Santa_Monica,_California

context: Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is named after the Christian saint, Monica. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. Santa Monica is well known for its affluent single-family neighborhoods but also has many neighborhoods consisting primarily of condominiums and apartments. Over two-thirds of Santa Monica's residents are renters. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.
qas: answers: beachfront
question: What type of city is Santa Monica?

answers: western
question: What part of Los Angeles County is it located in?

answers: Christian saint, Monica
question: What is Santa Monica named after?

answers: two-thirds
question: Approximately how many residents of Santa Monica rent their property?

answers: 89,736
question: What was the population in 2010 according to the Census Bureau?

context: Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language. The first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3, 1769. There are two different versions of the naming of the city. One says that it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica (mother of Saint Augustine), but her feast day is actually May 4. Another version says that it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs (Serra Springs), that were reminiscent of the tears that Saint Monica shed over her son's early impiety.
qas: answers: Kecheek
question: What did indigenous people that lived in Santa Monica call it previously?

answers: Tongva
question: What was the local population called indigenous to the Santa Monica Area?

answers: Gaspar de Portolà
question: What was the first explorers name that came in contact with the natives?

answers: August 3, 1769
question: What date did the explorer reach Santa Monica?

answers: May 4
question: What day is the Santa Monica Feast held on?

context: Around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in or near Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was located near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in both Santa Monica and Venice. The two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an integral economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community.
qas: answers: Asian
question: What ethic group grew in the 20th century?

answers: Chinese
question: What other ethic minority did white american's treat poorly?

answers: Japanese fishing
question: What type of Village was located on the Long Wharf?

answers: two
question: How many ethnic minorities were looked at differently in Santa Monica?

answers: economic part
question: What role did the fishing village play in Santa Monica?

context: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field (Santa Monica Airport) for the Douglas Aircraft Company. In 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes made it back, after having covered 27,553 miles (44,342 km) in 175 days, and were greeted on their return September 23, 1924, by a crowd of 200,000 (generously estimated). The Douglas Company (later McDonnell Douglas) kept facilities in the city until the 1960s.
qas: answers: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr
question: Who built a plant in Clover field?

answers: Douglas Aircraft
question: What company was the structure at Clover Field for?

answers: aerial circumnavigation of the world
question: What did Clover Field built airplanes attempt the first of?

answers: 1960s
question: The Douglas Company had facilities in Santa Monica through what decade?

answers: Two
question: How Many Planes returned from the circumnavigation in 1924?

context: Douglas's business grew astronomically with the onset of World War II, employing as many as 44,000 people in 1943. To defend against air attack set designers from the Warner Brothers Studios prepared elaborate camouflage that disguised the factory and airfield. The RAND Corporation began as a project of the Douglas Company in 1945, and spun off into an independent think tank on May 14, 1948. RAND eventually acquired a 15-acre (61,000 m²) campus centrally located between the Civic Center and the pier entrance.
qas: answers: World War II
question: What brought on the Douglas business's company growth?

answers: 44,000
question: How many people did the company employ in 1943?

answers: Warner Brothers Studios
question: The company used camouflage from what designers?

answers: RAND
question: What company started as a project in 1945?

answers: defend against air attack
question: What was the camouflage designed to do?

context: The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in 1909. The La Monica Ballroom on the pier was once the largest ballroom in the US and the source for many New Year's Eve national network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar Shop is still a leading acoustic performance space as well as retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the California Heritage Museum and the Angels Attic dollhouse and toy museum.
qas: answers: 1909
question: What year was the Sanat Monica Pier buildt?

answers: Looff Hippodrome
question: What historic landmark is located on the Pier?

answers: largest
question: La Monica Ballroom used to be what type of ballroom in the United States?

answers: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
question: Where were the Academy Awards held in the 1960's?

answers: McCabe's Guitar Shop
question: What place is still considered a prominent acoustic performance area?

context: The Downtown District is the home of the Third Street Promenade, a major outdoor pedestrian-only shopping district that stretches for three blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and Broadway (not the same Broadway in downtown and south Los Angeles). Third Street is closed to vehicles for those three blocks to allow people to stroll, congregate, shop and enjoy street performers. Santa Monica Place, featuring Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in a three-level outdoor environment, is located at the south end of the Promenade. After a period of redevelopment, the mall reopened in the fall of 2010 as a modern shopping, entertainment and dining complex with more outdoor space.
qas: answers: Downtown District
question: The Third Street Promenade is located in what part of Santa Monica?

answers: three blocks
question: How large is the Third Street Promenade?

answers: vehicles
question: What is Third Street access shut off from?

answers: Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom
question: What two major department stores are located at the Third Street Promenade?

answers: 2010
question: What year did the mall reopen?

context: Every fall the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosts The Taste of Santa Monica on the Santa Monica Pier. Visitors can sample food and drinks from Santa Monica restaurants. Other annual events include the Business and Consumer Expo, Sustainable Quality Awards, Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival, and the State of the City. The swanky Shutters on the Beach Hotel offers a trip to the famous Santa Monica Farmers Market to select and influence the materials that will become that evening's special "Market Dinner."
qas: answers: The Taste of Santa Monica
question: What event does the Chamber of commerce host in the fall?

answers: sample food and drinks
question: What can visitors do at the Taste of Santa Monica?

answers: Santa Monica Pier
question: Where is the Taste of Santa Monica held each year?

answers: Santa Monica restaurants
question: Who provides the guests with these samples at the event?

answers: The swanky Shutters
question: What hotel offers a trip to the famer's market to influence dinner?

context: Classified as a Subtropical Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb), Santa Monica enjoys an average of 310 days of sunshine a year. It is located in USDA plant hardiness zone 11a. Because of its location, nestled on the vast and open Santa Monica Bay, morning fog is a common phenomenon in May, June and early July (caused by ocean temperature variations and currents). Like other inhabitants of the greater Los Angeles area, residents have a particular terminology for this phenomenon: the "May Gray" and the "June Gloom". Overcast skies are common during June mornings, but usually the strong sun burns the fog off by noon. In the late winter/early summer, daily fog is a phenomenon too. It happens suddenly and it may last some hours or past sunset time. Nonetheless, it will sometimes stay cloudy and cool all day during June, even as other parts of the Los Angeles area enjoy sunny skies and warmer temperatures. At times, the sun can be shining east of 20th Street, while the beach area is overcast. As a general rule, the beach temperature is from 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 6 degrees Celsius) cooler than it is inland during summer days, and 5–10 degrees warmer during winter nights.
qas: answers: 310
question: Roughly how many days of sunshine does Santa Monica get annually? 

answers: 11a
question: What USDA hardiness zone is Santa Monica located in?

answers: fog
question: What commonly occurs on the mornings in May?

answers: "May Gray"
question: What have locals coined the morning time in May?

answers: 5 to 10 degrees
question: What is the beach temperature in Fahrenheit during the summer ? 

context: Santa Monica is one of the most environmentally activist municipalities in the nation. The city first proposed its Sustainable City Plan in 1992 and in 1994, was one of the first cities in the nation to formally adopt a comprehensive sustainability plan, setting waste reduction and water conservation policies for both public and private sector through its Office of Sustainability and the Environment. Eighty-two percent of the city's public works vehicles now run on alternative fuels, including nearly 100% of the municipal bus system, making it among the largest such fleets in the country. Santa Monica fleet vehicles and Buses now source their natural gas from Redeem, a Southern California-based supplier of renewable and sustainable natural gas obtained from non-fracked methane biogas generated from organic landfill waste.
qas: answers: 1992 and in 1994
question: In what two years were the first Sustainable City Plan's introduced?

answers: Eighty-two
question: What percent of the city's public work's vehicles use alternate fuels?

answers: public and private
question: Water conservation policies have been adopted by what two sectors?

answers: 100%
question: What percent of the bus systems use alternate fuels?

answers: Redeem
question: What company provides the city with natural gas?

context: An urban runoff facility (SMURFF), the first of its kind in the US, catches and treats 3.5 million US gallons (13,000 m3) of water each week that would otherwise flow into the bay via storm-drains and sells it back to end-users within the city for reuse as gray-water, while bio-swales throughout the city allow rainwater to percolate into and replenish the groundwater supply. The groundwater supply in turn plays an important role in the city's Sustainable Water Master Plan, whereby Santa Monica has set a goal of attaining 100% water independence by 2020. The city has numerous programs designed to promote water conservation among residents, including a rebate of $1.50 per square foot for those who convert water intensive lawns to more local drought-tolerant gardens that require less water.
qas: answers: (SMURFF)
question: What is the name of the urban runoff facility?

answers: 3.5 million
question: How many gallons of water does (SMURFF) treat every week?

answers: $1.50
question: How much money do residents get back for participating in water conservation per square foot?

answers: 2020
question: Santa Monica plans on water independence by what year?

answers: into the bay
question: If (SMURFF) did not collect water where would it go?

context: The city is also in the process of implementing a 5-year and 20 year Bike Action Plan with a goal of attaining 14 to 35% bicycle transportation mode share by 2030 through the installation of enhanced bicycle infrastructure throughout the city. Other environmentally focused initiatives include curbside recycling, curbside composting bins (in addition to trash, yard-waste, and recycle bins), farmers' markets, community gardens, garden-share, an urban forest initiative, a hazardous materials home-collection service, green business certification, and a municipal bus system which is currently being revamped to integrate with the soon-to-open Expo Line.
qas: answers: 2030
question: What year does the city plan on having a bicycle infrastructure?

answers: 5-year and 20
question: The city has two bike Action Plans of how many years?

answers: Expo Line
question: The city's bus system is being over hauled to work with what other program?

answers: 14 to 35%
question: What percentages does the city Bike transportation mode's target?

answers: green
question: What type of business certification do they plan on expanding?

context: There were 46,917 households, out of which 7,835 (16.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,092 (27.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,510 (7.5%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,327 (2.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 2,867 (6.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 416 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 22,716 households (48.4%) were made up of individuals and 5,551 (11.8%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.87. There were 17,929 families (38.2% of all households); the average family size was 2.79.
qas: answers: 2.79
question: What was the total average family size?

answers: 48.4%
question: What percent of households were made of one person?

answers: 11.8%
question: What percent of households had someone over 65 living in it?

answers: 416
question: Roughly how many same-sex couples were there?

answers: 16.7%
question: What percent of household have children under 18?

context: As of the census of 2000, there are 84,084 people, 44,497 households, and 16,775 families in the city. The population density is 10,178.7 inhabitants per square mile (3,930.4/km²). There are 47,863 housing units at an average density of 5,794.0 per square mile (2,237.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 78.29% White, 7.25% Asian, 3.78% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 5.97% from other races, and 4.13% from two or more races. 13.44% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 44,497 households, out of which 15.8% have children under the age of 18, 27.5% are married couples living together, 7.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 62.3% are non-families. 51.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.83 and the average family size is 2.80.
qas: answers: 84,084
question: How many citizen's were in the year 2000 census?

answers: 16,775
question: How many urban families were there?

answers: 10,178.7
question: What is the population density per square mile?

answers: 2.80
question: From 2000 what was the average family size?

answers: 15.8%
question: What percent in the 2000 census had persons under the age of 18?

context: Santa Monica College is a junior college originally founded in 1929. Many SMC graduates transfer to the University of California system. It occupies 35 acres (14 hectares) and enrolls 30,000 students annually. The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, associated with the RAND Corporation, is the U.S.'s largest producer of public policy PhDs. The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles is also located in Santa Monica near the Santa Monica Airport. Universities and colleges within a 22-mile (35 km) radius from Santa Monica include Santa Monica College, Antioch University Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Mount St. Mary's College, Pepperdine University, California State University, Northridge, California State University, Los Angeles, UCLA, USC, West Los Angeles College, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Occidental College (Oxy), Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Valley College, and Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.
qas: answers: 1929
question: What year was the Santa Monica junior college founded?

answers: 35
question: How many acres of land is the Santa Monica Junior College?

answers: Airport
question: By what area is the Art institute in Santa Monica?

answers: 22-mile
question: There are a plethora of colleges and universities within what radius of Santa Monica?

answers: 30,000
question: How many students enroll to the SMC annually?  

context: Santa Monica has a bike action plan and recently launched a Bicycle sharing system in November 2015. The city is traversed by the Marvin Braude Bike Trail. Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award (Bronze in 2009, Silver in 2013) by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bicycle advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Santa Monica is thought to be one of the leaders for bicycle infrastructure and programming in Los Angeles County.[citation needed]
qas: answers: bike action
question: What plan launched a Bicycle sharing system?

answers: November 2015
question: When was Santa Monica's Bicycle sharing system launched?

answers: Marvin Braude
question: What is the name of the bike trail that goes through Santa Monica?

answers: 2013
question: When was the most recent Bicycle Friendly Community Award given to Santa Monica? 

answers: 2009
question: What other year did Santa Monica receive the Bicycle Friendly Community award?

context: The Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east. The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinction of being one of the busiest highways in all of North America. After traversing Los Angeles County, I-10 crosses seven more states, terminating at Jacksonville, Florida. In Santa Monica, there is a road sign designating this route as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway. State Route 2 (Santa Monica Boulevard) begins in Santa Monica, barely grazing State Route 1 at Lincoln Boulevard, and continues northeast across Los Angeles County, through the Angeles National Forest, crossing the San Gabriel Mountains as the Angeles Crest Highway, ending in Wrightwood. Santa Monica is also the western (Pacific) terminus of historic U.S. Route 66. Close to the eastern boundary of Santa Monica, Sepulveda Boulevard reaches from Long Beach at the south, to the northern end of the San Fernando Valley. Just east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, the "San Diego Freeway", a major north-south route in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
qas: answers: Interstate 10
question: What is the name of the Santa Monica Freeway?

answers: Santa Monica Boulevard
question: What road does state route 2 begin on?

answers: seven more
question: How many more states aside from California does the interstate 10 run through?

answers: Jacksonville, Florida
question: What city and state does the interstate 10 end at?

answers: Pacific Ocean
question: Where does the Santa Monica Freeway begin around?

context: Historical aspects of the Expo line route are noteworthy. It uses the right-of-way for the Santa Monica Air Line that provided electric-powered freight and passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica beginning in the 1920s. Service was discontinued in 1953 but diesel-powered freight deliveries to warehouses along the route continued until March 11, 1988. The abandonment of the line spurred concerns within the community and the entire right-of-way was purchased from Southern Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The line was built in 1875 as the steam-powered Los Angeles and Independence Railroad to bring mining ore to ships in Santa Monica harbor and as a passenger excursion train to the beach.
qas: answers: 1920s
question: Beginning in what decade did the Santa Monica  Expo Air Line host freight and passenger services?

answers: 1953
question: What year did the Santa Monica freight and passenger service stop running?

answers: March 11, 1988
question: Diesel powered freight deliveries continued through what date?

answers: was purchased
question: What was the result from the discontinuation of using the line for deliveries?

answers: Southern Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
question: Who bought the Expo line from Southern Pacific?

context: In 2006, crime in Santa Monica affected 4.41% of the population, slightly lower than the national average crime rate that year of 4.48%. The majority of this was property crime, which affected 3.74% of Santa Monica's population in 2006; this was higher than the rates for Los Angeles County (2.76%) and California (3.17%), but lower than the national average (3.91%). These per-capita crime rates are computed based on Santa Monica's full-time population of about 85,000. However, the Santa Monica Police Department has suggested the actual per-capita crime rate is much lower, as tourists, workers, and beachgoers can increase the city's daytime population to between 250,000 and 450,000 people.
qas: answers: 4.41%
question: In 2006 what percent of the population was impacted by crime?

answers: 3.74%
question: What percent of crime was strictly property in 2006?

answers: property
question: In 2006 what was crime mostly comprised of?

answers: computed based
question: How are the Santa Monica per-capita crime rates calculated?

answers: much lower
question: The Santa Monica Police Department suggests that the per-capita crime rate sways in what way?

context: In 1999, there was a double homicide in the Westside Clothing store on Lincoln Boulevard. During the incident, Culver City gang members David "Puppet" Robles and Jesse "Psycho" Garcia entered the store masked and began opening fire, killing Anthony and Michael Juarez. They then ran outside to a getaway vehicle driven by a third Culver City gang member, who is now also in custody. The clothing store was believed to be a local hang out for Santa Monica gang members. The dead included two men from Northern California who had merely been visiting the store's owner, their cousin, to see if they could open a similar store in their area. Police say the incident was in retaliation for a shooting committed by the Santa Monica 13 gang days before the Juarez brothers were gunned down.
qas: answers: 1999
question: In what year was there a double homicide?

answers: Westside Clothing store
question: Where was this homicide perpetrated?

answers: Culver City
question: What gang is mentioned in connection with this crime?

answers: Anthony and Michael Juarez
question: What two people were killed inside the store?

answers: in custody
question: Where is the getaway driver of the Culver city gang murder?

context: Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part within the city of Santa Monica. One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline, which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W". The Sylvester Stallone film Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on the Santa Monica Beach, and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) includes Santa Monica settings. Henry Jaglom's indie Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. Heathers (1989) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, particularly the Palisades Park area, and features a radio station that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College. 17 Again (2009) was shot at Samohi. Other films that show significant exterior shots of Santa Monica include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Richard Rossi's biopic Aimee Semple McPherson opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica. Iron Man features the Santa Monica pier and surrounding communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.
qas: answers: Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage
question: What is one of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica?

answers: much of 2nd Street
question: What does this iconic exterior shot display?

answers: Rocky III
question: What 1982 movie includes Sylvester Stallone running on the Santa Monica Beach?

answers: The Truth About Cats & Dogs
question: What 1996 movie was set completely in Santa Monica?

answers: 17 Again
question: What movie was shot at Samohi?

context: Santa Monica is featured in the video games True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional district - Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! (2004), Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), L.A. Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008), Cars Race-O-Rama (2009), Grand Theft Auto V (2013) as a fictional district – Del Perro, Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) as a fictional U.S. military base – Fort Santa Monica, The Crew (2014), Need for Speed (2015)
qas: answers: video
question: What type of games is Santa Monica featured in?

answers: 2005
question: In what year did Tony hawk's American Wasteland release?

answers: True Crime: Streets of LA
question: What video game features Santa Monica in 2003?

answers: 2013
question: Grand theft Auto V was released in what year?

answers: Need for Speed
question: What video game featured Santa Monica in 2015?