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World Trade Center Montevideo officially opened in 1998, although work is still ongoing as of 2010[update]. The complex is composed of three towers, two three-story buildings called World Trade Center Plaza and World Trade Center Avenue and a large central square called Towers Square. World Trade Center 1 was the first building to be inaugurated, in 1998.[citation needed] It has 22 floors and 17,100 square metres of space. That same year the avenue and the auditorium were raised. World Trade Center 2 was inaugurated in 2002, a twin tower of World Trade Center 1. Finally, in 2009, World Trade Center 3 and the World Trade Center Plaza and the Towers Square were inaugurated. It is located between the avenues Luis Alberto de Herrera and 26 de Marzo and has 19 floors and 27,000 square metres (290,000 sq ft) of space. The 6,300-square-metre (68,000 sq ft)[citation needed] World Trade Center Plaza is designed to be a centre of gastronomy opposite Towers Square and Bonavita St. Among the establishments on the plaza are Burger King, Walrus, Bamboo, Asia de Cuba, Gardenia Mvd, and La Claraboya Cafe.

Question: When did World Trade Center Montevideo officially open?
Answer: 1998

Question: What was the first building to be inaugurated? 
Answer: World Trade Center 1

Question: When was World Trade Center 2 inaugurated?
Answer: 2002

Question: When was World Trade Center 3 inaugurated?
Answer: 2009
The Towers Square, is an area of remarkable aesthetic design, intended to be a platform for the development of business activities, art exhibitions, dance and music performances and social place. This square connects the different buildings and towers which comprise the WTC Complex and it is the main access to the complex. The square contains various works of art, notably a sculpture by renowned Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry. World Trade Center 4, with 40 floors and 53,500 square metres (576,000 sq ft) of space is under construction as of 2010[update].[citation needed]

Question: What was intended to be a platform for the development of business activities?
Answer: The Towers Square

Question: The square contains a sculpture by what renowned Uruguayan sculptor? 
Answer: Pablo Atchugarry

Question: How much space is World Trade Center 4 projected to have?
Answer: 53,500 square metres
The Solís Theatre is Uruguay's oldest theatre. It was built in 1856 and is currently owned by the government of Montevideo. In 1998, the government of Montevideo started a major reconstruction of the theatre, which included two US$110,000 columns designed by Philippe Starck. The reconstruction was completed in 2004, and the theatre reopened in August of that year. The plaza is also the site of the offices of the President of Uruguay (both the Estévez Palace and the Executive Tower). The Artigas Mausoleum is located at the centre of the plaza. Statues include that of José Gervasio Artigas, hero of Uruguay's independence movement; an honour guard keeps vigil at the Mausoleum.

Question: What is Uruguay's oldest theater? 
Answer: The Solís Theatre

Question: When was The Solis Theater built?
Answer: 1856

Question: Who owns The Solis Theater?
Answer: the government of Montevideo

Question: What year did the government of Montevideo start a major reconstruction of the Solis  Theater?
Answer: 1998

Question: What year was the reconstruction of the solis theater completed?
Answer: 2004
Palacio Salvo, at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia, was designed by the architect Mario Palanti and completed in 1925. Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Palacio Salvo stands 100 metres (330 ft) high, including its antenna. It is built on the former site of the Confitería La Giralda, renowned for being where Gerardo Matos Rodríguez wrote his tango "La Cumparsita" (1917.) Palacio Salvo was originally intended to function as a hotel but is now a mixture of offices and private residences.

Question: Who designed the Palacio Salvo?
Answer: Mario Palanti

Question: What year was the Palacio Salvo completed? 
Answer: 1925

Question: How high does the Palacio Salvo stand?
Answer: 100 metres (330 ft) high
Also of major note in Ciudad Vieja is the Plaza de la Constitución (or Plaza Matriz). During the first decades of Uruguayan independence this square was the main hub of city life. On the square are the Cabildo—the seat of colonial government—and the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral. The cathedral is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera, Juan Antonio Lavalleja and Venancio Flores. Another notable square is Plaza Zabala with the equestrian statue of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. On its south side, Palacio Taranco, once residence of the Ortiz Taranco brothers, is now the Museum of Decorative Arts. A few blocks northwest of Plaza Zabala is the Mercado del Puerto, another major tourist destination.

Question: What is also a major note in Ciudad Vieja?
Answer: Plaza de la Constitución

Question: What is the Cabildo?
Answer: the seat of colonial government

Question: What is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera?
Answer: Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral

Question: Where is the equestrian statue of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala located? 
Answer: Plaza Zabala
Parque Batlle (formerly: Parque de los Aliados, translation: "Park of the Allies") is a major public central park, located south of Avenida Italia and north of Avenue Rivera. Along with Parque Prado and Parque Rodó it is one of three large parks that dominate Montevideo. The park and surrounding area constitute one of the 62 neighbourhoods (barrios) of the city. The barrio of Parque Batlle is one of seven coastal barrios, the others being Buceo, Carrasco, Malvin, Pocitos, Punta Carretas, and Punta Gorda. The current barrio of Parque Battle includes four former districts: Belgrano, Italiano, Villa Dolores and Batlle Park itself and borders the neighbourhoods of La Blanqueada, Tres Cruces, Pocitos and Buceo. It has a high population density and most of its households are of medium-high- or high-income. Villa Dolores, a subdistrict of Parque Batlle, took its name from the original villa of Don Alejo Rossell y Rius and of Doña Dolores Pereira de Rossel. On their grounds, they started a private collection of animals that became a zoological garden and was passed to the city in 1919; in 1955 the Planetarium of Montevideo was built within its premises.

Question: What major public central park is located south of Avenida Italia? 
Answer: Parque Batlle

Question: How many former districts does the current barrio of Parque Battle include? 
Answer: four

Question: What sub district of Parque Batlle took its name from the original villa of Don Alejo Rossell Y Rius?
Answer: Villa Dolores
Parque Batlle is named in honour of José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay from 1911 to 1915. The park was originally proposed by an Act of March 1907, which also projected wide boulevards and avenues. French landscape architect, Carlos Thays, began the plantings in 1911. In 1918, the park was named Parque de los Aliados, following the victory of the Allies of World War I. On 5 May 1930, after significant expansion, it was again renamed as Parque Batlle y Ordóñez, in memory of the prominent politician and president, who had died in 1929. The park was designated a National Historic Monument Park in 1975. As of 2010[update], the park covers an area of 60 hectares (150 acres) and is considered the "lung" of the Montevideo city due to the large variety of trees planted here.

Question: Parque Batlle is named in honor of who?
Answer: José Batlle y Ordóñez

Question: Jose Batile y Ordonez was president of where? 
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Between what years was Jose batlle y Ordonez president of Uruguay? 
Answer: 1911 to 1915

Question: Parque Batlle was originally proposed by what?
Answer: an Act of March 1907
Parque Rodó is both a barrio (neighbourhood) of Montevideo and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the neighbourhood itself and belongs to Punta Carretas. The name "Rodó" commemorates José Enrique Rodó, an important Uruguayan writer whose monument is in the southern side of the main park. The park was conceived as a French-style city park. Apart from the main park area which is delimited by Sarmiento Avenue to the south, Parque Rodó includes an amusement park; the Estadio Luis Franzini, belonging to Defensor Sporting; the front lawn of the Faculty of Engineering and a strip west of the Club de Golf de Punta Carretas that includes the Canteras ("quarry") del Parque Rodó, the Teatro de Verano ("summer theatre") and the Lago ("lake") del Parque Rodó.

Question: Parque Rodo belongs to who?
Answer: Punta Carretas

Question: What does the name "Rodo" commemorate? 
Answer: José Enrique Rodó

Question: Who was an important Uruguayan writer that is commemorated by Parque Rodo? 
Answer: José Enrique Rodó

Question: Parque Rodo was originally conceived as what?
Answer: a French-style city park
The other large cemeteries are the Cementerio del Buceo, Cementerio del Cerro, and Cementerio Paso Molino. The British Cemetery Montevideo (Cementerio Británico) is another of the oldest cemeteries in Uruguay, located in the Buceo neighborhood. Many noblemen and eminent persons are buried there. The cemetery originated when the Englishman Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents in 1828. However, in 1884 the government compensated the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo to accommodate city growth. A section of the cemetery, known as British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers and Sailors, contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of British descent. One United States Marine, Henry de Costa, is buried here.

Question: Where is the British Cemetery Montevideo located?
Answer: Buceo neighborhood

Question: Who purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents?
Answer: Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood

Question: When did Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchase a plot of land at the British Cemetery Montevideo? 
Answer: 1828

Question: When did the government compensate the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo?
Answer: 1884
The Museo Torres García is located in the Old Town, and exhibits Joaquín Torres García's unusual portraits of historical icons and cubist paintings akin to those of Picasso and Braque. The museum was established by Manolita Piña Torres, the widow of Torres Garcia, after his death in 1949. She also set up the García Torres Foundation, a private non-profit organization that organizes the paintings, drawings, original writings, archives, objects and furniture designed by the painter as well as the photographs, magazines and publications related to him.

Question: The Museo Torres Garcia is located where?
Answer: the Old Town

Question: The Museo Torres Garcia exhibits whose unusual portraits? 
Answer: Joaquín Torres García

Question: Who established The Museo Torres Garcia?
Answer: Manolita Piña Torres

Question: Manolita Pina Torres was the widow of who?
Answer: Torres Garcia
The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university houses 14 faculties (departments) and various institutes and schools. Many eminent Uruguayans have graduated from this university, including Carlos Vaz Ferreira, José Luis Massera, Gabriel Paternain, Mario Wschebor, Roman Fresnedo Siri, Carlos Ott and Eladio Dieste

Question: What is the country's largest university? 
Answer: The University of the Republic

Question: In 2007 the University of the Republic had a student body of how many people?
Answer: 81,774

Question: When was the University of the Republic founded?
Answer: 18 July 1849

Question: Who is the current rector of The University of the Republic?
Answer: Dr. Rodrigo Arocena
Also in Carrasco is The British Schools of Montevideo, one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, established in 1908.[citation needed] Its original purpose was to give Uruguayan children a complete education, on par with the best schools of the United Kingdom and to establish strong bonds between the British and Uruguayan children living in the country. The School is governed by the Board of Governors, elected by the British Schools Society in Uruguay, whose honorary president is the British Ambassador to Uruguay. Prominent alumni include former government ministers Pedro Bordaberry Herrán and Gabriel Gurméndez Armand-Ugon.

Question: Where is the British Schools of Montevideo located?
Answer: Carrasco

Question: When was the British Schools of Montevideo established?
Answer: 1908

Question: What was the British Schools of Montevideo original purpose?
Answer: to give Uruguayan children a complete education
Estadio Centenario, the national football stadium in Parque Batlle, was opened in 1930 for the first World Cup, as well as to commemorate the centennial of Uruguay's first constitution. In this World Cup, Uruguay won the title game against Argentina by 4 goals to 2. The stadium has 70,000 seats. It is listed by FIFA as one of the football world's classic stadiums, along with Maracanã, Wembley Stadium, San Siro, Estadio Azteca, and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. A museum located within the football stadium has exhibits of memorabilia from Uruguay's 1930 and 1950 World Cup championships. Museum tickets give access to the stadium, stands, locker rooms and playing field.

Question: What is the national football stadium in Parque Batlle?
Answer: Estadio Centenario

Question: When was Estadio Centenario opened? 
Answer: 1930

Question: How many seats does the Estadio Centenario have? 
Answer: 70,000
The domestication of poultry took place several thousand years ago. This may have originally been as a result of people hatching and rearing young birds from eggs collected from the wild, but later involved keeping the birds permanently in captivity. Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but soon it was realised how useful it was having a captive-bred source of food. Selective breeding for fast growth, egg-laying ability, conformation, plumage and docility took place over the centuries, and modern breeds often look very different from their wild ancestors. Although some birds are still kept in small flocks in extensive systems, most birds available in the market today are reared in intensive commercial enterprises. Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat globally and, along with eggs, provides nutritionally beneficial food containing high-quality protein accompanied by a low proportion of fat. All poultry meat should be properly handled and sufficiently cooked in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning.

Question: How long have humans used domsticated poultry ?
Answer: domestication of poultry took place several thousand years ago

Question: What have people use domesticated poultry for besides food ?
Answer: cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs

Question: Why did humans feel that addtional breeding tatics were necessary in poulty? 
Answer: Selective breeding for fast growth, egg-laying ability, conformation, plumage and docility took place

Question: Has breeding changed the original characterictics of the animals ?
Answer: modern breeds often look very different from their wild ancestors.

Question: How popular is poultry as a consumable among humans ?
Answer: Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat globally
Chickens raised intensively for their meat are known as "broilers". Breeds have been developed that can grow to an acceptable carcass size (2 kg (4.4 lb)) in six weeks or less. Broilers grow so fast, their legs cannot always support their weight and their hearts and respiratory systems may not be able to supply enough oxygen to their developing muscles. Mortality rates at 1% are much higher than for less-intensively reared laying birds which take 18 weeks to reach similar weights. Processing the birds is done automatically with conveyor-belt efficiency. They are hung by their feet, stunned, killed, bled, scalded, plucked, have their heads and feet removed, eviscerated, washed, chilled, drained, weighed, and packed, all within the course of little over two hours.

Question: What is the average size of chickens used extensively for it's meat production raised in an intensive environment? 
Answer: carcass size (2 kg (4.4 lb))

Question: How long does it take for an broiler raisedin an intensive environment very to reach optimum size?
Answer: six weeks or less

Question: What is the death rate among chickens who are intensivley breed to be broilers?
Answer: Mortality rates at 1%

Question: Do chicken raised in the intensive broiler method suffer from health condions?
Answer: their legs cannot always support their weight and their hearts and respiratory systems may not be able to supply enough oxygen to their developing muscles.

Question: How long does it take for a chicken raised in a less intensive envionment to reach optimal broiler size?
Answer: 18 weeks to reach similar weights
Arsenal reached the final of the 2007 and 2011 League Cups, losing 2–1 to Chelsea and Birmingham City respectively. The club had not gained a major trophy since the 2005 FA Cup until 17 May 2014, when Arsenal beat Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup Final, coming back from a 2–0 deficit to win the match 3–2. This qualified them for the 2014 FA Community Shield where they would play Premier League champions Manchester City. They recorded a resounding 3–0 win in the game, winning their second trophy in three months. Nine months after their Community Shield triumph, Arsenal appeared in the FA Cup final for the second year in a row, thrashing Aston Villa 4–0 in the final and becoming the most successful club in the tournament's history with 12 titles. On 2 August 2015, Arsenal beat Chelsea 1–0 at Wembley Stadium to retain the Community Shield and earn their 14th Community Shield title.

Question: What famous team defeated Arsenal for the League Cup in 2007?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: Who beat Arsenal for the 2011 League Cup>
Answer: Birmingham City

Question: How many wins did Arsenal have to make the team the most successful in FA Cup history?
Answer: 12

Question: What team did Arsenal defeat at Wembley in 2015?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: How Community Shield titles does Arsenal have?
Answer: 14
In 1949, the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style of cannon below the club's name, set in blackletter, and above the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and a scroll inscribed with the club's newly adopted Latin motto, Victoria Concordia Crescit "victory comes from harmony", coined by the club's programme editor Harry Homer. For the first time, the crest was rendered in colour, which varied slightly over the crest's lifespan, finally becoming red, gold and green. Because of the numerous revisions of the crest, Arsenal were unable to copyright it. Although the club had managed to register the crest as a trademark, and had fought (and eventually won) a long legal battle with a local street trader who sold "unofficial" Arsenal merchandise, Arsenal eventually sought a more comprehensive legal protection. Therefore, in 2002 they introduced a new crest featuring more modern curved lines and a simplified style, which was copyrightable. The cannon once again faces east and the club's name is written in a sans-serif typeface above the cannon. Green was replaced by dark blue. The new crest was criticised by some supporters; the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association claimed that the club had ignored much of Arsenal's history and tradition with such a radical modern design, and that fans had not been properly consulted on the issue.

Question: What Latin motto was added to the crest in 1949?
Answer: Victoria Concordia Crescit

Question: In 1949 what new addition was done to enhance the Arsenal club crest?
Answer: rendered in colour

Question: What legal stance did Arsenal use to win a law suit against a merchant?
Answer: trademark

Question: In what year did Arsenal produce a remodeled crest that could be copyrighted?
Answer: 2002

Question:  Who did Arsenal supporters think should have been consulted before announcing the new crest?
Answer: fans
Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English[n 5] and is said to be roughly in between them.[n 6] Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has levelled much of its morphology, including the case system.[n 7] Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical genders—albeit with few grammatical consequences[n 8]—as well as the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order.[n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but fewer than English.[n 10]

Question: Which two languages does Dutch most closely resemble?
Answer: German and English

Question: Which Germanic accent mark do both the English and the Dutch language not use?
Answer: umlaut

Question: Unlike English, both German and Dutch use how many genders in their grammar?
Answer: three

Question: Which verb tense have both English and Dutch mostly gotten rid of?
Answer: subjunctive

Question: Does Dutch borrow more or less from Romance languages for its vocabulary than German?
Answer: more
The term Nederduits, however introduced new confusion, since the non standardised dialects spoken in the north of Germany came to be known as Niederdeutsch as well, and thus the Duits reference in the name was dropped, leading to Nederlands as designation to refer to the Dutch language. The repeated use of Neder (or "low") to refer to the Dutch language is a reference to the Netherlands' downriver location at the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta near the North Sea, harking back to Latin nomenclature, e.g. Germania Inferior. See also: Netherlands (toponymy).

Question: What was the new word for Dutch that still caused some confusion with the language spoken in Germany?
Answer: Nederduits

Question: What does the word "Neder" translate to in English?
Answer: low

Question: The Netherlands are "low" because of their placement near what delta by the North Sea?
Answer: Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta

Question: What language started the trend of referring to the Netherlands as "Germania Inferior"?
Answer: Latin

Question: "Nederduits" often caused people to mix up the language of the Netherlands with that spoken in what directional area of Germany? 
Answer: north
Three Germanic dialects were originally spoken in the Low Countries: Frisian in the north and along the western coast; Saxon in the east (contiguous with the Low German area); and Franconian in the centre and south. It is the Franconian dialects that is designated as Old Dutch, and that would develop in Middle Dutch and later Modern Dutch. The division in these development phases is mostly conventional, since the transition between them was very gradual. One of the few moments linguists can detect somewhat of a revolution is when the Dutch standard language emerged and quickly established itself. The development of the Dutch language is illustrated by the following sentence in Old, Middle and Modern Dutch:

Question: How many different versions of a Germanic language were spoken in the Low Countries?
Answer: Three

Question: Which Germanic dialect was spoken in the eastern region?
Answer: Saxon

Question: Which dialects are referred to as "Old Dutch"?
Answer: Franconian

Question: Was the transition from Old Dutch to Modern Dutch gradual, or did it happen quickly?
Answer: gradual

Question: Which Germanic dialect was spoken in the north and west of the Low Countries? 
Answer: Frisian
After independence, Dutch was dropped as an official language and replaced by Malay. Yet the Indonesian language inherited many words from Dutch: words for everyday life as well as scientific and technological terms. One scholar argues that 20% of Indonesian words can be traced back to Dutch words, many of which are transliterated to reflect phonetic pronunciation e.g. kantoor (Dutch for "office") in Indonesian is kantor, while bus ("bus") becomes bis. In addition, many Indonesian words are calques on Dutch, for example, rumah sakit (Indonesian for "hospital") is calqued on the Dutch ziekenhuis (literally "house of the sick"), kebun binatang ("zoo") on dierentuin (literally "animal garden"), undang-undang dasar ("constitution") from grondwet (literally "ground law"). These account for some of the differences in vocabulary between Indonesian and Malay.

Question: What became the official language of Indonesia after they declared their independence?
Answer: Malay

Question: What's the Indonesian word for "office"? 
Answer: kantor

Question: What term describes the literally translated Indonesian versions of Dutch terms that have become standard?
Answer: calques

Question: What is the Indonesian calque for the Dutch word that literally translates as "animal garden"?
Answer: kebun binatang

Question: What Dutch word for a hospital was calqued into the Indonesian "rumah sakit"?
Answer: ziekenhuis
It is the third language of South Africa in terms of native speakers (~13.5%), of whom 53 percent are Coloureds and 42.4 percent Whites. In 1996, 40 percent of South Africans reported to know Afrikaans at least at a very basic level of communication. It is the lingua franca in Namibia, where it is spoken natively in 11 percent of households. In total, Afrikaans is the first language in South Africa alone of about 6.8 million people and is estimated to be a second language for at least 10 million people worldwide, compared to over 23 million and 5 million respectively, for Dutch.

Question: Approximately what percentage of South Africans are native Afrikaans speakers?
Answer: 13.5%

Question: Which country has 11% of households who speak Afrikaans?
Answer: Namibia

Question: How many of the South Africans surveyed in 1996 said they speak at least a little Afrikaans?
Answer: 40 percent

Question: About how many South Africans speak Afrikaans as their primary language?
Answer: 6.8 million

Question: Approximately how many people in the world speak Dutch as a second language?
Answer: 5 million
Possibly the first house erected within the site was that of a Sir William Blake, around 1624. The next owner was Lord Goring, who from 1633 extended Blake's house and developed much of today's garden, then known as Goring Great Garden. He did not, however, obtain the freehold interest in the mulberry garden. Unbeknown to Goring, in 1640 the document "failed to pass the Great Seal before King Charles I fled London, which it needed to do for legal execution". It was this critical omission that helped the British royal family regain the freehold under King George III.

Question: Who built the first house on the site?
Answer: Sir William Blake

Question: Which owner developed much of the garden still seen today?
Answer: Lord Goring

Question: What was Lord Goring's garden known as?
Answer: Goring Great Garden

Question: Under which king did the Royal Family regain the freehold title of the property? 
Answer: King George III

Question: Which king failed to execute Goring's freehold document before fleeing to London?
Answer: King Charles I

Question: Who owned the first house built on the site?
Answer: Sir William Blake

Question: Who developed what is much of today's garden at Buckingham?
Answer: Lord Goring

Question: What was the name of Lord Goring Garden?
Answer: Goring Great Garden

Question: Which king fled to London leaving allowing the Royal family to keep it's freehold on the property?
Answer: King Charles I
The house which forms the architectural core of the palace was built for the first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 to the design of William Winde. The style chosen was of a large, three-floored central block with two smaller flanking service wings. Buckingham House was eventually sold by Buckingham's descendant, Sir Charles Sheffield, in 1761 to George III for £21,000. Sheffield's leasehold on the mulberry garden site, the freehold of which was still owned by the royal family, was due to expire in 1774.

Question: In what year did William Winde design the house which forms the core of the palace?
Answer: 1703

Question: Who sold Buckingham house in 1761?
Answer: Sir Charles Sheffield

Question: How much did George III pay for the house?
Answer: £21,000

Question: In what year was the leasehold of the Mulberry site due to expire?
Answer: 1774

Question: How many flanking service wings did the original Buckingham House have?
Answer: two

Question: The house which is the core of Buckingham was first built for who?
Answer: Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

Question: Who designed the house for the Duke of Buckingham?
Answer: William Winde

Question: How many flanking service wings did Buckingham House have?
Answer: two

Question: Who bought Buckingham House in 1761?
Answer: George III

Question: How much did George III pay for Buckingham House? 
Answer: £21,000
Remodelling of the structure began in 1762. After his accession to the throne in 1820, King George IV continued the renovation with the idea in mind of a small, comfortable home. While the work was in progress, in 1826, the King decided to modify the house into a palace with the help of his architect John Nash. Some furnishings were transferred from Carlton House, and others had been bought in France after the French Revolution. The external façade was designed keeping in mind the French neo-classical influence preferred by George IV. The cost of the renovations grew dramatically, and by 1829 the extravagance of Nash's designs resulted in his removal as architect. On the death of George IV in 1830, his younger brother King William IV hired Edward Blore to finish the work. At one stage, William considered converting the palace into the new Houses of Parliament, after the destruction of the Palace of Westminster by fire in 1834.

Question: What did King George IV originally want the structure to be?
Answer: a small, comfortable home

Question: King William thought about converting the palace into what after a fire destroyed the Palace of Westminster in 1834?
Answer: new Houses of Parliament

Question: Which architect helped modify the house into a palace?
Answer: John Nash

Question: In what year was Nash removed as architect?
Answer: 1829

Question: Who was hired in 1830 to finish the work on the palace?
Answer: Edward Blore

Question: What year did remodeling of Buckingham House begin?
Answer: 1762

Question: What was George IV's original plan for the house? 
Answer: a small, comfortable home

Question: What year did the king decide to make it into a palace?
Answer: 1826

Question: Who was the main architect that transformed the house into the palace?
Answer: John Nash

Question: Who did King William IV hired to finish the work after Nash was fired?
Answer: Edward Blore
Court presentations of aristocratic young ladies to the monarch took place at the palace from the reign of Edward VII. These young women were known as débutantes, and the occasion—termed their "coming out"—represented their first entrée into society. Débutantes wore full court dress, with three tall ostrich feathers in their hair. They entered, curtsied, and performed a choreographed backwards walk and a further curtsy, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length. (The ceremony, known as an evening court, corresponded to the "court drawing rooms" of Victoria's reign.) After World War II, the ceremony was replaced by less formal afternoon receptions, usually without choreographed curtsies and court dress.

Question: Under whose reign did court presentations of young aristocratic ladies take place?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: What was the name for the ceremony where debutantes had their first introduction into society?
Answer: coming out

Question: Debutantes wore the feather of which bird in their hair?
Answer: ostrich feathers

Question: After WWII "coming out" ceremonies were replaces with what event?
Answer: less formal afternoon receptions

Question: Under whose reign were young debutantes presented to society at Court?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: What types of feathers did debutantes wear in their hair?
Answer: ostrich feathers

Question: What was the occasion where debutantes were presented to society called?
Answer: "coming out"

Question: After WWII what was the coming out ceremony replaced with?
Answer: less formal afternoon receptions
Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions to environmental hazards. Examples include: space suits, air conditioned clothing, armor, diving suits, swimsuits, bee-keeper gear, motorcycle leathers, high-visibility clothing, and other pieces of protective clothing. Meanwhile, the distinction between clothing and protective equipment is not always clear-cut—since clothes designed to be fashionable often have protective value and clothes designed for function often consider fashion in their design. Wearing clothes also has social implications. They cover parts of the body that social norms require to be covered, act as a form of adornment, and serve other social purposes.

Question: What animal has shown extreme inventiveness in the clothing it has devised?
Answer: Humans

Question: What are space suits an example of a solution to? 
Answer: environmental hazards

Question: What type of implication might a certain type of clothing have?
Answer: social

Question: What value may clothing designed to be fashionable also have?
Answer: protective

Question: Why are some parts of the body covered?
Answer: social norms
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL) Central division; the team plays its home baseball games at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are also one of two active major league teams based in Chicago; the other is the Chicago White Sox, who are a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is currently owned by Thomas S. Ricketts, son of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts.

Question: What American professional baseball team is located on the North side of Chicago, IL?  
Answer: The Chicago Cubs

Question: What league are the Chicago Cubs in?
Answer: the National League

Question: Where do the Chicago Cubs play their home games?
Answer: Wrigley Field

Question: Who currently owns the  Chicago Cubs?
Answer: Joe Ricketts
The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)

Question: When did the Chicago Cubs play their first game?
Answer: 1876

Question: What year did the Chicago Cubs' name become official? 
Answer: 1903 season

Question: What other team besides the Chicago Cubs is tied for being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club?
Answer: Atlanta Braves
The shift in the Cubs' fortunes was characterized June 23 on the "NBC Saturday Game of the Week" contest against the St. Louis Cardinals. it has since been dubbed simply "The Sandberg Game." With the nation watching and Wrigley Field packed, Sandberg emerged as a superstar with not one, but two game-tying home runs against Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter. With his shots in the 9th and 10th innings Wrigley Field erupted and Sandberg set the stage for a comeback win that cemented the Cubs as the team to beat in the East. No one would catch them, except the Padres in the playoffs.

Question: What contest shift the Cubs' Fortunes? 
Answer: NBC Saturday Game of the Week

Question: What had the contest between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals been dubbed as?
Answer: The Sandberg Game

Question: How many game-tying home runs did Sandberg get against the Cardinals at the Sandber Game?
Answer: two
In 1984, each league had two divisions, East and West. The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a "2–3" format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage. Then the last three games were played at the home of the team, with home field advantage. Thus the first two games were played at Wrigley Field and the next three at the home of their opponents, San Diego. A common and unfounded myth is that since Wrigley Field did not have lights at that time the National League decided to give the home field advantage to the winner of the NL West. In fact, home field advantage had rotated between the winners of the East and West since 1969 when the league expanded. In even numbered years, the NL West had home field advantage. In odd numbered years, the NL East had home field advantage. Since the NL East winners had had home field advantage in 1983, the NL West winners were entitled to it.

Question: In what year did the league have two divisions? 
Answer: 1984

Question: The division winners met in what kind of series to advance to the World Series?
Answer: best-of-5 series

Question: Where were the first two games of the 1984 division winners held?
Answer: Wrigley Field
Rookie Starlin Castro debuted in early May (2010) as the starting shortstop. However, the club played poorly in the early season, finding themselves 10 games under .500 at the end of June. In addition, long-time ace Carlos Zambrano was pulled from a game against the White Sox on June 25 after a tirade and shoving match with Derrek Lee, and was suspended indefinitely by Jim Hendry, who called the conduct "unacceptable." On August 22, Lou Piniella, who had already announced his retirement at the end of the season, announced that he would leave the Cubs prematurely to take care of his sick mother. Mike Quade took over as the interim manager for the final 37 games of the year. Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24–13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch, earning Quade to have the interim tag removed on October 19.

Question: Who debuted as the starting shortstop in early May 2010?
Answer: Starlin Castro

Question: When did Starlin Castro debut as the starting shortstop?
Answer: early May (2010)

Question: Who announced on August 22nd they were leaving the Cubs prematurely? 
Answer: Lou Piniella

Question: Why did Lou Piniella leave the cubs prematurely?
Answer: take care of his sick mother
Hack Wilson set a record of 56 home-runs and 190 runs-batted-in in 1930, breaking Lou Gehrig's MLB record of 176 RBI. (In 1999, a long-lost extra RBI mistakenly credited to Charlie Grimm had been found by Cooperstown researcher Cliff Kachline and verified by historian Jerome Holtzman, increasing the record number to 191.) As of 2014 the record still stands, with no serious threats coming since Gehrig (184) and Hank Greenberg (183) in the same era. The closest anyone has come to the mark in the last 75 years was Manny Ramirez's 165 RBI in 1999. In addition to the RBI record, Wilson 56 home-runs stood as the National League record until 1998, when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire hit 66 and 70, respectively. Wilson was named "Most Useful" player that year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, as the official N.L. Most Valuable Player Award was not awarded until the next season.

Question: When did Hack Wilson set a record of 56 home-runs and 190 runs-batted-in?
Answer: 1930

Question: Who Broke Lou Gehrig's MLB record of 176 RBI?
Answer: Hack Wilson

Question: When did Manny Ramirez get his 165 RBI?
Answer: 1999

Question: What was Wilson named by the Baseball Writer's Association of America? 
Answer: "Most Useful" player
In June, 1998 Sammy Sosa exploded into the pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record. Sosa had 13 home runs entering the month, representing less than half of Mark McGwire's total. Sosa had his first of four multi-home run games that month on June 1, and went on to break Rudy York's record with 20 home runs in the month, a record that still stands. By the end of his historic month, the outfielder's 33 home runs tied him with Ken Griffey, Jr. and left him only four behind McGwire's 37. Sosa finished with 66 and won the NL MVP Award.

Question: When did Sammy Sosa explode into pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record? 
Answer: 1998

Question: Who was in pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record?
Answer: Sammy Sosa

Question: Sammy Sosa was in pursuit of beating whose home run record?
Answer: Roger Maris

Question: What award did Sammy Sosa win?
Answer: the NL MVP Award
The curious location on Catalina Island stemmed from Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr.'s then-majority interest in the island in 1919. Wrigley constructed a ballpark on the island to house the Cubs in spring training: it was built to the same dimensions as Wrigley Field. (The ballpark is long gone, but a clubhouse built by Wrigley to house the Cubs exists as the Catalina County Club.) However, by 1951 the team chose to leave Catalina Island and spring training was shifted to Mesa, Arizona. The Cubs' 30-year association with Catalina is chronicled in the book, The Cubs on Catalina, by Jim Vitti . . . which was named International 'Book of the Year' by The Sporting News.

Question: Who had a majority interest in Cataline island  in 1919?
Answer: William Wrigley Jr

Question: What did Wrigley construct on the island to house the Cubs in Spring training?
Answer: a ballpark

Question: When did the Cubs choose to leave Catalina Island?
Answer: 1951
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan seeing the talented Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play. The trio began playing together with the Cubs in 1902, and formed a double play combination that lasted through April 1912. The Cubs won the pennant four times between 1906 and 1910, often defeating the Giants en route to the World Series.

Question: What was "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" also known as?
Answer: "Tinker to Evers to Chance"

Question: Who wrote "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"?
Answer: Franklin Pierce Adams

Question: What poem did Franklin Pierce Adams write? 
Answer: "Baseball's Sad Lexicon,
In 1975, a group of Chicago Cubs fans based in Washington, D.C. formed the Emil Verban Society. The society is a select club of high profile Cub fans, currently headed by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin which is named for Emil Verban, who in three seasons with the Cubs in the 1940s batted .280 with 39 runs batted in and one home run. Verban was picked as the epitome of a Cub player, explains columnist George Will, because "He exemplified mediocrity under pressure, he was competent but obscure and typifying of the work ethics." Verban initially believed he was being ridiculed, but his ill feeling disappeared several years later when he was flown to Washington to meet President Ronald Reagan, also a society member, at the White House. Hillary Clinton, Jim Belushi, Joe Mantegna, Rahm Emanuel, Dick Cheney and many others have been included among its membership.

Question: What year did a group of Chicago Cubs fans form the Emil Verban Society?
Answer: 1975

Question: Where were the Emil Verban Society founders based in?
Answer: Washington, D.C

Question: Who currently heads the Emil Verban Society?
Answer: Illinois Senator Dick Durbin
During the summer of 1969, a Chicago studio group produced a single record called "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" whose title and lyrics incorporated the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers for the Cubs, Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd. Several members of the Cubs recorded an album called Cub Power which contained a cover of the song. The song received a good deal of local airplay that summer, associating it very strongly with that bittersweet season. It was played much less frequently thereafter, although it remained an unofficial Cubs theme song for some years after.

Question: What year was the single "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" produced? 
Answer: 1969

Question: What was the name of the album several members of the cubs recorded?
Answer: Cub Power

Question: What did The Cubs Song incorporate?
Answer: the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers
An album entitled Take Me Out to a Cubs Game was released in 2008. It is a collection of 17 songs and other recordings related to the team, including Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on September 21, 1997, the Steve Goodman song mentioned above, and a newly recorded rendition of "Talkin' Baseball" (subtitled "Baseball and the Cubs") by Terry Cashman. The album was produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' 1908 World Series victory and contains sounds and songs of the Cubs and Wrigley Field.

Question: When was Take Me Out to a Cubs game released? 
Answer: 2008

Question: How many songs are on the Take Me Out to a Cubs Game album?
Answer: 17 songs

Question: When was Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"?
Answer: September 21, 1997
Germany is a federal republic consisting of sixteen federal states (German: Bundesland, or Land).[a] Since today's Germany was formed from an earlier collection of several states, it has a federal constitution, and the constituent states retain a measure of sovereignty. With an emphasis on geographical conditions, Berlin and Hamburg are frequently called Stadtstaaten (city-states), as is the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which in fact includes the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The remaining 13 states are called Flächenländer (literally: area states).

Question: How many federal states does Germany have?
Answer: sixteen

Question: What are Hamburg and Berlin called?
Answer: Stadtstaaten (city-states)

Question: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen includes which two cities?
Answer: Bremen and Bremerhaven

Question: How many federal states does Germany have?
Answer: sixteen federal states

Question: What do constituent states still have?
Answer: measure of sovereignty

Question: What are the two major city-states?
Answer: Berlin and Hamburg

Question: What is the name of the city-state that contains Bremen and Bremerhaven?
Answer: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Question: What do Germans call the other 13 states?
Answer: Flächenländer

Question: How many states are in Germany?
Answer: sixteen

Question: Which cities are called Stadtstaaten, other than Bremen?
Answer: Berlin and Hamburg

Question: What is the German terms for states?
Answer: Bundesland, or Land

Question: How many states are called "Flächenländer"?
Answer: 13

Question: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen includes which cities?
Answer: Bremen and Bremerhaven