johnmiceeee/5503h1 huggingface dataset:
user: Who signed the decree suspending the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?

assistant: Yeltsin
user: On what date was the Communist Parties of the USSR banned from operating in the RSFSR?

assistant: November 6
user: Aside from Yeltsin, what notable figure was present at the signing of the August 23 decree?

assistant: Gorbachev
user: On what date was the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed?

assistant: December 8, 1991
user: What is another name for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States?

assistant: Belavezha Accords
user: What body ratified the Belavezha Accords on December 12?

assistant: the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
user: The Belavezha Accords consisted of how many articles?

assistant: fourteen
user: When did the Russian Federation assume the Soviet Union's membership in the UN?

assistant: December 24
user: On what day did Gorbachev give up the presidency of the Soviet Union?

assistant: December 25
user: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the resignation of Gorbachev?

assistant: the Russian Federation
user: In what periodical was the new sovereign status of the Russian Federation first published?

assistant: Rossiyskaya Gazeta
user: What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1946?

assistant: the Council of People's Commissars
user: What was the RSFSR government called starting in 1946?

assistant: Council of Ministers
user: When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?

assistant: Council of Ministers–Government
user: Who led the final government of the RSFSR?

assistant: Boris Yeltsin
user: What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1991?

assistant: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
user: What event prompted the end to the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the RSFSR?

assistant: the abortive 1991 August coup
user: Who suspended the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?

assistant: Yeltsin
user: What is the nickname given to the large studios of which Universal is a part?

assistant: Big Six
user: What is the street address of Universal Studios' production studios?

assistant: 100 Universal City Plaza Drive
user: Which French companies are older than Universal?

assistant: Gaumont Film Company and Pathé
user: Along with Pathé and the Gaumont Film Company, what major film studio is older then Universal Studios?

assistant: Nordisk Film company
user: Among major film studies, where does Universal Studios rank in terms of age?

assistant: fourth
user: After a trip to what city did Carl Laemmle leave the dry goods business?

assistant: Chicago
user: For what part of a motion picture projector did the Motion Picture Trust hold a patent?

assistant: the Latham Loop
user: What company did Laemmle found in June 1909?

assistant: Yankee Film Company
user: Who were Laemmle's business partners in the Yankee Film Company?

assistant: Abe Stern and Julius Stern
user: In what city and state was the Independent Moving Pictures Company based?

assistant: Fort Lee, New Jersey
user: On what date was the incorporation of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?

assistant: April 30, 1912
user: Who was the president of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company circa July 1912?

assistant: Laemmle
user: What was the fate of the other partners of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?

assistant: bought out by Laemmle
user: Along with exhibition and distribution, what business did the Universal Film Manufacturing Company engage in?

assistant: movie production
user: On what date did Universal City Studios open?

assistant: March 15, 1915
user: In square kilometers, what was the size of Universal City Studios?

assistant: 0.9
user: What sort of films were produced by Red Feather?

assistant: low-budget programmers
user: Who was one of the few female Hollywood directors in this era?

assistant: Lois Weber
user: Who directed Blind Husbands?

assistant: Erich von Stroheim
user: What year saw a film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

assistant: 1923
user: Who was at one time Laemmle's personal secretary?

assistant: Irving Thalberg
user: What was the name of Universal's German production unit?

assistant: Deutsche Universal-Film AG
user: Along with Germany and Austria, where was Deutsche Universal-Film AG at one time based?

assistant: Hungary
user: what was the policy that Universal followed in its early years?

assistant: "clean picture"
user: By what month and year did Laemmle change his opinion on "unclean pictures"?

assistant: April 1927
user: Why did Laemmle change his position on "unclean pictures"?

assistant: Universal was losing money
user: Along with Walt Disney, who created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?

assistant: Ub Iwerks
user: Who produced an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit motion picture?

assistant: Charles Mintz
user: Who bought the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 2006?

assistant: Disney
user: Who was 2006 seller of the Oswald cartoons?

assistant: NBC Universal
user: What notable figure worked as a sportscaster for ABC?

assistant: Al Michaels
user: Who began producing Oswald cartoons for Universal in 1929?

assistant: Walter Lantz
user: In what year did Walter Lantz cease producing Oswald cartoons for Universal?

assistant: 1943
user: How many of Carl Laemmle, Sr.'s relatives were working for Universal as of 1928?

assistant: 70
user: What was Carl Laemmle, Sr.'s nickname at Universal?

assistant: Uncle Carl
user: What poet wrote a notable rhyme about Laemmle?

assistant: Ogden Nash
user: At what age did Carl Laemmle, Jr. become president of Universal?

assistant: 21
user: What Academy Award-winning director was a relative of Carl Laemmle's?

assistant: William Wyler
user: What movie was based on an Edna Ferber novel?

assistant: Show Boat
user: What movie won the 1930 Academy Award for Best Picture?

assistant: All Quiet on the Western Front
user: What all-color musical did Universal make in 1930?

assistant: King of Jazz
user: In what year did Universal make a film version of Dracula?

assistant: 1931
user: What film was produced by Laemmle in 1934?

assistant: Imitation of Life
user: What part of Universal's business was terminated while it was in bankruptcy?

assistant: The theater chain
user: Along with distribution and studio operations, what part of Universal was retained by Carl Laemmle, Jr. during bankruptcy?

assistant: production operations
user: In what year was Universal's ill-fated film version of Show Boat released?

assistant: 1936
user: In what year had Universal previously made a version of Show Boat?

assistant: 1929
user: What was the amount of the production loan Universal sought to complete Show Boat?

assistant: $750,000
user: When did the Standard Capital Corporation take control of Universal?

assistant: April 2, 1936
user: Who became president of Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?

assistant: J. Cheever Cowdin
user: What notable female star left Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?

assistant: Margaret Sullavan
user: Who was Universal's chairman of the board of directors after the Standard Captial takeover?

assistant: J. Cheever Cowdin
user: Along with Margaret Sullavan, what notable film talent left Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?

assistant: William Wyler
user: Prior to his work in America, where was Joe Pasternak employed?

assistant: Universal's German subsidiary
user: What type of films did Joe Pasternak produce in Germany?

assistant: light musicals
user: Along with Donald O'Connor and Bing Crosby, with whom did Gloria Jean star?

assistant: Bing Crosby
user: Prior to working at Universal, what studio employed Marlene Dietrich?

assistant: Paramount Studios
user: During what period were the Little Tough Guys films produced?

assistant: 1938–43
user: In what period did Universal produce Hugh Herbert comedies?

assistant: 1938–42
user: In what span did Universal produce westerns with Kirby Grant?

assistant: 1946–47
user: What two performers were known as the team Abbott and Costello?

assistant: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
user: What military comedy did Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in?

assistant: Buck Privates
user: Along with Abbott and Costello and Edgar Bergen, what radio star appeared in Universal films?

assistant: W. C. Fields
user: In what period did Basil Rathbone star in a series of Sherlock Holmes films?

assistant: 1942–46
user: In what period did film versions of Inner Sanctum Mysteries appear?

assistant: 1943–45
user: What was the studio that Alfred Hitchcock normally worked for?

assistant: Selznick International Pictures
user: What was the first Universal film to use the three-strip Technicolor process?

assistant: Arabian Nights
user: Along with Nelson Eddy, who starred in the Phantom of the Opera?

assistant: Claude Rains
user: When was Universal's first version of the Phantom of the Opera made?

assistant: 1925
user: Who was the head of production at Universal-International Pictures?

assistant: William Goetz
user: Who was William Goetz's father-in-law?

assistant: Louis B. Mayer
user: In what year was the Olivier version of Hamlet made?

assistant: 1948
user: In 1947, what company did Universal buy a stake in?

assistant: Castle Films
user: What Abbott and Costello film was released in 1948?

assistant: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
user: Who bought Rank's share of Universal-International?

assistant: Milton Rackmil
user: Who did many of Universal-International's Arabian Nights films feature?

assistant: Tony Curtis
user: Who was a notable talent agent circa 1950?

assistant: Lew Wasserman
user: What legal decision resulted in movie studios letting their contract actors go?

assistant: U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, et al.
user: In square kilometers, how large was the lot Universal sold to MCA?

assistant: 1.5
user: In what year did Universal sell its 360-acre lot to MCA?

assistant: 1958
user: How much did MCA pay for Universal's 360-acre lot?

assistant: $11 million
user: What company did MCA create in 1964?

assistant: Universal City Studios, Inc.
user: What new name was given to Revue Productions in 1966?

assistant: Universal Television
user: Who produced Anne of the Thousand Days?

assistant: Hal B. Wallis
user: Who wrote the original work that the film version of Anne of the Thousand Days was based on?

assistant: Maxwell Anderson
user: In what year was the film version of Mary, Queen of Scots made?

assistant: 1971
user: Whose performance in Anne of the Thousand Days garnered a Best Actor nod?

assistant: Richard Burton
user: What was the name of the sequel to True Grit produced by Universal?

assistant: Rooster Cogburn
user: Who partnered with Universal in the creation of Cinema International Corporation?

assistant: Paramount Pictures
user: When did United International Pictures start distributing films for DreamWorks?

assistant: 1997
user: Who was the head of MCA in 1990?

assistant: Lew Wasserman
user: What is the current name of the company that was called Matsushita Electric in 1990?

assistant: Panasonic
user: How much did Matsushita Electric pay for MCA?

assistant: $6.6 billion
user: In what year was MCA/Universal Home Video Inc. created?

assistant: 1990
user: What percentage of MCA/Universal did Matsushita Electric sell five years after acquiring the company?

assistant: 80%
user: To whom did Matsushita sell a large share of MCA/Universal?

assistant: Seagram
user: How much did Seagram pay to buy a large share of MCA/Universal?

assistant: $5.7 billion
user: What did Seagram sell to finance their purchase of a share in MCA/Universal?

assistant: its stake in DuPont
user: What company did Seagram buy in 1999?

assistant: PolyGram
user: Who was the head of Seagram?

assistant: Edgar Bronfman Jr.
user: What StudioCanal film received an Academy Award nomination?

assistant: Mulholland Drive
user: Who bought 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004?

assistant: General Electric
user: What percentage of NBC Universal was owned by Vivendi until 2011?

assistant: 20%
user: Who bought 51% of NBC Universal in 2011?

assistant: Comcast
user: In what month and year did Comcast buy 49% of NBCUniversal?

assistant: March 2013
user: How much did Comcast pay for 49% of NBCUniversal in 2013?

assistant: $16.7 billion
user: In what year did Paramount Pictures purchase DreamWorks?

assistant: 2005
user: What Universal chairperson headed DreamWorks as of 2006?

assistant: Stacey Snider
user: Who became the chairperson in late 2009?

assistant: Adam Fogelson
user: Who was the founder of Universal Partnerships & Licensing?

assistant: Stephanie Sperber
user: Who became chairperson of Universal Pictures in September 2013?

assistant: Donna Langley
user: With whom did Universal sign a marketing and distribution deal in July 2013?

assistant: Legendary Pictures
user: How many years is the deal with Legendary Pictures intended to run?

assistant: five years
user: In what year did Universal's deal with Legendary Pictures begin?

assistant: 2014
user: What film studio was brought back in May 2015?

assistant: Gramercy Pictures
user: What division of NBCUniversal revived Gramercy Pictures?

assistant: Focus Features
user: What genre of films will Gramercy be responsible for creating?

assistant: action, sci-fi, and horror
user: Along with Jurassic World and Furious 7, what billion-dollar film was released by Universal in 2015?

assistant: Minions
user: How many studios have released three billion-dollar films in one year?

assistant: Universal is the only studio
user: What was the name of the Universal production company based in Paris?

assistant: Universal Productions France S.A.
user: What was the English title of Le scandale?

assistant: The Champagne Murders
user: What field did Bell later work in, apart from optical telecommunications and aeronautics?

assistant: hydrofoils
user: Bell's dehusking machine combined what with nail brushes?

assistant: rotating paddles
user: What was Bell's father most famous for publishing?

assistant: The Standard Elocutionist
user: How old was Bell when he became a "pupil-teacher"?

assistant: 16
user: In what year did Bell's father take him to see an automaton?

assistant: 1863
user: What living thing did Bell use in his research?

assistant: Skye Terrier
user: What phrase did people believe Bell's dog could say?

assistant: How are you grandma?
user: Who wrote The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music?

assistant: Hermann von Helmholtz
user: What city is Susanna E. Hull located in?

assistant: South Kensington
user: How many acres was the farm the Bell's bought in Canada?

assistant: 10.5
user: What did Bell call his special spot in the back of the property?

assistant: dreaming place
user: What name does the Boston School for Deaf Mutes go by now?

assistant: the public Horace Mann School for the Deaf
user: For  his system to work, Bell had to change what about each code?

assistant: pitch
user: Bell's goal was to instruct the deaf to speak and not use what?

assistant: sign language
user: With what school did Bell get his next teaching job?

assistant: Boston University School of Oratory.
user: What was Bell's discipline?

assistant: Vocal Physiology and Elocution
user: In what year did Bell start to focus on research into sound?

assistant: 1873
user: Bell's two remaining students were "Georgie" Sanders and who?

assistant: Mabel Hubbard
user: In 1874 the telegraph was known as the what of commerce?

assistant: nervous system
user: Thomas Edison and what other scientist were already asked to work on a better telegraph?

assistant: Elisha Gray
user: What was Henry's reply to Bell's statement that he lacked information to complete his telegraph?

assistant: Get it!
user: What did Bell promise to split with his financers?

assistant: U.S. profits
user: In what country other than the U.S. did Bell try to patent his telegraph?

assistant: Britain
user: On what date did Gray and Bell both put in for a patent?

assistant: February 14, 1876
user: What office in Washington did Bell and Gray visit?

assistant: U.S. Patent Office
user: What sort of machine did Bell and Gray both try to patent at the same time?

assistant: telephone
user: On what date did Bell get his patent?

assistant: March 7, 1876
user: Bell's patent was for the method and what for transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically?

assistant: apparatus
user: On what day did Bell go back to Boston?

assistant: March 7, 1876
user: How did Bell refer to his partner in his well known line?

assistant: Mr. Watson
user: When did Bell put in his prior patent?

assistant: February 25, 1875
user: Who declared himself an alcoholic?

assistant: Zenas Fisk Wilber
user: How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?

assistant: $100
user: Bell sent messages over wires hooked onto telegraph lines and what?

assistant: fences
user: What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?

assistant: reading and singing
user: How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?

assistant: $100,000
user: What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?

assistant: a toy
user: How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?

assistant: $25 million
user: In what city was the 1876 Centennial Exposition?

assistant: Philadelphia
user: What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition?

assistant: Emperor Pedro II
user: How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?

assistant: 150,000
user: In what month and year did Bell telephone across the country?

assistant: January 1915
user: What company office did Bell make the original cross country phone call from?

assistant: AT&T
user: Who was on the other end of the first cross country phone call?

assistant: Thomas Watson
user: Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?

assistant: Amos Dolbear
user: In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?

assistant: misrepresentation
user: The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?

assistant: Supreme Court
user: What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?

assistant: precedent
user: On what date did the US Government stop legal action?

assistant: November 30, 1897
user: Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?

assistant: Antonio Meucci
user: At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?

assistant: American District Telegraph (ADT)
user: Because of their patent, what didn't Siemens & Halske have to give Bell?

assistant: royalties
user: Who did Bell marry in 1877?

assistant: Mabel Hubbard
user: Before 1897, what did Bell get most of his money from?

assistant: lectures
user: In what year did Mabel's father move to Washington D.C.?

assistant: 1880
user: In what year did Bell acquire a house in D.C.?

assistant: 1882
user: Where did Bell and Mabel live before 1880?

assistant: Cambridge, Massachusetts
user: What did Bell have to go to court for in D.C.?

assistant: patent disputes
user: Besides the US and UK, what other country claims Bell as a citizen?

assistant: Canada
user: What Island in Nova Scotia did the Bells go to in 1885?

assistant: Breton Island
user: In 1886, what lake did Bell start building a house near?

assistant: Bras d'Or
user: What did the Bells call the house completed in 1889?

assistant: The Lodge
user: Where did the Bells live when the Halifax Explosion happened?

assistant: Beinn Bhreagh
user: On what day did the Halifax Explosion happen?

assistant: December 6, 1917
user: Which of their two homes did the Bells start spending more time as Bell aged?

assistant: Beinn Bhreagh
user: What did the Bells do to help the victims in Halifax?

assistant: mobilized the community
user: What series of books does Gray say Bell would go to sleep reading?

assistant: Encyclopædia Britannica
user: What did Bell think could be collected from farm and factory byproduct?

assistant: Methane gas
user: Right before his death, what kind of energy did he speculate about?

assistant: solar
user: Who did Bell invent the cord-free phone with?

assistant: Charles Sumner Tainter
user: What lab association did Bell and Tainter both eventually join?

assistant: Volta Laboratory Association
user: Bell and his assistant first used their photophone on what date?

assistant: June 21, 1880
user: How many years after this photophone message would the first message take place over radio?

assistant: 19
user: What modern technology takes the next step from the photophone?

assistant: fiber-optic communication
user: In what decade did fiber-optics become widely used?

assistant: 1980s
user: What did Bell think was wrong with the bed, which prevented his machine from finding the bullet?

assistant: metal bed frame
user: Bell gave his story about trying to find the bullet to the American Association for the Advancement of what?

assistant: Science
user: Where did Bell go the day after trying to find the bullet?

assistant: Executive Mansion
user: Where did Bell indicate that the bullet was too deep for his machine to register?

assistant: footnote
user: Who wrote the paper laying out hydrofoils and hydroplanes?

assistant: William E. Meacham
user: Who helped Bell investigate hydrofoils in 1908?

assistant: Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin
user: Which Italian scientist did Baldwin draw inspiration from?

assistant: Enrico Forlanini
user: Bell's kits were flown from 1907 to what year?

assistant: 1912
user: What organization did Bell set up due to his interest in aerospace?

assistant: Aerial Experiment Association
user: Which original member of the AEA held motorcycle speed records?

assistant: Glenn H. Curtiss
user: How many accident-free flights had the AEA taken by 1909?

assistant: 150
user: Who was the first to fly the Silver Dart?

assistant: J.A.D. McCurdy
user: What professional did Bell make sure was present during the first Silver Dart flight?

assistant: a doctor
user: What business did Baldwin and McCurdy start after the AEA folded?

assistant: Canadian Aerodrome Company
user: On what month and day did the Silver Dart take its first flight?

assistant: February 23
user: What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children?

assistant: congenitally deaf parents
user: In 1921 the American Museum of Natural History hosted what event?

assistant: Second International Congress of Eugenics
user: Which biologist ran the Committee on Eugenics?

assistant: David Starr
user: What did Bell like to do that led to his involvement with eugenics?

assistant: livestock breeding
user: In what part of the Library of Congress are Bell's papers kept?

assistant: Manuscript Division
user: Apart from in person, how can one look at many of Bell's papers?

assistant: online
user: Adjusted for inflation, how many dollars were awarded to Bell alongside the Volta Prize?

assistant: $250,000
user: Victor Hugo and what other author helped judge the Volta Prize in 1880?

assistant: Alexandre Dumas
user: The Volta lab improved the phonograph by replacing tinfoil with what substance?

assistant: wax
user: When did Bell cease to be President of the National Geographic Society?

assistant: 1903
user: What is the most famous statue built for Bell and his creation?

assistant: Bell Telephone Memorial
user: In 1936, what place did Bell receive on a list of best inventors?

assistant: First
user: What form of currency did Canada issue to celebrate Bell in 1997?

assistant: C$100 gold coin
user: In what year did Canada put out a coin to commemorate the Silver Dart?

assistant: 2009
user: In 2002, where did Bell place in a list of the Greatest Britons?

assistant: 57th
user: In 2004 Bell was listed in the top how many Greatest Canadians?

assistant: 10
user: What kind of wood was Bell's coffin made from?

assistant: Beinn Bhreagh pine
user: Bell's living daughters were named Elsie May and what?

assistant: Marian
user: Over how many years did Bell spend a great deal of time at Beinn Bhreagh?

assistant: 35
user: What was the first year the Alexander Graham Bell Medal was given out?

assistant: 1976
user: what does an isp do?

assistant: provides services for accessing, using, the Internet