Answer: Chinese prosecutors

Question: Who has joined an official inquiry into the school scandal?


Answer: professional crime

Context: However, Reuters reported in June that, to date, Chinese prosecutors have joined an official inquiry into ten collapsed schools during May's devastating earthquake to gain first-hand material of construction quality at the collapsed schools, launch preliminary inquiries and prepare for possible investigations into professional crime. It was also reported that safety checks were to be carried out at schools across China after last month's earthquake.

Question: What investigation are the prosecutors pursuing?


Answer: schools across China

Question: Where are the Chinese going to perform safety checks?


Answer: Reuters

Question: What group reported that Chinese prosecutors were involved in investigating the schoolhouse collapses?


Answer: money

Context: The New York Times reported that "government officials in Beijing and Sichuan have said they are investigating the collapses. In an acknowledgment of the weakness of building codes in the countryside, the National Development and Reform Commission said on May 27 that it had drafted an amendment to improve construction standards for primary and middle schools in rural areas. Experts are reviewing the draft, the commission said." To limit protests, officials pushed parents to sign a document, which forbade them from holding protests, in exchange of money, but some who refused to sign were threatened. The payment amounts varied from school to school but were approximately the same. In Hanwang, parents were offered a package valued at 8,800 USD in cash and a per-parent pension of nearly 5,600 USD. Furthermore, officials used other methods of silencing: riot police officers broke up protests by parents; the authorities set up cordons around the schools; and officials ordered the Chinese news media to stop reporting on school collapses.

Question: What was given in exchange of signing the document?


Answer: riot police

Question: What other methods were used to break up protests?


Answer: government officials

Question: Who did the New York Times report was investigating the school collapses?


Answer: limit protests

Question: What are officials seeking to do about protesting parents?


Answer: money

Question: What are officials offering parents in exchange of protests?


Answer: were threatened

Question: What has happened to some who refuse to agree to not protest?


Answer: on school collapses

Question: What did officials order Chinese news media to stop reporting?


Answer: Liu Shaokun

Context: Besides parents, Liu Shaokun (刘绍坤), a Sichuan school teacher, was detained on June 25, 2008 for "disseminating rumors and destroying social order" about the Sichuan earthquake. Liu’s family was later told that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion. Liu had travelled to the Shifang, taken photos of collapsed school buildings, and put them online. He had also expressed his anger at “the shoddy tofu-dregs buildings” (豆腐渣工程) in a media interview. He was ordered to serve one year of re-education through labor (RTL). According to the organization Human Rights in China, Liu has been released to serve his RTL sentence outside of the labor camp.

Question: Who was a Sichuan school teacher?


Answer: that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion

Question: What was Liu's family told?


Answer: Sichuan school teacher

Question: What was Liu Shaokun's profession?


Answer: crime of inciting subversion

Question: Why was he investigated?


Answer: put them online

Question: What did Liu Shankun do with the pictures he took of collapsed schools?


Answer: in a media interview

Question: Where did he call the schoolhouses shoddy?


Answer: one year of re-education

Question: What was his assigned punishment ?


Answer: in 2007

Context: In January 2010, Hong Kong-based English newspaper The Standard reported that writer Tan Zuoren attempted to document shoddy construction that may have led to massive casualties in schools, was sentenced to in prison ostensibly for his writing an article in 2007 in support of the pro-democracy movement in 1989.

Question: When did the sentencing occur?


Answer: January 2010

Question: When was the article published about the case?


Answer: massive casualties

Question: What did he think that the poor construction led to?


Answer: that China formally requested the support of the international community

Context: Because of the magnitude of the quake, and the media attention on China, foreign nations and organizations immediately responded to the disaster by offering condolences and assistance. On May 14, UNICEF reported that China formally requested the support of the international community to respond to the needs of affected families.

Question: What did UNICEF report?


Answer: condolences and assistance

Question: What did foreign nations offer China because of the severity of the quake?


Answer: May 14

Question: When did China formally ask for help from the international community?


Answer: UNICEF

Question: What organization reported that China asked for help?


Answer: magnitude of the quake

Question: Why did the world community notice the need for help?


Answer: $214,000 and $71,000

Context: By May 14, the Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that 10.7 billion yuan (approximately US$1.5 billion) had been donated by the Chinese public. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, one of the country's most popular sports icons, gave $214,000 and $71,000 to the Red Cross Society of China. The association has also collected a total of $26 million in donations so far. Other multinational firms located in China have also announced large amounts of donations.

Question: How much did Yao Ming donate?


Answer: $26 million

Question: How much did the Red Cross collect in donations?


Answer: 10.7 billion yuan

Question: How much money had been donated by May 14?


Answer: the Chinese public

Question: What group donated the 10.7 yuan?


Answer: Yao Ming

Question: What famous basketball player made two large donations to the crisis?


Answer: 26 million

Question: How much has the Red Cross Society collected?


Answer: swift and very efficient

Context: Francis Marcus of the International Federation of the Red Cross praised the Chinese rescue effort as "swift and very efficient" in Beijing on Tuesday. But he added the scale of the disaster was such that "we can't expect that the government can do everything and handle every aspect of the needs". The Economist noted that China reacted to the disaster "rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness", contrasting it with Burma's secretive response to Cyclone Nargis, which devastated that country 10 days before the earthquake.

Question: What did Francis Marcus say of the Chinese relief effort?


Answer: openness

Question: What uncharacteristic attitude did China display?


Answer: secretive

Question: What kind of attitude did Burma display in response to a cyclone a few days earlier?


Answer: 10 days

Question: How long before the quake did Cyclone Nargis strike Burma?


Answer: International Federation of the Red Cross

Question: What organization did Francis Marcus represent?


Answer: live earthquake footage

Context: All Mainland Chinese television stations (along with some stations in Hong Kong and expatriate communities) cancelled all regularly-scheduled programming, displayed their logo in grayscale, and replaced their cancelled programmes with live earthquake footage from CCTV-1 for multiple days after the quake. Even pay television channels (such as Channel V) had their programmes suspended.

Question: What did stations replace programming with?


Answer: CCTV-1

Question: What was the source of the live feeds?


Answer: programmes suspended

Question: What about pay TV channels?


Answer: Myanmar

Context: Although the Chinese government was initially praised for its response to the quake (especially in comparison to Myanmar's ruling military junta's blockade of aid during Cyclone Nargis), it then saw an erosion in confidence over the school construction scandal.

Question: What government blocked aid after Cyclone Nargis?


Answer: school construction scandal

Question: Over what scandal did the Chinese government lose in public opinion?


Answer: response to the quake

Question: What was the Chinese government first praised for?


Answer: cutting corners

Context: On May 29, 2008, government officials began inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed, searching for clues about why they crumbled. Thousands of parents around the province have accused local officials and builders of cutting corners in school construction, citing that after the quake other nearby buildings were little damaged. In the aftermath of the quake, many local governments promised to formally investigate the school collapses, but as of July 17, 2008 across Sichuan, parents of children lost in collapsed schools complained they had yet to receive any reports. Local officials urged them not to protest but the parents demonstrated and demanded an investigation. Furthermore, censors discouraged stories of poorly built schools from being published in the media and there was an incident where police drove the protestors away.

Question: What did parents accuse builders of doing?


Answer: any reports

Question: As of July 17, 2008 what did parents complain of not receiving?


Answer: poorly built schools

Question: What kind of stories were being censored in the media?


Answer: state-controlled media

Context: The AP reported that "The state-controlled media has largely ignored the issue, apparently under the propaganda bureau's instructions. Parents and volunteers who have questioned authorities have been detained and threatened."

Question: Who has ignored the school issue?


Answer: propaganda bureau

Question: Who gave instructions to ignore the school issue?


Answer: The AP

Question: What media source has reported this happening?


Answer: builders cut corners

Context: On May 15, 2008 Geoffery York of the Globeandmail.com reported that the shoddily constructed buildings are commonly called "tofu buildings" because builders cut corners by replacing steel rods with thin iron wires for concrete re-inforcement; using inferior grade cement, if any at all; and using fewer bricks than they should. One local was quoted in the article as saying that "the supervising agencies did not check to see if it met the national standards."

Question: Why are the buildings so shoddily built?


Answer: thin iron wires

Question: What did builder's use in place of steel rods as re-inforcement?


Answer: supervising agencies

Question: Who was supposed to inspect building to see if they met national standards?


Answer: corrupt government officials

Context: However questions still remain, as some of the corrupt government officials have still not been brought to justice, while the many families who lost their only child, are still seeking compensation and justice to what had happened. According to the Times, many parents were warned by the government not to stage a protest under the threat of arrest.

Question: Who has not been brought to justice?


Answer: many families

Question: Who is still looking for compensation and justice?


Answer: threat of arrest

Question: What has the government threatened people with to keep them from protesting?


Answer: the Times

Question: What media reported the threat of arrest?


Answer: their only child

Question: What did many families lose in the earthquake?


Answer: New York

Context: New York—often called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part—is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

Question: What city in the United States has the highest population?


Answer: New York

Question: In what city is the United Nations based?


Answer: New York

Question: What city has been called the cultural capital of the world?


Answer: New York

Question: What American city welcomes the largest number of legal immigrants?


Answer: New York City

Question: The major gateway for immigration has been which US city?


Answer: New York City

Question: The most populated city in the United States is which city?


Answer: five

Context: Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1 million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6 million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39 trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively.

Question: How many boroughs comprise New York City?


Answer: 1898

Question: In what year were the five boroughs combined into one city?


Answer: 8,491,079

Question: In 2014, what did the census estimate the population of New York City to be?


Answer: 305

Question: What is the size of New York City in square miles?


Answer: 23.6 million

Question: What is the population of New York's Combined Statistical Area?


Answer: five

Question: How man boroughs does New York City contain?


Answer: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island

Question: The five boroughs of New York City are named what?


Answer: 1898

Question: All five boroughs of New York City formed into one city on what date?


Answer: 8,491,079

Question: What is the population of New York City as of 2014?


Answer: 800

Question: How many languages are spoken by the people of New York City?


Answer: New Amsterdam

Context: New York City traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and its democracy.

Question: What was the trading post that preceded New York City called?


Answer: the Dutch Republic

Question: What nation founded New Amsterdam?


Answer: 1790

Question: In what year did New York become the largest city in the United States?


Answer: 1664

Question: When did the English take over the area from the Dutch?


Answer: 1790

Question: In what year did New York cease the be the capital of the United States?


Answer: 1624

Question: When was New York City established?


Answer: 1626

Question: New Amsterdam became the title of New York City in what past date?


Answer: 1664

Question: The English occupied New York City beginning on what date?


Answer: 1790

Question: New York City is the biggest city in the United States since what historical date?


Answer: 56 million

Context: Many districts and landmarks in New York City have become well known, and the city received a record 56 million tourists in 2014, hosting three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times Square, iconic as the world's "heart" and its "Crossroads", is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. The names of many of the city's bridges, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 469 stations in operation. New York City's higher education network comprises over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 35 in the world.

Question: How many tourists visited New York in 2014?


Answer: 469

Question: How many stations are operated by the New York City Subway?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough is Wall Street located?


Answer: 120

Question: How many school and universities are in NYC?


Answer: New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ

Question: NYC has the two largest stock exchanges in the world which are called what?


Answer: Staten Island

Context: During the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the geologic foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, the ice sheet would help split apart what are now Long Island and Staten Island.

Question: What island was once a part of Long Island?


Answer: the Wisconsinan glaciation

Question: During what period was the area around New York City located at the edge of an ice sheet 1,000 feet deep?


Answer: ice sheet

Question: Long Island and Staten Island were split in half by what geographical phenomenon?


Answer: Lenapehoking

Context: In the precolonial era, the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by various bands of Algonquian tribes of Native Americans, including the Lenape, whose homeland, known as Lenapehoking, included Staten Island; the western portion of Long Island, including the area that would become Brooklyn and Queens; Manhattan; the Bronx; and the Lower Hudson Valley.

Question: What was the name of the Lenape homeland?


Answer: 1524

Context: The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown, who sailed his ship La Dauphine into New York Harbor. He claimed the area for France and named it "Nouvelle Angoulême" (New Angoulême).

Question: In what year did the first European arrive in the New York area?


Answer: Giovanni da Verrazzano

Question: What was the name of the first European who arrived in the New York area?


Answer: La Dauphine

Question: What was the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship?


Answer: France

Question: What nation did Giovanni da Verrazzano serve?


Answer: Nouvelle Angoulême

Question: What did Giovanni da Verrazzano call the area when he staked claim on it?


Answer: 1524

Question: When was the first European to visit the area of NYC?


Answer: La Dauphine

Question: Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship that sailed to New York was named what?


Answer: France

Question: Giovani da Verrazzano was an explorer from which country?


Answer: 1525

Context: A Spanish expedition led by captain Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 aboard the purpose-built caravel "La Anunciada" and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Rio de San Antonio. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August. The first scientific map to show the North American East coast continuously, the 1527 world map known as the Padrón Real, was informed by Gomes' expedition, and labeled the Northeast as Tierra de Esteban Gómez in his honor.

Question: In what year did a Spanish expedition visit New York Harbor?


Answer: Estêvão Gomes

Question: Who commanded the Spanish expedition?


Answer: Portuguese

Question: What was the nationality of Estêvão Gomes?


Answer: Charles V

Question: What monarch did Estêvão Gomes serve?


Answer: La Anunciada

Question: What was the name of Estêvão Gomes's ship?


Answer: Rio de San Antonio

Question: The front of the Hudson River was named what by Estevao Gomes?


Answer: Padrón Real

Question: What was the first map to show the whole North American East coast?


Answer: Henry Hudson

Context: In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson re-discovered the region when he sailed his ship the Halve Maen ("Half Moon" in Dutch) into New York Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for his employer, the Dutch East India Company. He proceeded to sail up what he named the North River, also called the Mauritis River, and now known as the Hudson River, to the site of the present-day New York State capital of Albany in the belief that it might represent an oceanic tributary. When the river narrowed and was no longer saline, he realized it was not a maritime passage and sailed back downriver. He made a ten-day exploration of the area and claimed the region for his employer. In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay would be claimed by the Netherlands and called Nieuw-Nederland (New Netherland).

Question: What was the name of the explorer who visited the area in 1609?


Answer: Dutch East India Company

Question: Who was Henry Hudson working for?


Answer: 1614

Question: In what year did the Netherlands claim the area between Delaware Bay and Cape Cod?


Answer: ten

Question: How many days did Henry Hudson spend exploring the region?


Answer: North River

Question: What did Henry Hudson call the river that is now called the Hudson River?


Answer: Dutch East India Company

Question: Henry Hudson worked for which company in the 1600s?


Answer: 1614

Question: In what year was the land between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay claimed by the Dutch?


Answer: Henry Hudson

Question: Which explorer sailed his ship into New York harbor in 1609?


Answer: Santo Domingo

Context: The first non-Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York City was Dominican trader Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to Dutch as Jan Rodrigues). Born in Santo Domingo of Portuguese and African descent, he arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–1614, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch. Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street, is named Juan Rodriguez Way in his honor.

Question: Where was Juan Rodriguez born?


Answer: Jan Rodrigues

Question: What did the Dutch call Juan Rodriguez?


Answer: trader

Question: What was Juan Rodriguez's occupation?


Answer: Juan Rodriguez Way

Question: What is the street that is named after Juan Rodriguez?


Answer: winter

Question: During what season did Juan Rodriguez first come to New York?


Answer: Juan Rodriguez

Question: Who was the first non-Indian person to live in what is now NYC?


Answer: Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street

Question: Which street in NYC today is now named after Juan Rodriguez?


Answer: Governors Island

Context: A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 – making New York the 12th oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States – with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on a citadel and a Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam). The colony of New Amsterdam was centered at the site which would eventually become Lower Manhattan. The Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie, a small band of the Lenape, in 1626 for a value of 60 guilders (about $1000 in 2006); a disproved legend says that Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.

Question: On what island did the Dutch set up a settlement to trade furs?


Answer: Manhattan Island

Question: On what island was Fort Amsterdam built?


Answer: 1625

Question: In what year did construction begin on Fort Amsterdam?


Answer: Peter Minuit

Question: What person bought Manhattan from the Canarsie for the Dutch?


Answer: 1626

Question: In what year did the Dutch buy Manhattan?


Answer: 1624

Question: New Netherland established a permanent European presence in what year?


Answer: 1625

Question: What year did building begin of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?


Answer: glass beads

Question: What was the myth that Manhattan was bought for by General Peter Minuit ?


Answer: New York

Context: In 1664, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, surrendered New Amsterdam to the English without bloodshed. The English promptly renamed the fledgling city "New York" after the Duke of York (later King James II).

Question: What did the English call New Amsterdam after its capture?


Answer: James II

Question: What was the regnal name of the Duke of York?


Answer: Peter Stuyvesant

Question: What person gave up New Amsterdam to the English?


Answer: Director-General

Question: What was Peter Stuyvesant's title?


Answer: 1664

Question: In what year did the English take over New Amsterdam?


Answer: Peter Stuyvesant

Question: Who gave up New Amsterdam to the English without a fight in 1664?


Answer: William III

Context: On August 24, 1673, Dutch captain Anthonio Colve took over the colony of New York from England and rechristened it "New Orange" to honor the Prince of Orange, King William III. However, facing defeat from the British and French, who had teamed up to destroy Dutch trading routes, the Dutch returned the island to England in 1674.

Question: What was the regnal name of the Prince of Orange?


Answer: August 24, 1673

Question: What was the date of Anthonio Colve's capture of New York?


Answer: New Orange

Question: What did Colve call New York after he captured it?


Answer: 1674

Question: In what year did the Dutch give New York back to the English?


Answer: Anthonio Colve

Question: August 24, 1673 is when which Dutch officer took control of NYC?


Answer: England

Question: The Dutch gave back the island to which country in 1674 after their trade routes had been destroyed?


Answer: King William III

Question: New York was called New Orange for a period based off which historical figure?


Answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War

Context: At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the English gained New Amsterdam (New York) in North America in exchange for Dutch control of Run, an Indonesian island. Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and some epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizable population losses for the Lenape between the years 1660 and 1670. By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200.

Question: After what war did the English receive New Amsterdam?


Answer: 200

Question: How many Lenape lived in the area in 1700?


Answer: Run

Question: What was the name of the island the English traded to the Dutch in return for New Amsterdam?


Answer: 200

Question: In 1700, the Lenape Native American population had dwindled to how many?


Answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War

Question: After which war did England gain New York in exchange for Run, an Indonesian island?


Answer: 42%

Context: New York grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule in the early 1700s. It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, more than any other city other than Charleston, South Carolina. Most slaveholders held a few or several domestic slaves, but others hired them out to work at labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banks and shipping tied to the South. Discovery of the African Burying Ground in the 1990s, during construction of a new federal courthouse near Foley Square, revealed that tens of thousands of Africans had been buried in the area in the colonial years.

Question: In 1730, what percentage of New York households were slave-holding?


Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Question: In 1730, what American city had the highest percentage of slaveholders?


Answer: Foley Square

Question: Near what square was the African Burial Ground unearthed?


Answer: courthouse

Question: What was being built that resulted in the discovery of the African Burial Ground?


Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Question: Which city in North America held the most slaves in the 1700s?


Answer: 1990s

Question: When was as African burial ground discovered after the building of new courthouse?


Answer: 1735

Context: The trial in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger in 1735 helped to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by King George II as King's College in Lower Manhattan. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there.

Question: In what year was John Peter Zenger tried?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: On what island did Zenger's trial occur?


Answer: 1754

Question: In what year was Columbia University chartered?


Answer: George II

Question: Under what king did the founding of Columbia University occur?


Answer: King's College

Question: What was the original name of Columbia University?


Answer: John Peter Zenger

Question: Which trial in Manhatten helped establish the right of freedom of the press?


Answer: 1754

Question: Columbia University of New York was founded in what year?


Answer: New York

Question: The Stamp Act Congress had a meeting in 1765 in which US city?


Answer: Battle of Long Island

Context: The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, was fought in August 1776 entirely within the modern-day borough of Brooklyn. After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, leaving subsequent smaller armed engagements following in its wake, the city became the British military and political base of operations in North America. The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees, as well as escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom newly promised by the Crown for all fighters. As many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation. When the British forces evacuated at the close of the war in 1783, they transported 3,000 freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia. They resettled other freedmen in England and the Caribbean.

Question: What was the biggest battle of the American Revolution?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what borough did the Battle of Long Island occur?


Answer: August 1776

Question: In what month and year was the Battle of Long Island fought?


Answer: 10,000

Question: About how many escaped slaves were in New York during the time the British occupied it?


Answer: 1783

Question: In what year did the American Revolutionary War end?


Answer: The Battle of Long Island

Question: Which battle was the largest battle of the American Revolutionary war?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Which borough of New York was the Battle of Long Island fought?


Answer: 1783

Question: When did the English army start to retreat and evacuate NYC during the Battle of Long Island?


Answer: September 11, 1776

Context: The only attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York occurred, a large conflagration on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, which destroyed about a quarter of the buildings in the city, including Trinity Church.

Question: On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur?


Answer: Lord Howe

Question: Who was the British representative at the Conference House meeting?


Answer: Great Fire of New York

Question: What notable catastrophe took place under the British occupation?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what modern-day borough did the Great Fire happen?


Answer: Trinity Church

Question: What noted religious building was destroyed in the Great Fire?


Answer: Lord Howe

Question: Who was the English general who met with Benjamin Franklin on Septermber 11, 1776?


Answer: the Great Fire of New York

Question: Which natural disaster happened after English occupation of Lower Manhattan?


Answer: 1785

Context: In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time, and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street. By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States.

Question: In what year did New York become the United States capital?


Answer: George Washington

Question: Who was the United States' first President?


Answer: Federal Hall

Question: In what building did the Supreme Court of the United States first sit?


Answer: Wall Street

Question: On what street did the writing of the Bill of Rights occur?


Answer: Philadelphia

Question: What was the second largest city in the United States in 1790?


Answer: Congress of the Confederation

Question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785?


Answer: capital

Question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States?


Answer: 1789

Question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year?


Answer: 1790

Question: By which year, did New York City become the largest city in the United States?


Answer: 1799

Context: Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-black population gradually developed in Manhattan. Under such influential United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate black children. It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. New York interracial abolitionist activism continued; among its leaders were graduates of the African Free School. The city's black population reached more than 16,000 in 1840.

Question: In what year did the state of New York pass a law to free the slaves?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: What borough was home to a notable population of free African-Americans?


Answer: Alexander Hamilton

Question: Along with John Jay, who founded the New York Manumission Society?


Answer: 1827

Question: In what year did the state of New York eliminate slavery?


Answer: 16,000

Question: In 1840, about how many African-Americans lived in New York City?


Answer: 1799

Question: The gradual abolition act in New York was formed in what year?


Answer: 1827

Question: When was slavery completely outlawed in the state of New York?


Answer: Commissioners' Plan

Context: In the 19th century, the city was transformed by development relating to its status as a trading center, as well as by European immigration. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes. Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.

Question: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan?


Answer: 1825

Question: In what year did the Erie Canal finish building?


Answer: Tammany Hall

Question: What political machine controlled New York politics in this era?


Answer: Irish

Question: Along with German immigrants, immigrants of what nationality supported Tammany Hall?


Answer: 1825

Question: The Erie Canal was finished being built in what year?


Answer: Central Park

Context: Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, John Keese, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Edgar Allan Poe. Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.

Question: What was the name of the first urban landscaped park in the United States?


Answer: 1857

Question: In what year was Central Park founded?


Answer: first landscaped

Question: Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what?


Answer: Great Irish Famine

Context: The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants. Over 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, upwards of a quarter of the city's population. There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860.

Question: What event brought many Irish immigrants to the United States?


Answer: 200,000

Question: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York?


Answer: a quarter

Question: In 1860, what fraction of the city population was composed of Irish immigrants?


Answer: 25%

Question: In 1860, what percentage of the city population was composed of German immigrants?


Answer: revolutions

Question: What events provoked the immigration of people from Germany?


Answer: Great Irish Famine

Question: Which event brought upon a lot of Irish immigrants to NYC?


Answer: Over 200,000

Question: How many immigrants that were Irish were living in New York in 1860?


Answer: Fernando Wood

Context: Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing the city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $5,766 in 2016) commutation fee to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863, whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class. The situation deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on black New Yorkers and their property after fierce competition for a decade between Irish immigrants and blacks for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground, but more than 200 children escaped harm due to efforts of the New York City Police Department, which was mainly made up of Irish immigrants. According to historian James M. McPherson (2001), at least 120 people were killed. In all, eleven black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of blacks to flee the city for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as New Jersey; the black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865, which it had last been in 1820. The white working class had established dominance. Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.

Question: Who was the mayor of New York City in 1861?


Answer: $300

Question: What was the commutation fee to avoid being conscripted during the American Civil War?


Answer: Irish

Question: People of what ethnicity most visibly participated in the Draft Riots of 1863?


Answer: 120

Question: About how many people died during the Draft Riots of 1863?


Answer: 10,000

Question: What was the approximate African-American population of New York City in 1865?


Answer: Colored Orphan Asylum

Question: The Draft Riots caused which building to burn down in 1863?


Answer: 1898

Context: In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city), the County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. The opening of the subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication.

Question: In what year was the modern City of New York founded?


Answer: 1904

Question: In what year did the subway begin operation?


Answer: the Bronx

Question: Portions of what modern-day borough were included in the County of New York?


Answer: 1904

Question: The subway of New York was first available in what year?


Answer: 1904

Context: In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.

Question: In what year did the General Slocum disaster occur?


Answer: 1,021

Question: How many people died on the General Slocum?


Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Question: In what building did the city's deadliest industrial disaster occur?


Answer: 146

Question: How many people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?


Answer: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Question: The growth of what organization was prompted by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?


Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Question: A catastrophe in 1911 that killed 146 workers was called what?


Answer: 36,620

Context: New York's non-white population was 36,620 in 1890. New York City was a prime destination in the early twentieth century for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City was home to the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition. The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height and creating an identifiable skyline.

Question: How many non-white people lived in New York in 1890?


Answer: Harlem Renaissance

Question: What was the name of the Prohibition-era African-American cultural flourishing in New York?


Answer: 36,620

Question: What was the population of people in New York that were not Caucasian in 1890?


Answer: London

Context: New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance.

Question: In the early 1920s, what was the second most highly populated city in the world?


Answer: megacity

Question: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million?


Answer: Fiorello La Guardia

Question: Who was mayor of New York during the Great Depression?


Answer: eighty

Question: For about how many years did Tammany Hall control New York political life?


Answer: megacity

Question: In the 1930s, New York City had more than 10 million people becoming the first what in history?


Answer: 1952

Context: Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and the development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens. New York emerged from the war unscathed as the leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations Headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.

Question: When was construction finished on the United Nations Headquarters?


Answer: Paris

Question: Prior to New York, what city was the center of the world of art?


Answer: abstract expressionism

Question: What artistic movement caused New York to overtake Paris as the global art center?


Answer: United Nations

Question: The headquarters what organization was done being build in 1952 in New York?


Answer: the Stonewall Inn

Context: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

Question: The Stonewall riots are named after what building?


Answer: Greenwich Village

Question: In what neighborhood did the Stonewall riots occur?


Answer: June 28, 1969

Question: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough did the Stonewall riots happen?


Answer: a police raid

Question: What event provoked the Stonewall riots?


Answer: Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan

Question: Where did the Stonewall riots happen?


Answer: 2000

Context: In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s. By the mid 1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in the city's economy. New York's population reached all-time highs in the 2000 Census and then again in the 2010 Census.

Question: In what year did the population of New York first reach an all-time high in this period?


Answer: 2010

Question: In what year did the population of New York reach an all-time high for the second time in this period?


Answer: Silicon Alley

Question: What was the name of a new sector of the New York economy that appeared in the 1990s?


Answer: 1990s

Question: In what decade did the crime rate drop significantly?


Answer: 1970s

Question: In what decade was there a significant decline in industrial jobs?


Answer: 1970s

Question: Which decade did massive job losses happen in NYC due to industrial issues?


Answer: American Airlines Flight 11

Context: The city and surrounding area suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks when 10 of the 19 terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center and United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and later destroyed them, killing 2,192 civilians, 343 firefighters, and 71 law enforcement officers who were in the towers and in the surrounding area. The rebuilding of the area, has created a new One World Trade Center, and a 9/11 memorial and museum along with other new buildings and infrastructure. The World Trade Center PATH station, which opened on July 19, 1909 as the Hudson Terminal, was also destroyed in the attack. A temporary station was built and opened on November 23, 2003. A permanent station, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, is currently under construction. The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-tallest building in the world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m) in reference to the year of American independence.

Question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001?


Answer: United Airlines Flight 175

Question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11, 2001?


Answer: 343

Question: How many firefighters died in the World Trade Center attack?


Answer: July 19, 1909

Question: On what date did the World Trade Center PATH begin operation?


Answer: 541.3

Question: How tall is One World Trade Center in meters?


Answer: 1909

Question: The Hudson Terminal which was also demolished was build in what year?


Answer: 10

Question: How many leader terrorists of Al Quada were involved with the 9/11 attacks directly that day?


Answer: American Airlines Flight 11

Question: What was the plane named that crashed into the World Trade Center?


Answer: September 17, 2011

Context: The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.

Question: On what date did the Occupy Wall Street protests commence?


Answer: Zuccotti Park

Question: In what park did the Occupy Wall Street protests occur?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough did the Occupy Wall Street protests take place?


Answer: Financial District

Question: In what district of Manhattan were the Occupy Wall Street protests?


Answer: September 17, 2011

Question: The Occupy Wall Street protests that took place in Zuccotti Park was on which date?


Answer: William F. Buckley, Jr.

Context: When one Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election ridiculed the liberalism of "New York values" in January 2016, Donald Trump, leading in the polls, vigorously defended his city. The National Review, a conservative magazine published in the city since its founding by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, commented, "By hearkening back to New York's heart after 9/11, for a moment Trump transcended politics. How easily we forget, but for weeks after the terror attacks, New York was America."

Question: What individual established the National Review?


Answer: 1955

Question: In what year was the National Review founded?


Answer: Donald Trump

Question: What public figure defended New York in January 2016?


Answer: Republican

Question: A presidential candidate from what party derided the city for its liberalism?


Answer: Northeastern

Context: New York City is situated in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of New York City is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

Question: In what geographical region of the United States is New York City located?


Answer: southeastern

Question: In what geographical region of New York state is New York City located?


Answer: Boston

Question: New York City is about half the distance between Washington DC and what city?


Answer: Atlantic

Question: New York City is adjacent to what ocean?


Answer: Hudson River

Question: What river is New York City located on?


Answer: Hudson

Question: New York City is at the base of which American river?


Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: The Hudson River flows into which body of water?


Answer: Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

Question: The three islands that make up New York city are named what?


Answer: New Jersey

Context: The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary. The Hudson River separates the city from the U.S. state of New Jersey. The East River—a tidal strait—flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River, which flows through the Bronx and Westchester County, is the only entirely fresh water river in the city.

Question: The Hudson River serves as a dividing line between New York and what state?


Answer: Harlem River

Question: What river flows between the Hudson and East Rivers?


Answer: Bronx River

Question: What is the city's sole fresh water river?


Answer: New York Bay

Question: Into what body of water does the Hudson River terminate?


Answer: Troy, New York

Question: Between New York City and what city is the Hudson River an estuary?


Answer: New Jersey

Question: The Hudson River separates NYC from which US state?


Answer: The Bronx River

Question: The single only freshwater river in NYC is what river?


Answer: The Harlem River

Question: Which river seperates The Bronx from Manhatten?


Answer: Battery Park City

Context: The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Manhattan.

Question: What Manhattan development is the product of land reclamation?


Answer: 468.9

Context: The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214 km2). 164.1 sq mi (425 km2) of this is water and 304.8 sq mi (789 km2) is land. The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at 409.8 feet (124.9 m) above sea level, is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine. The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt.

Question: What is the total area of New York City in square miles?


Answer: 164.1

Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is composed of water?


Answer: 304.8

Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is land?


Answer: Todt Hill

Question: What is the name of New York City's highest point?


Answer: Staten Island

Question: On what island is New York City's highest point located?


Answer: 468.9

Question: How many square miles in NYC?


Answer: 164.1

Question: How many square miles are water in NYC?


Answer: 304.8

Question: How many square miles are land in NYC?


Answer: Todt Hill

Question: The highest peak in the city is what location?


Answer: 409.8

Question: How many feet above sea level is Todt Hil?


Answer: Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House

Context: New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the saltbox style Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern One World Trade Center, the skyscraper at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan and currently the most expensive new office tower in the world.

Question: What structure is an example of saltbox architecture?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what borough is the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House located?


Answer: One World Trade Center

Question: What building is the priciest office tower in the world?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough is One World Trade Center located?


Answer: 1656

Question: In what year did construction on the oldest part of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House begin?


Answer: One World Trade Center

Question: The most expensive office tower built in the world today is what?


Answer: 5,937

Context: Manhattan's skyline, with its many skyscrapers, is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. As of 2011, New York City had 5,937 high-rise buildings, of which 550 completed structures were at least 330 feet (100 m) high, both second in the world after Hong Kong, with over 50 completed skyscrapers taller than 656 feet (200 m). These include the Woolworth Building (1913), an early gothic revival skyscraper built with massively scaled gothic detailing.

Question: How many high-rises were present in New York City in 2011?


Answer: Hong Kong

Question: What city has the most high-rise buildings in the world?


Answer: 550

Question: How many structures in New York City are over 100m tall?


Answer: 1913

Question: In what year was the Woolworth Building completed?


Answer: 50

Question: How many buildings in New York City are over 200m high?


Answer: Hong Kong

Question: NYC has the highest quantity of skyscrapers after which other world city?


Answer: 550

Question: How many buildings located in NYC are at least 330 feet in height?


Answer: 1931

Context: The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setbacks in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building (1930) and Empire State Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel spires, reflected the zoning requirements. The buildings have distinctive ornamentation, such as the eagles at the corners of the 61st floor on the Chrysler Building, and are considered some of the finest examples of the Art Deco style. A highly influential example of the international style in the United States is the Seagram Building (1957), distinctive for its façade using visible bronze-toned I-beams to evoke the building's structure. The Condé Nast Building (2000) is a prominent example of green design in American skyscrapers and has received an award from the American Institute of Architects as well as AIA New York State for its design.

Question: In what year was the Empire State Building completed?


Answer: Art Deco

Question: The Chrysler Building reflects what architectural style?


Answer: 61st

Question: What floor of the Chrysler Building has sculptures of eagles at its corners?


Answer: Seagram Building

Question: What building known for its bronze-tinted I-beams was completed in 1957?


Answer: American Institute of Architects

Question: What is the full name of the organization known by the acronym AIA?


Answer: eagles

Question: Which animal decorates the corners of the Chrysler Building?


Answer: 1931

Question: When was the Empire State Building constructed?


Answer: 1930

Question: When was the Chrysler building built in NYC?


Answer: the Bronx

Context: The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses and townhouses and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. In contrast, New York City also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-standing dwellings. In neighborhoods such as Riverdale (in the Bronx), Ditmas Park (in Brooklyn), and Douglaston (in Queens), large single-family homes are common in various architectural styles such as Tudor Revival and Victorian.

Question: In what borough is the Riverdale neighborhood located?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what borough is the Ditmas Park neighborhood located?


Answer: Queens

Question: In what borough is the Douglaston neighborhood located?


Answer: 1930

Question: Brownstone rowhouse construction is most often associated with the period beginning in 1870 and ending in what year?


Answer: Victorian

Question: Along with Tudor Revival, what is a common architectural style of single-family houses in New York?


Answer: brownstone rowhouses

Question: What type of housing structure makes up most of the large residential districts of NYC?


Answer: the Great Fire of 1835

Context: Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could break municipal water pipes. Garden apartments became popular during the 1920s in outlying areas, such as Jackson Heights.

Question: What event led to the decline in wooden construction in New York City?


Answer: six

Question: In the 19th century, New York city required water towers in the roofs of buildings that were more than how many stories tall?


Answer: Jackson Heights

Question: What area was known for its garden apartments?


Answer: Stone and brick

Question: After the Great Fire of 1835, what became the most widespread building materials?


Answer: wooden roof-mounted water towers

Question: To prevent high water pressures at lower elevations what were built on many of the city's buildings?


Answer: July 2014

Context: According to the United States Geological Survey, an updated analysis of seismic hazard in July 2014 revealed a "slightly lower hazard for tall buildings" in New York City than previously assessed. Scientists estimated this lessened risk based upon a lower likelihood than previously thought of slow shaking near the city, which would be more likely to cause damage to taller structures from an earthquake in the vicinity of the city.

Question: When did the United States Geological Survey released its seismic hazard analysis?


Answer: four

Context: There are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs of New York City, many with a definable history and character to call their own. If the boroughs were each independent cities, four of the boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx) would be among the ten most populous cities in the United States.

Question: How many of New York's boroughs would be counted among the United States' ten most populated cities if they were independent?


Answer: five

Question: How many boroughs does New York City have?


Answer: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx

Question: Which four boroughs of NYC would be among the the most populous cities in the US if they were independent cities?


Answer: humid subtropical

Context: Under the Köppen climate classification, using the 0 °C (32 °F) coldest month (January) isotherm, New York City itself experiences a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) and is thus the northernmost major city on the North American continent with this categorization. The suburbs to the immediate north and west lie in the transition zone from a humid subtropical (Cfa) to a humid continental climate (Dfa). The area averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually, and averages 57% of possible sunshine annually, accumulating 2,535 hours of sunshine per annum. The city falls under USDA 7b Plant Hardiness zone.

Question: What is the name of New York City's climate using the Köppen climate classification?


Answer: 234

Question: How many sunny days does New York average each year?


Answer: 2,535

Question: How many hours of sunshine does New York receive every year?


Answer: humid continental

Question: The suburbs of the city lie between the humid subtropical and what other climate zone?


Answer: January

Question: What month in New York City is the coldest?


Answer: humid subtropical

Question: What type of climate does NYC possess?


Answer: 234

Question: How many days on average does NYC get sunshine annually?


Answer: USDA 7b

Question: What planting zone does the city land in?


Answer: Appalachians

Context: Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore minimize the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean; yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachians keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. The daily mean temperature in January, the area's coldest month, is 32.6 °F (0.3 °C); however, temperatures usually drop to 10 °F (−12 °C) several times per winter, and reach 50 °F (10 °C) several days each winter month. Spring and autumn are unpredictable and can range from chilly to warm, although they are usually mild with low humidity. Summers are typically warm to hot and humid, with a daily mean temperature of 76.5 °F (24.7 °C) in July and an average humidity level of 72%. Nighttime conditions are often exacerbated by the urban heat island phenomenon, while daytime temperatures exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on average of 17 days each summer and in some years exceed 100 °F (38 °C). In the warmer months, the dew point, a measure of atmospheric moisture, ranges from 57.3 °F (14.1 °C) in June to 62.0 °F (16.7 °C) in August. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −15 °F (−26 °C), recorded on February 9, 1934, up to 106 °F (41 °C) on July 9, 1936.

Question: What mountains serve as a barrier to keep New York City comparatively warmer in the winter?


Answer: 0.3

Question: What is New York City's daily January mean temperature in degrees celsius?


Answer: 72%

Question: What is the average humidity in July as a percentage?


Answer: 17

Question: On average, how often do New York temperatures exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit each year?


Answer: July 9, 1936

Question: On what date did New York record its highest temperature ever?


Answer: 106

Question: What is the highest temperature recorded in NYC?


Answer: 1934

Question: When was the lowest temperature recorded in NYC?


Answer: 1936

Question: The highest temperature ever recorded in NYC was in what year?


Answer: 1,270

Context: The city receives 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) of precipitation annually, which is fairly spread throughout the year. Average winter snowfall between 1981 and 2010 has been 25.8 inches (66 cm), but this varies considerably from year to year. Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area, but are not unheard of and always have the potential to strike the area. Hurricane Sandy brought a destructive storm surge to New York City on the evening of October 29, 2012, flooding numerous streets, tunnels, and subway lines in Lower Manhattan and other areas of the city and cutting off electricity in many parts of the city and its suburbs. The storm and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the city and the metropolitan area to minimize the risk of destructive consequences from another such event in the future.

Question: In millimeters, how much precipitation does New York receive a year?


Answer: 66

Question: In centimeters, what is the average winter snowfall?


Answer: October 29, 2012

Question: When did Hurricane Sandy strike New York?


Answer: 49.9

Question: How many inches of precipitation does NYC get in a year?


Answer: Hurricane Sandy

Question: Which natural disaster occurred on October 29, 2012 in NYC?


Answer: 25.8

Question: The mean snowfall between 1981 and 2010 in NYC has been how many inches?


Answer: New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Context: The City of New York has a complex park system, with various lands operated by the National Park Service, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Question: What is the name of the New York City department that operates the park system?


Answer: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Question: What is the state office that operates New York City parks?


Answer: National Park Service

Question: What federal service operates New York City parks?


Answer: Minneapolis

Context: In its 2013 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in New York City was the second best park system among the 50 most populous U.S. cities, behind the park system of Minneapolis. ParkScore ranks urban park systems by a formula that analyzes median park size, park acres as percent of city area, the percent of city residents within a half-mile of a park, spending of park services per resident, and the number of playgrounds per 10,000 residents.

Question: What city was rated as having the best park system by The Trust for Public Land?


Answer: New York City

Question: What city had the second highest ParkScore rating?


Answer: Minneapolis

Question: The 2013 ParkScore rating for NYC made NYC second in best park system to what other US city?


Answer: 10,521.83

Context: Gateway National Recreation Area contains over 26,000 acres (10,521.83 ha) in total, most of it surrounded by New York City, including the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Brooklyn and Queens, over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh, islands, and water, including most of Jamaica Bay. Also in Queens, the park includes a significant portion of the western Rockaway Peninsula, most notably Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden. In Staten Island, the park includes Fort Wadsworth, with historic pre-Civil War era Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins, and Great Kills Park, with beaches, trails, and a marina.

Question: How large is the Gateway National recreation Area in hectares?


Answer: 9,000

Question: About how large is the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in acres?


Answer: Fort Tilden

Question: What fort is located on the Rockaway Peninsula?


Answer: Jacob Riis Park

Question: What park is located on the Rockaway Peninsula?


Answer: Jamaica Bay

Question: What body of water is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge adjacent to?


Answer: over 26,000

Question: How many acres of land does Gateway Nation Recreation contain?


Answer: National Park Service

Context: The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum are managed by the National Park Service and are in both the states of New York and New Jersey. They are joined in the harbor by Governors Island National Monument, in New York. Historic sites under federal management on Manhattan Island include Castle Clinton National Monument; Federal Hall National Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site; General Grant National Memorial ("Grant's Tomb"); African Burial Ground National Monument; and Hamilton Grange National Memorial. Hundreds of private properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or as a National Historic Landmark such as, for example, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village as the catalyst of the modern gay rights movement.

Question: What body administers the Ellis Island Immigration Museum?


Answer: Grant's Tomb

Question: What is the common name for the General Grant National Memorial?


Answer: Greenwich Village

Question: In what neighborhood is the Stonewall Inn located?


Answer: gay rights movement

Question: What movement is the Stonewall Inn most famously associated with?


Answer: National Park Service

Question: The Statue of Liberty is taken care of by what organization?


Answer: New Jersey

Question: The Statue of Liberty is also in what other US state?


Answer: New Jersey

Question: Ellis Island is considered in New York state and which other?


Answer: Stonewall Inn

Question: Which landmark is considered the spark for LGBT rights?


Answer: Grant's Tomb

Question: The landmark, General Grant National Memorial, is also called what?


Answer: seven

Context: There are seven state parks within the confines of New York City, including Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, a natural area which includes extensive riding trails, and Riverbank State Park, a 28-acre (110,000 m2) facility that rises 69 feet (21 m) over the Hudson River.

Question: How many state parks exist in New York City?


Answer: 28

Question: How large is Riverbank State Park in acres?


Answer: 21

Question: How many meters is Riverbank State Park elevated above the Hudson River?


Answer: seven

Question: How many New York state parks are within New York City?


Answer: 69 feet

Question: Riverbank State park's highest point is how high above the Hudson River?


Answer: 28,000

Context: New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (23 km) of public beaches. Parks in New York City include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Forest Park, and Washington Square Park. The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park with 2,700 acres (1,093 ha).

Question: New York has approximately how many acres of parks?


Answer: 14

Question: How many miles of public beach are located in New York City?


Answer: Pelham Bay Park

Question: What is the biggest public park in the city?


Answer: 1,093

Question: How large is Pelham Bay Park in hectares?


Answer: over 28,000

Question: New York City has how many acres of land dedicated to parks?


Answer: 14

Question: How long are all the public beaches together in miles?


Answer: Pelham Bay Park

Question: What is the largest park in New York City?


Answer: 2,700

Question: How many acres of land does Pelham Bay park have?


Answer: Fort Hamilton

Context: New York City is home to Fort Hamilton, the U.S. military's only active duty installation within the city. Established in 1825 in Brooklyn on the site of a small battery utilized during the American Revolution, it is one of America's longest serving military forts. Today Fort Hamilton serves as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers as well as for the New York City Recruiting Battalion. It also houses the 1179th Transportation Brigade, the 722nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, and a military entrance processing station. Other formerly active military reservations still utilized for National Guard and military training or reserve operations in the city include Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island and Fort Totten in Queens.

Question: What is the name of the military base in New York City?


Answer: 1825

Question: In what year was Fort Hamilton founded?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what borough is Fort Hamilton located?


Answer: North Atlantic Division

Question: What division is based at Fort Hamilton?


Answer: 1179th Transportation Brigade

Question: What brigade is headquartered at Fort Hamilton?


Answer: Fort Hamilton

Question: The U.S. military has only one active location in NYC named what?


Answer: 1825

Question: When was Fort Hamilton built?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Which borough can Fort Hamilton be found?


Answer: Queens

Question: Fort Wadsworth and Fort Totten are located in which area of New York City?


Answer: 8,491,079

Context: New York City is the most-populous city in the United States, with an estimated record high of 8,491,079 residents as of 2014, incorporating more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 United States Census. More than twice as many people live in New York City as in the second-most populous U.S. city (Los Angeles), and within a smaller area. New York City gained more residents between April 2010 and July 2014 (316,000) than any other U.S. city. New York City's population amounts to about 40% of New York State's population and a similar percentage of the New York metropolitan area population.

Question: What was the population of New York City in 2014?


Answer: Los Angeles

Question: What is the US city with the second largest population?


Answer: 316,000

Question: How many people moved to New York City between April 2010 and July 2014?


Answer: 40%

Question: Approximately what percentage is New York City's population of the entire state's population?


Answer: 40%

Question: About what percentage is New York City's population of the New York metropolitan area's population?


Answer: 8,491,079

Question: What is the population of NYC as of 2014?


Answer: Los Angeles

Question: The second largest city in the US is what?


Answer: 40

Question: What percentage of people that live in the state of New York live in New York City?


Answer: 27,858

Context: In 2014, the city had an estimated population density of 27,858 people per square mile (10,756/km²), rendering it the most densely populated of all municipalities housing over 100,000 residents in the United States; however, several small cities (of fewer than 100,000) in adjacent Hudson County, New Jersey are more dense overall, as per the 2000 Census. Geographically co-extensive with New York County, the borough of Manhattan's population density of 71,672 people per square mile (27,673/km²) makes it the highest of any county in the United States and higher than the density of any individual American city.

Question: How many people live in a square mile of New York City?


Answer: 27,673

Question: What is the population density of Manhattan per square kilometer?


Answer: Hudson County

Question: Some cities in what county have a higher population density than New York City?


Answer: 44%

Context: The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian. Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non-Hispanic white population declined 3 percent, the smallest recorded decline in decades; and for the first time since the Civil War, the number of blacks declined over a decade.

Question: What percentage of the city's population is Caucasian?


Answer: 25.5%

Question: What percentage of the city's population is African-American?


Answer: Asians

Question: What ethnicity is growing the quickest in New York City?


Answer: 28.6%

Question: What percentage of the population identifies as Hispanic?


Answer: 3

Question: By what percentage did the non-Hispanic white population decrease?


Answer: 44

Question: As of 2010, what percentage made up white people in NYC?


Answer: the Civil War

Question: Since what event did the first time black people decline in living in NYC?


Answer: Asians

Question: Which race of people made it the highest growing ethnicity between 2000-2010 in NYC?


Answer: 25.5

Question: What percentage of Africans make up NYC?


Answer: 12 million

Context: Throughout its history, the city has been a major port of entry for immigrants into the United States; more than 12 million European immigrants were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. The term "melting pot" was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. By 1900, Germans constituted the largest immigrant group, followed by the Irish, Jews, and Italians. In 1940, whites represented 92% of the city's population.

Question: How many immigrants arrived at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924?


Answer: Lower East Side

Question: 'Melting pot' was first used to describe neighborhoods in what area of the city?


Answer: Germans

Question: What ethnicity comprised the largest number of immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century?


Answer: 92%

Question: What percentage of the population was Caucasian in 1940?


Answer: Irish

Question: What was the ethnicity of the second largest group of immigrants in 1900?


Answer: more than 12 million

Question: Between 1892-1924, how many immigrants came through Ellis Island?


Answer: 92

Question: In the year 1942, what percentage of white Americans made up New York City?


Answer: 37%

Context: Approximately 37% of the city's population is foreign born. In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago, while the Bangladeshi immigrant population has since become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2013.

Question: What percentage of the population was born outside the United States?


Answer: Dominican Republic

Question: From what country did the largest number of foreign-born immigrants originate as of 2011?


Answer: 74,000

Question: About how many immigrants from Bangladesh lived in the city in 2013?


Answer: China

Question: What country was the second largest source of foreign-born New Yorkers in 2011?


Answer: 37

Question: What percentage of the population of NYC was born in another country?


Answer: Queens

Context: Asian Americans in New York City, according to the 2010 Census, number more than one million, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. The New York City borough of Queens is home to the state's largest Asian American population and the largest Andean (Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Bolivian) populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. The Chinese population constitutes the fastest-growing nationality in New York State; multiple satellites of the original Manhattan Chinatown (紐約華埠), in Brooklyn (布鲁克林華埠), and around Flushing, Queens (法拉盛華埠), are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves, while also expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County (拿騷縣) on Long Island (長島), as the New York metropolitan region and New York State have become the top destinations for new Chinese immigrants, respectively, and large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York City and surrounding areas. In 2012, 6.3% of New York City was of Chinese ethnicity, with nearly three-fourths living in either Queens or Brooklyn, geographically on Long Island. A community numbering 20,000 Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianzu (Chinese: 朝鲜族) or Joseonjok (Hangul: 조선족)) is centered in Flushing, Queens, while New York City is also home to the largest Tibetan population outside China, India, and Nepal, also centered in Queens. Koreans made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese 0.3%. Filipinos were the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%, followed by Vietnamese, who made up 0.2% of New York City's population in 2010. Indians are the largest South Asian group, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshis and Pakistanis at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively. Queens is the preferred borough of settlement for Asian Indians, Koreans, and Filipinos, as well as Malaysians and other Southeast Asians; while Brooklyn is receiving large numbers of both West Indian as well as Asian Indian immigrants.

Question: What New York borough contains the highest population of Asian-Americans?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: What borough housed the first Chinatown in New York?


Answer: 6.3%

Question: As of 2012, what percentage of the New York City population was ethnically Chinese?


Answer: Queens

Question: What borough is home to a large Tibetan population?


Answer: 0.3%

Question: What percentage of the New York City population is Japanese?


Answer: 2.7 million

Context: New York City has the largest European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city. At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic white population is larger than the non-Hispanic white populations of Los Angeles (1.1 million), Chicago (865,000), and Houston (550,000) combined. The European diaspora residing in the city is very diverse. According to 2012 Census estimates, there were roughly 560,000 Italian Americans, 385,000 Irish Americans, 253,000 German Americans, 223,000 Russian Americans, 201,000 Polish Americans, and 137,000 English Americans. Additionally, Greek and French Americans numbered 65,000 each, with those of Hungarian descent estimated at 60,000 people. Ukrainian and Scottish Americans numbered 55,000 and 35,000, respectively. People identifying ancestry from Spain numbered 30,838 total in 2010. People of Norwegian and Swedish descent both stood at about 20,000 each, while people of Czech, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent all numbered between 12,000–14,000 people. Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. Central Asians, primarily Uzbek Americans, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic white population, enumerating over 30,000, and including over half of all Central Asian immigrants to the United States, most settling in Queens or Brooklyn. Albanian Americans are most highly concentrated in the Bronx.

Question: How many non-Hispanic whites lived in New York City in 2012?


Answer: 550,000

Question: What is the non-Hispanic white population of Houston?


Answer: 201,000

Question: How many New Yorkers are of Polish ancestry?


Answer: 65,000

Question: How many New York City residents are of Greek heritage?


Answer: the Bronx

Question: What borough has the largest population of ethnic Albanians?


Answer: 2.7 million

Question: NYC has the largest white population by how many people?


Answer: 20 million

Context: The wider New York City metropolitan area, with over 20 million people, about 50% greater than the second-place Los Angeles metropolitan area in the United States, is also ethnically diverse. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States, substantially exceeding the combined totals of Los Angeles and Miami, the next most popular gateway regions. It is home to the largest Jewish as well as Israeli communities outside Israel, with the Jewish population in the region numbering over 1.5 million in 2012 and including many diverse Jewish sects from around the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The metropolitan area is also home to 20% of the nation's Indian Americans and at least 20 Little India enclaves, as well as 15% of all Korean Americans and four Koreatowns; the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American, Italian American, and African American populations; the largest Dominican American, Puerto Rican American, and South American and second-largest overall Hispanic population in the United States, numbering 4.8 million; and includes at least 6 established Chinatowns within New York City alone, with the urban agglomeration comprising a population of 779,269 overseas Chinese as of 2013 Census estimates, the largest outside of Asia.

Question: About how many people live in New York City's metropolitan area?


Answer: 1.5 million

Question: As of 2012, how many Jewish people lived in the New York metropolitan area?


Answer: 20%

Question: What percentage of the total Indian-American population of the United States lives in the New York metropolitan area?


Answer: 4.8 million

Question: How many Hispanic people live in the New York metropolitan area?


Answer: 6

Question: Approximately how many Chinatowns exist in New York City?


Answer: 1.3 million

Context: Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil were the top source countries from South America for legal immigrants to the New York City region in 2013; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean; Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria from Africa; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in Central America. Amidst a resurgence of Puerto Rican migration to New York City, this population had increased to approximately 1.3 million in the metropolitan area as of 2013.

Question: In 2013, how many people of Puerto Rican ancestry lived in New York City?


Answer: the Dominican Republic

Question: What nation provided the most legal immigrants to New York City in the Caribbean?


Answer: Egypt

Question: Out of all African nations, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


Answer: El Salvador

Question: Out of all nations in Central America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


Answer: Ecuador

Question: Of all the countries in South America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


Answer: 568,903

Context: The New York metropolitan area is home to a self-identifying gay and bisexual community estimated at 568,903 individuals, the largest in the United States and one of the world's largest. Same-sex marriages in New York were legalized on June 24, 2011 and were authorized to take place beginning 30 days thereafter.

Question: How many self-identified LGB people live in the New York metropolitan area?


Answer: June 24, 2011

Question: On what date did New York legalize gay marriage?


Answer: 30

Question: How many days after gay marriage was legalized were gay marriages allowed to take place?


Answer: 568,903

Question: How many people identify as gay or bisexual in NYC?


Answer: June 24, 2011

Question: Same-sex marriage became legal on what date in New York?


Answer: 30

Question: Since Gay marriage became legal, how many days did people have to wait to marry?


Answer: 59%

Context: Christianity (59%), particularly Catholicism (33%), was the most prevalently practiced religion in New York as of 2014, followed by Judaism, with approximately 1.1 million Jews in New York City, over half living in Brooklyn. Islam ranks third in New York City, with official estimates ranging between 600,000 and 1,000,000 observers and including 10% of the city's public schoolchildren, followed by Hinduism, Buddhism, and a variety of other religions, as well as atheism. In 2014, 24% self-identified with no organized religious affiliation.

Question: What percentage of New Yorkers are Christians?


Answer: 33%

Question: What percentage of New Yorkers follow the Catholic faith?


Answer: 1.1 million

Question: About how many Jews live in New York City?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: What borough has the largest population of Jewish people?


Answer: Islam

Question: What is the third most popular faith in New York City?


Answer: Christianity

Question: What was the most prominent religion in New York as of 2014?


Answer: Judaism

Question: The second most prominent religion in New York is what?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Half the population of Jews live in what borough of New York City?


Answer: 24

Question: What percentage of people in 2014 had no religion?


Answer: Islam

Question: The third most popular religion in NYC is what?


Answer: 0.5

Context: New York City has a high degree of income disparity as indicated by its Gini Coefficient of 0.5 for the city overall and 0.6 for Manhattan. The disparity is driven by wage growth in high-income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower-income brackets. In the first quarter of 2014, the average weekly wage in New York County (Manhattan) was $2,749, representing the highest total among large counties in the United States. In 2013, New York City had the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, higher than the next five U.S. cities combined, including former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. New York also had the highest density of millionaires per capita among major U.S. cities in 2014, at 4.6% of residents. Lower Manhattan has been experiencing a baby boom, with the area south of Canal Street witnessing 1,086 births in 2010, 12% greater than 2009 and over twice the number born in 2001.

Question: What is New York City's Gini Coefficient?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: What borough has a Gini Coefficient of 0.6?


Answer: Michael R. Bloomberg

Question: What previous mayor of New York is a billionaire?


Answer: 4.6%

Question: In 2014, millionaires made up what percentage of New York City's population?


Answer: $2,749

Question: What is the average weekly wage in Manhattan?


Answer: 2,749

Question: The average weekly earnings for a worker in NYC was what in 2014?


Answer: New York City

Question: By 2013, which city had the most billionaires living in the city?


Answer: Silicon Alley

Context: New York is a global hub of international business and commerce. In 2012, New York City topped the first Global Economic Power Index, published by The Atlantic (to be differentiated from a namesake list published by the Martin Prosperity Institute), with cities ranked according to criteria reflecting their presence on similar lists as published by other entities. The city is a major center for banking and finance, retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, real estate, new media as well as traditional media, advertising, legal services, accountancy, insurance, theater, fashion, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's broad-spectrum high technology sphere, continues to expand. The Port of New York and New Jersey is also a major economic engine, handling record cargo volume in the first half of 2014.

Question: What is the common name for New York's high technology sector?


Answer: The Atlantic

Question: Who created the Global Economic Power Index that ranked New York first?


Answer: 2014

Question: In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprecedented cargo volume?


Answer: 2012

Question: In what year was New York ranked first on the Global Economic Power Index?


Answer: One out of ten

Context: Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York City, as are a large number of foreign corporations. One out of ten private sector jobs in the city is with a foreign company. New York City has been ranked first among cities across the globe in attracting capital, business, and tourists. This ability to attract foreign investment helped New York City top the FDi Magazine American Cities of the Future ranking for 2013.

Question: What fraction of New Yorkers in the private sector are employed by foreign companies?


Answer: FDi Magazine

Question: What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings?


Answer: US$914.8 billion

Context: Real estate is a major force in the city's economy, as the total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$914.8 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. The Time Warner Center is the property with the highest-listed market value in the city, at US$1.1 billion in 2006. New York City is home to some of the nation's—and the world's—most valuable real estate. 450 Park Avenue was sold on July 2, 2007 for US$510 million, about $1,589 per square foot ($17,104/m²), breaking the barely month-old record for an American office building of $1,476 per square foot ($15,887/m²) set in the June 2007 sale of 660 Madison Avenue. According to Forbes, in 2014, Manhattan was home to six of the top ten zip codes in the United States by median housing price.

Question: What was the 2015 assessed value of all the property in New York?


Answer: US$1.1 billion

Question: How much was Time Warner Center worth in 2006?


Answer: $1,589

Question: What was the price per square foot of 450 Park Avenue when it sold in July 2007?


Answer: $15,887

Question: What was the price per square meter of 660 Madison Avenue in June 2007?


Answer: six

Question: Of the top 10 zip codes with the most expensive housing prices in the United States, how many are in Manhattan?


Answer: Time Warner Center

Question: Which building has the highest market value in NYC?


Answer: 660 Madison Avenue

Question: The previous record beaten by Park Avenue was for what real estate?


Answer: Madison Avenue

Context: As of 2013, the global advertising agencies of Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, both based in Manhattan, had combined annual revenues of approximately US$21 billion, reflecting New York City's role as the top global center for the advertising industry, which is metonymously referred to as "Madison Avenue". The city's fashion industry provides approximately 180,000 employees with $11 billion in annual wages.

Question: What is the popular name of New York's advertising industry?


Answer: 180,000

Question: About how many people work in the New York fashion industry?


Answer: $11 billion

Question: About how much does it cost per year to pay workers in the New York fashion industry?


Answer: Omnicom Group

Question: With Interpublic Group, what company has a combined annual revenue of roughly US$21 billion?


Answer: 180,000

Question: NYC's fashion industry employs how many people?


Answer: Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group

Question: The Two highest advertising agencies in the world located in NYC are called what?


Answer: 19,000

Context: Other important sectors include medical research and technology, non-profit institutions, and universities. Manufacturing accounts for a significant but declining share of employment, although the city's garment industry is showing a resurgence in Brooklyn. Food processing is a US$5 billion industry that employs more than 19,000 residents.

Question: How many New Yorkers work in the food processing field?


Answer: US$5 billion

Question: What is the annual revenue of the food processing industry?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what borough is the garment business prominent?


Answer: US$234 million

Context: Chocolate is New York City's leading specialty-food export, with up to US$234 million worth of exports each year. Entrepreneurs were forming a "Chocolate District" in Brooklyn as of 2014, while Godiva, one of the world's largest chocolatiers, continues to be headquartered in Manhattan.

Question: What dollar amount of chocolate does New York export annually?


Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Where is the "Chocolate District" located?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough is Godiva based?


Answer: Chocolate

Question: What is the number one specialty food export of New York?


Answer: Chocolate

Question: What type of food is NYC's leading food export?


Answer: Godiva

Question: Which one of the world's largest chocolate makers is stationed in Manhattan?