question: Outside of the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. Historical minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France and Germany, and in Indonesia,[n 1] while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States, Canada and Australia combined.[n 2] The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language[n 3] which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia.[n 4]

Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English[n 5] and is said to be roughly in between them.[n 6] Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has levelled much of its morphology, including the case system.[n 7] Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical gendersalbeit with few grammatical consequences[n 8]as well as the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order.[n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but fewer than English.[n 10]
1. What is Dutch a close relative of?
2. Where is it the majority native language?
3. Where else is it spoken?
4. Anywhere else?
5. Has Dutch underhgone the German shift?
6. What other languages haven't?
7. How many characteristics are shared with German?
8. What are they?
9. Does it include Romance loans?
10. Where does Afrikaans come frome?
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answer: 1. German and English
2. Suriname
3. Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten
4. France and Germany, Indonesia United States, Canada and Australia combined.
5. No
6. English
7. three
8. gramatical genders
9. yes
10. Southern Africa

question: (CNN) -- Authorities have made a second arrest related to a series of arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area, the Chester County Arson Task Force said late Thursday.

Roger Leon Barlow is one of two people arrested in suspected arsons around Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

Mark Gilliam, 20, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, was arrested Thursday on a federal charge of attempted arson in the town of Thorndale on January 25, authorities said.

Gilliam was arrested at his residence without incident, according to the task force.

Gilliam is expected to have his initial appearance on Friday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roger Leon Barlow, 19, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, was arraigned Thursday afternoon on charges that he is responsible for several of the 23 suspected arsons in and around Coatesville since January 1, said Chester County District Attorney Joseph Carroll. Watch authorities announce his arrest "

He is charged with "arson and related offenses" in connection with at least nine of the fires. Among them was a spree that destroyed 15 homes in late January,

His bail was set at $9 million.

Special agent Mark Porter of the multi-agency task force that has been investigating the fires said the group is still investigating the other blazes and will "continue our efforts until everyone is brought to justice ... and we can bring some sense of peace to the city."

The task force would not comment on a possible motive, but Carroll said he does not suspect Barlow of a hate crime, classified as targeting an individual group or gang-related activity.
1. how much was Roger's bail set as?
2. how many were arrested?
3. where have the arsons been happening?
4. who is the other person arrested?
5. how old is he?
6. where was he arrested?
7. when was Roger arraigned?
8. how old is he?
9. how many homes were destroyed?
10. when?
11. Who is Mark Porter?
12. when is gillam's initial appearance?
13. when was he arrested?
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answer: 1. $9 million
2. two people arrested
3. around Coatesville, Pennsylvania
4. Mark Gilliam
5. 20
6. in the town of Thorndale
7. Thursday afternoon
8. 19
9. 23
10. in late January
11. Special agent
12. Friday
13. Thursday

question: Masovian Voivodeship or Mazovia Province, is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish provinces, or voivodeships, created in 1999. It occupies of east-central Poland, and has 5,324,500 inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.749 million) in the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (226,000) in the south, Pock (127,000) in the west, Siedlce (77,000) in the east, and Ostroeka (55,000) in the north. The capital of the voivodeship is the national capital, Warsaw.

The province was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Pock, Ciechanow, Ostroeka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, "Mazowsze" (sometimes rendered in English as "Masovia"), with which it is roughly coterminous. However, southern part of the voivodeship, with Radom, historically belongs to Lesser Poland, while omza and its surroundings, even though historically part of Masovia, now is part of Podlaskie Voivodeship.

It is bordered by six other voivodeships: Warmian-Masurian to the north, Podlaskie to the north-east, Lublin to the south-east, Swietokrzyskie to the south, odz to the south-west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian to the north-west.

Masovia is the centre of science, research, education, industry and infrastructure in the country. It currently has the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and is classified as a very high income province. Moreover, it is popular among holidaymakers due to the number of historical monuments and greenery; forests cover over 20% of the voivodeship's area, where pines and oaks predominate in the regional landscape. Additionally, the Kampinos National Park located within Masovia is a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve.
1. In what country is this place?
2. What's one name it goes by?
3. What's the other?
4. When was it created?
5. When were reforms adopted?
6. What is part of Masovia?
7. What is it a part of now?
8. How many voivodeships surround it?
9. How many things is it the centre of?
10. What are they?
11. Are there many people not working in relation to Poland?
12. How does it rank?
13. How's the pay there?
14. What's one thing tourists enjoy?
15. What's another?
16. What borders it on the west?
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answer:
1. Poland
2. Masovian Voivodeship
3. Mazovia Province
4. 1999
5. 1998
6. omza
7. Podlaskie Voivodeship
8. six
9. five
10. science, research, education, industry and infrastructure
11. no
12. It has the lowest unemployment rate
13. very high
14. historical monuments
15. greenery
16. odz