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John Sheahan and the late Barney McKenna, respectively fiddle player and tenor banjo player with The Dubliners, are also accomplished Irish mandolin players.
What was John Sheahan and Barney Mckenna's band called?

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[Q]: Sentence: " In fact, it was precisely this class of scholars, based largely in Iraq, that was responsible for collecting and recording the traditions that form the primary source material for the history of the Umayyad period. Question: Where was the Abbasid court based? OPTIONS:
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Q: Does "Within a population, it is common for different ages and/or sexes to have different patterns of timing and distance." provide a valid answer to "Where are chaffinches Fringilla coelebs from?"?
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Problem: Does "The lack of Komnenian mosaics outside the capital is even more apparent." answer the question "Why are there so few surviving mosaics from the Komnenian period?" OPTIONS:
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Does the sentence "Over 20 countries gained independence from Britain as part of a planned transition to self-government." provide a valid answer to the question "How many countries got independence from Britain during decolonization?" OPTIONS:
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Does the sentence "The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions." provide a valid answer to the question "how many ships sailed Torbay?" OPTIONS:
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