question: Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal. Its total population was estimated in 2011 at 267,785. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, located on the main island's south coast.

The archipelago is just under north of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Since 1976, the archipelago has been one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (the other being the Azores, located to the northwest). It includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, administered together with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands. The region has political and administrative autonomy through the Administrative Political Statue of the Autonomous Region of Madeira provided for in the Portuguese Constitution. The autonomous region is an integral part of the European Union, having pronounced status as an outermost region of the European Union, as detailed in Article 299-2 of the Treaty of the European Union.

Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1419 and settled after 1420. The archipelago is considered to be the first territorial discovery of the exploratory period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, which extended from 1415 to 1542.

Today, it is a popular year-round resort, being visited every year by about one million tourists, three times its population. The region is noted for its Madeira wine, gastronomy, historical and cultural value, flora and fauna, landscapes (Laurel forest) which are classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and embroidery artisans. Its annual New Year celebrations feature the largest fireworks show in the world, as officially recognised by "Guinness World Records" in 2006. The main harbour in Funchal is the leading Portuguese port in cruise liner dockings, being an important stopover for commercial and trans-Atlantic passenger cruises between Europe, the Caribbean and North Africa. Madeira is the second richest region of Portugal by GDP per capita, only surpassed by Lisbon.
1. How many tourist visit Madeira every year?
2. How much is that in relation to the population?
3. What is it recognized for?
4. When do they do a fireworks display?
5. is it a large show?
6. Where has it been recognized for this?
7. When?
8. Who was Madeira claimed by?
9. When?
10. When did they actually settle?
11. What is it considered to be during the exploratory period?
12. What was this period called?
13. How long did it last?
14. What ocean is it located in?
15. What type of region is it?
16. Since when?
17. How many islands does it include?
18. What union is it a part of?
19. What part?
20. What region?
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answer: 1. about one million
2. three times
3. Madeira wine
4. New Years,
5. Yes
6. "Guinness World Records"
7. in 2006
8. Portuguese sailors
9. in 1419
10. after 1420.
11. the first territorial discovery
12. Portuguese Age of Discovery
13. from 1415 to 1542.
14. Atlantic Ocean
15. autonomous region
16. Since 1976
17. 3 with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands
18. European
19. an integral part
20. an outermost region

question: A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.

Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations". Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s. Social network analysis is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other complex networks, it forms part of the nascent field of network science.
1. Who created the first sociograms?
2. when?
3. What for?
4. What did Georg Simmel write?
5. Dealing with dynamics of what?
6. What does a social network consist of?
7. What happens between actors?
8. What give a set of methods?
9. Does this analyze just part of the social parts?
10. How much?
11. What do the theories explain?
12. What is one reason to study this?
13. What's another?
14. Do you know of any more?
15. Does studying social networks just include one field?
16. How many did it come from?
17. What are they?
18. How was this formalized in the 50s
19. What field of science is this part of?
20. Is it part of modern sociology?
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answer: 1. Jacob Moreno
2. the 1930s
3. to study interpersonal relationships
4. early structural theories in sociology
5. triads
6. a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and sets of dyadic ties
7. social interactions
8. The social network perspective
9. no
10. whole social entities
11. the patterns observed in these structures
12. to identify local and global patterns
13. to locate influential entities
14. to examine network dynamics
15. no
16. Four
17. social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory
18. mathematically
19. network science
20. yes

question: Japan ( "Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", meaning "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the southwest.

The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin". can be read as "ni" and means "sun", while can be read as "hon" or "pon" and means "origin". Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet "Land of the Rising Sun" in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area and often are referred to as home islands. The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. The population of 127million is the world's eleventh largest. Japanese people make up 98.5% of Japan's total population. Approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, particularly from Western Europe, has characterized Japan's history.
1. When do they think Japan was inhabited?
2. What type of research did they use to establish this?
3. When is Japan first noted in writing?
4. Where was it found?
5. Where is Japan located?
6. which ocean is it in?
7. What is the formal meaning of Japan?
8. How is it often referred by?
9. What is that in reference to?
10. How many islands does it include?
11. How many islands make up 97% of Japan?
12. What are they?
13. What are they referred to as?
14. How many people live in Tokyo?
15. Is it the captial?
16. How many regions does Japan encompass?
17. Is it divided up even further?
18. Into what?
19. What is the most northern region?
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answer:
1. the Upper Paleolithic period.
2. Archaeological
3. 1st century AD.
4. Chinese history texts
5. East Asia
6. Pacific
7. sun origin
8. Land of the Rising Sun
9. its Japanese name.
10. about 6,852
11. four
12. Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku
13. home islands.
14. Approximately 9.1 million
15. Yes
16. eight
17. Yes
18. 47 prefectures
19. Hokkaido