Question: Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Penguin's success demonstrated that large audiences existed for serious books. Penguin also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain, through its books on British culture, politics, the arts, and science.

Penguin Books is now an imprint of the worldwide Penguin Random House, an emerging conglomerate which was formed in 2013 by the merger of the two publishers. Formerly, Penguin Group was wholly owned by Pearson PLC, the global media company which also owned the "Financial Times", but it now retains only a minority holding of 47% of the stock against Random House owner Bertelsmann which controls the majority stake. It is one of the largest English-language publishers, formerly known as the "Big Six", now the "Big Five".

The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an imprint of The Bodley Head (of Vigo Street) with the books originally distributed from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone. Only paperback editions were published until the "King Penguin" series debuted in 1939, and latterly the "Pelican History of Art" was undertaken: these were unsuitable as paperbacks because of the length and copious illustrations on art paper so cloth bindings were chosen instead. Penguin Books has its registered office in the City of Westminster, London, England. 1. What's the main topic?
2. What country are they from?
3. What service do they offer?
4. What worldwide organization are they now a part of?
5. When was PRH formed?
6. How?
7. Between?
8. Who hold 47% of stock in one of these companies?
9. And the rest?
10. From what company?
11. When were the 1st Penguin paperbacks published?
12. From where were they given out?
13. Until when were only paperbacks published?
14. What series caused this?
15. And after that one?
16. What's one reason they were unsuitable books?
17. What's another?
18. How did they resolve this?
19. Name one place were there are registered offices?
20. In what country? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Penguin Books
2. Britain
3. publishing
4. Penguin Random House
5. 2013
6. a merger
7. Penguin Books Penguin Group
8. Pearson PLC
9. Bertelsmann
10. Random House
11. 1935
12. the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone
13. 1939
14. "King Penguin"
15. "Pelican History of Art"
16. because of the length and copious illustrations on art paper
17. unknown
18. cloth bindings
19. the City of Westminster
20. England

Question: SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- The park bench facing Lake Washington is covered with flowers, poems, a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and graffiti.

Fans leave flowers and mementos in honor of Kurt Cobain near his Seattle home.

"I miss your beautiful face and voice," one dedication reads.

"Thank you for inspiring me," says another.

"RIP Kurt."

Fifteen years ago Wednesday, at a house adjacent to the park, Kurt Cobain's dead body was discovered by an electrician.

The Nirvana frontman, 27, had committed suicide, police later ruled, killing himself with a shotgun while high on heroin and pills.

His death ended a battle with hard drugs and added Cobain to a long list of legendary musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, whose careers were cut short by their addictions.

Cobain's ashes were reportedly scattered in a Washington state river and a New York Buddhist temple.

Nirvana band mates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl eventually formed other bands. Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, stayed in the limelight with an acting career and legal problems surrounding her own drug problems. Frances Bean, the couple's daughter, has largely lived outside the public eye.

What was unclear when Cobain died was whether the music Nirvana created would endure or fade away like the grunge craze it helped to inspire.

"At one point I thought, 15 years on, no one would really know who Kurt Cobain was outside of a group of diehard fans," said Jeff Burlingame, a Cobain biographer who grew up with the musician in Aberdeen, Washington, and knew him when he was a teenager who, without a place to sleep, crashed on mutual friends' couches. 1. What is covered?
2. What is it covered in?
3. Who is it for?
4. Who leaves them?
5. Where is this?
6. Where is the bench facing?
7. What does one dedication say?
8. What band was Kurt in?
9. When did he commit suicide?
10. Was he the frontman?
11. Where did he do this?
12. How old was he?
13. Who discovered him?
14. Who else died from drugs?
15. Were they addicted?
16. Where were his ashes scattered?
17. Who were his band mates?
18. What did they do after it?
19. Did Kurt have a wife?
20. What is her name? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. A park bench
2. Flowers, poems, a pack of cigarettes and graffiti
3. Kurt Cobain
4. Fans
5. Seattle
6. Lake Washington
7. I miss your beautiful face and voice
8. Nirvana
9. 15 years ago
10. Yes
11. At a house near the park
12. 27
13. An electrician
14. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
15. Yes
16. In a Washington state river and a New York Buddhist temple
17. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl
18. Formed other bands
19. Yes
20. Courtney Love

Question: Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience. This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which states that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses. For example, John Locke held that some knowledge (e.g. knowledge of God's existence) could be arrived at through intuition and reasoning alone. Similarly Robert Boyle, a prominent advocate of the experimental method, held that we have innate ideas. The main continental rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) were also advocates of the empirical "scientific method".

Aristotle's explanation of how this was possible was not strictly empiricist in a modern sense, but rather based on his theory of potentiality and actuality, and experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of the active nous. These notions contrasted with Platonic notions of the human mind as an entity that pre-existed somewhere in the heavens, before being sent down to join a body on Earth (see Plato's Phaedo and Apology, as well as others). Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the Middle Ages summarized one of his positions as "nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu" (Latin for "nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses"). 1. Where does their knowledge come from?
2. What is this generally contrasted with?
3. what is that?
4. what is Aristotle's explanation?
5. based on what?
6. was Plato's position more important?
7. how did commentators summarize this?
8. what is that in Latin?
9. what wasn't emipiricist?
10. who had knowledge of God's existence? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. one's sense-based experience
2. rationalism
3. knowledge may be derived from reason independent of senses
4. experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of the active nous
5. his theory of potentiality and actuality
6. no
7. nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses
8. nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu
9. Aristotle's explanation
10. unknown