Answer: increase in international student exchanges

Context: Similarities — in systems or even in ideas — that schools share internationally have led to an increase in international student exchanges. The European Socrates-Erasmus Program facilitates exchanges across European universities. The Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and eastern Europe. Programs such as the International Baccalaureate have contributed to the internationalization of education. The global campus online, led by American universities, allows free access to class materials and lecture files recorded during the actual classes.

Question: What has come from similarities in systems?


Answer: The European Socrates-Erasmus Program

Question: Which programfacilitates the exchange students across Europe?


Answer: The Soros Foundation

Question: Which group provides opportunities for Eastern Europe and Asia exchange students?


Answer: low cost private schools

Context: Research into LCPS (low cost private schools) found that over 5 years to July 2013, debate around LCPSs to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives was polarised and finding growing coverage in international policy. The polarisation was due to disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor, reach disadvantaged groups, provide quality education, support or undermine equality, and are financially sustainable. The report examined the main challenges encountered by development organisations which support LCPSs. Surveys suggest these types of schools are expanding across Africa and Asia. This success is attributed to excess demand. These surveys found concern for:

Question: What does LCPS stand for?


Answer: disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor

Question: What was the reason for the polarisation for affordable schooling?


Answer: Africa and Asia

Question: Where are these types of school spreading across?


Answer: children did not exceed the education of their parents

Context: Some claim that there is education inequality because children did not exceed the education of their parents. This education inequality is then associated with income inequality. Although critical thinking is a goal of education, criticism and blame are often the unintended by products of our current educational process. Students often blame their teachers and their textbooks, despite the availability of libraries and the internet. When someone tries to improve education, the educational establishment itself occasionally showers the person with criticism rather than gratitude. Better by products of an educational system would be gratitude and determination.

Question: What are some of the claims being pointed towards education inequality?


Answer: teachers and their textbooks

Question: Who do students often blame for their education short comings?


Answer: the educational establishment itself occasionally showers the person with criticism rather than gratitude

Question: What happens when someone tries to improve education?


Answer: Developed countries have people with more resources

Context: Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undeveloped countries live to sense this. However, one can also use economic data to gain some insight into this. Yet criticism and blame are common among people in the developed countries.

Question: What is the discrepancy between Developed and less developed countries?


Answer: housing, food, transportation

Question: What resources do developed countries have better access to?


Answer: criticism and blame

Question: What is common in developed countries?


Answer: have the will and the way to do many things

Context: Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve. Where there is a will, there is a way. People in developed countries have the will and the way to do many things that they want to do. They sometimes need more determination and will to improve and to educate themselves with the resources that are abundantly available. They occasionally need more gratitude for the resources they have, including their teachers and their textbooks. The entire internet is also available to supplement these teachers and textbooks.

Question: What is one good trait about students from developed countries?


Answer: internet

Question: What use of technology can greatly supplement how teachers teach in the classroom?


Answer: gratitude for the resources they have

Question: What do students also need occasionally before putting blame on teachers?


Answer: the study of how humans learn in educational settings

Context: Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, researchers and theorists are likely to be identified as educational psychologists, whereas practitioners in schools or school-related settings are identified as school psychologists. Educational psychology is concerned with the processes of educational attainment in the general population and in sub-populations such as gifted children and those with specific disabilities.

Question: What is the meaning of Education psychology?


Answer: school psychology

Question: What is also used interchangeably with Education psychology?


Answer: researchers and theorists

Question: Who are likely to be identified as educational psychologist?


Answer: the processes of educational attainment

Question: What is educational psychology concerned with?


Answer: through its relationship with other disciplines

Context: Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education and classroom management. Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences. In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks (Lucas, Blazek, & Raley, 2006).

Question: How can Educational psychology in part be understood?


Answer: discipline analogous

Question: How is the method of educational psychology have some relation to medicine and biology?


Answer: contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences

Question: Where does education psychology draw from?


Answer: faculties of education

Question: In universities where are the departments of educational psychology normally held?


Answer: Intelligence

Context: Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher intelligence tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education. This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have shown that while educational attainment is important in predicting intelligence in later life, intelligence at 53 is more closely correlated to intelligence at 8 years old than to educational attainment.

Question: What is important for a student in education?


Answer: measurable intelligence

Question: What does education increase in a student?


Answer: intelligence at 8

Question: What is intelligence at 53 more closely related to?


Answer: Dunn

Context: Dunn and Dunn focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies. Howard Gardner identified a wide range of modalities in his Multiple Intelligences theories. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter, based on the works of Jung, focus on understanding how people's personality affects the way they interact personally, and how this affects the way individuals respond to each other within the learning environment. The work of David Kolb and Anthony Gregorc's Type Delineator follows a similar but more simplified approach.

Question: Who focused on identifying stimuli that can influence learning?


Answer: Joseph Renzulli

Question: Who also along with Dunn recommended other teaching studies?


Answer: David Kolb and Anthony Gregorc's

Question: Who created the Type Delineator?


Answer: that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities

Context: Some theories propose that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities, while others suggest that individuals may have preferred learning styles, learning more easily through visual or kinesthetic experiences. A consequence of the latter theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal opportunities to learn in a way that is effective for them. Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic(VAK) are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning. Recent research has argued "there is no adequate evidence base to justify incorporating learning styles assessments into general educational practice."

Question: What do some theories believe?


Answer: teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities

Question: What should be included in effective teaching?


Answer: philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education

Context: As an academic field, philosophy of education is "the philosophical study of education and its problems (...) its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy". "The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education. That is, it may be part of the discipline in the sense of being concerned with the aims, forms, methods, or results of the process of educating or being educated; or it may be metadisciplinary in the sense of being concerned with the concepts, aims, and methods of the discipline." As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches (speculative, prescriptive, and/or analytic) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few. For example, it might study what constitutes upbringing and education, the values and norms revealed through upbringing and educational practices, the limits and legitimization of education as an academic discipline, and the relation between education theory and practice.

Question: What can Philosophy education be when we talk about the process?


Answer: the philosophical study of education and its problems

Question: What defines Philosophy education?


Answer: metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches

Question: What fields make up field education and a field applied philosophy?


Answer: teachers

Context: Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be called teachers, instructors, or professors, depending on the type of institution; and they primarily teach only their specific discipline. Studies from the United States suggest that the quality of teachers is the single most important factor affecting student performance, and that countries which score highly on international tests have multiple policies in place to ensure that the teachers they employ are as effective as possible. With the passing of NCLB in the United States (No Child Left Behind), teachers must be highly qualified. A popular way to gauge teaching performance is to use student evaluations of teachers (SETS), but these evaluations have been criticized for being counterproductive to learning and inaccurate due to student bias.

Question: What is another term used for instructors?


Answer: reading, writing, mathematics, science and history

Question: What are the main subjects that are covered by the instructor?


Answer: quality of teachers

Question: In the United States what is considered the single most important factor in a child's education?


Answer: poor countries should grow faster than rich countries

Context: It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth. Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and tested by rich countries. However, technology transfer requires knowledgeable managers and engineers who are able to operate new machines or production practices borrowed from the leader in order to close the gap through imitation. Therefore, a country's ability to learn from the leader is a function of its stock of "human capital". Recent study of the determinants of aggregate economic growth have stressed the importance of fundamental economic institutions and the role of cognitive skills.

Question: What is the theory behind Empirical analyses?


Answer: essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth

Question: What has been argued about high rates in education?


Answer: requires knowledgeable managers and engineers

Question: What is greatly needed with technology transfer when it relates to education?


Answer: Jacob Mincer

Context: At the level of the individual, there is a large literature, generally related to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital. This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial. The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impact of schooling. Some students who have indicated a high potential for learning, by testing with a high intelligence quotient, may not achieve their full academic potential, due to financial difficulties.[citation needed]

Question: Literature on how earnings and how it relates to schooling was greatly influenced by who?


Answer: is also controversial

Question: This view of how schooling and earnings has sparked a lot of studies, but what else has it brought up?


Answer: not achieve their full academic potential, due to financial difficulties

Question: What was one of the main concerns of this literature on how schooling and earnings?


Answer: North Carolina

Context: Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 601,222. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 653,450.

Question: Which state borders Tennessee to the east?


Answer: Appalachian Mountains

Question: Which mountains occupy much of eastern Tennessee?


Answer: Mississippi River

Question: Which river marks Tennessee's border to the west?


Answer: Nashville

Question: What is the capital of Tennessee?


Answer: Memphis

Question: What is Tennessee's most populous city?


Answer: Watauga Association

Context: The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861. Occupied by Union forces from 1862, it was the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.

Question: What government formed in 1772 is considered the forerunner of Tennessee?


Answer: North Carolina

Question: What state held territory that would later become part of Tennessee?


Answer: June 1, 1796

Question: What date did Tennessee become one of the United States of America?


Answer: Tennessee

Question: Which was the final state to join the Confederacy before Civil War fighting started?


Answer: Tennessee

Question: Which of the Confederate states rejoined the Union first when the Civil War concluded?


Answer: Democratic

Context: Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Beginning during Reconstruction, it had competitive party politics, but a Democratic takeover in the late 1880s resulted in passage of disfranchisement laws that excluded most blacks and many poor whites from voting. This sharply reduced competition in politics in the state until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century. In the 20th century, Tennessee transitioned from an agrarian economy to a more diversified economy, aided by massive federal investment in the Tennessee Valley Authority and, in the early 1940s, the city of Oak Ridge. This city was established to house the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the world's first atomic bomb, which was used during World War II.

Question: Which part dominated Tennessee's politics in the late 1880s?


Answer: Oak Ridge

Question: Which Tennessee city was received significant federal investment in the 1940s?


Answer: uranium enrichment facilities

Question: What part of the Manhattan Project did Tennessee host?


Answer: civil rights legislation

Question: What made Tennessee politics more competitive again in the middle of the 20th century?


Answer: Beale Street

Context: Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as early as 1909.[not verified in body] Memphis is also home to Sun Records, where musicians such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Charlie Rich began their recording careers, and where rock and roll took shape in the 1950s.[not verified in body] The 1927 Victor recording sessions in Bristol generally mark the beginning of the country music genre and the rise of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s helped make Nashville the center of the country music recording industry.[not verified in body] Three brick-and-mortar museums recognize Tennessee's role in nurturing various forms of popular music: the Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, and the International Rock-A-Billy Museum in Jackson. Moreover, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, an online site recognizing the development of rockabilly in which Tennessee played a crucial role, is based in Nashville.[not verified in body]

Question: What locale in Memphis is know as the place where blues was born?


Answer: Sun Records

Question: What Tennessee recording company first promoted Elvis Presley?


Answer: Nashville

Question: Which Tennessee city is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame?


Answer: International Rock-A-Billy Museum

Question: Which museum celebrating popular music is located in Jackson, Tennessee?


Answer: 1909

Question: In which year is W.C. Handy first known to have been playing in Tennessee clubs?


Answer: soybeans

Context: Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park, is headquartered in the eastern part of the state, and a section of the Appalachian Trail roughly follows the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Other major tourist attractions include the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga; Dollywood in Pigeon Forge; the Parthenon, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg; and Elvis Presley's Graceland residence and tomb, the Memphis Zoo, and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

Question: What is Tennessee's primary non-meat agricultural product?


Answer: Appalachian Trail

Question: What trail forms part of the border Tennessee shares with North Carolina?


Answer: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Question: Which national park in Tennessee sees more visitors that any other in the United States?


Answer: Chattanooga

Question: Which Tennessee city hosts the state's most famous aquarium?


Answer: Dollywood

Question: What tourist attraction is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?


Answer: Captain Juan Pardo

Context: The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River), and appears on maps as early as 1725. It is not known whether this was the same town as the one encountered by Juan Pardo, although recent research suggests that Pardo's "Tanasqui" was located at the confluence of the Pigeon River and the French Broad River, near modern Newport.

Question: Who first recorded a territorial name in the region that resembles its current name Tennessee?


Answer: Cherokee

Question: Which Native Americans had a town called Tanasi in present day Monroe County, Tennessee?


Answer: 1725

Question: Tanasi is know to have been located and mapped by British traders by which year?


Answer: Spanish

Question: What nationality was Juan Pardo?


Answer: James Glen

Context: The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee County", the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee. (Tennessee County was the predecessor to current-day Montgomery County and Robertson County.) When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state.

Question: Which governor is given credit for the name Tennessee as it is now spelled?


Answer: Draught of the Cherokee Country

Question: Which work by Henry Timberlake made the current spelling of Tennessee widely popular?


Answer: North Carolina

Question: Which state created a county called Tennessee in 1788?


Answer: Montgomery County and Robertson County

Question: Which two Tennessee counties cover the area that comprised North Carolina's Tennessee County?


Answer: 1796

Question: In which year did a constitutional convention meet to form a new state out of the unincorporated territory that would become Tennessee?


Answer: Volunteer State

Context: Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, the name refers to volunteers for the Mexican–American War. This explanation is more likely, because President Polk's call for 2,600 nationwide volunteers at the beginning of the Mexican-American War resulted in 30,000 volunteers from Tennessee alone, largely in response to the death of Davy Crockett and appeals by former Tennessee Governor and now Texas politician, Sam Houston.

Question: By what nickname is Tennessee officially known?


Answer: War of 1812

Question: Which major conflict that included the Battle of New Orleans is said to have given Tennessee its nickname?


Answer: 30,000

Question: How many volunteers did Tennessee send to the Mexican-American War?


Answer: Mexican–American War

Question: What conflict overseen by President Polk might be the source of Tennessee's nickname?


Answer: Davy Crockett

Question: Which local icon's death inspired many of the Tennessee volunteers during the Mexican-American War?


Answer: 6,643 feet

Context: The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 m). Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessee's eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The state line between Tennessee and North Carolina crosses the summit. The state's lowest point is the Mississippi River at the Mississippi state line (the lowest point in Memphis, nearby, is at 195 ft (59 m)). The geographical center of the state is located in Murfreesboro.

Question: What is the elevation of Tennessee's highest point?


Answer: Clingmans Dome

Question: What mountain in Tennessee is the Appalachian Trail's highest point?


Answer: Mississippi River

Question: What river is situated on Tennessee point of lowest elevation?


Answer: Murfreesboro

Question: Which city marks the geographical center of Tennessee?


Answer: 55

Context: Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The western section of the Tennessee Valley, where the depressions become broader and the ridges become lower, is called the Great Valley. In this valley are numerous towns and two of the region's three urban areas, Knoxville, the 3rd largest city in the state, and Chattanooga, the 4th largest city in the state. The third urban area, the Tri-Cities, comprising Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport and their environs, is located to the northeast of Knoxville.

Question: Approximately how many miles long is Tennessee's Ridge and Valley region?


Answer: the Great Valley

Question: What is the western part of the Tennessee Valley called?


Answer: Chattanooga

Question: Which city is Tennessee's fourth largest?


Answer: the Tri-Cities

Question: Together, Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport are known by what name?


Answer: Tennessee River

Question: What river forms in the Tennessee Valley?


Answer: McGhee Tyson Airport

Context: East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI), provide air service to numerous destinations. I-24, I-81, I-40, I-75, and I-26 along with numerous state highways and other important roads, traverse the Grand Division and connect Chattanooga, Knoxville, and the Tri-Cities, along with other cities and towns such as Cleveland, Athens, and Sevierville.

Question: Which Tennessee airport has the code TYS?


Answer: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

Question: What is the name of the airport serving Chattanooga, TN?


Answer: I-24, I-81, I-40, I-75, and I-26

Question: What interstate highways cross the Grand Division in Tennessee?


Answer: TRI

Question: An airport with which code serves the Tri-Cities area in Tennessee?


Answer: Tennessee Bottoms

Context: The easternmost section, about 10 miles (16 km) in width, consists of hilly land that runs along the western bank of the Tennessee River. To the west of this narrow strip of land is a wide area of rolling hills and streams that stretches all the way to the Mississippi River; this area is called the Tennessee Bottoms or bottom land. In Memphis, the Tennessee Bottoms end in steep bluffs overlooking the river. To the west of the Tennessee Bottoms is the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, less than 300 feet (90 m) above sea level. This area of lowlands, flood plains, and swamp land is sometimes referred to as the Delta region. Memphis is the economic center of West Tennessee and the largest city in the state.

Question: What is the lowland area of Tennessee between the Tennessee River and Mississippi River called?


Answer: Mississippi Alluvial Plain

Question: What geographical region lies west of the Tennessee bottom land?


Answer: 300 feet (90 m) above sea level

Question: What maximum elevation is the land in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain?


Answer: Memphis

Question: What city is central to the economy of West Tennessee?


Answer: humid subtropical

Context: Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate, with the exception of some of the higher elevations in the Appalachians, which are classified as having a mountain temperate climate or a humid continental climate due to cooler temperatures. The Gulf of Mexico is the dominant factor in the climate of Tennessee, with winds from the south being responsible for most of the state's annual precipitation. Generally, the state has hot summers and mild to cool winters with generous precipitation throughout the year, with highest average monthly precipitation generally in the winter and spring months, between December and April. The driest months, on average, are August to October. On average the state receives 50 inches (130 cm) of precipitation annually. Snowfall ranges from 5 inches (13 cm) in West Tennessee to over 16 inches (41 cm) in the higher mountains in East Tennessee.

Question: What is the most common climate across Tennessee?


Answer: humid subtropical

Question: Most of Tennessee has which type of climate?


Answer: Appalachians

Question: Which mountains contain those parts of Tennessee with a temperate climate?


Answer: Gulf of Mexico

Question: Which body of ocean water affects Tennessee's climate the most?


Answer: 50

Question: What is Tennessee's average annual precipitation in inches?


Answer: between December and April

Question: Which range of months is Tennessee's wettest?


Answer: 32

Context: Summers in the state are generally hot and humid, with most of the state averaging a high of around 90 °F (32 °C) during the summer months. Winters tend to be mild to cool, increasing in coolness at higher elevations. Generally, for areas outside the highest mountains, the average overnight lows are near freezing for most of the state. The highest recorded temperature is 113 °F (45 °C) at Perryville on August 9, 1930 while the lowest recorded temperature is −32 °F (−36 °C) at Mountain City on December 30, 1917.

Question: What is Tennessee's average high temperature in degree Celsius during the summer?


Answer: 113 °F (45 °C)

Question: What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Tennessee?


Answer: Perryville

Question: Where was the highest known temperature in Tennessee recorded?


Answer: −32 °F

Question: What Fahrenheit temperature is the lowest ever recorded in Tennessee?


Answer: Mountain City

Question: Where in Tennessee did the temperature reach -36 degrees Celsius in December of 1917?


Answer: Hurricane Opal

Context: While the state is far enough from the coast to avoid any direct impact from a hurricane, the location of the state makes it likely to be impacted from the remnants of tropical cyclones which weaken over land and can cause significant rainfall, such as Tropical Storm Chris in 1982 and Hurricane Opal in 1995. The state averages around 50 days of thunderstorms per year, some of which can be severe with large hail and damaging winds. Tornadoes are possible throughout the state, with West and Middle Tennessee the most vulnerable. Occasionally, strong or violent tornadoes occur, such as the devastating April 2011 tornadoes that killed 20 people in North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee. On average, the state has 15 tornadoes per year. Tornadoes in Tennessee can be severe, and Tennessee leads the nation in the percentage of total tornadoes which have fatalities. Winter storms are an occasional problem, such as the infamous Blizzard of 1993, although ice storms are a more likely occurrence. Fog is a persistent problem in parts of the state, especially in East Tennessee.

Question: Which hurricane brought damaging rains to Tennessee in 1995?


Answer: 50

Question: On average, how many days each year are there thunderstorms in Tennessee?


Answer: West and Middle Tennessee

Question: Which parts of Tennessee are most threatened by tornadoes?


Answer: 15

Question: How many tornadoes strike in Tennessee in an average year?


Answer: 1993

Question: What year in the 1990s did an unusual blizzard visit Tennessee?


Answer: Knoxville, Kingston, and Murfreesboro

Context: The capital is Nashville, though Knoxville, Kingston, and Murfreesboro have all served as state capitals in the past. Memphis has the largest population of any city in the state. Nashville's 13-county metropolitan area has been the state's largest since c. 1990. Chattanooga and Knoxville, both in the eastern part of the state near the Great Smoky Mountains, each has approximately one-third of the population of Memphis or Nashville. The city of Clarksville is a fifth significant population center, some 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Nashville. Murfreesboro is the sixth-largest city in Tennessee, consisting of some 108,755 residents.

Question: Which cities other than Knoxville have been the capital of Tennessee?


Answer: 13

Question: How many counties are part of Nashville's metropolitan area?


Answer: 45

Question: What distance in miles is Clarksville, TN from Nashville?


Answer: Murfreesboro

Question: Which city is Tennessee's sixth largest by population?


Answer: Chattanooga and Knoxville

Question: Which two of the six most populous Tennessee cities are nearest the Great Smoky Mountains?


Answer: 12,000

Context: The area now known as Tennessee was first inhabited by Paleo-Indians nearly 12,000 years ago. The names of the cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including Archaic (8000–1000 BC), Woodland (1000 BC–1000 AD), and Mississippian (1000–1600 AD), whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the Muscogee people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley before Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters.

Question: How many years ago was Tennessee first inhabited by humans?


Answer: 1000–1600 AD

Question: What time period corresponds with the Mississippian cultural phase in early Tennessee history?


Answer: Muscogee

Question: Which Native American people are the first group to inhabit Tennessee that we know by name?


Answer: Woodland

Question: What do archaeologists call the cultural phase of the inhabitants of Tennessee between 1000 BC and 1000 AD?


Answer: Spanish

Context: The first recorded European excursions into what is now called Tennessee were three expeditions led by Spanish explorers, namely Hernando de Soto in 1540, Tristan de Luna in 1559, and Juan Pardo in 1567. Pardo recorded the name "Tanasqui" from a local Indian village, which evolved to the state's current name. At that time, Tennessee was inhabited by tribes of Muscogee and Yuchi people. Possibly because of European diseases devastating the Indian tribes, which would have left a population vacuum, and also from expanding European settlement in the north, the Cherokee moved south from the area now called Virginia. As European colonists spread into the area, the Indian populations were forcibly displaced to the south and west, including all Muscogee and Yuchi peoples, the Chickasaw and Choctaw, and ultimately, the Cherokee in 1838.

Question: Which European nationality first explored the Tennessee region?


Answer: 1540

Question: Which year did Hernando de Soto explore Tennessee?


Answer: Muscogee and Yuchi

Question: Which Native American peoples were living in Tennessee when Juan Pardo explored the area?


Answer: Cherokee

Question: Which Native American people left Tennessee for the Virginia area because of encroaching Europeans?


Answer: 1838

Question: By which year had most of the Native Americans been forced out of the Tennessee region?


Answer: 1756

Context: The first British settlement in what is now Tennessee was built in 1756 by settlers from the colony of South Carolina at Fort Loudoun, near present-day Vonore. Fort Loudoun became the westernmost British outpost to that date. The fort was designed by John William Gerard de Brahm and constructed by forces under British Captain Raymond Demeré. After its completion, Captain Raymond Demeré relinquished command on August 14, 1757 to his brother, Captain Paul Demeré. Hostilities erupted between the British and the neighboring Overhill Cherokees, and a siege of Fort Loudoun ended with its surrender on August 7, 1760. The following morning, Captain Paul Demeré and a number of his men were killed in an ambush nearby, and most of the rest of the garrison was taken prisoner.

Question: In which year did the British first settle in what would become Tennessee?


Answer: Fort Loudoun

Question: What was the name of the first British settlement in what is now Tennessee?


Answer: Captain Raymond Demeré

Question: Which British officer oversaw the construction of Fort Loudoun?


Answer: Overhill Cherokees

Question: Which Cherokee faction forced the surrender of Fort Loudoun in 1760?


Answer: Captain Paul Demeré

Question: Which British commanding officer was killed the day after Cherokee took Fort Loudon in 1760?


Answer: the Chickamauga

Context: During the American Revolutionary War, Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals (in present-day Elizabethton) was attacked (1776) by Dragging Canoe and his warring faction of Cherokee who were aligned with the British Loyalists. These renegade Cherokee were referred to by settlers as the Chickamauga. They opposed North Carolina's annexation of the Washington District and the concurrent settling of the Transylvania Colony further north and west. The lives of many settlers were spared from the initial warrior attacks through the warnings of Dragging Canoe's cousin, Nancy Ward. The frontier fort on the banks of the Watauga River later served as a 1780 staging area for the Overmountain Men in preparation to trek over the Appalachian Mountains, to engage, and to later defeat the British Army at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.

Question: What did American settlers call the Cherokee who attacked Fort Watuaga in 1776?


Answer: Dragging Canoe

Question: Who lead the Cherokee attack on Fort Watuaga in 1776?


Answer: Nancy Ward

Question: What was the name of the Chickamauga leader's cousin who helped settlers escape his raids?


Answer: Overmountain Men

Question: Who left Fort Watuaga, crossed the Appalachians, and attacked the British army in South Carolina in 1780?


Answer: the British Army

Question: Who lost the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina?


Answer: Franklin

Context: Three counties of the Washington District (now part of Tennessee) broke off from North Carolina in 1784 and formed the State of Franklin. Efforts to obtain admission to the Union failed, and the counties (now numbering eight) had re-joined North Carolina by 1789. North Carolina ceded the area to the federal government in 1790, after which it was organized into the Southwest Territory. In an effort to encourage settlers to move west into the new territory, in 1787 the mother state of North Carolina ordered a road to be cut to take settlers into the Cumberland Settlements—from the south end of Clinch Mountain (in East Tennessee) to French Lick (Nashville). The Trace was called the "North Carolina Road" or "Avery's Trace", and sometimes "The Wilderness Road" (although it should not be confused with Daniel Boone's "Wilderness Road" through the Cumberland Gap).

Question: What was the name of the state that three North Carolina counties hoped to form in 1784?


Answer: Southwest Territory

Question: What was the name given to the land that North Carolina transferred to the federal government in 1790?


Answer: French Lick

Question: What town marked the western extent of the Cumberland Settlements?


Answer: Wilderness Road

Question: What other name does the North Carolina Road share with Daniel Boone's passage through the Cumberland Gap?


Answer: Tennessee

Context: Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796 as the 16th state. It was the first state created from territory under the jurisdiction of the United States federal government. Apart from the former Thirteen Colonies only Vermont and Kentucky predate Tennessee's statehood, and neither was ever a federal territory. The state boundaries, according to the Constitution of the State of Tennessee, Article I, Section 31, stated that the beginning point for identifying the boundary was the extreme height of the Stone Mountain, at the place where the line of Virginia intersects it, and basically ran the extreme heights of mountain chains through the Appalachian Mountains separating North Carolina from Tennessee past the Indian towns of Cowee and Old Chota, thence along the main ridge of the said mountain (Unicoi Mountain) to the southern boundary of the state; all the territory, lands and waters lying west of said line are included in the boundaries and limits of the newly formed state of Tennessee. Part of the provision also stated that the limits and jurisdiction of the state would include future land acquisition, referencing possible land trade with other states, or the acquisition of territory from west of the Mississippi River.

Question: Which state was the first formed out of federally controlled territory?


Answer: Vermont and Kentucky

Question: In addition to the original thirteen, which two states were admitted to the union before Tennessee?


Answer: Stone Mountain

Question: Which mountain marked the starting point of the Tennessee border described by the state constitution?


Answer: Mississippi River

Question: When Tennessee's border was first defined, territory west of which river was considered for future annexation?


Answer: Martin Van Buren

Context: During the administration of U.S. President Martin Van Buren, nearly 17,000 Cherokees—along with approximately 2,000 black slaves owned by Cherokees—were uprooted from their homes between 1838 and 1839 and were forced by the U.S. military to march from "emigration depots" in Eastern Tennessee (such as Fort Cass) toward the more distant Indian Territory west of Arkansas. During this relocation an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way west. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Isunyi—"the Trail Where We Cried." The Cherokees were not the only American Indians forced to emigrate as a result of the Indian removal efforts of the United States, and so the phrase "Trail of Tears" is sometimes used to refer to similar events endured by other American Indian peoples, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes". The phrase originated as a description of the earlier emigration of the Choctaw nation.

Question: Which US President oversaw the forced westward relocation of Cherokees beginning in 1838?


Answer: 2,000

Question: How many Cherokee-owned black slaves were also relocated between 1838 and 1839?


Answer: Nunna daul Isunyi

Question: What Cherokee phrase means "the trail where we cried?"


Answer: Choctaw

Question: Which Native American nation's emigration was first associated with the term "Trail of Tears?"


Answer: 4,000

Question: Approximately how many Cherokees died along their "Trail of Tears?"


Answer: Isham Harris

Context: In February 1861, secessionists in Tennessee's state government—led by Governor Isham Harris—sought voter approval for a convention to sever ties with the United States, but Tennessee voters rejected the referendum by a 54–46% margin. The strongest opposition to secession came from East Tennessee (which later tried to form a separate Union-aligned state). Following the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter in April and Lincoln's call for troops from Tennessee and other states in response, Governor Isham Harris began military mobilization, submitted an ordinance of secession to the General Assembly, and made direct overtures to the Confederate government. The Tennessee legislature ratified an agreement to enter a military league with the Confederate States on May 7, 1861. On June 8, 1861, with people in Middle Tennessee having significantly changed their position, voters approved a second referendum calling for secession, becoming the last state to do so.

Question: Which Tennessee governor championed secession in February of 1861?


Answer: East Tennessee

Question: Which area of Tennessee was most resistant to secession?


Answer: 54

Question: What percentage of voters voted against secession in Tennessee's February 1861 referendum?


Answer: May 7, 1861

Question: On which date did Tennessee enter a military alliance with the Confederacy?


Answer: Middle Tennessee

Question: Which region of Tennessee swung in favor of secession in the June 1861 referendum?


Answer: Union

Context: Many major battles of the American Civil War were fought in Tennessee—most of them Union victories. Ulysses S. Grant and the U.S. Navy captured control of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers in February 1862. They held off the Confederate counterattack at Shiloh in April. Memphis fell to the Union in June, following a naval battle on the Mississippi River in front of the city. The Capture of Memphis and Nashville gave the Union control of the western and middle sections; this control was confirmed at the Battle of Murfreesboro in early January 1863 and by the subsequent Tullahoma Campaign.

Question: Which side won more Civil War battles in Tennessee?


Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Question: Which Union commander seized control of the Tennessee River in February 1862?


Answer: June

Question: During which month in 1862 did Union forces capture Memphis?


Answer: Battle of Murfreesboro

Question: Union control of Middle Tennessee was reaffirmed by what battle in January 1863?


Answer: Sullivan County

Context: Confederates held East Tennessee despite the strength of Unionist sentiment there, with the exception of extremely pro-Confederate Sullivan County. The Confederates, led by General James Longstreet, did attack General Burnside's Fort Sanders at Knoxville and lost. It was a big blow to East Tennessee Confederate momentum, but Longstreet won the Battle of Bean's Station a few weeks later. The Confederates besieged Chattanooga during the Chattanooga Campaign in early fall 1863, but were driven off by Grant in November. Many of the Confederate defeats can be attributed to the poor strategic vision of General Braxton Bragg, who led the Army of Tennessee from Perryville, Kentucky to another Confederate defeat at Chattanooga.

Question: Which county in East Tennessee was more supportive of the Confederacy than its neighbors?


Answer: James Longstreet

Question: Which Confederate general failed to capture the Union fort at Knoxville?


Answer: Grant

Question: Which Union general broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga in November 1863?


Answer: Braxton Bragg

Question: Which Confederate general launched an attack on Chattanooga from Perryville, KY?


Answer: Battle of Bean's Station

Question: Which battle did Confederate General Longstreet win in East Tennessee?


Answer: Union

Context: When the Emancipation Proclamation was announced, Tennessee was mostly held by Union forces. Thus, Tennessee was not among the states enumerated in the Proclamation, and the Proclamation did not free any slaves there. Nonetheless, enslaved African Americans escaped to Union lines to gain freedom without waiting for official action. Old and young, men, women and children camped near Union troops. Thousands of former slaves ended up fighting on the Union side, nearly 200,000 in total across the South.

Question: Which forces controlled most of Tennessee when slaves were emancipated?


Answer: 200,000

Question: Up to how many former slaves began fighting with for the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation?


Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Question: Which edict freed slaves across most of the Confederacy, but technically not Tennessee?


Answer: Andrew Johnson

Context: In 1864, Andrew Johnson (a War Democrat from Tennessee) was elected Vice President under Abraham Lincoln. He became President after Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Under Johnson's lenient re-admission policy, Tennessee was the first of the seceding states to have its elected members readmitted to the U.S. Congress, on July 24, 1866. Because Tennessee had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, it was the only one of the formerly secessionist states that did not have a military governor during the Reconstruction period.

Question: Who was elected Vice President of the United States in 1864?


Answer: Tennessee

Question: Which Confederate state's representation was readmitted to Congress first?


Answer: July 24, 1866

Question: On which date were Tennessee's elected representatives restored to their offices in Washington D.C.?


Answer: Fourteenth

Question: Their ratification of which Amendment spared Tennessee a military governor during Reconstruction?


Answer: 1865

Question: In which year did Andrew Johnson become President?


Answer: African Americans

Context: After the formal end of Reconstruction, the struggle over power in Southern society continued. Through violence and intimidation against freedmen and their allies, White Democrats regained political power in Tennessee and other states across the South in the late 1870s and 1880s. Over the next decade, the state legislature passed increasingly restrictive laws to control African Americans. In 1889 the General Assembly passed four laws described as electoral reform, with the cumulative effect of essentially disfranchising most African Americans in rural areas and small towns, as well as many poor Whites. Legislation included implementation of a poll tax, timing of registration, and recording requirements. Tens of thousands of taxpaying citizens were without representation for decades into the 20th century. Disfranchising legislation accompanied Jim Crow laws passed in the late 19th century, which imposed segregation in the state. In 1900, African Americans made up nearly 24% of the state's population, and numbered 480,430 citizens who lived mostly in the central and western parts of the state.

Question: Who were targeted by restrictive laws passed in Southern states at the end of the 19th century?


Answer: 1889

Question: In which year did the Tennessee General Assembly pass electoral reform laws that disenfranchised most African Americans in the state?


Answer: poor Whites

Question: Who besides African Americans were victims of Tennessee's late-19th century electoral reform?


Answer: Jim Crow laws

Question: What is the name for laws dating from the late-19th century which promoted segregation?


Answer: 480,430

Question: Approximately how many African Americans lived in Tennessee in 1900?


Answer: Bob Corker

Context: In 2002, businessman Phil Bredesen was elected as the 48th governor. Also in 2002, Tennessee amended the state constitution to allow for the establishment of a lottery. Tennessee's Bob Corker was the only freshman Republican elected to the United States Senate in the 2006 midterm elections. The state constitution was amended to reject same-sex marriage. In January 2007, Ron Ramsey became the first Republican elected as Speaker of the State Senate since Reconstruction, as a result of the realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties in the South since the late 20th century, with Republicans now elected by conservative voters, who previously had supported Democrats.

Question: Which Tennessee Senator was the only Republican first-time Senator elected in 2006?


Answer: Phil Bredesen

Question: Who was elected governor of Tennessee in 2002?


Answer: Ron Ramsey

Question: Who was the first Republican Speaker of the Tennessee state senate since Democrats took control in the Reconstruction era?


Answer: Democratic

Question: Which political party did the majority of conservative Tennessee voters support in the early 20th century?


Answer: 6,600,299

Context: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2015, Tennessee had an estimated population of 6,600,299, which is an increase of 50,947, from the prior year and an increase of 254,194, or 4.01%, since the year 2010. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 142,266 people (that is 493,881 births minus 351,615 deaths), and an increase from net migration of 219,551 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 59,385 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 160,166 people. Twenty percent of Tennesseans were born outside the South in 2008, compared to a figure of 13.5% in 1990.

Question: What was Tennessee's estimated population in 2015?


Answer: 4.01%

Question: What percentage population increase did Tennessee experience between 2010 and 2015?


Answer: 219,551

Question: How much of Tennessee's population increase between 2010 and 2015 was due to migration?


Answer: Twenty percent

Question: In 2008, what percentage of Tennessee residents were born outside the South?


Answer: 59,385

Question: What net population increase during Tennessee's last two US Census reports was due to immigration from outside the country?


Answer: American

Context: In 2000, the five most common self-reported ethnic groups in the state were: American (17.3%), African American (13.0%), Irish (9.3%), English (9.1%), and German (8.3%). Most Tennesseans who self-identify as having American ancestry are of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. An estimated 21–24% of Tennesseans are of predominantly English ancestry. In the 1980 census 1,435,147 Tennesseans claimed "English" or "mostly English" ancestry out of a state population of 3,221,354 making them 45% of the state at the time.

Question: What was Tennessee's most common self-reported ethnic group in 2000?


Answer: 9.3%

Question: What percent of Tennessee residents self-reported their ethnic group as Irish in 2000?


Answer: English and Scotch-Irish

Question: Which European ancestries are most common among self-identified ethnic "Americans" in Tennessee?


Answer: English

Question: What European national ancestry was claimed by 45% of Tennessee residents in 1980?


Answer: 3,221,354

Question: What was Tennessee's population in 1980?


Answer: National Baptist Convention

Context: Tennessee is home to several Protestant denominations, such as the National Baptist Convention (headquartered in Nashville); the Church of God in Christ and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (both headquartered in Memphis); the Church of God and The Church of God of Prophecy (both headquartered in Cleveland). The Free Will Baptist denomination is headquartered in Antioch; its main Bible college is in Nashville. The Southern Baptist Convention maintains its general headquarters in Nashville. Publishing houses of several denominations are located in Nashville.

Question: Which Protestant denomination has its headquarters in Nashville, TN?


Answer: Cleveland

Question: Which Tennessee city contains the headquarters of the Church of God and The Church of God of Prophecy?


Answer: Nashville

Question: The principle Bible college of the Free Will Baptists is located in which Tennessee city?


Answer: Church of God in Christ and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Question: Which two major Protestant denominations are based in Memphis?


Answer: 82,000

Context: Major outputs for the state include textiles, cotton, cattle, and electrical power. Tennessee has over 82,000 farms, roughly 59 percent of which accommodate beef cattle. Although cotton was an early crop in Tennessee, large-scale cultivation of the fiber did not begin until the 1820s with the opening of the land between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers. The upper wedge of the Mississippi Delta extends into southwestern Tennessee, and it was in this fertile section that cotton took hold. Soybeans are also heavily planted in West Tennessee, focusing on the northwest corner of the state.

Question: Roughly how many farms are located in Tennesee?


Answer: beef cattle

Question: Which livestock is the major focus of Tennessee agriculture?


Answer: 1820s

Question: When did cotton first become a large-scale agricultural product in Tennessee?


Answer: Mississippi Delta

Question: Which river landform partly in Tennessee provided the most fertile land for cotton production?


Answer: Memphis

Context: Major corporations with headquarters in Tennessee include FedEx, AutoZone and International Paper, all based in Memphis; Pilot Corporation and Regal Entertainment Group, based in Knoxville; Eastman Chemical Company, based in Kingsport; the North American headquarters of Nissan Motor Company, based in Franklin; Hospital Corporation of America and Caterpillar Financial, based in Nashville; and Unum, based in Chattanooga. Tennessee is also the location of the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, a $2 billion polysilicon production facility by Wacker Chemie in Bradley County, and a $1.2 billion polysilicon production facility by Hemlock Semiconductor in Clarksville.

Question: Where in Tennessee is the headquarters of International Paper?


Answer: Franklin

Question: Where is Nissan Motor Company's headquarters in the United States?


Answer: Wacker Chemie

Question: Which company has a $2 billion production plant in Bradley County?


Answer: Clarksville

Question: Hemlock Semiconductor produces electronic components in which Tennessee city?


Answer: FedEx

Question: Which major global shipping company is based in Memphis?


Answer: salaries and wages

Context: The Tennessee income tax does not apply to salaries and wages, but most income from stock, bonds and notes receivable is taxable. All taxable dividends and interest which exceed the $1,250 single exemption or the $2,500 joint exemption are taxable at the rate of 6%. The state's sales and use tax rate for most items is 7%. Food is taxed at a lower rate of 5.25%, but candy, dietary supplements and prepared food are taxed at the full 7% rate. Local sales taxes are collected in most jurisdictions, at rates varying from 1.5% to 2.75%, bringing the total sales tax to between 8.5% and 9.75%, one of the highest levels in the nation. Intangible property is assessed on the shares of stock of stockholders of any loan company, investment company, insurance company or for-profit cemetery companies. The assessment ratio is 40% of the value multiplied by the tax rate for the jurisdiction. Tennessee imposes an inheritance tax on decedents' estates that exceed maximum single exemption limits ($1,000,000 for deaths in 2006 and thereafter).

Question: What types of income are exempt from Tennessee state income tax?


Answer: 7%

Question: At what rate is Tennessee state sales and use tax usually applied?


Answer: $1,000,000

Question: Above which amount is inheritance tax applied in Tennessee?


Answer: 5.25%

Question: What is the sales tax on foodstuffs in Tennessee?


Answer: candy, dietary supplements and prepared food

Question: Which edible items are taxed at the higher non-food sales and use tax rate in Tennessee?


Answer: 2014

Context: Tourism contributes billions of dollars each year to the state's economy and Tennessee is ranked among the Top 10 destinations in the US. In 2014 a record 100 million people visited the state resulting in $17.7 billion in tourism related spending within the state, an increase of 6.3% over 2013; tax revenue from tourism equaled $1.5 billion. Each county in Tennessee saw at least $1 million from tourism while 19 counties received at least $100 million (Davidson, Shelby, and Sevier counties were the top three). Tourism-generated jobs for the state reached 152,900, a 2.8% increase. International travelers to Tennessee accounted for $533 million in spending.

Question: In which year did Tennessee tourism first exceed 100 million visitors?


Answer: 17.7

Question: How many billions of dollars were spend by tourists in Tennessee in 2014?


Answer: $1.5 billion

Question: How much tax revenue did tourism generate for Tennessee in 2014?


Answer: Davidson, Shelby, and Sevier

Question: In 2014, which three Tennessee counties took in the most money from tourism?


Answer: 2.8%

Question: What was the percentage increase in Tennessee's tourism-based jobs in 2014?


Answer: Georgia

Context: In 2013 tourism within the state from local citizens accounted for 39.9% of tourists, the second highest originating location for tourists to Tennessee is the state of Georgia, accounting for 8.4% of tourists.:17 Forty-four percent of stays in the state were "day trips", 25% stayed one night, 15% stayed two nights, and 11% stayed 4 or more nights. The average stay was 2.16 nights, compared to 2.03 nights for the US as a whole.:40 The average person spent $118 per day: 29% on transportation, 24% on food, 17% on accommodation, and 28% on shopping and entertainment.:44

Question: Which other state sent Tennessee the most tourists in 2013?


Answer: 11%

Question: What percentage of out-of-state tourists stayed in Tennessee for four or more nights?


Answer: $118

Question: What average daily amount did a tourist spend in Tennessee in 2013?


Answer: 17%

Question: What percentage of Tennessee tourists daily spending in 2013 went toward accommodation?


Answer: Tennessee

Question: In which state do the greatest percentage of Tennessee tourists reside?


Answer: Kingsport

Context: Interstate 40 crosses the state in a west-east orientation. Its branch interstate highways include I-240 in Memphis; I-440 in Nashville; I-140 from Knoxville to Alcoa and I-640 in Knoxville. I-26, although technically an east-west interstate, runs from the North Carolina border below Johnson City to its terminus at Kingsport. I-24 is an east-west interstate that runs cross-state from Chattanooga to Clarksville. In a north-south orientation are highways I-55, I-65, I-75, and I-81. Interstate 65 crosses the state through Nashville, while Interstate 75 serves Chattanooga and Knoxville and Interstate 55 serves Memphis. Interstate 81 enters the state at Bristol and terminates at its junction with I-40 near Dandridge. I-155 is a branch highway from I-55. The only spur highway of I-75 in Tennessee is I-275, which is in Knoxville. When completed, I-69 will travel through the western part of the state, from South Fulton to Memphis. A branch interstate, I-269 also exists from Millington to Collierville.

Question: Which city is the endpoint of I-26?


Answer: Chattanooga to Clarksville

Question: I-24 connects which two Tennessee cities?


Answer: Interstate 55

Question: Which interstate highway running north-south passes through Memphis?


Answer: Interstate 81

Question: Which interstate ends at a junction close to Dandridge, Tennessee?


Answer: Millington to Collierville

Question: What Tennessee cities are connected by I-269?


Answer: Republican and the Democratic

Context: Tennessee politics, like that of most U.S. states, are dominated by the Republican and the Democratic parties. Historian Dewey W. Grantham traces divisions in the state to the period of the American Civil War: for decades afterward, the eastern third of the state was Republican and the western two thirds voted Democrat. This division was related to the state's pattern of farming, plantations and slaveholding. The eastern section was made up of yeoman farmers, but Middle and West Tennessee cultivated crops, such as tobacco and cotton, that were dependent on the use of slave labor. These areas became defined as Democratic after the war.

Question: Which are the two main parties in Tennessee politics?


Answer: eastern

Question: Which part of Tennessee voted more Republican in the years following the Civil War?


Answer: yeoman

Question: What type of farmers inhabited eastern Tennessee in the late 19th century?


Answer: tobacco and cotton

Question: Which crops grown in West Tennessee had required a great deal of slave labor?


Answer: Republican

Context: During Reconstruction, freedmen and former free people of color were granted the right to vote; most joined the Republican Party. Numerous African Americans were elected to local offices, and some to state office. Following Reconstruction, Tennessee continued to have competitive party politics. But in the 1880s, the white-dominated state government passed four laws, the last of which imposed a poll tax requirement for voter registration. These served to disenfranchise most African Americans, and their power in the Republican Party, the state, and cities where they had significant population was markedly reduced. In 1900 African Americans comprised 23.8 percent of the state's population, concentrated in Middle and West Tennessee. In the early 1900s, the state legislature approved a form of commission government for cities based on at-large voting for a few positions on a Board of Commission; several adopted this as another means to limit African-American political participation. In 1913 the state legislature enacted a bill enabling cities to adopt this structure without legislative approval.

Question: Which party did most former slaves join when they were given the right to vote after the Civil War?


Answer: 1880s

Question: In which decade did the Tennessee legislature institute a poll tax?


Answer: Republican

Question: Which party declined in Tennessee politics following voting reform legislation during Reconstruction?


Answer: 23.8

Question: What percentage of the Tennessee population was African-American in 1900?


Answer: Board of Commission

Question: In 1913, the Tennessee state legislature made which organizational structure the default form of city government in the state?


Answer: Warren G. Harding

Context: After disenfranchisement of blacks, the GOP in Tennessee was historically a sectional party supported by whites only in the eastern part of the state. In the 20th century, except for two nationwide Republican landslides of the 1920s (in 1920, when Tennessee narrowly supported Warren G. Harding over Ohio Governor James Cox, and in 1928, when it more decisively voted for Herbert Hoover over New York Governor Al Smith, a Catholic), the state was part of the Democratic Solid South until the 1950s. In that postwar decade, it twice voted for Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Allied Commander of the Armed Forces during World War II. Since then, more of the state's voters have shifted to supporting Republicans, and Democratic presidential candidates have carried Tennessee only four times.

Question: Which Republican presidential candidate did Tennessee support in 1920?


Answer: Catholic

Question: What religion was the Democratic presidential candidate that Tennessee voted against in 1928?


Answer: four

Question: How many times has Tennessee supported Democratic presidential candidates in the general elections since the 1950s?


Answer: Herbert Hoover

Question: Which Republican won the Presidency while carrying Tennessee in 1928?


Answer: African Americans

Context: By 1960 African Americans comprised 16.45% of the state's population. It was not until after the mid-1960s and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that they were able to vote in full again, but new devices, such as at-large commission city governments, had been adopted in several jurisdictions to limit their political participation. Former Gov. Winfield Dunn and former U.S. Sen. Bill Brock wins in 1970 helped make the Republican Party competitive among whites for the statewide victory. Tennessee has selected governors from different parties since 1970. Increasingly the Republican Party has become the party of white conservatives.

Question: In 1960, what group made up 16.45% of Tennessee's population?


Answer: Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question: What Congressional Act fully re-enfranchised African-American in Tennessee?


Answer: Bill Brock

Question: Which Republican Senator's 1970 victory showed the Republican Party's renewed competitiveness in Tennessee?


Answer: white conservatives

Question: Which constituency has become the Republican Party's staunchest supporters in Tennessee?


Answer: Winfield Dunn

Question: Which Republican was elected Tennessee Governor in 1970?


Answer: Nashville and Memphis

Context: In the early 21st century, Republican voters control most of the state, especially in the more rural and suburban areas outside of the cities; Democratic strength is mostly confined to the urban cores of the four major cities, and is particularly strong in the cities of Nashville and Memphis. The latter area includes a large African-American population. Historically, Republicans had their greatest strength in East Tennessee before the 1960s. Tennessee's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, based in the Tri-Cities and Knoxville, respectively, are among the few historically Republican districts in the South. Those districts' residents supported the Union over the Confederacy during the Civil War; they identified with the GOP after the war and have stayed with that party ever since. The 1st has been in Republican hands continuously since 1881, and Republicans (or their antecedents) have held it for all but four years since 1859. The 2nd has been held continuously by Republicans or their antecedents since 1859.

Question: Which two Tennessee cities are most supportive of the Democratic Party?


Answer: Memphis

Question: Which Tennessee city has the largest African-American population?


Answer: 1st and 2nd

Question: Which two eastern Tennessee congressional districts have the longest track record of favoring Republican candidates?


Answer: 1881

Question: Since which year has Tennessee's 1st congressional district voted overwhelmingly Republican?


Answer: Tri-Cities and Knoxville

Question: Which two Tennessee metropolitan areas have been most supportive of the Republican Party?


Answer: Al Gore

Context: In the 2000 presidential election, Vice President Al Gore, a former Democratic U.S. Senator from Tennessee, failed to carry his home state, an unusual occurrence but indicative of strengthening Republican support. Republican George W. Bush received increased support in 2004, with his margin of victory in the state increasing from 4% in 2000 to 14% in 2004. Democratic presidential nominees from Southern states (such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton) usually fare better than their Northern counterparts do in Tennessee, especially among split-ticket voters outside the metropolitan areas.

Question: Which Democratic candidate lost his own state in the 2000 general election?


Answer: 14%

Question: By what percentage of the popular vote did George W. Bush carry Tennessee in 2004?


Answer: Southern

Question: Democratic presidential candidates from which region's states have fared best in recent Tennessee history?


Answer: Al Gore

Question: Which 2000 presidential candidate was a former US Senator from Tennessee?


Answer: Baker v. Carr

Context: The Baker v. Carr (1962) decision of the US Supreme Court established the principle of "one man, one vote", requiring state legislatures to redistrict to bring Congressional apportionment in line with decennial censuses. It also required both houses of state legislatures to be based on population for representation and not geographic districts such as counties. This case arose out of a lawsuit challenging the longstanding rural bias of apportionment of seats in the Tennessee legislature. After decades in which urban populations had been underrepresented in many state legislatures, this significant ruling led to an increased (and proportional) prominence in state politics by urban and, eventually, suburban, legislators and statewide officeholders in relation to their population within the state. The ruling also applied to numerous other states long controlled by rural minorities, such as Alabama, Vermont, and Montana.

Question: Which 1962 US Supreme Court ruling forced states to realign their voting districts to reflect census findings?


Answer: one man, one vote

Question: What phrase expresses the Supreme Court's 1962 decision that population overrules geographic consideration in election districting?


Answer: rural

Question: A bias in Tennessee politics favoring which type of geographical district gave rise to the Baker v. Carr Supreme Court case?


Answer: urban

Question: Which type of geographical district became more powerful in Tennessee politics following the 1962 Supreme Court decision?


Answer: Highway Patrol

Context: The Highway Patrol is the primary law enforcement entity that concentrates on highway safety regulations and general non-wildlife state law enforcement and is under the jurisdiction of the Tennessee Department of Safety. The TWRA is an independent agency tasked with enforcing all wildlife, boating, and fisheries regulations outside of state parks. The TBI maintains state-of-the-art investigative facilities and is the primary state-level criminal investigative department. Tennessee State Park Rangers are responsible for all activities and law enforcement inside the Tennessee State Parks system.

Question: Which Tennessee law enforcement agency looks for road safety violations?


Answer: TWRA

Question: Which Tennessee agency enforces state wildlife regulations outside of parks?


Answer: TBI

Question: What is the acronym for Tennessee's statewide criminal investigation agency?


Answer: Tennessee State Park Rangers

Question: Who provides law enforcement within Tennessee's state parks?


Answer: Sheriff's Office

Context: Local law enforcement is divided between County Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Departments. Tennessee's Constitution requires that each County have an elected Sheriff. In 94 of the 95 counties the Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county and has jurisdiction over the county as a whole. Each Sheriff's Office is responsible for warrant service, court security, jail operations and primary law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of a county as well as providing support to the municipal police departments. Incorporated municipalities are required to maintain a police department to provide police services within their corporate limits.

Question: Which law enforcement entity serves warrants in Tennessee?


Answer: Sheriff

Question: Each Tennessee county must elect which law enforcement official?


Answer: County Sheriff

Question: Who is in charge of policing Tennessee counties' unincorporated areas?


Answer: Municipal Police Departments

Question: Who polices incorporated areas of Tennessee's counties?


Answer: 94 of the 95

Question: What proportion of Tennessee counties recognize their Sheriff as their head law enforcement official?


Answer: hanging

Context: Capital punishment has existed in Tennessee at various times since statehood. Before 1913 the method of execution was hanging. From 1913 to 1915 there was a hiatus on executions but they were reinstated in 1916 when electrocution became the new method. From 1972 to 1978, after the Supreme Court ruled (Furman v. Georgia) capital punishment unconstitutional, there were no further executions. Capital punishment was restarted in 1978, although those prisoners awaiting execution between 1960 and 1978 had their sentences mostly commuted to life in prison. From 1916 to 1960 the state executed 125 inmates. For a variety of reasons there were no further executions until 2000. Since 2000, Tennessee has executed six prisoners and has 73 prisoners on death row (as of April 2015).

Question: What method did Tennessee use for capital punishment before 1913?


Answer: 1916

Question: In which year was electrocution introduced as Tennessee's method of execution?


Answer: six

Question: How many inmates has Tennessee executed since 2000?


Answer: 73

Question: How many death row inmates were awaiting executing in Tennessee in April 2015?


Answer: 125

Question: How many prisoners did Tennessee execute between 1916 and 1960?


Answer: Volunteers

Context: In Knoxville, the Tennessee Volunteers college team has played in the Southeastern Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 1932. The football team has won 13 SEC championships and 25 bowls, including four Sugar Bowls, three Cotton Bowls, an Orange Bowl and a Fiesta Bowl. Meanwhile, the men's basketball team has won four SEC championships and reached the NCAA Elite Eight in 2010. In addition, the women's basketball team has won a host of SEC regular-season and tournament titles along with 8 national titles.

Question: What is the nickname of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville athletic teams?


Answer: 1932

Question: In which year did the University of Tennessee begin competing in the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA?


Answer: 25

Question: How many college football bowl championships have the Tennessee Volunteers won?


Answer: 8

Question: How many national titles has the Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball team claimed?


Answer: Elite Eight

Question: What is the farthest the Tennessee Volunteers have progressed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament?


Answer: heterogeneous type of rock music

Context: Post-punk is a heterogeneous type of rock music that emerged in the wake of the punk movement of the 1970s. Drawing inspiration from elements of punk rock while departing from its musical conventions and wider cultural affiliations, post-punk music was marked by varied, experimentalist sensibilities and its "conceptual assault" on rock tradition. Artists embraced electronic music, black dance styles and the avant-garde, as well as novel recording technology and production techniques. The movement also saw the frequent intersection of music with art and politics, as artists liberally drew on sources such as critical theory, cinema, performance art and modernist literature. Accompanying these musical developments were subcultures that produced visual art, multimedia performances, independent record labels and fanzines in conjunction with the music.

Question: What is post-punk?


Answer: in the wake of the punk movement of the 1970s

Question: When did post-punk arrive on the scene?


Answer: critical theory, cinema, performance art and modernist literature

Question: What did post-punk artists use in their music?


Answer: independent record labels and fanzines

Question: What began to spring up around the post-punk music?


Answer: conceptual assault

Question: How did post-punk take on rock and roll?


Answer: 1970s

Question: When was the original punk movement?


Answer: Post-punk

Question: What is a name for a type of rock music that is extremely varied in sound?


Answer: musical conventions and wider cultural affiliations

Question: What elements of punk rock did post-punk depart from?


Answer: art and politics

Question: What subject matter does post-punk commonly mesh its musical sensibilities with?


Answer: subcultures

Question: What developed along with the music developments of post-punk?


Answer: journalists in the late 1970s

Context: The term "post-punk" was first used by journalists in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas. Many of these artists, initially inspired by punk's DIY ethic and energy, ultimately became disillusioned with the style and movement, feeling that it had fallen into commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody. They repudiated its populist claims to accessibility and raw simplicity, instead seeing an opportunity to break with musical tradition, subvert commonplaces and challenge audiences. Artists moved beyonds punk's focus on the concerns of a largely white, male, working class population and abandoned its continued reliance on established rock and roll tropes, such as three-chord progressions and Chuck Berry-based guitar riffs. These artists instead defined punk as "an imperative to constant change", believing that "radical content demands radical form".

Question: Who coined the term post-punk?


Answer: groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas

Question: What dis the new term, post-punk, cover?


Answer: punk's DIY ethic and energy

Question: What inspired early post-punk artists?


Answer: commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody

Question: Why did post-punk fall out of love with punk?


Answer: "radical content demands radical form"

Question: What did the new post-punk artists believe?


Answer: journalists

Question: Who were the first to use the term "post-punk"?


Answer: late 1970s

Question: When was "post-punk" first used to start describing artists?


Answer: punk's DIY ethic and energy

Question: What were many post-punk artists originally inspired by?


Answer: three

Question: How many chords did standard punk songs typically use?


Answer: change

Question: What did post-punk artists feel there was an imperative to constantly do?


Answer: experimentation with production techniques

Context: Though the music varied widely between regions and artists, the post-punk movement has been characterized by its "conceptual assault" on rock conventions and rejection of aesthetics perceived of as traditionalist, hegemonic or rockist in favor of experimentation with production techniques and non-rock musical styles such as dub, electronic music, disco, noise, jazz, krautrock, world music and the avant-garde. While post-punk musicians often avoided or intentionally obscured conventional influences, previous musical styles did serve as touchstones for the movement, including particular brands of glam, art rock and "[the] dark undercurrent of '60s music".[nb 1] According to Reynolds, artists once again approached the studio as an instrument, using new recording methods and pursuing novel sonic territories. Author Matthew Bannister wrote that post-punk artists rejected the high cultural references of 1960s rock artists like the Beatles and Bob Dylan as well as paradigms that defined "rock as progressive, as art, as 'sterile' studio perfectionism ... by adopting an avant-garde aesthetic".

Question: What were the things that post-punk really got into?


Answer: dub, electronic music, disco, noise, jazz, krautrock, world music and the avant-garde

Question: What are non-rock styles that post-punk used as inspiration?


Answer: avant-garde

Question: What aesthetic did Matthew Bannister associate with post-punk?


Answer: high cultural references of 1960s rock artists

Question: What music did post-punk end to reject?


Answer: rock

Question: As a movement, post-punk has been characterized by its conceptual assault on what conventions?


Answer: aesthetics

Question: What does post-punk reject any of which are perceived as being traditionalist, hegemonic, or rockist?


Answer: experimentation

Question: What is one of the foundational aspects post-punk is deeply favorable towards?


Answer: as an instrument

Question: How did post-punk artists once again approach the studio?


Answer: high cultural

Question: What references did post-punk artists specifically reject of the 1960s rock artists?


Answer: fusion of art and music

Context: Nicholas Lezard described post-punk as "a fusion of art and music". The era saw the robust appropriation of ideas from literature, art, cinema, philosophy, politics and critical theory into musical and pop cultural contexts. Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to the art school tradition found in the work of artists such as Captain Beefheart and David Bowie. Among major influences on a variety of post-punk artists were writers such as William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, avant-garde political scenes such as Situationism and Dada, and intellectual movements such as postmodernism. Many artists viewed their work in explicitly political terms. Additionally, in some locations, the creation of post-punk music was closely linked to the development of efficacious subcultures, which played important roles in the production of art, multimedia performances, fanzines and independent labels related to the music. Many post-punk artists maintained an anti-corporatist approach to recording and instead seized on alternate means of producing and releasing music. Journalists also became an important element of the culture, and popular music magazines and critics became immersed in the movement.

Question: How did Nicholas Lezard describe post-punk?


Answer: Captain Beefheart and David Bowie

Question: Which artists were influential in post-punk?


Answer: William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard

Question: Which writers helped to influence the post-punk movement?


Answer: postmodernism

Question: What was an intellectual focus of post-punk?


Answer: anti-corporatist

Question: How did the post-punk movement feel about big business?


Answer: "a fusion of art and music"

Question: What was Nicholas Lezard's description of post-punk?


Answer: musical and pop cultural contexts

Question: Where did post-punk ram its appropriation of ideas into?


Answer: art school

Question: What tradition could be found in works by Captain Beefheart and David Bowie?


Answer: postmodernism

Question: What intellectual movement informed and influenced a variety of post-punk artists?


Answer: anti-corporatist

Question: Why did many post-punk artists produce and release their own music?


Answer: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Context: The scope of the term "post-punk" has been subject to controversy. While some critics, such as AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, have employed the term "post-punk" to denote "a more adventurous and arty form of punk", others have suggested it pertains to a set of artistic sensibilities and approaches rather than any unifying style. Music journalist and post-punk scholar Simon Reynolds has advocated that post-punk be conceived as "less a genre of music than a space of possibility", suggesting that "what unites all this activity is a set of open-ended imperatives: innovation; willful oddness; the willful jettisoning of all things precedented or 'rock'n'roll'". Nicholas Lezard, problematizing the categorization of post-punk as a genre, described the movement as "so multifarious that only the broadest use of the term is possible".

Question: Who described post-punk as "a more adventurous and arty form of punk"?


Answer: Simon Reynolds

Question: Who described post-punk as "less a genre of music than a space of possibility"?


Answer: Nicholas Lezard

Question: Who said "so multifarious that only the broadest use of the term is possible" with regards to post-punk?


Answer: AllMusic

Question: Who does music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine work for?


Answer: controversy

Question: What as the blanket term "post-punk" been the target of?


Answer: AllMusic

Question: What organization is Stephen Thomas Erlewine associated with?


Answer: unifying style

Question: What have some people suggested post-punk doesn't have, instead being more about approaches and sensibilities?


Answer: post-punk

Question: Why type of scholar is music journalist Simon Reynolds?


Answer: multifarious

Question: Why is only the broadest use of genre possible when trying to categorize what actually defines post-punk?


Answer: music that emerged from the cultural milieu of punk rock in the late 1970s

Context: Generally, post-punk music is defined as music that emerged from the cultural milieu of punk rock in the late 1970s, although many groups now categorized as post-punk were initially subsumed under the broad umbrella of punk or new wave music, only becoming differentiated as the terms came to signify more narrow styles. Additionally, the accuracy of the term's chronological prefix "post" has been disputed, as various groups commonly labeled post-punk in fact predate the punk rock movement. Reynolds defined the post-punk era as occurring loosely between 1978 and 1984.

Question: What is post-punk?


Answer: new wave music

Question: What else was music incorrectly catagorized into before post-punk?


Answer: various groups commonly labeled post-punk in fact predate the punk rock movement

Question: Why is the term post-punk sometimes disputed?


Answer: between 1978 and 1984

Question: What is the acctepted era of post-punk?


Answer: punk rock

Question: What previous movement is post-punk often identified as coming after?


Answer: punk or new wave music

Question: What were many groups now labeled as post-punk initially categorized as?


Answer: predate the punk rock movement

Question: Why has the prefix 'post' caused a bit of dispute as it relates to various post-punk groups?


Answer: Reynolds

Question: Who has defined a period of when the post-punk era was?


Answer: 1978 and 1984

Question: Between what years did Reynolds identify the post-punk era as existing?


Answer: Rough Trade

Context: During the initial punk era, a variety of entrepreneurs interested in local punk-influenced music scenes began founding independent record labels, including Rough Trade (founded by record shop owner Geoff Travis) and Factory (founded by Manchester-based television personality Tony Wilson). By 1977, groups began pointedly pursuing methods of releasing music independently , an idea disseminated in particular by the Buzzcocks' release of their Spiral Scratch EP on their own label as well as the self-released 1977 singles of Desperate Bicycles. These DIY imperatives would help form the production and distribution infrastructure of post-punk and the indie music scene that later blossomed in the mid-1980s.

Question: WHich independent music company was founded by Geoff Travis?


Answer: Tony Wilson

Question: Who founded Factory?


Answer: 1977

Question: When did releasing music indepentently really hit popularity?


Answer: Buzzcocks

Question: Who released Spiral Scratch on their own label?


Answer: mid-1980s

Question: When did the indoe music scene begin to grow?


Answer: independent record labels

Question: What did many entrepreneurs interested in their local punk-influenced music scenes found?


Answer: Geoff Travis

Question: Who founded the record label Rough Trade?


Answer: Manchester

Question: Where was Tony Wilson's Factory based?


Answer: 1977

Question: When did some groups start looking for methods to release their music themselves?


Answer: their own

Question: Whose label did the Buzzcocks release their Spiral Scratch EP on?


Answer: late 1977

Context: In late 1977, music writers for Sounds first used the terms "New Musick" and "post punk" to describe British acts such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire, who began experimenting with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics that differed significantly from their punk contemporaries. Writer Jon Savage described some of these early developments as exploring "harsh urban scrapings [,] controlled white noise" and "massively accented drumming". In January 1978, singer John Lydon (then known as Johnny Rotten) announced the break-up of his pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols, citing his disillusionment with punk's musical predictability and cooption by commercial interests, as well as his desire to explore more diverse interests.

Question: When did writers for Sounds first mention "post punk"?


Answer: experimenting

Question: What did Wire do with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics which different a lot from their peers?


Answer: Writer

Question: What career path did Jon Savage take in life?


Answer: January 1978

Question: When did the Sex Pistols break up?


Answer: the Banshees

Question: Who was Siouxsie backed by?


Answer: Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire

Question: What are examples of British bands termed post-punk?


Answer: Jon Savage

Question: Who connsidered post-punk "harsh urban scrapings [,] controlled white noise" and "massively accented drumming"?


Answer: Sex Pistols

Question: Which band's lead singer was Johnny Rotten?


Answer: John Lydon

Question: What was Johnny Rotten's real name?


Answer: 1978

Question: When did the Sex Pistols break up?


Answer: vibrant new scenes

Context: As the initial punk movement dwindled, vibrant new scenes began to coalesce out of a variety of bands pursuing experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory in their work. Many of these artists drew on backgrounds in art and viewed their music as invested in particular political or aesthetic agendas. British music publications such as the NME and Sounds developed an influential part in this nascent post-punk culture, with writers like Jon Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman developing a dense (and often playful) style of criticism that drew on critical theory, radical politics and an eclectic variety of other sources.

Question: When the punk movement started shrinking, what began to fill the void left by their demise?


Answer: wider conceptual

Question: What territory did the post-punk bands pursue in their works?


Answer: British

Question: What nationality's music magazines had an influential part of post-punk culture?


Answer: writers

Question: What professional is Ian Penman known from?


Answer: art

Question: What kind of background did many of the initial post-punk artists have?


Answer: Jon Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman

Question: Who were well known authors covering the post-punk era?


Answer: NME and Sounds

Question: What were popular post-punk culture media sources?


Answer: experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory

Question: What were the bands coming in on the heels of post-punk beginning to sound like?


Answer: backgrounds in art

Question: What was a common background of post-punk musicians?


Answer: political or aesthetic agendas

Question: What was a common theme to post-punk music?


Answer: Lydon

Context: Weeks after ending the Sex Pistols, Lydon formed the experimental group Public Image Ltd and declared the project to be "anti music of any kind". Public Image and other acts such as the Pop Group and the Slits had begun experimenting with dance music, dub production techniques and the avant-garde, while punk-indebted Manchester acts such as Joy Division, The Fall and A Certain Ratio developed unique styles which drew on a similarly disparate range of influences across music and modernist literature. Bands such as Scritti Politti, Gang of Four and This Heat incorporated Leftist political philosophy and their own art school studies in their work.

Question: Who was responsible for disbanding the Sex Pistols?


Answer: Public Image Ltd

Question: What group declared itself to be anti-music of any kind?


Answer: Manchester

Question: Where did Joy Division hail from?


Answer: modernist

Question: What type of literature contributed to Joy Division's unique style?


Answer: Leftist

Question: What end of the political spectrum was the political philosophy of Gang of Four?


Answer: Public Image Ltd

Question: What band did Johnny Rotten form after the Sex Pistols?


Answer: "anti music of any kind"

Question: What kind of group was Public Image Ltd?


Answer: Scritti Politti, Gang of Four and This Heat

Question: Which bands combined way left politics with art school studies?


Answer: Joy Division, The Fall and A Certain Ratio

Question: What are some British post-punk bands from Manchester?


Answer: Pop Group and the Slits

Question: Which post-punk bands began to branch off into things like dub and dance music?


Answer: post-punk

Context: The innovative production techniques devised by post-punk producers such as Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music, with studio experimentation taking a central role. A variety of groups that predated punk, such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, experimented with crude production techniques and electronic instruments in tandem with performance art methods and influence from transgressive literature, ultimately helping to pioneer industrial music. Throbbing Gristle's independent label Industrial Records would become a hub for this scene and provide it with its namesake.

Question: What type of producer was Martin Hannett?


Answer: innovative

Question: What type of production techniques did Dennis Bovell develop?


Answer: studio experimentation

Question: What took a central roll for the emerging post-punk music?


Answer: crude production techniques

Question: What eventually resulted in the pioneering of industrial music?


Answer: Throbbing Gristle's

Question: Whose independent label became a hub for the industrial scene?


Answer: Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell

Question: Who were producers that led the way with emerging the post-punk culture?


Answer: Industrial Records

Question: What was the name of Throbbing Gristle's record label?


Answer: Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle

Question: Which bands were on the forefront of industrial music?


Answer: Industrial Records

Question: Where did industrial music get it's name?


Answer: studio experimentation

Question: What was one of the most important ways that post-punk artists created their new sound?