Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Franco-Prussian War:
The army was still equipped with the Dreyse needle gun of Battle of Koniggratz fame, which was by this time showing the age of its 25-year-old design. The rifle had a range of only 600 m (2,000 ft) and lacked the rubber breech seal that permitted aimed shots. The deficiencies of the needle gun were more than compensated for by the famous Krupp 6-pounder (3 kg) steel breech-loading cannons being issued to Prussian artillery batteries. Firing a contact-detonated shell, the Krupp gun had a longer range and a higher rate of fire than the French bronze muzzle loading cannon, which relied on faulty time fuses.
What was the Dreyse rifle's tactical range?
A: 600 m (2,000 ft)
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Alfred North Whitehead:
It should be emphasized, however, that for Whitehead God is not necessarily tied to religion. Rather than springing primarily from religious faith, Whitehead saw God as necessary for his metaphysical system. His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities. Whitehead posited that these ordered potentials exist in what he called the primordial nature of God. However, Whitehead was also interested in religious experience. This led him to reflect more intensively on what he saw as the second nature of God, the consequent nature. Whitehead's conception of God as a "dipolar" entity has called for fresh theological thinking.
Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?
A: His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities.
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Tajikistan:
Tajikistan (i/tdikstn/, /tdikstn/, or /tdikistn/; Persian: [tdikstn]), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Persian: Tajik: , Cumhuriji Tocikiston/Jumhuriyi Tojikiston; Russian: , Respublika Tadzhikistan), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013, and an area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi). It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. Pakistan lies to the south, separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Traditional homelands of Tajik people included present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
What country borders Tajikistan to the south?
A: Afghanistan
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Frederic Chopin:
Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisaw Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever." With Woyciechowski, he headed for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. Later that month, in Warsaw, the November 1830 Uprising broke out, and Woyciechowski returned to Poland to enlist. Chopin, now alone in Vienna, was nostalgic for his homeland, and wrote to a friend, "I curse the moment of my departure." When in September 1831 he learned, while travelling from Vienna to Paris, that the uprising had been crushed, he expressed his anguish in the pages of his private journal: "Oh God! ... You are there, and yet you do not take vengeance!" Jachimecki ascribes to these events the composer's maturing "into an inspired national bard who intuited the past, present and future of his native Poland."
What were the words Chopin wrote to a friend when he was alone and homesick?
A:
"I curse the moment of my departure."