Question: "Were there fewer train passengers in 1990 or 2008?" Context: "Israel has 18,096 kilometers (11,244 mi) of paved roads, and 2.4 million motor vehicles. The number of motor vehicles per 1,000 persons was 324, relatively low with respect to developed countries. Israel has 5,715 buses on scheduled routes, operated by several carriers, the largest of which is Egged, serving most of the country. Railways stretch across 949 kilometers (590 mi) and are operated solely by government-owned Israel Railways (All figures are for 2008). Following major investments beginning in the early to mid-1990s, the number of train passengers per year has grown from 2.5 million in 1990, to 35 million in 2008; railways are also used to transport 6.8 million tons of cargo, per year." Answer:
Ans: 1990

Question: "what is the last area in asia mentioned?" Context: "In 1952, the United States elected a new president, and on 29 November 1952, the president-elect, Dwight D. Eisenhower, went to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War. With the United Nations' acceptance of India's proposed Korean War armistice, the KPA, the PVA, and the UN Command ceased fire with the battle line approximately at the 38th parallel. Upon agreeing to the armistice, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA, United States, and Joint UN Commands." Answer:
Ans: Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Question: "What did the debutantes do during the event?" Context: "Court presentations of aristocratic young ladies to the monarch took place at the palace from the reign of Edward VII. These young women were known as debutantes, and the occasiontermed their "coming out"represented their first entree into society. Debutantes wore full court dress, with three tall ostrich feathers in their hair. They entered, curtsied, and performed a choreographed backwards walk and a further curtsy, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length. (The ceremony, known as an evening court, corresponded to the "court drawing rooms" of Victoria's reign.) After World War II, the ceremony was replaced by less formal afternoon receptions, usually without choreographed curtsies and court dress." Answer:
Ans: performed

Question: "Which of the following Proto-Indo-European words is not a potential source of the name Callaeci: hill, forest or land?" Context: "Although the etymology of the name has been studied since the 7th century by authors like Isidore of Seville who wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls", relating the name to the Greek word for milk, currently scholars derive the name of the ancient Callaeci either from Proto-Indo-European *kal-n-eH2 'hill', through a local relational suffix -aik-, so meaning 'the hill (people)'; or either from Proto-Celtic *kalli- 'forest', so meaning 'the forest (people)'. In any case, Galicia, being per se a derivation of the ethnic name Kallaikoi, would mean 'the land of the Galicians'." Answer:
Ans: land