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What presidential candidate suspended his campaign on Saturday, following allegations of adultery among his many other woes?
[ "Imagine There's No Pizza", "Herman Cain", "Herman cain", "Gloria Cain", "Hermanator", "The Herman Cain Show", "T.H.E. New Voice", "Ubekibekibekistanstan", "Herman Cane", "Hermann Cain", "Herman cane", "Herm Cain" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4641998", "score": 0.92549694, "text": "Fox 5 in Atlanta. In the interview, White said the affair lasted 13 years and ended right before Cain announced his presidential campaign. On November 30, 2011, Herman Cain denounced allegations of sexual harassment and adultery as \"character assassination\" during an event in Dayton, Ohio. On December 3, 2011, Cain announced he was \"suspending\" his campaign for the presidency following allegations of sexual harassment and adultery, which he denied, but were widely considered responsible for the sharp drop in his poll numbers. On January 4, 2012, Cain announced the \"Cain's Solutions Revolution\". Cain's stated goal was to get commitments from", "title": "Herman Cain" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8992435", "score": 0.91772664, "text": "the late movie star and 2004 opposition presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. - and several Catholic bishops. After a three-day stand-off, the Court of Appeals issued a temporary restraining order. Before it lapsed, the court issued an injunction order, thereby preventing the Office of the President from enforcing its suspension order until the case was resolved. Binay - together with his wife, Elenita, and nine others - was vindicated by the courts in a graft case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman over allegations of overpricing in the purchase of office furniture. Allegedly, he had irregular purchases worth ₱232", "title": "Jejomar Binay" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1289590", "score": 0.8829907, "text": "sway voters, not by logical argument on given issues, but by personal diatribe that does not directly bear on the matter at hand. Accusations of adultery in America date back to the 19th century. One famous example of this was the 1884 presidential campaign, in which Grover Cleveland's opponents accused him of having fathered an illegitimate child. A political catchphrase by his opponents was \"Ma, ma, where's my pa?\" After Cleveland was elected, his supporters mockingly added, \"Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.\" Cleveland's defeat of his chief opponent, James G. Blaine, may have been helped by another", "title": "Discrediting tactic" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "19778697", "score": 0.8726984, "text": "wrote on TwitLonger, \"How we treat one another, whether behind closed doors, locker rooms or face to face, should be done with kindness, dignity and respect.\" The incident was condemned by numerous prominent Republicans. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said, \"No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever.\" The RNC suspended all support of Trump's campaign shortly thereafter. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, tweeted, \"Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the", "title": "Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15410728", "score": 0.8551693, "text": "on the Christian Broadcasting Network about his past marital infidelity, he said he had made poor moral judgments and regretted that part of his past, for which he had sought God's forgiveness. Gingrich had maintained he would not officially decide whether or not to pursue the office of president until at least February 2011, and would announce his decision sometime in March. It was erroneously announced on May 1, 2011, that Gingrich had formed an exploratory committee, and officially announced the committee in Georgia after a meeting with Governor Nathan Deal. He actually launched an exploratory committee on May 3,", "title": "Newt Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "19787105", "score": 0.84965324, "text": "October 2016 found that 43 percent of respondents found the allegations to be credible. Republicans were least likely to find the allegations credible, and only 19 percent of Republicans thought sexual assault would disqualify Trump from the presidency. A year after the election, and after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations and subsequent Me Too movement, 86 percent of Clinton voters found the allegations credible, while only 6 percent of Trump voters did. Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations Donald Trump, an American businessman and current President of the United States, has been accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment, including", "title": "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "18715516", "score": 0.84907794, "text": "that he would be suspending his campaign. Lincoln Chafee 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Lincoln Chafee, the 74th Governor of Rhode Island, and former United States Senator from Rhode Island, was formally launched on June 3, 2015. His campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election was his first campaign as a Democrat, after having previously been elected senator as a Republican, and governor as an independent. He received zero votes either formally or by write-in, meaning he got the fewest votes of any major party candidate in the Democratic", "title": "Lincoln Chafee 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "7642214", "score": 0.8472184, "text": "forward with new accusations of sexual misconduct, including unwanted kissing and groping, resulting in widespread media coverage. In his two public statements in response to the controversy, Trump alleged that former President Bill Clinton had \"abused women\" and that Hillary had bullied her husband's victims. On November 8, 2016, Trump received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton. The official counts were 304 and 227 respectively, after defections on both sides. Trump received a smaller share of the popular vote than Clinton, which made him the fifth person to be elected president while losing the popular vote. Clinton was", "title": "Donald Trump" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2482142", "score": 0.8460215, "text": "in both parties condemned his remarks and some Republicans called for him to resign. In the resulting furor, Akin received widespread calls to drop out of his Senate race from both Republicans and Democrats. Akin apologized for his gaffe, saying he \"misspoke.\" His campaign ran an advertisement in which he asked voters to forgive him, saying: Rape is an evil act. I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize. As the father of two daughters, I want tough justice for predators. I have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault. I pray", "title": "Todd Akin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15813047", "score": 0.8421388, "text": "who is constantly at odds with her troublemaking husband. She finds it more difficult to resolve personal problems related to her reckless husband than to manage state affairs. Entangled in a big corruption scandal involving her husband's real estate speculation, she is offered a divorce to save her presidency. She is now forced to choose between her family and her country. Only a few decades ago, the president was an off-limits subject in Korean cinema. It was almost impossible for the older generation who lived through military dictatorships to parody their president. Times have changed, however, and the head of", "title": "Good Morning President" } ]
What common Latin phrase literally translates as To the point of disgust
[ "Ad nauseum", "Argumentum Ad Infinitum", "Ad naseum", "Ad nausium", "Argument by repetition", "Argumentum ad nauseum", "Ad nosium", "Adnosium", "Nauseum", "Argument from repetition", "Argumentum ad nauseam", "Ad Nauseum", "Argumentum ad infinitum", "Ad Nauseam", "Ad nauseam" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13280483", "score": 0.9585947, "text": "Disgust Disgust is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant. In \"The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals\", Charles Darwin wrote that disgust is a sensation that refers to something revolting. Disgust is experienced primarily in relation to the sense of taste (either perceived or imagined), and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling by sense of smell, touch, or vision. Musically sensitive people may even be disgusted by the cacophony of inharmonious sounds. Research continually has proven a relationship between disgust and anxiety disorders such", "title": "Disgust" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13280498", "score": 0.957638, "text": "the bull penis soup for health purpose. Disgust is one of the basic emotions recognizable across multiple cultures and is a response to something revolting typically involving taste or sight. Though different cultures find different things disgusting, the reaction to the grotesque things remains the same throughout each culture; people and their emotional reactions in the realm of disgust remain the same. The scientific attempts to map specific emotions onto underlying neural substrates dates back to the first half of the 20th century. Functional MRI experiments have revealed that the anterior insula in the brain is particularly active when experiencing", "title": "Disgust" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16323250", "score": 0.89281076, "text": "cases of extreme insult. Whichever way the matter was tried condemnation involved \"infamia\". Iniuria Iniuria (\"outrage\", \"contumely\") was a delict in Roman law for the outrage caused by a false statement made against another person. Justinian, following Paul, gives many senses in which the word \"inuria\" is used, with the Greek equivalent in each case. It might mean unlawful action, as in damnum iniuria datum; it might mean any unlawful interference with right; it might mean an unjust judgment, but, as a special delict, it meant contumelia, insult or outrage, represented in Greek by ὕβρις (\"hubris\"). The XII Tables contained", "title": "Iniuria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15625826", "score": 0.8912647, "text": "the public world adapted by Christian moralists, focused especially on the fickleness of Fortune, and the evils exposed in the Latin satire became a mainstay of Christian penitential literature. Among early Christians, Eucherius of Lyon, an aristocratic and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the fifth-century Christian Church of Gaul, wrote to his kinsman a widely read letter \"de contemptu mundi\", an expression of the despair for the present and future of the world in its last throes. Contempt for the world provided intellectual underpinnings for the retreat into monasticism: when Saint Florentina, of the prominent Christian family of Hispania, founded her convent,", "title": "Contemptus mundi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "492211", "score": 0.8877564, "text": "anger. The word is likely derived from Old English, having the nouns \"scite\" (dung, attested only in place names) and \"scitte\" (diarrhoea) and the verb \"scītan\" (to defecate, attested only in \"bescītan\", to cover with excrement); eventually it morphed into Middle English \"schītte\" (excrement), \"schyt\" (diarrhoea) and \"shiten\" (to defecate), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germanic tribes at the time of the Roman Empire. The word may be further traced to Proto-Germanic *\"skit\"-, and ultimately to Proto-Indo-European *\"skheid\"- \"cut, separate\", the same root believed to have become the word \"shed\". The", "title": "Shit" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "7441742", "score": 0.88156486, "text": "uses of \"tondēre\" (\"to shear\") and \"dēglūbere\" (\"to skin\") in Latin, have argued that Catullus is also using the word in a non-sexual sense; that is, Lesbia is acting like a prostitute and fleecing the spendthrift Roman young men (\"nepōtēs\") of their money. \"Cēveō\" (\"cēvēre, cēvī\") and \"crīsō\" (\"crīsāre\" etc.) are basic Latin obscenities that have no exact English equivalents. \"Crīsō\" referred to the actions of the female partner in sexual intercourse (i.e. grinding or riding on a penis); as, similarly to the case in English, \"futuō\", which is often translated \"fuck\", primarily referred to the male action (i.e. thrusting,", "title": "Latin obscenity" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15625829", "score": 0.8794622, "text": "III could write an essay \"On the Misery of the Human Condition\", \"De miseria humanae conditionis\", which Geoffrey Chaucer is reputed to have rendered in English, in a translation now lost. The theme had political ramifications within the Roman Church, as it was inextricably bound up with questions of apostolic poverty which was roundly condemned, in the instance of the Humiliati, as heretical. The waning of the dominant attitude of \"contemptus mundi\" that had informed elite culture, a development that gathered impetus during the second half of the 14th century, was a precursor to the emergence of the modern secular", "title": "Contemptus mundi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "7441692", "score": 0.8790561, "text": "Latin obscenity Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as \"obsc(a)ena\" (obscene, lewd, unfit for public use), or \"improba\" (improper, in poor taste, undignified). Documented obscenities occurred rarely in classical Latin literature, limited to certain types of writing such as epigrams, but they are commonly used in the graffiti written on the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Among the documents of interest in this area is a letter written by Cicero in 45 BC (\"ad Fam.\" 9.22) to a friend called Paetus, in which he alludes to a", "title": "Latin obscenity" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16323237", "score": 0.8775084, "text": "Iniuria Iniuria (\"outrage\", \"contumely\") was a delict in Roman law for the outrage caused by a false statement made against another person. Justinian, following Paul, gives many senses in which the word \"inuria\" is used, with the Greek equivalent in each case. It might mean unlawful action, as in damnum iniuria datum; it might mean any unlawful interference with right; it might mean an unjust judgment, but, as a special delict, it meant contumelia, insult or outrage, represented in Greek by ὕβρις (\"hubris\"). The XII Tables contained provisions against a certain number of forms of insult, probably only assaults, usually", "title": "Iniuria" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13280518", "score": 0.86471987, "text": "they may also be deserving of punishment. The emotion of disgust can be described to serve as an affective mechanism following occurrences of negative social value, provoking repulsion, and desire for social distance. The origin of disgust can be defined by motivating the avoidance of offensive things, and in the context of a social environment, it can become an instrument of social avoidance. An example of disgust in action can be found from the Bible in the book of Leviticus. Leviticus includes direct commandments from God to avoid disgust causing individuals, which included people who were sexually immoral and those", "title": "Disgust" } ]
After clashing with Zeus and his allies, what race of Greek gods was banished to Tartarus, the pit of torment lying beneath the depths of Hades?
[ "Titan (novel)", "Titan", "Titan (television series)", "Titans (television series)", "Titan (disambiguation)", "Titans (TV series)", "Titan (video game)", "TITANS", "Titans" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "674410", "score": 1.0480562, "text": "Tartarus In Greek mythology, Tartarus (; , \"Tartaros\") is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's \"Gorgias\" (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Like other primal entities (such as the Earth, Night and Time), Tartarus is also considered to be a primordial force or deity. In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery", "title": "Tartarus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "674412", "score": 1.0228148, "text": "the \"Iliad\" (c. 700 BC), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is \"as far beneath Hades as heaven is above earth.\" While according to Greek mythology the realm of Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Cronus came to power as the King of the Titans, he imprisoned the one-eyed Cyclopes and the hundred-armed Hecatonchires in Tartarus and set the monster Campe as its guard. Zeus killed Campe and released these imprisoned giants to aid in his conflict with the Titans. The gods of Olympus eventually triumphed. Kronos and many of the other Titans", "title": "Tartarus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "7927297", "score": 1.0125564, "text": "three rows like a collar round the neck, while above it grows the roots of the earth and of the unharvested sea.\" Tartarus is the place that Zeus cast the Titans along with his father Cronus after defeating them. Homer wrote that Cronus then became the king of Tartarus. While Odysseus does not see them himself, he mentions some of the people within the underworld who are experiencing punishment for their sins. The Asphodel Meadows was a place for ordinary or indifferent souls who did not commit any significant crimes, but who also did not achieve any greatness or recognition", "title": "Greek underworld" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "8677031", "score": 0.98119116, "text": "Tartarus. Hoping to free all of her children, Gaia had given Cronus, the youngest and bravest Titan, a potent weapon to use against his father. Cronus had slain Uranus, but instead of releasing Gaia's children, he and his fellow Titans created a \"paradise\" of subservience on the planet Earth. However, fearing an oracle which foretold that his own children would rise up against him, Cronus had swallowed each of them as they were born, except his son Zeus, whom Rhea had saved. When Zeus reaches manhood, he frees his brothers Poseidon and Hades, and Gaia's imprisoned children. Together, the Olympian", "title": "Titans of Myth (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "7927302", "score": 0.97901523, "text": "the dead, he was also known as Zeus Khthonios (\"the infernal Zeus\" or \"Zeus of the lower world\"). Those who received punishment in Tartarus were assigned by the other gods seeking vengeance. In Greek society, many viewed Hades as the least liked god and many gods even had an aversion towards him, and when people would sacrifice to Hades, it would be if they wanted revenge on an enemy or something terrible to happen to them. Hades was sometimes referred to as Pluto and was represented in a lighter way – here, he was considered the giver of wealth, since", "title": "Greek underworld" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "10169047", "score": 0.9649743, "text": "hold the Chain of Balance connecting the Underworld to Olympus. Tartarus is the prison of the dead where the Titan Cronos was banished after Kratos retrieved Pandora's Box from Pandora's Temple in \"God of War\". Kratos (voiced by Terrence C. Carson), the protagonist of the game, is a Spartan demigod warrior who became the God of War after killing Ares and seeks revenge on Zeus for his betrayal. Other characters include Greek gods such as Athena (Erin Torpey), the Goddess of Wisdom and Kratos' mentor and ally; Zeus (Corey Burton), King of the Gods and the primary antagonist; Poseidon (Gideon", "title": "God of War III" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "465596", "score": 0.96423334, "text": "been hidden by Gaia. Together, Zeus, his brothers and sisters, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the Titanomachy. The defeated Titans were then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans who fought against Zeus, was punished by having to hold up the sky. After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades, by drawing lots: Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth, Gaia, could", "title": "Zeus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "833296", "score": 0.9587803, "text": "mention Dionysus), after being overthrown by Zeus and the other Olympian gods, in the ten year long Titanomachy, the Titans are imprisoned in Tartarus. This might seem to preclude any subsequent story of the Titans' killing Dionysus, and perhaps in an attempt to reconcile this standard account with the DIonysus Zagreus myth, according to Arnobius and Nonnus, the Titans end up imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus, as punishment for their murder of Dionysus. However, according to one source, from the fate of the Titans came a momentous event, the birth of humankind. Commonly presented as a part of the myth", "title": "Zagreus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3771941", "score": 0.9532341, "text": "except for Poseidon, who would continue to watch over his worshippers in Atlantis. During the war of Troy Zeus battled Thor who had accidentally been transported there. Hades deplored Zeus' decree, and challenged Zeus' supremacy many times. A millennium ago, Hercules transported a band of soldiers from ancient Greece through time to battle Norsemen who were under the protection of the Asgardian god Thor, leading to war between the Asgardians and Olympians. Zeus met secretly with the Asgardian ruler Odin, and the two elder gods put an end to the war and formed an alliance to defend Earth from the", "title": "Zeus (Marvel Comics)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "14739366", "score": 0.9516612, "text": "Annabeth and Percy are pulled into Tartarus and the rest of the group resolves to find some way to save them. In Tartarus, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase travel towards the \"Doors of Death\" (the only exit to the mortal world) with help from Bob the Titan, hoping to escape and simultaneously stop more monsters from getting through. In the mortal world, the remaining demigods search for the mortal side of the Doors to help open them. They also meet with Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, a Roman demigod; she, Nico di Angelo, and Coach Hedge leave with the Athena Parthenos for", "title": "The Heroes of Olympus" } ]
Known as the Sooner State, what was the 48th state to join the Union on Nov 16, 1907?
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[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "2613362", "score": 1.1481462, "text": "Charles N. Haskell in the election on September 17, 1907. In the same election, the Oklahoma Constitution was proposed. The Constitution was passed and Haskell was elected Governor. Once the people of Oklahoma adopted the United States Constitution on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma and Indian Territories officially dissolved and the State of Oklahoma was admitted to the Union as the 46th state. With the passage of the Oklahoma organic act, in June 1890, the territorial government came into existence. The territorial government had no constitution, except for sections of the Organic Act creating it, which served as a semi-governing document.", "title": "Oklahoma Territory" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "3796774", "score": 1.1255219, "text": "in the 59th Congress, Representative Arthur P. Murphy of Missouri and Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota introduced Sequoyah statehood bills, which were defeated. President Theodore Roosevelt then proposed a compromise that would join Indian Territory with Oklahoma Territory to form a single state and resulted in passage of the Oklahoma Enabling Act, which he signed June 16, 1906. Oklahoma became the 46th state on November 16, 1907. Although the State of Sequoyah never came into existence, its constitution made an important contribution to Oklahoma history by its many similarities to the later Oklahoma Constitution. They shared an underlying", "title": "State of Sequoyah" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "300981", "score": 1.1200583, "text": "all-Indian state named \"Sequoyah\" failed but the Sequoyah Statehood Convention of 1905 eventually laid the groundwork for the Oklahoma Statehood Convention, which took place two years later. On November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was established as the 46th state in the Union. The new state became a focal point for the emerging oil industry, as discoveries of oil pools prompted towns to grow rapidly in population and wealth. Tulsa eventually became known as the \"Oil Capital of the World\" for most of the 20th century and oil investments fueled much of the state's early economy. In 1927, Oklahoman businessman Cyrus Avery,", "title": "Oklahoma" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "14516051", "score": 1.0948952, "text": "met on August 21, 1905 in Muskogee to draft its constitution, with Muskogee to serve as the State's capital. Vetoed by US President Theodore Roosevelt, the proposed State of Sequoyah did not receive federal recognition. Instead, the State of Oklahoma was admitted to the Union on November 16, 1907 as the 46th State. Tenant farmers in Muskogee were displaced in great numbers during the Great Depression. The collapse of cotton prices led to the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act, which led landowners to evict tenant farmers as they took land out of production to receive farm subsidies. That same year, thousands", "title": "History of Muskogee" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "8936278", "score": 1.0943856, "text": "state constitution, Haskell and Murray returned to Washington with the proposal for statehood. On November 16, 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed the proclamation establishing Oklahoma as the nation's 46th state. The early years of statehood were marked with political activity. In 1910, the Democrats moved the capital to Oklahoma City, three years before the Oklahoma Organic Act allowed, in order to move away from the Republican hotbed of Guthrie. Socialism became a growing force among struggling farmers, and Oklahoma grew to have the largest Socialist population in the United States at the time, with the Socialist vote doubling in every", "title": "History of Oklahoma" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "2475565", "score": 1.0743773, "text": "Upon announcement that Oklahoma and Indian Territories were to combine into one state, Johnston was elected in 1906 to represent Noble and the surrounding counties at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. During the convention, Johnston would be elected to serve in the body's number-two office as the President Pro Tempore of the Convention. Johnston met future governors Charles N. Haskell, William H. Murray and Robert L. Williams. These men would work together to write one of the most progressive Constitutions of any U.S. state, as well as the longest governing document in the world at the time. On November 16, 1907,", "title": "Henry S. Johnston" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "16217799", "score": 1.0587789, "text": "as a single state. However, residents of Indian Territory sponsored a bill to admit Indian Territory as the State of Sequoyah, which was defeated in the U. S. Congress in 1905. President Theodore Roosevelt then proposed a compromise that would join Indian Territory with Oklahoma Territory to form a single state. This resulted in passage of the Oklahoma Enabling Act, which President Roosevelt signed June 16, 1906. The Act included several other requirements for the Oklahoma Constitution: The constitution was written to meet these requirements. President Roosevelt proclaimed Oklahoma a state on November 16, 1907. The requirement to keep Guthrie", "title": "Oklahoma Enabling Act" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "7766887", "score": 1.0585897, "text": "be created from the so-called \"Twin Territories.\" The act further specified that elections would be held in both territories on November 6, 1906 to elect delegates for a constitutional convention. Each territory was to elect 55 delegates. The Osage Nation was allowed two delegates, giving a total of 112 delegates. The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention opened in Guthrie on November 20, 1906. William H. Murray was elected chairman of the convention. Charles N. Haskell was elected the majority floor leader by the Democrats, and Henry Asp was elected minority floor leader by the Republicans. William Jennings Bryan came to encourage the", "title": "Constitution of Oklahoma" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "16217802", "score": 1.0537077, "text": "provision of the enabling act which temporarily restricted Oklahoma's right to determine where its seat of government would be was unconstitutional. Oklahoma Enabling Act The Enabling Act of 1906, in its first part, empowered the people residing in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to elect delegates to a state constitutional convention and subsequently to be admitted to the union as a single union. The act, in its second part, also enabled the people of New Mexico Territory and of Arizona Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union, requiring a referendum to determine if", "title": "Oklahoma Enabling Act" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "13835101", "score": 1.0529604, "text": "the Republican-controlled Congress wanted joint statehood of the two territories to eliminate the possibility of the territory joining the Union as a Democratic state. On June 16, 1906, President Roosevelt signed the Oklahoma Enabling Act, which ruled that the Indian and Oklahoma territories would be granted statehood only as a combined state. The convention succeeded in winning approval of a 35,000 word document that would govern the proposed state. It captured a Populist distrust of elected officials. It also assured that several residents of Indian Territory would serve in prominent positions both in the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and in the", "title": "Sequoyah Constitutional Convention" } ]
What J. D. Salinger book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he shot John Lennon outside the Dakota apartments on Dec 8, 1980?
[ "Mr Antolini", "Catcher in the Rye", "Club Ernies", "The Catcher In The Rye", "D.B. Caulfield", "Edmont Hotel", "D. B. Caulfield", "Catcher in the rye", "The catcher in the rye", "A Catcher in the Rye", "Agerstown Pa", "DB Caulfield", "Catcher In The Rye", "Estelle Fletcher", "Jane Gallagher", "Faith Cavendish", "The catcher and the rye", "Little Shirley Beans", "Phoebe Caulfield", "Agerstown, PA", "Mr. Spencer", "Agerstown, Pennsylvania", "The Catcher in the Rye", "Sally Hayes", "Catcher In the Rye" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6703523", "score": 1.278762, "text": "report of shots fired at the Dakota. The officers arrived around two minutes later and found Chapman standing very calmly on West 72nd Street. They reported that Chapman had dropped the revolver to the ground and was holding a paperback book, J. D. Salinger's \"The Catcher in the Rye\". They immediately put Chapman in handcuffs and placed him in the back seat of their squad car. Chapman made no attempt to flee or resist arrest. Officer Herb Frauenberger and his partner Tony Palma were the second team, arriving a few minutes later. They found Lennon lying face down on the", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "1950588", "score": 1.2423236, "text": "Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\" until he was arrested by the police. He referred to the novel as his statement and later said that his objective was to acquire fame and notoriety. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Chapman", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6405190", "score": 1.2200788, "text": "to the shooting than \"Chapter 27\". On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's \"The Catcher in the Rye\". In one instant, an anonymous, socially awkward and mentally unstable 25-year-old fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music. A", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1554779", "score": 1.1461648, "text": "John Bardo's murder of Rebecca Schaeffer and John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Additionally, after fatally shooting John Lennon, Mark David Chapman was arrested with a copy of the book that he had purchased that same day, inside of which he had written: \"To Holden Caulfield, From Holden Caulfield, This is my statement\". Early in his career, Salinger expressed a willingness to have his work adapted for the screen. In 1949, a critically panned film version of his short story \"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut\" was released; renamed \"My Foolish Heart\", the film took great liberties with Salinger's plot", "title": "The Catcher in the Rye" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1950629", "score": 1.125916, "text": "to New York shortly prior to the murder. Claims include Chapman was a \"Manchurian candidate\", including speculation on links to the CIA's Project MKULTRA. At least one author has argued forensic evidence proves Chapman did not commit the murder. Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American convict who shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back and immediately sat down on a nearby curb reading J. D. Salinger's", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6405193", "score": 1.040492, "text": "27\" is based on this text. The title \"Chapter 27\" suggests a continuation of J. D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\", which has twenty-six chapters, and which Chapman was carrying when he shot John Lennon. Chapman was obsessed with the book, to the point of attempting to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. According to the British music magazine \"Mojo\", the title was also inspired by \"Chapter 27\" of Robert Rosen's book \"\" (2000). Rosen's book explores the numerological meaning of the number 27, \"the triple 9\", a number of profound importance to John Lennon. Lennon", "title": "Chapter 27" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6703519", "score": 1.0393455, "text": "'Hi', but they don't bug you.\" The Lennons exited their limousine on 72nd Street instead of driving into the more secure courtyard of the Dakota. The Dakota doorman Jose Perdomo and a nearby taxi driver saw Chapman standing in the shadows by the archway. As Lennon passed by, he glanced briefly at Chapman and nodded slightly, appearing to recognise him from earlier. Seconds later, Chapman took aim at the center of Lennon's back and fired five hollow-point bullets at him from a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver, in rapid succession, from a distance of about nine or ten feet (about", "title": "Murder of John Lennon" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11323695", "score": 1.0323918, "text": "life three months prior and contains many flashbacks to his earlier life and upbringing, while exploring in detail his infatuation with J.D. Salinger's novel \"The Catcher in the Rye\" and the links between this and his motivation for killing Lennon. The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon is a 2006 British biographical drama film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon. The film was written and directed by Andrew Piddington and stars Jonas Ball, Robert C. Kirk and Thomas A. McMahon. British-produced, it was not released in the United States until 2008 and received", "title": "The Killing of John Lennon" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1950623", "score": 1.0270703, "text": "which is east of Buffalo. Chapman refused all requests for interviews following the murder and during his first six years at Attica. James R. Gaines interviewed him and wrote a three-part, 18,000-word \"People\" magazine series in February and March 1987. Chapman told the parole board he regretted the interview. He later gave a series of audio-taped interviews to Jack Jones of the Rochester \"Democrat and Chronicle.\" In 1992, Jones published a book, \"Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon\". Also in 1992, Chapman gave two television interviews. On December", "title": "Mark David Chapman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "1950589", "score": 1.0256948, "text": "had been a fan of the Beatles, but after becoming a born-again Presbyterian, was incensed by Lennon's much-publicized 1966 remark about the group being \"more popular than Jesus\". In the years leading up to the murder, he developed a series of obsessions, including artwork, music and Lennon. \"The Catcher in the Rye\" took on great personal significance for him, to the extent he reportedly wished to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. He also contemplated killing other public figures, including Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, and then-president Ronald Reagan. At the time of the killing, he had no prior", "title": "Mark David Chapman" } ]
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance is used by what insurance company?
[ "Even a caveman can do it", "Tony Nicely", "Government Employees Insurance Company", "Lauren Wallace", "15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more on car insurance", "GEICO Insurance", "GEICO", "Geico Direct", "Geico", "GEICO Casualty Company", "GEICO Indemnity Company", "GEICO General Insurance Company", "Geico.com" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16948085", "score": 0.75109607, "text": "in each city. Just find a car on the app and open the car with your phone or card. Once you start driving you will be charged a minute rate that ranges between 24 cents to 57 cents per minute depending on the vehicle and business area. The price includes fuel, parking, insurance, and the rental. DriveNow also offers packages to make the per minute rate cheaper. Once you are done with the vehicle you will be able to park the vehicle anywhere back in the business area of that city. Typically, the car must be parked in the same", "title": "DriveNow" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15548347", "score": 0.71373594, "text": "an insurance agent, in addition to a ten dollar fee, in order to convert the fleet license to a full license. Some states require that proof of insurance be carried in the car at all times, while others do not. For example, North Carolina does not specify that proof of insurance must be carried in the vehicle; it does, however, require that a driver have that information to trade with another driver in the event of an accident. Some states allow for an electronic insurance card to be produced on a smartphone Arizona Department of Transportation Research Project Manager John", "title": "Vehicle insurance in the United States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6007991", "score": 0.71211827, "text": "a commuter switches to public transport or to working at home, this immediately reduces the risk of rush hour accidents. With usage-based insurance, this reduction would be immediately reflected in the cost of car insurance for that month. The smartphone as measurement probe for insurance telematics has been surveyed Another form of usage-based insurance is PHYD (Pay How You Drive). Similar to PAYD, but also brings in additional sensors like accelerometer to monitor driving behavior. Metromile is a usage-based insurance startup funded by New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, National General Insurance/Amtrust Financial, and other investors. It offers a driving app", "title": "Usage-based insurance" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "203041", "score": 0.7105637, "text": "Auto insurance protects the policyholder against financial loss in the event of an incident involving a vehicle they own, such as in a traffic collision. Coverage typically includes: Gap insurance covers the excess amount on your auto loan in an instance where your insurance company does not cover the entire loan. Depending on the company's specific policies it might or might not cover the deductible as well. This coverage is marketed for those who put low down payments, have high interest rates on their loans, and those with 60-month or longer terms. Gap insurance is typically offered by a finance", "title": "Insurance" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2904238", "score": 0.70661664, "text": "for the company to obtain a discount. In the event of a traffic stop, an officer could easily verify that the insurance is current, by comparing the figure on the insurance card to that on the odometer. Critics point out the possibility of cheating the system by odometer tampering. Although the newer electronic odometers are difficult to roll back, they can still be defeated by disconnecting the odometer wires and reconnecting them later. However, as the Cents Per Mile Now website points out: As a practical matter, resetting odometers requires equipment plus expertise that makes stealing insurance risky and uneconomical.", "title": "Vehicle insurance" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3078597", "score": 0.69928336, "text": "that the car will not be driven onto Ninety-Mile Beach (because of the hazardous tides). There will certainly be a requirement to show a driver's license, and only those drivers appearing on the contract may be authorized to drive. It may include an option to purchase auto insurance (UK: motor insurance), if the renter does not already have a policy to cover rentals—another important consideration for multiple drivers. Some agencies may even require a bond payable if the car is not returned in order, often held in the form of a credit-card authorization—voided if the car is returned per agreement.", "title": "Lease" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15548320", "score": 0.6968197, "text": "discounts based on these factors. Insurance companies provide a motor vehicle owner with an insurance card for the particular coverage term which is to be kept in the vehicle in the event of a traffic collision as proof of insurance. Recently, states have started passing laws that electronic versions of proof of insurance can now be accepted by the authorities. Consumers may be protected by different levels of coverage depending on which insurance policy they purchase. Coverage is sometimes seen as 20/40/15 or 100/300/100. The first two numbers seen are for medical coverage. In the 100/300 example, the policy will", "title": "Vehicle insurance in the United States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6569275", "score": 0.69636285, "text": "of causing an accident. Drivers are distracted, decreasing the driver’s awareness on the road, leading to more car accidents. When drivers talk on cell phones the risk of an automobile accident resulting in hospitalization is four times higher when not talking on a cell phone . Drivers who text when behind the wheel, are twenty-three times more likely to have an automobile accident. One out of every four automobile accidents in the United States are caused by texting while driving. Some states have implemented laws in regards to using cell phones while driving, there is more to be done. The", "title": "Mobile phones and driving safety" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2904249", "score": 0.6908656, "text": "parts (OES), Matching Quality spare parts (MQ) and generic replacement parts. Both DRPs and non OEM parts help to keep costs down and keep insurance prices competitive. AIRC (International Car body repair Association) General Secretary Karel Bukholczer made clear that DRP's have had big impact on car body repair shops. Vehicle insurance Vehicle insurance (also known as car insurance, motor insurance or auto insurance) is insurance for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other road vehicles. Its primary use is to provide financial protection against physical damage or bodily injury resulting from traffic collisions and against liability that could also arise from", "title": "Vehicle insurance" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16126340", "score": 0.6892239, "text": "not enough to cover the medical bills or property damage costs that are incurred in an accident. Insurance companies refer to these drivers as underinsured motorists (UIM). In order to protect their clients in case of an accident, insurance companies offer uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. This insurance will cover the expenses incurred by victims, when the at-fault driver either does not have insurance or doesn’t have enough liability insurance to cover the costs involved. It will also cover medical expenses from a hit-and-run accident. For instance, if the medical costs of the victim come to $25,000 and the at-fault", "title": "Motorist coverage in Pennsylvania" } ]
What was the name by which we called Thailand before 1939 and between 1945 and 1949?
[ "Muang Thai", "Taihland", "ISO 3166-1:TH", "Thai Empire", "Prathet Thai", "Muang-Thai", "Kingdom of Thailand", "Skateboarding in Thailand", "THAILAND", "Siam", "Sport in Thailand", "Etymology of Thailand", "Thayland", "Name of Thailand", "The Kingdom Of Thailand", "เมืองไทย", "Thailand", "ราชอาณาจักรไทย", "Sayam", "Thailande", "Siam (Thailand)", "ประเทศไทย", "Kingdom Of Thailand", "Tailand", "Thai Kingdom", "Ratcha Anachak Thai", "Kingdom of the Thai" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11670960", "score": 1.067681, "text": "the internal situation were banned. On 23 June 1939, Phibun changed the country's name from Siam to Prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย), or Thailand, said to mean \"land of the free\". This was directed against the ethnic diversity in the country (Malay, Chinese, Lao, Shan, etc.) and is based on the idea of a \"Thai race\", a Pan-Thai nationalism whose policy is the integration of the Shan, the Lao and other Tai peoples, such as Vietnam, Burma and South China, into a \"Great Kingdom of Thailand\" () Modernisation was also an important theme in Phibun's new Thai nationalism. From 1939 to", "title": "Thailand in World War II" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "3931724", "score": 1.0605577, "text": "newspapers were instructed to print only good news emanating from Axis sources, while sarcastic comments about the internal situation were banned. On 23 June 1939, Phibun changed the country's name from Siam to Prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย), or Thailand, said to mean \"land of the free\". This was a nationalist gesture: it implied the unity of all the Tai-speaking peoples, including the Lao and the Shan, but excluding the Chinese. The regime's slogan became \"Thailand for the Thai.\" Modernisation was also an important theme in Phibun's new Thai nationalism. From 1939 to 1942 he issued a set of twelve Cultural", "title": "History of Thailand (1932–1973)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "414519", "score": 1.056006, "text": "changed the name of the kingdom to \"Thailand\" and affected many aspects of daily life. After France was conquered by Nazi Germany in June 1940, Thailand took the opportunity to retake territories conceded to the French many decades earlier, which Thailand won the majority of the battles. The conflict came to an end with Japanese mediation. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an invasion of Thailand, and fighting broke out shortly before Phibun ordered an armistice. Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol, wherein", "title": "Thailand" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11670978", "score": 1.0332417, "text": "in the late nineteenth century. The Thai army would remain in these territories until the end of the war. Following the fall of the Phibun government in August 1944, the new government of Khuang Aphaiwong communicated to the British government that it renounced all claims to the Shan states and northern Malaya, and that it would immediately cedes the territories to Britain. The Churchill government did not accept the Thai overture, and was prepared to retaliate. The Thai army evacuated the two Shan states only in August 1945. Thailand was still allied with Japan when the war ended, but the", "title": "Thailand in World War II" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11670990", "score": 1.0310116, "text": "1946, and an Australian–Thai Peace Treaty on 3 April. France refused to permit admission of Thailand to the United Nations until Indochinese territories annexed during the war were returned. The Soviet Union insisted on the repeal of anti-communist legislation. Thailand in World War II Thailand in World War II officially adopted a position of neutrality until it was invaded by Japan in December 1941 which led to an armistice and, later, the military alliance treaty between Thailand and the Japanese Empire. At the start of the Pacific War, the Japanese Empire pressured the Thai government to allow the passage of", "title": "Thailand in World War II" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11670964", "score": 1.0102637, "text": "successful in occupying the disputed territories in French Indochina, with the French scoring their only notable victory at sea at the Battle of Ko Chang. Japan used its influence with the Vichy France to obtain concessions for Thailand. As a result, France agreed in March 1941 to cede 54,000 square kilometres of Laotian territory west of the Mekong and most of the Cambodian province of Battambang to Thailand, which reinstated the original name of Phra Tabong Province. The recovery of this lost territory and the regime's apparent victory over a European colonial power greatly enhanced Phibun's reputation. Because Japan wanted", "title": "Thailand in World War II" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "11670955", "score": 1.0087392, "text": "the indochinese territories (in today's Laos and Cambodia) which had been lost to France. Axis-aligned Thailand declared war on the United States and Britain and annexed territories in neighbouring countries, expanding to the north, south, and east, gaining a border with China near Kengtung. Thailand retained control of its armed forces and internal affairs. The Japanese policy on Thailand differed from their relationship with the puppet state of Manchukuo. Japan intended bilateral relationships similar to those between Nazi Germany and Finland, Bulgaria, and Romania. However Thailand at that time has been labelled by both the Japanese and the Allies as", "title": "Thailand in World War II" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4432577", "score": 1.0054739, "text": "July 1941. British occupation lasted until the end of the war. The province of İskenderun was given to Turkey to be kept neutral in the war. Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union during World War II. So see this article's section on the Soviet Union. Thailand was nominally an ally of Japan at the beginning of the war. Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, a military dictator with nationalist leanings, ruled under the Thai King. Thailand remained uninvolved when war broke out in Europe, but it took the opportunity of France's defeat to settle claims to parts of French Indochina, in", "title": "World War II by country" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "15390451", "score": 1.003124, "text": "Mawkmai of the southern Shan states as well as part of Kantarawadi, all located east of the Salween River, but the Japanese assigned them to their client State of Burma in September 1943. Following the defeat and surrender of the Japanese Empire, Thailand left the territories it had annexed to the north in 1945. However, the Thai government officially relinquished its claim over Kantarawadi State only in 1946 as part of the condition for admission to the United Nations and the withdrawal of all wartime sanctions for having sided with the Axis powers. The rulers of Kantarawadi bore the title", "title": "Kantarawadi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "414501", "score": 1.0028341, "text": "is that Mon-speaking peoples migrating south called themselves 'syem' as do the autochthonous Mon-Khmer-speaking inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula. The signature of King Mongkut (r. 1851–1868) reads \"SPPM\" (Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha) \"Mongkut King of the Siamese\", giving the name \"Siam\" official status until 24 June 1939 when it was changed to Thailand. Thailand was renamed to Siam from 1946 to 1948, after which it again reverted to Thailand. According to George Cœdès, the word \"Thai\" () means \"free man\" in the Thai language, \"differentiating the Thai from the natives encompassed in Thai society as serfs\". A famous Thai scholar", "title": "Thailand" } ]
What youth groups motto is “Be Prepared”?
[ "Boyscouts", "Boy Scouts", "Boy scouts" ]
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The young people are between the ages of 14-18. There are about 10-20 youths in each youth group. All the youth groups have at least two youth leaders, which guide them in different activities. The activities are very colorful, the youth groups do fundraising, compass, first aid, up sailing, hiking, accident prevention, social work, to learn the role of leadership, visit other youth sections, go to a national youth camp, youth exchange with other", "title": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "17487397", "score": 0.8722327, "text": "receive the sacraments and get hands-on religious education. The age level groups are: Kepha is a Catholic boys' Scouting alternative organization in which the father also participates. The organization's name means \"rock\" in Greek. The Kepha program had monthly retreats and shared daily prayers for brotherhood. Member have 2 AM two-hour Eucharistic adoration called \"Yawns For Jesus\". They go camping but required cold showers for discipline. The service work they do includes visiting nursing homes and hospitals. The Troops of Saint George, briefly the Scouts of Saint George, is a Catholic boys' Scouting organization focusing on father-son camping and catechetics", "title": "Youth organizations in the United States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4520380", "score": 0.8690324, "text": "guaranteed to sprout even after years of storage. One group of people who put a lot of effort in disaster preparations is called Doomsday Preppers. This subset of preparedness-minded people often share a belief that the FEMA or Red Cross emergency preparation suggestions and training are not extensive enough. Sometimes called survivalists, Doomsday Preppers are often preparing for The End Of The World As We Know It, abbreviated as TEOTWAWKI. With a motto some have that \"The Future Belongs to those who Prepare,\" this Preparedness subset has its own set of Murphy's Rules, including \"Rule Number 1: Food, you still", "title": "Emergency management" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4363923", "score": 0.86469734, "text": "being ready, safe, trained, as well as undergoing advanced training; that patch features the emblem in the center, with \"Ready\" \"Safety\" \"Trained\" and \"Advanced\" on the sides - one written for each of the four sides. To get this patch, commanders earn each of the four \"tickets\" on the edges one by one. That is, to earn the \"Ready Ticket,\" the commander completed \"Ranger Basics\" and \"Ranger Essentials\" training; earning the \"Safety Ticket\" requires being CPR certified and having completed the Ranger Safety Course; earning the \"Trained Ticket\" requires taking a choice of \"either\" the National Rangers Ministry Camp (NRMC)", "title": "Assembly of God youth organizations" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6801764", "score": 0.85883147, "text": "or larger annual events. Normally these groups will aim to enforce a certain part of faith in young people or a certain tradition or style. One of these new movements is LIFE TEEN, \"leading teens closer to Christ\"; a parish-based program centered on the Eucharist, Contemporary Christian Music, relational ministry and catechesis. Another movement is ECYD which focuses on youth service projects and personal prayer through a network of gender-specific clubs. Jesus Youth is a 28-year-old catholic youth movement, which begin in India and now present many countries around the world. Mission teams are groups of youth workers who spend", "title": "Catholic youth work" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3383249", "score": 0.8452686, "text": "Scout Motto The Scout Motto of the Scout movement, in various languages, has been used by millions of Scouts around the world since 1907. Most of the member organizations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) share this same motto. In English, this motto is most commonly \"Be Prepared.\" In the third part of \"Scouting for Boys\" Robert Baden-Powell explains the meaning of the phrase: The Scout Motto is: BE PREPARED which means you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your DUTY. \"To do the right thing at the", "title": "Scout Motto" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3023874", "score": 0.84179413, "text": "for the youth group, and serving as a liaison between the youth and adult bodies of the congregation. Today's youth ministries hold regular meetings, often at the same time as adult functions at the church. Youth group meetings generally feature the same types of activities as a Sunday morning church service, modified to reflect the culture of the age groups involved. Services may include a time for worship, drama, games or other activities, fellowship through conversation and/or food, and prayer. Many youth ministers also present a sermon or devotional. It's common for youth groups to attend Christian summer camps each", "title": "Protestant youth ministry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3383251", "score": 0.8415388, "text": "names are: Bravery, Enterprise, Purpose, Resolution, Endurance, Partnership, Assurance, Reformation, Enthusiasm and Devotion. Scout Motto The Scout Motto of the Scout movement, in various languages, has been used by millions of Scouts around the world since 1907. Most of the member organizations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) share this same motto. In English, this motto is most commonly \"Be Prepared.\" In the third part of \"Scouting for Boys\" Robert Baden-Powell explains the meaning of the phrase: The Scout Motto is: BE PREPARED which means you are always in a state of readiness in mind", "title": "Scout Motto" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "826695", "score": 0.8364061, "text": "the Scout motto (\"Be prepared\"), and the Scout slogan (\"Do a good turn daily\"). They wear a uniform and work together in patrols of four to ten boys with an elected patrol leader. Scouts share responsibilities, apply skills learned at meetings and live together in the outdoors. The advancement system provides opportunities for personal growth and self-reliance. Scouts interact with adult leaders who act as role models and mentors, but they are expected to plan their own activities within the troop and to participate in community service. Opportunities are provided for leadership training with practical application. Venturers are expected to", "title": "Boy Scouts of America" } ]
Dec 6, 1850 saw the invention of the Ophthalmoscope, a device that allows doctors to examine what part of the body?
[ "Eye (anatomy)", "Eye", "Eye balls", "Schizochroal eye", "Ocular globe", "Ommateum", "Simple eye", "Oculars", "Animal eyes", "Eyes", "Compound Eyes", "Apposition eye", "Robotic eye", "Eye ball", "Facet eyes", "Compound Eye", "Conjunctival disorders", "Compound eyes", "Eyeball", "Cyber-eye", "Eye (vertebrate)", "Eye (invertebrate)", "Ommotidium", "Fly's eye lens", "Peeper (organ)", "Camera-type eye", "Ocular", "Compound eye", "Eye membrane", "Pinhole eye", "The eyes" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4249788", "score": 0.8160714, "text": "(later Moorfields Eye Hospital), of his pioneering work wrote \"every eye could be made luminous if the axis from a source of illumination directed towards a person's eye and the line of vision of the observer were coincident\". Although some credit the invention of the ophthalmoscope to Charles Babbage in 1847, it was not until it was independently reinvented by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1851 that its usefulness was recognized - it was to revolutionize ophthalmology. While training in France, Andreas Anagnostakis, MD, an ophthalmologist from Greece, came up with the idea of making the instrument hand-held by adding a", "title": "Ophthalmoscopy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "18366102", "score": 0.7986456, "text": "began to market competing versions. Optometer (ophthalmic instrument) A device, used for measuring spherical and/or cylindrical prescription for eyeglasses, from the middle of the 18th century until around 1922, when modern instruments were developed. The term, coined in 1738 by W. Porterfield to describe his Scheiner slit optometer, and used for 200 years to describe many different inventions to measure refractive error of the eye, has completely fallen out of usage today as the task of measuring eyes for spectacles is done with modern instruments, such as the phoropter. A phoropter is one of several generic names for modern instruments", "title": "Optometer (ophthalmic instrument)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "12192813", "score": 0.79049397, "text": "The mercury thermometer, invented in 1714, became a useful diagnostic tool for doctors as did the stethoscope invented in 1816. Because doctors were few and far between people with medical problems often had to treat themselves. They used Indian medicines or home remedies based on the internal and external application of various herbal and animal products. Advances in surgery came in the early 19th century with the innovative work of Dr. Christopher Widmer who practised at York Hospital (later known as Toronto General Hospital) and R.W. Beaumont made a name as a noted inventor of surgical instruments. The early part", "title": "Technological and industrial history of Canada" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "18366100", "score": 0.7887676, "text": "or she examined the patient. In the later part of the 19th century, the United States, Germany, France and the UK were actively inventing numerous mechanical optometers, to speed up the process of bringing lenses before the patients' eyes. Various patented or unpatented optometers were sold throughout the later 19th and turn of the 20th centuries, some containing rotating batteries of lenses in various arrangements, usually with the name of the inventor in front of it. Around 1910, binocularity was tested using trial frames which sat on the patient's face or on a support bar, with extra testing devices added", "title": "Optometer (ophthalmic instrument)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9385853", "score": 0.7807009, "text": "ovum, and in 1837, described the origin of the chorion. In 1837 he visited the principal universities of the Continent, and settled in London in the following year, where he set up practice as an oculist. In 1847, Jones examined a primitive ophthalmoscope devised by Charles Babbage, but found it of little value. In 1851, Jones was appointed Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery at University College, London. He occupied this post for 30 years until the beginning of 1881, when medical problems forced him to retire to Ventnor. He stayed in Ventnor until his death in 1891. Jones was", "title": "Thomas Wharton Jones" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "185611", "score": 0.77805495, "text": "of Surgery\". Universities began systematic training of physicians around 1220 CE in Italy. During the Renaissance, understanding of anatomy improved, and the microscope was invented. Prior to the 19th century, humorism (also known as humoralism) was thought to explain the cause of disease but it was gradually replaced by the germ theory of disease, leading to effective treatments and even cures for many infectious diseases. Military doctors advanced the methods of trauma treatment and surgery. Public health measures were developed especially in the 19th century as the rapid growth of cities required systematic sanitary measures. Advanced research centers opened in", "title": "History of medicine" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9492", "score": 0.77801704, "text": "increased the resolving power of the microscope and around 1839, Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann identified that cells were the fundamental unit of organization of all living things. Study of small structures involved passing light through them and the microtome was invented to provide sufficiently thin slices of tissue to examine. Staining techniques using artificial dyes were established to help distinguish between different types of tissue. Advances in the fields of histology and cytology began in the late 19th century along with advances in surgical techniques allowing for the painless and safe removal of biopsy specimens. The invention of", "title": "Anatomy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "666339", "score": 0.7741015, "text": "section is devoted to eye diseases. The pre-Hippocratics largely based their anatomical conceptions of the eye on speculation, rather than empiricism. They recognized the sclera and transparent cornea running flushly as the outer coating of the eye, with an inner layer with pupil, and a fluid at the centre. It was believed, by Alcamaeon (5th century BC) and others, that this fluid was the medium of vision and flowed from the eye to the brain by a tube. Aristotle advanced such ideas with empiricism. He dissected the eyes of animals, and discovering three layers (not two), found that the fluid", "title": "Ophthalmology" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "666346", "score": 0.77322304, "text": "the instrument used to perform the surgery (Beer's knife). In North America, indigenous healers treated some eye diseases by rubbing or scraping the eyes or eyelids. The first ophthalmic surgeon in Great Britain was John Freke, appointed to the position by the Governors of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1727. A major breakthrough came with the appointment of Baron de Wenzel (1724–90), a German who became oculist to King George III of England in 1772. His skill at removing cataract legitimized the field. The first dedicated ophthalmic hospital opened in 1805 in London; it is now called Moorfields Eye Hospital. Clinical", "title": "Ophthalmology" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6303921", "score": 0.77262187, "text": "ophthalmology was the \"Choice of Eye Diseases\" written in Egypt by the Iraqi Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili who attempted the earliest extraction of cataracts using suction. He invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic and successfully extracted the cataracts through suction. He wrote the following on his invention: Avicenna, in \"The Canon of Medicine\" (c. 1025), described sight as one of the five external senses. The Latin word \"retina\" is derived from Avicenna's Arabic term for the organ. In his \"Colliget\", Averroes (1126–1198) was the first to attribute photoreceptor properties to the retina, and he was", "title": "Ophthalmology in medieval Islam" } ]
Who became the first state when they ratified the US Constitution on December 7, 1787?
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[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2272553", "score": 1.0235219, "text": "13 states between December 7, 1787 and May 29, 1790 as follows: In 1787 and 1788, following the Constitutional Convention, a great debate took place throughout the United States over the Constitution that had been proposed. The supporters of the Constitution began the ratification campaign in those states where there was little or no controversy, postponing until later the more difficult ones. On July 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution, thus establishing it as the new framework of governance for the United States. Though officially enacted, four states, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and", "title": "Article Seven of the United States Constitution" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6779345", "score": 1.0120537, "text": "Paris on September 3, 1783. The chief dignitary of the meeting was George Washington, and a portrait was made of Washington during the meeting. On December 18, 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution. On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to ratify the Bill of Rights. New Jersey played a principal role in creating the structure of the new United States Government. When Virginia delegates came up with the Virginia Plan, which called for representation in government proportional to the population of each state, the smaller states refused, fearing", "title": "New Jersey in the American Revolution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2734034", "score": 0.9865655, "text": "ratify the new Constitution, with its vote being unanimous. Pennsylvania ratified on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23 (66.67%). New Jersey ratified on December 19, 1787, and Georgia on January 2, 1788, both unanimously. The requirement of ratification by nine states, set by Article Seven of the Constitution, was met when New Hampshire voted to ratify, on June 21, 1788. In New York, fully two thirds of the convention delegates were at first opposed to the Constitution. Hamilton led the Federalist campaign, which included the fast-paced appearance of \"The Federalist Papers\" in New York newspapers. An", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "428423", "score": 0.9800452, "text": "later ratify the Bill of Rights for sesquicentennial celebrations in 1939.) In February through June 1790, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island each ratified eleven of the amendments, including the Fourth. Virginia initially postponed its debate, but after Vermont was admitted to the Union in 1791, the total number of states needed for ratification rose to eleven. Vermont ratified on November 3, 1791, approving all twelve amendments, and Virginia finally followed on December 15, 1791. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announced the adoption of the ten successfully ratified amendments on March 1, 1792. The Bill of Rights originally only restricted", "title": "Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "100372", "score": 0.9782715, "text": "December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and has since been known as \"The First State\". The state was named after the Delaware River, which in turn derived its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618) who was the ruling governor of the Colony of Virginia at the time Europeans first explored the river. The Delaware Indians, a name used by Europeans for Lenape people indigenous to the Delaware Valley, also derive their name from the same source. The surname \"de La Warr\" comes from Sussex and is", "title": "Delaware" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9592016", "score": 0.9766599, "text": "would it replace the existing government under the Articles of Confederation and would apply only to those states that ratified it. Following contentious battles in several states, the proposed Constitution reached that nine-state ratification plateau in June 1788. On September 13, 1788, the Articles of Confederation Congress certified that the new Constitution had been ratified by more than enough states for the new system to be implemented and directed the new government to meet in New York City on the first Wednesday in March the following year. On March 4, 1789, the new frame of government came into force with", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "428422", "score": 0.97559077, "text": "December 22, 1789, and January 19, 1790, respectively, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina ratified all twelve amendments. On January 25 and 28, 1790, respectively, New Hampshire and Delaware ratified eleven of the Bill's twelve amendments, including the Fourth. This brought the total of ratifying states to six of the required ten, but the process stalled in other states: Connecticut and Georgia found a Bill of Rights unnecessary and so refused to ratify, while Massachusetts ratified most of the amendments, but failed to send official notice to the Secretary of State that it had done so. (All three states would", "title": "Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "1722381", "score": 0.97256184, "text": "for ratification by state conventions specially elected for the purpose, and the Confederation Congress recommended the Constitution to the states, asking that ratification conventions be called. Several of the smaller states, led by Delaware, embraced the Constitution with little reservation. But in the most populous two states, New York and Virginia, the matter became one of controversy. Virginia had been the first successful British colony in North America, had a large population, and its political leadership had played prominent roles in the Revolution. New York was likewise large and populous; with the best situated and sited port on the coast,", "title": "History of the United States (1776–1789)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9238034", "score": 0.9718826, "text": "Both sides of combatants lost more soldiers to disease than to outright wounds. The first of two major British armies were captured by the Continental Army at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a success that influenced France to ally with the revolutionaries.The state constitution was enacted in 1777. New York became the 11th state to ratify the United States Constitution, on July 26, 1788. In an attempt to retain their sovereignty and remain an independent nation positioned between the new United States and British North America, four of the Iroquois Nations fought on the side of the British; only", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "313500", "score": 0.9700335, "text": "to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, five days after Delaware became the first. At the time it was the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the Thirteen Colonies. Because One-third of Pennsylvania's population spoke German, the Constitution was presented in German to include those citizens in the discussion. Reverend Frederick Muhlenberg acted as the chairman of the state's ratifying convention. Dickinson College of Carlisle was the first college founded in the United States. Established in 1773, the college was ratified five days after the Treaty of Paris on September 9, 1783. The school was founded by Benjamin", "title": "Pennsylvania" } ]
What Dora the Explorer spinoff, still airing on Nick Jr, features Dora's cousin who helps animals in danger in the rainforest?
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[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2261261", "score": 1.1254532, "text": "Univision as part of the \"Planeta U\" block. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. \"Dora the Explorer\" is one of the longest-running shows that aired on the Nick Jr. block. During the sixth season, the show became the Nick Jr. series with the most episodes, surpassing \"Blue's Clues\" with 143 episodes, having 144 after it had completed broadcasting on television. It ended on June 5, 2014 after 8 seasons and 172 episodes. A live-action film adaptation is underway at Paramount Players and is scheduled for an August 2, 2019 release. The series centers around Dora, a seven-year-old Latina", "title": "Dora the Explorer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2261260", "score": 1.112735, "text": "Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer is an American educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner. \"Dora the Explorer\" became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. The show aired in reruns on \"Nick on CBS\" for 6 years from September 16, 2000, to September 9, 2006. A Spanish-dubbed version first aired as part of a \"Nick en español\" block on NBC Universal-owned Telemundo through September 2006; since April 2008, this version of the program has been carried on", "title": "Dora the Explorer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2261279", "score": 1.1007005, "text": "of ingredients. On August 31, 2017, the first five seasons of the show were added to the NOGGIN app. In 2013, Nickelodeon announced that it will have a sequel to \"Dora the Explorer\" titled as \"\". It will star the Latina heroine Dora as a 10-year-old who goes on city adventures with the Explorer Girls, accompanied by a male pal named Pablo. The series has been picked up for 20 episodes and aired on Nickelodeon on August 18, 2014. On October 23, 2017, it was announced that a live-action film adaptation is in the works at Paramount Players and is", "title": "Dora the Explorer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "20402724", "score": 1.0847718, "text": "Dora the Explorer (film) Dora the Explorer is an upcoming American family film directed by James Bobin. It is an adaptation of the Nickelodeon's series of the same name. The film is produced by Paramount Players, Walden Media, and Nickelodeon Movies, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is set to be released on August 2, 2019. Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents nothing could prepare Dora for the most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag", "title": "Dora the Explorer (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2261280", "score": 1.0692428, "text": "slated for an August 2, 2019 release. It will be filmed in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia at Village Roadshow Studios directed by James Bobin with the screenplay written by Nick Stoller and Kristin Burr producing. Unlike the TV series, the film is expected to follow the title character as a teenager. Dora's cousin Diego is also confirmed to be a character in the film. On May 2, 2018 Isabela Moner was announced to portray the titular character. Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer is an American educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner.", "title": "Dora the Explorer" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "17193676", "score": 1.0603076, "text": "the Birds\", older versions of Diego, Alicia, Baby Jaguar (who now goes by just \"Jaguar\"), and the Bobo Brothers from \"Go, Diego, Go!\" appear as well. The series had a few guest stars, such as Megan Hilty and Christina Milian. A pilot episode titled \"Dora's Explorer Girls: Our First Concert \"aired on August 7, 2011 on Nick Jr. in the United States. One month later, it aired on Treehouse TV in Canada. Following the 2011 release of \"Dora's Explorer Girls: Our First Concert\", in 2013, Nickelodeon announced that it would produce a spin-off to \"Dora the Explorer\" titled as \"Dora", "title": "Dora and Friends: Into the City!" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "5981199", "score": 1.0599241, "text": "Go, Diego, Go! Go, Diego, Go! is an American animated educational interactive children's television series that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 6, 2005 in the United States and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Created and executive produced by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh, the series is a spin-off of \"Dora the Explorer\" and follows Dora's cousin Diego, an 8-year-old boy whose adventures frequently involve rescuing animals and protecting their environment. The series, which aired for five seasons, consisting of 74 episodes, premiered in 2005 at 8:00 p.m. The show aired in reruns on \"Nick on CBS\" for 11 months and", "title": "Go, Diego, Go!" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "17193672", "score": 1.0572357, "text": "Dora and Friends: Into the City! Dora and Friends: Into the City! (also called Dora and Friends) is an American educational animated television series. A sequel to the original \"Dora the Explorer\" series, this series premiered on Nickelodeon on August 18, 2014 and ended on February 5, 2017 in the United States, followed by its Canadian premiere on September 6, 2014 on Treehouse TV. Dora, who is now ten-years-old, attends school and lives in the city of Playa Verde. She has five friends: Kate, who loves art, Emma, who loves music, Alana, who is tomboyish and loves animals, Naiya, who", "title": "Dora and Friends: Into the City!" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "20402727", "score": 1.0548265, "text": "Pia Miller was cast as Dora's aunt, Mami. In December 2018, Benicio del Toro joined the cast. Filming began on August 6, 2018 in Queensland, Australia and concluded in early December 2018. Dora the Explorer (film) Dora the Explorer is an upcoming American family film directed by James Bobin. It is an adaptation of the Nickelodeon's series of the same name. The film is produced by Paramount Players, Walden Media, and Nickelodeon Movies, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is set to be released on August 2, 2019. Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents", "title": "Dora the Explorer (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "15969793", "score": 1.0456907, "text": "Dora the Explorer video games Multiple video games based on the 2000 Nick Jr. television show \"Dora the Explorer\" have been released. Most of these games have received a mixed critical reception. Unlike other video games, these were not released in Asia, due to the TV show having fewer interest in said continent than North America and Europe. Dora the Explorer: Barnyard Buddies is an action-adventure game developed and released by Global Star Software for the Sony PlayStation on November 18, 2003 in North America and released in the PAL regions on May 2, 2005. Dora and Boots take a", "title": "Dora the Explorer video games" } ]
What’s missing: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, The Last Battle?
[ "Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "Voyage of the dawn treader", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "15477912", "score": 1.0692174, "text": "Ian Richardson (\"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\" and \"The Silver Chair\"), Claire Bloom (\"Prince Caspian\" and \"The Magician's Nephew\"), Anthony Quayle (\"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\" and \"The Horse and his Boy\") and Michael York (\"The Last Battle\"). HarperAudio published the series on audiobook, read by British and Irish actors Michael York (\"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\"), Lynn Redgrave (\"Prince Caspian\"), Derek Jacobi (\"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\"), Jeremy Northam (\"The Silver Chair\"), Alex Jennings (\"The Horse and his Boy\"), Kenneth Branagh (\"The Magician's Nephew\") and Patrick Stewart (\"The Last Battle\"). Collins Audio also", "title": "Adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "424457", "score": 1.0479152, "text": "Caspian\", \"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\" and \"The Horse and His Boy\", were already complete, they were not released immediately at that time, but instead appeared (along with \"The Silver Chair\") one at a time in each of the subsequent years (1951–1954). The last two books (\"The Magician's Nephew\" and \"The Last Battle\") were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins. The two issued both hardcover and paperback editions of the series during their tenure", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1816787", "score": 0.99602914, "text": "as the text\". The British edition of the novel had 43 illustrations; American editions generally had fewer. The popular United States paperback edition published by Collier between 1970 and 1994, which sold many millions, had only 17 illustrations, many of them severely cropped from the originals, giving many readers in that country a very different experience when reading the novel. All the illustrations were restored for the 1994 worldwide HarperCollins edition, although these lacked the clarity of early printings. Lewis very much enjoyed writing \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\" and embarked on the sequel \"Prince Caspian\" soon after", "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "424532", "score": 0.9892047, "text": "in the series, including Jill Pole in \"The Silver Chair\", Aravis Tarkheena in \"The Horse and His Boy\", Polly Plummer in \"The Magician's Nephew,\" and particularly Lucy Pevensie in \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\". Alan Jacobs, an English professor at Wheaton College, asserts that Lucy is the most admirable of the human characters and that generally the girls come off better than the boys throughout the series (Jacobs, 2008: 259). In her contribution to \"The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy\", Karin Fry, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, notes that \"the most", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "635910", "score": 0.9786583, "text": "been introduced to Narnia in \"The Magician's Nephew\" and already knows the origins of Narnia, the wardrobe, and the lamp post. Indeed, the narrative of \"The Magician's Nephew\" appears to assume that the reader has already read \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\" and is now being shown its beginnings. Paul Ford cites several scholars who have weighed in against the decision of HarperCollins to present the books in the order of their internal chronology, and continues, \"most scholars disagree with this decision and find it the least faithful to Lewis's deepest intentions\". Lewis suggested that he did not", "title": "The Magician's Nephew" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13638905", "score": 0.9685341, "text": "is given a quest by Aslan the Talking Lion. They must save Prince Rilian, son of King Caspian, from the Evil Green Lady. Rilian disappeared 10 years earlier after weeks of searching the woods near Cair Paravel for the serpent who had killed his royal mother, the Queen. However, their task is complicated by the fact that they both got separated on their arrival into Aslan's Country, when Eustace fell from a cliff and was blown to Narnia by Aslan, who soon blows Jill in the same direction. A great ship has just set sail from Cair Paravel, and a", "title": "The Silver Chair (1990 TV serial)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "424492", "score": 0.9684247, "text": "to the last and are welcomed into Aslan's Kingdom. Jadis, commonly known during her rule of Narnia as the White Witch, is the main villain of \"The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe\" and \"The Magician's Nephew\" – the only antagonist to appear in more than one Narnia book. In \"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\", she is the witch responsible for the freezing of Narnia resulting in the Hundred Year Winter; she turns her enemies into statues and kills Aslan on the Stone Table, but is killed by him in battle after his resurrection. In \"The Magician's Nephew\"", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "424451", "score": 0.96312183, "text": "of various children who play central roles in the unfolding history of that world. Except in \"The Horse and His Boy\", the protagonists are all children from the real world, magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line. The books span the entire history of Narnia, from its creation in \"The Magician's Nephew\" to its eventual destruction in \"The Last Battle\". Inspiration for the series was taken from multiple sources; in addition to adapting numerous traditional Christian themes, Lewis freely borrowed characters", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1816773", "score": 0.96252346, "text": "the wardrobe. Lucy guides them to Tumnus's cave, but they find it ransacked, with a notice from Jadis (the White Witch) proclaiming his arrest for harbouring humans. Mr. Beaver, a talking animal, finds and befriends the children, and takes them to his den. There, he and Mrs. Beaver tell them of a prophecy that the Witch's power will fail when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve sit in the four thrones at Cair Paravel. Aslan, the great lion and the rightful King, has been absent for many years but is now \"on the move again\" in Narnia.", "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "635911", "score": 0.95585185, "text": "directly intend to write his Narnia stories as Christian tales, but that these aspects appeared subconsciously as he wrote, although the books did become Christian as they progressed. He thought that the tales were not direct representations or allegory, but that they might evoke or remind readers of Biblical stories. In \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\", Aslan is a Christ-like figure who suffers a death of atonement and returns to life in a similar way to Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. \"The Magician's Nephew\" has similar biblical allusions, reflecting aspects of The Book of Genesis such as the creation,", "title": "The Magician's Nephew" } ]
In the motion picture industry, what does a gaffer do?
[ "Electrician", "Electricians", "Electrical Trainee", "Electrical technician" ]
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The gaffer is responsible for managing lighting, including associated resources such as labour, lighting instruments and electrical equipment under the direction of the Director of Photography (the DP or DOP) or, in television, the Lighting Director (LD). The DP/LD is responsible for the overall lighting design, but delegates the implementation of the design to the gaffer and the key grip. The key grip is the head grip, in charge of the labour and non-electrical equipment used to support and modify the lighting. Grip equipment includes stands, flags and gobos. The gaffer will usually have an assistant called a", "title": "Gaffer (filmmaking)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "10097448", "score": 1.1944276, "text": "best boy and, depending on the size of the job, crew members who are called \"set lighting technicians\" or \"electricians\", although not all of them are trained as electricians in the usual sense of the term. Although gaffer tape is used within the film/TV Industry as a strong cloth-backed adhesive tape, many other types of tape are also used, such as paper tape, pressure-sensitive tape (A.K.A. snot tape), electrical tape, J-LAR, and cloth tape. Gaffer tape is typically utilized by set lighting technicians under the supervision of, and not directly by, a gaffer. Gaffer (filmmaking) A gaffer in the motion", "title": "Gaffer (filmmaking)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "2766835", "score": 1.0335691, "text": "boy may also cover for the key grip or gaffer when he or she is on break or otherwise away from the set. On films with very small crews, the electric (lighting) department often consists of only a gaffer, a best boy, and a few electricians. The grip department may include only a key grip, a best boy, and a few grips. Large-scale productions such as major films commonly include full-time rigging and second unit crews, and in total may hire many dozens of grips or electricians at one time. It's unclear why this term came to be used as", "title": "Best boy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1479546", "score": 0.9826615, "text": "it was adhered. The precise origin of the name is unknown, one theory being that it is named for the gaffer (chief lighting technician) on a film crew. When cables are taped down on a stage or other surface, either to prevent tripping hazards or conceal them from view of the audience or camera, they are said to be \"gaffed\" or \"gaffered\". Gaffer tape is manufactured in many colors, including fluorescent and custom colors, but perhaps the most common variety is matte black. A matte finish keeps the tape from reflecting light so it blends in with a typical stage", "title": "Gaffer tape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1479545", "score": 0.9799439, "text": "Gaffer tape Gaffer tape (also known as gaffer's tape or gaff tape as well as camera tape and spike tape for narrow, coloured gaffer tape) is a heavy cotton cloth pressure-sensitive tape with strong adhesive and tensile properties. It is widely used in theatre, photography, film and television production, and industrial staging work. While sometimes confused with duct tape, gaffer tape differs in the composition of both the backing, which is made from fabric as opposed to vinyl or other plastics, and the adhesive, which is more resistant to heat and more easily removed without damaging the surface to which", "title": "Gaffer tape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3876946", "score": 0.96660745, "text": "Fluffer A fluffer is a person employed to keep a male porn performer's penis erect on the set. These duties, which do not necessarily involve touching the actors, are considered part of the makeup department. After setting up the desired angle, the director asks the actors to hold position and calls for the fluffer to \"fluff\" the actors for the shot. Fluffing could also entail sexual acts such as fellatio or non-penetrative sex. According to some pornographic actors, including Aurora Snow, James Deen and Keiran Lee, fluffers are no longer needed, saying that the role might have existed in the", "title": "Fluffer" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "2766836", "score": 0.95099974, "text": "a job title on film sets. As OED says, \"It has been suggested that it originated as a term for a master's most able apprentice, or alternatively that it was transferred from earlier use for a member of a ship's crew, but confirmatory evidence for either of these theories appears to be lacking.\" The earliest known appearance of the phrase in print is 1931 from the \"Albuquerque Journal\": \"Among the electricians .. the department head is the gaffer, his first assistant is the best boy.\" As the gaffer is sometimes credited as the chief lighting technician, the best boy electric", "title": "Best boy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "1610360", "score": 0.937694, "text": "electrical work on stage lighting instruments and equipment, they are not part of the electrical trade and have a different set of skills and qualifications from the electricians that work on building wiring. In the film industry and on a television crew the head electrician is referred to as a \"Gaffer.\" Electrical contractors are businesses that employ electricians to design, install, and maintain electrical systems. Contractors are responsible for generating bids for new jobs, hiring tradespeople for the job, providing material to electricians in a timely manner, and communicating with architects, electrical and building engineers, and the customer to plan", "title": "Electrician" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3876947", "score": 0.9307306, "text": "past, but disappeared due to medical advancements, like Viagra and implants, and with advancements in prosthetics and CGI; however, according to pornographic actress Sabrina Deep, fluffers do still exist and can have a decisive impact on a production. Hunter Skott, who has worked as one, contended in an interview that they \"are only used for a gangbang or bukkake, not for regular [porn] movies\". Sloane Steel, formerly of Bangbros.com, said much the same. In the 1998 video game \"Fallout 2\", it is possible for the player to become a fluffer for a post-apocalyptic studio engaged in the porn industry. The", "title": "Fluffer" } ]
December 14, 1903 saw the first attempt at what, from Big Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, which was not successfully accomplished until 3 days later, following necessary repairs from the previous attempt?
[ "First flight of the Wright Flyer" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "5755204", "score": 1.0523067, "text": "system became indistinguishable by late on October 10, the remnants contributed to severe flooding along the East Coast of the United States. In North Carolina, poor weather conditions in Kitty Hawk prevented the Wright brothers from flying their glider or assembling the untested airplane. In Virginia, strong winds toppled trees and knocked out communications in cities such as Richmond and Norfolk, where a tree brought from Napoleon Bonaparte's grave in Paris, France, was uprooted. Wires were downed, completely disrupting communication. One death occurred inland when a man in Leesburg drowned while walking across a log on the Little River. Rough", "title": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1173166", "score": 1.0249908, "text": "which was dedicated in 1932. At the time of the flight, the town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist, and it did not receive its municipal charter until 1953. Kitty Hawk, popularly noted as the site of the famous flights, is approximately four miles (6 km) to the north, and was the nearest settlement at the time of the famous flight. Kill Devil Hills is the site of the Wright Brothers National Memorial, commemorating the siblings' four powered airplane flights of Thursday, December 17, 1903. Orville returned in 1911, and on October 25 he set a new world glider", "title": "Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "18799451", "score": 1.0186516, "text": "was finished by November 1901. About of the slopes had been paved and rip-rapped with rock, and the dam had been extended on further on to the east back of river. The slopes above the rip-rap had been lessened and seeded with grass. This was thought to be sufficient to withstand future floods. Construction work went on while boats were transiting the locks. On December 6, 1901, the work on the locks was reported to be finally complete and ready to withstand winter weather. On September 24, 1900, the steamer \"Bonita\" (later renamed \"Metlako\"), became the first steamboat to transit", "title": "Yamhill River lock and dam" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6462080", "score": 1.0177763, "text": "Lack of financial backing led to the venture's failure, and the railroad was abandoned in 1874. The Cranberry Iron Company acquired the line between 1876 and 1879, and designated the railroad one of its subsidiaries. The initial 14.1-mile (2.25-kilometer) run through the Appalachian Mountains from Johnson City to Hampton, Tennessee via Elizabethton was completed on August 22, 1881 by Pennsylvania-based financier Ario Pardee, and the technical expertise of Thomas Matson (the noted railway engineer); a line extension to Cranberry opened on July 3, 1882. Soon dubbed by mountain residents as the \"Railway with a Heart\" as railroad personnel often performed", "title": "East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "5650857", "score": 1.0119549, "text": "Wright Brothers National Memorial Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds. They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers. Authorized as Kill Devil Hill Monument on March 2, 1927, it was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. Congress", "title": "Wright Brothers National Memorial" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1177177", "score": 1.0024117, "text": "the base of Tryon peak, both named after Governor Tryon. By 1877 the railroad provided transportation from the South Carolina seaports to North Carolina, Tennessee, and the Ohio Valley. The particular spot that became the town of Tryon was the point were construction of the railroad to Asheville stopped for two years. West of Tryon, the railroad ascends the Blue Ridge along the Saluda Grade, which was the steepest railroad grade in the country before becoming inactive. At the peak of railroad expansion in 1885, Tryon was incorporated. By the 1890s, there were six daily railway stops in Tryon. The", "title": "Tryon, North Carolina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3868598", "score": 0.996092, "text": "while practicing on the 1902 Glider from the previous season. On December 14, 1903, they felt ready for their first attempt at powered flight. With the help of men from the nearby government life-saving station, the Wrights moved the \"Flyer\" and its launching rail to the incline of a nearby sand dune, Big Kill Devil Hill, intending to make a gravity-assisted takeoff. The brothers tossed a coin to decide who would get the first chance at piloting, and Wilbur won. The airplane left the rail, but Wilbur pulled up too sharply, stalled, and came down after 3 seconds with minor", "title": "Wright Flyer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "3868625", "score": 0.99547106, "text": "North Carolina Museum of History Wright Flyer The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer\" I or 1903 \"Flyer) was the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The U.S. Smithsonian Institution describes the aircraft as \"the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.\" The flight of \"Flyer I\" marks the", "title": "Wright Flyer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6907376", "score": 0.99270844, "text": "tunnels despite efforts after the war, including one by the Black Diamond Railroad. A final extension from West Union to Walhalla, South Carolina at the urging of the Town Council and local citizens saw the first train arrive November 14, 1877, but no more track would ever be laid along the alignment up Stumphouse Mountain. In 1880, the Columbia and Greenville Railroad acquired the of track that had been laid. In 1901 the Southern Railway, successor to the Columbia and Greenville, split out the line as the Blue Ridge Railway. The Southern leased the Blue Ridge to subsidiary Carolina and", "title": "Blue Ridge Railway (1901)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "20941497", "score": 0.98956454, "text": "and Boston. She was under command of captain Ira Ketcham Chichester, had a crew of 31 men and was fully loaded. The vessel stopped at Charleston to embark more cargo and departed from port on December 21. After calling at New York on December 23 where she discharged a portion of her load, she continued to Boston. The bulk of her cargo consisted of nearly 200,000 feet of hard pine lumber, in addition to cotton, rice, rosin, turpentine, iron and oranges and pineapples. The vessel passed the Highland Light around 07:15 on December 26 and soon after encountered a snowstorm.", "title": "SS Kiowa (1903)" } ]
Roald Amundsen, along with Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, became the first to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What countries flag did they fly over the pole?
[ "Norvège", "Mainland Norway", "Norway", "Norvege", "Noregur", "NORWAY", "Norwegian state", "Etymology of Norway", "Noruega", "Norwegen", "ISO 3166-1:NO", "Noreg", "Republic of Norway", "Norwegian kingdom", "Kongeriket Noreg", "Name of Norway", "Kongeriket Norge", "Noorwegen", "Kingdom of Norway", "Sport in Norway", "Norwegia", "Royal Kingdom of Norway" ]
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At the first estimated position of the South Pole, Amundsen declared \"\"So we plant you, dear flag, on the South Pole, and give the plain on which it lies the name King Haakon VII's Plateau.\"\" Both the Norwegian and \"Fram's\" flag were planted. Due to the historical disputes over the claims of polar explorers prior to", "title": "Polheim" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4144067", "score": 1.2039089, "text": "Karljohansvern, the naval base in Horten during 1909 when Roald Amundsen asked him to go north with him on his forthcoming North Pole expedition. Amundsen later secretly changed his plans. Wisting went to sea believing they were heading for the North Pole. Instead he learned that they were going south to pick up the race with Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole. On 14 December 1911 along with Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland and Sverre Hassel, Wisting planted the Norwegian flag on the Geographic South Pole, the first explorers to have reached that point. From 1918 to 1925 Wisting", "title": "Oscar Wisting" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "354774", "score": 1.1992661, "text": "Ikuallaq's DNA to that of other European members of Amundsen's crew. Works by Amundsen Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. As the leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12, which was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911, he was a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. In 1926, he was the first leader for the air expedition to the North Pole, making him the first person, without dispute, to reach both poles. He is also", "title": "Roald Amundsen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4144217", "score": 1.1636416, "text": "with Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen , Olav Bjaaland and Oscar Wisting were the first to reach the South Pole. For his participation in the expedition, he was awarded the South Pole Medal (\"Sydpolsmedaljen\"), the Royal Norwegian award instituted by King Haakon VII in 1912 to reward participants in Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition. Hassel was constable of the Maritime Military Corps in 1904 before he was hired as an assistant at the customs authorities in Kristiansand. In 1922, Hassel became customs inspector and office manager in Grimstad. Sverre Hassel died in 1928 during a visit to Amundsen's home in Svartskog. Roald", "title": "Sverre Hassel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4144128", "score": 1.1624731, "text": "Pole, it is estimated that Hanssen passed within 200 yards (180 meters) of the mathematical South Pole point. This was during one of his ski runs which Amundsen had ordered be performed to completely encircle or \"box\" the pole, to ensure that there was no doubt that the expedition had attained the pole. For his participation in the expedition, he was awarded the South Pole Medal (\"Sydpolsmedaljen\"), the Royal Norwegian award instituted by King Haakon VII in 1912 to reward participants in Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition. In 1919 he once again went north, this time as captain on \"Maud\"", "title": "Helmer Hanssen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4144071", "score": 1.157657, "text": "South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the \"Fram\" 1910–1912\". Oscar Wisting Oscar Adolf Wisting (6 June 1871 – 5 December 1936) was a Norwegian Naval officer and polar explorer. Together with Roald Amundsen he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. Oscar Wisting was born in Larvik, in Vestfold county, Norway. He was the son of Ola Martin Olsen Wisting (1843-1927) and Abigael Helene Andersen (1843-85). He became the eldest of 13 children. His father ran a trucking business. At the age of sixteen, he went to sea and in 1892", "title": "Oscar Wisting" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4144127", "score": 1.1453717, "text": "Helmer Hanssen participated in Roald Amundsen's successful search for the Northwest Passage, as second mate on board the ship \"Gjøa\". On the expedition he learned from the Inuit how to drive sled dogs. In 1910 he headed south with Amundsen to conquer the South Pole, this time as an expert dog driver. He was also in charge of navigation, carrying the master compass on his sledge. He was one of the first five people to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911, along with Roald Amundsen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel. During their stay at the South", "title": "Helmer Hanssen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4144216", "score": 1.1450155, "text": "Sverre Hassel Sverre Helge Hassel (30 July 1876 – 6 June 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer and one of the first five people to reach the South Pole. Sverre Hassel was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. As soon as he was old enough, he went to sea, earning his mate's certificate. Between 1898 and 1902, Hassel participated on board the \"Fram\" in Otto Sverdrup's attempt to circumnavigate Greenland. Along with Helmer Hanssen, Hassel was picked as an expert dog driver to take part in Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition 1910 – 1912. On 14 December 1911, Hassel together", "title": "Sverre Hassel" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "12773966", "score": 1.13337, "text": "from the Geographic South Pole, and consists of a metallic sphere on a short bamboo pole, surrounded by the flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatory states. Amundsen's Tent: The tent was erected by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on its arrival on 14 December 1911. It is currently buried beneath the snow and ice in the vicinity of the Pole. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 80), following a proposal by Norway to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. The precise location of the tent is unknown, but based on calculations of the rate", "title": "South Pole" } ]
Holding office from 1901 to 1909, who was the 26th President of the United States?
[ "T Ros", "Feddy Roosevelt", "26th President of the United States", "Trust Buster", "The Cowboy President", "Teddy roosevelt", "Theodore Roosavelt", "President Theodore Roosevelt", "Theodor roosevelt", "Teddy Rose", "Teddy Roosevelt", "Theodore roosevelt", "T. Roosevelt", "Teodoro Roosevelt", "T. Roosevelt Administration", "Teddy Roosvelt", "Teddy Rosevelt", "Roosevelt, Theodore", "Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy", "T Roosevelt", "Cowboy of the Dakotas", "Teddy Roose", "Theodore Roosevelt" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "14651738", "score": 1.0140696, "text": "Jennings Bryan for the Presidency (1897–1901). McKinley was assassinated early in his second term while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He served as president from September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909. In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated, and Roosevelt became president at the age of 42, taking office at the youngest age of any US President in history at that time. Roosevelt was a hero of the Spanish–American War and the Battle of San Juan Hill for which", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "413906", "score": 0.9500526, "text": "National Park in the state of North Dakota is named after him. The America the Beautiful Quarters series features Roosevelt riding a horse on the national park's quarter. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this", "title": "Theodore Roosevelt" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "413760", "score": 0.94156635, "text": "Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those", "title": "Theodore Roosevelt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "14651733", "score": 0.92936766, "text": "21st President of the United States. A Republican, Arthur worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President, under James Garfield. On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was mortally wounded by Charles J. Guiteau, but Garfield did not die until September 19 of that year, at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885. Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president ever to have served two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) as President and therefore is", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "14651740", "score": 0.92197865, "text": "in 1878, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. First known by the slogan \"he kept us out of the war\", Wilson was finally pressured into asking Congress to declare war on Germany who was attacking U.S. vessels at high sea. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was once an influential newspaper", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "6749789", "score": 0.9206004, "text": "Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the Vice President of the United States for only days when he succeeded to the presidency. A Republican, he ran for and won a full four-year term as president in 1904, easily defeating Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker. After the Republican victory in the 1908 presidential election, Roosevelt was succeeded by his protege and chosen successor, William", "title": "Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "918366", "score": 0.9163115, "text": "Charles W. Fairbanks Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician who served as the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905. He was also the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election. Born in Unionville Center, Ohio, Fairbanks moved to Indianapolis after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University. He became an attorney and railroad financier, working under railroad magnate Jay Gould. Fairbanks delivered the keynote address at the 1896 Republican National Convention and won election to the Senate the", "title": "Charles W. Fairbanks" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "14651734", "score": 0.9144858, "text": "the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at the age of 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became involved with Indiana state politics. During the American Civil War, Harrison served as a Brigadier General in the Army of the Cumberland. Under Harrison and his Postmaster General John Wanamaker, the nation's first commemorative stamps were made available and were first issued at", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "158911", "score": 0.90959966, "text": "Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and", "title": "Grover Cleveland" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "14651720", "score": 0.904169, "text": "ninth President of the United States, and served in the U.S. Army as an officer. A hero in the War of 1812, he was the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence, Harrison died on his thirty-second day in office. Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, was the 23rd president, from 1889 to 1893, making them the only grandparent–grandchild pair of presidents. John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" } ]
What is the technical name for those “You Are Here” signs?
[ "IDEO locator" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16145571", "score": 0.8873178, "text": "much information and distract motorists from concentrating on the road. The number of tourist signs continues to grow and less significant destinations are increasingly being signed. Tourist sign A tourist sign, often referred to as a brown sign, is a traffic sign whose purpose is to direct visitors to tourist destinations, such as historic buildings, tourist regions, caravan or camp sites, picnic areas, sporting facilities or museums. By international convention brown signs with white lettering and white pictograms are often used for this purpose. In the mid-1970s tourist signs were introduced in France. Since that time the idea of directing", "title": "Tourist sign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16145569", "score": 0.8826816, "text": "Tourist sign A tourist sign, often referred to as a brown sign, is a traffic sign whose purpose is to direct visitors to tourist destinations, such as historic buildings, tourist regions, caravan or camp sites, picnic areas, sporting facilities or museums. By international convention brown signs with white lettering and white pictograms are often used for this purpose. In the mid-1970s tourist signs were introduced in France. Since that time the idea of directing tourists to sights and attractions using a uniform type of signage has spread around the world. In Germany these tourist signs were first used in 1984.", "title": "Tourist sign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10406727", "score": 0.8237575, "text": "Welcome sign A welcome sign (or gateway sign) is a road sign at the border of a region that introduces or welcomes visitors to the region. Examples of welcome signs can be found near political borders, such as when entering a state, province, county, city, or town, and they are increasingly found in neighborhoods and private communities. In European countries under the Schengen Agreement, a welcome sign may be found at borders between countries. Its purpose is partly informational, to inform drivers where they are, and partly for tourism, as it affords an opportunity to advertise features within the region", "title": "Welcome sign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "5933283", "score": 0.8188437, "text": "Street name sign A street name sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways. Street name signs are most often found posted at intersections, and are usually in perpendicularly oriented pairs identifying each of the crossing streets. Modern street name signs are mounted on either utility poles or smaller purpose-made sign poles posted on a streetcorner, or hung over intersections from overhead supports like wires or pylons. Up until around 1900 in the USA, however, street name signs were often mounted on the corners of buildings,", "title": "Street name sign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9999595", "score": 0.7992761, "text": "and triangle). Warning signs give a warning of that there are dangerous or unusual conditions ahead. Often these signs have a greater more conspicuous presence than a regulatory sign. These signs often do not have much text on them, as they should be internationally understood due to the nature of the message that they are conveying. Information signs give information about direction and distance, usually guiding drivers to destinations, facilities, services and attractions. Often these signs have names of locations with an arrow pointing towards the direction of the destination and a number giving the approximate distance. These non-permanent temporary", "title": "Traffic sign design" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "18555788", "score": 0.7987481, "text": "shown on or near the sign. Warning signs let drivers know that road changes are coming up on the drive. These can be permanent or temporary traffic hazards and obstacles. Guide and information signs give directions and information for scenic tourist routes and destinations such as rest stops and fuel stations. They also provide additional traffic information to guide driving. Please note that some plates have reduced due to the changing to alphanumeric plates in several states. Queensland has been partially alphanumeric, replacing all but around one metroad (because it is not applicable as M) with M roads, while New", "title": "Road signs in Australia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2618797", "score": 0.79270214, "text": "to warn motorists to look out for illegal immigrants who try to escape authorities by running through freeway traffic. The symbol was created by California Department of Transportation employee John Hood in the late 1980s. <br> These signs mark school zones (in which lower speed limits may be in place), student crossings, crossing guards or signals ahead. In the U.S. and Canada, pentagon-shaped signs are used in place of the usual diamond-shaped signs. The shape of the U.S. school zone resembles a one-room schoolhouse and is the only U.S. sign shaped this way. Some Canadian provinces use an identical sign.", "title": "Warning sign" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13222797", "score": 0.7894432, "text": "localized hi versions that are used in large cities such as New York City which use a naming system compatible with the MUTCD and/or state supplement. The MUTCD and SHS establish seven general categories of signs for road and highway use (all signs from national MUTCD, unless noted). Regulatory signs give instructions to motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. Signs such as stop, no parking, no turns, and yield are considered regulatory signs. Some have special shapes, such as the octagon for the stop sign and the X shape for railroad crossings. Some signs can be localized, such as no parking, and", "title": "Road signs in the United States" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "7962142", "score": 0.7884295, "text": "signs use English Language, the official and national language in the country. However, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil Language is also used for important public places such as tourist attractions, airports and immigration checkpoints. Warning signs indicate possible dangers or unusual conditions ahead and alert motorists so they may anticipate the appropriate actions to take. They are usually shaped as triangles with a red border, and mounted on a borderless white backing board, Similar to the United Kingdom traffic sign. Regulatory signs either give positive instructions, i.e. Mandatory signs, or indicate a prohibition, i.e. Prohibitionary signs. Many regulatory signs are accompanied", "title": "Road signs in Singapore" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "18322456", "score": 0.7873987, "text": "10 years or more of continuous use, although their brightness may gradually diminish. Radioluminescent and phosphorescent signs that require no electricity have also been developed, and have been used since the 1970s. Radioluminescence uses the radioactive decay of tritium gas to illuminate the sign, while phosphorescence uses light-emitting phosphors to glow in the dark. While both of these signs meet California State Fire Marshal standards, electricity is used in the vast majority of signs. Most exit signs in the world, except in countries such as the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, and Singapore, are of pictogram type. Australia, Singapore, and", "title": "Exit sign" } ]
According to Zuzu Bailey, what happens every time a bell rings?
[ "An angel gets his wings" ]
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The main character was based on Mary Printz, who worked for Green's answering service. Three of the show's tunes, \"Long Before I Knew You,\" \"Just in Time,\" and \"The Party's Over\", became popular standards. Judy Holliday reprised her Broadway starring role in the 1960 film of the same name, also starring Dean Martin. The original Broadway", "title": "Bells Are Ringing (musical)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "11485687", "score": 0.90676427, "text": "Zealand Disney Casting Call Competition. She was one of five finalists who went into the studio and met with some of the \"As the Bell Rings\" crew. Bailey receiving the phone call that she had won the competition was featured as a special break-filler on Disney Channel Australia. The series premiered on 24 September 2007 and screened on weekdays at 5:25 pm between \"The Suite Life on Deck\"/\"Wizards of Waverly Place\" and \"Hannah Montana\". The shorts have also been repeated after movies and TV series. Season 2 aired between 2 January 2009 and 14 September 2009. Season 3, which included", "title": "As the Bell Rings (Australian TV series)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10677060", "score": 0.9056139, "text": "a headlock and rammed his head into a table. On December 13, 2014, according to a message on Twitter, Bell graduated from Southern University with a bachelor's degree in education interdisciplinary studies. Robert Bailey attended high school at Shaw High School in Columbus, Georgia, where he was granted an extra year's eligibility to play football. Theo Shaw was able to attend classes at another high school and have his credits transferred to Jena. He received a Jena High School diploma although he took part in the graduation ceremony at the other school. on June 3, 2018, he graduated from the", "title": "Jena Six" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6441183", "score": 0.8873707, "text": "time to lessons. A number of other schools in the United Kingdom have made similar decisions and either partially or completely turned off the school bell system. In April 2010, Al-Shabab–an Islamic militant group that controls large parts of Somalia–ordered school bells banned as they sounded too similar to church bells. Hand claps were then used as an alternative way of signaling that a class was beginning or ending. School bell The ringing of a school bell is a signal that tells a school's students when it is time to go to class in the morning or afternoon and when", "title": "School bell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1233549", "score": 0.87774944, "text": "Whitewright, while Highway 56 leads west to Sherman, the Grayson County seat, and east to Bonham. U.S. Route 82, a four-lane freeway, passes through the northern part of Bells, also leading to Sherman and Bonham. According to the United States Census Bureau, Bells has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,190 people, 484 households, and 345 families residing in the town. The population density was 520.7 people per square mile (200.6/km²). There were 525 housing units at an average density of 229.7 per square mile (88.5/km²). The racial makeup", "title": "Bells, Texas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10677000", "score": 0.8758963, "text": "high school was an attempt to destroy grade records. Six students (Robert Bailey, then aged 17; Mychal Bell, then 16; Carwin Jones, then 18; Bryant Purvis, then 17; Jesse Ray Beard, then 14; and Theo Shaw, then 17) were arrested in the assault of Barker. Mychal Bell was initially convicted as an adult of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. His convictions were overturned on the grounds that he should have been tried as a juvenile. Before a retrial in juvenile court, Bell pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of simple battery. The other five defendants later pleaded", "title": "Jena Six" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "19491921", "score": 0.87273836, "text": "so the employees can come to the tables to connect with customers. Call bell A call bell (sometimes called a counter bell, service bell, or concierge bell) is a bell that alerts and causes attention to the attendant who hears it. A call bell is used in hotels or other such facilities where people need to call attention to the person in charge to check them in, take their bags, of for any other reasons. It is mostly used in restaurants and usually attached to every table in restaurants. If a customer presses the button on the call bell, there", "title": "Call bell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "19491920", "score": 0.8708382, "text": "Call bell A call bell (sometimes called a counter bell, service bell, or concierge bell) is a bell that alerts and causes attention to the attendant who hears it. A call bell is used in hotels or other such facilities where people need to call attention to the person in charge to check them in, take their bags, of for any other reasons. It is mostly used in restaurants and usually attached to every table in restaurants. If a customer presses the button on the call bell, there is a sound and the table number is shown on the display,", "title": "Call bell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8277485", "score": 0.8689115, "text": "Zuill Bailey James Zuill Bailey, better known as Zuill Bailey (born 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American cellist, chamber musician, and artistic director. A graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Juilliard School, he has appeared with major orchestras internationally. He is a professor of cello at the University of Texas at El Paso. Bailey has an exclusive international recording contract with the Telarc label. As a concerto soloist, Bailey has performed with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Buffalo, Ft. Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Toronto, and Utah. He", "title": "Zuill Bailey" } ]
The Saint Nicholas who served as the inspiration for Santa Claus, also known as Nicholas of Myra, hailed from what country?
[ "Yunanistan", "Griekenland", "Hellenic republic", "Elláda", "Graecia", "The Hellenic Republic", "Ελλάς", "Eládha", "Yananistan", "Republic of Greece", "Elliniki Dimokratía", "Picki u dusa", "République hellénique", "Social issues in Greece", "Hellas", "Hellenic Republic", "Republique hellenique", "Eladha", "Ελλάδα", "Grèce", "Elliniki Dimokratia", "Greece", "Temporary Government of National Defence", "Griechenland", "Grcija", "Ellada", "Hellada", "Greek Republic", "Grece", "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία", "Grcka", "Political history of Greece", "Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía", "Macedonian Greece", "History of North Greece", "ISO 3166-1:GR", "Grecce", "Elás", "Hellás", "Ελλας", "Greek law (Hellenic Republic)" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9439645", "score": 1.2907412, "text": "the North Pole, and his flying reindeer, who pull his sleigh. He is commonly portrayed as living at the North Pole, and often laughing in a way that sounds like \"ho ho ho\". Saint Nicholas of Myra was a 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lycia. Nicholas was famous for his generous gifts to the poor, in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that they would not have to become prostitutes. He was very religious from an early age and devoted his life entirely to Christianity. In continental Europe (more", "title": "Santa Claus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "656477", "score": 1.2144469, "text": "Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek city of Myra in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. He is revered by many Christians as a saint. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the", "title": "Saint Nicholas" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "8274386", "score": 1.1411633, "text": "Church and several other Christian denominations. He was a Greek bishop of Myra (now Demre), a town of the Byzantine Empire in present-day Turkey. He is also known outside the Christian world because he has given rise to the myth of Santa Claus, known in Italian as Babbo Natale. His relics are preserved in Bari, Venice, Rimini, Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (France), Bucharest, Volos (Greece), and Cernomorets (Bulgaria). <BR> Colobraro Colobraro (Lucano: ) is a town and \"comune\" in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The town is positioned on a high hill dominating the valley of river", "title": "Colobraro" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "77679", "score": 1.1364695, "text": "the Dutch \"Sinterklaas\", which means simply Saint Nicholas. Nicholas was a 4th-century Greek bishop of Myra, a city in the Roman province of Lycia, whose ruins are from modern Demre in southwest Turkey. Among other saintly attributes, he was noted for the care of children, generosity, and the giving of gifts. His feast day, December 6, came to be celebrated in many countries with the giving of gifts. Saint Nicholas traditionally appeared in bishop's attire, accompanied by helpers, inquiring about the behaviour of children during the past year before deciding whether they deserved a gift or not. By the 13th", "title": "Christmas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "656507", "score": 1.125951, "text": "changed, although the wheat removed in Myra was enough for two full years and could even be used for sowing. It has long been traditionally assumed that Saint Nicholas was originally buried in his home town of Myra, where his relics are later known to have been kept, but some recent archaeological evidence indicates that Saint Nicholas may have originally been entombed in a rock-cut church located at the highest point on the small Turkish island of Gemile, only twenty miles away from his birthplace of Patara. Nicholas's name is painted on part of the ruined building. In antiquity, the", "title": "Saint Nicholas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "656541", "score": 1.1227425, "text": "dramatic sequence of events. A tenor soloist appears as Saint Nicolas, with a mixed choir, boys singers, strings, piano duet, organ and percussion. Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek city of Myra in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. He is revered by many Christians as a saint. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint", "title": "Saint Nicholas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "656509", "score": 1.0967913, "text": "so Nicholas's remains appear to have been moved from the island to the city of Myra, where Nicholas had served as bishop for most of his life. Myra is located roughly forty kilometers, or twenty-five miles, east of Gemile and its location further inland made it safer from seafaring Arab forces. It is said that, in Myra, the relics of Saint Nicholas each year exuded a clear watery liquid which smelled like rose water, called manna, or myrrh, which was believed by the faithful to possess miraculous powers. Because it was widely known that all Nicholas's relics were at Myra", "title": "Saint Nicholas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9439646", "score": 1.0909992, "text": "precisely the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany) he is usually portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes. The remains of Saint Nicholas are in Italy. In 1087, the Italian city of Bari mounted an expedition to locate the tomb of the Saint. The reliquary of St. Nicholas was conquered by Italian sailors and his relics were taken to Bari where they are kept to this day. A basilica was constructed the same year to store the loot and the area became a pilgrimage site for the devout. Sailors from Bari collected just half of Nicholas' skeleton,", "title": "Santa Claus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2376884", "score": 1.0902073, "text": "Nicholas of Tolentino Nicholas of Tolentino (, ) (c. 1246September 10, 1305), known as the \"Patron of Holy Souls\", was an Italian saint and mystic. Born in 1245 in Sant'Angelo, St. Nicholas of Tolentino took his name from St. Nicholas of Myra, at whose shrine his parents prayed to have a child. Nicholas became a monk at 18, and seven years later, he was ordained a priest. He gained a reputation as a preacher and a confessor. C. 1274, he was sent to Tolentino, near his birthplace. The town suffered from civil strife between the Guelphs, who supported the pope,", "title": "Nicholas of Tolentino" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "656489", "score": 1.0823426, "text": "port on the Mediterranean Sea, in Asia Minor in the Roman Empire, to a wealthy family of Greek Christians. According to some accounts, his parents were named Epiphanius (, ) and Johanna (, ), but, according to others, they were named Theophanes (, ) and Nonna (, ). In some accounts, Nicholas's uncle was the bishop of the city of Myra, also in Lycia. Recognizing his nephew's calling, Nicholas's uncle ordained him as a priest. After his parents died, Nicholas is said to have distributed their wealth to the poor. In his most famous exploit, which is first attested in", "title": "Saint Nicholas" } ]
What holiday, created by a future Cal State Long Beach professor in 1966, is celebrated the day after Christmas for 7 days?
[ "Kwanzaa", "Qwanza", "Kwanzi", "Kwaanza", "Nguzo Saba", "Quanza" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "6567936", "score": 0.99253416, "text": "was introduced in the California Senate to rename the State Holiday Tree the California State Christmas Tree; while this measure did not pass, at the official lighting of the tree on 4 December 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to the tree as a Christmas tree in his remarks and in the press release his office issued after the ceremony. Schwarzenegger had previously ended the secular practice of calling it a \"holiday tree\" in 2004 during the 73rd annual lighting. The name change was in honor of the late Senator William \"Pete\" Knight. Schwarzenegger said at Knight's funeral that he", "title": "Christmas controversies" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10198856", "score": 0.96401525, "text": "Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Because of this work, Woman's Day magazine included Christmas off Campus as one of “31 fun activities to keep kids busy over the holidays” in 2004. Christmas on Campus Christmas on Campus is an annual event at the University of Dayton in which children are invited to campus to celebrate the Christmas holiday. It has become one of the nation's largest single-day, on-campus community service events. University students buddy up with area children and treat them to seasonal shows, displays and food. The event is held on December 8 each year, the same day", "title": "Christmas on Campus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2356551", "score": 0.9611907, "text": "its name in 1968 to California State College, Long Beach, as part of these changes and began to be much more closely integrated into the California State College system. However, then as now, it is still called \"Long Beach State\" for short, especially in athletics. In 1965, CSULB hosted the first International Sculpture Symposium to be held in the United States and the first such symposium to be held at a college or university. Six sculptors from abroad and two from the United States created many of the monumental sculptures present on the campus. The event received national media attention", "title": "California State University, Long Beach" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8153193", "score": 0.95644885, "text": "Schwarzenegger renamed it in time for Christmas of 2004. A similar occurrence took place with the Capitol Christmas Tree in Washington, DC, whereas it took on the \"holiday\" generic name from 1999–2005. California Capitol Christmas Tree The California Capitol Christmas Tree (1950–1999; 2004–present), formerly California Capitol Holiday Tree (1999–2004), is an annually erected decorated tree in Sacramento, California, United States. Initiated in 1950, the tree has been a tradition ever since and is decorated during the second week of December each year. In December 1999, during his first Christmas season in office, Governor Gray Davis changed the name of the", "title": "California Capitol Christmas Tree" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "5962214", "score": 0.95427376, "text": "now defunct University High School (1923-1948). That campus had then served as Merritt College from 1954 to 1966 and is considered the birthplace of the Black Panthers. In 1977 a group of students from a U.S. Government class at Tech launched a drive to create a California state holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.. The idea was not new - about a dozen states already had such holidays, and it had been proposed unsuccessfully at the national level - but it was still controversial. The students formed themselves into a group called \"The Apollos\" and lobbied for the", "title": "Oakland Technical High School" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "5395734", "score": 0.9540413, "text": "Christmas was a drama professor at the University of California, San Diego, and made theatrical presentations at local high schools, including La Jolla Country Day School. He died on 22 July 2000, from natural causes at the age of 84. Eric Christmas Eric Cuthbert Christmas (19 March 1916 – 22 July 2000) was a British stage and screen actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He was well known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of Angel Beach High School, in the 1982 comedy \"Porky's\", the 1983 sequel \"\", and the 1985 sequel", "title": "Eric Christmas" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8153192", "score": 0.9516768, "text": "California Capitol Christmas Tree The California Capitol Christmas Tree (1950–1999; 2004–present), formerly California Capitol Holiday Tree (1999–2004), is an annually erected decorated tree in Sacramento, California, United States. Initiated in 1950, the tree has been a tradition ever since and is decorated during the second week of December each year. In December 1999, during his first Christmas season in office, Governor Gray Davis changed the name of the tree to the California Capitol Holiday Tree, for specifically unknown reasons. After the 2003 California recall, Gray Davis was replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The name remained as \"holiday\" for December 2003, but", "title": "California Capitol Christmas Tree" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10198853", "score": 0.94005847, "text": "It is considered by some to be an integral part of the campus' spirit. The roots of Christmas on Campus can be traced to 1962, when an event called Operation Joy was held in which 60 children between the ages of 4 and 12 were brought to campus as part of a Christmas party hosted by the senior class. In 1963, the first event referred to as Christmas on Campus was held. However, it was meant as a celebration for students before the beginning of Christmas break, and did not include inviting children. These two events were combined in 1966,", "title": "Christmas on Campus" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2356550", "score": 0.9368951, "text": "surged from about 10,000 to more than 30,000, and he rapidly expanded and revamped the curriculum. McIntosh tripled the number of faculty and constructed 30 new buildings. Although the 1960s were a period of deep unrest on American college campuses, McIntosh's collegial governing style, gentle and quiet demeanor, and willingness to permit protest on campus (so long as it remained quiet and peaceful) helped keep Long Beach State College relatively quiet throughout the period. In 1964, LBSC changed its name to California State College at Long Beach. In 1967, the California state legislature revamped the state college system. It changed", "title": "California State University, Long Beach" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "2601748", "score": 0.9348382, "text": "in the Immaculate Conception Chapel. Ellie Kurtz, director of the University of Dayton's student union from 1964 to 1994, started Christmas on Campus as a way for students to celebrate Christmas before heading home for the winter break. \"One night I was preoccupied with a sense of disappointment that students would be leaving for Christmas vacation and would not be able to celebrate Christmas with their friends and the UD family,\"Kurtz said before her death in 2009, \"I imagined what a wonderful Christmas we could have if we could celebrate Christmas before the students went home for the holidays\". In", "title": "University of Dayton" } ]
March 9, 1959 saw the introduction of what Mattel favorite, an 11.5 inch tall fashion doll which saw controversy when a later talking model exclaimed such phrases as Will we ever have enough clothes?, and Math class is tough!?
[ "Barbie & Ken", "Barbie", "Barbie Millicent Robert", "Teen Talk Barbie", "Holiday Barbie", "Math is Hard Barbie", "Math is hard", "Barbie Millicent", "Barbie Mini-Kingdom", "Barbie girls", "Barbie Roberts", "Barbie Platinum lable", "Barbie Fashion", "Barbies", "Barbie doll", "Barbie Millicent Roberts", "Millicent Roberts", "Barbie syndrome", "BarbieGirls", "Barbara Millicent Roberts", "BarbieGirls.com", "Barbie Doll", "Christie (doll)", "ToyTalk", "Fashion Queen Barbie", "Barbara Handler", "Barbie Mini Kingdom", "Barbara Millicent", "Barbie dolls", "Math class is tough!", "Oreo Barbie", "Math is hard Barbie", "Willows, WI", "Barbie Platinum label" ]
[ { "hasanswer": true, "id": "1421899", "score": 1.4353682, "text": "doll. Bad Influence Concerns In July 1992, Mattel released \"Teen Talk Barbie\", which spoke a number of phrases including \"Will we ever have enough clothes?\", \"I love shopping!\", and \"Wanna have a pizza party?\" Each doll was programmed to say four out of 270 possible phrases, so that no two given dolls were likely to be the same. One of these 270 phrases was \"Math class is tough!\". Although only about 1.5% of all the dolls sold said the phrase, it led to criticism from the American Association of University Women. In October 1992, Mattel announced that \"Teen Talk Barbie\"", "title": "Barbie" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "5661931", "score": 1.4280102, "text": "talking doll that caused controversy in the United States in the early 1990s. In July 1992, Mattel released Teen Talk Barbie, which spoke a number of phrases including \"Will we ever have enough clothes?\", \"I love shopping!\", and \"Wanna have a pizza party?\" Each doll was programmed to say four out of 270 possible phrases, so that no two dolls were likely to be the same. One of these 270 phrases was \"Math class is tough!\". Although only about 1.5% of all the dolls sold said the phrase, it led to criticism from the American Association of University Women because", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "9161521", "score": 1.2577785, "text": "Teen Talk Barbie Teen Talk Barbie is an edition of Mattel's Barbie doll, introduced in 1992, that incorporates a voice box to speak one of four randomly selected phrases when a button is pushed. It became controversial because one of the phrases was \"Math class is tough\", and was also later used for a protest wherein some dolls had the voice boxes exchanged with those for Talking Duke G.I. Joe action figures produced by Hasbro. Teen Talk Barbie was introduced at the 1992 American International Toy Fair and became available for sale for about $25 in July that year. 350,000", "title": "Teen Talk Barbie" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "4128617", "score": 1.2360079, "text": "lighted pistols. Girls wanted Ohio Art Company's tin lithographed tea sets and Little Chefs Stoves, Ideal Toy Company's diaper-wetting Betsy Wetsy, and Mattel's 1959 adult-bodied fashion doll Barbie first produced on March 9, 1959. Boys wanted Daisy BB guns, Lincoln Logs, and miniature Matchbox vehicles. In 1955, Walt Disney's \"Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier\" saw the production of 'coonskin caps' and other frontier-themed toys. View-Masters, Silly Putty, and Slinky were bestsellers. Mr. Potato Head, a toy of plastic face parts that could be stuck into a potato, was the first toy to be advertised on network television, and", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "274019", "score": 1.2284521, "text": "Matson sold his share to Handler due to poor health, and Handler's wife Ruth took Matson's role. In 1947, the company had its first hit toy, a ukulele called \"Uke-A-Doodle\". The company incorporated the next year in California. Mattel became the first year-round sponsor of the \"Mickey Mouse Club\" TV series in 1955. The Barbie doll debuted in 1959, becoming the company's best-selling toy in history. In 1960, Mattel introduced Chatty Cathy, a talking doll revolutionizing the toy industry, which led to pull-string talking dolls and toys flooding the market throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The company went public in", "title": "Mattel" }, { "hasanswer": true, "id": "9161524", "score": 1.2274529, "text": "by a \"Malibu Stacy\" doll such as \"Thinking too much gives you wrinkles.\" , the collector's price for one of the estimated 3,500 Teen Talk Barbies including the phrase \"Math class is tough\" was around $500. In 1993, to draw attention to what they regarded as outdated gender stereotypes exemplified by the dolls, a group of East Village performance artists calling themselves the Barbie Liberation Organization orchestrated an exchange of voice boxes between 300 Teen Talk Barbies and Hasbro Talking Duke G.I. Joe action figures, which were replaced on store shelves. Affected Teen Talk Barbies spoke phrases such as \"Eat", "title": "Teen Talk Barbie" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8084909", "score": 1.2272277, "text": "company-- and had already used Casper and others as comic book characters. \"Matty\" referred to Matty Mattel, the animated boy mascot character for Mattel Toy Company, the show's original sponsor. Matty Mattel and Sister Belle would introduce the cartoons and show commercials for Mattel products. The series premiered on October 11, 1959, was later renamed Matty's Funnies, and was broadcast by the network until December 30, 1961. During the autumn of 1962, the show began local syndication (with new titles omitting Mattel's original sponsorship, along with \"Matty\" and \"Sister Belle\") as \"Casper and Company\". On January 6, 1962, the program", "title": "Matty's Funday Funnies" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "19636399", "score": 1.2262853, "text": "the decade into the early 1960s. A pre-teen plastic doll, she came in a variety of sizes. In 1957, American Character marketed \"Sweet Sue Sophisticate,\" a 14\" or 20\" fashion doll. The \"Toodles\" multi-jointed plastic doll — able to \"kneel, sit, play and assume 1,000 different positions\" — was introduced in 1955 and became a big seller for American Character, including its associated products like \"Toodles Toddler\" (1955-1959), \"Teeny Toodles\" (1959-1960), and \"Tommy Toodles\" (1959-1960). \"Toni,\" released in 1958, was a fashion doll for Toni hair products, sold by Gillette. Toni, also marketed as \"Cha Cha\" or \"High Society,\" was", "title": "American Character Doll Company" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8084925", "score": 1.2086918, "text": "Matty and Sister Belle were on the market from 1961 to 1963. Casper was produced from 1961 to 1963 in crisp white terry cloth, in 1964-65 he was made of white plush but was essentially the same doll. In 1962 and through 1963, the show's name was changed to \"Matty's Funnies With Beany and Cecil\"; and aired exclusively the new Beany and Cecil cartoons produced by Bob Clampett. The Matty and Sister Belle characters would appear between cartoon segments and announce the upcoming Mattel Toy commercial; and again at the end of the program to show previews of next week's", "title": "Matty Mattel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "8084926", "score": 1.187342, "text": "show. The Matty and Sister Belle characters were omitted as the shows were re-edited for Saturday mornings beginning in 1964. However, Mattel remained the sponsor. Starting in 1979, Matty appeared again as the character associated with Mattel's consumer \"hotline\" where he was featured on packages along with the company's 800 number. In 2008, a grown-up version of Matty was introduced as Mattel's \"Master Toy Collector\" and the mascot of MattyCollector.com, a website which sells action figures from the various lines which Mattel licenses or owns. \"Chatty Cathy and her Talking Friends\" by Schiffer Publishing schifferbooks.com Matty Mattel Matty Mattel was", "title": "Matty Mattel" } ]
Name the artist and the title of this 1978 classic that remains popular today: We were at the beach Everybody had matching towels Somebody went under a dock And there they saw a rock It wasnt a rock
[ "Rock Lobster by the B-52s" ]
[ { "hasanswer": false, "id": "1502127", "score": 0.9304924, "text": "the dream he heard someone whisper in his ear that the name of the band was \"the B-52s.\" The band's quirky take on the new wave sound of their era was a combination of dance and surf music set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings used by Ricky Wilson and thrift-store chic. Their first single, \"Rock Lobster,\" recorded for DB Records in 1978, was an underground success, selling over 2,000 copies in total, that led to the B-52's performing at CBGB and Max's Kansas City in New York City. Both this version of \"Rock Lobster\" and its", "title": "The B-52's" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9875873", "score": 0.9162197, "text": "\"Rock the Boat\" appeared as though it would also flop, as months went by without any radio airplay or sales activity. Not until the song became a disco favorite in New York did Top 40 radio finally pick up on the song, leading the record to finally enter the Hot 100 and zip up the chart to number-one the week of July 6, 1974, in only its seventh week on the chart (and fourth week in the Top 40). The record also reached the top-ten in the United Kingdom. \"Rock the Boat\" is considered one of the earliest disco songs.", "title": "Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10484853", "score": 0.90393746, "text": "Rock-A-Hula Baby \"Rock-A-Hula Baby \" is a song performed by Elvis Presley for the 1961 movie \"Blue Hawaii\". Written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, and Dolores Fuller, it is a genre mix of Hawaiian folk and rock and roll. It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Presley. A double A-sided release with \"Can't Help Falling in Love\", it peaked at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1962, and spent four weeks at the chart summit. The song has appeared on several compilation albums due to its chart success.", "title": "Rock-A-Hula Baby" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4734579", "score": 0.9028166, "text": "Rock Lobster \"Rock Lobster\" is a song written by Fred Schneider and Ricky Wilson, two members of The B-52's. It was produced in two versions, one by DB Records released in April 1978, and a longer version, which was part of the band's 1979 self-titled debut album, released by Warner Bros. The song became one of their signature tunes and it helped launch the band's success. \"Rock Lobster\" was the band's first single to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, where it reached No. 56. A major hit in Canada, the single went all the way to No. 1 in", "title": "Rock Lobster" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "10484854", "score": 0.89305454, "text": "The title song of the 1992 movie \"Rock-a-Doodle\" parodied \"Rock-A-Hula Baby\". Rock-A-Hula Baby \"Rock-A-Hula Baby \" is a song performed by Elvis Presley for the 1961 movie \"Blue Hawaii\". Written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, and Dolores Fuller, it is a genre mix of Hawaiian folk and rock and roll. It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Presley. A double A-sided release with \"Can't Help Falling in Love\", it peaked at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1962, and spent four weeks at the chart summit. The song", "title": "Rock-A-Hula Baby" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9875874", "score": 0.89109445, "text": "Some authorities proclaim it to be the first disco song to hit number-one, while others give that distinction to \"Love's Theme\" by Love Unlimited Orchestra, a chart-topper from earlier in 1974. The song became a gold record. It is a heavy airplay favorite on oldie and adult contemporary stations today. The song features a lead vocal by Fleming Williams, who left The Hues Corporation shortly after the song was recorded. According to \"The Billboard Book of Number One Hits\" by Fred Bronson, the lone female member of the group, H. Ann Kelley, had originally been pegged to sing lead, but", "title": "Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "16743015", "score": 0.88543016, "text": "the name of the record label, taken from the title of an Augustus Pablo track. The record label title became the adopted name for the genre of music. Brown Sugar's first release in 1977 (and the first on the Lover's Rock label) was \"I'm in Love with a Dreadlocks\", written by guitarist John Kpiaye. The song married a rootsy theme that was proud of identity with the sentiments of a love song. It was a massive hit with sound system owners and reggae lovers and went on to reach the top spot in the British reggae charts. Further releases included", "title": "Brown Sugar (group)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "4212444", "score": 0.8799789, "text": "caught the Casablanca label's interest with a disco track called \"Rock It,\" which became something of a hit locally. Casablanca asked Greenberg for a full album, and he gathered a cast of session players that initially included guitarists David Rivkin and Tom Riopelle, keyboardist Ivan Rafowitz, synth and vocoder programmer Roger Dumas (not the same as the French actor Roger Dumas), and bassist Terry Grant. Most importantly, he recruited lead vocalist Cynthia Johnson, the 1976 Miss Black Minnesota, who had been performing with an early version of The Time. Released nationally in late 1979, \"Rock It\" made it into the", "title": "Steven Greenberg (musician)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "13755750", "score": 0.8757925, "text": "be one of the first disco artists to cross into the mainstream. In February 1975, Rock released \"Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes\", an LP of disco songs and collaboration with producer Bob Crewe and featuring musician Jerry Corbetta of Sugarloaf. Two of the album's tracks, \"Get Dancin'\" and \"I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo (Doo Dat Dance)\", became hit singles in both the United States and the United Kingdom (both tracks were Top 10 hits in the latter territory) and instant staples at burgeoning New York dance clubs including Studio 54. By the end of the 1970s, disco music was fully", "title": "Monti Rock III" }, { "hasanswer": false, "id": "9875876", "score": 0.87322104, "text": "get crazy if you wanted to. It was a love song without being a love song. But, it was a Disco hit and it happened because of the discos.\" The song features a change in meter during the pre-chorus \"We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion\" where it is for one measure while the rest of the song is in common time. The 'Rock the Boat' dance also a favourite at weddings and birthday parties and involves many people sitting down in a row and 'rowing' a boat to the tune of the song. \"Rock the", "title": "Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)" } ]