Context and question: In the 1990s, protesters criticised the company's environmental record, particularly the possible pollution caused by the proposed disposal of the Brent Spar platform into the North Sea. Despite support from the UK government, Shell reversed the decision under public pressure but maintained that sinking the platform would have been environmentally better. Shell subsequently published an unequivocal commitment to sustainable development, supported by executive speeches reinforcing this commitment.
What government opposed the Brent Spar platform?
Answer: unanswerable
Context and question: The etymological equivalent is in use in other languages, e.g., yahudi (sg.), al-yahud (pl.), and banu isra'il in Arabic, "Jude" in German, "judeu" in Portuguese, "juif" in French, "jde" in Danish and Norwegian, "judio" in Spanish, "jood" in Dutch, etc., but derivations of the word "Hebrew" are also in use to describe a Jew, e.g., in Italian (Ebreo), in Persian ("Ebri/Ebrani" (Persian: /)) and Russian (, Yevrey). The German word "Jude" is pronounced [jud], the corresponding adjective "judisch" [jyd] (Jewish) is the origin of the word "Yiddish". (See Jewish ethnonyms for a full overview.)
How do you say Yiddish in Italian?
Answer: unanswerable
Context and question: In the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, John Kerry defeated several Democratic rivals, including Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina.), former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and retired Army General Wesley Clark. His victory in the Iowa caucuses is widely believed to be the tipping point where Kerry revived his sagging campaign in New Hampshire and the February 3, 2004, primary states like Arizona, South Carolina and New Mexico. Kerry then went on to win landslide victories in Nevada and Wisconsin. Kerry thus won the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States against incumbent George W. Bush. On July 6, 2004, he announced his selection of John Edwards as his running mate. Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who was Kerry's 2004 campaign adviser, wrote an article in Time magazine claiming that after the election, Kerry had said that he wished he'd never picked Edwards, and that the two have since stopped speaking to each other. In a subsequent appearance on ABC's This Week, Kerry refused to respond to Shrum's allegation, calling it a "ridiculous waste of time."
Who won the 2004 Iowa Democratic Caucus?
Answer:
John Kerry