Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about American Idol:
American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw it in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain. Fuller was inspired by the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition. He then added other elements, such as telephone voting by the viewing public (which at the time was already in use in shows such as the Eurovision Song Contest), the drama of backstories and real-life soap opera unfolding in real time. The show debuted in 2001 in Britain with Lythgoe as showrunnerthe executive producer and production leaderand Simon Cowell as one of the judges, and was a big success with the viewing public.
Who saw Popstars while in Australia and wanted Britain to have the same thing?
A: Nigel Lythgoe
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Buddhism:
Sentient beings always suffer throughout samsara until they free themselves from this suffering (dukkha) by attaining Nirvana. Then the absence of the first Nidanaignoranceleads to the absence of the others.
How do you free yourself of dukkha?
A: attaining Nirvana
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Treaty:
The division between the two is often not clear and is often politicized in disagreements within a government over a treaty, since a non-self-executing treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law. If a treaty requires implementing legislation, a state may be in default of its obligations by the failure of its legislature to pass the necessary domestic laws.
A state party may be in default of its obligations under a non-self-executing treaty if its legislature fails to do what?
A: pass the necessary domestic laws
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Pharmaceutical industry:
An investigation by ProPublica found that at least 21 doctors have been paid more than $500,000 for speeches and consulting by drugs manufacturers since 2009, with half of the top earners working in psychiatry, and about $2 billion in total paid to doctors for such services. AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly have paid billions of dollars in federal settlements over allegations that they paid doctors to promote drugs for unapproved uses. Some prominent medical schools have since tightened rules on faculty acceptance of such payments by drug companies.
How much was discovered to have been paid to doctors by drug companies?
A:
more than $500,000