In July 1449 Esen Tayisi of the Mongols launched a large-scale, three-pronged invasion of China with his puppet khagan Toqtaq-Buqa. He personally advanced on Datong in August. The eunuch official Wang Zhen, who dominated the Ming court, encouraged the 22-year-old Zhengtong Emperor to lead his own armies into battle against Esen. The size of Esen's army is unknown but a best guess puts it at some 20,000 men. The Ming army of about 500,000 was hastily assembled; its command was made up of 20 experienced generals and a large entourage of high-ranking civil officials, with Wang Zhen acting as field marshal. On August 3 Esen's army crushed a badly supplied Chinese army at Yanghe, just inside the Great Wall. The same day the Emperor appointed his half-brother Zhu Qiyu as regent. The next day he left Beijing for Juyong Pass. The objective was a short, sharp march west to Datong via the Xuanfu garrison, a campaign into the steppe and then a return to Beijing by a southerly route through Yuzhou. Initially the march was mired by heavy rain. At Juyong Pass the civil officials and generals wanted to halt and send the emperor back to Beijing, but their opinions were overruled by Wang Zhen. On August 16, the army came upon the corpse-strewn battlefield of Yanghe. When it reached Datong on August 18, reports from garrison commanders persuaded Wang Zhen that a campaign into the steppe would be too dangerous. The "expedition" was declared to have reached a victorious conclusion and on August 20 the army set out back toward China proper.

Which happened first, battlefield of Yanghe strewn with corpses or the army set out back towards China proper?
A: battlefield of Yanghe strewn with corpses

Q: While the silver threepence was minted as a currency coin until nearly the middle of the 20th century, it is clear that the purpose of the coin changed during the reign of George III of the United Kingdom (1760-1820). In the first two years of minting, 1762 and 1763, the coin was obviously produced for general circulation as examples are generally found well worn; on the other hand, coins from the late issue (1817-20) are usually found in very fine condition, indicating that they were probably issued as Maundy money. Over the length of the reign there were several different designs of obverse and reverse in use. Threepences were issued in 1762-63, 1765-66, 1770, 1772, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1792, 1795, 1800, 1817, 1818, and 1820. From 1817 the dimensions of the coin were reduced to a weight of 1.4 grams and diameter of 16 millimetres, following the Great Recoinage of 1816. The inscription on the obverse reads up to 1800, and from 1817. The reverse inscription reads up to 1800 and from 1817.
How many times were Threepences issued during the 1700s?

A: 9

P: After a win over the Eagles, the Chiefs returned home for a game against the Giants. After a scoreless 1st quarter, they got on the board as Alex Smith found Sean McGrath on a 5-yard pass for a 7-0 lead. The Giants managed to tie the game up as Eli Manning found Victor Cruz on a 69-yard pass making the score 7-7. Ryan Succop then kicked a 51-yard field goal to send the Chiefs to a 10-7 halftime lead. In the 2nd half, the Chiefs dominated as Dexter McCluster would run a punt back 89 yards for a touchdown increasing their lead to 17-7 for the only score of the 3rd quarter. In the 4th quarter, Alex Smith threw 2 more touchdown passes to Jamaal Charles and Dwayne Bowe from 2 and 34 yards out that would eventually seal the game for them moving them up 24-7 before the final score sat at 31-7. The win sent the Chiefs to their first 4-0 start since 2003.
Answer this: How many yards was the longest touchdown pass?

A: 69

Problem: Compared with its metropolitan area, the city of Houstons population has a higher proportion of minorities. According to the 2010 United States Census, whites made up 51% of the city of Houstons population; 26% of the total population was non-Hispanic whites. Blacks or African Americans made up 25% of Houstons population, Native Americans in the United States made up 0.7% of the population, Asians made up 6% (1.7% Vietnamese Americans, 1.3% Chinese Americans, 1.3% Indian Americans, 0.9% Pakistani Americans, 0.4% Filipino Americans, 0.3% Korean Americans, 0.1% Japanese Americans) and Pacific Islanders made up 0.1%. Individuals from some other race made up 15.2% of the citys population, of which 0.2% were non-Hispanic. Individuals from two or more races made up 3.3% of the city.

Were there more Korean Americans or Japanese Americans in Houston according to the 2010 census?
Answer: Korean Americans

Q: The bidding date, originally December 20, 1961, was postponed to January 22, 1962, to clarify the details of the arch construction. About 50 companies that had requested the construction requirements received bidding invitations. Extending from $11,923,163 to $12,765,078, all four bids exceeded the engineer estimate of $8,067,000. Wirth had a committee led by George B. Hartzog Jr. determine the validity of the bids in light of the governments conditions. Following a meeting with the bidders, the committee affirmed the bids reasonableness, and Wirth awarded the lowest bidder, MacDonald Construction Co. of St. Louis, the contract for the construction of the arch and the visitor center. On March 14, 1962, he signed the contract and received from Tucker $2,500,000, the citys subsidy for the phase. MacDonald reduced its bid $500,000 to $11,442,418. The Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company served as the subcontractor for the shell of the arch.
How many days was the bidding date postponed?
A: 33

Bolshevik-led attempts to gain power in other parts of the Russian Empire were largely successful in Russia proper although the fighting in Moscow lasted for two weeks but they were less successful in ethnically non-Russian parts of the Empire, which had been clamoring for independence since the February Revolution. For example, the Ukrainian Rada, which had declared autonomy on 23 June 1917, created the Ukrainian People's Republic on 20 November, which was supported by the Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. This led to an armed conflict with the Bolshevik government in Petrograd and, eventually, a Ukrainian declaration of independence from Russia on 25 January 1918. In Estonia, two rival governments emerged: the Estonian Provincial Assembly, established in April 1917, proclaimed itself the supreme legal authority of Estonia on 28 November 1917 and issued the Declaration of Independence on 24 February 1918. Soviet Russia recognized the Executive Committee of the Soviets of Estonia as the legal authority in the province, although the Soviets in Estonia controlled only the capital and a few other major towns.The success of the October Revolution transformed the Russian state into a soviet republic. A coalition of anti-Bolshevik groups attempted to unseat the new government in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1922. In an attempt to intervene in the civil war after the Bolsheviks' separate peace with the Central Powers, the Allied powers occupied parts of the Soviet Union for over two years before finally withdrawing. The United States did not recognize the new Russian government until 1933. The European powers recognized the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and began to engage in business with it after the New Economic Policy was implemented.

How many months after the Ukrainian People's Republic was created was a Ukrainian declaration of independence from Russia made?
A:
2