say? "This time," Ted thought, "I'm going to win." Gavin didn't know what to say. He couldn't say that his father had a bath three times a day. That was silly. He walked on in silence. Ted smiled at Harry, and Harry smiled back. They were sure that for once they had beaten Gavin. They reached the school gates. Still Gavin said nothing. "We've won," Ted said to Harry, but he spoke too soon. On the way home, Gavin said, "My Dad is so clean that he doesn't have to bathe at all."
1. What does it say children on the playground are always doing?
Numbered answers: | 1. boasting | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
320 | CHAPTER XLI. SPEECHIFYING.
On the Monday, a plowboy from Vale Regis arrived at Monksmoor.
In respect of himself, he was a person beneath notice. In respect of his errand, he was sufficiently important to cast a gloom over the household. The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology. To his great disappointment (he wrote) he was detained by the affairs of his parish. He could only trust to Mr. Wyvil's indulgence to excuse him, and to communicate his sincere sense of regret (on scented note paper) to the ladies.
Everybody believed in the affairs of the parish--with the exception of Francine. "Mr. Mirabel has made the best excuse he could think of for shortening his visit; and I don't wonder at it," she said, looking significantly at Emily.
Emily was playing with one of the dogs; exercising him in the tricks which he had learned. She balanced a morsel of sugar on his nose--and had no attention to spare for Francine.
Cecilia, as the mistress of the house, felt it her duty to interfere. "That is a strange remark to make," she answered. "Do you mean to say that we have driven Mr. Mirabel away from us?"
"I accuse nobody," Francine began with spiteful candor.
"Now she's going to accuse everybody!" Emily interposed, addressing herself facetiously to the dog.
"But when girls are bent on fascinating men, whether they like it or not," Francine proceeded, "men have only one alternative--they must keep out of the way." She looked again at Emily, more pointedly than ever.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. the herald
2. of misfortune
3. an apology
4. Monday
5. Monksmoor.
6. Mirabels partner
7. broken his engagement,
8. Mr. Wyvil'
9. indulgence to excuse him
10. to communicate his sincere sense of regret
11. the ladies
12. a dog
13. Francine.
14. she was teaching the dogs tricks
15. Cecilia
16. the dog
17. yes
18. shortening his visit
19. yes
20. yes
Numbered questions: | 1. What was Vale Regis errand?
2. of what?
3. what did he bring?
4. when did he arrive?
5. where did he arrive?
6. who was he bringing an apology to?
7. What had Mirabel done?
8. who could he trust?
9. to do what?
10. and what?
11. to who?
12. Who was Emily playing with?
13. She had no time for who?
14. why?
15. Who was the mistress of the house?
16. Who was Emily speaking to?
17. Was Francine spiteful?
18. What was Mr. Mirabels excuse for?
19. was it a good one?
20. Did people believe the affairs of the parrish? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
321 | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A will from Michael Jackson written in 2002 has been located, but it may be one of several, the Jackson family lawyer said Tuesday.
Though a 2002 Michael Jackson will has been located, the family's lawyer says there may be others.
"We need a certain amount of time to look at that," lawyer Londell McMillan said, referring to whether other wills exist. "I don't personally know, but it's possible."
Until now, the Jackson family has said it has not seen a will for the singer.
Without a legal will, the division of his estate would be decided in court.
The 2002 will surfaced Monday after a Los Angeles judge gave the singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, temporary control of her son's "tangible personal property."
The pop icon's three children -- ages 7, 11 and 12 -- were also placed under the temporary guardianship of Katherine Jackson.
McMillan said he has seen the will but would not disclose its details.
"There is a process called 'probating the will' that will validate any will in due course," he said.
Probate is the legal process to prove whether a will is authentic and valid. The process is used to pass on items in the will from the deceased to the beneficiaries.
The biological mother of Jackson's two oldest children, Debbie Rowe, will be invited to a hearing Monday in which the judge will consider who should have custody of them. She has not publicly indicated whether she will challenge the Jacksons for custody.
Answer the following questions:
1. Whose will is this article talking about?
2. What year was it written?
3. Is there only one will?
4. Who is the lawyer representing the Jacksons?
5. Who has been given the temporary control of his will?
6. Even his children were placed under her guardianship?
7. The ages of his three children are?
8. What does probating the will mean?
9. Who is the biological mother of his oldest kids?
10. On what day is the hearing scheduled for?
Numbered answers: | 1. Michael Jackson
2. 2002
3. unknown
4. Londell McMillan
5. Katherine Jackson
6. yes
7. 7, 11 and 12
8. Probate is the legal process to prove whether a will is authentic and valid.
9. Debbie Rowe
10. Monday | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
322 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Found in applications as diverse as industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives, electric motors can be powered by direct current (DC) sources, such as from batteries, motor vehicles or rectifiers, or by alternating current (AC) sources, such as from the power grid, inverters or generators. Small motors may be found in electric watches. General-purpose motors with highly standardized dimensions and characteristics provide convenient mechanical power for industrial use. The largest of electric motors are used for ship propulsion, pipeline compression and pumped-storage applications with ratings reaching 100 megawatts. Electric motors may be classified by electric power source type, internal construction, application, type of motion output, and so on.
Perhaps the first electric motors were simple electrostatic devices created by the Scottish monk Andrew Gordon in the 1740s. The theoretical principle behind production of mechanical force by the interactions of an electric current and a magnetic field, Ampère's force law, was discovered later by André-Marie Ampère in 1820. The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1821. A free-hanging wire was dipped into a pool of mercury, on which a permanent magnet (PM) was placed. When a current was passed through the wire, the wire rotated around the magnet, showing that the current gave rise to a close circular magnetic field around the wire. This motor is often demonstrated in physics experiments, brine substituting for toxic mercury. Though Barlow's wheel was an early refinement to this Faraday demonstration, these and similar homopolar motors were to remain unsuited to practical application until late in the century.
1. When were the first electric motors developed?
2. By who?
3. What was his job?
4. Where was he from?
5. Where they complex?
6. What were they?
7. What kind is in a watch?
8. Are the ones in a watch big?
9. How high can the rating go on big one?
10. How many different types of sources provide the power?
11. What does DC stand for?
12. What about AC?
13. Who discovered Ampere's force law?
14. When?
15. Did Micheal Faraday show something?
16. when?
17. What did he change Electrical energy into?
18. Did he do this with a magnet?
19. What did he put the wire into?
20. What has since replaced that?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1740s
2. Andrew Gordon
3. monk
4. Scotland.
5. no
6. simple electrostatic devices
7. unknown
8. yes
9. 100 megawatts
10. electric power source type, internal construction
11. direct current
12. alternating current
13. André-Marie Ampère
14. 1820
15. yes
16. 1821
17. mechanical energy
18. yes
19. pool of mercury
20. permanent magne | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
323 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
A treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an (international) agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters, among other terms. Regardless of terminology, all of these forms of agreements are, under international law, equally considered treaties and the rules are the same.
Treaties can be loosely compared to contracts: both are means of willing parties assuming obligations among themselves, and a party to either that fails to live up to their obligations can be held liable under international law.
A treaty is an official, express written agreement that states use to legally bind themselves. A treaty is the official document which expresses that agreement in words; and it is also the objective outcome of a ceremonial occasion which acknowledges the parties and their defined relationships.
Since the late 19th century, most treaties have followed a fairly consistent format. A treaty typically begins with a preamble describing the contracting parties and their joint objectives in executing the treaty, as well as summarizing any underlying events (such as a war). Modern preambles are sometimes structured as a single very long sentence formatted into multiple paragraphs for readability, in which each of the paragraphs begins with a verb (desiring, recognizing, having, and so on).
1. How are treaties similar to contracts?
2. How do treaties normally begin, organizationally?
3. What purpose does it serve?
4. Can they be only one sentence?
5. Is the sentence long or short?
6. How is it organized, since it can be so long?
7. Is a treaty always a literal written document?
8. What else can it symbolize?
9. What are some other synonyms for treaty?
10. Is this list all-encompassing?
11. Are some of these terms more valued than others?
12. Does a treaty hold up in a country other than the one in which it was written?
Numbered answers: | 1. Both are means of willing parties assuming obligations among themselves, and a party to either that fails to live up to their obligations can be held liable under international law.
2. A preamble
3. It describes the contracting parties and their joint objectives in executing the treaty, and summarizes any underlying events (such as a war).
4. Yes
5. Usually long.
6. Multiple paragraphs, beginning with verbs.
7. No
8. An informal agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters.
9. An international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters, among other terms.
10. No
11. No
12. Sometimes, yes. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
324 | Claudius Ptolemy (; , "Klaúdios Ptolemaîos" ; ; ) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. The 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes gave his birthplace as the prominent Greek city Ptolemais Hermiou () in the Thebaid (). This attestation is quite late, however, and, according to Gerald Toomer, the translator of his "Almagest" into English, there is no reason to suppose he ever lived anywhere other than Alexandria. He died there around AD 168.
Ptolemy wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the "Almagest", although it was originally entitled the "Mathematical Treatise" (, "Mathēmatikē Syntaxis") and then known as the "Great Treatise" (, "Hē Megálē Syntaxis"). The second is the "Geography", which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrological treatise in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day. This is sometimes known as the "Apotelesmatika" () but more commonly known as the "Tetrabiblos" from the Greek () meaning "Four Books" or by the Latin "Quadripartitum".
Answer this series of questions:
1. How many areas of expertise did Claudius have?
2. Where did he live?
3. Where was he considered a citizen?
4. Was he listed as residing elsewhere?
5. By who?
6. Was it true?
7. Who was Theodore?
8. When did Ptolemy die?
9. What did he write?
10. Who were they of significance to?
11. What was his first writing?
12. Did it have another title?
13. What was the other title?
14. Was that the original title?
15. What was another one of his writings?
16. Did it have any other titles?
17. What was another of his writings?
18. Did it have any other names?
19. What was it also known as?
Numbered answers: | 1. Five
2. city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt
3. Rome
4. Yes
5. Theodore Meliteniotes
6. No.
7. 14th-century astronomer
8. around AD 168
9. scientific treatises
10. Byzantine, Islamic and European science
11. Almagest
12. Yes
13. Mathematical Treatise
14. Yes.
15. Geography
16. No.
17. Apotelesmatika
18. Yes.
19. Tetrabiblos | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
325 | CHAPTER II
MARSHALL HANEY CHANGES HEART
It was well for Haney that Bertie did not see him as he sat above his gambling boards, watchful, keen-eyed, grim of visage, for she would have trembled in fear of him. "Haney's" was both saloon and gambling hall. In the front, on the right, ran the long bar with its shining brass and polished mahogany (he prided himself on having the best bar west of Denver), and in the rear, occupying both sides of the room, stood two long rows of faro and roulette outfits, together with card-tables and dice-boards. It was the largest and most prosperous gambling hall in the camps, and always of an evening was crowded with gamesters and those who came as lookers-on.
On the right side, in a raised seat about midway of the hall, Haney usually sat, a handsome figure, in broad white hat, immaculate linen, and well-cut frock-coat, his face as pale as that of a priest in the glare of the big electric light. On the other side, and directly opposite, Williams kept corresponding "lookout" over the dealers and the crowd. He was a bold man who attempted any shenanigan with Mart Haney, and the games of his halls were reported honest.
To think of a young and innocent girl married to this remorseless gambler, scarred with the gun and the knife, was a profanation of maidenhood--and yet, as he fell now and then into a dream, he took on a kind of savage beauty which might allure and destroy a woman. Whatever else he was, he was neither commonplace nor mean. The visitors to whom he was pointed out as "a type of our modern Western desperado" invariably acknowledged that he looked the part. His smile was of singular sweetness--all the more alluring because of its rarity--and the warm clasp of his big, soft hand had made him sheriff in San Juan County, and his bravery and his love of fair play were well known and admired among the miners.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. what chapter is thi?s
2. what is the name of the chapter?
Numbered answers: | 1. two
2. Marshall Haney Changes Heart | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
326 | Washington (CNN) -- It was a long summer for President Barack Obama, who for months has defended his decision not to send U.S. troops to fight ISIS on the ground in the Middle East.
But lawmakers contend that in the wake of a rapidly-spreading Ebola crisis and the upcoming midterm elections, the President's commitment towards fighting the extremist terrorist organization has fallen short.
Comparing the spread of Ebola to the ISIS threat against the United States, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said Sunday that he doesn't believe that the President is handling each issue with equal rigor.
"The stronger Ebola gets in Africa, the more it spreads and the more entrenched it is -- the more endangered we are," Graham told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "The same (goes) for radical Islam in the Mideast. It seems to be that the President is all in when it comes to Ebola. I want to compliment him for sending troops to help get ahead of this in Africa, but we have a series of half-measures with (ISIS)."
His Republican colleague, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, went a step further Sunday, saying that the President's foreign policy "is being trapped by his campaign rhetoric."
Ebola becomes an election issue
"I'm very fearful as we look at the current military strategy that it is surrounding the November elections and that he won't have the resolve to follow through with what needs to be done in a sustained effort to destroy ISIS, and we're about to repeat the same thing with Afghanistan," Ayotte said on Fox News Sunday.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Who was the president?
2. How many Republicans were quoted?
3. Are they both from the same state?
4. Are there elections coming up?
5. When?
6. What terrorist group is mentioned?
7. Where are they located?
8. Is the US fighting them on the ground?
9. What else could cause the US potential harm?
10. Where is that spreading?
11. Is it spreading quickly?
12. Which senator is from New Hampshire?
13. What media outlet did he talk to?
14. Did he think Obama would do what he thinks should be done to fight terrorism?
15. With how many countries or groups did he think that about?
16. Where was the other senator from?
17. What show did he appear on?
18. On what network?
19. Did he think the president was committed to both issues?
20. Which one did he think the president was more committed to?
Numbered answers: | 1. Barack Obama
2. Two
3. No
4. yes
5. November
6. ISIS
7. Middle East
8. No
9. spread of Ebola
10. Africa
11. yes
12. Kelly Ayotte
13. Fox News
14. No
15. two
16. South Carolina
17. State of the Union
18. CNN
19. NO
20. Ebola | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
327 | (CNN) -- Matthew Murray, the man who police say shot and killed four people at two separate locations in Colorado on Sunday, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the coroner's office said Tuesday.
A former roommate took this photo of Matthew Murray performing in a 2002 Christmas program.
"The death of Matthew Murray has been ruled a suicide," the El Paso County Coroner's Office said in a statement.
"It should be noted that he was struck multiple times by the security officer, which put him down. He then fired a single round killing himself," the statement said.
Police Sgt. Skip Arms told The Associated Press that Murray shot himself in the head.
Police say before Murray, 24, went down, he shot and killed sisters Stephanie and Rachael Works, ages 18 and 16, and wounded their father, who was in or near their car in the parking lot of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Murray also wounded two other people with his assault rifle as he re-entered the church.
One of them, Larry Bourbonnais, said he tried to distract the shooter before security guard Jeanne Assam made her move. Watch Bourbonnais describe the scene at New Life »
"I'm telling you right now, she's the hero, not me. It was the bravest thing I have ever seen," Bourbonnais said. "She had no cover. He fired -- I heard him fire three. I heard her fire three. And she just began -- she kept yelling 'Surrender!' the whole time. And she just walked forward, like she's walking to her car in the parking lot, firing the whole time."
1. How many people did Matt kill?
2. In how many places?
3. On what day?
4. How did he die?
5. Who took his picture?
6. what was he doing in the picture?
7. what year?
8. who hit Matt ?
9. Who fired the bullet that killed matt?
10. Where did he shoot himself?
11. How old was he?
12. How old was Stephanie Works?
13. How old was Rachael works?
14. Did they die?
15. Did their father die?
16. Where were they?
17. In what city?
18. In what state?
19. Was the security guard a man?
20. How many shots were exchanged?
Numbered answers: | 1. Four
2. two
3. Sunday
4. gunshot?
5. A former roommate took this photo of Matthew Murray performing in a 2002 Christmas program.
6. performing in a Christmas program.
7. 2002
8. the security officer
9. he killed himself
10. the head
11. 24
12. 18
13. 16
14. yes they did
15. no
16. New life church
17. Colorado Springs
18. Colorado.
19. No
20. She had no cover. He fired -- I heard him fire three. I heard her fire three. And she just began -- sh | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
328 | Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general. Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger. Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert's grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry. Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing. In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country. Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost's second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston.
1. Who is a honored serious writer?
2. WHere did he live as a kid?
3. What year was he born?
4. How do you be a good writer?
5. What did he drink too much of?
6. What year did he finish school?
7. What was his first job?
8. What Uni did he attend?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Robert Frost
2. California
3. 1874
4. have an unhappy childhood
5. unknown
6. 1891
7. unknown
8. Harvard University and Dartmouth College | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
329 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER XI
Thus William Wetherell became established in Coniston, and was started at last--poor man--upon a life that was fairly tranquil. Lem Hallowell had once covered him with blushes by unfolding a newspaper in the store and reading an editorial beginning: "We publish today a new and attractive feature of the Guardian, a weekly contribution from a correspondent whose modesty is to be compared only with his genius as a writer. We are confident that the readers of our Raper will appreciate the letter in another column signed 'W. W.'" And from that day William was accorded much of the deference due to a litterateur which the fates had hitherto denied him. Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston.
During this period, too, there sprang up the strangest of intimacies between him and Jethro Bass. Surely no more dissimilar men than these have ever been friends, and that the friendship was sometimes misjudged was one of the clouds on William Wetherell's horizon. As the years went on he was still unable to pay off the mortgage; and sometimes, indeed, he could not even meet the interest, in spite of the princely sum he received from Mr. Willard of the Guardian. This was one of the clouds on Jethro's horizon, too, if men had but known it, and he took such moneys as Wetherell insisted upon giving him grudgingly enough. It is needless to say that he refrained from making use of Mr. Wetherell politically, although no poorer vessel for political purposes was ever constructed. It is quite as needless to say, perhaps, that Chester Perkins never got to be Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
1. who was established in Coniston ?
2. who covered him ?
3. how ?
4. was the Guardian a yearly contribution ?
5. what was the column signed by ?
6. who became a marked man ?
7. what is the most important of literary labors ?
8. who was unable to pay the mortgage ?
9. Who paid him a large sum of money ?
10. of where ?
Numbered answers: | 1. William Wetherell
2. Lem Hallowell
3. reading an editorial
4. unknown
5. W. W.'"
6. William
7. the Town History of Coniston
8. William Wetherell
9. Mr. Willard
10. the Guardian | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
330 | (CNN) -- World No.2 Novak Djokovic extended his season's winning streak to 26-0 on Saturday, as he reached the Serbian Open clay court final after his semifinal opponent Janko Tipsarevic withdrew with a thigh injury.
Writing on his Facebook page, Djokovic said: "Janko had to pull out from tonight's semi-final match because of a muscle injury. I sincerely hope he will manage to recover for the rest of the clay court season. I will try to get the title back where it belongs and that is Serbia."
The 23-year-old will be chasing his fifth title of season on Sunday.
Standing in his way is the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez who beat the Italian Filippo Volandri 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 in his semifinal.
The reigning Australian Open champion will take an unblemished 3-0 career lead into the clash with the left-handed Lopez, who is currently ranked No.37 in the world.
The Spaniard is looking forward to the challenge.
"I've already won four matches this week. My confidence is really high at the moment and I feel great to play against Novak. I know it's going to be tough; he's been the best player this year. It will be a great experience," Lopez said, AFP reported.
Meanwhile, at the Estoril Open in Portugal, Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-2 7-6 (8-6) in Saturday's semifinal.
Del Potro took one hour and 49 minutes to overcome the Uruguayan breaking Cuevas's serve in the first game helping him establish an 4-2 lead when rain intervened.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Two
2. Janko Tipsarevic
3. yes
4. no
5. withdrew
6. thigh injury
7. Feliciano Lopez
8. Serbia
9. Serbian Open
10. clay court
11. Filippo Volandri
12. unknown
13. 37
14. feel great
15. no
16. tough
17. 35
18. Saturday
19. Portugal
20. Juan Martin del Potro
Numbered questions: | 1. What is the rank of Novak Djokovic?
2. Who was he supposed to compete against?
3. Was this for the semifinals?
4. Did they finish the match?
5. Why not?
6. Why?
7. What is Novak's next match?
8. Where will they meet?
9. What is the name of the tournament?
10. What kind of courts do they play on?
11. Who did Lopez win against?
12. How many times did he win this week?
13. What is the rank of Lopez?
14. How does he feel about the upcoming match?
15. Does he think it will be easy?
16. What will it be like?
17. How much lower is his rank than Novak's?
18. When was the semifinal for the Estoril Open?
19. Where?
20. Who won? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
331 | Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States, in which a bootlegger was caught through telephone tapping, the United States Supreme Court ruled that FBI wiretaps did not violate the Fourth Amendment as unlawful search and seizure, as long as the FBI did not break into a person's home to complete the tapping. After Prohibition's repeal, Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934, which outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging. In the 1939 case Nardone v. United States, the court ruled that due to the 1934 law, evidence the FBI obtained by phone tapping was inadmissible in court. After the 1967 case Katz v. United States overturned the 1927 case that had allowed bugging, Congress passed the Omnibus Crime Control Act, allowing public authorities to tap telephones during investigations as long as they obtain a warrant beforehand.
In March 1971, the residential office of an FBI agent in Media, Pennsylvania was burglarized by a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. Numerous files were taken and distributed to a range of newspapers, including The Harvard Crimson. The files detailed the FBI's extensive COINTELPRO program, which included investigations into lives of ordinary citizens—including a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin. The country was "jolted" by the revelations, which included assassinations of political activists, and the actions were denounced by members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. The phones of some members of Congress, including Boggs, had allegedly been tapped.
Answer the following questions:
1. What act let authorities wiretap people's phones with a warrant?
2. Who was it passed by?
3. Which case overturned Olmstead v. United States?
4. In what year?
5. What happened in March 1971?
6. by who?
7. What did they take from there?
8. And what did they do with them?
9. What program did they have information on?
10. And it included investigations into whose lives?
11. How did the population react?
12. What did Hoover begin doing?
13. When?
14. For what purpose?
15. What had happened to some members of Congress?
16. What did the Communications Act of 1934 do?
17. And it was passed after what?
18. Who was Hale Boggs at the time?
19. Where was the office of the FBI agent who was burglarized?
Numbered answers: | 1. the Omnibus Crime Control Act
2. Congress
3. Katz v. United States
4. 1967
5. the residential office of an FBI agent was burglarized
6. a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.
7. Numerous files
8. They were distributed to a range of newspapers
9. the COINTELPRO program
10. the lives of ordinary citizens
11. The country was "jolted" by the revelations
12. He began using wiretapping
13. in the 1920s
14. to arrest bootleggers
15. Their phones had allegedly been tapped
16. outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging
17. the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States
18. House Majority Leader
19. Media, Pennsylvania | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
332 | Read the text and answer the questions.
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation, and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles. It was released on March 4, 2000 in Japan, October 26, 2000 in North America, November 24, 2000 in Europe, and November 17, 2000 in Australia. It competed with Sega's Dreamcast, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nintendo's GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles.
Announced in 1999, the PlayStation 2 was the first PlayStation console to offer backwards compatibility for its predecessor's DualShock controller, as well as for its games. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, selling over 155 million units, with 150 million confirmed by Sony in 2011. More than 3,874 game titles have been released for the PS2 since launch, and more than 1.5 billion copies have been sold. Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as "Slimline" models in 2004 and well on, and in 2006, announced and launched its successor, the PlayStation 3.
Even with the release of its successor, the PlayStation 2 remained popular well into the seventh generation and continued to be produced until January 4, 2013, when Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 13 years of production – one of the longest runs for a video game console. Despite the announcement, new games for the console continued to be produced until the end of 2013, including "Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin" for Japan, "Pro Evolution Soccer 2014" for North America and Europe, and "FIFA 14" for Brazil.
1. What does PS2 Stand for?
2. What company made it?
3. What year?
4. Name a competitor?
5. Was there another one?
6. What PS2 popular?
7. How many units sold?
8. How many game releases?
9. Was it able to play games from original PlayStation.
10. Where there other PS2 versions?
11. What was it called?
12. When was Playstion 3 announced?
13. How many years of production for PS2.
14. Was that long or short for the industry?
Numbered answers: | 1. PlayStation 2
2. Sony Computer Entertainment.
3. March 4, 2000 in Japan.
4. Sega's Dreamcast
5. Microsoft's Xbox
6. Yes.
7. Over 155 million units
8. More than 3,874
9. Yes.
10. Yes
11. "Slimline"
12. unknown
13. 13
14. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
333 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.
"I'll be the first millionaire in Coleford!" Richard used to boast.
"And you'll be sorry that you knew me," George would reply "because I'll surely be the best lawyer in our town!"
After graduation, George never became a lawyer and Richard was anybody but a millionaire .... Instead, it happened that both men opened bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street, while it was hard to make much money from books then, which made the competition between them worse. Eventually, Richard closed down his, dreaming of making a fortune elsewhere.
Now, with only one bookshop in the town, business was better for George. But sometimes he sat in his narrow old kitchen and gazed out of the dirty window, thinking about his former rival . Perhaps he missed him?
George was very interested in old dictionaries, and he had recently found a collector in Australia who was selling a rare first edition. When the parcel arrived, the book was in perfect condition and George was quite delighted. But while he was having lunch, George glanced at the photo in the newspaper that the book had been wrapped in. He was astonished -- the smiling face was older than he remembered but unmistakable! Trembling, George started reading: "Bookends Company has bought ten bookstores from its competitors. The company, owned by multi-millionaire Richard Pike, is now the largest bookseller in this country."
1. Who always competed?
2. Was it healthy?
3. What did George find great interest in?
4. Did he ever find someone who collected them?
5. From where?
6. What did he have?
7. A common one?
8. Who thought they would have millions of dollars?
9. Did he?
10. How many of them ended up with a bookstore?
11. Where were they located?
12. Were they very successful?
13. Why not?
14. Who quit first?
15. Did this make the other one very happy in the long run?
16. What was the uncommon package he received covered in?
17. What did he notice was on it?
18. Of whom?
19. Was it his obituary?
20. What was it then?
Numbered answers: | 1. George and Richard
2. no
3. old dictionaries
4. yes
5. Australia
6. a first edition
7. No
8. Richard
9. no
10. Both
11. Coleford High Street
12. no
13. hard to make much money from books
14. Richard
15. Yes
16. newspaper
17. a photo
18. Richard
19. No
20. A story about a bookseller. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
334 | Atlanta (CNN) -- A Georgia man was alone before his fatal fall from an upper level of Atlanta's Turner Field, police said Tuesday, as they continue to investigate his death.
Ronald L. Homer, 30, was attending Monday night's Braves game against the Phillies. The Braves said they planned to observe a moment of silence for Homer before Tuesday's game.
Four witnesses told officers that they saw Homer fall from the fourth level of the stadium during a rain delay in the game, the Atlanta Police Department said.
"All the witnesses stated that there was (sic) no other people around Mr. Homer when he fell," police said, adding there were no surveillance cameras at the scene.
Police said the fall appeared to be accidental but that it was too early to tell if alcohol was a factor.
Homer, of nearby Conyers, fell 65 feet into the players' parking lot. He was unconscious when emergency responders found him, but he died later at the hospital, police said.
An autopsy on Homer is complete, but authorities are not releasing details, citing pending toxicology results, Tami Sedivy-Schroder, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office, said Tuesday. Results can take up to eight weeks, she said.
Homer's mother, Connie Homer, told CNN affiliate WXIA that he was a big Braves fan who was attending the game with a friend.
"I'm just sick," she said. "We're a very close family. He was big-hearted."
The game was scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m. but heavy rains pushed back the start time nearly two hours.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who died?
2. What was the man name?
3. How old was he?
4. How did he die?
5. Who found him?
6. Where did he die?
7. What may have caused the accident?
8. Did it happen during the game?
9. What was his mothers name?
10. Was there an autopsy?
11. Who were the Braves playing?
12. Who interviewed the mother?
13. How long was the rain delay?
14. What was the original first pitch scheduled?
15. Who attended the event with Homer?
16. How long before toxicology reports are known?
Numbered answers: | 1. A man
2. Ronald L. Homer
3. 30
4. he fell from an upper level of Atlanta's Turner Field
5. emergency responders
6. in Atlanta
7. alcohol
8. no
9. Connie
10. yes
11. the Phillies
12. WXIA
13. nearly two hours
14. 7:10 p.m
15. He was alone
16. up to eight weeks | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
335 | Groups that emerged from the American psychedelic scene about the same time included Iron Butterfly, MC5, Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge. San Francisco band Blue Cheer released a crude and distorted cover of Eddie Cochran's classic "Summertime Blues", from their 1968 debut album Vincebus Eruptum, that outlined much of the later hard rock and heavy metal sound. The same month, Steppenwolf released its self-titled debut album, including "Born to Be Wild", which contained the first lyrical reference to heavy metal and helped popularise the style when it was used in the film Easy Rider (1969). Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968), with its 17-minute-long title track, using organs and with a lengthy drum solo, also prefigured later elements of the sound.
From outside the United Kingdom and the United States, the Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974–75 (Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel) before moving toward a more progressive sound with the 1976 album 2112. The Irish band Thin Lizzy, which had formed in the late 1960s, made their most substantial commercial breakthrough in 1976 with the hard rock album Jailbreak and their worldwide hit "The Boys Are Back in Town", which reached number 8 in the UK and number 12 in the US. Their style, consisting of two duelling guitarists often playing leads in harmony, proved itself to be a large influence on later bands. They reached their commercial, and arguably their artistic peak with Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979). The arrival of Scorpions from Germany marked the geographical expansion of the subgenre. Australian-formed AC/DC, with a stripped back, riff heavy and abrasive style that also appealed to the punk generation, began to gain international attention from 1976, culminating in the release of their multi-platinum albums Let There Be Rock (1977) and Highway to Hell (1979). Also influenced by a punk ethos were heavy metal bands like Motörhead, while Judas Priest abandoned the remaining elements of the blues in their music, further differentiating the hard rock and heavy metal styles and helping to create the New Wave of British Heavy Metal which was pursued by bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon and Venom.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. how many Groups that emerged ?
2. what did blue cheer release ?
3. of what ?
4. whats is the name ?
5. was in in 1970 ?
6. what is the year ?
7. what is the ablum name ?
8. what did he release in the same month ?
9. who released it ?
10. what movie was it in ?
11. in 1970 ?
12. in what year ?
13. what was 17 mins long ?
14. in what year ?
15. what did it prefigured ?
16. how many alubums did the Canadian trio Rush put out ?
17. who gain international attention from 1976 ?
18. what was released in 1979 ?
19. who abandoned blues ?
20. when did lizzy form ?
Numbered answers: | 1. Four
2. crude and distorted cover
3. Eddie Cochran's classic
4. Summertime Blues
5. no
6. 1968
7. Vincebus Eruptum
8. Born to Be Wild
9. Steppenwolf
10. Easy Ride
11. no
12. 1969
13. Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
14. 1968
15. later elements of the sound
16. three
17. AC/DC
18. Highway to Hell
19. Judas Priest
20. late 1960s | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
336 | CHAPTER XXI
TROUBLES IN THE FOLD--A MESSAGE
Gabriel Oak had ceased to feed the Weatherbury flock for about four-and-twenty hours, when on Sunday afternoon the elderly gentlemen Joseph Poorgrass, Matthew Moon, Fray, and half-a-dozen others, came running up to the house of the mistress of the Upper Farm.
"Whatever IS the matter, men?" she said, meeting them at the door just as she was coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertion of pulling on a tight glove.
"Sixty!" said Joseph Poorgrass.
"Seventy!" said Moon.
"Fifty-nine!" said Susan Tall's husband.
"--Sheep have broke fence," said Fray.
"--And got into a field of young clover," said Tall.
"--Young clover!" said Moon.
"--Clover!" said Joseph Poorgrass.
"And they be getting blasted," said Henery Fray.
"That they be," said Joseph.
"And will all die as dead as nits, if they bain't got out and cured!" said Tall.
Joseph's countenance was drawn into lines and puckers by his concern. Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair. Laban Tall's lips were thin, and his face was rigid. Matthew's jaws sank, and his eyes turned whichever way the strongest muscle happened to pull them.
"Yes," said Joseph, "and I was sitting at home, looking for Ephesians, and says I to myself, ''Tis nothing but Corinthians and Thessalonians in this danged Testament,' when who should come in but Henery there: 'Joseph,' he said, 'the sheep have blasted theirselves--'"
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. who stopped doing something?
2. what did he stop doing?
3. who did he stop feeding?
4. did something happen on the day that follows Saturday?
5. what?
6. how many people?
7. who was one of them?
8. another?
9. was another named?
10. which one?
11. did Joe speak?
12. what did he say the first time he spoke?
13. did he speak again?
14. what did he say the second time?
15. Did Matt speak?
16. what did he say the first time he spoke?
17. did he speak again?
18. what did he say the second time?
19. was someone trying to find something?
20. who?
21. what was he trying to find?
Numbered answers: | 1. Gabriel Oak
2. feeding
3. the Weatherbury flock
4. Yes
5. people came
6. Nine
7. Joseph Poorgrass
8. Matthew Moon
9. Yes
10. Fray
11. Yes
12. "Sixty!"
13. Yes
14. --Clover
15. Yes
16. "Seventy!"
17. Yes
18. "--Young clover!"
19. Yes
20. Joseph,
21. Ephesians | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
337 | CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot
"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn't it?"
"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as "awful mean" the girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you.
The way Anne and Diana went to school WAS a pretty one. Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was.
Lover's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm. It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables.
1. how is the day going?
2. Who does she feel bad for?
3. why?
4. where are they going?
5. how do they feel about the walk?
6. How could it be worse?
7. who is carrying food?
8. what food is she carrying?
9. how many?
10. for how many to consume?
11. was this common, to bring food?
12. what was the name of the place they got educated at?
13. where is somewhere they pass on their walk?
14. and?
15. Where else?
16. Where are the livestock?
Numbered answers: | 1. splendid
2. people who aren't born yet
3. for missing it
4. school
5. It's lovely
6. by going round by the road
7. Diana
8. raspberry tarts
9. three
10. ten
11. yes
12. Avonlea
13. Lover's Lane
14. Willowmere
15. Violet Vale
16. the Cuthbert farm | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
338 | Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.
Born in September, 1897, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies' two daughters. Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of Sevigne in Paris.
Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics. When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities to help save the lives of wounded soldiers. Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in military hospitals in France and Belgium. Her services were recognized in the form of a Military's Medal by the French government.
In 1918, Irene became her mother's assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell in love and were married in 1926. Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later.
Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia because of her work with radioactivity . Irene Joliot Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956.
1. What did Irene Curie's mother do?
2. Who studied at the school?
3. Did Irene?
4. What school?
5. where?
6. What was she the first woman to do?
7. Was she the first woman to receive the Nobel prize?
8. What else was she known for?
9. Who was the other winner?
10. What did Irene enter college to study?
11. What did she develop?
12. like who?
13. What did she develop in military hospitals?
14. Where were these xray facilities?
15. Was she married?
16. to who?
17. Where did they meet?
18. What did he do there?
19. Was he there to work?
20. Who taught him there?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. teacher
2. Nine children whose parents were also famous scholars.
3. Yes.
4. College of Sevigne
5. Paris
6. unknown
7. No, Marie Curie was.
8. The first person to win it twice and a mother of a winner.
9. Irene Curie
10. mathematics and physics
11. leukemia
12. her mother
13. Military's Medal
14. military hospitals in France and Belgium
15. Yes.
16. Frederic Joliot
17. Curie Institute
18. unknown
19. Yes, but job title is unknown.
20. Irene | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
339 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Officials of the Chicago Transit Authority said they were investigating. The child, Nicole Hobson, was being taken by her mother to Children's Memorial Hospital about 11 P. M., Wednesday to check her recently inserted pacemaker.
The child was stricken about a mile from the hospital. Her mother, May Hobson, 40, said, "I told the bus driver that my baby had just had heart operation and that she was having a heart failure. He said he couldn't go through the traffic."
Ted Garretson, 28, a passenger who had tried to bring back Nicole's life, said the driver did nothing to help and stopped once to pick up more passengers.
When the driver reached a corner where he was to make a turn, a block from the hospital, he told Mrs. Hobson to get off, she said.
A transit spokesman said the driver should have made radio call to the control center for help.
1. who recently had heart surgery?
2. what should the driver have done?
3. where did he leave them off?
4. did the driver help?
5. who tried to bring Nicole back to life?
6. how old is Ted?
7. did the driver try to pick more people up?
8. who is looking into the situation?
9. where was May heading with Nicole?
10. what day?
11. what had recently been put into nicole?
12. what time were they going to the hospital?
13. what is the mother's name?
14. how old is she?
Numbered answers: | 1. Nicole Hobson
2. made radio call to the control center
3. a block from the hospital
4. no
5. Ted Garretson
6. 28
7. yes
8. Officials of the Chicago Transit Authority
9. Children's Memorial Hospital
10. Wednesday
11. a pacemaker.
12. about 11 P. M.
13. May Hobson
14. 40 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
340 | Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making it Connecticut's third-largest city after the coastal cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. Census Bureau estimates since then have indicated Hartford's fall to fourth place statewide, as a result of sustained population growth in the coastal city of Stamford.
Hartford is nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World", as it hosts many insurance company headquarters and insurance is the region's major industry. The city was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the nation's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper ("The Hartford Courant"), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School). It also is home to Trinity College, a private liberal arts college, and the Mark Twain House where the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family, among other historically significant attractions. Twain wrote in 1868, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief."
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. no
2. third
3. Connecticut
4. Bridgeport and New Haven
5. Insurance Capital of the World
6. because insurance is the region's major industry
7. 1635
8. no
9. 124,775
10. 2010
11. according to the 2010 Census
12. no
13. Stamford
14. Wadsworth Atheneum
15. yes
16. The Hartford Courant
17. Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief.
18. in 1868
19. yes
20. Hartford Public High School
Numbered questions: | 1. Is Hartford the largest city in Connecticut?
2. what rank is it?
3. what state is it the capital of?
4. what cities are larger?
5. what is it nicknamed?
6. why is it nicknamed that?
7. when was Hartford founded?
8. is it one of the newest cities in the U.S.?
9. what is its population?
10. as of what year?
11. according to what?
12. do they still think it is it still in 3rd place in the state by population?
13. which city is estimated to have over taken it?
14. what is the nations oldest public art museum?
15. Does Hartford have the oldest continuously published newspaper?
16. what is it called?
17. what did Twain say about the city?
18. when did he say that?
19. did he live there?
20. what is the name of the second-oldest secondary school? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
341 | It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs.[citation needed] In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber.
The Earth contains about 434 billion cubic meters of growing stock forest, 47% of which is commercial. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. In 1991, approximately 3.5 cubic kilometers of wood were harvested. Dominant uses were for furniture and building construction.
Answer the following questions:
1. How much wood was harvested in 1991?
2. Why?
3. How many meters of forest are there on our planet?
4. How much of that is available commercially?
5. Can this be renewed?
6. Is it rare?
7. How long has it been used in construction?
8. What is it's other main use?
9. What is it a composite of?
10. Are they weak?
Numbered answers: | 1. 3.5 cubic kilometers
2. furniture and building construction.
3. 434 billion cubic meters
4. 47%
5. yes
6. no
7. thousands of years
8. fuel
9. cellulose fibers
10. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
342 | Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER VII.
WANDERING EYES.
"I ASSURE you he said he had never seen a place with more pretty young ladies in it."
"Who?" said Jessie, coming suddenly into the light closet of the work-room, where Florence Cray was taking off her hat, and Amy Lee seemed to be helping her.
"Why, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Holdaway's head groom, who has come over with another man and a boy, and three of the loveliest horses you ever did see."
"Oh, yes, I heard," said Jessie; "and how he stared about at Church! He ought to be ashamed of himself."
"Oh! that's what Grace says, of course," said Florence; "and she's a regular old maid. She needn't fear that he'll stare at her."
Wherewith both Florence and Amy giggled, and before Jessie's hot answer was out of her mouth, one of the aunts called out--
"Girls, girls, what are you doing? No gossiping there."
Florence came out looking cross, and observing in a marked manner that Miss Fuller, at Ellerby, always spoke of her young ladies.
"I like using right names," said Aunt Rose in her decided voice.
Florence was silenced for the time, but at the dinner hour she contrived to get Amy alone. Jessie was in haste to get home to see if there were an answer from Miss Needwood, and also to try to get enough sewing done to pacify Grace, and purchase a little leisure for her mother. And Florence, instead of going home, stood with Amy, who had sauntered into the garden to refresh herself and gather some parsley.
1. What chapter is this?
2. who was taking off their hat?
3. who was helping her
4. who is the head groom?
5. who was he the head groom for?
6. how many horses did they bring?
7. who did he stare at?
8. who giggled?
9. Did Florence look happy?
10. what did she look like
11. who did she observe talking to her young ladies?
12. where?
13. Did Florence often get silenced?
14. who did she try to get along
15. who was jessie eager to get a reply from?
Numbered answers: | 1. VII.
2. lFlorence Cray
3. Amy Lee
4. Mr. Wingfield
5. Mr. Holdaway's
6. Three
7. Mr. Wingfield,
8. Florence and Amy
9. no
10. cross
11. Miss Fuller
12. Ellerby,
13. for the time,
14. Amy
15. Miss Needwood, | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
343 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
CHAPTER VII
The 2d of September
Victor de Gisons was, as usual, waiting near the door when Harry left Louise Moulin's.
"What is the news, Henri? Nothing suspicious, I hope? You are out sooner than usual."
"Yes, for I have something to think of. Here have we been planning in vain for the last fortnight to hit upon some scheme for getting our friends out of prison, and Jeanne has pointed out a way which you and I never thought of."
"What is that, Henri?"
"The simplest thing in the world, namely, that we should seize one of the leaders of these villains and compel him to sign an order for their release."
"That certainly seems possible," Victor said. "I wonder it never occurred to either of us. But how is it to be done?"
"Ah, that is for us to think out! Jeanne has given us the idea, and we should be stupid if we cannot invent the details. In the first place we have got to settle which of them it had better be, and in the next how it is to be managed. It must be some one whose signature the people at the prison would be sure to obey."
"Then," Victor said, "it must be either Danton or Robespierre."
"Or Marat," Harry added; "I think he is as powerful as either of the others."
"He is the worst of them, anyhow," Victor said. "There is something straightforward about Danton. No doubt he is ambitious, but I think his hatred of us all is real. He is a terrible enemy, and will certainly stick at nothing. He is ruthless and pitiless, but I do not think he is double-faced. Robespierre is ambitious too, but I think he is really acting according to his principles, such as they are. He would be pitiless too, but he would murder on principle.
1. Was someone plotting something?
2. What was it?
3. Who suggested that?
4. Who pointed out her idea?
5. Was he sharing this with Louise?
6. Who was he speaking to?
7. Had they visited Louise together?
8. Had the idea ever crossed their minds before now?
9. What was the idea?
10. How would they do that?
11. Was it an elaborate plan?
12. Could they agree on a target?
13. Who did Victor suggest?
14. What about Harry?
15. Why him?
16. According to whom?
17. What about Danton?
18. Is he a determined person that sees things through?
19. Who is driven?
20. Where was someone waiting initially?
Numbered answers: | 1. yes
2. getting friends out of prison,
3. Jeanne
4. Henri
5. no
6. Victor
7. No
8. No
9. Get a leader to sign a release
10. seize one
11. No
12. no
13. Danton or Robespierre.
14. Marat
15. He is the worst
16. Victor
17. ruthless and pitiless
18. no
19. Robespierre
20. the door | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
344 | About 18,000 refugees from Burma have come to the United States each year since 2007. Some have settled in Howard County, Maryland between Baltimore and Washington. A local school began teaching English to the children of the refugees. But while the children learned the language, their parents did not. That made communication with teachers _ .
At present, almost fifty children from Burma attend Bollman Bridge Elementary School. Laurel Conran is a teacher there. She said, "The main idea is the global idea." She teaches English to speakers of other languages. One of her students is Tha Neih Ciang. Another student is Tha Neih's mother, Tin Iang. Ms. Conran practices English with Tin Iang at the mother's workplace. Many refugees from Burma work at Coastal Sunbelt Produce, a supplier of fruits and vegetables to restaurants and other businesses.
Laurel Conran started classes at the company to help refugees from Burma learn English. Laurel Conran said, "The program is a six-week session. It's once a week, on every Wednesday, from twelve to one o'clock. So every Wednesday I go to Coastal Sunbelt." As the workers eat lunch, they also practice their new language skills.
Lisa Chertok has a child at Bollman Bridge. She is also a manager at Coastal Sunbelt. She helped Ms. Conran develop the lessons, which she says have really helped. Lisa Chertok said, "Well, when the Burmese employees got here, they were very, very shy. Now I find that they are more outspoken than before. They're more communicative. As parents, they are also more involved in their children's school."
Jonathan Davis is the headmaster of Bollman Bridge Elementary School. Mr. Davis hopes the lessons will help these parents feel better about communicating with the school. He said, "Even as simple as making a phone call to say that their son or daughter is sick, even if that's the amount of English that they have got from the program, that truly will help us."
Answer this series of questions:
1. Which school is teaching English to refugees?
2. where is this school at?
3. what cities is this near?
4. What was making communication with teachers difficult?
5. where are the refugees from?
6. how may have came to the US?
7. how often?
8. for how long?
9. who is the teacher helping them?
10. where else does she teach at?
11. what company?
12. when are these classes?
13. at what time?
14. how many weeks?
15. Is it held after work?
16. Is it their lunch break?
17. Does the teacher have help with the classes?
18. from who?
19. Does she work at Coastal Sunbelt?
20. doing what?
Numbered answers: | 1. Bollman Bridge Elementary School.
2. Howard County, Maryland
3. Baltimore and Washington.
4. the language
5. Burma
6. About 18,000
7. each year
8. since 2007
9. Laurel Conran
10. a mother's workplace
11. Coastal Sunbelt Produce
12. every Wednesday
13. twelve to one o'clock
14. six
15. no
16. yes
17. yes
18. Lisa Chertok
19. yes
20. a manager | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
345 | (CNN) -- Three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed this week in a cross-border firefight between Pakistan and India, officials said Thursday.
The soldiers were moving from one post to another along the border when they came under fire by Indian forces, said Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, Pakistan army spokesman.
Since a cease-fire is in effect, the firing by Indian forces was unprovoked, Abbas said. But Pakistani forces retaliated after the shots were fired, he said.
It was unclear whether the incident took place late Tuesday or Wednesday, as Pakistani and Indian officials provided different times.
Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, Indian defense spokesman for the disputed Kashmir region, said there were two violations of the cease-fire on the Line of Control, the de facto border between Indian- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. In the first, fighting continued for about an hour, he said. A second violation took place Thursday morning, he said, and one Indian soldier was injured. Brar said he could not comment on Pakistani casualties.
Pakistani officials said severe weather conditions in Kashmir, a Himalayan region, hampered removal of the soldiers' bodies. Pakistan has asked the Indian local commanding authority for a full report on the incident.
India and Pakistan have have fought three wars since the partition of the Asian subcontinent in 1947. Two of them were over Kashmir, which is claimed by both nuclear powers.
On August 20, an Indian army officer and five militants were killed in clashes along the Line of Control. India has accused Pakistan of aiding infiltration into Indian Kashmir, which has battled separatist violence for more than two decades. Islamabad has denied the accusations. More than 40,000 have died in the violence, officials say.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Who were the partiipants in the skirmish?
2. What were the probable days the effent took place?
3. How many wars have India and Pakistan fought since 1947?
4. Was there conflicting stories about how the event started?
5. How long did the first time the cease fire was broken last?
6. Were any Indians injured on thursday morning?
7. What is it Inda accused Pakistaon of doing regarding Indian Kashmir?
8. What were the soldgers doing when they came underfire by Indian forces according to Abbas?
9. What did Pakistan ask the Indian local commanding authority for?
10. Were there any casualties from these events?
Numbered answers: | 1. Pakistan and India
2. Tuesday or Wednesday
3. three
4. It was unclear
5. an hour
6. yes
7. aiding infiltration
8. moving from one post to another
9. for a full report
10. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
346 | (PEOPLE.com) -- Theodore "Teddy" Forstmann, a veteran business leader and philanthropist who was romantically linked to Padma Lakshmi, died Sunday. He was 71.
Forstmann suffered from brain cancer, his spokesman tells The New York Times.
Although the famed billionaire never married, he dated "Top Chef" host Lakshmi, 41, over the last several years. Their relationship made headlines when she gave birth to now 1-year-old daughter Krishna in February 2010, which spawned speculation over the identity of the father. (Venture capitalist Adam Dell was later revealed as the father.)
Forstmann was also briefly linked to Princess Diana. According to "The Diana Chronicles" by Newsweek and The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, the two were plotting to wed in the last weeks of her life.
Forstmann, who invested in companies ranging from Gulfstream Aerospace to Dr. Pepper, is survived by his two sons, Siya and Everest, brothers Anthony and John, and sisters Marina Forstmann Day and Elissa Forstmann Moran.
See the full article at PEOPLE.com.
© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Who died?
2. Who was he?
3. Was he married?
4. Who was he dating?
5. How old is she?
6. What did she do?
7. Did he have any children?
8. Who were they?
9. How did he die?
10. Did he have any daughters?
11. Who else was he linked to?
12. Anyone else?
13. According to whom?
14. What was a company he invested in?
Numbered answers: | 1. Theodore Forstmann
2. veteran business leader
3. No
4. Lakshmi
5. 41
6. "Top Chef" host
7. Yes
8. Siya and Everest
9. brain cancer
10. No
11. Padma Lakshmi
12. Princess Diana
13. "The Diana Chronicles"
14. Dr. Pepper | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
347 | Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida (CNN) -- Weather and time have inflicted more damage to Fort Jefferson than hostile cannon fire ever did.
The crumbling citadel rises 40 feet from the turquoise water of the Gulf of Mexico, an outpost of a bygone era. Built on an island in Florida's Dry Tortugas, 70 miles past Key West, the fort is being restored by a squad of craftsmen who spend three-week shifts there between hurricane seasons.
A cocoon of mesh and scaffolding shrouds one section of its 8-foot-thick walls as they work. It's a grueling job, but it's one Dennis Wood, a mason from Massachusetts, says he's glad to have.
"Things are slow today, you know," Wood said. "Got a job offer to come down here for the winter, so we took it."
Efforts to restore Fort Jefferson have been under way for about 30 years. The current phase received a boost from the economic stimulus bill that passed Congress in 2009, which devoted $7 million to the project. But planners estimate another $13 million is needed, and that money has yet to be allocated.
The six-sided fort, roughly the size of Yankee Stadium, was designed to protect shipping lanes through the Gulf of Mexico. Construction began in 1846, but advancements in the science of artillery rendered it obsolete before it was finished. During the Civil War, the Confederacy never bothered to try to seize it from Union forces.
The Union kept a garrison of about 2,000 men there and used it mostly as a prison for Confederate captives and deserters. It wasn't until after the war that it received its most famous inmate -- Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor convicted of aiding Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, by setting his broken leg.
1. What is the name of the park?
2. In what State is it located?
3. How far from the Keys?
4. Where was this built?
5. Who's Wood?
6. What's he doing?
7. How many sides does the place gong under restoration have?
8. Why was it created that way?
9. When was it started?
10. Who had control of it during the War?
11. What baseball field is it comparable in area?
12. What did the Union use it for?
13. How many were garrisoned there?
Numbered answers: | 1. Dry Tortugas National Park
2. Florida
3. 70 miles
4. an island in Florida's Dry Tortugas
5. a mason
6. restoring Fort Jefferson
7. six
8. it was designed to protect shipping lanes through the Gulf of Mexico
9. 1846
10. the Union
11. Yankee Stadium
12. as a prison for Confederate captives and deserters
13. 2,000 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
348 | (CNN) -- Jason Baldwin paused Saturday on his first morning of freedom in 18 years to share a revelation he gleaned in prison while serving a life sentence.
The "West Memphis Three" member recalled telling inmates he had figured out the secret of life.
"What is it?" they asked.
"I said, 'Enjoy it. Enjoy it,'" Baldwin told CNN Memphis affiliate WMC.
And enjoy it he did Friday and Saturday. Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr. -- freed Friday in Arkansas after a complicated plea arrangement -- spent time with family, friends and supporters.
Echols and Baldwin saw the sunset Friday from the rooftop of the Madison Hotel in Memphis, across the Mississippi River from West Memphis, Arkansas. Supporters Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks joined the party.
The three men, who served 18 years in prison following their convictions in a 1993 triple-slaying in West Memphis, walked free Friday to cheers from a supportive crowd after entering rarely used pleas in which they maintained their innocence but acknowledged that prosecutors have evidence to convict them.
They had been imprisoned for the slayings of second-graders Steven Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore.
The boys' bodies were mutilated and left in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces. Prosecutors argued that the defendants, teenagers at the time, were driven by satanic ritual and that Echols, sentenced to death, had been the ringleader. Baldwin and Misskelley received life sentences.
Attorney Stephen Braga, who represented Echols, said his newly freed client and Baldwin were fascinated by new foods, cell phones and other technology Friday.
1. How many kids were killed?
2. Was someone put in jail for the killings?
3. who?
4. How long was Jason Baldwin in jail?
5. Were they all there that long?
6. When were they found guilty?
7. Where did the murders happen?
8. What grade were the murdered kids in?
9. Where were the bodies found?
10. Where the bodies in good shape?
11. What was wrong with them?
12. How were they tied?
13. with what?
14. whose?
15. Who was the lawyer for Echols?
16. How old were the people arrested
17. Whose idea was it?
18. What was his punishment?
19. What did the other two get?
20. Did they ever get out?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. three
2. yes
3. Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley
4. 18 years
5. yes
6. 1993
7. West Memphis
8. second
9. a ditch
10. no
11. they were mutilated
12. hogtied
13. shoelaces
14. theirs
15. Stephen Braga
16. teenagers
17. Echols
18. death
19. life
20. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
349 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.
Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathé (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.
Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.
1. What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2. Is there a shoter name?
3. what is it?
4. What is Paramount?
5. where is it?
6. and they are a member of what?
7. any other memberships mentioned?
8. what?
9. Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10. where was he from?
11. What significance does 1912 have?
12. How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13. who did this?
14. what was his occupation at the time?
15. What do the stars on the logo represent?
16. these would become the first what?
17. What did Paramount do in 2014?
18. Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19. how many?
20. which one?
Numbered answers: | 1. Paramount Pictures Corporation
2. yes
3. Paramount
4. American film studio
5. Hollywood, California
6. the "Big Six"
7. Yes
8. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
9. Adolph Zukor
10. Hungary
11. the founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
12. 22
13. Adolph Zukor
14. film producer
15. the original 22 actors and actresses
16. "movie stars."
17. Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
18. No
19. Just one
20. Paramount | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
350 | The Åland Islands or Åland is an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It is autonomous, demilitarised and is the only monolingually Swedish-speaking region in Finland. It is the smallest region of Finland, constituting 0.49% of its land area and 0.50% of its population.
Åland comprises Fasta Åland on which 90% of the population resides and a further 6,500 skerries and islands to its east. Fasta Åland is separated from the coast of Sweden by of open water to the west. In the east, the Åland archipelago is contiguous with the Finnish Archipelago Sea. Åland's only land border is located on the uninhabited skerry of Märket, which it shares with Sweden.
Åland's autonomous status means that those provincial powers normally exercised by representatives of the central Finnish government are largely exercised by its own government.
The autonomous status of the islands was affirmed by a decision made by the League of Nations in 1921 following the Åland crisis. It was reaffirmed within the treaty admitting Finland to the European Union. By law, Åland is politically neutral and entirely demilitarised, and residents are exempt from conscription to the Finnish Defence Forces. The islands were granted extensive autonomy by the Parliament of Finland in the Act on the Autonomy of Åland of 1920, which was later replaced by new legislation by the same name in 1951 and 1991. Åland remains exclusively Swedish-speaking by this act.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. No
2. Fasta Åland
3. Finland
4. open water
5. Baltic Sea
6. No
7. on the uninhabited skerry of Märket
8. Yes
9. Sweden
10. 1921
11. League of Nations
12. the Åland crisis
13. the Act on the Autonomy of Åland
14. the Parliament of Finland
15. No
16. Yes
17. Twice
18. 1951 and 1991
19. No
Numbered questions: | 1. is it bilingual?
2. where do most of the people live?
3. which country does it belong to?
4. what is in the west of the Aland?
5. where is it located?
6. is it just one island?
7. where is it's land border?
8. does it share this with anyone?
9. who?
10. when was it affirmed?
11. who decided this?
12. what had happened for this to be decided?
13. what happened in 1920?
14. by who?
15. was this ever changed?
16. was it replaced?
17. how many times?
18. when?
19. is it a large part of Finland? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
351 | (CNN) -- The promoter and agent who first brought The Beatles to America has died.
Sid Bernstein died Wednesday in New York City, publicist Merle Frimark said in a statement. He was 95.
Bernstein helped start the "British invasion" by bringing The Beatles to Carnegie Hall and later, to New York's Shea Stadium for landmark concerts in 1965 and 1966.
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Bernstein booked the Carnegie Hall concert in August 1963 -- the same year that Capitol Records had rejected three singles from the group.
"I'm a hunch player, you see," Bernstein once said, according to his publicist's statement. "I was just glad to get this group I had been reading about for months. It took eight months after I booked them for there to be any airplay of their records on the radio. I had to convince Carnegie Hall and my financial backers to take a chance on this then-unknown group. I had been reading about their progress in the European papers and was fascinated with the hysteria that surrounded them. I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show."
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Ultimately, it was Sullivan's audience who heard them first, on February 9, 1964. The Carnegie Hall concert that Bernstein booked was three days later.
Bernstein, the son of Russian immigrants, also booked top acts like Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who died?
2. How old was he?
3. Where?
4. What was his job?
5. Which band did he book?
6. And started what?
7. When did he book the hall?
8. Why?
9. Was that concert their first one in the US?
10. Where was it?
11. What day was that?
12. And when was the Carnegie Hall concert?
13. How many months between booking and popularity?
14. Were Bernstein's parents born in the US?
15. Where were they from?
16. Who else did he book?
17. Which baseball park did they play at?
18. How many times?
19. When?
20. Who was his publicist?
Numbered answers: | 1. Sid Bernstein
2. 95
3. in New York City
4. promoter and agent
5. The Beatles
6. the "British invasion"
7. August 1963
8. he played a hunch
9. no
10. Ed Sullivan's television show
11. February 9, 1964
12. three days later
13. eight
14. no
15. Russia
16. Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones.
17. Shea Stadium
18. twice
19. 1965 and 1966
20. Merle Frimark | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
352 | Read the text and answer the questions.
The Count of Monte Cristo ( French: Le Comte de Monte Cristo ) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas. Completed in 1844, it is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot outlines suggested by his co-author Auguste Maquet.
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean, and in the Levant during the historical events of 1815-1838. It begins from just before the Hundred Days period, when Napoleon returned to power after his exile , and goes through to the time of Louis Philippe of France. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, revenge , mercy and forgiveness, and is told in the style of an adventure story. It focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from prison, gains a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have terrible consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty.
Dumas got the idea for The Count of Monte Cristo from a true story, which he found in a memoir written by a man named Jacques Peuchet. Peuchet related the story of a shoemaker named Pierre Picaud, who was living in Paris in 1807. Picaud was engaged to a rich woman, but four envious friends falsely accused him of being a spy for England. He was imprisoned for seven years. During his imprisonment a fellow prisoner told him a treasure hidden in Milan. When Picaud was released in 1814, he took possession of the treasure, returned under another name to Paris and spent ten years plotting his successful revenge.
The book is considered a literary classic today. According to Luc Sante, " The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood. "
1. What book is this article about?
2. Is this story completly made up or based on real life events?
3. Where does the story take place?
4. Who is Jacques Peachet?
5. What does Luc Sante say about the story?
6. What is Pierre Picaud's Job?
7. How many years was he in jail?
8. how many friends lied about him
9. Where was the treasure hiding?
10. When was he set free?
Numbered answers: | 1. hope, justice, revenge , mercy and forgiveness
2. real life events
3. France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean, and in the Levant
4. wrote memoir
5. it is a fixture of western civilization's literature
6. shoemaker
7. seven
8. four
9. Milan
10. 1814 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
353 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
I'll never forget that summer day in 1965 when my mother suddenly died of an unexplained illness at the age of 36. Later that afternoon, a police officer stopped by to ask my father if the hospital could use Mother's corneas . I was shocked. "The doctors want to _ Mum and give her away to other people!" I thought as I ran into the house in tears. "How can you let them do that to her?" I screamed at my father. "My mum came into this world in one piece and that is how she should go out." "Linda," Father said quietly, putting his arm around me, "the greatest gift you can give is a part of yourself. Your mother and I decided long ago that if we can make a difference in just one person's life after we die, our death will have meaning." He went on to explain they had both decided to donate their organs . The lesson my father taught me that day became one of the most important in my life. Years passed. I married and had a family of my own. In 1980, my father became seriously ill and moved in with us. He cheerfully told me that when he died, he wanted me to donate his eyes. "Sight is one of the greatest gifts a person can give," he said. I told Wendy what her grandpa had said, and with tears in her eyes, she went into her grandpa's room and gave him a big hug. She was only fourteen years old------the same age at which I was introduced to such a thing. What a difference! My father died on April 11,1986, and we donated his eyes as he had wanted. Three days later, Wendy said, "Mum, I'm so proud of you for what did for Grandpa." At that moment, I realized that my father gave much more than his eyes.
1. How did my mother pass away?
2. What was my dad asked?
3. Was Linda understanding?
4. What did she do?
5. What did her dad say?
6. How can dying have meaning?
7. When did her dad get sick?
8. When did he die?
9. What year?
10. Who was proud?
Numbered answers: | 1. unexplained illness
2. use Mother's corneas
3. no
4. ran into the house in tears
5. the greatest gift you can give is a part of yourself
6. make a difference
7. 1980
8. April 11
9. 1986
10. Wendy | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
354 | (CNN) -- Chinese pair Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang claimed gold in Monday's men's synchronized ten meter diving final. The reigning world champions scored 99.36 with a near faultless final dive to claim the Olympic title.
The silver medal went to Mexican pair Ivan Garcia-Navarro and German Sanchez-Sanchez, who pushed the American team of David Boudia and Nicholas McCrory into the bronze medal position with a strong final set of dives.
"We're very happy. Coming from China, of course, we hope we can win more medals," said Cao.
"If we are strong at diving it comes from good coaching, diving every day and hard work. Nothing more."
Tom Daley, icon of the British team, and his partner Pete Waterfield led after two rounds, but blew their chances of a medal with a poor dive in round four.
British Prime Minister David Cameron made his first trip to the aquatics center to see Daley and Waterfield in action, but he couldn't spur the pair to a podium finish.
Cao, 17, and Zhang, 18, had been favorites to take gold in London after a dominating display in February's world championships, also held at the Olympic aquatic center.
China now have two diving golds after Wu Minxia and He Zi won the women's synchronized three meter springboard diving on Sunday.
"We had the highest score we have ever got after the first three, but at this level of competition, you can't afford to miss a single dive," Daley said afterwards.
The 18 year old diver refused to blame a mistake from Waterfield, 31, in the fourth round for their failure to win a medal, declaring that "you win as a team and you lose as a team."
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who took the silver medal?
2. in which event?
3. what country are they from?
4. Which group did they beat?
5. Who are the members?
6. What kind of trophy did they get?
7. Who won?
8. Where are they from?
9. How do they feel about it?
10. What was their score?
11. What do the contribute their win to?
12. Who is David Cameron?
13. Where did he go?
14. Why?
15. Who made a mistake?
16. When?
17. Did the other diver accusing him of causing the loss?
18. Who is the oldest on that team?
19. According to Daley what do you win as?
20. And lose as?
Numbered answers: | 1. Ivan Garcia-Navarro and German Sanchez-Sanchez
2. men's synchronized ten meter diving
3. Mexico
4. the American team
5. David Boudia and Nicholas McCrory
6. the bronze medal
7. Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang
8. China
9. Very happy
10. 99.36
11. good coaching, diving every day and hard work
12. the British Prime Minister
13. to the aquatics center
14. to see Daley and Waterfield in action
15. Waterfield
16. in the fourth round
17. No
18. Waterfield
19. as a team
20. as a team | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
355 | One day Mary took a walk to the park. The park was very close to her house. One her way to the park she passed her friend Kim's house. Mary stopped by and asked if Kim wanted to play. Kim said yes. Mary and Kim walked together to the park. John's house was three houses down. Mary and Kim stopped by to ask John if he wanted to play at the park. John said no. He was afraid of being chased by a squirrel. Mary worried that John didn't like her, but John thought she was a good friend. So Mary and Kim went to the park to play. They loved the park. They loved the flowers, and the swings! Soon it was dinnertime and the girls went home. What a lovely day at the park.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. how many houses away was John's house from Mary's
2. where did Mary walk to?
3. was it close?
Numbered answers: | 1. Four
2. the park
3. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
356 | It was 3:30 in the morning and 8-year-old Walt Disney was doing what he did at that time every morning- rolling hundreds of newspapers he would soon deliver in his neighborhood.
It was hard work for a little kid who had to go to school, then deliver another round in the evening. But delivering papers beat picking apples for a living. That's what he'd been doing before, on his family's failing farms in Missouri.
Walt Disney, born in December, 1901, never had time for a childhood. As a result, he spent all of his adult life attempting to invent one for himself. In the process - almost by accident - he created wonderful childhood memories for generation after generation of children worldwide.
When the Disneys moved to Chicago, Walt signed up for cartooning classes, working three part-time jobs to pay for them. At 24, he created a cartoon character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was a great success. Hethen shifted his attention to mice, or one particular mouse called Mickey.And Mickey Mouse became an overnight success.
Success followed success, but Walt Disney pushed himself even harder. He produced Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, for which he won a special Oscar. After the Second World War, Walt came up with the idea of Disneyland. Everyone said it was too costly a dream, but he wouldn't listen. His great world of fantasy opened on July 17, 1955. In the next seven weeks, more than one million people walked into Disneyland. The man who had spent a painful childhood now watched other people enjoy the perfect childhood world that he had created.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What happened at 3:30 in the morning?
2. why?
3. where did he pick apples?
4. where?
5. What did he do with the rolled up papers?
6. Did he do this once a day?
7. How many times?
8. When was he born?
9. What happened in Chicago?
10. Did he quit working?
11. Was Mickey his first cartoon character?
12. who was?
13. What did he win an Oscar for?
14. When did he think of Disneyland?
15. After what war?
16. What did people think?
17. Did it end up a success?
18. How many people came?
19. in how long?
20. When did it open?
Numbered answers: | 1. Walt Disney was rolling hundreds of newspapers
2. It beat picking apples.
3. On his family's farms.
4. Missouri.
5. Deliver in his neighborhood.
6. No.
7. Twice.
8. 1901.
9. Walt signed up for cartooning classes.
10. No.
11. No.
12. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
13. Snow White and Seven Dwarfs.
14. His great world of fantasy.
15. Second World War.
16. It was too costly a dream.
17. Yesl
18. More than one million.
19. Seven weeks.
20. July 17, 1955. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
357 | Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Indian nanny who saved the life of an Israeli boy during the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 has been granted honorary citizenship and temporary residency in Israel.
At a ceremony Monday, the Israeli interior ministry in Jerusalem handed Sandra Samuel her identity card.
"I hope I will honor the citizenship and love Israel. I would give my heart and soul for Israel," she said.
Samuel has been caring for the boy, Moshe Holtzberg, since his parents died in the terror attacks on a Jewish cultural center, Chabad House, and several luxury hotels in India's financial capital.
They were among six people who were killed at Chabad House. Altogether, more than 160 people died in the attacks.
During the raids, 10 men also attacked buildings including the luxury Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels and the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji train station.
The only surviving gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani, was convicted of murder, conspiracy, and waging war.
Moshe's father, Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, and his pregnant wife, Rivka, ran the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad community -- a Hasidic Jewish movement.
Samuel, who worked as a cook and nanny at the Chabad House, found Moshe -- who turned 2 just after the attacks -- standing between the bodies of his slain parents.
She returned to Israel and has continued to care for the boy, helping his grandparents to raise him.
"Sandra Samuel stepped into the fire and abyss and did not think of herself," said Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, Moshe's grandfather, at the ceremony. "She saved Moshe from the fire and we as Jews must thank and respect her."
1. Who did the woman save?
2. What was her role?
3. What did she save him from?
4. What was she rewarded with?
5. Who delivered the proof of identification?
6. Was she grateful?
7. What event led to her taking responsibility for the child?
8. Where they the only ones?
9. What major structures were targeted?
10. How many of those responsible survived?
11. What was the child's paternal guardians job?
12. Who does the woman help bring up the child?
13. Are they grateful?
Numbered answers: | 1. an Israeli boy
2. nanny
3. the Mumbai terror attacks
4. granted honorary citizenship and temporary residency in Israel.
5. the Israeli interior ministry
6. Yes
7. his parents died in the terror attacks on a Jewish cultural center
8. No
9. the luxury Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels and the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji train station
10. one
11. ran the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad community -- a Hasidic Jewish movement.
12. his grandparents
13. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
358 | When he was a teenager, Hunter Adam was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental health problems. When he left the hospital, Adam decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA. But when he was there, he did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctor's white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn't like Adams because he was too different. But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital and often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh When he finished medical school and become a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called "the Gusundheit Institute",together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people. Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said,:"hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is a friend. I enjoyed playing him."
1. What did Adam want to be?
2. Why?
3. Did he go to college?
4. Where?
5. Was he like everyone else?
6. What did he do that was odd?
7. Who did he see a lot?
8. Did he do anything special for them?
9. What?
10. Where did he work after graduation?
11. Was there anything unique about it?
12. What?
13. Who made a movie about him?
14. When?
15. Who played him?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. A doctor
2. Because he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
3. Yes
4. Virginia, USA.
5. No.
6. He wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients.
7. Children.
8. Yes
9. He often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh.
10. The Gusundheit Institute.
11. Yes.
12. unknown
13. Universal Pictures
14. 1988
15. Robin Williams | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
359 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Even a presidential campaign's airplane troubles can get partisan in an election year.
Aviation incidents involving President Barack Obama and Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have inspired hundreds of supporters commenting at CNN.com to connect those events to the candidates' political positions.
When the Air Force One pilot aborted his first landing in Toledo, Ohio, due to weather on Wednesday, commenters were quick to jump on Obama.
"See, Barack Obama can't even land a plane correctly," wrote a commenter whose handle is TheOtherBob. "He was probably checking the polls - thinks he has Ohio in the bag - no need to land," wrote another commenter.
"He was distracted, since he was busy adjusting gas prices over his smart phone," wrote another commenter.
Ann Romney's smoke-filled plane
Ann Romney couldn't catch a break, either. Her airplane cabin filling up with smoke due to an electrical problem was no laughing matter, but commenters quickly took aim at her husband and his response.
Mitt Romney talked about not being able to open the airplane's windows in flight. (New York Times writer Ashley Parker, who wrote the presidential pool report mentioning the comments, declined to comment on his remarks, referring CNN to a New York magazine piece where she made it clear that Romney was joking.)
"Maybe if Romney hadn't started the outsourcing trend, that plane would have been built and maintained better by hardworking 47%ers," wrote one commenter.
"Firefighters came to the rescue, paramedics were there on time and the police took special care of your security. We are the 47% your husband scorns," wrote commenter Kweso.
1. Who's Ann married to?
2. Which political party is he with?
3. Where were hundreds commenting?
4. Where was the aborted landing?
5. When?
6. Why?
7. Who didn't think Obama could land it?
8. What was Ann's plane full of?
9. Why?
10. Was it a funny matter?
11. Was Mitt being funny about not being able to open a window?
12. Did firefighters race to the tarmac?
Numbered answers: | 1. Mitt Romney
2. Republican
3. CNN.com
4. Toledo, Ohio
5. Wednesday
6. due to weather
7. TheOtherBob
8. smoke
9. electrical problem
10. No
11. Yes
12. Firefighters came to the rescue | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
360 | Something bad happened to sam this morning. He fell over and broke his nose in the school hallway. When Sam looked up, he saw his friends. "Are you OK?" They asked him. But he didn't say anything to them. He stood up and ran to the classroom quickly. Sam put his schoolbag on his desk and went out to the school hospital. On his way back to the classroom he saw his friends again. They were laughing. Sam thought they were laughing at him, so he didn't talk to them for the rest of the morning. At lunchtime, Sam's friends came up to him and asked, "How is your nose?" "Fine!" Sam shouted. "I saw you laughing at me this morning!" "We didn't. We laughed just because Jenny told us a joke," his friends said. "Well, I'm sorry. Can you _ me?" "Yes, of course. But next time you should ask us before you assume something." They looked at each other and laughed happily. They were still friends. ,,.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Sam
2. To the school hospital.
3. No
Numbered questions: | 1. Who broke his nose?
2. Where did he have to go?
3. What did he tell his friends? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
361 | One sunny day, Martha went on a walk through the park. While walking, she noticed something strange. No one was outside. She was the only person at the park. "How strange, where is everyone?" she thought. Martha looked everywhere. She looked inside the restrooms, under the benches, and even at the top of the slide. She was confused. Usually, she would see her friends playing with each other. She started walking again when one of her friends popped up, surprising her. Her friend asked her, "Why are you outside?" Martha asked what she meant, and explained that she always came out to the park to play. Her friend then looked at her strangely and asked, "Didn't Stephan invite you to his party?" Martha hadn't known that Stephan was holding a party. She was sad that he hadn't invited her. She walked back home, upset.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was walking?
2. Where?
3. Was she the only person there?
4. How did she feel?
5. Whose party was it?
6. Was she invited?
7. Where did she go?
8. Feeling?
9. What was the weather?
10. Did she notice something strange?
Numbered answers: | 1. Martha
2. One day
3. Yes
4. confused.
5. Stephan's
6. No
7. Home.
8. upset.
9. Sunny
10. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
362 | Read the text and answer the questions.
One day last November, Tom Baker stopped out of his house into the morning light and headed across the rice fields toward the bank of the Rapti River. Tom, a 32-year-old school teacher in the farming village of Madanpur, was going for his morning bath. As he approached the river, the head of a tiger suddenly appeared over the edge of the river bank. Before he could turn to run, the tiger was upon him. It jumped on his shoulder and threw him to the ground, its huge jaws attacked his head in a killing bite. Peter Smith was also on his way to the river and saw the attack. He screamed. The tiger lifted its head and roared at him. Peter ran. From the window of his house John Brown heard the tiger roar and ran out to see it attacking a man. He screamed, too, and all the villagers ran out shouting as the tiger dropped its victim and ran off. When the villagers reached the river bank, Tom was already dead. For the villagers, the horror of the incident intensified by the tales of man-eating tigers that has once run around in the countryside, killing hundreds.
1. Who left his house in the morning light?
2. How old is he?
3. What is his profession?
4. Where does he work?
5. In what kind of village?
6. Did he die?
7. Did someone see the attack?
8. Did more than one person see it?
9. Who saw it?
10. And who else?
11. Did Tom scream?
12. Which body of water was he headed to?
13. Which month did this occur?
14. What creature killed him?
15. What body part was the killing bite?
16. Did Peter take off running?
Numbered answers: | 1. Tom Baker
2. 32
3. school teacher
4. Madanpur
5. farming
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Peter Smith
10. John Brown
11. Yes
12. Rapti River
13. November
14. tiger
15. head
16. Yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
363 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
(CNN) -- What started out as Chelsea's worst season since owner Roman Abramovich arrived in 2003 is now on the verge of becoming one of the English club's best.
Saturday's FA Cup final success, the London side's fourth in six years in the world's oldest football competition, is the latest step in a revival that could end in the realization of the Russian billionaire's longheld dream.
The nailbiting 2-1 victory at Wembley is but a tasty precursor to a Champions League final in Munich on May 19 that offers the chance for Abramovich to finally win Europe's top club prize.
He brought Premier League success to Stamford Bridge in 2005 after spending millions on coach Jose Mourinho and a swathe of star players, achieving Chelsea's first English title in 50 years.
Two more followed, but not before Mourinho departed after failing to repeat the European triumph at Porto that earned Abramovich's attention -- and Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlo Ancelotti also exited as Champions League success proved elusive.
Andre Villas-Boas, "the new Mourinho," was bought out of his contract at Porto to replace Ancelotti -- a European champion as both player and coach -- but the Portuguese prodigy alienated Chelsea's powerful old guard of players as he sought to stamp his authority and rebuild the squad.
His assistant Roberto di Matteo, a former Chelsea player himself, has had no such problems winning their respect as he has reverted to the style so successful under Mourinho, allowing the likes of veterans Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba to restore their pre-eminent roles in the team.
1. WHen was the last english title won by chelsea?
2. wasiit the worse season ?
3. Who owned the team?
4. When did he take ownership?
5. what is the oldest competition?
6. When did it occur?
7. Was someone bought out?
8. Who?
9. Did he have a nickname?
10. What?
11. Who did he replace?
12. Which country was he from?
13. How many wins did londom have?
14. in how many years?
15. How much was spent building the team?
16. Who was the head cach?
17. Did they win another title?
18. how many?
19. was there a player coach?
20. Who?
Numbered answers: | 1. 50 years ago
2. No
3. Roman Abramovich
4. 2003
5. FA Cup
6. Saturday's
7. Yes
8. Andre Villas-Boas
9. Yes
10. "the new Mourinho,
11. Ancelott
12. Portugual
13. Four
14. six
15. millions
16. Jose Mourinho
17. yes
18. Two
19. Yes
20. Ancelott | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
364 | CHAPTER IV
A TRAIL IS FOUND AND LOST
By this time several carriages had come up, also a number of folks on bicycles and on foot, and to all of these the situation had to be explained. Among the last to put in an appearance was Captain Putnam, and he was at once all attention, and desired to know how seriously Dick and Frank were injured.
"It was an outrageous piece of work," he said.
"Still, to be fair, we must admit that the broken brake is largely responsible for what happened, after the start down hill was made."
"But I couldn't help the brake breaking," pleaded the general utility man. "I did my best, and was thrown out--"
"I am not finding fault with you, Snugger," cut in the captain, shortly. "Let it pass, and leave the stage to be taken care of by the Cedarville blacksmith. But I wish we might lay hands on the rascal who is responsible for the start of the mishap."
"They have found a coin such as we used when as we were in Africa," said Dick. "I think that furnishes a clew."
"In what way, Rover?"
"Those coins were also used by Dan Baxter and Josiah Crabtree."
"And you think one or the other, or both, are in this neighborhood again?"
"It looks plausible, doesn't it?"
"Yes, but--it would be very strange. I should think they would give this locality a wide berth."
"Hardly. Josiah Crabtree isn't done with the Stanhopes, to my mind, and Baxter will get square with us if he can."
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who was injured?
2. Who was last to arrive at the accident?
3. What was the cause of the accident?
4. What vehicle was broken?
5. Who was going to fix it?
6. What was the name of the utility man?
7. Where was the coin from that had been used?
8. Who brought up the coin?
9. Why did he think that was significant?
10. Did he think they were around the area?
11. Who was going to get even with them?
12. And who was Crabtree worrying with?
13. Who came up on the accident when it happened?
14. Did they want to know what happened?
15. When did they discover the brakes didn't work?
Numbered answers: | 1. Dick and Frank
2. Captain Putnam
3. the broken brake
4. the stage
5. the Cedarville blacksmith
6. Snugger,
7. Africa
8. Dick
9. Dan Baxter and Josiah Crabtree used the coins
10. yes
11. Baxter
12. the Stanhopes
13. carriages and folks on bicycles and on foot
14. yes
15. after starting down hill | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
365 | PANAMA CITY, Panama (CNN) -- Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday.
Ricardo Martinelli is a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party.
National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela performed the swearing-in and placed the presidential sash on Martinelli, a pro-business conservative who defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party in May.
The citizens of Panama "want things to be done differently," Varela said at the inauguration. "An attitude of change starts today."
In his first speech as president, Martinelli promised a smaller government budget but raises for public workers.
Public safety, an issue that the outgoing administration of Martin Torrijos struggled to maintain, will be a priority, Martinelli said.
"Our prisons will be rehabilitation centers, not schools for criminals," he said.
Panama will also work with Mexico and Colombia to combat drug trafficking in the region, Martinelli said.
Among the dignitaries at the inauguration was deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military-led coup Sunday. The Organization of American States has condemned the coup, and Zelaya has continued to carry out his presidential duties.
The son of Italian immigrants, Martinelli, 57, is a self-made businessman who is chairman of the Super 99 supermarket chain, one of the largest private companies in Panama.
The U.S.-educated president previously served as minister and chairman of the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority and formerly was director of social security for Panama, according to his Web site.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. In which country does this story take place?
2. Who was the winner of the election?
3. What was his prior job?
4. Was he born rich?
5. Were his parents Panamanian?
6. Where were they from?
7. Were they any foreign politicians at the ceremony?
8. Who?
9. Where is he from?
10. Who performed the ceremony?
11. What did he say the people of Panama want?
12. What did Varela place on the new president?
13. Who did Martinelli win against?
14. Who was the previous president?
15. What issue did he have problems with during his presidency?
16. Will Martinelli increase the budget?
17. What countries does he plan on working together with?
18. What will they fight against?
19. Did the new president give a speech?
20. What country was he educated in?
Numbered answers: | 1. Panama
2. Ricardo Martinelli
3. minister and chairman of the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority
4. no
5. no
6. Italy
7. yes
8. Jose Manuel Zelaya
9. Honduras
10. Jose Luis Varela
11. things to be done differently
12. the presidential sash
13. a candidate from the ruling center-left party.
14. Martin Torrijos
15. Public safety
16. no
17. Mexico and Colombia
18. drug trafficking
19. yes
20. The U.S. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
366 | Gibraltar ( , or other permutations; ) is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It has an area of and shares its northern border with Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region. At its foot is a densely populated city area, home to over 30,000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities.
An Anglo-Dutch force captured Gibraltar from Spain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was subsequently ceded to Great Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During World War II it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, which is only eight miles (13 km) wide at this naval "choke point" and remains strategically important to this day with half the world's seaborne trade passing through the strait. Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, and cargo ship refuelling services.
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a major point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations as Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and again in 2002. Under the Gibraltar constitution of 2006, Gibraltar governs its own affairs, though some powers, such as defence and foreign relations, remain the responsibility of the British government.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What location is the article talking about?
2. Where is it situated?
3. What is its major landmark?"
4. What's the population there?
5. Who does it share its border with?
6. Is it a densely populated area?
7. When was it an important base?
8. for who?
9. why?
10. What is its economy famous for today?
Numbered answers: | 1. Gibraltar
2. the Iberian Peninsula
3. The Rock of Gibraltar
4. 30,000
5. Spain
6. Yes
7. During World War II
8. the Royal Navy
9. it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea
10. tourism, online gambling, financial services, and cargo ship refuelling services | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
367 | CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS
WE tramped along behind Jim and Lem till we come to the back stile where old Jim's cabin was that he was captivated in, the time we set him free, and here come the dogs piling around us to say howdy, and there was the lights of the house, too; so we warn't afeard any more, and was going to climb over, but Tom says:
"Hold on; set down here a minute. By George!"
"What's the matter?" says I.
"Matter enough!" he says. "Wasn't you expecting we would be the first to tell the family who it is that's been killed yonder in the sycamores, and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di'monds they've smouched off of the corpse, and paint it up fine, and have the glory of being the ones that knows a lot more about it than anybody else?"
"Why, of course. It wouldn't be you, Tom Sawyer, if you was to let such a chance go by. I reckon it ain't going to suffer none for lack of paint," I says, "when you start in to scollop the facts."
"Well, now," he says, perfectly ca'm, "what would you say if I was to tell you I ain't going to start in at all?"
I was astonished to hear him talk so. I says:
"I'd say it's a lie. You ain't in earnest, Tom Sawyer?"
"You'll soon see. Was the ghost barefooted?"
"No, it wasn't. What of it?"
1. Were there lights on in the house?
2. Who's house was it?
3. Did anyone greet them?
4. We they afraid to enter?
5. What do they intend to tell the family?
6. and who murdered him?
7. Did they do anything else?
8. Does Tom intend to go inside?
9. Are his intentions believable?
10. Who did they follow to the home?
11. What is pointed out about the ghost?
Numbered answers: | 1. Yes
2. Jim's
3. no
4. No
5. who has been killed.
6. rapscallions
7. Stole diamonds from the body.
8. No
9. No
10. Jim and Lem
11. He wasn't barefooted | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
368 | Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner, Lester Young, Holiday was a great influence on jazz and pop singing. Her voiced style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of controlling tempo . Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and direct approach to singing.
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, Clarence Halliday (Holiday), a musician, did not marry or live with her mother. Her mother had moved to Philadelphia when thirteen, after being driven away from her parents' home in Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore for becoming pregnant. With no support from her own parents, Holiday's mother arranged for the young Holiday to stay with her older married half sister, Eva Miller, who lived in Baltimore.
During her final period of separation from her mother, Holiday began to perform the songs she learned while working in the brothel . By early 1929, Holiday joined her mother in Harlem. Their landlady was a sharply dressed woman named Florence Williams, who ran a brothel at 151 West 140th Street. In order to live, Holiday and her mother had to work there. Holiday had not yet turned fourteen at that time. On May 2, 1929, the house was raided , and Holiday and her mother were sent to prison. After spending some time in a workhouse, her mother was released in July, followed by Holiday in October, at the age of 14.
She co-wrote a few songs, and several of them have become jazz standards, notably God Bless the Child, Don't Explain, and Lady Sings the Blues. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including Easy Living and Strange Fruit.
Her early career is hard to track down exactly. But, she later gained work singing in local jazz clubs before being spotted by a talent scout , John Hammond, in 1933, aged 18.
Her voice and recordings are loved for the depth of emotion and intensity she could bring to classic standards. Her range of voice was not the greatest, but, her extraordinary gravelly voice was soon to become very famous and influential.
She was an important icon of the jazz era and influential in the development of jazz singing. In the late 1930s she began singing a civil rights song called Strange Fruit--a song which told the tale of a lynching of a black man in the deep south. It was very controversial for that period and it was not played on radios. It was recorded for Commodore records and she performed it many times over the next 20 years.
In early 1959 she found out that she had cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor told her to stop drinking, which she did for a short time, but soon returned to heavy drinking. By May she had lost twenty pounds, friends Leonard Feather, Joe Glaser, and Allan Morrison tried to get her to check into to a hospital, she put them off.
On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York suffering from liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying, and her hospital room was raided by authorities. Police officers were stationed at the door to her room. Holiday remained under police guard at the hospital until she died from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959.Billie Holiday had difficult life experiences which influenced her attitude towards life. She experienced many violent relationships. She also became increasingly dependent on various drugs which contributed to her early death in 1959, aged just 44.
1. How old was Billie Holliday when she passed away?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. 1959 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
369 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Depleted uranium is also used as a shielding material in some containers used to store and transport radioactive materials. While the metal itself is radioactive, its high density makes it more effective than lead in halting radiation from strong sources such as radium. Other uses of depleted uranium include counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast for missile re-entry vehicles and as a shielding material. Due to its high density, this material is found in inertial guidance systems and in gyroscopic compasses. Depleted uranium is preferred over similarly dense metals due to its ability to be easily machined and cast as well as its relatively low cost. The main risk of exposure to depleted uranium is chemical poisoning by uranium oxide rather than radioactivity (uranium being only a weak alpha emitter).
The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore (pitchblende) by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials. This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of uranium to extract one gram of radium. This waste product was diverted to the glazing industry, making uranium glazes very inexpensive and abundant. Besides the pottery glazes, uranium tile glazes accounted for the bulk of the use, including common bathroom and kitchen tiles which can be produced in green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors.
1. What is used to shield radioactive waste?
2. Give an example of radioactive material it might shield
3. Is depleted uranium a metal?
4. Is it radioactive?
5. Is it dense?
6. What else is it used for?
7. Is it expensive?
8. What is the main risk of its use?
9. Who discovered radium?
10. Radium is a part of what ore?
11. What were the original uses of radium?
12. How much uranium is needed to get a gram of radium?
13. How is the waste utilized?
14. Is uranium glaze cheap?
15. What product is the glazed used upon?
16. In which colors?
Numbered answers: | 1. Depleted uranium
2. radium
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. counterweights for aircraft control surfaces
7. no
8. chemical poisoning by uranium oxide
9. Marie Curie
10. uranium ore
11. glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials
12. three tonnes
13. the glazing industry,
14. yes
15. common bathroom and kitchen tiles
16. green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
370 | A 29-year-old who admitted leaking details of a secret U.S. government program that collects massive phone and Internet data now says he doesn't want attention.
Too late, Edward Snowden. You're getting it -- on every scale, good and bad, across the Internet on social media and on every news broadcast. People of every age and range of experience, including national security experts, are weighing in on what you've done.
Some love you, others despise you. You're now a lightning rod for spirited debate surrounding government transparency versus public protection against the threat of terrorism.
Like WikiLeaks' source Bradley Manning, now on trial for leaking secrets, Snowden said he independently decided that the program was counter to American principles and should be revealed.
"There is no public oversight," he told the Guardian newspaper.
Like Manning, he went outside the system, and critics are blasting the computer expert for not airing concerns internally.
Snowden's actions have united some strange bedfellows. Left-leaning filmmaker Michael Moore and right-leaning commentator Glenn Beck tweeted that they think he's a "hero."
Democratic senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky say they're worried the government could be overreaching with the program. Opensecrets.org lists Snowden as contributing to the 2012 presidential campaign of Rand Paul's father, libertarian Ron Paul.
Dozens of Facebook pages supporting Snowden have popped up in the past day. There are at least 2 million mentions of the North Carolina native on Twitter. Comments are so wide-ranging it's hard to put a finger on one theme, but social media aggregator BuzzFeed says that the word "hero" pops up more on Twitter than "traitor."
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. North Carolina
2. a "hero."
3. the same
4. One leans left; the other leans right.
5. Twitter
6. attention.
7. A lot.
8. yes
9. yes
10. national security experts
11. published about a national information system
12. he thought the program was un American
13. collects massive phone and Internet data
14. the Guardian
15. yes
16. computer expert
17. 29
18. yes
19. 2 million times
20. "hero"
Numbered questions: | 1. Where is Snowden from?
2. What does Micheal Moore call him?
3. What about Glenn Beck?
4. Why is it odd that they agree?
5. What did they both use to say this?
6. What did Snowden not want?
7. How much is he getting?
8. Is he being talked about in the news?
9. On social media?
10. What kind of experts are giving opinions on him?
11. What did he do to get this attention?
12. Why?
13. What did the program do?
14. What media outlet did he speak to?
15. Did he make his decision alone?
16. What kind of expert is he?
17. How old is he?
18. Is public opinion split on him?
19. How many times has his name come up on Twitter?
20. What is he called most often? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
371 | Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) -- I'll Have Another cut loose on the home stretch to run down Bodemeister and earn the first Kentucky Derby wins for his rider and trainer Saturday.
I'll Have Another, with a finish of 2:01:83, earned nearly $1.5 million of the $2.2 million purse.
That's quite a payoff for a horse that was purchased last year for the modest sum of $35,000.
Jockey Mario Gutierrez, making his Derby debut, called I'll Have Another a steady competitor.
"They didn't believe (I'll Have Another) could have made it this far," Gutierrez said. "But even if they wanted me to pick (any horse in the field), I would have stayed with him."
The winner had 15-1 odds; Bodemeister was at 4-1, according to the Derby website. Dullahan, with 12-1 odds, also made a late run and finished third.
I'll Have Another defeated Bodemeister by more than one length at the 1¼-mile classic, attended by a record Churchill Downs crowd.
The 138th running was marked by a couple of other Derby firsts: It was the first victory for trainer Doug O'Neill and the first win from the No. 19 post position with a full field.
O'Neill called Gutierrez "the man" for his own performance.
"He was just so confident," O'Neill told NBC. "We had such a brilliant race."
Bob Baffert, a Derby stalwart and the trainer of Bodemeister, said he was "really proud of the way" his horse ran.
"He just came up a little tired," Baffert told NBC afterward.
Having won all three races he's participated in this year, O'Neill said he was excited for the next leg of the Triple Crown -- the 137th edition of the Preakness, set for May 19 in Baltimore. "Maryland, here we come," he said.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who won the Kentucky Derby?
2. When did he pull away?
3. Who came in second?
4. Who was the jockey?
5. Has he won the Derby before?
6. Has he raced in the Derby before?
7. What were the winning horse's odds?
8. How much did he win?
9. What was the total amount of money available?
10. What time did he finish in?
11. Who was his trainer?
12. Has he won the Derby before?
13. How many Derbys have their been?
14. Who came in third?
15. What were Dullahan's odds?
16. Was Dullahan near the front for the whole race?
17. What big race is next?
18. Which part of the Triple Crown is next?
19. What is it called?
20. When will that be?
Numbered answers: | 1. I'll Have Another
2. on the home stretch
3. Bodemeister
4. Mario Gutierrez
5. no
6. unknown
7. 15 to 1
8. 1.5 million
9. 2.2 million
10. 2 minutes and 1.83 seconds
11. Doug O'Neill
12. no
13. 138
14. Dullahan
15. 12-1
16. no
17. The Triple Crown
18. the Baltimore leg
19. the Preakness
20. May 19th | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
372 | Read the text and answer the questions.
The Southern United States (also the American South, Dixie, and the South), is a region of the United States of America. The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States, but the Deep South is fully located in the southeastern corner. Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries. While the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, they became more culturally, economically, and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states, and are often identified as part of the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast by many residents, businesses, public institutions, and private organizations. However, the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South. Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French, and Spanish American), African, and some Native American components.
1. What region of America is the article referencing?
2. What is the southern US also called?
3. Anything else?
4. Is it also referred to as the American South?
5. What states are rarely thought to be a part?
6. Are those states actually in the southern part of the country?
7. What 2 states separated in the 1800's?
8. What state allowed slavery before the Civil war?
9. Any others?
10. Did they remain in the union?
11. What event prompted the south to be more aligned with the industrial North?
12. When did this occur?
13. Is the southern ethnic heritage diversified?
14. And from what cultures do they include components of?
Numbered answers: | 1. the Southern United States
2. the South
3. Dixie
4. yes
5. Arizona and New Mexico
6. yes
7. West Virginia and Virginia
8. Delaware
9. Maryland
10. yes
11. the Civil Rights Movement
12. in the 1960s
13. yes
14. European, African, and some Native American | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
373 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was _ Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit "Mission 523 "was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of "Mission 523". "Mission523" read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood , which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point. After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. " In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is "unsociable and quite straightforward", adding that "if she disagrees with something, she will say it." Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a "tough and stubborn woman". Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.
1. What is the name of the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2. What was her work?
3. How do they call her in China?
4. Does she have a medical degree?
5. How is the malaria spread?
6. What is the name of the secret research unit?
7. How many compounds were testes around the world?
8. Which compost did the team find that was used to treat maria in China around 400 AD?
9. Did it work?
10. What did Tu Youyou find out about this compost?
11. What did Lianda say about Tu Youyou?
12. How long Fuming Liao has been working with Tu Youyou?
13. How many lives are saved because Tu Youyou?
Numbered answers: | 1. Tu Youyou
2. helping to create an anti-malaria medicine
3. she is being called the "three nos" winner:
4. No
5. Mosquitos
6. Mission 523
7. 240,000
8. sweet wormwood
9. Yes
10. heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
11. unsociable and quite straightforward
12. More than 40 years
13. millions of lives. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
374 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The moderator's chair on NBC's "Meet the Press" stood empty on Sunday in remembrance of Tim Russert, the man who had occupied it for 17 years.
The moderator's chair on NBC's "Meet the Press" stood empty Sunday in remembrance of Tim Russert.
As the show's host, Russert became a mainstay of television journalism's political talk.
He died Friday of apparent heart attack, according to the network. He was 58. The network said Russert collapsed while at work.
Colleague and former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, who broke the news about the anchor's death, spoke on Sunday the familiar first four words of the news program, "Our issues this Sunday." He noted that those were the same words Russert had been recording for the show when he collapsed and died.
"Our issue this sad Sunday morning is remembering and honoring our colleague and friend," Brokaw said.
"He said he was only the temporary custodian," of this program, which he called a national treasure, Brokaw said. "Of course, he was so much more than all that."
Brokaw sat among some of Russert's other colleagues in the front of the show's set, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin and political analysts Mary Matalin and James Carville, who is also a CNN contributor.
"This is where you separated the men from the boys," said Matalin, who is married to Carville. "You weren't a candidate until you came on this show."
A montage of clips from past years showed various politicians -- former President Bill Clinton, President Bush, former presidential candidate Ross Perot, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- sitting across the table from Russert. Watch politicians, journalists pay homage to Russert »
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who was the "Meet the Press" moderator?
2. On which network?
3. How long had he held that position?
4. Who broke the news of his death?
5. Were they colleagues?
6. How old was Russert?
7. What did he die of?
8. Where was he when he collapsed?
9. What day of the week did it happen?
10. What was he saying when he collapsed?
11. Were they the closing words of the broadcast?
12. Which Pulitzer-Prize winning author attended the memorial show?
13. Where did she sit?
14. Who sat in the moderator's chair?
15. Which day did this episode air?
16. Who called the program a national treasure?
17. DId he see himself as the permanent leader of the program?
18. What did the memorial montage show?
19. How many presidents had joined him?
20. Which ones?
Numbered answers: | 1. Tim Russert
2. NBC
3. 17 years
4. Tom Brokaw
5. Yes
6. 58
7. a heart attack
8. at work
9. Friday
10. "Our issues this Sunday."
11. no
12. Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. in the front of the show's set
14. no one
15. Sunday
16. Tim Russert
17. No
18. various politicians sitting across the table from Russert
19. two
20. Presidents Clinton and Bush | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
375 | (CNN)"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd," wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain. And the quest to find his remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say it) quixotic in a time of recession. But forensic scientists have persevered, and appear to have triumphed.
Almost 400 years after Cervantes' death, a team led by Francisco Etxeberria announced Tuesday that they were confident they had found Cervantes' coffin in the crypt of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in the Barrio de Las Letras (Literary Quarter) in Madrid. Historical records indicated Cervantes had been buried there, but the convent had been substantially rebuilt since. (Etxeberria, incidentally, performed the autopsy on former Chilean President Gen. Salvador Allende, confirming he had committed suicide.)
At a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday, Etxeberria said that while there was no mathematical proof or DNA test available to completely verify the findings, there were "many coincidences and no discrepancies" in the examination of "Osario 32," a common grave in the crypt that contained the remains of 16 people.
"We have Cervantes, represented in some form in this group of bones that are unfortunately very degraded and very fragmented," Etxeberria told national television.
The search for Cervantes' coffin -- using radar -- began last year, funded by the Madrid City Council. It first mapped more than 30 burial cavities in the walls and nearly 5 meters beneath the floor of the church. Mass spectrometry dated fragments of wood and cloth found in these cavities to the 17th century, an encouraging but far from conclusive development.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Where was Cervantes coffin found?
2. Who committed suicide?
3. How many bodies were in the tomb?
4. Who paid for the conquest for the tomb?
5. How many graves where charted?
Numbered answers: | 1. In the crypt of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid.
2. The former Chilean President Gen. Salvador Allende.
3. A common grave in the crypt contained 16 people.
4. Was funded by the Madrid City Council.
5. More than 30 burial cavities. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
376 | It's a fine day. The White family get up at seven o'clock. They have breakfast at seven forty. And then they go to the park. They take a basket of food and a carpet . The park is not far from their home, so they ride bikes there. Then they get to the park, it's half past eight. Mr. and Mrs. White are talking with each other. Their son, ted, is playing with a ball. Their daughter, Jenny, is taking photos. After about an hour, Ted and Jenny sit down to relax. At that time, they see a _ eating a pine nut in a big tree. When they see the squirrel eating, they feel hungry . They go to help their parents take the food out of the basket. Ted has a hamburger. Hamburgers are his favorite food. Jenny has an apple. Mr. and Mrs. White have some bread. They have a great time in the park.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Which family went to the park?
2. What is the son's name?
3. and the daughter's?
4. When did the family wake up?
5. When did they eat breakfast?
6. What did they have?
7. Where did they go next?
8. Did they take anything with them?
9. How did they get there?
10. Was it closeby?
11. When did they arrive?
12. Who was taking photos?
13. What was Ted doing?
14. Which animal did they see eating?
15. Who had an apple for lunch?
16. What did Ted have?
17. What about the parents?
18. and the squirrel?
19. How long did the kids play before breaking for lunch?
20. Where was the food stored when they played?
Numbered answers: | 1. The White family
2. Ted
3. Jenny
4. seven o'clock
5. seven forty
6. unknown
7. to the park
8. a basket of food and a carpet
9. they ride bikes there
10. yes
11. half past eight
12. Jenny
13. playing with a ball
14. squirrel
15. Jenny
16. a hamburger
17. They have some bread.
18. a pine nut
19. about an hour
20. in the basket | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
377 | The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km2, and a combined population of just under 70 million. Two sovereign states are located on the islands: Ireland (which covers roughly five-sixths of the island with the same name) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Isles also include three Crown Dependencies: the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, although the latter are not physically a part of the archipelago.
The oldest rocks in the group are in the north west of Scotland, Ireland and North Wales and are 2,700 million years old. During the Silurian period the north-western regions collided with the south-east, which had been part of a separate continental landmass. The topography of the islands is modest in scale by global standards. Ben Nevis rises to an elevation of only 1,344 metres (4,409 ft), and Lough Neagh, which is notably larger than other lakes on the isles, covers 390 square kilometres (151 sq mi). The climate is temperate marine, with mild winters and warm summers. The North Atlantic Drift brings significant moisture and raises temperatures 11 °C (20 °F) above the global average for the latitude. This led to a landscape which was long dominated by temperate rainforest, although human activity has since cleared the vast majority of forest cover. The region was re-inhabited after the last glacial period of Quaternary glaciation, by 12,000 BC when Great Britain was still a peninsula of the European continent. Ireland, which became an island by 12,000 BC, was not inhabited until after 8000 BC. Great Britain became an island by 5600 BC.
1. where are the oldest rocks?
2. how old ar ethey?
3. how many islands make up the british isles
4. how many independant countries are there?
5. what are they?
6. Is the topologyy massive in scale?
7. how is it described?
8. How high is Ben Nevis?
9. how big is the Lough?
10. Is the climate cold and dry?
11. what is it?
12. which makes what kihnd of conditions?
13. what effect does the north atlantic drift have?
14. how much increase?
15. what kind of plants grew naturally?
16. tropical?
17. is it there now?
18. was britain re-inhabited while it was an island?
19. when did that happen?
20. was Ireland re-inhabited before britain?
Numbered answers: | 1. in north west Scotland, Ireland, and North Wales
2. 2,700 million years old
3. more than six thousand
4. Two
5. Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6. no
7. modest by global standards.
8. 1,344 metres (4,409 ft)
9. 390 square kilometres (151 sq mi).
10. no
11. temperate marine
12. mild winters and warm summers.
13. brings moisture and raises temperatures
14. 11 °C (20 °F) above average
15. rainforest
16. no, temperate
17. no
18. yes
19. by 12,000 BC
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
378 | CHAPTER III
THE WAR BEGUN
There could be no question, after this cry from Amos Nelson, but that he and his Tory friends had in some way come to learn of what we lads would do toward aiding the Cause.
It was natural that I, suspecting Seth Jepson, should set down to his door the crime of having betrayed us to our enemies; but when I put that thought into words Archie would have none of it. He declared that however much Seth might be inclined toward Toryism, he was not such a knave as to join us with traitorous intentions in his heart.
We had made no reply to Amos Nelson, and it appeared much as if his only desire was to let us understand that he was in possession of our secret, for immediately after having taunted us he went off in the direction of Corn hill, taking his friend with him, therefore Archie and I had nothing to do except discuss the possibility of our having been betrayed, with not a little warmth but no result.
Silas was still engaged in the work of enrolling recruits, and failed to come to the rendezvous, most like believing he could be doing better service in seeking out those who would become Minute Boys, than by wagging his tongue at the city dock with us.
Because of knowing that that which we would keep private was a secret no longer, I grew disheartened, and instead of agreeing to Archie's proposition that the remainder of the day be spent in gaining yet more recruits, I turned my face homeward once more, agreeing crustily to meet those who had promised to become Minute Boys at the old ship-yard that evening.
1. Who suspected Jepson?
2. What crime did the narrator want to accuse him of?
3. Who did not agree?
4. Even though Seth supported what?
5. What was Silas doing?
6. Recruits to become what?
7. Did he join the two friends?
8. Did he think he would be more productive talking to them?
9. Where were the two friends talking?
10. What did Archie want to do with the rest of the day?
11. True or False: The narrator agreed to Archie's suggestion.
12. Where would he go that evening?
13. Who knew the secret of Archie and the narrator?
14. Amos who?
15. Where did he go off to?
16. Did he go alone?
17. Who went with him?
18. What is the name of this friend?
19. True or False: Nelson's friends are Tories.
20. What is the title of the chapter?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Amos Nelson
2. betrayed us
3. Archie
4. Toryism
5. enrolling recruits
6. Minute Boys
7. no
8. yes
9. dock
10. gaining more recruits
11. true
12. ship-yard
13. Amos
14. Nelson
15. the direction of Corn hill
16. no
17. his friend
18. unknown
19. true
20. THE WAR BEGUN | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
379 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER IV.
A DISCUSSION.
While Caleb stood upon the mole, he began to whip the water; and, in doing so, he spattered David and Dwight a little.
Dwight said, "Take care, Caleb--don't spatter us;" and he went up to him, and was going gently to take hold of his whip, to take it away. "Let me have the whip," said he.
"No," said Caleb, holding it firmly, "I want it."
"Let go of it, Dwight," said Madam Rachel.
"Why, mother, he ought to let me have it, for I went and got it for him. He would not have had it at all without me."
"You must not take it by violence," said his mother, "if you have ever so good a right to it. But did you get it for him?"
"Yes, mother; and he told a lie about it."
"O, Dwight," said his mother, "you ought not to say so. I can't think Caleb would tell a lie."
"He did, mother; he said he was sure he hung it up, when, after all, he dropped it in the water; and we agreed to leave it to you if that was not telling a lie."
"Did you know, Caleb, when you said you hung it up, that you had really left it in the water?"
"No, grandmother," said Caleb, very earnestly; "I really thought I had hung it up."
"Then it was not telling a _lie_, Dwight. A lie is told with an intention to deceive. To make it a lie it is necessary that the person who says a thing, must _know distinctly_ at the time that he says it, that it is not true; and he must say it with the particular intention to deceive. Now, Caleb did not do this."
1. who was splashed with water?
2. who else?
3. who told Dwight to let go?
4. what did he say in response?
5. what is moms name?
6. does mom think caleb is lying?
7. did caleb know he had left it in the water?
8. what is the definition of lie that is given?
9. who went and got the whip?
10. who was accused of lying?
Numbered answers: | 1. David
2. dwight
3. his mother
4. he should have it because he got it
5. Madam Rachel
6. no
7. no
8. A lie is told with an intention to deceive
9. dwight
10. caleb | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
380 | Nature Love
Yolanda loves nature. She loves trees, flowers, grass, singing birds, the sky, and even the wind. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass, looking at the sky, and listening to the birds.
One of Yolanda's favorite things to do is to look at the shapes of the big, fluffy clouds. "That one looks like a flower. And that one looks like a boat. There's one that looks like my dog!" she says to herself. She is always surprised and happy to find a new shape.
Yolanda's most favorite thing to do is to look at the flowers and bugs that visit her place. She watches and studies all the butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, and even worms that are in her backyard.
Yolanda has a wonderful backyard. Her mother has a big, beautiful garden that she helps to take care of. This is how Yolanda is learning to grow and take care of plants. The garden makes the whole yard look beautiful and smell wonderful. And the garden brings in all kinds of amazing birds and insects.
Yolanda has lots of pictures of the birds and bugs that come into her backyard. She feels like a kid scientist. Someday, she wants to become a real scientist. Then she can learn all about plants, bugs and nature.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. her garden
2. it's beautiful
3. learns and takes care of plants
4. birds and insects
5. No.
6. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass
7. because she likes the clouds
8. find the shape
9. scientist
10. learn about plants, bugs and nature.
11. butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, worms
Numbered questions: | 1. Where is one of Yolanda's favorite places to be?
2. What does she like about it?
3. What does she do with it?
4. What is attracted to the garden?
5. Is she afraid of any of the insects?
6. What else does she like to do outside?
7. Why?
8. What game does she play when she looks at them?
9. What does she want to be when she grows up/
10. Why?
11. What insects does she like to explore now? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
381 | CHAPTER XLII.
GEORGE II. A.D. 1725--1760.
The reign of George II. was a very warlike one. Indeed he was the last king of England who ever was personally in a battle; and, curiously enough, this battle--that of Fontenoy--was the last that a king of France also was present in. It was, however, not a very interesting battle; and it was not clear who really won it, nor are wars of this time very easy to understand.
The battle of Fontenoy was fought in the course of a great war to decide who would be emperor of Germany, in which France and England took different sides; and this made Charles Edward Stuart, the eldest son of James, think it was a good moment for trying once again to get back the crown of his forefathers. He was a fine-looking young man, with winning manners, and a great deal more spirit than his father: and when he landed in Scotland with a very few followers, one Highland gentleman after another was so delighted with him that they all brought their clans to join him, and he was at the head of quite a large force, with which he took possession of the town of Edinburgh; but he never could take the castle. The English army was most of it away fighting in Germany, and the soldiers who met him at Prestonpans, close to Edinburgh, were not well managed, and were easily beaten by the Highlanders. Then he marched straight on into England: and there was great terror, for the Highlanders--with their plaids, long swords, and strange language--were thought to be all savage robbers, and the Londoners expected to have every house and shop ruined and themselves murdered: though on the whole the Highlanders behaved very well. They would probably have really entered London if they had gone on, and reached it before the army could come home, but they grew discontented and frightened at being so far away from their own hills; and at Derby. Charles Edward was obliged to let them turn back to Scotland.
Answer the following questions:
1. When did George the II live?
2. Was he royalty?
3. What was his title?
4. of what country?
5. Did he ever fight a battle?
6. Which one?
7. Who were the English fighting?
8. Did they win?
9. Why were they fighting?
10. What was unique about this particular battle concerning the participants?
11. While the English and French and Germans were fighting who was leading the scots?
12. Who was his father?
13. Was he old?
14. How did they dress for battle?
15. Where did they march to?
16. Were the English frightened of them?
17. Why?
18. How did they really act?
19. Were they successful in taking over England?
20. Why not?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1725 to 1760
2. Yes
3. king
4. England
5. Yes
6. Fontenoy
7. France
8. That is not clear
9. To decide the emperor of Germany
10. The kings of England and France were in it.
11. Charles Edward Stuart
12. James
13. No
14. In plaids
15. Into England
16. Yes
17. They thought the Highlanders savage robbers
18. Very well
19. No
20. They went home | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
382 | Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER ELEVEN.
A CONSULTATION, A FEAST, AND A PLOT.
There was--probably still is--a coffee-tavern in Gorleston where, in a cleanly, cheerful room, a retired fisherman and his wife, of temperance principles, supplied people with those hot liquids which are said to cheer without inebriating.
Here, by appointment, two friends met to discuss matters of grave importance. One was Bob Lumsden, the other his friend and admirer Pat Stiver. Having asked for and obtained two large cups of coffee and two slices of buttered bread for some ridiculously small sum of money, they retired to the most distant corner of the room, and, turning their backs on the counter, began their discussion in low tones.
Being early in the day, the room had no occupants but themselves and the fisherman's wife, who busied herself in cleaning and arranging plates, cups, and saucers, etcetera, for expected visitors.
"Pat," said Bob, sipping his coffee with an appreciative air, "I've turned a total abstainer."
"W'ich means?" inquired Pat.
"That I don't drink nothin' at all," replied Bob.
"But you're a-drinkin' now!" said Pat.
"You know what I mean, you small willain; I drink nothin' with spirits in it."
"Well, I don't see what you gains by that, Bob, for I heerd Fred Martin say you was nat'rally `full o' spirit,' so abstainin' 'll make no difference."
"Pat," said Bob sternly, "if you don't clap a stopper on your tongue, I'll wollop you."
Pat became grave at once. "Well, d'ee know, Bob," he said, with an earnest look, "I do b'lieve you are right. You've always seemed to me as if you had a sort o' dissipated look, an' would go to the bad right off if you gave way to drink. Yes, you're right, an' to prove my regard for you I'll become a total abstainer too--but, nevertheless, I _can't_ leave off drinkin'."
1. Who met?
2. Why?
3. Where did they meet
4. In what city?
5. In what kind of room
6. Was this an appointment?
7. What was one of their names?
8. The other?
9. What were they drinking?
10. What were they eating?
11. Was Bob an abstainer
12. What does that mean
13. Drink what?
Numbered answers: | 1. two friends
2. to discuss matters of grave importance
3. a coffee-tavern
4. Gorleston
5. cheerful room
6. yes
7. Bob Lumsden
8. Pat Stiver
9. coffee
10. slices of buttered bread
11. yes
12. That he doesn't drink
13. drink nothin' with spirits in it | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
383 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
John was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine on 24 December 1166. Henry had inherited significant territories along the Atlantic seaboard—Anjou, Normandy and England—and expanded his empire by conquering Brittany. Henry married the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, who reigned over the Duchy of Aquitaine and had a tenuous claim to Toulouse and Auvergne in southern France, in addition to being the former wife of Louis VII of France. The result was the Angevin Empire, named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers.[nb 2] The Empire, however, was inherently fragile: although all the lands owed allegiance to Henry, the disparate parts each had their own histories, traditions and governance structures. As one moved south through Anjou and Aquitaine, the extent of Henry's power in the provinces diminished considerably, scarcely resembling the modern concept of an empire at all. Some of the traditional ties between parts of the empire such as Normandy and England were slowly dissolving over time. It was unclear what would happen to the empire on Henry's death. Although the custom of primogeniture, under which an eldest son would inherit all his father's lands, was slowly becoming more widespread across Europe, it was less popular amongst the Norman kings of England. Most believed that Henry would divide the empire, giving each son a substantial portion, and hoping that his children would continue to work together as allies after his death. To complicate matters, much of the Angevin empire was held by Henry only as a vassal of the King of France of the rival line of the House of Capet. Henry had often allied himself with the Holy Roman Emperor against France, making the feudal relationship even more challenging.
1. Who is John's mom?
2. And his dad?
3. What country was he from?
4. When was he born?
5. What oceanic regions did Henry have?
6. How many is that?
7. What region did he add to that?
8. How?
9. Where did his mom reign?
10. Did she have a strong claim to Toulouse?
11. Who was her previous husband?
12. Where was he from?
13. What was created when Henry and Eleanor wed?
14. Was Henry the Duke of Anjou?
15. What was he?
16. How did he get that title?
17. Was the empire strong?
18. Why not?
Numbered answers: | 1. Eleanor of Aquitaine
2. Henry II
3. England
4. Dec 24 1166
5. Anjou, Normandy and England
6. Three
7. Brittany
8. by conquering it
9. the Duchy of Aquitaine
10. it was tenuous
11. Louis VII
12. France.
13. the Angevin Empire
14. no
15. Count of Anjou
16. its his paternal title
17. no
18. each part had a different history | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
384 | (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term Sunday, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as one of the most stable democracies in Africa.
The incumbent
Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after multiple unsuccessful runs. One of the continent's oldest leaders, the French-trained lawyer also has a degree in economics. He is seeking a third term against a crowded field of 13 others, including two women.
He was initially credited with boosting the nation's infrastructure, but his critics have accused him of autocracy and said he is grooming his son to take over after him.
Others have accused the leader of grandiose investments, including a costly towering monument near the capital of Dakar that sparked criticism in a country where poverty is still rife.
Other contenders include Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Moustapha Niasse and Macky Sall, the latter of whom considered Wade a mentor.
Why are protesters against his run?
Senegalese protesters have taken to the streets nationwide since Wade won a court bid to run for a third term despite a constitutional limit mandating two terms. Wade successfully argued that he is exempt because he took office before the term limit was put in place.
Wade is among a list of elderly leaders clinging to power in sub-Saharan Africa despite demands for them to step down. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used his recent 88th birthday to lash out at critics and vowed to run for re-election.
The opposition has said it will protest if Wade wins, but analysts say a lack of cohesion among foes and a system that favors the incumbent make it harder to unseat Wade, who is nicknamed the "hare" for his shrewd politics.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who is the current president of Senegal?
2. How old is he?
3. Since when has he been president?
4. Is he running again?
5. How many terms has he had so far?
6. Is everyone in favor of his next term?
7. Why not?
8. Is it allowed to have more than two terms in Senegal?
9. So why can Wade run?
10. Is he the oldest leader in Africa?
11. Who is older?
12. Where is he president?
13. How old is he?
14. What is Wade's nickname?
15. Why?
16. What did Wade study?
17. anything else?
18. How many people is he running against?
19. Are they all men?
20. How many are women?
Numbered answers: | 1. Abdoulaye Wade
2. 85
3. since 2000
4. Yes
5. two
6. No
7. his critics have accused him of autocracy and said he is grooming his son to take over after him
8. No
9. he is exempt because he took office before the term limit was put in place
10. No
11. Robert Mugabe
12. Zimbabwe
13. 88
14. the "hare"
15. for his shrewd politics
16. economics
17. law
18. 13
19. no
20. two | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
385 | (CNN) -- Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson carded a solid 69 in the opening round of the WGC-CA Championship but it was his highly unusual recovery shot on the 12th on the Blue Monster course at Doral which raised more than a few eyebrows.
Stenson did not leave much to the imagination with his Doral antics.
Stenson stripped down to the bare essentials -- a pair of white boxer shorts -- before wading into the mud to hack out his ball after an wayward tee shot.
The watching galleries could hardly believe their eyes as the tall Swede peeled off his clothes.
"Shirt, trousers, socks, shoes, hat, the lot was off," he told the Press Association.
"Because of the mud I couldn't really afford to play in any of my clothes as they would have been a real mess down the last six or so holes so I had no option," Stenson explained.
After getting the ball back on to the fairway, Stenson eventually made a one-over par bogey on the hole when he could have dropped at least two shots by taking a drop.
"If you are saving a shot, that has to be worth taking your shirt and trousers," he added.
What do you think of Stenson's cheeky recovery shot ?
The incident proved the main talking point on the day that Tiger Woods made his return to strokeplay golf and 32-year-old Stenson jokingly said it might offer a new avenue for sponsorships.
"Absolutely, you never know, after this I might have a new endorsement with PlayGirl or something like that."
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. What kind of golf did Tiger Woods come back to?
2. What was being held that day?
3. Who carded 69 in the first round?
4. Where were they playing?
5. What was the name of the course?
6. What did Stenson retrieve?
7. From where?
8. What did he do before going in?
9. What did he leave on?
10. What color?
11. Why did he do that?
12. Could he play in muddy clothes?
13. What did he take off?
14. Did he feel like he had to?
15. What does he feel is worth it?
16. What did he think he might get after that?
17. with who?
18. how old is he?
19. Was everyone talking about it?
20. How did the galleries feel?
Numbered answers: | 1. strokeplay
2. WGC-CA Championship
3. Henrik Stenson
4. Doral
5. the Blue Monster
6. the ball
7. the mud
8. stripped
9. boxer shorts
10. white
11. Because of the mud
12. no
13. Shirt, trousers, socks, shoes, hat
14. yes
15. saving a shot
16. an endorsement
17. Playgirl
18. 32
19. yes
20. stunned | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
386 | James is going to the baseball field with his friend Tommy.
James has to practice because baseball season starts in a week.
He wants to be a good player when the season starts.
James has been lazy in practicing so he is not very good at baseball right now.
He has to make up for it by playing baseball for 5 hours every day for a week.
James thinks this is enough practice for him to catch up and be a good player when the season starts.
So James and Tommy practice every day. They throw the ball around. They practice batting and they practice fielding.
Tommy begins to see that James is getting better every day. He says "I do not believe it, James, but I think you are going to be pretty good when the season starts!"
Usually a week is not enough time to get pretty good at baseball but James is practicing so much he is fitting a month of practice into one week.
Then James has a setback. His glove rips during practice. He can't keep playing with a broken glove!
So Tommy and James go around town collecting bottles to trade in for five cents for each bottle.
James misses a day of practicing but they find enough bottles to turn in for thirty dollars.
This is enough money for James to buy a new glove!
So James buys a new glove and he and Tommy go back to the field and practice some more.
By the time the season comes James is one of the best players on his team.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Where was James going?
2. Who with?
3. Why were they going their?
4. When did their season start?
5. Is james a good player?
6. Does he want to be?
7. What is he going to do to improve?
8. What do they do to practice?
9. Does this help james get better?
10. Does Tommy notice?
11. Does he tell him so?
12. Did he have any set backs?
13. What was it?
14. Did they do anything to fix this?
15. What was it?
16. How much did they make collecting them?
17. Was it enough money for a new glove?
18. What did they do after they bought the new glove?
Numbered answers: | 1. the baseball field
2. his friend Tommy.
3. to practice baseball
4. in a week
5. No
6. Yes
7. practicing 5 hours a day for a week
8. They throw the ball around. They practice batting and they practice fielding
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. a broken glove
14. Yes
15. To collect bottle caps?
16. thirty dollars
17. Yes
18. Practiced more | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
387 | Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2008, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S. visitors in May 2009, though Myspace generated $800 million in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of March 2017, Myspace was ranked 3,178 by total Web traffic, and 1,650 in the United States.
Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. Despite an overall decline, in 2015 Myspace still had 50.6 million unique monthly visitors and has a pool of nearly 1 billion active and inactive registered users.
In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million. On February 11, 2016 it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been bought by Time Inc.
1. What is myspace?
2. Who owns it?
3. Since when?
4. When was it the largest social site?
5. Who owned it at that time?
6. How much did they pay for it?
7. Are they still the largest?
8. Who is?
9. Where are they located now?
10. How much did Time pay?
11. Did they influence anything?
12. What?
13. What companies did they help launch?
14. How big was their pool in 2015?
Numbered answers: | 1. a social networking website
2. Time Inc.
3. February 11, 2016
4. From 2005 to 2008
5. News Corporation
6. $580 million
7. No
8. Facebook
9. Hills, California
10. unknown
11. Yes
12. pop culture and music
13. Zynga and RockYou
14. nearly 1 billion active and inactive registered users | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
388 | (CNN) -- Asian football chief Mohammed Bin Hammam will be Sepp Blatter's only opponent in the forthcoming FIFA presidential elections, the sport's governing body confirmed on Monday.
The 75-year-old Blatter, who has held office since 1998, will go head-to-head with the Qatari on June 1 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Elias Figueroa, a former international defender for Chile, had intended to put himself forward for the role but announced last week there was not enough time for a credible campaign to be launched.
American journalist Grant Wahl said earlier this year he was hoping to stand, but it was more a ploy to raise awareness about what he called the "need for change" at an organization which has earned $4.189 billion over the last four years than a realistic challenge to Blatter's supremacy.
Marvelous Mourinho record falls -- but will it ever be beaten?
Africa's Issa Hayatou was the last candidate to run against the Swiss when he was defeated in the 2002 ballot, which came after a campaign of accusations of financial mismanagement at FIFA.
Bin Hammam, a FIFA executive committee member and president of the Asian Football Confederation, told CNN last month that the time had arrived for change in the organization after more than a decade under the stewardship of the Swiss.
Blatter, who has been involved with FIFA since 1975, announced at a recent UEFA congress in Paris this will be his last term as president if he is elected for another four years at the helm.
Blatter plans final term as Bin Hammam calls for change
1. Who is the FIFA president?
2. Is there an election coming up?
3. Is it for his position?
4. When did he first get the job?
5. How old is he?
6. Is someone running against him?
7. Who?
8. Where is he the chief?
9. When is the election?
10. Where?
11. When did Blatter first get into the organization?
12. Does he plan to run anymore after this?
13. Where did he reveal this?
14. Where was that?
15. Who is Elias Figueroa?
16. Was he considering running?
17. Why isn't he on the ballot?
18. Who is Grant Wahl?
19. Did he think about running?
20. Was he serious?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Sepp Blatter
2. yes
3. yes
4. 1998
5. 75
6. yes
7. Mohammed Bin Hammam
8. Asia
9. June 1
10. Switzerland
11. 1975
12. no
13. a UEFA congress
14. Paris
15. a defender for Chile
16. yes
17. not enough time to campaign
18. a journalist
19. yes
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
389 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER 10.
THE OTHER PROFESSOR.
"We were looking for you!" cried Sylvie, in a tone of great relief. "We do want you so much, you ca'n't think!"
"What is it, dear children?" the Professor asked, beaming on them with a very different look from what Uggug ever got from him.
"We want you to speak to the Gardener for us," Sylvie said, as she and Bruno took the old man's hands and led him into the hall.
"He's ever so unkind!" Bruno mournfully added. "They's all unkind to us, now that Father's gone. The Lion were much nicer!"
"But you must explain to me, please," the Professor said with an anxious look, "which is the Lion, and which is the Gardener. It's most important not to get two such animals confused together. And one's very liable to do it in their case--both having mouths, you know--"
"Doos oo always confuses two animals together?" Bruno asked.
"Pretty often, I'm afraid," the Professor candidly confessed. "Now, for instance, there's the rabbit-hutch and the hall-clock." The Professor pointed them out. "One gets a little confused with them--both having doors, you know. Now, only yesterday--would you believe it?--I put some lettuces into the clock, and tried to wind up the rabbit!"
"Did the rabbit go, after oo wounded it up?" said Bruno.
The Professor clasped his hands on the top of his head, and groaned. "Go? I should think it did go! Why, it's gone? And where ever it's gone to--that's what I ca'n't find out! I've done my best--I've read all the article 'Rabbit' in the great dictionary--Come in!"
1. Who was much nicer?
2. Who do Sylvie and Bruno want to talk to the gardener?
3. Who were Sylvie and Bruno looking for?
4. Who does Bruno say is unkind?
5. And who is gone now, according to Bruno?
6. What did the Professor say he gets confused about?
7. What did he say he put into the clock yesterday?
8. And what did he try to do with the rabbit?
9. Was the professor young?
10. Where did Sylvie and Bruno lead him?
11. What did he say is important not to do?
12. How often did he say he does that?
13. What did he mistake the rabbit-hutch for?
14. Why?
15. What did he say he can't figure out?
16. What did he say he read in the dictionary?
17. How old was Bruno?
18. What day did the professor say he put lettuces in the clock?
19. And why was one liable to mistake a Gardener for a Lion?
20. Where did he put his hands after Bruno asked him about the rabbit?
Numbered answers: | 1. The Lion
2. "We do want you so much, you ca'n't think
3. the professor
4. the Gardener
5. Father
6. which is the Lion, and which is the Gardener
7. lettuces
8. wind up
9. no
10. the hall.
11. to get two such animals confused
12. often
13. the hall-clock
14. both have doors
15. if the rabbit went?
16. Rabbit'
17. unknown
18. yesterday
19. both having mouths,
20. on the top of his head | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
390 | Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy, well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean's family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely. So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous , talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often. Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself. He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other. When Jean's father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their own rock singer. But when she knocked on David's door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. QQ.
2. she is lonely
3. Jean's family is busy
4. Yes
5. Linda
6. a lot
7. Yes
8. David
9. Jim.
10. They were Ok with it
11. Yes
12. Not sure
13. rock music and modern dance.
14. unknown
Numbered questions: | 1. What messaging tool does Jean use?
2. Why does she use it?
3. Why?
4. Do they make a lot of cash?
5. What's her username on the messenger?
6. How many friends does she have?
7. Has she had any serious relationships on it?
8. What was his name?
9. What about his real name?
10. What did Jean's parents think of the relationship?
11. Did David send her an image?
12. Did she send him one?
13. What did they mostly chat about?
14. What was Jean's reaction to his true identity? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
391 | CHAPTER XVII. THREE DAYS
Lincoln awaited Graham in an apartment beneath the flying stages. He seemed curious to learn all that had happened, pleased to hear of the extraordinary delight and interest which Graham took in flying Graham was in a mood of enthusiasm. "I must learn to fly," he cried. "I must master that. I pity all poor souls who have died without this opportunity. The sweet swift air! It is the most wonderful experience in the world."
"You will find our new times full of wonderful experiences," said Lincoln. "I do not know what you will care to do now. We have music that may seem novel."
"For the present," said Graham, "flying holds me. Let me learn more of that. Your aeronaut was saying there is some trades union objection to one's learning."
"There is, I believe," said Lincoln. "But for you--! If you would' like to occupy yourself with that, we can make you a sworn aeronaut tomorrow."
Graham expressed his wishes vividly and talked of his sensations for a while. "And as for affairs," he asked abruptly. "How are things going on?"
Lincoln waved affairs aside. "Ostrog will tell you that tomorrow," he said. "Everything is settling down. The Revolution accomplishes itself all over the world. Friction is inevitable here and there, of course; but your rule is assured. You may rest secure with things in Ostrog's hands."
"Would it be possible for me to be made a sworn aeronaut, as you call it, forthwith--before I sleep?" said Graham, pacing. "Then I could be at it the very first thing tomorrow again.
Answer the following questions:
1. Where was Lincoln?
2. where?
3. who was he waiting for?
4. what mood was Grahm in?
5. what did he want to do?
6. Did he want to be an amatuer?
7. what was novel?
8. How did he feel about others that did not experience this?
9. how did he feel about it?
10. what held Grahm?
11. What could happen tomorrow?
12. who said that?
13. How were affairs?
14. will he learn about them?
15. by who?
16. what is inevitable?
17. where?
18. Can he be sound?
19. how?
20. What did Grahm want?
Numbered answers: | 1. an apartment
2. beneath the flying stages
3. Graham
4. enthusiasm
5. to fly
6. no
7. music
8. pity
9. the most wonderful experience in the world."
10. flying
11. make him a sworn aeronaut
12. Lincoln
13. Lincoln waved affairs aside.
14. yes
15. Ostrog
16. Friction
17. here and there
18. yes
19. in Ostrog's hands."
20. to be an aeronaut | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
392 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Anny was a five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were in a department store , Anny saw a plastic pearl necklace . What a beautiful necklace! She wanted it very much, so she begged her mother to buy it for her. The mother said, "Well, I can buy you the necklace, but when we get home, we should discuss what you can do to pay for it. Can we do that?" Anny agreed with much happiness, and she got the necklace. How much Anny loved the necklace! She wore it everywhere and every minute. Anny also did part - time jobs to make pocket money. She worked very hard. Soon she succeeded in paying off the price for the necklace. Anny's daddy knew how she tried her best to get the necklace. He also knew how much Anny cared about it. One night, he asked Anny if she loved him. "Sure, Daddy." the little girl said. "Then how about giving me your necklace?" "Oh, no, Daddy! Not my necklace!" Anny cried. "Oh, dear, it's fine." her father gave her a kiss. Several days later, Anny went to her daddy, with her lips trembling . "Here, Daddy. I love you." She held out her hand. Inside it was the plastic pearl necklace that she loved so much. When he saw this, Anny's father smiled with surprise. He then pulled a cute box out of his pocket. Inside the box was a real and colourful pearl necklace, which was waiting for Anny for so long.
1. What did the girl do when she saw a piece of jewelry?
2. for who?
3. what kind of jewelry?
4. what kind?
5. was it real pearls?
6. then what kind?
7. where were they??
8. how old was the girl?
9. what was her name?
10. did her mom agree to get the necklace?
11. was there a condition?
12. what?
13. did Anny agree?
14. how often did she wear it?
15. where?
16. did she pay it back?
17. how?
18. what did her dad want her to give him?
19. what did she say?
20. did she ever give it to him?
Numbered answers: | 1. begged her mother to buy it
2. for herself
3. a necklace
4. pearl
5. no
6. plastic
7. in a department store
8. five
9. Anny
10. yes
11. yes
12. later they'd discuss how Anny could pay for it
13. yes
14. every minute
15. everywhere
16. yes
17. did part - time jobs
18. her necklace
19. "Oh, no, Daddy! Not my necklace!"
20. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
393 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
(CNN) -- Garth Brooks is still holding out hope he can do shows in Ireland despite the Dublin city council saying no to two of them.
Brooks told the Irish promoter after the city's approval of just three shows he would wait "to the last second" before sending his crew and gear back the the United States.
"I cannot begin to tell you how badly my heart is breaking right now," the singer wrote in a note to Aiken Promotions on Tuesday. Brooks' rep on Wednesday provided CNN a copy of the note.
The Dublin shows had been planned for Croke Park Stadium, a football arena that can hold more than 90,000 fans, on five consecutive nights during the last week of July. The council approved Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows, but rejected licenses for Monday and Tuesday night concerts.
The promoter, saying Brooks insisted on five shows or none at all, announced Tuesday that all concerts of "The Garth Brooks Comeback Special Event" were canceled and the 400,000 tickets sold would be refunded.
A measure of the demand to see Brooks perform live is impressive, considering the 400,000 tickets sold represent nearly one of every 10 people in the Republic of Ireland's 4.5 million population.
"I hope you understand that to play for 400,000 people would be a dream, but to tell 160,000 of those people that they are not welcome would be a nightmare," Brooks wrote. "To do what the city manager suggests (play three shows and not all five) means I agree that is how people should be treated and I just can't agree with that."
1. who will wait for the last moment ?
2. and the first mane ?
3. why is he holding out hope ?
4. despite what council ?
5. how many did they turn down ?
6. how many tickets were sold ?
7. was it all given back ?
8. where did the send the crew back to ?
9. what else went back ?
10. who did he write a note to ?
11. on what day ?
12. when did cnn get it ?
13. how many shows were spproved ?
14. what days ?
15. what days were no approved ?
16. day or night ?
17. how many could the arena hold ?
18. on hoe many night straight ?
19. when ?
20. of what month ?
Numbered answers: | 1. Brooks
2. Garth
3. he can do shows in Ireland
4. Dublin city
5. two
6. 400,000
7. yes
8. United States
9. gear
10. Aiken Promotions
11. Tuesday
12. Wednesday
13. Three
14. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
15. Monday and Tuesday
16. night
17. 90,000
18. five consecutive
19. during the last week
20. July | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
394 | George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of wrongly killing Trayvon Martin, will not immediately have to turn over donations made to his website, a Florida judge said Friday.
Zimmerman collected about $204,000 in donations through the website, but did not disclose the contributions during his bond hearing last week, according to his attorney, Mark O'Mara. Prosecutors had asked for a bond of $1 million, but Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. made it $150,000 after Zimmerman's family testified they did not have the resources necessary to meet the higher level.
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda on Friday asked Lester to increase the bond in light of the donations. But the judge said he would delay ruling on the request, in part because he does not know if he has authority to say how the money can be used.
Lester and O'Mara both said they are concerned about releasing the names of donors to Zimmerman, who has faced threats since the case began making national headlines in March.
Zimmerman, 28, was released Monday on $150,000 bail, 10% of which was put up to secure his release while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge in Martin's February 26 death.
About $5,000 from the website contribution was used in making bond, O'Mara said. The rest came from a loan secured by a family home.
Although Zimmerman spent some of the contributions on living expenses, about $150,000 remains, O'Mara said Friday. O'Mara said he has put the money into a trust he controls until a final decision is made about its use.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who received money?
2. What platform did he receive them on?
3. Around how much did he get?
4. And can he keep it for now?
5. What is the man being sought after for?
6. And who was the victim?
7. Is the sought after man still in custody?
8. Why?
9. When?
10. Did he have to pay to be removed from custody?
11. For how much?
12. Was there a different payment amount proposed first?
13. How much was it?
14. Who lowered the amount?
15. Why'd he do that?
Numbered answers: | 1. Zimmerman
2. website
3. about $204,000
4. yes
5. accused
6. Trayvon Martin
7. no
8. was released
9. Monday
10. yes
11. $150,000
12. yes
13. 10%
14. the judge
15. to secure his release | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
395 | Mabel's aunt wanted to give her the best birthday present ever. So the day after Mabel's birthday, her aunt brought her to the pet store! Mabel had been asking her aunt for a pet for a very long time. Many of her friends had pets, and she wanted one too. Her friend Faith had a hamster named Peaches. Bobby had a rat named Hugo! Melissa had two snakes and a lizard! Heather had a fish bowl with three fish. Mabel couldn't wait to get her pet and tell her friends all about it. At the pet store, Mabel and her aunt looked at all the animals they had. They saw puppies, kittens, fish, turtles, frogs, and bunnies. Mabel saw a cute black puppy that she thought she might like. There was also a white kitten with blue eyes. But then Mabel saw a gray bunny who was fluffy and soft, and she knew that she wanted the bunny as her pet. Her aunt helped her buy the bunny. They also got everything they needed for the bunny. They got a cage, a water bowl, and bunny food. Mabel named her new bunny Fluffy. Mabel thanked her aunt, and she had the best birthday ever!
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. What id Mabels Aunt want to give her?
2. So what did she do?
3. Had Mabel been asking for a pet?
4. For how long?
5. Did any of her friends have pets?
6. What kind of pet did her friend Faith have?
7. What was it's name?
8. What kind of pet did her firend Bobby have?
9. and what was it's name?
10. How many snakes did Melissa have?
11. Did Milissa have any other pets?
12. Who had a fish bowl with three fish?
13. What kind of pets did Mable and her aunt see?
14. What color was the puppy she thought she might like be?
15. What was they grey bunnies fur like?
16. Which one did she want as a pet?
17. What did she get that she needed for the bunny?
18. What did she end up naming the bunny?
Numbered answers: | 1. the best birthday present ever
2. brought her to the pet store
3. yes
4. a very long time
5. Yes
6. a hamster
7. Peaches
8. a rat
9. a rat named Hugo
10. two
11. a lizard
12. Heather
13. puppies, kittens, fish, turtles, frogs, and bunnies
14. black
15. fluffy and soft
16. The bunny
17. a cage, a water bowl, and bunny food
18. Fluffy | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
396 | New York (CNN) -- A 35-year-old woman on a first date plummeted to her death early Thursday morning when she fell from the balcony of her 17th floor New York City apartment.
Jennifer Rosoff went outside on her balcony around 12:50 a.m. Thursday to talk and smoke a cigarette with her date when the balcony's railing broke, according to police.
It's unclear whether Rosoff leaned on the balcony, causing it to give way.
She landed on a second-story construction scaffolding of the building and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Rosoff's employer, online advertising startup TripleLift, released a statement expressing sorrow at the news of her death.
"We are all deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of our dear friend and co-worker," the statement said. "Her tremendous energy and humor brought so much joy to the office."
Richard Dansereau, managing director of Stonehenge Management LLC, the company that manages the building, also released a statement.
"This is a tragedy, and our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Ms. Rosoff," he said. "We are cooperating fully with the investigation into the cause of this terrible accident."
A statement provided to CNN from the New York City Department of Buildings said the agency is investigating and issued a vacate order for all balconies in the building as a precaution.
According to her Linkedin profile, Rosoff worked as director of sales at TripleLift for the past five months and had previously held positions at The New Yorker, Conde Nast and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Man or woman?
2. Was she a positive person?
3. Did he get to third base?
4. How did her coworkers feel?
5. What was her name?
6. Did she live in a house?
7. Where did she live?
8. What level?
9. What did she do there?
Numbered answers: | 1. woman
2. Yes
3. unknown
4. deeply saddened
5. Jennifer Rosoff
6. No
7. New York City apartment
8. 17th floor
9. went outside on her balcony | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
397 | CHAPTER V.
THE NEWS FROM NARRABEE.
ARRIVED at the garden, a thought struck me. The cheerful speech and easy manner of Ambrose plainly indicated that he was ignorant thus far of the quarrel which had taken place under my window. Silas might confess to having taken his brother's stick, and might mention whose head he had threatened with it. It was not only useless, but undesirable, that Ambrose should know of the quarrel. I retraced my steps to the stable-yard. Nobody was at the gate. I called alternately to Silas and to Ambrose. Nobody answered. The brothers had gone away to their work.
Returning to the garden, I heard a pleasant voice wishing me "Good-morning." I looked round. Naomi Colebrook was standing at one of the lower windows of the farm. She had her working apron on, and she was industriously brightening the knives for the breakfast-table on an old-fashioned board. A sleek black cat balanced himself on her shoulder, watching the flashing motion of the knife as she passed it rapidly to and fro on the leather-covered surface of the board.
"Come here," she said; "I want to speak to you."
I noticed, as I approached, that her pretty face was clouded and anxious. She pushed the cat irritably off her shoulder; she welcomed me with only the faint reflection of her bright customary smile.
"I have seen John Jago," she said. "He has been hinting at something which he says happened under your bedroom window this morning. When I begged him to explain himself, he only answered, 'Ask Mr. Lefrank; I must be off to Narrabee.' What does it mean? Tell me right away, sir! I'm out of temper, and I can't wait!"
1. What did Silas take?
2. What is his brother's name?
3. Where did I search for them?
4. Who did I meet in the garden?
5. What was she wearing?
6. What creature was watching her?
7. Who has she seen?
8. What objects was Naomi readying?
9. Was she happy?
10. Where had a quarrel taken place?
11. What did Naomi do to the cat?
12. Where was John going?
13. What is my name?
Numbered answers: | 1. his brother's stick
2. Ambrose.
3. The garden and the stable yard
4. Naomi Colebrook
5. working apron
6. cat
7. John Jago
8. knives
9. No
10. under my bedroom window
11. pushed it off her shoulder
12. Narrabee
13. Mr. Lefrank | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
398 | Peter wondered why he didn't have many friends. The reason was that he was always taking, never giving. One day Peter told Bill, "I'd like to give a party on Saturday. I'd like you to come and bring Martha, too. " "Thanks, Peter. We'd be happy to come. ""Perhaps you'd like to bring your violin. You and Martha sing well together. I'm sure everyone will want you to sing for us. "That was how Peter began to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. "You make the best cake in the world, Betty, and I like to eat your cake better than have one from the bakery . "Peter invited a few other friends to come to his party. He didn't forget to ask for something from each of them. He even asked Jim Jackson and Mary Jackson to let him give the party at their house! They agreed. The party was a big success. However, as the guests were leaving, they said "Thank you! "to Bill and Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others for their hard work. To Peter they just said, "Thanks for the invitation. "
1. What did Peter ask Betty to bring?
2. What did Peter wonder?
3. What was the reason?
4. What did Peter tell Bill one day?
5. Who did he tell Bill to bring?
6. Who did the guest thank for the music?
7. Where did Peter have the party?
8. Was the party a flop?
9. What did Peter suggest Bill might like to bring?
10. How many friends did Peter invite?
11. What were the Jackson's names?
12. What did the guests thank them for?
13. What did the guests thank Peter for?
14. What did Bill and Martha do well together?
15. What did Peter not forget to do with each guest?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. a cake
2. Peter wondered why he didn't have many friends.
3. The reason was that he was always taking, never giving.
4. One day Peter told Bill, "I'd like to give a party on Saturday.
5. Martha
6. Bill and Martha
7. At the Jacksons' house
8. No
9. His violin
10. Peter invited a few other friends
11. Jim and Mary
12. the use of their house
13. the invitation
14. Sing
15. ask for something from each of them. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
399 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER X
For three weeks after his meeting with Bertrade de Montfort and his sojourn at the castle of John de Stutevill, Norman of Torn was busy with his wild horde in reducing and sacking the castle of John de Grey, a royalist baron who had captured and hanged two of the outlaw's fighting men; and never again after his meeting with the daughter of the chief of the barons did Norman of Torn raise a hand against the rebels or their friends.
Shortly after his return to Torn, following the successful outcome of his expedition, the watch upon the tower reported the approach of a dozen armed knights. Norman sent Red Shandy to the outer walls to learn the mission of the party, for visitors seldom came to this inaccessible and unhospitable fortress; and he well knew that no party of a dozen knights would venture with hostile intent within the clutches of his great band of villains.
The great red giant soon returned to say that it was Henry de Montfort, oldest son of the Earl of Leicester, who had come under a flag of truce and would have speech with the master of Torn.
"Admit them, Shandy," commanded Norman of Torn, "I will speak with them here."
When the party, a few moments later, was ushered into his presence it found itself facing a mailed knight with drawn visor.
Henry de Montfort advanced with haughty dignity until he faced the outlaw.
"Be ye Norman of Torn?" he asked. And, did he try to conceal the hatred and loathing which he felt, he was poorly successful.
1. What did the watch see heading towards them?
2. Was someone sent out to see what they wanted?
3. Who?
4. Who sent him out there?
5. Were guests a normal thing there?
6. What made it uninviting?
7. What kind of place was it?
8. Was anyone guarding it beside the knights?
9. Who?
10. So, who was the approaching party?
11. Who's he?
12. Was here there with hostile intent?
13. What had he come under?
14. What did he want?
15. Was he allowed into the fortress?
16. Did he try to disguise the disgust he felt for Norman of Tom?
17. Where did Norman of Tom go for a meeting three weeks before?
18. Who did he meet with?
19. Who went with him?
20. Who's castle did he loot?
Numbered answers: | 1. A dozen armed knights.
2. Yes.
3. Red Shandy.
4. Norman.
5. No.
6. Inaccessible and unhospitable.
7. Fortress.
8. Yes.
9. Great band of villains.
10. Henry de Montfort.
11. Oldest son of the Earl of Leicester.
12. No.
13. A flag of truce.
14. Speech with the master of Torn.
15. Yes.
16. No.
17. The castle of John de Stutevill.
18. Bertrade de Montfort.
19. His sojourn.
20. John de Grey. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
400 | (CNN) -- Closing arguments were made Friday in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations as early as midday Monday.
Hayes, 47, who has entered a plea of not guilty, is currently on trial in New Haven, Connecticut, for the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.
The killings took place in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire in the early hours of July 23, 2007. The home of Dr. William Petit, his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and two daughters was invaded in the middle of the night by Hayes and co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky, prosecutors say.
Komisarjevsky will be tried separately.
Prosecutor Michael Dearington laid out an elaborate timeline of events, fully implicating both Hayes and Komisarjevsky in the gruesome killings.
"We've reached the point where very shortly this case will be in your hands," he told jurors. "I doubt you could have comprehended how horrendous this evidence would be."
Earlier in the week, a trial witness -- a Connecticut prison officer -- testified that he overheard Hayes confess to another inmate that he killed Hawke-Petit. Hayes also reportedly wondered out loud whether Petit might have been in cahoots with his co-defendant, Komisarjevsky, because Petit had been able to escape.
Hayes said he had tied the father in the basement of the home himself, and that he doubted he could have gotten loose without help from Komisarjevsky, the witness -- Jeremiah Krob -- testified.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. New Haven
2. Three
3. Jeremiah Krob
4. Yes
5. As early as midday Monday
6. Cheshire
7. yes
8. July 23, 2007
9. Yes
10. Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky
11. No
12. Hayes
13. A Connecticut prison officer
14. Because Petit had been able to escape
15. Hayes
16. Michael Dearington
17. Yes
18. Friday
19. Yes
20. It was "elaborate," unsure if it was complicated.
Numbered questions: | 1. Where is Hayes having his court session?
2. How many murder charges is he facing?
3. Who was the eye witness who saw the crimes being committed?
4. Did Dr. Petit survive?
5. When do deliberations start?
6. Where did the killings happen?
7. Was it at night?
8. When did it happen?
9. Were there more than one perpetrators?
10. What are their names?
11. Are they on trial together?
12. Which one confessed to a cellmate?
13. Who heard him?
14. Why did he think his partner in crime might have been working with Dr. Petit?
15. Who confined Dr. Petit that night?
16. Who's prosecuting the case?
17. Does he think the killings were nightmarish?
18. When were closing arguments?
19. Did the crime start as a home invasion?
20. Was the timeline complicated? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |