The format also became quite popular in Hong Kong during the 1990s before the introduction of VCDs and DVD; although people rarely bought the discs (because each LD was priced around USD100), high rental activity helped the video rental business in the city grow larger than it had ever been previously. Due to integration with the Japanese export market, NTSC LaserDiscs were used in the Hong Kong market, in contrast to the PAL standard used for broadcast (This anomaly also exists for DVD). This created a market for multi-system TVs and multi-system VCRs which could display or play both PAL and NTSC materials in addition to SECAM materials (which were never popular in Hong Kong). Some LD players could convert NTSC signals to PAL so that most TVs used in Hong Kong could display the LD materials.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): How much did a LD cost in Hong Kong in the 1990s?
Ah, so.. USD100

In Western Catalan, unstressed vowels reduce to five: /e / > [e]; /o / > [o]; /a u i/ remain distinct. This reduction pattern, inherited from Proto-Romance, is also found in Italian and Portuguese. Some Western dialects present further reduction or vowel harmony in some cases.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What do unstressed vowels reduce to in Western Catalan?
Ah, so.. five

After defeating the Visigoths in only a few months, the Umayyad Caliphate started expanding rapidly in the peninsula. Beginning in 711, the land that is now Portugal became part of the vast Umayyad Caliphate's empire of Damascus, which stretched from the Indus river in the Indian sub-continent (now Pakistan) up to the South of France, until its collapse in 750. That year the west of the empire gained its independence under Abd-ar-Rahman I with the establishment of the Emirate of Cordoba. After almost two centuries, the Emirate became the Caliphate of Cordoba in 929, until its dissolution a century later in 1031 into no less than 23 small kingdoms, called Taifa kingdoms.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): How long did it take the Umayyad Caliphate to defeat the Visigoths?
Ah, so..
a few months