question: The War of Jenkins' Ear was a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742. Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, a captain of a British merchant ship. There is no evidence of the stories that the severed ear was exhibited before the British Parliament. The seeds of conflict began with the separation of an ear from Jenkins following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, eight years before the war began. Popular response to the incident was tepid until several years later when opposition politicians and the British South Sea Company hoped to spur outrage against Spain, believing that a victorious war would improve Britain's trading opportunities in the Caribbean. Also ostensibly providing the impetus to war against the Spanish Empire was a desire to pressure the Spanish not to renege on the lucrative asiento contract, which gave British slavers permission to sell slaves in Spanish America. The war resulted in heavy British casualties in North America. After 1742, the war was subsumed by the wider War of the Austrian Succession, which involved most of the powers of Europe. Peace arrived with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. From the British perspective, the war was notable because it was the first time that a regiment of colonial American troops was raised and placed "on the Establishment" - made a part of the regular British Army - and sent to fight outside North America.
Answer this question: How many years did the War of Jenkins' Ear last?
answer: 9

question: San Diego took the lead late in the second quarter when Philip Rivers threw a TD to WR Vincent Jackson, giving San Diego a 7-0 lead going into halftime. Rivers had a bad first half completing only 1 of 10 passes, the only completion being a touchdown. The 3rd quarter saw San Diego add to their lead making it 10-0. But Seattle RB Shaun Alexander narrowed the gap with a rushing TD making it 10-7, San Diego would answer back with a field goal to make it 13-7, but on Seattle's ensuing drive they allowed another Alexander TD to make the score 14-13 and they would allow a field goal to give Seattle a 17-13 lead. With time running out San Diego drove down the field and Rivers would connect with a 37-yd pass to Jackson to give the Chargers a 20-17 lead with only:29 seconds remaining. The defense would hold and the Chargers continued their winning ways setting a team record 13th win. The win also clinched a first round bye and set up the Chargers to control their own destiny the next week against Arizona, as a win would clinch them homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
Answer this question: Who had a 37-yard touchdown reception?
answer: Vincent Jackson

question: Christopher Columbus landed on the island on December 5, 1492, which the native Taino people had inhabited since the 7th century. The Captaincy General of Santo Domingo became the site of the first permanent European colonization of the Americas in the Americas, the oldest continuously inhabited city, and the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. After more than three hundred years of Spanish rule the Dominican people Republic of Spanish Haiti. The leader of the independence movement Jose Nunez de Caceres, intended the Dominican nation to unite with the country of Gran Colombia, but no longer under Spains custody the newly independent Dominicans were Unification of Hispaniola. Independence came 22 years later after victory in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844. Over the next 72 years the Dominican Republic experienced mostly civil war and a Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic (but Spain had not come to take away its independence) before permanently ousting Spanish rule during the Dominican Restoration War of 18631865. A United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (191624) lasted eight years between 1916 and 1924, and a subsequent calm and prosperous six-year period under Horacio Vasquez was followed by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo until 1961. A civil war in 1965, the countrys last, was ended by United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (196566) and was followed by the authoritarian rule of Joaquin Balaguer (19661978 & 19861996), the rules of Antonio Guzman Fernandez (19721978) & Salvador Jorge Blanco (19821986). Since 1996, the Dominican Republic has moved toward representative democracy and has been led by Leonel Fernandez for most of the time since 1996. Danilo Medina, the Dominican Republics current president, succeeded Fernandez in 2012, winning 51% of the electoral vote over his opponent ex-president Hipolito Mejia.
Answer this question: How many years in total did the United States occupy the Dominican Republic?
answer:
9