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Recording
Where were the vocals for Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" recorded?
Love the Way You Lie
false
0MUSIC
[ 0 ]
[ "Mike Strange recorded and mixed Eminem's vocals at Effigy Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.", "The sessions took two days.", "Strange edited the vocals with D-Verb—a reverberation software—and an Extra Long Delay plug-in.", "He preferred to make few changes; for \"Love the Way You Lie\" he almost exclusively used board compression and console equalization.", "Strange used the Bricasti and Eventide Reverb 2016 mixing tools for \"brighter\" reverberation.", "Detroit musician Luis Resto has contributed to the arrangement on many of Eminem's songs, but did not do so for \"Love the Way You Lie\".", "According to Strange, \"Everything we needed was already in the track, apart from the vocals.\"", "Two to three weeks after the sessions, Alex da Kid arrived to help mix and master the track.", "He wanted to replace the acoustic guitar on the demo, but Eminem chose to keep it.", "Strange said, \"It was simply a matter of trying to match and then to improve on the demo da Kid'd sent us.\"", "Strange's brother Joe engineered the track.", "Rihanna's recording sessions took place at Sun Studios in Dublin, Ireland.", "Marcos Tovar mixed her vocals, which were engineered by Spike Lindsey and mastered from Detroit over the Internet.", "The American songwriter Makeba Riddick provided additional vocal production.", "Strange used equalization, compression and reverberation but left the vocal balance.", "He assumed that Rihanna was satisfied with her recorded vocals and did not make major changes on her seven stereo vocal tracks." ]
[ 4 ]
Awards
When did the series win an Emmy Award?
Friends
false
1TV
[ 4 ]
[ "To maintain the series' ensemble format, the main cast members decided to enter themselves in the same acting categories for awards.", "Beginning with the series' eighth season, the actors decided to submit themselves in the lead actor balloting, rather than in the supporting actor fields.", "The series was nominated for 63 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning six.", "Aniston and Kudrow are the only main cast members to win an Emmy, while Cox is the only actor not to be nominated.", "The series won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, with nominations in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2003.", "The series also won an American Comedy Award, one GLAAD Media Award, one Golden Globe Award, three Logie Awards, six People's Choice Awards, one Satellite Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award." ]
[ 2 ]
Criticism of FBI
Who conducted the investigation into the responsibility of Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of JFK
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 3 ]
[ "The FBI's murder investigation was reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979.", "The congressional Committee concluded:", " The Federal Bureau of Investigation adequately investigated Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination and properly evaluated the evidence it possessed to assess his potential to endanger the public safety in a national emergency.", " The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a thorough and professional investigation into the responsibility of Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination.", " The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.", " The Federal Bureau of Investigation was deficient in its sharing of information with other agencies and departments." ]
[ 3 ]
Early history
When did native Americans settle where chile is
Chile
true
5COUNTRY
[ 1 ]
[ "Early history.", "About 10,000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present-day Chile.", "Example settlement sites from the very early human habitation are Monte Verde, Cueva del Milodon and the Pali Aike Crater's lava tube.", "The Incas briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, but the Mapuche (or Araucanians as they were known by the Spaniards) successfully resisted many attempts by the Inca Empire to subjugate them, despite their lack of state organization.", "They fought against the Sapa Inca Tupac Yupanqui and his army.", "The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river." ]
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Background and writing
What stations was the song "All I Want for Christmas Is You" originally played on?
All I Want for Christmas Is You
true
0MUSIC
[ 11 ]
[ "After a string of commercially successful albums, Carey's label Columbia Records began exercising the idea of the singer releasing a Christmas album.", "They felt that up until that point, Carey had been viewed as a pop singer.", "With the record, Columbia intended to broaden Carey's target market, and have her perceived more as an entertainer, not just a singer.", "Having been brought up as Christian and always celebrating Christmas, she agreed to create a holiday-themed album.", "With Walter Afanasieff, Carey co-wrote \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" while recording the album in mid-1994.", "In an interview, Carey explained the inspiration behind the song:I'm a very festive person and I love the holidays.", "I've sung Christmas songs since I was a little girl.", "I used to go Christmas caroling.", "When it came to the album, we had to have a nice balance between standard Christian hymns and fun songs.", "It was definitely a priority for me to write at least a few new songs, but for the most part people really want to hear the standards at Christmas time, no matter how good a new song is.", "Ostensibly, the song was inspired by Carey's romantic sentiments toward her then-husband Tommy Mottola.", "After the album's release, many promotional singles were released; while other songs were sent to Christian airplay radio stations, \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" was sent to pop and Top 40 channels.", "Author Chris Nickson described the song as \"fun and mellow\", and he felt its uptempo beat contrasted with the album's strong religious theme, broadening the album's appeal to teenage audiences." ]
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Origins
When did Seth MacFarlane conceive of the idea for "Family Guy"?
Family Guy
false
1TV
[ 0 ]
[ "MacFarlane initially conceived \"Family Guy\" in 1995 while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).", "During college, he created his thesis film entitled \"The Life of Larry\", which was submitted by his professor at RISD to Hanna-Barbera.", "MacFarlane was hired by the company.", "In 1996 MacFarlane created a sequel to \"The Life of Larry\" entitled \"Larry and Steve\", which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve; the short was broadcast in 1997 as one of Cartoon Network's \"World Premiere Toons\".", "Executives at Fox saw the \"Larry\" shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series, entitled \"Family Guy\", based on the characters.", "Fox proposed MacFarlane complete a 15-minute short, and gave him a budget of $50,000.", "Several aspects of \"Family Guy\" were inspired by the \"Larry shorts\".", "While working on the series, the characters of Larry and his dog Steve slowly evolved into Peter and Brian.", "MacFarlane stated that the difference between \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Family Guy\" was that \"\"Life of Larry\" was shown primarily in my dorm room and \"Family Guy\" was shown after the Super Bowl.\"", "After the pilot aired, the series was given the green light.", "MacFarlane drew inspiration from several sitcoms such as \"The Simpsons\" and \"All in the Family\".", "Premises were drawn from several 1980s Saturday morning cartoons he watched as a child, such as \"The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang\" and \"Rubik, the Amazing Cube\".", "The Griffin family first appeared on the demo that MacFarlane pitched to Fox on May 15, 1998.", "\"Family Guy\" was originally planned to start out as short movies for the sketch show \"MADtv\", but the plan changed because MADtv's budget was not large enough to support animation production.", "MacFarlane noted that he then wanted to pitch it to Fox, as he thought that that was the place to create a prime-time animation show.", "\"Family Guy\" was originally pitched to Fox in the same year as \"King of the Hill\", but the show was not bought until years later, when \"King of the Hill\" became successful.", "Fox ordered 13 episodes of \"Family Guy\" to air in midseason after MacFarlane impressed executives with a seven-minute demo." ]
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Critical reception
What score did Rotten Tomatoes give the movie?
Before Midnight (film)
true
6MOVIES
[ 1 ]
[ "Like its two predecessors, \"Before Midnight\" received widespread critical acclaim.", "Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 98% based on reviews from 172 critics, with an average rating of 8.7/10.", "The site's consensus is: \"Building on the first two installments in Richard Linklater's well-crafted Before trilogy, \"Before Midnight\" offers intelligent, powerfully acted perspectives on love, marriage, and long-term commitment.\"", "Metacritic gives the film a score of 94 based on reviews from 41 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\".", "It was listed as the third best film of the year after \"12 Years a Slave\" and \"Gravity\".", "It was the second best reviewed film of 2013 according to Rotten Tomatoes, after Alfonso Cuarón's \"Gravity\".", "According to Total Film's Philip Kemp, \"As with its two predecessors—and with the films of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, presiding deity of this kind of cinema—\"Midnight\"'s essentially a film about people talking.", "But when the talk's this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who's going to complain?\"", "Kemp gave the film five out of five stars and called it a \"more-than-worthy, expectations-exceeding chapter in one of modern cinema's finest love stories.", "As honest, convincing, funny, intimate and natural as its predecessors.", "\"Perry Seibert of AllMovie also praised the film, writing: \"The screenwriting trio fill the movie with long, discursive conversations (there are only two scenes in the first 20 minutes) that feel utterly improvised when they are performed, but are far too deftly structured to be anything other than the work of consummate artists.\"", "Eric Kohn, from \"Indiewire\", gave the film rave reviews, adding it to his list of Top 10 Films of 2013.", "He wrote that \"With \"Before Midnight\", Richard Linklater has completed one of the finest movie trilogies of all time.\"" ]
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Abstract
What dish would you use to define a taco?
Taco
true
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "A taco () is a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling.", "A taco can be made with a variety of fillings, including beef, pork, chicken, seafood, vegetables and cheese, allowing for great versatility and variety.", "A taco is generally eaten without utensils and is often accompanied by garnishes such as salsa, avocado or guacamole, cilantro, tomatoes, minced meat, onions and lettuce." ]
[ 0 ]
Filming
When did principal photography begin?
All Is Lost
false
6MOVIES
[ 0 ]
[ "Principal photography began in mid-2012 at Baja Studios in Rosarito Beach in Mexico.", "Baja Studios was originally built for the 1997 film \"Titanic\".", "Filming took place for two months in the location's water tank.", "At a press conference after the film's screening at Cannes 2013, Redford revealed that his ear was damaged during the production.", "Being filmed on the water and largely within the confines of a sailboat and liferaft, the film was technically difficult.", "It joined ranks with other water-plagued films: Alfred Hitchcock's \"Lifeboat\"; Roman Polanski's \"Knife in the Water\"; Kevin Costner's \"Waterworld\"; James Cameron's \"Titanic\"; Robert Zemeckis's \"Cast Away\" and Stephen Spielberg's \"Jaws\"." ]
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Filming
Where was Prison Break filmed?
Prison Break
false
1TV
[ 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17 ]
[ "The first three seasons of \"Prison Break\" were primarily filmed outside of Hollywood.", "The majority of the first season of the series was filmed on location in and around Chicago.", "After it was closed down in 2002, Joliet Prison became the set of \"Prison Break\" in 2005, standing in as Fox River State Penitentiary on screen.", "Scenes set in Lincoln's cell, the infirmary, and the prison yard were all shot on location at the prison.", "Lincoln's cell was alleged to be the same one in which serial killer John Wayne Gacy was incarcerated, which at least one member of the production crew refused to enter, because it was alleged to be haunted.", "Other sets were built at the prison, including the cell blocks that housed the general prison population; these blocks had three tiers of cells (as opposed to the real cell block's two) and had cells much larger than real cells to allow more space for the actors and cameras.", "Exterior scenes were filmed in areas around Chicago, Woodstock, and Joliet in Illinois.", "Other locations included O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Toronto, Ontario in Canada.", "\"Prison Break\" spent $2 million per episode in the state of Illinois, which cost them a total of $24 million in 2005.", "Renewed for a second season, \"Prison Break\" resumed filming on June 15, 2006, in Dallas, Texas due to the close proximity of rural and urban settings.", "Locations within a 30-minute radius of Dallas were chosen which included Little Elm, Decatur, and Mineral Wells.", "Many of these locations were used to represent various American towns.", "The show was expected to spend in excess of $50 million in Texas over the course of the second season.", "For the final three episodes of the second season, filming took place in Pensacola, Florida to represent Panama.", "Each episode took eight days to film and approximately $1.4 million went to the local economy per episode.", "The third season was shot in Dallas and had a budget of $3 million per episode.", "Several of the exterior scenes with Lincoln and Gretchen negotiating the escape from the Panama jail were shot in the Casco Viejo quarter of Panama City.", "The principal photography for the fourth season was relocated to Los Angeles, California." ]
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Composition
How is god depicted in the painting?
The Creation of Adam
false
3ART
[ 0 ]
[ "God is depicted as an elderly white-bearded man wrapped in a swirling cloak while Adam, on the lower left, is completely nude.", "God's right arm is outstretched to impart the spark of life from his own finger into that of Adam, whose left arm is extended in a pose mirroring God's, a reminder that man is created in the image and likeness of God ().", "Another point is that Adam's finger and God's finger are not touching.", "It gives the impression that God, the giver of life, is reaching out to Adam who receives it; they are not on \"the same level\" as would be two humans shaking hands, for instance.", "Many hypotheses have been formulated regarding the identity and meaning of the figures around God.", "The person protected by God's left arm might be Eve due to the figure's feminine appearance and gaze towards Adam, but was also suggested to be Virgin Mary, Sophia, the personified human soul, or an angel of feminine build.", "\"The Creation of Adam\" is generally thought to depict the excerpt \"God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him\" ().", "The inspiration for Michelangelo's treatment of the subject may come from a medieval hymn called \"Veni Creator Spiritus\", which asks the 'finger of the paternal right hand' (\"digitus paternae dexterae\") to give the faithful speech." ]
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Ice cream cone
What did Agnes Marshall do for a living when she popularized ice cream?
Ice cream
true
9FOOD
[ 2 ]
[ " cone.", "\"Mrs Marshall's Cookery Book,\" published in 1888, endorsed serving ice cream in cones, but the idea definitely predated that.", "Agnes Marshall was a celebrated cookery writer of her day and helped to popularise ice cream.", "She patented and manufactured an ice cream maker and was the first person to suggest using liquefied gases to freeze ice cream after seeing a demonstration at the Royal Institution.", "Reliable evidence proves that ice cream cones were served in the 19th century, and their popularity increased greatly during the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.", "According to legend, at the World's Fair an ice cream seller had run out of the cardboard dishes used to put ice cream scoops in, so they could not sell any more produce.", "Next door to the ice cream booth was a Syrian waffle booth, unsuccessful due to intense heat; the waffle maker offered to make cones by rolling up his waffles and the new product sold well, and was widely copied by other vendors." ]
[ 2, 0 ]
Allegations of partisanship
What is the date that the nationwide release was pushed back to?
Zero Dark Thirty
true
6MOVIES
[ 8 ]
[ "Allegations of partisanship.", "Partisan political controversy arose related to the film before shooting began.", "Opponents of the Obama Administration charged that \"Zero Dark Thirty\" was scheduled for an October release just before the November presidential election to support his re-election, as Bin Laden's killing is regarded as a success for President Obama.", "Sony denied that politics was a factor in release scheduling and said the date was the best available spot for an action-thriller in a crowded lineup.", "The film's screenwriter added, \"the president is not depicted in the movie.", "He's just not in the movie.", "\"The distributor Columbia Pictures, sensitive to political perceptions, considered rescheduling the film release for as late as early 2013.", "It set a limited-release date for December 19, 2012, well after the election and rendering moot any alleged political conflict.", "The nationwide release date was pushed back to January 11, 2013, moving it out of the crowded Christmas period and closer to the Academy Awards.", "After the film's limited release, given the controversy related to the film's depiction of torture and its role in gaining critical information, \"The New York Times\" columnist Frank Bruni concluded that the film is \"a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be\".", "Two months later, the paper's columnist Roger Cohen wrote that the film was \"a courageous work that is disturbing in the way that art should be\".", "Cohen disagreed with Steve Coll's critique of the screenwriter's stated effort not to \"play fast and loose with history\", writing that \"Boal has honored those words\".", "Cohen ended with a note about a Timothy Garton Ash analysis of George Orwell mixing fact and \"invented\" stories in \"Down and Out in Paris and London\" – as further support for Boal's method." ]
[ 0 ]
Flour
In what country is Areparina the most popular brand of flour?
Arepa
true
9FOOD
[ 2 ]
[ "", "\"Arepa\" flour is specially prepared (cooked in water, then dried) for making \"arepas\" and other maize dough-based dishes, such as \"hallacas\", \"bollos\", \"tamales\", \"empanadas\" and \"chicha\".", "The most popular brand names of maize flour are Harina PAN in Venezuela and Areparina in Colombia.", "\"Arepa\" flour is usually made from white maize, but yellow maize varieties are available.", "\"Arepa\" flour was first developed and produced by Empresas Polar of Venezuela, owner of the PAN brand and the primary distributor in the country." ]
[ 0 ]
Variations
Is dolsot bibimpab eaten cold or hot?
Bibimbap
true
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "A variation of this dish, \"dolsot bibimbap\" (돌솥 비빔밥, \"dolsot\" meaning \"stone pot\"), is served in a very hot stone bowl in which a raw egg is cooked against the sides of the bowl.", "The bowl is so hot that anything that touches it sizzles for minutes.", "Before the rice is placed in the bowl, the bottom of the bowl is coated with sesame oil, making the layer of the rice touching the bowl golden brown and crisp.", "The city of Jeonju, the capital of the North Jeolla Province of South Korea, is famous throughout the nation for its version of \"bibimbap\", said to be based on a royal court dish of the Joseon Dynasty.", "A further variation of \"bibimbap\", called \"hoedeopbap\", uses a variety of raw seafood, such as tilapia, salmon, tuna or sometimes octopus, but each bowl of rice usually contain one kind of meat.", "The term \"hoe\" in the word means raw fish.", "The dish is popular along the coasts of Korea where fish are abundant." ]
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Critical reception
Who fronts the band Train?
Drive By (song)
true
0MUSIC
[ 4 ]
[ "", "\"Billboard\" gave the song a positive review stating:If at first you succeed -- why not try again?", "For the first single from its forthcoming \"California 37,\" Train returns to the Espionage, the Norwegian songwriting and production duo of Espen Lind and Amund Bjorklund that helped the group put together its 2010 comeback smash \"Hey Soul Sister.\"", "\"Drive By\" starts with a staccato guitar strum and a percussive thump that certainly recalls its predecessor, with a slight ethnic flavor that makes it recall a Bar Mitzvah reception.", "Frontman Pat Monahan semi-speaks the in tuneful, rap-like cadence, then turns to smooth pop singing for the choruses.", "The lyric, however, is a bit darker, with Monahan's protagonist trying to convince a one-night-stand that he really wants to \"get down to the more-than-friends\" at last.", "We bet she's heard that from all the pop singers, but Monahan pleads with enough joyful exuberance that she -- and we -- might just buy it." ]
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1900s–1970s
In 1904, the New York Times was produced by whom?
Times Square
true
2TRAVEL
[ 0 ]
[ "In 1904, \"New York Times\" publisher Adolph S. Ochs moved the newspaper's operations to a new skyscraper on 42nd Street at Longacre Square.", "Ochs persuaded Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. to construct a subway station there, and the area was renamed \"Times Square\" on April 8, 1904.", "Just three weeks later, the first electrified advertisement appeared on the side of a bank at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway.", "\"The New York Times\", according to Nolan, moved to more spacious offices west of the square in 1913.", "The old Times Building was later named the Allied Chemical Building.", "Now known simply as One Times Square, it is famed for the Times Square Ball drop on its roof every New Year's Eve.", "In 1913, the Lincoln Highway Association, headed by entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, chose the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway, at the southeast corner of Times Square, to be the Eastern Terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States, which originally spanned coast-to-coast through 13 states to its Western Terminus in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.", "As the growth in New York City continued, Times Square quickly became a cultural hub full of theaters, music halls, and upscale hotels.", "Celebrities such as Irving Berlin, Fred Astaire, and Charlie Chaplin were closely associated with Times Square in the 1910s and 1920s.", "During this period, the area was nicknamed \"The Tenderloin\" because it was supposedly the most desirable location in Manhattan.", "However, it was during this period that the area was besieged by crime and corruption, in the form of gambling and prostitution; one case that garnered huge attention was the arrest and subsequent execution of police officer Charles Becker.", "The general atmosphere changed with the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s.", "Times Square acquired a reputation as a dangerous neighborhood in the following decades.", "From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the seediness of the area, especially due its go-go bars, sex shops, and adult theaters, became an infamous symbol of the city's decline." ]
[]
Abstract
Who sang "I Believe I Can Fly"?
I Believe I Can Fly
false
0MUSIC
[ 0 ]
[ "\"I Believe I Can Fly\" is a 1996 song by R&B singer R. Kelly.", "The song was written, produced and performed by Kelly and was featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 film \"Space Jam\".", "It was originally released on November 26, 1996, but later appeared in Kelly's 1998 album \"R.\".", "In early 1997, \"I Believe I Can Fly\" reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100; it was kept from the No.", "1 spot by Toni Braxton's \"Un-Break My Heart\".", "Despite the fact that two of R. Kelly's songs did reach number one, \"I Believe I Can Fly\" remains the biggest hit of R. Kelly's career.", "The single was number one on the R&B Singles chart (for six nonconsecutive weeks), and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom.", "It has won three Grammy Awards, and was ranked No.", "406 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.", "The music video was directed by Hype Williams." ]
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Abstract
What poll listed bibimbap as on of the World's 50 most delicious foods?
Bibimbap
false
9FOOD
[ 7 ]
[ "Bibimbap (비빔밥, , sometimes anglicized bi bim bap or bi bim bop) is a signature Korean dish.", "The word literally means \"mixed rice\".", "\"Bibimbap\" is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with \"namul\" (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and \"gochujang\" (chili pepper paste).", "A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) are common additions.", "The ingredients are stirred together thoroughly just before eating.", "It is best served hot.", "In Korea, Jeonju, Jinju, and Tongyeong are especially famous for their versions of bibimbap.", "In 2011, it was listed at number 40 on the \"World's 50 most delicious foods\" readers' poll compiled by CNN Travel." ]
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Gertrude Stein, Académie Matisse, and the Cone sisters
Which gender did Matisse and Picasso most often paint in their younger years?
Henri Matisse
false
3ART
[ 2 ]
[ "Around April 1906 he met Pablo Picasso, who was 11 years younger than Matisse.", "The two became lifelong friends as well as rivals and are often compared; one key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination.", "The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still life, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realised interiors.", "Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.", "During the first decade of the twentieth century, the Americans in Paris— Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah—were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings.", "In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from Baltimore, the Cone sisters Claribel and Etta, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings and drawings.", "The Cone collection is now exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art.", "While numerous artists visited the Stein salon, many of these artists were not represented among the paintings on the walls at 27 rue de Fleurus.", "Where Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso's works dominated Leo and Gertrude Stein's collection, Sarah Stein's collection particularly emphasised Matisse.", "Contemporaries of Leo and Gertrude Stein, Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle and routinely joined the gatherings that took place on Saturday evenings at 27 rue de Fleurus.", "Gertrude attributed the beginnings of the Saturday evening salons to Matisse, remarking:\"More and more frequently, people began visiting to see the Matisse paintings—and the Cézannes: Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began to be a nuisance, and it was in this way that Saturday evenings began.", "\"'Among Pablo Picasso's acquaintances who also frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier (Picasso's mistress), Georges Braque, André Derain, the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin (Apollinaire's mistress and an artist in her own right), and Henri Rousseau.", "His friends organised and financed the \"Académie Matisse\" in Paris, a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed young artists.", "It operated from 1907 until 1911.", "Hans Purrmann and Sarah Stein were amongst several of his most loyal students.", "Matisse spent seven months in Morocco from 1912 to 1913, producing about 24 paintings and numerous drawings.", "His frequent orientalist topics of later paintings, such as odalisques, can be traced to this period." ]
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Music video
What does Jepsen do before seeing her neighbor pass one of her male bandmates his own number?
Call Me Maybe
false
0MUSIC
[ 11 ]
[ "A music video for \"Call Me Maybe\" was written and directed by Ben Knechtel.", "According to Knechtel, the main idea behind the concept was to have a \"twist at the end\", trying to get away from the idea of the classic \"boy meets a girl\" story.", "The music video has over 450 million views on Vevo and YouTube as of April 27, 2013.", "The video begins with Jepsen spying on her attractive tattooed neighbor, portrayed by Holden Nowell, as he is working on his lawn.", "As he takes his shirt off and notices she is staring at him, Jepsen slips on her high heels and falls below her window.", "She is reading the books \"Love at First Sight (Men In Uniform)\" by B.J.", "Daniels and \"Skylar's Outlaw\" by Linda Warren.", "The scene then cuts to her garage, where she is rehearsing the track with her band.", "Following the rehearsals, her bandmates push her to go and wash her car, where she tries to gain her neighbor's attention with various provocative poses only to fall from the hood of the car.", "She is briefly knocked out from the fall, during which she dreams of a romance novel-type encounter with her crush.", "As she comes to, the neighbor then helps Jepsen to get up, and watches the band rehearse the track again.", "After turning and writing down her telephone number, Jepsen sees her neighbor pass one of her male bandmates (Tavish Crowe) his own number, indicating he is attracted to the man instead.", "The video received three nominations on the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards in the categories of UR Fave Video, Pop Video of the Year, and Video of the Year." ]
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Composition and structure
In the beginning of "HEY JUDE" who is singing?
Hey Jude
true
0MUSIC
[ 1 ]
[ "", "\"Hey Jude\" begins with McCartney singing lead vocals and playing the piano.", "The patterns McCartney plays are based on three chords: F, C, and B-flat (I, V and IV); the second verse adds accompaniment by guitar and a single tambourine.", "The main chord progression is \"flipped on its head\" for the coda since the C chord is replaced by E-flat.", "Author Tim Riley notes, \"As Ringo offers a restrained tom-tom and cymbal fill, the piano shifts downward to add a flat seventh to the tonic chord, making the downbeat of the bridge the point of arrival ('And any time you feel the \"pain\"').\"", "At the end of each bridge, McCartney sings a brief phrase (\"Na-na-na na ...\") and plays a piano fill which leads to the next verse; the phrase McCartney sings serves to \"reorient the harmony for the verse as the piano figure turns upside down into a vocal aside.\"", "Additional details, such as tambourine on the third verse and subtle harmonies that accompany the lead vocal, are added to sustain the interest of the listener throughout the four-verse, two-bridge song.", "The verse-bridge structure of the song persists for approximately three minutes, after which the band leads into a four-minute-long coda.", "During the coda, the rest of the band, backed by an orchestra that also provides backing vocals, repeats the phrase \"Na-na-na na\" followed by the words \"hey Jude\" until the song gradually fades out.", "\"Time\" magazine described the coda as \"a fadeout that engagingly spoofs the fadeout as a gimmick for ending pop records.\"", "Riley notes the repeated chord progression of the coda (I-VII-IV-I) \"answers all the musical questions raised at the beginnings and ends of bridges,\" for \"The flat seventh that pose dominant turns into bridges now has an entire chord built on it.\"", "This three-chord refrain allows McCartney \"a bedding ... to leap about on vocally\", so he ad-libs his vocal performance for the rest of the song.", "Riley concludes that the song \"becomes a tour of Paul's vocal range: from the graceful inviting tones of the opening verse, through the mounting excitement of the song itself, to the surging raves of the coda.\"" ]
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The Paris "Sunflowers"
When was the painter of Sunflowers discovered?
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)
true
3ART
[ 1 ]
[ "Little is known of Van Gogh's activities during the two years he lived with his brother Theo in Paris, 1886-1888.", "The fact that he had painted Sunflowers already is only revealed in spring 1889, when Gauguin claimed one of the Arles versions in exchange for studies he had left behind after leaving Arles for Paris.", "Van Gogh was upset and replied that Gauguin had absolutely no right to make this request: \"I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question.", "He has two of them already, let that hold him.", "And if he is not satisfied with the exchange he has made with me, he can take back his little Martinique canvas, and his self-portrait sent me from Brittany, at the same time giving me back both my portrait and the two sunflower canvases which he has taken to Paris.", "So if he ever broaches this subject again, I've told you just how matters stand.", "\"The two Sunflowers in question show two buttons each; one of them was preceded by a small study, and a fourth large canvas combines both compositions.", "These were Van Gogh's first paintings with \"\"nothing but sunflowers\"\"—yet, he had already included sunflowers in still life and landscape earlier." ]
[ 2 ]
Allied plans and dispositions
What was the date of the Allied council meeting?
Battle of Austerlitz
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 0 ]
[ "An Allied council met on 1 December to discuss proposals for the battle.", "Most of the Allied strategists had two fundamental ideas in mind: making contact with the enemy and securing the southern flank that held the communication line to Vienna.", "Although the Tsar and his immediate entourage pushed hard for a battle, Emperor Francis of Austria was more cautious and, as mentioned, he was seconded by Kutuzov, the Commander-in-chief of the Russians and the Allied troop.", "The pressure to fight from the Russian nobles and the Austrian commanders, however, was too strong, and the Allies adopted the plan of the Austrian Chief of Staff, Franz von Weyrother.", "This called for a main drive against the French right flank, which the Allies noticed was lightly guarded, and diversionary attacks against the French left.", "The Allies deployed most of their troops into four columns that would attack the French right.", "The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops under Bagration guarded the Allied right.", "The Russian Tsar rudely stripped the authority of Commander-in-chief M. I. Kutuzov and gave it to Franz von Weyrother.", "In the battle, Kutuzov could only command the IV Corps of the Allied army, although he was still the \"de jure\" commander because the Tsar was afraid to take over in case his favored plan failed." ]
[ 0 ]
Foundation
What might be described as the purpose and purview of the Andy Warhol foundation?
Andy Warhol
true
3ART
[ 3 ]
[ "Warhol's will dictated that his entire estate — with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members — would go to create a foundation dedicated to the \"advancement of the visual arts\".", "Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million.", "In 1987, in accordance with Warhol's will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts began.", "The foundation serves as the estate of Andy Warhol, but also has a mission \"to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process\" and is \"focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature.", "\"The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception of Warhol film stills.", "The U.S. copyright representative for Warhol film stills is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.", "Additionally, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreements in place for its image archive.", "All digital images of Warhol are exclusively managed by Corbis, while all transparency images of Warhol are managed by Art Resource.", "The Andy Warhol Foundation released its \"20th Anniversary Annual Report\" as a three-volume set in 2007: Vol.", "I, 1987–2007; Vol.", "II, Grants & Exhibitions; and Vol.", "III, Legacy Program.", "The Foundation remains one of the largest grant-giving organizations for the visual arts in the U.S." ]
[ 0 ]
Fictionalised account
What are the major differences between history and the film versions of the Battle of Red Cliffs?
Battle of Red Cliffs
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 1 ]
[ "The romantic tradition that originated with Luo Guanzhong's historical novel \"Romance of the Three Kingdoms\" differs from historical accounts in many details.", "For example, Cao Cao's army strength was exaggerated to over 830,000 men.", "This may be attributed to the ethos of later times, particularly of the Southern Song Dynasty .", "The state of Shu Han, in particular, was viewed by later literati as the \"legitimate\" successor to the Han Dynasty, so fictionalised accounts assign greater prominence than the historical records warrant to the roles of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and other heroes from Shu.", "This is generally accomplished by minimising the importance of Eastern Wu commanders and advisors such as Zhou Yu and Lu Su .", "While historical accounts describe Lu Su as a sensible advisor and Zhou Yu as an eminent military leader and \"generous, sensible and courageous\" man, \"Romance of the Three Kingdoms\" depicts Lu Su as unremarkable and Zhou Yu as cruel and cynical .", "Both are depicted as being inferior to Zhuge Liang in every respect .", "The romances added wholly fictional and fantastical elements to the historical accounts and these were repeated in popular plays and operas.", "Examples from the \"Romance of the Three Kingdoms\" include Zhuge Liang pretending to use magic to call forth favourable winds (that he had in fact predicted by astronomical observation) for the fire ship attack, his strategy of \"using straw boats to borrow arrows\", and Guan Yu capturing and releasing Cao Cao at Huarong Trail.", "The fictionalised accounts also name Zhuge Liang as a military commander in the combined forces, which is historically inaccurate ." ]
[ 0 ]
Radiation from other sources
When should stars grow closer to each other?
Gravitational wave
false
8SCIENCE
[ 7 ]
[ "Although the waves from the Earth-Sun system are minuscule, astronomers can point to other sources for which the radiation should be substantial.", "One important example is the Hulse-Taylor binary — a pair of stars, one of which is a pulsar.", "The characteristics of their orbit can be deduced from the Doppler shifting of radio signals given off by the pulsar.", "Each of the stars has a mass about 1.4 times that of the Sun and the size of their orbit is about 1/75 of the Earth-Sun orbit.", "This means the distance between the two stars is just a few times larger than the diameter of our own Sun.", "The combination of greater masses and smaller separation means that the energy given off by the Hulse-Taylor binary will be far greater than the energy given off by the Earth-Sun system — roughly 1022 times as much.", "The information about the orbit can be used to predict just how much energy (and angular momentum) should be given off in the form of gravitational waves.", "As the energy is carried off, the stars should draw closer to each other.", "This effect is called an inspiral, and it can be observed in the pulsar's signals.", "The measurements on the Hulse-Taylor system have been carried out over more than 30 years.", "It has been shown that the gravitational radiation predicted by general relativity allows these observations to be matched within 0.2 percent.", "In 1993, Russell Hulse and Joe Taylor were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which was the first indirect evidence for gravitational waves.", "Unfortunately, the orbital lifetime of this binary system before merger is about 1.84 billion years.", "This is a substantial fraction of the age of the universe.", "Inspirals are very important sources of gravitational waves.", "Any time two compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes) are in close orbits, they send out intense gravitational waves.", "As they spiral closer to each other, these waves become more intense.", "At some point they should become so intense that direct detection by their effect on objects on Earth or in space is possible.", "This direct detection is the goal of several large scale experiments.", "The only difficulty is that most systems like the Hulse-Taylor binary are so far away.", "The amplitude of waves given off by the Hulse-Taylor binary as seen on Earth would be roughly \"h\" ≈ 10−26.", "There are some sources, however, that astrophysicists expect to find with much larger amplitudes of \"h\" ≈ 10−20.", "At least eight other binary pulsars have been discovered." ]
[ 2 ]
Music industry
How much money did Psy make for the song Gangnam Style?
Gangnam Style
true
0MUSIC
[ 4 ]
[ "Record executives in the music industry believe that music charts will increasingly be filled with YouTube-driven globalised acts from foreign countries.", "Sean Carey, a research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, wrote that the flow of popular music will no longer be a single traffic route from North America and Europe to other parts of the globe, but will also move the other way as well.", "According to Adam Sherwin from \"The Independent\", the global web demand for Gangnam Style had short-circuited the \"traditional reluctance\" of radio stations to play foreign-language songs.", "The song is also underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business.", "Although Psy earned more than US$60,000 from music sales of \"Gangnam Style\" in South Korea alone, he and his music label YG Entertainment have raked in almost US$1 million from advertisements which appear on YouTube videos identified for using \"Gangnam Style\" in its content.", "The \"Harvard Business Review\" published an article written by Kevin Evers, who explained how \"Gangnam Style\" had changed Billboard's ranking methodology of its music charts.", "Instead of relying solely on radio plays and paid purchases, Billboard started to place a heavier emphasis on digital sales and YouTube views.", "As a result of the change, Gangnam Style moved up to the top position of Billboard's Hot Rap Songs music chart.", "According to the British Phonographic Industry's report based on Official Charts Company sales data, thanks to Psy's song and Carly Rae Jepsen’s \"Call Me Maybe,\" pop became the UK’s favourite musical genre of the year, taking the lion’s share of the singles market (38.5%) in 2012." ]
[ 5 ]
Cast
Which actor played Ferruccio?
Life Is Beautiful
true
6MOVIES
[ 6 ]
[ " Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice", " Nicoletta Braschi as Dora", " Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua", " Giustino Durano as Uncle Eliseo", " Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing", " Marisa Paredes as Dora's mother", " Sergio Bustric as Ferruccio", " Amerigo Fontani as Rodolfo" ]
[]
Pitch
How long are fields for non-international matches?
Association football
false
4SPORT
[ 3 ]
[ "As the Laws were formulated in England, and were initially administered solely by the four British football associations within IFAB, the standard dimensions of a football pitch were originally expressed in imperial units.", "The Laws now express dimensions with approximate metric equivalents (followed by traditional units in brackets), though popular use tends to continue to use traditional units in English-speaking countries with a relatively recent history of metrication (or only partial metrication), such as Britain.", "The length of the pitch for international adult matches is in the range of 100–110 m (110–120 yd) and the width is in the range of 64–75 m (70–80 yd).", "Fields for non-international matches may be 90–120 m (100–130 yd) length and 45–90 m (50–100 yd) in width, provided that the pitch does not become square.", "In 2008, the IFAB initially approved a fixed size of 105 m (344 ft) long and 68 m (223 ft) wide as a standard pitch dimension for international matches; however, this decision was later put on hold and was never actually implemented.", "The longer boundary lines are \"touchlines\", while the shorter boundaries (on which the goals are placed) are \"goal lines\".", "A rectangular goal is positioned at the middle of each goal line.", "The inner edges of the vertical goal posts must be 7.32 m (8 yd) apart, and the lower edge of the horizontal crossbar supported by the goal posts must be 2.44 m (8 ft) above the ground.", "Nets are usually placed behind the goal, but are not required by the Laws.", "In front of each goal is an area known as the penalty area.", "This area is marked by the goal line, two lines starting on the goal line 16.5 m (18 yd) from the goalposts and extending 16.5 m (18 yd) into the pitch perpendicular to the goal line, and a line joining them.", "This area has a number of functions, the most prominent being to mark where the goalkeeper may handle the ball and where a penalty foul by a member of the defending team becomes punishable by a penalty kick.", "Other markings define the position of the ball or players at kick-offs, goal kicks, penalty kicks and corner kicks." ]
[ 5 ]
Premise
Who was Alicia Florrick's spouse?
The Good Wife
true
1TV
[ 0 ]
[ "The series focuses on Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), whose husband Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), a former Cook County state's attorney, has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal.", "Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator (having taken 13 years out to be a stay-at-home mother) to provide for her two children.", "The series was partly inspired by the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, as well as by other prominent American political sex scandals, particularly those of John Edwards and Bill Clinton:" ]
[ 3 ]
Cast
Which actress appeared as Ariadni in Before Midnight?
Before Midnight (film)
true
6MOVIES
[ 9 ]
[ " Ethan Hawke as Jesse", " Julie Delpy as Céline", " Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick as Hank", " Jennifer Prior as Ella", " Charlotte Prior as Nina", " Xenia Kalogeropoulou as Natalia", " Walter Lassally as Patrick", " Ariane Labed as Anna", " Yiannis Papadopoulos as Achilleas", " Athina Rachel Tsangari as Ariadni", " Panos Koronis as Stefanos" ]
[]
Construction
How long did it take to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Leaning Tower of Pisa
true
2TRAVEL
[ 0 ]
[ "Construction of the tower occurred in three stages across 199 years.", "Work on the ground floor of the white marble campanile began on August 14, 1173, during a period of military success and prosperity.", "This ground floor is a blind arcade articulated by engaged columns with classical Corinthian capitals.", "The tower began to sink after construction had progressed to the second floor in 1178.", "This was due to a mere three-metre foundation, set in weak, unstable subsoil, a design that was flawed from the beginning.", "Construction was subsequently halted for almost a century, because the Republic of Pisa was almost continually engaged in battles with Genoa, Lucca, and Florence.", "This allowed time for the underlying soil to settle.", "Otherwise, the tower would almost certainly have toppled.", "In 1198 clocks were temporarily installed on the third floor of the unfinished construction.", "In 1272 construction resumed under Giovanni di Simone, architect of the Camposanto.", "In an effort to compensate for the tilt, the engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other.", "Because of this, the tower is actually curved.", "Construction was halted again in 1284, when the Pisans were defeated by the Genoans in the Battle of Meloria.", "The seventh floor was completed in 1319.", "It was built by Tommaso di Andrea Pisano, who succeeded in harmonizing the Gothic elements of the bell-chamber with the Romanesque style of the tower.", "There are seven bells, one for each note of the musical major scale.", "The largest one was installed in 1655.", "The bell-chamber was finally added in 1372.", "After a phase (1990–2001) of structural strengthening, the tower is currently undergoing gradual surface restoration, in order to repair visible damage, mostly corrosion and blackening.", "These are particularly pronounced due to the tower's age and its exposure to wind and rain." ]
[ 5 ]
United Kingdom and Ireland
What pubs serve burgers made of exotic meats?
Hamburger
true
9FOOD
[ 14 ]
[ "Hamburgers in the UK and Ireland are very similar to their US cousins, and the High Street is dominated by the same big two chains as in the U.S. — McDonald's and Burger King.", "The menus offered to both countries are virtually identical, although portion sizes tend to be smaller in the UK.", "In Ireland the food outlet Supermacs is widespread throughout the country serving burgers as part of its menu.", "In Ireland, Abrakebabra (started out selling kebabs) and Eddie Rocket's are also major chains.", "An original and indigenous rival to the big two U.S. giants was the quintessentially British fast-food chain Wimpy, originally known as Wimpy Bar (opened 1954 at the Lyon’s Corner House in Coventry Street London), which served its hamburgers on a plate with British-style chips, accompanied by cutlery and delivered to the customer's table.", "In the late 1970s, to compete with McDonald's, Wimpy began to open American-style counter-service restaurants and the brand disappeared from many UK high streets when those restaurants were re-branded as Burger Kings between 1989–90 by the then-owner of both brands, Grand Metropolitan.", "A management buyout in 1990 split the brands again and now Wimpy table-service restaurants can still be found in many town centers whilst new counter-service Wimpys are now often found at motorway service stations.", "Hamburgers are also available from mobile kiosks, particularly at outdoor events such as football matches.", "Burgers from this type of outlet are usually served without any form of salad — only fried onions and a choice of tomato ketchup, mustard or brown sauce.", "Chip shops, particularly in the West Midlands, North-East, Scotland and Ireland, serve battered hamburgers called batter burgers.", "This is where the burger patty, by itself, is deep-fat-fried in batter and is usually served with chips.", "Hamburgers and veggie burgers served with chips and salad, are standard pub grub menu items.", "Many pubs specialize in \"gourmet\" burgers.", "These are usually high quality minced steak patties, topped with items such as blue cheese, brie, avocado et cetera.", "Some British pubs serve burger patties made from more exotic meats including venison burgers (sometimes nicknamed Bambi Burgers), bison burgers, ostrich burgers and in some Australian themed pubs even kangaroo burgers can be purchased.", "These burgers are served in a similar way to the traditional hamburger but are sometimes served with a different sauce including redcurrant sauce, mint sauce and plum sauce.", "In the early 21st century \"premium\" hamburger chain and independent restaurants have arisen, selling burgers produced from meat stated to be of high quality and often organic, usually served to eat on the premises rather than to take away.", "Chains include Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Ultimate Burger, Hamburger Union and Byron Hamburgers in London.", "Independent restaurants such as Meatmarket and Dirty Burger developed a style of rich, juicy burger in 2012 which is known as a \"dirty burger\" or \"third-wave burger\".", "In recent years Rustlers has sold pre-cooked hamburgers re-heat able in a microwave oven in the United Kingdom.", "In the UK, as in North America and Japan, the term \"burger\" can refer simply to the patty, be it beef, some other kind of meat, or vegetarian." ]
[ 0 ]
World Taekwondo Federation
How many age categories are there in the World Taekwondo Federation?
Taekwondo
false
4SPORT
[ 3 ]
[ "Under World Taekwondo Federation and Olympic rules, sparring is a full-contact event and takes place between two competitors in an area measuring 8 meters square.", "A win can occur by points, or if one competitor is unable to continue (knockout) the other competitor wins.", "Each match consists of three semi-continuous rounds of contact, with one minute's rest between rounds.", "There are two age categories: 14–17 years and 18 years and older.", "Depending on the type of tournament and club, competitors may also wear fist protectors, foot protectors, instep guards, helmets, or mouth guards.", "Points are awarded for permitted, accurate, and powerful techniques delivered to the legal scoring areas; light contact does not score any points.", "The only techniques allowed are kicks (delivering a strike using an area of the foot below the ankle) and punches (delivering a strike using the closed fist).", "In most competitions, points are awarded by three corner judges using electronic scoring tallies.", "Several A-Class tournaments, however, are now experimenting with electronic scoring equipment contained within the competitors' body protectors.", "This limits corner judges to scoring only attacks to the head.", "Some believe that the new electronic scoring system will help to reduce controversy concerning judging decisions, but this technology is still not universally accepted.", "Beginning in 2009, a kick or punch that makes contact with the opponent's \"hogu\" (the body guard that functions as a scoring target) scores one point.", "If a kick to the \"hogu\" involves a technique that includes fully turning the attacking competitor's body, so that the back is fully exposed to the targeted competitor during execution of the technique (spinning kick), an additional point is awarded.", "A kick to the head scores three points; as of October 2010 an additional point is awarded if a turning kick was used to execute this attack.", "Punches to the head are not allowed.", "As of March 2010, no additional points are awarded for knocking down an opponent (beyond the normal points awarded for legal strikes).", "The referee can give penalties at any time for rule-breaking, such as hitting an area not recognized as a target, usually the legs or neck.", "Penalties are divided into \"Kyong-go\" (warning penalty) and \"Gam-jeom\" (deduction penalty).", "Two \"Kyong-go\" are counted as an addition of one point for the opposing contestant.", "However, the final odd-numbered \"Kyong-go\" is not counted in the grand total.", "At the end of three rounds, the competitor with most points wins the match.", "In the event of a tie, a fourth \"sudden death\" overtime round, sometimes called a \"Golden Point\", is held to determine the winner after a one-minute rest period.", "In this round, the first competitor to score a point wins the match.", "If there is no score in the additional round, the winner is decided by superiority, as determined by the refereeing officials.", "Until 2008, if one competitor gained a 7 point lead over the other, or if one competitor reached a total of 12 points, then that competitor was immediately declared the winner and the match ended.", "These rules were abolished by the WTF at the start of 2009.", "In October 2010 the WTF reintroduced a point-gap rule, stating that if a competitor has a 12-point lead at the end of the second round or achieves a 12-point lead at any point in the third round, then the match is over and that competitor is declared the winner." ]
[ 5 ]
Project Apollo (1961–72)
How many men walked on the moon from the Apollo?
NASA
true
8SCIENCE
[ 13 ]
[ "Project Apollo (1961–72).", "The U.S public's perception of the Soviet lead in putting the first man in space, motivated President John F. Kennedy to ask the Congress on May 25, 1961 to commit the federal government to a program to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, which effectively launched the Apollo program.", "Apollo was one of the most expensive American scientific programs ever.", "It is estimated to have cost $ in present-day US dollars.", "(In comparison, the Manhattan Project cost roughly $, accounting for inflation.", ")It used the Saturn rockets as launch vehicles, which were far bigger than the rockets built for previous projects.", "The spacecraft was also bigger; it had two main parts, the combined command and service module (CSM) and the lunar landing module (LM).", "The LM was to be left on the Moon and only the command module (CM) containing the three astronauts would eventually return to Earth.", "The second manned mission, Apollo 8, brought astronauts for the first time in a flight around the Moon in December 1968.", "Shortly before, the Soviets had sent an unmanned spacecraft around the Moon.", "On the next two missions docking maneuvers that were needed for the Moon landing were practiced and then finally the Moon landing was made on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.", "The first person to stand on the Moon was Neil Armstrong, who was followed by Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins orbited above.", "Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972.", "Throughout these six Apollo spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon.", "These missions returned a wealth of scientific data and of lunar samples.", "Topics covered by experiments performed included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismology, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and solar wind.", "The Moon landing marked the end of the space race and as a gesture, Armstrong mentioned mankind when he stepped down on the Moon.", "Apollo set major milestones in human spaceflight.", "It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit, and landing humans on another celestial body.", "Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while Apollo 17 marked the last moonwalk and the last manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.", "The program spurred advances in many areas of technology peripheral to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.", "Apollo sparked interest in many fields of engineering and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks.", "Many objects and artifacts from the program are on display at various locations throughout the world, notably at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums." ]
[ 5 ]
Project Apollo (1961–72)
During the six Apollo spaceflights, how many men walked on the Moon?
NASA
false
8SCIENCE
[ 13 ]
[ "Project Apollo (1961–72).", "The U.S public's perception of the Soviet lead in putting the first man in space, motivated President John F. Kennedy to ask the Congress on May 25, 1961 to commit the federal government to a program to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, which effectively launched the Apollo program.", "Apollo was one of the most expensive American scientific programs ever.", "It is estimated to have cost $ in present-day US dollars.", "(In comparison, the Manhattan Project cost roughly $, accounting for inflation.", ")It used the Saturn rockets as launch vehicles, which were far bigger than the rockets built for previous projects.", "The spacecraft was also bigger; it had two main parts, the combined command and service module (CSM) and the lunar landing module (LM).", "The LM was to be left on the Moon and only the command module (CM) containing the three astronauts would eventually return to Earth.", "The second manned mission, Apollo 8, brought astronauts for the first time in a flight around the Moon in December 1968.", "Shortly before, the Soviets had sent an unmanned spacecraft around the Moon.", "On the next two missions docking maneuvers that were needed for the Moon landing were practiced and then finally the Moon landing was made on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.", "The first person to stand on the Moon was Neil Armstrong, who was followed by Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins orbited above.", "Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972.", "Throughout these six Apollo spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon.", "These missions returned a wealth of scientific data and of lunar samples.", "Topics covered by experiments performed included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismology, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and solar wind.", "The Moon landing marked the end of the space race and as a gesture, Armstrong mentioned mankind when he stepped down on the Moon.", "Apollo set major milestones in human spaceflight.", "It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit, and landing humans on another celestial body.", "Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while Apollo 17 marked the last moonwalk and the last manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.", "The program spurred advances in many areas of technology peripheral to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.", "Apollo sparked interest in many fields of engineering and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks.", "Many objects and artifacts from the program are on display at various locations throughout the world, notably at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums." ]
[ 5 ]
Architecture
Who was the person who added the hourglass profile to the tower?
Space Needle
true
2TRAVEL
[ 2 ]
[ "The architecture of the Space Needle is the result of a compromise between the designs of two men, Edward E. Carlson and John Graham, Jr.", "The two leading ideas for the World Fair involved businessman Edward Carlson's sketch of a giant balloon tethered to the ground (see the gently sloping base) and architect John Graham's concept of a flying saucer (see the halo that houses the restaurant and observation deck).", "Victor Steinbrueck introduced the hourglass profile of the tower.", "The Space Needle was built to withstand wind speeds of 200 mph, double the requirements in the building code of 1962.", "An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter Scale jolted the Needle enough in 2001 for water to slosh out of the toilets in the restrooms.", "The Space Needle can endure serious structural damage during earthquakes of magnitudes below 9.", "Also made to withstand Category 5 hurricane-force winds, the Space Needle sways only 1 inch per 10 mph (16 mm per 10 km/h) of wind speed.", "For decades, the \"hovering disk\" of the Space Needle was home to two restaurants above the ground: the Space Needle Restaurant, which was originally named Eye of the Needle, and Emerald Suite.", "These were closed in 2000 to make way for SkyCity, a larger restaurant that features Pacific Northwest cuisine.", "It rotates 360 degrees in exactly forty-seven minutes.", "In 1993, the elevators were replaced with new computerized versions.", "The new elevators descend at a rate of .", "On December 31, 1999 (New Year's Eve), a powerful beam of light was unveiled for the first time.", "Called the Legacy Light or Skybeam, it is powered by lamps that total 85 million candela shining skyward from the top of the Space Needle to honor national holidays and special occasions in Seattle.", "The concept of this beam was derived from the official 1962 World's Fair poster, which depicted such a light source although none was incorporated into the original design.", "It is somewhat controversial because of the light pollution it creates.", "Originally planned to be turned on 75 nights per year, it has generally been used fewer than a dozen times per year.", "It did remain lit for eleven days in a row from September 11, 2001, to September 22, 2001, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.", "The same 1962 World's Fair original poster showed a grand spiral entryway leading to the elevator, but this, too, was omitted from the final building plans.", "This stairway was added as part of the Pavilion and Spacebase addition/remodel in June 2000.", "The main stairwell (generally emergency access) has 848 steps in all from the basement to the top of the observation deck.", "At approximately , the Space Needle was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River at the time it was built by Howard S. Wright Construction Co., but is now dwarfed by other structures along the Seattle skyline, among them the Columbia Center, at .", "Unlike many other similar structures, such as the CN Tower in Toronto, the Space Needle is not used for broadcasting purposes." ]
[ 3 ]
History
What are the ingredients for Galbi?
Galbi
false
9FOOD
[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "The ingredients (often, ribs or meats) are marinated in a sauce made primarily from soy sauce, garlic, and sugar.", "However, several variations on the marinade exist, including recipes that utilize sesame oil, rice wine or hot pepper paste.", "Fruit juice, lemon-lime soda and honey have become more common additions to Korean marinades in recent years, and is present in some incarnations of the dish.", "When cooked on a griddle or grill, the meat is usually cut in thin slices across the bones.", "This style of cut, called L.A. Galbi, permits the marinade to penetrate the meat faster.", "It also allows the meat to cook more quickly, creates a more tender cut, and makes it easier to eat the finished dish with chopsticks.", "The traditional cut is called Wang Galbi, literally meaning King Ribs.", "In this version, the ribs are cut into 2 to 5 inch segments, and the meat is filleted in layers away from the bone to form a uniformly thin layer.", "Wang Galbi is usually what is served in traditional Korean restaurants, as the traditional cut is considered more genuine.", "Rarely, if ever, are L.A. Galbi served at top establishments.", "Pre-cut galbi is available from many meat markets in Korea and elsewhere.", "\"Galbi\" is generally served in restaurants known as \"galbi houses\", and the meat is cooked right at customers' tables on grills set in the tables (usually by the customers themselves).", "It is typically served with lettuce, perilla, or other leafy vegetables used to wrap the meat, which is then dipped in \"ssamjang\" (쌈장), a sauce made of fermented bean paste and red pepper paste.", "It is often accompanied by side dishes known as banchan.", "Many Korean dishes incorporate ribs, including soups and stews.", "Some restaurants serve \"pork galbi\", and chicken galbi is a specialty of the Chuncheon region.", "\"Galbitang\" is a clear soup containing pieces of \"galbi\".", "\"Galbi jjigae\" is a thick stew with many large pieces of galbi, usually single bone cuts, which may also contain red peppers, green peppers, kimchi, and \"doenjang\" (Korean bean paste).", "\"Galbi Jjim\" is short ribs braised in a sweet soy sauce based sauce." ]
[ 0 ]
Nazi Germany policy towards the Soviet Union
What was the stated Nazi policy towards Russian and other Slavic populations?
Operation Barbarossa
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 6 ]
[ "German intentions.", "Nazi Germany policy towards the Soviet Union.", "As early as 1925, Hitler suggested in \"Mein Kampf\" that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed \"Lebensraum\" (\"living space\", i.e., land and raw materials) and that these should be sought in the East.", "Nazism viewed the Soviet Union (and all of Eastern Europe) as populated by \"\"Untermensch\"\" Slavs, ruled by \"Jewish Bolshevik\" masters.", "\"Mein Kampf\" said Germany's destiny was to turn \"to the East\" as it did \"six hundred years ago\" and \"the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a State.\"", "Thereafter, Hitler spoke of an inescapable battle against \"pan-Slav ideals\", in which victory would lead to \"permanent mastery of the world\", although he also said they would \"walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us\".", "Accordingly, it was stated Nazi policy to kill, deport, or enslave the majority of Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land with Germanic peoples (see Generalplan Ost).", "Before World War II, observers believed that in a war with the Soviet Union, Germany would attack through the Baltic states while the \"Kriegsmarine\" would seize Leningrad from the sea.", "They assumed that possessing the entire Baltic basin would satisfy Hitler, who would not repeat Napoleon's mistake of attacking Moscow." ]
[ 0 ]
Windmills
What is the first name of the windmill made in 1903?
Golden Gate Park
true
2TRAVEL
[ 1 ]
[ "In 1902, the parks commission authorized construction of two windmills to pump subterranean water to supply the park.", "The first, on the north side of the park facing the Pacific Ocean, was completed in 1903 and became known first as the North Windmill and later as the Dutch Windmill; it is now paired with the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden.", "The second, Murphy's Windmill, on the south side of the park, began operation in 1908.", "They operated for several decades, but fell into disrepair after the park switched to electric water pumps.", "The Dutch Windmill was restored in 1981, with Murphy's Windmill's restoration completed in September 2011." ]
[ 0 ]
Parodies
The popular song "Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire" was sung by what artist?
The Christmas Song
true
0MUSIC
[ 1 ]
[ "The title of \"The Simpsons\" episode \"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire\" is a parody of the song.", "Bob Rivers parodied the song with his 2000 album, and the title track from said album, \"Chipmunks Roasting On an Open Fire\".", "Christy Darlington did a \"punk rock\" style arrangement of the song for his \"All the wrong moves\" album.", "Stan Freberg's \"Green Chri$tma$\" includes several snippets of holiday songs.", "One segment begins with a sincere-sounding \"Chestnuts roasting...\" and quickly segués into a mock 1950s radio or TV ad, for a brand of chestnuts, being described as if they were toothpaste or cigarettes.", "Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies parodied the song in 2011.", "Taylor Schlicht parodied the song in 2012." ]
[ 0 ]
Humor
What kind of humor does Family Guy often use?
Family Guy
false
1TV
[ 5 ]
[ "", "\"Family Guy\" uses the filmmaking technique of cutaways, which occur in the majority of \"Family Guy\" episodes.", "Emphasis is often placed on gags which make reference to current events and/or modern cultural icons.", "Early episodes based much of their comedy on Stewie's \"super villain\" antics, such as his constant plans for total world domination, his evil experiments, plans and inventions to get rid of things he dislikes, and his constant attempts at matricide.", "As the series progressed, the writers and MacFarlane agreed that his personality and the jokes were starting to feel dated, so they began writing him with a different personality.", "\"Family Guy\" often includes self-referential humor.", "The most common form is jokes about Fox Broadcasting, and occasions where the characters break the fourth wall by addressing the audience.", "For example, in \"North by North Quahog\", the first episode that aired after the show's revival, included Peter telling the family that they had been cancelled because Fox had to make room in their schedule for shows like \"Dark Angel\", \"Titus\", \"Undeclared\", \"Action\", \"That '80s Show\", \"Wonderfalls\", \"Fastlane\", \"Andy Richter Controls the Universe\", \"Skin\", \"Girls Club\", \"Cracking Up\", \"The Pitts\", \"Firefly\", \"Get Real\", \"Freakylinks\", \"Wanda at Large\", \"Costello\", \"The Lone Gunmen\", \"A Minute with Stan Hooper\", \"Normal, Ohio\", \"Pasadena\", \"Harsh Realm\", \"Keen Eddie\", \"The $treet\", \"The American Embassy\", \"Cedric the Entertainer Presents\", \"The Tick\", \"Luis\", and \"Greg the Bunny\".", "Lois asks whether there is any hope, to which Peter replies that if all these shows are canceled they might have a chance; the shows were indeed canceled during \"Family Guy\"s hiatus.", "The show uses catchphrases, and most of the primary and secondary characters have them.", "Notable expressions include Quagmire's \"Giggity giggity goo\", Peter's \"Freakin' sweet\", and Joe's \"Bring it on!\"", "The use of many of these catchphrases declined in later seasons.", "The episode \"Big Man on Hippocampus\" mocks catchphrase-based humor: when Peter, who has forgotten everything about his life, is introduced to Meg, he exclaims \"D'oh!", "\", to which Lois replies, \"No, Peter, that's not your catchphrase.\"" ]
[ 0 ]
Soviet Moon program
How big was the crew on the "Lunniy Orbitalny Korabl"?
Space Race
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 5 ]
[ "The Soviet Union had planned to divide their lunar program into two separate manned programs: circumlunar flights in 1967 and lunar landings from 1968.", "The circumlunar missions were to be launched by a UR-500 rocket, later known as the Proton.", "The cosmonauts would be flown to the Moon in the Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond), which made four unsuccessful unmanned flights between 1967 and 1970.", "One flight of the Zond was, however, successful and returned its non-human passengers (tortoises) to Earth; had it been used for a manned circumlunar mission, the flight would have carried two cosmonauts.", "The Soviet lunar landing missions would use spacecraft derived from the Soyuz 7K-L1.", "The orbital module (Soyuz 7K-L3), the \"\"Lunniy Orbitalny Korabl\"\" (LOK), had a crew of two.", "The LOK and a separate lunar lander, the \"\"Lunniy Korabl\"\" (LK), had 40% of the mass of the Apollo CSM/LM due to the launch vehicle's capabilities.", "The launch vehicle would have been the N1 rocket, which was roughly the same height and takeoff mass as the American Saturn V, exceeded its takeoff thrust by 28%, and yet had roughly half the TLI payload capability.", "The N1 was unsuccessfully tested four times, exploding each time due to problems with the first stage's thirty engines.", "The Soviet leadership cancelled the program in 1970 after the first two successful American Moon landings." ]
[ 5 ]
Types of biomolecules
What are biomolecules?
Biomolecule
false
8SCIENCE
[ 0 ]
[ "A diverse range of biomolecules exist, including:", " Small molecules:", "* Lipids, polysaccharides, glycolipids, sterols, glycerolipids", "* Vitamins", "* Hormones, neurotransmitters", "*Metabolites", " Monomers, oligomers and polymers:" ]
[ 0 ]
Contemporary era
Who was Brazil's first woman president?
Brazil
false
5COUNTRY
[ 15 ]
[ "Several brief interim governments succeeded after Vargas's suicide.", "Juscelino Kubitschek became president in 1956 and assumed a conciliatory posture towards the political opposition that allowed him to govern without major crises.", "The economy and industrial sector grew remarkably, but his greatest achievement was the construction of the new capital city of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960.", "His successor was Jânio Quadros, who resigned in 1961 less than a year after taking office.", "His vice-president, João Goulart, assumed the presidency, but aroused strong political opposition and was deposed in April 1964 by a coup that resulted in a military regime.", "The new regime was intended to be transitory but it gradually closed in on itself and became a full dictatorship with the promulgation of the Fifth Institutional Act in 1968.", "The repression was not limited only to those who resorted to guerrilla tactics to fight the regime, but also reached institutional opponents, artists, journalists and other members of civil society, inside and outside the country (through the infamous \"Operation Condor\").", "Despite its brutality, like other totalitarian regimes in history, due to an economic boom, known as an \"economic miracle\", the regime reached its highest level of popularity in the early 1970s.", "Slowly however, the wear and tear of years of dictatorial power that has not slowed the repression, even after the defeat of the leftist guerrillas, plus the inability to deal with the economic crises of the period and popular pressure, made it inevitable an opening policy, which of the regime side was led by Generals Geisel and Golbery.", "With the enactment of the Amnesty Law in 1979, Brazil began to slowly return to democracy, which would be completed along the 1980s.", "Civilians returned to power in 1985 when José Sarney assumed the presidency, becoming unpopular during his tenure due his failure in control the economic crisis and hyperinflation inherited from the military regime.", "Sarney's unsuccessful government allowed the election in 1989 of the almost unknown Fernando Collor, who was subsequently impeached by the National Congress in 1992.", "Collor was succeeded by his Vice-President Itamar Franco, who appointed Fernando Henrique Cardoso as Minister of Finance.", "In 1994, Cardoso produced a highly successful Plano Real, that after decades of failed economic plans made by previous governments attempting to curb hyperinflation, finally granted stability to the Brazilian economy, leading Cardoso to be elected that year, and again in 1998.", "The peaceful transition of power from Fernando Henrique to his main opposition leader, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, who was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, proved that Brazil had finally succeeded in achieving its long-sought political stability.", "Lula was succeeded in 2011 by the current president, Dilma Rousseff, the country's first woman president and as such one of the most powerful women in the world.", "In June 2013, following the viral phenomenon of worldwide manifestations (such as the \"\"Arab Spring\"\", the \"\"Occupy Wall Street\"\" and the \"\"Spanish Indignados\"\"), numerous protests erupted in Brazil.", "For days, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several cities to protest.", "Initially a movement against the increase in public transport fares, it assumed gigantic proportions, sparked by the excessive use of force by the state polices, turning into a series of huge demonstrations by groups and individuals, angry about a range of issues (including new stadium projects for international sports events, demands on quality of public services, anger about corruption, and opposition to a constitutional amendment proposal, PEC 37, which is interpreted by some as an attempt to curb repression of corruption).", "Thus it became a movement containing conflicting ideologies, with so far no single political agenda nor recognizable leadership." ]
[ 3 ]
Townshend duty crisis
Why did the American Whigs believe Parliament couldn't tax the colonies?
Boston Tea Party
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 4 ]
[ "Controversy between Great Britain and the colonies arose in the 1760s when Parliament sought, for the first time, to impose a direct tax on the colonies for the purpose of raising revenue.", "Some colonists, known in the colonies as Whigs, objected to the new tax program, arguing that it was a violation of the British Constitution.", "Britons and British Americans agreed that, according to the constitution, British subjects could not be taxed without the consent of their elected representatives.", "In Great Britain, this meant that taxes could only be levied by Parliament.", "Colonists, however, did not elect members of Parliament, and so American Whigs argued that the colonies could not be taxed by that body.", "According to Whigs, colonists could only be taxed by their own colonial assemblies.", "Colonial protests resulted in the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1765, but in the 1766 Declaratory Act, Parliament continued to insist that it had the right to legislate for the colonies \"in all cases whatsoever\".", "When new taxes were levied in the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, Whig colonists again responded with protests and boycotts.", "Merchants organized a non-importation agreement, and many colonists pledged to abstain from drinking British tea, with activists in New England promoting alternatives, such as domestic Labrador tea.", "Smuggling continued apace, especially in New York and Philadelphia, where tea smuggling had always been more extensive than in Boston.", "Dutied British tea continued to be imported into Boston, however, especially by Richard Clarke and the sons of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson, until pressure from Massachusetts Whigs compelled them to abide by the non-importation agreement.", "Parliament finally responded to the protests by repealing the Townshend taxes in 1770, except for the tea duty, which Prime Minister Lord North kept to assert \"the right of taxing the Americans\".", "This partial repeal of the taxes was enough to bring an end to the non-importation movement by October 1770.", "From 1771 to 1773, British tea was once again imported into the colonies in significant amounts, with merchants paying the Townshend duty of three pence per pound.", "Boston was the largest colonial importer of legal tea; smugglers still dominated the market in New York and Philadelphia." ]
[ 1 ]
Origin
What food item is the Kipferl a descendant of?
Croissant
false
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "The Kipferl, ancestor of the croissant, has been documented in Austria going back at least as far as the 13th century, in various shapes.", "The Kipferl can be made plain or with nut or other fillings (some consider the rugelach a form of Kipferl).", "The \"birth\" of the croissant itself – that is, its adaptation from the plainer form of Kipferl, before the invention of Viennoiserie – can be dated with some precision to at latest 1839 (some say 1838), when an Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery (\"Boulangerie Viennoise\") at 92, rue de Richelieu in Paris.", "This bakery, which served Viennese specialities including the Kipferl and the Vienna loaf, quickly became popular and inspired French imitators (and the concept, if not the term, viennoiserie, a 20th-century term for supposedly Vienna-style pastries).", "The French version of the Kipferl was named for its crescent (\"croissant\") shape and has become a identifiable shape across the world.", "Alan Davidson, editor of the \"Oxford Companion to Food\", found no printed recipe for the present-day croissant in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the \"fantasy or luxury breads\" in Payen's \"Des substances alimentaires\", 1853.", "However, early recipes for non-laminated croissants can be found in the nineteenth century and at least one reference to croissants as an established French bread appeared as early as 1850.", "Zang himself returned to Austria in 1848 to become a press magnate, but the bakery remained popular for some time after, and was mentioned in several works of the time: \"This same M. Zank ...founded around 1830 , in Paris, the famous Boulangerie viennoise\".", "Several sources praise this bakery's products: \"Paris is of exquisite delicacy; and, in particular, the succulent products of the Boulangerie Viennoise\"; \"which seemed to us as fine as if it came from the Viennese bakery on the rue de Richelieu\".", "By 1869, the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple, and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote (in his periodical \"All the Year Round\") of: the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir tableThe puff pastry technique which now characterizes the croissant was already mentioned in the late 17th century, when La Varenne's \"Le Cuisinier françois\" gave a recipe for it in the 1680 – and possibly earlier – editions.", "It was typically used, not on its own, but for shells holding other ingredients (as in a vol-au-vent).", "But it does not appear to be mentioned in relation to the croissant until the twentieth century." ]
[ 0 ]
Style and technique
When did Pablo Picasso paint The Red Armchair?
Pablo Picasso
false
3ART
[ 5 ]
[ "Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime.", "The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.", "The medium in which Picasso made his most important contribution was painting.", "In his paintings, Picasso used color as an expressive element, but relied on drawing rather than subtleties of color to create form and space.", "He sometimes added sand to his paint to vary its texture.", "A nanoprobe of Picasso's \"The Red Armchair\" (1931) by physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 confirmed art historians' belief that Picasso used common house paint in many of his paintings.", "Much of his painting was done at night by artificial light.", "Picasso's early sculptures were carved from wood or modeled in wax or clay, but from 1909 to 1928 Picasso abandoned modeling and instead made sculptural constructions using diverse materials.", "An example is \"Guitar\" (1912), a relief construction made of sheet metal and wire that Jane Fluegel terms a \"three-dimensional planar counterpart of Cubist painting\" that marks a \"revolutionary departure from the traditional approaches, modeling and carving\".", "From the beginning of his career, Picasso displayed an interest in subject matter of every kind, and demonstrated a great stylistic versatility that enabled him to work in several styles at once.", "For example, his paintings of 1917 included the pointillist \"Woman with a Mantilla\", the Cubist \"Figure in an Armchair\", and the naturalistic \"Harlequin\" (all in the Museu Picasso, Barcelona).", "In 1919, he made a number of drawings from postcards and photographs that reflect his interest in the stylistic conventions and static character of posed photographs.", "In 1921 he simultaneously painted several large neoclassical paintings and two versions of the Cubist composition \"Three Musicians\" (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art).", "In an interview published in 1923, Picasso said, \"The several manners I have used in my art must not be considered as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting … If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression I have never hesitated to adopt them.", "\"Although his Cubist works approach abstraction, Picasso never relinquished the objects of the real world as subject matter.", "Prominent in his Cubist paintings are forms easily recognized as guitars, violins, and bottles.", "When Picasso depicted complex narrative scenes it was usually in prints, drawings, and small-scale works; \"Guernica\" (1937) is one of his few large narrative paintings.", "Picasso painted mostly from imagination or memory.", "According to William Rubin, Picasso \"could only make great art from subjects that truly involved him ….", "Unlike Matisse, Picasso had eschewed models virtually all his mature life, preferring to paint individuals whose lives had both impinged on, and had real significance for, his own.\"", "The art critic Arthur Danto said Picasso's work constitutes a \"vast pictorial autobiography\" that provides some basis for the popular conception that \"Picasso invented a new style each time he fell in love with a new woman\".", "The autobiographical nature of Picasso's art is reinforced by his habit of dating his works, often to the day.", "He explained: \"I want to leave to posterity a documentation that will be as complete as possible.", "That's why I put a date on everything I do.\"" ]
[ 2 ]
The end of the war
When were the Americans on their own during the American Revolution?
American Revolution
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 4 ]
[ "Support for the conflict had never been strong in Britain, where many sympathized with the rebels, but now it reached a new low.", "Although King George III personally wanted to fight on, his supporters lost control of Parliament, and no further major land offensives were launched in the American Theater.", "Washington could not know that after Yorktown the British would not reopen hostilities.", "They still had 26,000 troops occupying New York City, Charleston and Savannah, together with a powerful fleet.", "The French army and navy departed, so the Americans were on their own in 1782–83.", "The treasury was empty, and the unpaid soldiers were growing restive, almost to the point of mutiny or possible \"coup d'état\".", "The unrest among officers of the Newburgh Conspiracy was personally dispelled by Washington in 1783, and Congress subsequently created the promise of a five years bonus for all officers." ]
[ 2 ]
Media usage
The song Rolling in the Deep was featured how many times in tv?
Rolling in the Deep
true
0MUSIC
[ 2 ]
[ "", "\"Rolling in the Deep\" first gained attention when it was used in a trailer for the film \"I Am Number Four\" and in the film itself.", "It has since been featured in several television series such as in \"90210\" third season, in \"Doctor Who\" sixth series premiere, in \"One Tree Hill\" eighth season, in \"Gossip Girl\" fourth season finale, and in \"The Secret Life of the American Teenager\" fourth season.", "\"Rolling in the Deep\" was used as the theme song for E4's reality series \"Made in Chelsea\" and appeared in \"So You Think You Can Dance\" eighth season during contestant Mitchell Kelly's solo performance.", "The instrumental of the song was used in Apple Inc's marketing video for the iPhone 4S.", "It was also featured in CBC's intro to Game 1 of the hockey 2011 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins.", "while the song's instrumentals were played heavily in promos during the 2011 NBA Draft.", "The song was played in the background during the parade of athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games." ]
[ 5 ]
Abstract
Who penned the tune "It Will Rain"?
It Will Rain
true
0MUSIC
[ 0 ]
[ "\"It Will Rain\" is a song by American artist Bruno Mars.", "The song was released on iTunes for purchase on September 27, 2011.", "An accompanying music video was planned to premiere on October 26, 2011 on MTV.", "However, on October 24, 2011 Mars announced via Twitter that the music video had been delayed until a couple of weeks.", "It eventually premiered on November 10, 2011.", "The track appears on the soundtrack to the film \".", "In his live tour in Europe, Skylar Grey was with him singing the song." ]
[ 3 ]
Cast
Who plays Alphonse Simone on American Hustle?
American Hustle
false
6MOVIES
[ 16 ]
[ "Several of the characters are fictional versions of specific real-life counterparts:", " Christian Bale as Irving Rosenfeld (based on Melvin Weinberg )", " Bradley Cooper as FBI Agent Richard \"Richie\" DiMaso (based on Anthony Amoroso, Jr.)", " Amy Adams as Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly (based on Evelyn Knight)", " Jeremy Renner as Mayor Carmine Polito (based on Angelo Errichetti)", " Jennifer Lawrence as Rosalyn Rosenfeld (based on Cynthia Marie Weinberg)", " Louis C.K.", "as Stoddard Thorsen", " Jack Huston as Pete Musane", " Saïd Taghmaoui as Irving's Sheikh Plant", " Michael Peña as Paco Hernandez / Sheikh Abdullah", " Shea Whigham as Carl Elway", " Erica McDermott as Carl Elway's Assistant / Addie Abrams", " Alessandro Nivola as Anthony Amado", " Elisabeth Röhm as Dolly Polito (based on Dolores \"Dodie\" Errichetti)", " Colleen Camp as Brenda", " Paul Herman as Alfonse Simone", " Anthony Zerbe as a US Senator from New Jersey (based on US Senator Harrison A.", "\"Pete\" Williams)", " Robert De Niro (uncredited) as Victor Tellegio (based on mobster Vincent Alo)" ]
[ 3 ]
Dental health
What in cheese allows it to protect tooth enamel?
Cheese
true
9FOOD
[ 2 ]
[ "Some studies claim that cheddar, mozzarella, Swiss and American cheeses can help to prevent tooth decay.", "Several mechanisms for this protection have been proposed:", " The calcium, protein, and phosphorus in cheese may act to protect tooth enamel.", " Cheese increases saliva flow, washing away acids and sugars." ]
[ 0 ]
Synopsis
Which artist preformed "Bad", which inspired Justin Beiber?
As Long as You Love Me (Justin Bieber song)
true
0MUSIC
[ 9 ]
[ "The video starts off with some flashbacks foreshadowing of what's going to be shown or happen in the video.", "Then presently, at a mansion gate, Bieber appears as a loyal-but-troublemaking boyfriend to the daughter of an overprotective father, played by Madsen.", "In what can be seen as a prelude to the main events of the video, Madsen finds the words \"You r so sexy\" written on his daughter's neck.", "Outside their house, Madsen threatens Bieber to stay away from his daughter, despite Bieber's insistence that he loves her.", "Bieber and his love interest secretly plan to meet at a train station late at night, to escape the clutches of her father.", "However, their plans are foiled when Madsen finds his daughter's bedroom empty and races off, only to catch up with them in the middle of the street.", "Bieber is assaulted by Madsen multiple times, only to rise to his feet and stand up again as the daughter watches and screams in horror.", "As the video fades, representing that Bieber is passing out from the pain, Madsen drags his daughter to their car.", "Throughout the video, scenes of Bieber and his love interest in various scenes (such as on her bed, at the park and on a rooftop) are shown, displaying their love.", "The video also features a complicated dance routine performed in a parking garage, which is rumored by multiple critics to be a nod to the video for Michael Jackson's \"Bad\" (coincidentally, Madsen also appeared in the video for Jackson's \"You Rock My World\")." ]
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Continental Europe
Why was part of the Ruhr Valley called "Miniature England"
Industrial Revolution
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 5 ]
[ "Industrialisation beyond Great Britain.", "Continental Europe.", "The Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in Great Britain.", "In many industries, this involved the application of technology developed in Britain in new places.", "Often the technology was purchased from Britain or British engineers and entrepreneurs moved abroad in search of new opportunities.", "By 1809 part of the Ruhr Valley in Westphalia was called 'Miniature England' because of its similarities to the industrial areas of England.", "The German, Russian and Belgian governments all provided state funding to the new industries.", "In some cases (such as iron), the different availability of resources locally meant that only some aspects of the British technology were adopted." ]
[ 1 ]
Production design
How is the code that comprises the Matrix represented in the film?
The Matrix
false
6MOVIES
[ 0 ]
[ "In the film, the code that comprises the Matrix itself is frequently represented as downward-flowing green characters.", "This code utilizes a custom typeface designed by Simon Whiteley, which includes mirror images of half-width kana characters and Western Latin letters and numerals.", "The color green reflects the green tint commonly used on early monochrome computer monitors.", "Lynne Cartwright, the Visual Effects Supervisor at Animal Logic, supervised the creation of the film's opening title sequence, as well as the general look of the Matrix code throughout the film, in collaboration with Lindsey Fleay and Justen Marshall.", "The portrayal resembles the opening credits of the 1995 Japanese cyberpunk film, \"Ghost in the Shell\", which had a strong influence on the \"Matrix\" series (see below).", "It was also used in the subsequent films, on the related website, and in the game \"\", and its drop-down effect is reflected in the design of some posters for the \"Matrix\" series.", "The code received the Runner-up Award in the 1999 Jesse Garson Award for In-film typography or opening credit sequence.", "\"The Matrix\"s production designer, Owen Paterson, used methods to distinguish the \"real world\" and the Matrix in a pervasive way.", "The production design team generally placed a bias towards the Matrix code's distinctive green color in scenes set within the simulation, whereas there is an emphasis on the color blue during scenes set in the \"real world\".", "In addition, the Matrix scenes' sets were slightly more decayed, monolithic, and grid-like, to convey the cold, logical and artificial nature of that environment.", "For the \"real world\", the actors' hair was less styled, their clothing had more textile content, and the cinematographers used longer lenses to soften the backgrounds and emphasize the actors.", "The \"Nebuchadnezzar\" was designed to have a patched-up look, instead of clean, cold and sterile space ship interior sets as used on films like \"Star Trek\".", "The wires were made visible to show the ship's working internals, and each composition was carefully designed to convey the ship as \"a marriage between Man and Machine\".", "For the scene when Neo wakes up in the pod connected to the Matrix, the pod was constructed to look dirty, used, and sinister.", "During the testing of a breathing mechanism in the pod, the tester went into hypothermia in under eight minutes, so the pod had to be heated.", "Kym Barrett, costume designer, said that she defined the characters and their environment by their costume.", "For example, Reeves' office costume was designed for Thomas Anderson to look uncomfortable, disheveled, and out of place.", "Barrett sometimes used three types of fabric for each costume, and also had to consider acting practicality.", "The actors needed to perform martial art actions in their costume, hang upside-down without people seeing up their dress, or work the wires when strapped to the harnesses.", "For Trinity, Barrett experimented with how each fabric absorbs and reflects different types of light, and was eventually able to make Trinity's costume mercury-like and oil-slick to suit the character.", "For the Agents, their costume was designed to create a secret service, undercover look, resembling the film \"JFK\".", "The sunglasses, a staple to the film's aesthetics, were commissioned for the film to designer Richard Walker from sunglass maker Blinde Design." ]
[ 5 ]
Cuisine
Mongolian cuisine has been influenced by which two countries?
Mongolia
true
5COUNTRY
[ 3 ]
[ "Mongolian cuisine refers to the local culinary traditions of Mongolia and Mongolian styled dishes.", "The extreme continental climate has affected the traditional diet, so the Mongolian cuisine primarily consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats.", "Use of vegetables and spices is limited.", "Due to geographic proximity and deep historic ties, Mongolian cuisine is also influenced by Chinese and Russian cuisine.", "In fact, one of the most popular dishes is called \"buuz\", which is a steamed dumpling.", "Many people mistake it for being one of the national dishes, when in fact it is of Chinese origin.", "Another popular dish is called \"lapsha\", a simple noodle dish.", "The word is actually Russian for noodles." ]
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Head injuries
In Ice hockey, how can you describe the action of a check to the head?
Ice hockey
true
4SPORT
[ 7 ]
[ "According to the Hughston Health Alert, \"Lacerations to the head, scalp, and face are the most frequent types of injury hockey.\"", "(Schmidt 6) Even a shallow cut to the head results in a loss of a large amount of blood.", "Most concussions occur during player to player contact (49%) rather than when a player is checked into the boards (35%).", "Not only are lacerations common, “it is estimated that direct trauma accounts for 80% of all injuries.", "Most of these injuries are caused by player contact, falls and contact with a puck, high stick and occasionally, a skate blade.” (Schmidt 3) One of the causes of head injury is checking from behind.", "Due to the danger of delivering a check from behind, many leagues, including the NHL have made this a major and gross misconduct penalty (called \"boarding\").", "Another type of check that accounts for many of the player to player contact concussions is a check to the head.", "A check to the head can be defined as delivering a hit while the receiving player’s head is down and their waist is bent and the aggressor is targeting the receiving player's head.", "Checks to the head have accounted for nearly 50% of concussions that players in the National Hockey League have suffered.", "Concussions that players suffer may go unreported because there are no obvious physical signs if a player is not knocked unconscious.", "This can prove to be dangerous if a player decides to return to play without receiving proper medical attention.", "In recent years there has been debate over whether or not a check to head should be deemed an acceptable hit in hockey.", "In March 2011, the NHL instituted a new concussion testing protocol to help improve detection of concussions during gameplay" ]
[ 5 ]
Literature
Who wrong a poem called "Niagra"?
Niagara Falls
true
2TRAVEL
[ 2 ]
[ "The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the H. G. Wells novel \"The War in the Air\".", "Many poets have been inspired to write about the falls.", "Among them is the Cuban poet Jose Maria Heredia who wrote the poem \"\"Niagara\"\".", "There are commemorative plaques on both sides of the falls recognising the poem." ]
[ 3 ]
Education
How much of GNP does education represent?
Tunisia
false
5COUNTRY
[ 2 ]
[ "Science and technology.", "The adult literacy rate in 2008 was 78%.", "Education is given a high priority and accounts for 6% of GNP.", "A basic education for children between the ages of 6 and 16 has been compulsory since 1991.", "Tunisia ranked 17th in the category of \"quality of the educational system\" and 21st in the category of \"quality of primary education\" in The Global Competitiveness Report 2008-9, released by The World Economic Forum.", "While children generally acquire Tunisian Arabic at home, when they enter school at age 6, they are taught to read and write in Standard Arabic.", "From the age of 8, they are taught French while English is introduced at the age of 12.", "The four years of secondary education are open to all holders of Diplôme de Fin d’Etudes de l’Enseignement de Base where the students focus on entering university level or join the workforce after completion.", "The Enseignement secondaire is divided into two stages: general academic and specialized.", "The higher education system in Tunisia has experienced a rapid expansion and the number of students has more than tripled over the past 10 years from approximately 102,000 in 1995 to 365,000 in 2005.", "The gross enrollment rate at the tertiary level in 2007 was 31 percent, with gender parity index of GER of 1.5." ]
[ 5 ]
Phase 2: Battle for Smolensk (3 July – 5 August 1941)
On what date did the Soviets attack the 3rd Panzer Army with 700 tanks?
Operation Barbarossa
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 6 ]
[ "Phase 2: Battle for Smolensk (3 July – 5 August 1941).", "On 3 July, Hitler finally gave the go-ahead for the Panzers to resume their drive east after the infantry divisions had caught up.", "However, a rainstorm typical of Russian summers slowed their progress and Russian defenses stiffened.", "The delays gave the Soviets time to organize a massive counterattack against Army Group Center.", "Its ultimate objective was Smolensk, which commanded the road to Moscow.", "Facing the Germans was an old Soviet defensive line held by six armies.", "On 6 July, the Soviets attacked the 3rd Panzer Army with 700 tanks.", "The Germans defeated this counterattack with overwhelming air superiority.", "The 2nd Panzer Army crossed the River Dnieper and closed on Smolensk from the south while the 3rd Panzer Army, after defeating the Soviet counterattack, closed on Smolensk from the north.", "Trapped between their pincers were three Soviet armies.", "On 18 July, the Panzer Groups came to within sixteen kilometres of closing the gap but the trap would not snap shut until 26 July.", "When the Panzer Groups finally closed the gap, 300,000 Red Army soldiers were captured; but liquidating the pocket took another ten days in which time 100,000 Red Army soldiers escaped to stand between the Germans and Moscow.", "Four weeks into the campaign, the Germans realized they had grossly underestimated Soviet strength.", "The German troops had used their initial supplies without attaining the expected strategic freedom of movement.", "Operations were now slowed down to allow for resupply; the delay was to be used to adapt strategy to the new situation.", "Hitler had lost faith in encirclement as large numbers of Soviet soldiers had escaped the pincers.", "Hitler now believed he could defeat the Soviets by economic damage, depriving them of the industrial capacity to continue the war.", "That meant seizing the industrial center of Kharkov, the Donets Basin and the oil fields of the Caucasus in the south and the speedy capture of Leningrad, a major center of military production, in the north.", "He also wanted to link up with the Finns to the north.", "Fedor von Bock and almost all the German generals involved in Operation \"Barbarossa\", vehemently argued in favor of continuing the all-out drive toward Moscow.", "Besides the psychological importance of capturing the enemy's capital, the generals pointed out that Moscow was a major center of arms production and the center of the Soviet communications and transportation system.", "More importantly, intelligence reports indicated that the bulk of the Red Army was deployed near Moscow under Semyon Timoshenko for an all-out defense of the capital.", "But Hitler was adamant, and issued a direct order to Heinz Guderian, bypassing his commanding officer von Bock, to send Army Group Centre's tanks to the north and south, temporarily halting the drive to Moscow." ]
[ 0 ]
Constituent states
How many states compromise Germany?
Germany
false
5COUNTRY
[ 0 ]
[ "Germany comprises sixteen states which are collectively referred to as \"Länder\".", "</ref>Each state has its own state constitution and is largely autonomous in regard to its internal organisation.", "Because of differences in size and population the subdivisions of these states vary, especially as between city states (\"Stadtstaaten\") and states with larger territories (\"Flächenländer\").", "For regional administrative purposes five states, namely Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony, consist of a total of 22 Government Districts (\"Regierungsbezirke\").", "Germany is divided into 403 districts (\"Kreise\") at a municipal level; these consist of 301 rural districts and 102 urban districts." ]
[ 5 ]
Reaction in the Balkan States
When was the annexation of Bosnia finally approved by Serbia?
Balkan Wars
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 1 ]
[ "Serbia was frustrated in the north by Austria-Hungary's incorporation of Bosnia.", "In March 1909, Serbia was forced to accept the annexation and restrain anti-Habsburg agitation by Serbian nationalists.", "Instead, the Serbian government looked to formerly Serb territories in the south, notably \"Old Serbia\" (the Sanjak of Novi Pazar and the province of Kosovo).", "On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.", "The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.", "Venizelos persuaded the king to revise the constitution and asked the League to disband in favor of a National Assembly.", "In March 1910 the Military League dissolved itself.", "Bulgaria, which had secured Ottoman recognition of her independence in April 1909 and enjoyed the friendship of Russia, also looked to districts of Ottoman Thrace and Macedonia.", "In August 1910 Montenegro followed Bulgaria's precedent by becoming a kingdom." ]
[ 2 ]
Tempering
What kind of chocolate melts at a lower temperature?
Chocolate
false
9FOOD
[ 12 ]
[ "The final process is called \"tempering\".", "Uncontrolled crystallization of cocoa butter typically results in crystals of varying size, some or all large enough to be clearly seen with the naked eye.", "This causes the surface of the chocolate to appear mottled and matte, and causes the chocolate to crumble rather than snap when broken.", "The uniform sheen and crisp bite of properly processed chocolate are the result of consistently small cocoa butter crystals produced by the tempering process.", "The fats in cocoa butter can crystallize in six different forms (polymorphous crystallization).", "The primary purpose of tempering is to assure that only the best form is present.", "The six different crystal forms have different properties.", "As a solid piece of chocolate, the cocoa butter fat particles are in a crystalline rigid structure that gives the chocolate its solid appearance.", "Once heated, the crystals of the polymorphic cocoa butter will be able to break apart from the rigid structure and allow the chocolate to obtain a more fluid consistency as the temperature increases.", "This is known as the melting process.", "When the heat is removed, the cocoa butter crystals will become rigid again and come closer together, allowing the chocolate to solidify.", "This temperature in which the crystals obtain enough energy to break apart from their rigid conformation would depend on the milk fat content in the chocolate and the shape of the fat molecules as well as the form of the cocoa butter fat.", "Chocolate with a higher fat content will melt at a lower temperature.", "Making chocolate considered \"good\" is about forming as many type V crystals as possible.", "This provides the best appearance and texture and creates the most stable crystals, so the texture and appearance will not degrade over time.", "To accomplish this, the temperature is carefully manipulated during the crystallization.", "Generally, the chocolate is first heated to to melt all six forms of crystals.", "Next, the chocolate is cooled to about , which will allow crystal types IV and V to form.", "At this temperature, the chocolate is agitated to create many small crystal \"seeds\" which will serve as nuclei to create small crystals in the chocolate.", "The chocolate is then heated to about to eliminate any type IV crystals, leaving just type V. After this point, any excessive heating of the chocolate will destroy the temper and this process will have to be repeated.", "However, there are other methods of chocolate tempering used.", "The most common variant is introducing already tempered, solid \"seed\" chocolate.", "The temper of chocolate can be measured with a chocolate temper meter to ensure accuracy and consistency.", "A sample cup is filled with the chocolate and placed in the unit which then displays or prints the results.", "Two classic ways of manually tempering chocolate are:", " Working the molten chocolate on a heat-absorbing surface, such as a stone slab, until thickening indicates the presence of sufficient crystal \"seeds\"; the chocolate is then gently warmed to working temperature.", " Stirring solid chocolate into molten chocolate to \"inoculate\" the liquid chocolate with crystals (this method uses the already formed crystals of the solid chocolate to \"seed\" the molten chocolate).", "Chocolate tempering machines (or temperers) with computer controls can be used for producing consistently tempered chocolate, particularly for large volume applications." ]
[ 0 ]
Penalties
What penalty is a golfer given after hitting a golfer's ball during a putt?
Golf
true
4SPORT
[ 5 ]
[ "Penalties are incurred in certain situations.", "They are counted towards a player's score as if there were extra swing(s) at the ball.", "Strokes are added for rule infractions or for hitting one's ball into an unplayable situation.", "A lost ball or a ball hit out of bounds result in a penalty of one stroke and distance (Rule 27–1).", "A one-stroke penalty is assessed if a player's equipment causes the ball to move or the removal of a loose impediment causes the ball to move (Rule 18–2).", "If a golfer makes a stroke at the wrong ball (Rule 19–2) or hits a fellow golfer's ball with a putt (Rule 19–5), the player incurs a two-stroke penalty.", "Most rule infractions lead to stroke penalties but also can lead to disqualification.", "Disqualification could be from cheating, signing for a lower score, or from rule infractions that lead to improper play." ]
[ 0 ]
Female
Who is ranked 19th in Ski Jumping?
Ski jumping
false
4SPORT
[ 18 ]
[ " Sarah Hendrickson", " Sara Takanashi", " Anette Sagen", " Eva Ganster", " Lindsey Van", " Jessica Jerome", " Daniela Iraschko", " Elena Runggaldier", " Evelyn Insam", " Lisa Demetz", " Coline Mattel", " Anna Hafele", " Magdalena Schnurr", " Ulrike Grässler", " Line Jahr", " Jacqueline Seifriedsberger", " Juliane Seyfarth", " Eva Logar", " Maja Vtič", " Anja Tepeš", " Špela Rogelj", " Katja Požun", " Urša Bogataj" ]
[ 3 ]
Governing bodies
What does CONCACAF stand for?
Association football
false
4SPORT
[ 6 ]
[ "The recognised international governing body of football (and associated games, such as futsal and beach soccer) is FIFA.", "The FIFA headquarters are located in Zurich.", "Six regional confederations are associated with FIFA; these are:", " Asia: Asian Football Confederation (AFC)", " Africa: Confederation of African Football (CAF)", " Europe: Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)", " North/Central America & Caribbean: Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)", " Oceania: Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)", " South America: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol/Confederação Sul-americana de Futebol (South American Football Confederation; CONMEBOL)", "National associations oversee football within individual countries.", "These are generally synonymous with sovereign states, (for example: the Fédération Camerounaise de Football in Cameroon) but also include a smaller number of associations responsible for sub-national entities or autonomous regions (for example the Scottish Football Association in Scotland).", "208 national associations are affiliated both with FIFA and with their respective continental confederations.", "While FIFA is responsible for arranging competitions and most rules related to international competition, the actual Laws of the Game are set by the International Football Association Board, where each of the UK Associations has one vote, while FIFA collectively has four votes." ]
[ 0 ]
Season 2
Which agent is tasked with traking down and capturing the eight fugitives?
Prison Break
true
1TV
[ 5 ]
[ "The second season begins eight hours after the escape, focusing mainly on the eight escapees.", "Series creator Paul Scheuring describes the second season as \"\"The Fugitive\" times eight\" and likens it to the \"second half of \"The Great Escape\".\"", "The fugitives split up and journey to locations across the country with the authorities close behind them as they each pursue their individual goals.", "Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) gets fired from the prison where he worked as the main guard and chases after the inmates himself for the reward money.", "Several of the escapees reunite in search of a large cache of money buried long ago by another Fox River inmate, Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson).", "Federal agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) is assigned to track down and capture the eight fugitives, but is revealed to be working for The Company, which wants all eight men dead.", "When Sara discovers her father, Governor Frank Tancredi (John Heard), has been killed, she meets with Michael, remaining with him as the brothers try to bring down now-President Reynolds, a Company member.", "To ensure the brothers' safety, Sara allows herself to be arrested and faces trial.", "During the trial, the testimony of former Secret Service agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein), who used to work for the Company-controlled President, exonerates Lincoln and Sara.", "Half of the escapees are killed or recaptured, but the brothers make it to Panama.", "Michael, T-Bag, Mahone, and Bellick are arrested by the Panamanian authorities and imprisoned at the Penitenciaría Federal de Sona." ]
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Delivery
In curling, what is the delivery?
Curling
true
4SPORT
[ 0 ]
[ "The process of sliding a stone down the sheet is known as the \"delivery\".", "The \"skip\", or the captain of the team, will usually determine the required \"weight\", \"turn\", and \"line\" of the stone.", "These will be influenced by the tactics at this point in the game, which may involve taking-out, blocking or tapping another stone.", " The weight of the stone is its velocity, which depends on the leg drive of the delivery rather than the arm.", " The turn, handle, or curl is the rotation of the stone, which gives it a curved trajectory.", " The line is the direction of the throw ignoring the effect of the \"turn\".", "The skip may communicate the \"weight\", \"turn\", \"line,\" and other tactics by calling or tapping a broom on the ice.", "In the case of a takeout, guard, or a tap, the skip will indicate the stones involved.", "Before delivery, the running surface of the stone is wiped clean and the path across the ice swept with the broom if necessary, because any dirt on the bottom of a stone or in its path can alter the trajectory and ruin the shot.", "Intrusion by a foreign object is called a \"pick up\" or \"pick\".", "The thrower throws from the \"hack\".", "Another player, usually the skip, is stationed behind the \"button\" to determine the tactics, \"weight\", \"turn\", and \"line\", and the other two may sweep in front of the stone to influence the trajectory (see Sweeping, below).", "The players, with the exception of the skip, take turns throwing and sweeping; when one player (e.g., the lead) throws, the players not throwing (the second and third) sweep.", "When the skip throws, the \"third\", or vice-skip, takes his role.", "The thrower's \"gripper\" shoe (with the non-slippery sole) is positioned against one of the hacks; for a right-handed curler the right foot is placed against the left hack and vice-versa for a left-hander.", "The thrower, now \"in the hack\", lines the body up with shoulders square to the skip's broom at the far end for \"line\".", "The stone is placed in front of the foot now in the hack.", "Rising slightly from the hack, the thrower pulls the stone back to the toe (some older curlers may actually raise the stone in this backward movement) then lunges smoothly out from the hack pushing the stone ahead while the slider foot is moved in front of the gripper foot, which trails behind.", "The thrust from this lunge determines the \"weight\" and hence the distance the stone will travel.", "While not compulsory, most curlers deliver the stone while sliding out from the hack.", "Balance may be assisted by a broom held in the free hand with the back of the broom down so that it slides.", "The stone is released as the thrower's momentum wanes, or the hog line is approached, at which point the \"turn\" is imparted by a slight clockwise or anti-clockwise twist of the handle from around the two or ten o'clock position to the twelve o'clock on release.", "A typical rate of turn is about 2½ rotations before coming to a rest.", "The stone must be released before its front edge crosses the near hog line, and it must clear the far hog line or else be removed from play (\"hogged\"); an exception is made if a stone fails to come to rest beyond the far hog line after rebounding from a stone in play just past the hog line.", "The release rule is rarely enforced in club play unless abuse is suspected.", "However, in major tournaments it is strictly enforced; the \"eye on the hog\" sensor in the stone will indicate whether the stone has been legally thrown or not.", "The lights on the stone handle will either light up green, indicating that the stone has been legally thrown, or red, in which case the illegally thrown stone will be immediately pulled from play instead of waiting for the stone to come to rest." ]
[ 0 ]
In China
What other names does the Chuanr go by?
Kebab
true
9FOOD
[ 0 ]
[ "Chuanr (), often referred to as \"chua'r\" in Pekingese and throughout the North, or kawap (كاۋاپ) in Uyghur, is a variation of kebab originating from the Uyghurs in the Western province of Xinjiang and a popular dish in Chinese Islamic cuisine.", "The dish has since spread across the rest of the country and become a popular street food.", "Although the most traditional form of chuanr uses lamb or mutton, other types of meat, such as chicken, beef, pork, and seafood, may be used as well.", "Small pieces of meat are skewered and either roasted or deep-fried.", "Common spices and condiments include cumin called \"ziran\", pepper, sesame, and sesame oil.", "During Chinese New Year, it is common to find fruit kebabs candied and covered with a hard candy sugar coating.", "At the famous Wángfǔjǐng in Beijing, it is very common to find many kinds of fruit kebabs of everything from bananas, strawberries, and seasonal Chinese fruits, as well as scorpions, squids, and various Japanese-flavored kebabs all year long." ]
[ 0 ]
Demographics
About how many Singapore residents own a car?
Singapore
false
5COUNTRY
[ 11 ]
[ ", the population of Singapore is 5.312 million people, of whom 3.285 million (62%) are citizens while the rest (38%) are permanent residents or foreign workers/students.", "Twenty-three percent of Singaporean citizens were born outside Singapore (i.e.", "foreign born citizens).", "There are half a million permanent residents in Singapore in 2012.", "The resident population does not take into account the 11 million transient visitors who visit Singapore annually.", "The median age of Singaporeans is 37 years old and the average household size is 3.5 persons.", "Due to scarcity of land, four out of five Singaporeans live in subsidised, high-rise, public housing apartments known as Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, after the board responsible for public housing in the country.", "Live-in domestic helpers are quite common in Singapore and there are nearly 200,000 domestic helpers there.", "In 2010, three quarters of Singaporean residents live in properties that are equal to or larger than a four-room HDB flat or in private housing.", "Home ownership rate is at 87.2%.", "Mobile phone penetration rate is extremely high at 1,400 mobile phone subscribers per 1000 people.", "Around 1 in 10 residents owns a car.", "The total fertility rate is estimated to be .79 children per woman in 2013, the lowest in the world and well below the 2.1 needed to replace the population.", "To overcome this problem, the Singapore government has been encouraging foreigners to immigrate to Singapore for the past few decades.", "The large number of immigrants has kept Singapore's population from declining.", "Singapore traditionally has one of the lowest unemployment rates among developed countries.", "The Singaporean unemployment rate has not exceeded 4% in the past decade, hitting a high of 3% during the 2009 global financial crisis and falling to 1.9% in 2011., about 40% of Singapore's residents were foreigners, one of the highest percentage in the world.", "The government is considering capping these workers, although it has been recognised that they are crucial to the country's economy, as foreign workers make up 80% of the construction industry and up to 50% of the service industry.", "In 2009, the government census reports that 74.2% of residents were of Chinese, 13.4% of Malay, and 9.2% of Indian descent, while Eurasians and other groups form 3.2%.", "Prior to 2010, each person could register as a member of only one race, by default that of his or her father, therefore, mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses.", "From 2010 onward, people may register using a \"double-barrelled\" classification, in which they may choose one primary race and one secondary race, but no more than two." ]
[ 5 ]
Inequality
What, according to the economists, caused the Great Depression in the 1920's?
Great Depression
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
[ 2, 3 ]
[ "Two economists of the 1920s, Waddill Catchings and William Trufant Foster, popularized a theory that influenced many policy makers, including Herbert Hoover, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Douglas, and Marriner Eccles.", "It held the economy produced more than it consumed, because the consumers did not have enough income.", "Thus the unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920s caused the Great Depression.", "According to this view, the root cause of the Great Depression was a global over-investment in heavy industry capacity compared to wages and earnings from independent businesses, such as farms.", "The solution was the government must pump money into consumers' pockets.", "That is, it must redistribute purchasing power, maintain the industrial base, but re-inflate prices and wages to force as much of the inflationary increase in purchasing power into consumer spending.", "The economy was overbuilt, and new factories were not needed.", "Foster and Catchings recommended federal and state governments start large construction projects, a program followed by Hoover and Roosevelt." ]
[ 0 ]
Offensive tactics
The tactic of rapidly passing to the player farthest down the ice is know as what?
Ice hockey
true
4SPORT
[ 6 ]
[ "Offensive tactics include improving a team's position on the ice by advancing the puck out of one's zone towards the opponent's zone, progressively by gaining lines, first your own blue line, then the red line and finally the opponent's blue line.", "NHL rules instated for the 2006 season redefined offside to make the two-line pass legal; a player may pass the puck from behind his own blue line, past both that blue line and the centre red line, to a player on the near side of the opponents' blue line.", "Offensive tactics are designed ultimately to score a goal by taking a shot.", "When a player purposely directs the puck towards the opponent's goal, he or she is said to \"shoot\" the puck.", "A \"deflection\" is a shot that redirects a shot or a pass towards the goal from another player, by allowing the puck to strike the stick and carom towards the goal.", "A \"one-timer\" is a shot struck directly off a pass, without receiving the pass and shooting in two separate actions.", "\"Headmanning the puck\", also known as \"cherry-picking\" or \"breaking out\", is the tactic of rapidly passing to the player farthest down the ice.", "A team that is losing by one or two goals in the last few minutes of play will often elect to \"pull the goalie\"; that is, remove the goaltender and replace him or her with an \"extra attacker\" on the ice in the hope of gaining enough advantage to score a goal.", "However, it is an act of desperation, as it sometimes leads to the opposing team extending their lead by scoring a goal in the empty net.", "A \"delayed penalty call\" occurs when a penalty offense is committed by the team that does not have possession of the puck.", "In this circumstance the team with possession of the puck is allowed to complete the play; that is, play continues until a goal is scored, a player on the opposing team gains control of the puck, or the team in possession commits an infraction or penalty of their own.", "Because the team on which the penalty was called cannot control the puck without stopping play, it is impossible for them to score a goal.", "However, it is possible for the controlling team to mishandle the puck into their own net.", "In these cases the team in possession of the puck can pull the goalie for an extra attacker without fear of being scored on.", "If a delayed penalty is signaled and the team in possession scores, the penalty is still assessed to the offending player, but not served.", "This rule was recently changed by the NCAA for college level hockey in the United States.", "In college games, the penalty is still enforced even if the team in possession scores.", "One of the most important strategies for a team is their \"forecheck\".", "Forechecking is the act of attacking the opposition in their defensive zone.", "Forechecking is an important part of the \"dump and chase\" strategy (i.e.", "shooting the puck into the offensive zone and then chasing after it).", "Each team will use their own unique system but the main ones are: 2–1–2, 1–2–2, and 1–4.", "The 2–1–2 is the most basic forecheck system where two forwards will go in deep and pressure the opposition's defencemen, the third forward stays high and the two defencemen stay at the blueline.", "The 1–2–2 is a bit more conservative system where one forward pressures the puck carrier and the other two forwards cover the oppositions' wingers, with the two defencemen staying at the blueline.", "The 1–4 is the most defensive forecheck system, referred to as the trap, where one forward will apply pressure to the puck carrier around the oppositions' blueline and the other 4 players stand basically in a line by their blueline in hopes the opposition will skate into one of them.", "There are many other little tactics used in the game of hockey.", "\"Pinching\" is the term used when a defencemen pressures the opposition's winger in the offensive zone when they are breaking out, attempting to stop their attack and keep the puck in the offensive zone.", "A \"saucer pass\" is a pass used when an opposition's stick or body is in the passing lane.", "It is the act of raising the puck over the obstruction and having it land on a teammate's stick." ]
[ 0 ]
Release
What did Orion pictures terrorized about 'The Terminator?'
The Terminator
true
6MOVIES
[ 0 ]
[ "Orion Pictures did not have faith in \"The Terminator\" performing well at the box office and feared a negative critical reception.", "At an early screening of the film, the actors' agents insisted to the producers that the film should be screened for critics.", "Orion only held one press screening for the film.", "The film was premiered on October 26, 1984.", "On its opening week, \"The Terminator\" played at 1,005 theaters and grossed $4,020,663 making it number one in the box office.", "The film remained at number one in its second week.", "It lost its number one spot in the third week to \"Oh, God!", "You Devil\".", "Cameron noted that \"The Terminator\" was a hit \"relative to its market, which is between the summer and the Christmas blockbusters.", "But it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than the other way around.", "\"Writer Harlan Ellison stated that he \"loved the movie, was just blown away by it\", but believed that the screenplay was based on an episode of \"The Outer Limits\" he had written, titled \"Soldier\".", "Orion gave Ellison an undisclosed amount of money and an acknowledgment credit in later prints of the film.", "Some accounts of the settlement state that \"Demon with a Glass Hand\", another \"Outer Limits\" episode written by Ellison, was also claimed to have been plagiarized by the film, but Ellison has explicitly stated that \"The Terminator\" \"was a ripoff\" of \"Soldier\" rather than \"Demon with a Glass Hand\".", "Cameron was against Orion's decision and was told that if he did not agree with the settlement, they would have Cameron pay for any damages if Orion lost Ellison's suit.", "Cameron replied that he \"had no choice but to agree with the settlement.", "Of course there was a gag order as well, so I couldn't tell this story, but now I frankly don't care.", "It's the truth.", "Harlan Ellison is a parasite who can kiss my ass.\"" ]
[ 0 ]
Plot
What happens with Arbor in the final scene?
The Selfish Giant (2013 film)
true
6MOVIES
[ 15 ]
[ "The film follows the lives of Arbor and Swifty, teenage boys growing up in an impoverished area of Bradford, northern England.", "Arbor suffers from hyperactivity disorder, which often gets him into trouble even when it is not his intention.", "When the boys are suspended from school after a fight, they decide to earn money collecting and selling scrap metal.", "They quickly realize that stealing copper from telecom, railway, and power utilities proves quite lucrative.", "They sell their scrap to a local scrap dealer, Kitten.", "Kitten owns a horse and competes in amateur harness racing.", "Kitten allows Swifty to work with the horse, once he realizes Swifty's surprising affection for and natural talent with horses.", "Kitten also lets the boys borrow the horse and a cart to collect scrap metal.", "Arbor is jealous of Kitten's kindness toward Swifty.", "Arbor decides to steal a piece of scrap from Kitten and sell it, along with some other scrap, to a dealer in Huddersfield.", "The plan ends up backfiring, Arbor is refused at the other dealer and unsuccessfully makes a deal with some men who offer to sell the scrap for him.", "Kitten finds out and physically intimidates Arbor into stealing a specific piece of high voltage electric power transmission wire to make up for his loss.", "The boys are not fully aware of the dangers of high voltage wire, and when Swifty goes to cut the wire, he is electrocuted and killed.", "Arbor is devastated and Kitten is arrested, telling the police he is responsible and allowing Arbor to escape blame.", "He sits resolutely outside Swifty's mother's house until, after several rejections, she allows him to hug her and share their pain.", "In a final scene, Arbor takes care of the horse Swifty loved." ]
[ 0 ]
Traditional tacos
Where did fish tacos start?
Taco
true
9FOOD
[ 18 ]
[ "There are many traditional varieties of tacos:", " Tacos de Asador (\"spit\" or \"grill\" tacos) may be composed of any of the following: \"carne asada tacos\"; tacos de tripita (\"tripe tacos\"), grilled until crisp; and, \"chorizo asado\" (traditional Spanish style sausage).", "Each type is served on two overlapped small tortillas and sometimes garnished with guacamole, salsa, onions, and cilantro.", "Also prepared on the grill is a sandwiched taco called \"mulita\" (\"little mule\") made with meat served between two tortillas and garnished with Oaxaca style cheese.", "\"\"Mulita\"\" is used to describe these types of sandwiched tacos in the Northern States of Mexico, while they are known as Gringa in the Mexican south and are prepared using wheat flour tortillas.", "Tacos may also be served with salsa.", " Tacos de Cabeza or head tacos, in which there is a flat punctured metal plate from which steam emerges to cook the head of the cow.", "These include: \"Cabeza\", a serving of the muscles of the head; \"Sesos\" (\"brains\"); \"Lengua\" (\"tongue\"); \"Cachete\" (\"cheeks\"); \"Trompa\" (\"lips\"); and, \"Ojo\" (\"eye\").", "Tortillas for these tacos are warmed on the same steaming plate for a different consistency.", "These tacos are typically served in pairs, and also include salsa, onion and cilantro with occasional use of guacamole.", " Tacos de Cazo for which a metal bowl filled with lard is typically used as a deep-fryer.", "Meats for these types of tacos typically include: \"Tripa\" (\"tripe\", usually from a pig instead of a cow); \"Suadero\" (tender beef cuts), \"Carnitas\" and \"Buche\" (Literally, \"\"crop\"\", as in \"bird's crop\"; here, it is fried pig's esophagus.", ")", " Tacos sudados (\"sweaty tacos\") are made by filling soft tortillas with a spicy meat mixture, then placing them in a basket covered with cloth.", "The covering keeps the tacos warm and traps steam (\"sweat\") which softens them.", " Tacos Al pastor/De Adobada (\"shepherd style\") are made of thin pork steaks seasoned with adobo seasoning, then skewered and overlapped on one another on a vertical rotisserie cooked and flame-broiled as it spins.", " Tacos dorados (fried tacos, literally, \"golden tacos\") called \"flauta\"s (\"flute\", because of the shape), or taquitos, for which the tortillas are filled with pre-cooked shredded chicken, beef or \"barbacoa\", rolled into an elongated cylinder and deep-fried until crisp.", "They are sometimes cooked in a microwave oven or broiled.", " Tacos de pescado (\"fish tacos\") originated in Baja California in Mexico, where they consist of grilled or fried fish, lettuce or cabbage, pico de gallo, and a sour cream or citrus/mayonnaise sauce, all placed on top of a corn or flour tortilla.", "In the United States, they were first popularized by the Rubio's fast-food chain, and remain most popular in California, Colorado, and Washington.", "In California, they are often found at street vendors, and a regional variation is to serve them with cabbage and coleslaw dressing on top.", " Tacos de camarones (\"shrimp tacos\") also originated in Baja California in Mexico.", "Grilled or fried shrimp are used, usually with the same accompaniments as fish tacos: lettuce or cabbage, pico de gallo, avocado and a sour cream or citrus/mayonnaise sauce, all placed on top of a corn or flour tortilla.", "As an accompaniment to tacos, many taco stands will serve whole or sliced red radishes, lime slices, salt, pickled or grilled chilis (hot peppers), and occasionally cucumber slices, or grilled cambray onions." ]
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Music
Who will compose the score for "The Avengers"?
The Avengers (2012 film)
false
6MOVIES
[ 0 ]
[ "In November 2011, Marvel announced that Alan Silvestri, who scored \"Captain America: The First Avenger\", would write and compose the score for \"The Avengers\".", "Silvestri said, \"I've worked on films where there have been a number of stars and certainly worked on films where there have been characters of equal weight in terms of their level of importance and profile in the film, but this one is somewhat extreme in that regard because each of these characters has their own world and it's a very different situation.", "It's very challenging to look for a way to give everyone the weight and consideration they need, but at the same time the film is really about the coming together of these characters, which implies that there is this entity called the Avengers which really has to be representative of all of them together.\"", "Silvestri developed the score with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.", "Whedon said, \"The score is very old-fashioned, which is why was letter-perfect for this movie because he can give you the heightened emotion, the [Hans Zimmer school of 'I'm just feeling a lot right now!'", "but he can also be extraordinarily cue and character specific, which I love.", "\"In March 2012, American alternative rock band Soundgarden announced through its Facebook page that its song \"Live to Rise\" would be included on the film's soundtrack.", "Additionally, the Indian rock band Agnee released a music video for its single \"Hello Andheron\", which serves as the theme song for the film's Indian release.", "The following day, Marvel revealed details for the soundtrack, which was released May 1, 2012, the same day as the score." ]
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Origin and identity
Who wrote the book "Natural History"?
Great Sphinx of Giza
false
3ART
[ 2 ]
[ "The Great Sphinx is one of the world's largest and oldest statues but basic facts about it, such as when it was built, and by whom, are still debated.", "These questions have resulted in the popular idea of the \"Riddle of the Sphinx,\" alluding to the original Greek legend of the Riddle of the Sphinx.", "Pliny The Elder mentioned the Great Sphinx in his book, \"Natural History\", commenting that the Egyptians looked upon the statue as a \"divinity\" that has been passed over in silence and \"that King Harmais was buried in it\"." ]
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Production
Name a close relative of the common wheat.
Cereal
false
9FOOD
[ 13 ]
[ "The following table shows the annual production of cereals in 1961, 2010, 2011, and 2012 ranked by 2012 production.", "All but buckwheat and quinoa are true grasses (these two are pseudocereals).", "Maize, wheat, and rice together accounted for 89% of all cereal production worldwide in 2012, and 43% of all food calories in 2009, while the production of oats and triticale have drastically fallen from their 1960s levels.", "Other grains that are important in some places, but that have little production globally (and are not included in FAO statistics), include:", " Teff, an ancient grain that is a staple in Ethiopia.", "It is high in fiber and protein.", "Its flour is often used to make injera.", "It can also be eaten as a warm breakfast cereal similar to farina with a chocolate or nutty flavor.", "Its flour and whole grain products can usually be found in natural foods stores.", " Wild rice, grown in small amounts in North America.", " Amaranth, an ancient pseudocereal, formerly a staple crop of the Aztec Empire and now widely grown in Africa.", " Kañiwa, close relative of quinoa.", "Several other species of wheat have also been domesticated, some very early in the history of agriculture:", " Spelt, a close relative of common wheat.", " Einkorn, a wheat species with a single grain.", " Emmer, one of the first crops domesticated in the Fertile Crescent.", " Durum, the only tetraploid species of wheat currently cultivated, used to make semolina.", " Kamut, an ancient relative of durum with an unknown history." ]
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Abstract
What is a brownie a cross between?
Chocolate brownie
false
9FOOD
[ 1 ]
[ "A chocolate brownie is a flat, baked square or bar developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized in both the U.S. and Canada during the first half of the 20th century.", "The brownie is a cross between a cake and a cookie in texture.", "Brownies come in a variety of forms.", "They are either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density, and they may include nuts, frosting, whipped cream, chocolate chips, or other ingredients.", "A variation that is made with brown sugar and no chocolate is called a blondie.", "Brownies are common lunchbox fare, typically eaten by hand, and often accompanied by milk or coffee.", "They are sometimes served warm with ice cream (à la mode), topped with whipped cream or marzipan, or sprinkled with powdered sugar.", "They are especially popular in restaurants, where they can be found in variation on many dessert menus." ]
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Production design
Is The Dark Knight a war film?
The Dark Knight Rises
false
6MOVIES
[ 5 ]
[ "Concept artist Tully Summers commented on Nolan's style of cinematography when asked about the difference between his designs for this film and fantasy-based designs for \"Men in Black 3\": \"The difference for me was Christopher Nolan's visual style.", "One of the things that makes his Batman movies so compelling is their tone of plausibility.", "He will often prefer a raw, grittier design over one that is very sleek and product design pretty.", "It's sort of a practical military aesthetic.", "This stuff is made to work, not impress shoppers.", "\"The Dark Knight Rises\" is a war film.\"", "Producer Emma Thomas stated this Batman film has a different visual aesthetic from the first two Nolan-directed features, explaining that \"it's meant to be winter in Gotham, so that right there is going to lend a whole different look to the film.", "\"The film introduces a vehicle that has been compared with the Batplane, dubbed \"the Bat\".", "In designing the Bat, Nathan Crowley approached it as if it were an actual military project, emphasising the need for it to \"fit into the same family\" as the Tumbler and the Batpod.", "The final version of the Bat takes its design cues from the Harrier Jump Jet, Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey and the Boeing AH-64 Apache.", "Chris Corbould described the Bat's size and shape as presenting a major challenge for filming given Christopher Nolan's emphasis on practical effects over computer-generated imagery.", "In order to make the Bat \"fly\", it was variously supported by wires, suspended from cranes and helicopters, and mounted on a purpose-built vehicle with hydraulic controls to simulate movement.", "When designing the Batcave set, Crowley and fellow production designer Kevin Kavanaugh hit upon the idea of flooding the Batcave and having Batman's equipment, the Batsuit and a supercomputer rise from the water.", "Another set was designed at Cardington as an \"underground prison\", a rough-hewn labyrinth of stone cells in a vast abyss with a vertical shaft leading to the surface.", "Exteriors above the prison were filmed in Jodhpur, India, chosen because the \"forbidding landscape added to the desolation\"." ]
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Other personnel
What does the manager do?
Baseball
false
4SPORT
[ 0 ]
[ "The manager, or head coach of a team, oversees the team's major strategic decisions, such as establishing the starting rotation, setting the lineup, or batting order, before each game, and making substitutions during games—in particular, bringing in relief pitchers.", "Managers are typically assisted by two or more coaches; they may have specialized responsibilities, such as working with players on hitting, fielding, pitching, or strength and conditioning.", "At most levels of organized play, two coaches are stationed on the field when the team is at bat: the first base coach and third base coach, occupying designated coaches' boxes just outside the foul lines, assist in the direction of baserunners when the ball is in play, and relay tactical signals from the manager to batters and runners during pauses in play.", "In contrast to many other team sports, baseball managers and coaches generally wear their team's uniforms; coaches must be in uniform in order to be allowed on the playing field during a game.", "Any baseball game involves one or more umpires, who make rulings on the outcome of each play.", "At a minimum, one umpire will stand behind the catcher, to have a good view of the strike zone, and call balls and strikes.", "Additional umpires may be stationed near the other bases, thus making it easier to judge plays such as attempted force outs and tag outs.", "In Major League Baseball, four umpires are used for each game, one near each base.", "In the playoffs, six umpires are used: one at each base and two in the outfield along the foul lines." ]
[ 0 ]
Genetic hitchhiking
What does genetic recombination do?
Evolution
false
8SCIENCE
[ 0 ]
[ "Recombination allows alleles on the same strand of DNA to become separated.", "However, the rate of recombination is low (approximately two events per chromosome per generation).", "As a result, genes close together on a chromosome may not always be shuffled away from each other and genes that are close together tend to be inherited together, a phenomenon known as linkage.", "This tendency is measured by finding how often two alleles occur together on a single chromosome compared to expectations, which is called their linkage disequilibrium.", "A set of alleles that is usually inherited in a group is called a haplotype.", "This can be important when one allele in a particular haplotype is strongly beneficial: natural selection can drive a selective sweep that will also cause the other alleles in the haplotype to become more common in the population; this effect is called genetic hitchhiking or genetic draft.", "Genetic draft caused by the fact that some neutral genes are genetically linked to others that are under selection can be partially captured by an appropriate effective population size." ]
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Abstract
How do you play baseball?
Baseball
true
4SPORT
[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and fielding.", "The offense attempts to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate.", "A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate.", "Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.", "A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means.", "The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs.", "One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game.", "The team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins.", "Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th century.", "This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed.", "By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States.", "Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, East Asia and Europe.", "In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.", "The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series.", "The top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central League and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League." ]
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Events
How many people witnessed the reenactment of the October Revolution in 1920?
October Revolution
false
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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[ "On , the Bolsheviks' Central Committee voted 10-2 for a resolution saying that \"an armed uprising is inevitable, and that the time for it is fully ripe\".", "On , Bolshevik leader Jaan Anvelt led his leftist revolutionaries in an uprising in Tallinn, the capital of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia.", "Two days later, Bolsheviks led their forces in the uprising in Petrograd (modern day Saint Petersburg), the capital of Russia, against the Kerensky Provisional Government.", "For the most part, the revolt in Petrograd was bloodless, with the Red Guards led by Bolsheviks taking over major government facilities with little opposition before finally launching an assault on the poorly defended Winter Palace.", "The official Soviet version of events follows: An assault led by Vladimir Lenin was launched at 9:45 p.m. signaled by a blank shot from the cruiser \"Aurora\".", "(The \"Aurora\" was placed in Petrograd and still stands there now.)", "The Winter Palace was guarded by Cossacks, cadets (military students), and a Women's Battalion.", "It was taken at about 2 a.m.", "The earlier date was made the official date of the Revolution, when all offices except the Winter Palace had been taken.", "More contemporary research with access to government archives significantly corrects accepted Soviet edited and embellished history.", "The archival version shows that parties of Bolshevik operatives sent out from the Smolny by Lenin took over all critical centers of power in Petrograd in the early hours of the night without a shot being fired.", "In fact the effectively unoccupied Winter Palace also was taken bloodlessly by a small group which broke in, got lost in the cavernous interior, and accidentally happened upon the remnants of Kerensky's provisional government in the imperial family's breakfast room.", "The illiterate revolutionaries then compelled those arrested to write up their own arrest papers.", "The stories of the \"defense of the Winter Palace\" and the heroic \"Storming of the Winter Palace\" came later as the creative propaganda product of Bolshevik publicists.", "Grandiose paintings depicting the \"Women's Battalion\" and photo stills taken from Sergei Eisenstein's staged film depicting the \"politically correct\" version of the October events in Petrograd came to be taken as truth.", "Later official accounts of the revolution from the Soviet Union would depict the events in October as being far more dramatic than they actually had been.", "(See firsthand account by British General Knox.)", "This was helped by the historical reenactment, entitled \"The Storming of the Winter Palace\", which was staged in 1920.", "This reenactment, watched by 100,000 spectators, provided the model for official films made much later, which showed a huge storming of the Winter Palace and fierce fighting (See Sergei Eisenstein's \"\").", "In reality the Bolshevik insurgents faced little or no opposition.", "The insurrection was timed and organized to hand state power to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, which began on 25 October.", "After a single day of revolution eighteen people had been arrested and two had been killed." ]
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2010–present: "Acoustic" EP, "Siberia", "Siberia Acoustic", and "Tour"
When was the album "Siberia Acoustic" released?
Lights (musician)
false
0MUSIC
[ 25 ]
[ "She toured from January–May 2010 with contemporary synthpop artist Owl City in Canada, USA, and Europe.", "Lights is featured on Owl City's song \"The Yacht Club\" on his album \"All Things Bright and Beautiful\" which was released on June 14, 2011, as well as appearing in the music video for another one of Owl City's songs \"Deer in the Headlights.\"", "Plans for future duets are in the works.", "She was also in the summer 2010 Lilith Fair official lineup.", "She went on a two week solo UK tour in May 2010 being supported by fellow Canadian artist Rich Aucoin for most of her shows.", "Additionally, Lights was a special guest for pop-rock band Hedley's The Show Must Go... On The Road Tour, as well as These Kids Wear Crowns.", "Lights released an acoustic EP titled \"Acoustic\" in July 2010.", "Her debut for the album was at the University of Waterloo, where she had received most of her inspiration for the album.", "That same month, she began her six-date tour around the US, performing her songs acoustically.", "In September, she toured with Hedley for eight dates on the Ontario leg of their Canadian tour.", "In October 2010, Bring Me The Horizon's album \"There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It.", "There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret\" featured Lights as a guest vocalist on the songs \"Crucify Me\" and \"Don't Go.\"", "She is also featured on The Secret Handshake's song \"Used to be Sweet\" from their album \"Night and Day\".", "In October 2010, Lights released \"My Boots.\"", "She also left on her headlining tour with Jeremy Fisher.", "On June 18, 2011 at the Utopia Music Festival, Lights performed three new songs called \"Toes,\" \"Where the Fence is Low,\" and \"Everybody Breaks a Glass.", "\"The single \"Toes\" was released on August 16, 2011 as the first single to Lights' second studio album, \"Siberia\".", "After signing with Last Gang Records her album was delayed due to criticism from the label executives.", "Though reluctant to tell full details of delays, the shift in style to a more gritty sound was a risk worried about by Last Gang Records.", "The full-length album was released online in the US and Canada on October 4, 2011 and went on iTunes stores in Australia on October 28.", "Siberia received positive reviews from many critics and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Pop Album of the Year.", "Lights says her favorite song on \"Siberia\" is \"Flux and Flow.", "\"In July 2012, Lights's husband revealed that she was working on an acoustic version of \"Siberia\".", "She seconded this by posting a photo on Twitter shortly after with a piano and acoustic guitars with the caption, \"My station today.", "Kind of intimidating...\"On March 15, 2013, Lights released an acoustic version of \"Cactus in the Valley\" featuring Owl City as a single in the UK.", "The album, \"Siberia Acoustic\", was released on April 30, 2013, and reached Number 7 in Canada.", "She toured select dates around North America in support of the album, with Dear Rouge opening select dates and Lianne La Havas opening other select dates." ]
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United Kingdom and Ireland
Where can you find pubs that serve burger patties made from more exotic meats, like Bambi Burgers?
Hamburger
false
9FOOD
[ 14 ]
[ "Hamburgers in the UK and Ireland are very similar to their US cousins, and the High Street is dominated by the same big two chains as in the U.S. — McDonald's and Burger King.", "The menus offered to both countries are virtually identical, although portion sizes tend to be smaller in the UK.", "In Ireland the food outlet Supermacs is widespread throughout the country serving burgers as part of its menu.", "In Ireland, Abrakebabra (started out selling kebabs) and Eddie Rocket's are also major chains.", "An original and indigenous rival to the big two U.S. giants was the quintessentially British fast-food chain Wimpy, originally known as Wimpy Bar (opened 1954 at the Lyon’s Corner House in Coventry Street London), which served its hamburgers on a plate with British-style chips, accompanied by cutlery and delivered to the customer's table.", "In the late 1970s, to compete with McDonald's, Wimpy began to open American-style counter-service restaurants and the brand disappeared from many UK high streets when those restaurants were re-branded as Burger Kings between 1989–90 by the then-owner of both brands, Grand Metropolitan.", "A management buyout in 1990 split the brands again and now Wimpy table-service restaurants can still be found in many town centers whilst new counter-service Wimpys are now often found at motorway service stations.", "Hamburgers are also available from mobile kiosks, particularly at outdoor events such as football matches.", "Burgers from this type of outlet are usually served without any form of salad — only fried onions and a choice of tomato ketchup, mustard or brown sauce.", "Chip shops, particularly in the West Midlands, North-East, Scotland and Ireland, serve battered hamburgers called batter burgers.", "This is where the burger patty, by itself, is deep-fat-fried in batter and is usually served with chips.", "Hamburgers and veggie burgers served with chips and salad, are standard pub grub menu items.", "Many pubs specialize in \"gourmet\" burgers.", "These are usually high quality minced steak patties, topped with items such as blue cheese, brie, avocado et cetera.", "Some British pubs serve burger patties made from more exotic meats including venison burgers (sometimes nicknamed Bambi Burgers), bison burgers, ostrich burgers and in some Australian themed pubs even kangaroo burgers can be purchased.", "These burgers are served in a similar way to the traditional hamburger but are sometimes served with a different sauce including redcurrant sauce, mint sauce and plum sauce.", "In the early 21st century \"premium\" hamburger chain and independent restaurants have arisen, selling burgers produced from meat stated to be of high quality and often organic, usually served to eat on the premises rather than to take away.", "Chains include Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Ultimate Burger, Hamburger Union and Byron Hamburgers in London.", "Independent restaurants such as Meatmarket and Dirty Burger developed a style of rich, juicy burger in 2012 which is known as a \"dirty burger\" or \"third-wave burger\".", "In recent years Rustlers has sold pre-cooked hamburgers re-heat able in a microwave oven in the United Kingdom.", "In the UK, as in North America and Japan, the term \"burger\" can refer simply to the patty, be it beef, some other kind of meat, or vegetarian." ]
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Abstract
The film Enough Said was released which year?
Enough Said (film)
false
6MOVIES
[ 0 ]
[ "Enough Said (film)Enough Said is a 2013 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.", "The film stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini (in one of his final roles), Toni Collette, Catherine Keener, Ben Falcone, and Toby Huss.", "It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September before its release on September 18, 2013.", "\"Enough Said\" has received widespread acclaim from critics, ranking as the fifth best-reviewed wide release of 2013.", "Additionally, it has emerged as the most critically and commercially successful work in Holofcener's filmography to date.", "The film has also received several major award nominations, including for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Independent Spirit Awards and four Critics' Choice Movie Awards.", "In particular, stars Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini have received notice for their work, along with Holofcener's script. " ]
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History
What was the name of the villager who opened the first pho stand in Hanoi?
Pho
false
9FOOD
[ 8 ]
[ "Pho originated in the early 20th century in northern Vietnam, apparently southeast of Hanoi in Nam Định Province, then a substantial textile market.", "The traditional home of pho is reputed to be the villages of and (or ) in Đông Xuân commune, Nam Trực District, Nam Định Province.", "According to villagers, pho was eaten in long before the French colonial period when it was popularized.", "Pho was originally sold at dawn and dusk by roaming street vendors, who shouldered mobile kitchens on carrying poles (').", "From the pole hung two wooden cabinets, one housing a cauldron over a wood fire, the other storing noodles, spices, cookware, and space to prepare a bowl of pho.", "Pho vendors kept their heads warm with distinctive, disheveled felt hats called '.", "Hanoi's first two fixed pho stands were a Vietnamese-owned Cát Tường on Cầu Gỗ Street and a Chinese-owned stand in front of Bờ Hồ tram stop.", "They were joined in 1918 by two more on Quạt Row and Đồng Row.", "Around 1925, a Vân Cù villager named Vạn opened the first \"Nam Định style\" pho stand in Hanoi. \"\"", "declined in number around 1936–1946 in favor of stationary eateries." ]
[ 0, 3 ]
Grand Central Terminal
When was the building torn down and then replaced?
Grand Central Terminal
true
2TRAVEL
[ 0 ]
[ "Between 1903 and 1913, the entire building was torn down in phases and replaced by the current Grand Central Terminal, which was designed by the architectural firms of Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore, who entered an agreement to act as the associated architects of Grand Central Terminal in February 1904.", "Reed & Stem were responsible for the overall design of the station, Warren and Wetmore added architectural details and the Beaux-Arts style.", "Charles Reed was appointed the chief executive for the collaboration between the two firms, and promptly appointed Alfred T. Fellheimer as head of the combined design team.", "This work was accompanied by the \"electrification\" of the three railroads using the station and the burial of the approach in the Park Avenue tunnel.", "The result of this was the creation of several blocks worth of prime real estate in Manhattan, which were then sold for a large sum of money.", "In addition, the terminal itself contains support structures for a possible future tower to be built above it.", "The new terminal opened on February 2, 1913.", "The terminal is made primarily from granite.", "In fact, so much granite is used, the building emits relatively high levels of radiation on a regular basis." ]
[ 2 ]
Abstract
What character is voiced by Steve Carell?
Despicable Me
false
6MOVIES
[ 3 ]
[ "Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the United States.", "It is Illumination Entertainment's first film.", "It was directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, based on an original story by Sergio Pablos.", "The film stars the voice of Steve Carell as Gru, a super-villain who adopts three girls (voiced by Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher) from an orphanage; and the voice of Jason Segel as Vector, a rival of Gru who steals the Great Pyramid of Giza.", "When Gru learns of Vector's heist, he plans an even greater heist: to shrink and steal the Earth's moon.", "It was entirely animated by the French animation studio Mac Guff, which was later acquired by Illumination Entertainment.", "The film earned positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $543 million worldwide, against a budget of $69 million.", "It launched a franchise with a series of films, including a sequel in 2013, followed by a 2015 spin-off film featuring Gru's Minions as the main characters, and \"Despicable Me 3\" in 2017." ]
[ 0 ]
Female
What is the first name of Hafele, the ski jumper?
Ski jumping
true
4SPORT
[ 11 ]
[ " Sarah Hendrickson", " Sara Takanashi", " Anette Sagen", " Eva Ganster", " Lindsey Van", " Jessica Jerome", " Daniela Iraschko", " Elena Runggaldier", " Evelyn Insam", " Lisa Demetz", " Coline Mattel", " Anna Hafele", " Magdalena Schnurr", " Ulrike Grässler", " Line Jahr", " Jacqueline Seifriedsberger", " Juliane Seyfarth", " Eva Logar", " Maja Vtič", " Anja Tepeš", " Špela Rogelj", " Katja Požun", " Urša Bogataj" ]
[ 0 ]
Creation
who suggested in 1973 that it was on this drive that Wood first sketched the house on the back of an envelope
American Gothic
false
3ART
[ 2 ]
[ "In August 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, was driven around Eldon, Iowa by a young painter from Eldon, John Sharp, looking for inspiration.", "Wood noticed the Dibble House, a small white house built in the Carpenter Gothic architectural style.", "Sharp's brother suggested in 1973 that it was on this drive that Wood first sketched the house on the back of an envelope.", "Wood's earliest biographer, Darrell Garwood, noted that Wood \"thought it a form of borrowed pretentiousness, a structural absurdity, to put a Gothic-style window in such a flimsy frame house.\"", "At the time, Wood classified it as one of the \"cardboardy frame houses on Iowa farms\" and considered it \"very paintable\".", "After obtaining permission from the Jones family, the house's owners, Wood made a sketch the next day in oil on paperboard from the house's front yard.", "This sketch displayed a steeper roof and a longer window with a more pronounced ogive than on the actual house, features which eventually adorned the final work.", "Wood decided to paint the house along with \"the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.\"", "He recruited his sister Nan (1899–1990) to model the woman, dressing her in a colonial print apron mimicking 19th-century Americana.", "The man is modeled on Wood's dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1867–1950) from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.", "The three-pronged hay fork is echoed in the stitching of the man's overalls, the Gothic window of the house, and the structure of the man's face.", "However, Wood did not add figures to his sketch until he returned to his studio in Cedar Rapids.", "He would not return to Eldon again before his death in 1942, although he did request a photograph of the home to complete his painting." ]
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Abstract
What is the number of individuals who engage in a guided tour of the Sydney Opera House every year?
Sydney Opera House
true
2TRAVEL
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[ "The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.", "Situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the facility is adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, between Sydney and Farm Coves.", "Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the facility formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition.", "The NSW Government, led by Premier Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958, with Utzon directing construction.", "The government's decision to build Utzon's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.", "Though its name suggests a single venue, the project comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest performing arts centres in the world — hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people.", "The venues produce and present a wide range of in-house productions and accommodate numerous performing arts companies, including four key resident companies: Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.", "As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, more than seven million people visit the site each year, with 300,000 people participating annually in a guided tour of the facility.", "Identified as one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world, the facility is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, under the auspices of the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts.", "The Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007." ]
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Home fronts and production
In 1938, at the outbreak of World War II, which had a larger population, the Western Allies (United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions) or the European Axis (Germany and Italy)
World War II
false
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[ "In Europe, before the outbreak of the war, the Allies had significant advantages in both population and economics.", "In 1938, the Western Allies (United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis (Germany and Italy); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5:1 advantage in population and nearly 2:1 advantage in GDP.", "In Asia at the same time, China had roughly six times the population of Japan, but only an 89 percent higher GDP; this is reduced to three times the population and only a 38 percent higher GDP if Japanese colonies are included.", "Though the Allies' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.", "While the Allies' ability to out-produce the Axis is often attributed to the Allies having more access to natural resources, other factors, such as Germany and Japan's reluctance to employ women in the labour force, Allied strategic bombing, and Germany's late shift to a war economy contributed significantly.", "Additionally, neither Germany nor Japan planned to fight a protracted war, and were not equipped to do so.", "To improve their production, Germany and Japan used millions of slave labourers; Germany used about 12 million people, mostly from Eastern Europe, while Japan pressed more than 18 million people in Far East Asia." ]
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History
When did the final episode of "Rules of Engagement" air?
Rules of Engagement (TV series)
false
1TV
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[ "The show was heavily promoted by CBS during Super Bowl XLI and launched the following night, the first of seven episodes in its first season.", "The pilot episode remains the highest rated episode of the show.", "The series was renewed for a second season which began as a midseason replacement for \"The New Adventures of Old Christine\" on Monday, September 24, 2007, with production halted after nine episodes on November 6, 2007, in the wake of a writers' strike.", "After the strike ended, CBS announced that the show would return April 14, 2008, with a further six episodes.", "Seasons three and four were both mid-season entries launched in March 2009 and March 2010.", "On May 18, 2010, it was announced that CBS had renewed \"Rules of Engagement\" for a 5th season.", "It was later announced that this season would start in September, in contrast to its usual midseason start, and received an expanded 24-episode order.", "(The fifth season was the first and only season to have a full-season order.)", "The first 15 episodes aired on Monday nights, usually in the 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central time slot following \"How I Met Your Mother\".", "Then on February 24, 2011, the series moved to Thursdays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central, following \"The Big Bang Theory\", after the cancellation of \"$h*!", "My Dad Says\".", "On May 17, 2011, the series was renewed for a sixth season to begin airing in fall 2011.", "One day later, CBS announced that \"Rules of Engagement\" would move to Saturday nights at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central as part of the network's new \"Comedytime Saturday\" block; the first time in six years that an original CBS program would air on that night.", "It also marked the fourth night that the series would air on, with it previously airing on Mondays, Wednesdays (two airings), and Thursdays.", "On October 7, 2011, however, it was announced that \"Rules of Engagement\" would move back to its 8:30PM EST Thursday timeslot following \"The Big Bang Theory\", replacing new sitcom \"How to Be a Gentleman\" which was moved to the new Saturday time slot.", "Effective January 12, 2012, CBS removed \"Rules of Engagement\" from its Thursday lineup, replacing it with the new sitcom \"Rob\" starring Rob Schneider.", "\"Rules\" would return to its Thursday 8:30 PM time slot on March 29, after \"Rob\" had finished airing its 8-episode order, resulting in a total of 15 episodes in season 6.", "On May 21, 2012, CBS renewed \"Rules of Engagement\" for a seventh season of 13 episodes to air mid-season, bringing the total number of produced episodes to 100.", "Season 7 began airing on Mondays at 8:30, starting February 4, 2013.", "On May 10, 2013, \"Rules of Engagement\" was cancelled by CBS after seven seasons and 100 episodes.", "The series finale episode aired on May 20, 2013." ]
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War between Britain and France, 1803–1814
The Pennisular War took place on what date?
Napoleonic Wars
true
7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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[ "Unlike its many coalition partners, Britain remained at war throughout the period of the Napoleonic Wars.", "Protected by naval supremacy (in the words of Admiral Jervis to the House of Lords \"I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come.", "I say only they will not come by sea\"), Britain maintained low-intensity land warfare on a global scale for over a decade.", "The British government paid out large sums of money to other European states, so that they could pay armies in the field against France.", "These payments are colloquially known as the Golden Cavalry of St George.", "The British Army provided long-term support to the Spanish rebellion in the Peninsular War of 1808–1814, assisted by Spanish guerrilla ('little war') tactics.", "Anglo-Portuguese forces under Arthur Wellesley supported the Spanish, which campaigned successfully against the French armies, eventually driving them from Spain, thus allowing Britain to invade southern France.", "By 1815, the British Army played the central role in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.", "In 1802, Napoleon victoriously brought to an end the War of the Second Coalition, with only Great Britain remaining formally at war.", "Isolated, Britain reluctantly agreed to end hostilities under the Treaty of Amiens (25 March 1802).", "Bonaparte tried to exploit the brief peace at sea to restore French colonial rule in Haiti.", "The expedition, though initially successful, would soon turn to a disaster, with the French commander Charles Leclerc, dying of yellow fever and almost his entire force destroyed by the disease.", "Napoleon gave up his New World dreams and sold Louisiana to the United States in 1803.", "Great Britain violated the terms of the Treaty of Amiens by occupying Malta and gathered a Third Coalition against France.", "The French intervention in the Swiss civil strife, a breach of the Treaty of Lunéville (1801) between France and the Holy Roman Empire which guaranteed Swiss sovereignty, was taken as a pretext by the British to break the peace of Amiens and declare war on France on 18 May 1803.", "The Coalition's war aims changed over the course of the conflict: a general desire to restore the French monarchy became closely linked to the struggle to stop Bonaparte.", "Beyond minor naval actions against British imperial interests, the Napoleonic Wars were much less global in scope than preceding conflicts such as Seven Years' War, which historians term a \"world war\"." ]
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Cultural impact
How did "Total Film" rank "Fight Club"?
Fight Club
false
6MOVIES
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[ "", "\"Fight Club\" was one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s.", "Like other 1999 films \"Magnolia\", \"Being John Malkovich\", and \"Three Kings\", \"Fight Club\" was recognized as an innovator in cinematic form and style since it exploited new developments in filmmaking technology.", "After \"Fight Club\"s theatrical release, it became more popular via word of mouth, and the positive reception of the DVD established it as a cult film that David Ansen of \"Newsweek\" conjectured would enjoy \"perennial\" fame.", "The film's success also heightened the profile of the novel's author, Chuck Palahniuk, to global renown.", "Following \"Fight Club\"s release, several fight clubs were reported to have started in the United States.", "A \"Gentleman's Fight Club\" was started in Menlo Park, California in 2000 and had members mostly from the tech industry.", "Teens and preteens in Texas, New Jersey, Washington state, and Alaska also initiated fight clubs and posted videos of their fights online, leading authorities to break up the clubs.", "In 2006, an unwilling participant from a local high school was injured at a fight club in Arlington, Texas, and the DVD sales of the fight led to the arrest of six teenagers.", "An unsanctioned fight club was also started at Princeton University, where matches were held on campus.", "The film was suspected of influencing Luke Helder, a college student who planted pipe bombs in mailboxes in 2002.", "Helder's goal was to create a smiley pattern on the map of the United States, similar to the scene in \"Fight Club\" in which a building is vandalized to have a smiley on its exterior.", "On July 16, 2009, a 17-year-old who had formed his own fight club in Manhattan was charged with detonating a homemade bomb outside a Starbucks Coffee shop in the Upper East Side in May 2009; the New York City Police Department reported the suspect was trying to emulate \"Project Mayhem\".", "In 2003, \"Fight Club\" was listed as one of the \"50 Best Guy Movies of All Time\" by \"Men's Journal\".", "In 2004 and 2006, \"Fight Club\" was voted by \"Empire\" readers as the ninth and eighth greatest film of all time, respectively.", "\"Total Film\" ranked \"Fight Club\" as \"The Greatest Film of our Lifetime\" in 2007 during the magazine's tenth anniversary.", "In 2007, \"Premiere\" selected Tyler Durden's line, \"The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club,\" as the 27th greatest movie line of all time.", "In 2008, readers of \"Empire\" ranked Tyler Durden first on a list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters.", "\"Empire\" also identified \"Fight Club\" as the 10th greatest movie of all time in its 2008 issue \"The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time\".", "In 2010, two viral mash-up videos featuring \"Fight Club\" were released.", "\"Ferris Club\" was a mash-up of \"Fight Club\" and the film \"Ferris Bueller's Day Off\".", "It portrayed Ferris as Tyler Durden and Cameron as the narrator, \"claiming to see the real psychological truth behind the John Hughes classic\".", "The second video \"Jane Austen's Fight Club\" also gained popularity online as a mash-up of \"Fight Club\"s fighting rules and the characters created by 19th century novelist Jane Austen." ]
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Nutritional value and health benefits
How much fat is in yogurt?
Yogurt
false
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[ "Yogurt is nutritionally rich in protein, calcium, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12.", "It has nutritional benefits beyond those of milk.", "Lactose-intolerant individuals can sometimes tolerate yogurt better than other dairy products, because the lactose in the milk is converted to glucose and galactose, and partially fermented to lactic acid, by the bacterial culture.", "Yogurt containing live cultures has been found effective in a randomized trial at preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea.", "Yogurt contains varying amounts of fat.", "There is non-fat (0% fat), low-fat (usually 2% fat) and plain or whole milk yogurt (4% fat).", "A study published in the \"International Journal of Obesity\" (11 January 2005) also found that the consumption of low-fat yogurt can promote weight loss, relative to a gelatin placebo.", "Yogurt is a valuable health food for both infants and elderly persons.", "For children, it is a balanced source of protein, fats, carbohydrates, and minerals.", "For senior citizens, who usually have more sensitive colons or whose intestines have run out of lactase, yogurt is also a valuable food.", "Elderly intestines showed declining levels of bifidus bacteria, which allow the growth of toxin-producing and, perhaps, cancer-causing bacteria.", "Yogurt may help prevent osteoporosis, reduce the risk of high blood pressure.", "Yogurt with active cultures helps the gut, may discourage vaginal infections, and may help one feel fuller.", "The \"yogurt defense\" was made famous by the trial of Carol Downer, one of the developers of menstrual extraction.", "She was arrested at her self-help group and charged with practicing medicine without a license, as she inserted yogurt into the vagina of another woman to treat a yeast condition.", "Carol Downer was acquitted; the jury did not equate inserting yogurt with practicing medicine." ]
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