Answer: 1991

Question: In what year was the term gastropub invented?


Answer: Mike Belben

Context: A gastropub concentrates on quality food. The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London. The concept of a restaurant in a pub reinvigorated both pub culture and British dining, though has occasionally attracted criticism for potentially removing the character of traditional pubs.

Question: Along with David Eyre, who took over the Eagle pub?


Answer: London

Question: In what city is the Eagle pub located?


Answer: Clerkenwell

Question: In what area of London is the Eagle pub located?


Answer: thirty-six

Context: CAMRA maintains a "National Inventory" of historical notability and of architecturally and decoratively notable pubs. The National Trust owns thirty-six public houses of historic interest including the George Inn, Southwark, London and The Crown Liquor Saloon, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Question: How many pubs does the National Trust own?


Answer: London

Question: In what city is the George Inn located?


Answer: Belfast

Question: What city is home to The Crown Liquor Saloon?


Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: What part of the United Kingdom is Belfast located in?


Answer: CAMRA

Question: What body maintains a National Inventory of notable pubs?


Answer: the Tan Hill Inn

Context: The highest pub in the United Kingdom is the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire, at 1,732 feet (528 m) above sea level. The remotest pub on the British mainland is The Old Forge in the village of Inverie, Lochaber, Scotland. There is no road access and it may only be reached by an 18-mile (29 km) walk over mountains, or a 7-mile (11 km) sea crossing. Likewise, The Berney Arms in Norfolk has no road access. It may be reached by foot or by boat, and by train as it is served by the nearby Berney Arms railway station, which likewise has no road access and serves no other settlement.

Question: What pub in England is the highest above sea level?


Answer: Yorkshire

Question: In what county is the Tan Hill Inn located?


Answer: 528

Question: How many meters above sea level is the Tan Hill Inn?


Answer: Inverie

Question: In what settlement is the pub known as The Old Forge located?


Answer: Scotland

Question: In what country of the United Kingdom is the Old Forge pub located?


Answer: Ye Olde Fighting Cocks

Context: A number of pubs claim to be the oldest surviving establishment in the United Kingdom, although in several cases original buildings have been demolished and replaced on the same site. Others are ancient buildings that saw uses other than as a pub during their history. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th-century structure on an 8th-century site. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham is claimed to be the "oldest inn in England". It has a claimed date of 1189, based on the fact it is constructed on the site of the Nottingham Castle brewhouse; the present building dates from around 1650. Likewise, The Nags Head in Burntwood, Staffordshire only dates back to the 16th century, but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1086, as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Question: What pub holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest in England?


Answer: 11th

Question: In what century was the building occupied by Ye Olde Fighting Cocks built?


Answer: Nottingham

Question: Where is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem located?


Answer: 1189

Question: When does Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem claim to have been founded?


Answer: 1086

Question: When was a pub documented as existing on the current site of the Nags Head?


Answer: Holywell

Context: There is archaeological evidence that parts of the foundations of The Old Ferryboat Inn in Holywell may date to AD 460, and there is evidence of ale being served as early as AD 560.

Question: Where is The Old Ferryboat Inn located?


Answer: 460

Question: How far back does the foundation of The Old Ferryboat Inn date?


Answer: 560

Question: When was ale first served at the site of The Old Ferryboat Inn?


Answer: 905

Context: The Bingley Arms, Bardsey, Yorkshire, is claimed to date to 905 AD. Ye Olde Salutation Inn in Nottingham dates from 1240, although the building served as a tannery and a private residence before becoming an inn sometime before the English Civil War. The Adam and Eve in Norwich was first recorded in 1249, when it was an alehouse for the workers constructing nearby Norwich Cathedral. Ye Olde Man & Scythe in Bolton, Lancashire, is mentioned by name in a charter of 1251, but the current building is dated 1631. Its cellars are the only surviving part of the older structure.

Question: When does The Bingley Arms claim to have been founded?


Answer: Yorkshire

Question: In what county is the Bingley Arms located?


Answer: 1240

Question: When does the building housing Ye Olde Salutation Inn date back to?


Answer: Nottingham

Question: Where is Ye Olde Salutation Inn located?


Answer: 1631

Question: When does the building housing Ye Olde Man & Scythe date from?


Answer: Stalybridge

Context: The town of Stalybridge in Cheshire is thought to have the pubs with both the longest and shortest names in the United Kingdom — The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn and the Q Inn.

Question: What town is the Q Inn located in?


Answer: Cheshire

Question: What county is home to The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn?


Answer: the Q Inn

Question: What pub has the shortest name in the United Kingdom?


Answer: The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn

Question: What is the pub with the longest name in the UK?


Answer: Cheshire

Question: What county is Stalybridge in?


Answer: 2007

Context: The number of pubs in the UK has declined year on year, at least since 1982. Various reasons are put forward for this, such as the failure of some establishments to keep up with customer requirements. Others claim the smoking ban of 2007, intense competition from gastro-pubs, the availability of cheap alcohol in supermarkets or the general economic climate are either to blame, or are factors in the decline. Changes in demographics may be an additional factor.

Question: When was a smoking ban passed in the United Kingdom?


Answer: 1982

Question: In what year did the number of United Kingdom pubs generally start to decline?


Answer: gastro-pubs

Question: Competition from what new form of establishment is sometimes blamed for the decline of pubs?


Answer: supermarkets

Question: What business that sells cheap alcohol has sometimes been held to have resulted in the decline of pubs?


Answer: 28,095

Context: The Lost Pubs Project listed 28,095 closed pubs on 21 April 2015, with photographs of many. In 2015 the rate of pub closures came under the scrutiny of Parliament in the UK, with a promise of legislation to improve relations between owners and tenants.

Question: How many closed pubs did The Lost Pubs Project catalog?


Answer: 2015

Question: In what year did Parliament inquire into the frequency of pub closures?


Answer: legislation to improve relations between owners and tenants

Question: What did Parliament promise to pass as a result of increased pub closures?


Answer: Dick Turpin

Context: The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of the Spread Eagle in Thame, Berkshire, and published his autobiography: An Innkeeper's Diary (London: Chatto & Windus, 1931). During his idiosyncratic occupancy many famous people came to stay, such as H. G. Wells. United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a 'genuine British pub' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager (Bush being a teetotaler) with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham in Blair's home constituency. There were approximately 53,500 public houses in 2009 in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller villages no longer have a local pub.

Question: Who was based out of the Swan Inn?


Answer: Buckinghamshire

Question: In what county was the Swan Inn located?


Answer: John Fothergill

Question: What was the name of the innkeeper at the Spread Eagle in the 1920s?


Answer: 1931

Question: In what year was An Innkeeper's Diary published?


Answer: Chatto & Windus

Question: What publishing house published An Innkeeper's Diary?


Answer: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Context: Many of London's pubs are known to have been used by famous people, but in some cases, such as the association between Samuel Johnson and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, this is speculative, based on little more than the fact that the person is known to have lived nearby. However, Charles Dickens is known to have visited the Cheshire Cheese, the Prospect of Whitby, Ye Olde Cock Tavern and many others. Samuel Pepys is also associated with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cock Tavern.

Question: What pub was associated with Samuel Johnson, perhaps erroneously?


Answer: the Cock Tavern

Question: Along with the Prospect of Whitby, what pub was Samuel Pepys associated with?


Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: What writer was known to visit both the Cheshire Cheese and the Prospect of Whitby?


Answer: Ye Olde Cock Tavern

Question: Along with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cheshire Cheese, what pub did Dickens visit?


Answer: 16 Charlotte Street

Context: The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name. It became famous (or according to others, infamous) during a period spanning the 1920s to the mid-1950s as a meeting place for many of London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell. Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses. The Canonbury Tavern, Canonbury, was the prototype for Orwell's ideal English pub, The Moon Under Water.

Question: What is the street address of The Fitzroy Tavern?


Answer: Fitzrovia

Question: In what district of London is The Fitzroy Tavern located?


Answer: Soho

Question: In what district of London is Pillars of Hercules located?


Answer: The Canonbury Tavern

Question: What real-life pub provided the model for Orwell's The Moon Under Water?


Answer: Canonbury

Question: In what district of London is The Canonbury Tavern located?


Answer: Parliament Square

Context: The Red Lion in Parliament Square is close to the Palace of Westminster and is consequently used by political journalists and members of parliament. The pub is equipped with a Division bell that summons MPs back to the chamber when they are required to take part in a vote. The Punch Bowl, Mayfair was at one time jointly owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie. The Coleherne public house in Earls Court was a well-known gay pub from the 1950s. It attracted many well-known patrons, such as Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett and Rudolph Nureyev. It was used by the serial-killer Colin Ireland to pick up victims.

Question: Where is the Red Lion located?


Answer: a Division bell

Question: What notable feature of the Red Lion reflects its parliamentary connection?


Answer: Madonna

Question: Who owned the Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie?


Answer: Mayfair

Question: In what district of London was the Punch Bowl located?


Answer: The Coleherne

Question: What pub was visited by Freddie Mercury?


Answer: The Blind Beggar

Context: In 1966 The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel became infamous as the scene of a murder committed by gangster Ronnie Kray. The Ten Bells is associated with several of the victims of Jack the Ripper. In 1955, Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, shot David Blakely as he emerged from The Magdala in South Hill Park, Hampstead, the bullet holes can still be seen in the walls outside. It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub (now known as The Crown Tavern) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

Question: At what pub did Ronnie Kray kill someone in 1966?


Answer: The Ten Bells

Question: What pub is associated with some of Jack the Ripper's victims?


Answer: The Magdala

Question: Outside what pub was David Blakely shot?


Answer: The Crown Tavern

Question: What is the present name of the former Crown and Anchor?


Answer: 1903

Question: In what year did Joseph Stalin visit London?


Answer: The Angel

Context: The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man. It was mentioned by Charles Dickens, became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative Bank.

Question: At what pub did Thomas Paine write The Rights of Man?


Answer: Islington

Question: In what district of London is The Angel located?


Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: What writer mentioned The Angel pub in his writings?


Answer: a Co-operative Bank

Question: What is the present status of the Angel pub?


Answer: a coaching inn

Question: Prior to becoming a pub, what did the Angel serve as?


Answer: the Lamb and Flag

Context: The Eagle and Child and the Lamb and Flag, Oxford, were regular meeting places of the Inklings, a writers' group which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The Eagle in Cambridge is where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA. The anecdote is related in Watson's book The Double Helix. and commemorated with a blue plaque on the outside wall.

Question: Along with the Eagle and Child, at what pub did the Inklings regularly meet?


Answer: Oxford

Question: Where is the Eagle and Child located?


Answer: C. S. Lewis

Question: Along with J. R. R. Tolkien, who was a noted member of the Inklings?


Answer: Cambridge

Question: Where is the Eagle pub located?


Answer: 28 February 1953

Question: On what date did Francis Crick announce to an audience of pub-goers that he had discovered DNA?


Answer: The Rovers Return

Context: The major soap operas on British television each feature a pub, and these pubs have become household names. The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV. The Queen Vic (short for the Queen Victoria) is the pub in EastEnders, the major soap on BBC One and the Woolpack in ITV's Emmerdale. The sets of each of the three major television soap operas have been visited by some of the members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II. The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Queen Vic, or the Woolpack to be offered a drink. The Bull in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers is an important meeting point.

Question: What pub is feature on the British soap opera Coronation Street?


Answer: The Queen Vic

Question: What pub is featured on EastEnders?


Answer: BBC One

Question: What channel is EastEnders broadcast on?


Answer: ITV

Question: What channel is home to the soap opera Emmerdale?


Answer: the Woolpack

Question: What pub is featured on Emmerdale?


Answer: themed bars

Context: Although "British" pubs found outside of Britain and its former colonies are often themed bars owing little to the original British pub, a number of "true" pubs may be found around the world.

Question: What would be a more accurate classification for many "British" pubs found outside Britain?


Answer: Denmark

Context: In Denmark—a country, like Britain, with a long tradition of brewing—a number of pubs have opened which eschew "theming", and which instead focus on the business of providing carefully conditioned beer, often independent of any particular brewery or chain, in an environment which would not be unfamiliar to a British pub-goer. Some import British cask ale, rather than beer in kegs, to provide the full British real ale experience to their customers. This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20,000 people.

Question: What continental European country has pubs that would be familiar to a Briton?


Answer: 56

Question: How many British cask beers were present at the 2008 European Beer Festival?


Answer: Copenhagen

Question: In what city did the 2008 European Beer Festival take place?


Answer: 20,000

Question: About how many people visited the 2008 European Beer Festival?


Answer: craic

Context: In Ireland, pubs are known for their atmosphere or "craic". In Irish, a pub is referred to as teach tábhairne ("tavernhouse") or teach óil ("drinkinghouse"). Live music, either sessions of traditional Irish music or varieties of modern popular music, is frequently featured in the pubs of Ireland. Pubs in Northern Ireland are largely identical to their counterparts in the Republic of Ireland except for the lack of spirit grocers. A side effect of "The Troubles" was that the lack of a tourist industry meant that a higher proportion of traditional bars have survived the wholesale refitting of Irish pub interiors in the 'English style' in the 1950s and 1960s. New Zealand sports a number of Irish pubs.

Question: What is the native Irish term for a pub's atmosphere?


Answer: tavernhouse

Question: What does teach tábhairne mean in English?


Answer: teach óil

Question: What Irish term means "drinkinghouse"?


Answer: spirit grocers

Question: Vis-à-vis pubs in Ireland, what feature do pubs in Northern Ireland lack?


Answer: New Zealand

Question: What country outside Ireland is known for having Irish pubs?


Answer: tavern

Context: The most popular term in English-speaking Canada used for a drinking establishment was "tavern", until the 1970s when the term "bar" became widespread as in the United States. In the 1800s the term used was "public house" as in England but "pub culture" did not spread to Canada. A fake "English looking" pub trend started in the 1990s, built into existing storefronts, like regular bars. Most universities in Canada have campus pubs which are central to student life, as it would be bad form just to serve alcohol to students without providing some type of basic food. Often these pubs are run by the student's union. The gastropub concept has caught on, as traditional British influences are to be found in many Canadian dishes. There are now pubs in the large cities of Canada that cater to anyone interested in a "pub" type drinking environment.[citation needed]

Question: Traditionally, what was the popular term for a drinking establishment in English-speaking Canada?


Answer: 1970s

Question: In what decade did "bar" become the popular term for a drinking establishment in English-speaking Canada?


Answer: public house

Question: In the 19th century, what term was used in English-speaking Canada to describe a drinking establishment?


Answer: the student's union

Question: What body often runs pubs on the campuses of Canadian universities?


Answer: 1990s

Question: In what decade could one find an "English looking" pub trend in Canada?


Answer: Christian

Context: A Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach.

Question: What is a person who follows Christianity called?


Answer: Jesus Christ

Question: Whose life do Christians learn from?


Answer: Christós

Question: What Greek word is Christian derived from?


Answer: mashiach

Question: Christós is translated from what Biblical term?


Answer: conflict

Context: There are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance." The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It is also used as a label to identify people who associate with the cultural aspects of Christianity, irrespective of personal religious beliefs or practices.

Question: While many, the perceptions of Christianity can sometimes what?


Answer: significance

Question: Regardless of beliefs, Christians all agree that Jesus has a unique what?


Answer: the cultural aspects of Christianity

Question: Whether one partakes in practices or beliefs, the label Christian is sometimes attached because they associate with what?


Answer: 2.2 billion

Context: According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest religion in 2050, if current trends continue.

Question: According to one report, how many Christians were in the world in 2010?


Answer: 600 million

Question: How many Christians were in the world in 1910?


Answer: Christianity

Question: If growth continues as it has, what religion will be the largest in the world by 2050?


Answer: half

Context: Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, and about 26% live in Europe, 24% of total Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% of the world's Christians live in the Middle east and North Africa. About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world's Christians. Other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories. 280 million Christian live as a minority.

Question: Of all the Christians in the world, how many are Catholic?


Answer: 158

Question: Christians are the majority in how many countries and territories in the world today?


Answer: Χριστιανός (Christianos)

Context: The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed." In other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish.

Question: What Greek word defines as "follower of Christ?"


Answer: Χριστός (Christos)

Question: Where does the Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos) come from?


Answer: anointed one

Question: What does Χριστός (Christos) mean?


Answer: Chrétien

Question: What is the French word for Christian that was derived from Greek?


Answer: Acts 11:26

Context: The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11:26, after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: "[...] the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26:28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4:16, which exhorts believers: "Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf."

Question: Where is the first reference to the word Christian in the Bible?


Answer: Herod Agrippa II

Question: Who made the second reference to the word Christian in the Bible?


Answer: Peter 4:16

Question: When verse was the third mention?


Answer: the emperor of Rome

Context: Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all three original New Testament verses' usages reflect a derisive element in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome. The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames. However Peter's apparent endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the standard term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards.

Question: Kenneth Samuel Wuest believes that the Biblical Christian term referenced people who did not acknowledge who?


Answer: Antioch

Question: In what city did the term Christians start?


Answer: Nazarenes

Question: When Peter endorsed the term, the term Christian was used instead of what other term?


Answer: Josephus

Context: The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] commonly called Christians" and identifies Christians as Nero's scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome.

Question: What is one of the first mentions of the term Christian in a non-religious work, referring to a tribe of Christians?


Answer: Tacitus

Question: Which non-religious piece of literature had the term Christian in it towards the end of the first century?


Answer: Nero

Question: Christians were said to be the scapegoat of who?


Answer: Nazarenes

Context: Another term for Christians which appears in the New Testament is "Nazarenes" which is used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus in Acts 24. Tertullian (Against Marcion 4:8) records that "the Jews call us Nazarenes," while around 331 AD Eusebius records that Christ was called a Nazoraean from the name Nazareth, and that in earlier centuries "Christians," were once called "Nazarenes." The Hebrew equivalent of "Nazarenes", Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian.

Question: In Acts 24, what is another word that Christians are called?


Answer: Nazoraean

Question: What was Jesus called since he was from Nazareth?


Answer: Notzrim

Question: What is another Hebrew term for Nazarenes?


Answer: modern Israeli Hebrew

Question: Wha still calls Christians Notzrim?


Answer: beliefs and practices

Context: A wide range of beliefs and practices is found across the world among those who call themselves Christian. Denominations and sects disagree on a common definition of "Christianity". For example, Timothy Beal notes the disparity of beliefs among those who identify as Christians in the United States as follows:

Question: While Christianity is ultimately one belief, a wide range of what is found among the different denominations and sects?


Answer: Linda Woodhead

Context: Linda Woodhead attempts to provide a common belief thread for Christians by noting that "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance." Philosopher Michael Martin, in his book The Case Against Christianity, evaluated three historical Christian creeds (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed) to establish a set of basic assumptions which include belief in theism, the historicity of Jesus, the Incarnation, salvation through faith in Jesus, and Jesus as an ethical role model.

Question: Who states that Christian believers agree that Jesus has a unique significance?


Answer: Michael Martin

Question: Who wrote The Case Against Christianity?


Answer: three

Question: How many historical Christian creeds did Martin write about?


Answer: faith in Jesus

Question: What do Christians believe is the way to salvation?


Answer: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed

Question: What are the three creeds Martin studied?


Answer: Messiah

Context: The identification of Jesus as the Messiah is not accepted by Judaism. The term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי (Notzri—"Nazarene"), a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel. Adherents of Messianic Judaism are referred to in modern Hebrew as יְהוּדִים מָשִׁיחַיים (Yehudim Meshihi'im—"Messianic Jews").

Question: Judaism does not believe that Jesus is the what?


Answer: Galilean village

Question: What village did Jesus come from?


Answer: Nazareth

Question: Where was the Galilean village?


Answer: northern Israel

Question: Where is Nazareth located?


Answer: followers of the Messiah

Context: In Arabic-speaking cultures, two words are commonly used for Christians: Naṣrānī (نصراني), plural Naṣārā (نصارى) is generally understood to be derived from Nazareth through the Syriac (Aramaic); Masīḥī (مسيحي) means followers of the Messiah. The term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city.

Question: What does Masīḥī mean?


Answer: July 2014

Question: When did the term Nasara become used more in modern times?


Answer: the Fall of Mosul

Question: What happened in July 2014?


Answer: the first letter of Nasara

Question: What was spray pained on the properties of Christians who left the area?


Answer: Nasrani

Context: Where there is a distinction, Nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and Masihi means those with a religious faith in Jesus. In some countries Nasrani tends to be used generically for non-Muslim Western foreigners, e.g. "blond people."

Question: Which term is in reference to people from a Christian culture?


Answer: Masihi

Question: Which term is indicative of people who place their faith in Jesus?


Answer: Nasrani

Question: What description is used for Western people who do not follow the Muslim faith?


Answer: Ṣalībī

Context: Another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī (صليبي "Crusader") from ṣalīb (صليب "cross") which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations. However, Salibi is a modern term; historically, Muslim writers described European Christian Crusaders as al-Faranj or Alfranj (الفرنج) and Firinjīyah (الفرنجيّة) in Arabic" This word comes from the Franks and can be seen in the Arab history text Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ali ibn al-Athir.

Question: What is the Arabic term when referring to Christians in a political sense?


Answer: cross

Question: Ṣalībī comes from the word ṣalīb, which means what?


Answer: Crusader

Question: What does Ṣalībī mean?


Answer: European Christian Crusaders

Question: What does Alfranj mean?


Answer: Masīhī

Context: The most common Persian word is Masīhī (مسیحی), from Arabic.,Other words are Nasrānī (نصرانی), from Syriac for "Nazarene", and Tarsā (ترسا), from Middle Persian word Tarsāg, also meaning "Christian", derived from tars, meaning "fear, respect".

Question: What is the most common Persian word for Christian?


Answer: Nasrānī

Question: What is the Syriac word for Nazarene?


Answer: fear, respect

Question: What does tars mean?


Answer: Tarsā

Question: What is the Middle Persion word for Christian?


Answer: Nasrani

Context: The Syriac term Nasrani (Nazarene) has also been attached to the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India. In the Indian subcontinent, Christians call themselves Isaai (Hindi: ईसाई, Urdu: عیسائی), and are also known by this term to adherents of other religions. This is related to the name they call Jesus, 'Isa Masih, and literally means 'the followers of 'Isa'.

Question: Which word has been connected to Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India?


Answer: Isaai

Question: What do followers of Jesus call themselves in the Indian subcontinent?


Answer: Isa Masih

Question: What do the people in the Indian subcontinent call Jesus?


Answer: Nasrani

Context: In the past, the Malays used to call the Portuguese Serani from the Arabic Nasrani, but the term now refers to the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia.

Question: What term did the Malays use for the Portuguese Serani?


Answer: the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia

Question: What does the term refer to now?


Answer: 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú)

Context: The Chinese word is 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú), literally "Christ follower." The two characters now pronounced Jīdū in Mandarin Chinese, were originally pronounced Ki-To in Cantonese as representation of Latin "Cristo".[citation needed] In Vietnam, the same two characters read Cơ đốc, and a "follower of Christianity" is a tín đồ Cơ đốc giáo.

Question: What is the Chinese word for Christian?


Answer: Christ follower

Question: What does 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú) mean?


Answer: Ki-To in Cantonese

Question: What was the original pronunciation of Jīdū?


Answer: Cơ đốc

Question: What did the two characters read in Vietnamese?


Answer: kirishitan

Context: In Japan, the term kirishitan (written in Edo period documents 吉利支丹, 切支丹, and in modern Japanese histories as キリシタン), from Portuguese cristão, referred to Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries before the religion was banned by the Tokugawa shogunate. Today, Christians are referred to in Standard Japanese as キリスト教徒, Kirisuto-kyōto or the English-derived term クリスチャン kurisuchan.

Question: What Japanese term was used in reference to Roman Catholics?


Answer: 16th and 17th centuries

Question: When was the term kirishitan used by the Japanese?


Answer: the Tokugawa shogunate

Question: Who banned Roman Catholicism in Japan?


Answer: Kirisuto-kyōto

Question: How are Christians referenced today in Japan?


Answer: 기독교도, Kidok-kyo-do

Context: Korean still uses 기독교도, Kidok-kyo-do for "Christian", though the Greek form Kurisudo 그리스도 has now replaced the old Sino-Korean Kidok, which refers to Christ himself.

Question: What is the Korean word for Christian?


Answer: Sino-Korean Kidok

Question: Which term referred to Jesus himself?


Answer: Kurisudo 그리스도

Question: What is the modern term for Sino-Korean Kidok?


Answer: Scythia

Context: The region of modern Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia (Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the ex-USSR) have a long history of Christianity and Christian communities on its lands. In ancient times, in the first centuries after the birth of Christ, when this region was called[by whom?] Scythia - Christians already lived there. Later the region saw the first states to adopt Christianity officially - initially in Armenia (301 AD) and in Georgia (337 AD), later in the Great Russian Principality (Kyivan Rus, Russian: Великое княжество Русское, ca 988 AD). People of that time used to denote themselves Christians (христиане, крестьяне) and Russians (русские). Both terms had strong Christian connotations.[citation needed] It is also interesting that in time the term "крестьяне" acquired the meaning "peasants of Christian faith" and later "peasants" (the main part of the population of the region), while the term "христиане" retained its religious meaning and the term "русские" began to mean representatives of the heterogeneous Russian nation formed on the basis of common Christian faith and language,[citation needed] which strongly influenced the history and development of the region. In the region the "Pravoslav faith" (православная вера - Orthodox faith) or "Russian faith" (русская вера) from earliest times became almost as known as the original "Christian faith" (христианская, крестьянская вера). Also in some contexts the term "cossack" (козак, казак - free man by the will of God) was used[by whom?] to denote "free" Christians of steppe origin and Russian language.

Question: What was the region of Eastern Europe called in 1 AD?


Answer: Armenia

Question: What was the first state in this region to adopt Christianity?


Answer: 301 AD

Question: When did Armenia adopt Christianity?


Answer: 337 AD

Question: When did Georgia adopt Christianity?


Answer: Pravoslav faith

Question: What nearly was known as the original 'Christian faith'?


Answer: 100 years

Context: As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2.4 billion adherents. The faith represents about a third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world. Christians have composed about 33 percent of the world's population for around 100 years. The largest Christian denomination is the Roman Catholic Church, with 1.17 billion adherents, representing half of all Christians.

Question: How long have Christians made up nearly 1/3rd of the population?


Answer: Roman Catholic Church

Question: Which Christian denomination has the most members?


Answer: 1.17 billion

Question: How many people today are Roman Catholics?


Answer: Christianity

Context: Christianity remains the dominant religion in the Western World, where 70% are Christians. A 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 76.2% of Europeans, 73.3% in Oceania, and about 86.0% in the Americas (90% in Latin America and 77.4% in North America) described themselves as Christians.

Question: More people belong to what religion than any other in the Western world?


Answer: Christianity

Context: According to 2012 Pew Research Center survey if current trends continue, Christianity will remains the world's largest religion by year 2050. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. While Muslims have an average of 3.1 children per woman—the highest rate of all religious groups. Christians are second, with 2.7 children per woman. High birth rates and conversion were cited as the reason for the Christian population growths. A 2015 study found that approximately 10.2 million Muslim converted to Christianity. Christianity is growing in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Muslim world, and Oceania.

Question: Which religion will have the most followers by the year 2050 if trends continue?


Answer: 2.7

Question: On average, how many children do Christians have?


Answer: 10.2 million

Question: How many Muslims converted to Christianity according to a 2015 poll?


Answer: High birth rates

Question: In addition to conversion, what other reason is given for the trend in Christianity's followers?


Answer: Protestant

Context: According to Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United State by Harriet Zuckerman, a review of American Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 1972, 72% of American Nobel Prize laureates identified a Protestant background. Overall, Protestants have won a total of 84.2% of all the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, 60% in Medicine, and 58.6% in Physics awarded to Americans between 1901 and 1972.

Question: What denomination of Christianity had the highest percentage of Nobel Prize winners between 1901 and 1972 in America?


Answer: American Record Corporation

Context: Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (sometimes known as Sony Music or by the initials, SME) is an American music corporation managed and operated by Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, Sony Corporation of Japan bought the company, and in 1991, renamed it SME. It is the world's second largest recorded music company, after Universal Music Group.

Question: What was the first name of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc?


Answer: 1938

Question: In what year was it renamed Columbia Recording Corporation?


Answer: 1966

Question: In what year was it known as CBS Records?


Answer: 1987

Question: In what year did it land the name, Sony Music Entertainment?


Answer: Universal Music Group.

Question: What company is the only group larger than Sony Music Entertainment?


Answer: 2004

Context: In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment. When Sony acquired BMG's half of the conglomerate in 2008, Sony BMG reverted to the SME name. The buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which then relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Out of the "Big Three" record companies, with Universal Music Group being the largest and Warner Music Group, SME is middle-sized.

Question: In what year did SME merge with another company?


Answer: Bertelsmann Music Group

Question: What was the name of the other company that SME merged with?


Answer: Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Question: What did the company call themselves after the merger?


Answer: 2008

Question: In what year did Sony BMG Music Entertainment go back to being called SME?


Answer: 1929

Context: In 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several smaller record companies, which, ultimately, transformed into one enterprise known as SME. In the depths of the Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company (founded in 1888) in the U.S. (including its Okeh Records subsidiary) was acquired by ARC in 1934.

Question: In what year did ARC form?


Answer: 1888

Question: In what year did Columbia Phonography Company form?


Answer: 1934

Question: In what year did ARC take over Columbia Phonography Company?


Answer: Columbia Broadcasting System

Context: ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off). ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation. The Columbia Phonograph Company had international subsidiaries and affiliates such as the Columbia Graphophone Company in the United Kingdom, but they were sold off prior to CBS acquiring American Columbia. RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label with Okeh its subsidiary label while deemphasizing ARC's other labels. This allowed ARC's leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to former owner Warner Bros. which sold the labels to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward which was reissued on the Columbia label as well as the Vocalion label material from the same time period which was reissued on the Okeh label. Wallerstein, who was promoted at the end of 1947 from president to chairman of the record company, restored Columbia's status as a leading record company and spearheaded the successful introduction of the long playing (LP) record before he retired as Columbia's chairman in 1951. James Conkling then became head of Columbia Records. Also in 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name and began a UK distribution deal with Philips Records, whereas Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label.

Question: Who bought out ARC?


Answer: 1938

Question: In what year was ARC bought?


Answer: Columbia Recording Corporation

Question: What did CBS call ARC after buying it?


Answer: William S. Paley

Question: Who was the head of CBS at the time?


Answer: RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein

Question: Who convinced Paley to buy ARC?


Answer: 1953

Context: Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953. In 1956, Conkling left Columbia, he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. Records, and Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company. In 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music.

Question: In what year was Epic Records created?


Answer: Columbia

Question: What company created Epic Records?


Answer: Conkling

Question: Who was one of the creators of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences?


Answer: Warner Bros. Records

Question: What did Conkling later go on to lead?


Answer: rockabilly

Question: What type of music was Date Records known for?


Answer: 1961

Context: In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its main international distributor Philips Records with the goal of CBS starting its own global record company. Philips' acquisition of Mercury Records in the US in 1961 paved the way for this. CBS only had the rights to the Columbia name in North America; therefore the international arm founded in 1961 and launched in 1962 utilized the "CBS Records" name only, with Philips Records distributing the label in Europe. CBS's Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963.

Question: In what year was Mercury Records (US) bought out?


Answer: Philips Records

Question: Who acquired Mercury Records (US)?


Answer: Discos CBS

Question: What is the name of CBS' Mexican record label?


Answer: Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey

Context: By 1962, their Columbia Record Productions unit was operating four plants around the United States located in Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey, which manufactured records for not only Columbia's own labels, but also for independent record labels.

Question: What 4 areas of the country did Columbia Records have manufacturers in?


Answer: Oriole Records.

Context: In 1964, CBS established its own UK distribution with the acquisition of Oriole Records. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the distribution deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution.

Question: What lable was bought by CBS in the UK?


Answer: 1965

Context: With the record company a global operation in 1965, the Columbia Broadcasting System upper management started pondering changing the name of their record company subsidiary from Columbia Records to CBS Records.

Question: CBS began thinking of a name change to their record label in what year?


Answer: 1965

Context: Also in late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived. This label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Date's biggest success was "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, peaking at #2 in 1969. The label was discontinued in 1970.

Question: Date Records gave rise to the group "Peaches and Herb" in what year?


Answer: "Time of the Season" by the Zombies

Question: Date Records released what major success in 1969?


Answer: #2

Question: What place on the charts did Date Records' big success land on?


Answer: 1970

Question: Despite the success, in what year did Date Records cease to exist?


Answer: Leiberson

Context: In 1966, CBS reorganized its corporate structure with Leiberson promoted to head the new "CBS-Columbia Group" which made the now renamed CBS Records company a separate unit of this new group run by Clive Davis.

Question: Who ran CBS-Columbia Group starting in 1966?


Answer: 1968

Context: In March 1968, CBS and Sony formed CBS/Sony Records, a Japanese business joint venture. With Sony being one of the developers behind the compact disc digital music media, a compact disc production plant was constructed in Japan under the joint venture, allowing CBS to begin supplying some of the first compact disc releases for the American market in 1983.

Question: In what year did CBS and Sony come together?


Answer: 1983

Question: In what year did CDs come to the American market?


Answer: 1972

Context: The CBS Records Group was led very successfully by Clive Davis until his dismissal in 1972, after it was discovered that Davis has used CBS funds to finance his personal life, including an expensive bar mitzvah party for his son. He was replaced first by former head Goddard Lieberson, then in 1975 by the colourful and controversial lawyer Walter Yetnikoff, who led the company until 1990.

Question: In what year was Clive Davis let go at CBS Records Group?


Answer: over a hundred thousand

Context: In February 2016, over a hundred thousand people signed a petition in just twenty-four hours, calling for a boycott of Sony Music and all other Sony-affiliated businesses after rape allegations against music producer Dr. Luke were made by musical artist Kesha. Kesha asked a New York City Supreme Court to free her from her contract with Sony Music but the court denied the request, prompting widespread public and media response.

Question: How many people signed a petition to boycott Sony Music in 2016?


Answer: Google

Context: Over the past two years,[clarification needed] dozens of rights-holders, including Sony Music, have sent complaints about Wikipedia.org directly to Google to have content removed.

Question: What search engine company giant has Sony sent requests to regarding content on a website?


Answer: Wikipedia.org

Question: What website does Sony have complaints against?


Answer: 2013

Context: In July 2013, Sony Music withdrew from the Greek market due to an economic crisis. Albums released by Sony Music in Greece from domestic and foreign artists are carried by Feelgood Records.

Question: In what year did Sony pull out of the Greek market?


Answer: Feelgood Records

Question: What label for the Greek market were artists on under the Sony umbrella?


Answer: 2012

Context: In March 2012, Sony Music reportedly closed its Philippines office due to piracy, causing to move distribution of SME in the Philippines to Ivory Music.

Question: In what year did Sony shut down their offices in the Philippines?


Answer: L.A. Reid

Context: Doug Morris, who was head of Warner Music Group, then Universal Music, became chairman and CEO of the company on July 1, 2011. Sony Music underwent a restructuring after Morris' arrival. He was joined by L.A. Reid, who became the chairman and CEO of Epic Records. Under Reid, multiple artists from the Jive half of the former RCA/Jive Label Group moved to Epic. Peter Edge became the new CEO of the RCA Records unit. The RCA Music Group closed down Arista, J Records and Jive Records in October 2011, with the artists from those labels being moved to RCA Records.

Question: What famous music producer became CEO of Epic Records?


Answer: Doug Morris

Question: Who joined the CEO of Epic Records in becoming the CEO of Sony Music?


Answer: 2011

Question: In what year did he become the CEO of Sony Music?


Answer: Peter Edge

Question: Who became the CEO of RCA Records?


Answer: Arista, J Records and Jive Records

Question: What labels did RCA disband in 2011?


Answer: Ozzy Osbourne, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer

Context: In the 1980s to early 1990s, there was a CBS imprint label in the US known as CBS Associated Records. Tony Martell, veteran CBS and Epic Records A&R Vice President was head of this label and signed artists including Ozzy Osbourne, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer. This label was a part of (Epic/Portrait/Associated) wing of sub labels at CBS which shared the same national and regional staff as the rest of Epic Records and was a part of the full CBS Records worldwide distribution system.

Question: Name 3 artists that CBS Associated Records signed on in the 80s and 90s?


Answer: 1986

Context: In 1986, CBS sold its music publishing arm, CBS Songs, to Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman for $125 million making it the foundation of their SBK Entertainment.

Question: In what year did CBS sell CBS Songs?


Answer: $125 million

Question: How much was the sale of CBS Songs?


Answer: Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman

Question: Who were the 3 people who bought CBS Songs?


Answer: 1987

Context: By 1987, CBS was the only "big three" American TV network to have a co-owned record company. ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Records, later known as BMG).

Question: In what year was CBS the only network to also have a record company?


Answer: MCA Records

Question: What label did ABC sell in 1979?


Answer: RCA

Question: What label did NBC sell in 1986?


Answer: Ge

Question: Who bought RCA?


Answer: 1987

Context: On November 17, 1987, SCA acquired CBS Records, which hosted such acts as Michael Jackson, for US$2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name. CBS Corporation founded a new CBS Records in 2006, which is distributed by Sony through its RED subsidiary.

Question: In what year did SCA buy CBS Records?


Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Who was the biggest artist that CBS had?


Answer: $2 billion

Question: How much did SCA pay for CBS Records?


Answer: 2006

Question: In what year did the CBS Corporation begin another CBS Records?


Answer: Sony through its RED subsidiary

Question: Who distributes CBS Records material?


Answer: 1989

Context: In 1989, CBS Records re-entered the music publishing business by acquiring Nashville music publisher Tree International Publishing for more than $30 million.

Question: In what year did CBS Records buy out Tree International Publishing?


Answer: $30 million

Question: How much did CBS Records pay for Tree International Publishing?


Answer: Nashville

Question: In what city was Tree International Publishing located?


Answer: 2011

Context: RCA/Jive Label Group CEO Barry Weiss left the company in March 2011 to become the new CEO of Island Def Jam and Universal Republic, which were both part of Universal Music Group. Weiss had been the RCA/Jive Label Group CEO since 2008 and was head of Jive Records since 1991.

Question: In what year did CEO of RCA/Jive Barry Weiss leave?


Answer: Island Def Jam and Universal Republic

Question: What company did Barry Weiss move to?


Answer: 2008

Question: When did Barry Weiss become CEO of RCA/Jive?


Answer: 1991

Question: When did Barry Weiss become head of Jive Records?


Answer: Mel Lewinter

Context: On October 11, 2011, Doug Morris announced that Mel Lewinter had been named Executive Vice President of Label Strategy. Lewinter previously served as chairman and CEO of Universal Motown Republic Group. In January 2012, Dennis Kooker was named President of Global Digital Business and US Sales.

Question: Who was promoted to Executive VP of Label Strategy in 2011?


Answer: Dennis Kooker

Question: Who became President of Global Digital Business and US Sales in 2012?


Answer: 2004

Context: In August 2004, Sony entered joint venture with equal partner Bertelsmann, by merging Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group, Germany, to establish Sony BMG Music Entertainment. However Sony continued to operate its Japanese music business independently from Sony BMG while BMG Japan was made part of the merger.

Question: In what year did Sony and BMG Germany merge?


Answer: 2008

Context: On August 5, 2008, SCA and Bertelsmann announced that Sony had agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. Sony completed its acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the companies' joint venture on October 1, 2008. The company, once again named Sony Music Entertainment Inc., became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation through its US subsidiary SCA. The last few albums to feature a Sony BMG logo were Thriller 25 by Michael Jackson, I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido. A temporary logo was unveiled beginning December 1, 2008. The present logo was unveiled in March 2009.

Question: In what year did Sony take BMG's half stake in the company?


Answer: Thriller 25 by Michael Jackson, I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido

Question: Name one of the final albums to ever have the Sony BMG label?


Answer: 2009

Question: When was Sony's new logo revealed to the public?


Answer: SME and IODA

Context: On July 1, 2009, SME and IODA announced their global strategic partnership to leverage combined worldwide online retail distribution networks and complementary technologies to support independent labels and music rightsholders.

Question: What labels strove to support indie labels and music rightsholders?


Answer: 2009

Question: In what year did they partner in order to do so?


Answer: Michael Jackson Company

Context: In March 2010, Sony Corp has partnered with The Michael Jackson Company with a contract of more than $250 million, the largest deal in recorded music history.

Question: Who did Sony partner with to create the biggest deal ever?


Answer: $250 million

Question: How much was the partnership worth?


Answer: 2010

Question: In what year was the partnership initiated?


Answer: 1989

Context: The merger made Columbia and Epic sister labels to RCA Records, which was once owned by RCA which also owned CBS rival NBC. It also started the process of bringing BMG's Arista Records back under common ownership with its former parent Columbia Pictures, a Sony division since 1989, and also brought Arista founder Clive Davis back into the fold. Davis is still with Sony Music as Chief Creative Officer.

Question: Columbia Pictures has been owned by Sony since what year?


Answer: Clive Davis

Question: Who is the CCO of Sony Music?


Answer: 1995

Context: In 1995, Sony and Michael Jackson formed a joint venture which merged Sony's music publishing operations with Jackson's ATV Music to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Question: In what year did the merger take place?


Answer: 1991

Context: Sony renamed the record company Sony Music Entertainment (SME) on January 1, 1991, fulfilling the terms set under the 1988 buyout, which granted only a transitional license to the CBS trademark. The CBS Associated label was renamed Epic Associated. Also on January 1, 1991, to replace the CBS label, Sony reintroduced the Columbia label worldwide, which it previously held in the United States and Canada only, after it acquired the international rights to the trademark from EMI in 1990. Japan is the only country where Sony does not have rights to the Columbia name as it is controlled by Nippon Columbia, an unrelated company. Thus, until this day, Sony Music Entertainment Japan does not use the Columbia trademark for Columbia label recordings from outside Japan which are issued in Japan. The Columbia Records trademark's rightsholder in Spain was Bertelsmann Music Group, Germany, which Sony Music subsequently subsumed via a 2004 merger, followed by a 2008 buyout.

Question: In what year did the name Sony Music Entertainment become the new name of Sony's record label?


Answer: 1991

Question: In what year did CBS Associated become Epic Associated?


Answer: Japan

Question: What is the only country where Sony has no rights to the Columbia label?


Answer: Nippon Columbia

Question: Who owns the rights to the Columbia label in Japan?


Answer: Oklahoma City

Context: Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 620,602 as of July 2014. As of 2014, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,322,429, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area. Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural (watershed). The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county or borough).

Question: What is the capital of Oklahoma?


Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: Which city is the largest in Oklahoma?


Answer: 1,322,429

Question: What was the population of Oklahoma city in 2014?


Answer: Great Plains region

Context: Oklahoma City, lying in the Great Plains region, features one of the largest livestock markets in the world. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy. The city is situated in the middle of an active oil field and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs large numbers of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (these two sites house several offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

Question: Which region is Oklahoma City a part of?


Answer: Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center

Question: What offices employ US transportation and Air force bases?


Answer: I-35 Corridor

Context: Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor and is one of the primary travel corridors into neighboring Texas and Mexico. Located in the Frontier Country region of the state, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. The city was the scene of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died. It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Question: What corridor is Oklahoma City situated in?


Answer: 1889

Question: When was the city founded?


Answer: 1995

Question: When was the Oklahoma City bombing?


Answer: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Question: What was the name of the building involved in the bombing?


Answer: Unassigned Lands

Context: Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the area known as the "Unassigned Lands" was opened for settlement in an event known as "The Land Run". Some 10,000 homesteaders settled the area that would become the capital of Oklahoma. The town grew quickly; the population doubled between 1890 and 1900. Early leaders of the development of the city included Anton Classen, John Shartel, Henry Overholser and James W. Maney.

Question: What was the name of the land before being called Oklahoma City?


Answer: James W. Maney

Question: Who was an early leader of the city?


Answer: 1907

Context: By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state. Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City was a major stop on Route 66 during the early part of the 20th century; it was prominently mentioned in Bobby Troup's 1946 jazz classic, "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66", later made famous by artist Nat King Cole.

Question: What year was Oklahoma city entered into the Union?


Answer: Guthrie

Question: What was the capital of Oklahoma before Oklahoma city?


Answer: Route 66

Question: What route made Oklahoma city a major stop?


Answer: Bobby Troup

Question: Who wrote the Jazz oldie "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"?


Answer: Nat King Cole

Question: Which artist made Bobby Troup's song famous?


Answer: 1928

Context: Before World War II, Oklahoma City developed major stockyards, attracting jobs and revenue formerly in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska. With the 1928 discovery of oil within the city limits (including under the State Capitol), Oklahoma City became a major center of oil production. Post-war growth accompanied the construction of the Interstate Highway System, which made Oklahoma City a major interchange as the convergence of I-35, I-40 and I-44. It was also aided by federal development of Tinker Air Force Base.

Question: When was oil discovered in the city limits?


Answer: I-35, I-40 and I-44

Question: What routes used Oklahoma City as a major route change?


Answer: Patience Latting

Context: Patience Latting was elected Mayor of Oklahoma City in 1971, becoming the city's first female mayor. Latting was also the first woman to serve as mayor of a U.S. city with over 350,000 residents.

Question: Who was the Oklahoma Cities first female mayor?


Answer: 1971

Question: When was Patience Latting elected?


Answer: Metropolitan Area Projects

Context: In 1993, the city passed a massive redevelopment package known as the Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS), intended to rebuild the city's core with civic projects to establish more activities and life to downtown. The city added a new baseball park; central library; renovations to the civic center, convention center and fairgrounds; and a water canal in the Bricktown entertainment district. Water taxis transport passengers within the district, adding color and activity along the canal. MAPS has become one of the most successful public-private partnerships undertaken in the U.S., exceeding $3 billion in private investment as of 2010. As a result of MAPS, the population living in downtown housing has exponentially increased, together with demand for additional residential and retail amenities, such as grocery, services, and shops.

Question: What was the name of the redevelopment passage that was passed in 1993?


Answer: baseball park

Question: What is one thing that was added in this project?


Answer: $3 billion

Question: How much money was invested in MAPS by 2010?


Answer: 2007

Context: Since the MAPS projects' completion, the downtown area has seen continued development. Several downtown buildings are undergoing renovation/restoration. Notable among these was the restoration of the Skirvin Hotel in 2007. The famed First National Center is being renovated.

Question: When was the Skirvin Hotel Renovated?


Answer: Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

Context: Residents of Oklahoma City suffered substantial losses on April 19, 1995 when Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in front of the Murrah building. The building was destroyed (the remnants of which had to be imploded in a controlled demolition later that year), more than 100 nearby buildings suffered severe damage, and 168 people were killed. The site has been commemorated as the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. Since its opening in 2000, over three million people have visited. Every year on April 19, survivors, families and friends return to the memorial to read the names of each person lost.

Question: What is the name of the newly renovated site where the bombing occured?


Answer: 2000

Question: What year did the memorial first opened?


Answer: The "Core-to-Shore" project

Context: The "Core-to-Shore" project was created to relocate I-40 one mile (1.6 km) south and replace it with a boulevard to create a landscaped entrance to the city. This also allows the central portion of the city to expand south and connect with the shore of the Oklahoma River. Several elements of "Core to Shore" were included in the MAPS 3 proposal approved by voters in late 2009.

Question: What was the name of the project to change the location of I-40 and make a new entrance to the city?


Answer: 2009

Question: What year was the Core to Shore project voted for to be part of the MAPS program?


Answer: 620.34 square miles

Context: According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 620.34 square miles (1,606.7 km2), of which, 601.11 square miles (1,556.9 km2) of it is land and 19.23 square miles (49.8 km2) of it is water. The total area is 3.09 percent water.

Question: How many square miles is Oklahoma City?


Answer: 19.23 square miles

Question: Out of the 620.34 square miles, how much of it is water?


Answer: Sandstone Hills region

Context: Oklahoma City lies in the Sandstone Hills region of Oklahoma, known for hills of 250 to 400 feet (120 m) and two species of oak: blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) and post oak (Q. stellata). The northeastern part of the city and its eastern suburbs fall into an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers.

Question: Which region is Oklahoma city located in?


Answer: North Canadian River

Context: The city is roughly bisected by the North Canadian River (recently renamed the Oklahoma River inside city limits). The North Canadian once had sufficient flow to flood every year, wreaking destruction on surrounding areas, including the central business district and the original Oklahoma City Zoo. In the 1940s, a dam was built on the river to manage the flood control and reduced its level. In the 1990s, as part of the citywide revitalization project known as MAPS, the city built a series of low-water dams, returning water to the portion of the river flowing near downtown. The city has three large lakes: Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser, in the northwestern quarter of the city; and the largest, Lake Stanley Draper, in the sparsely populated far southeast portion of the city.

Question: What river flows through Oklahoma city?


Answer: Oklahoma River

Question: What is the new name for the part of the North Canadian River that resides within the city limits?


Answer: 1940s

Question: When was a dam built for the river?


Answer: low-water dams

Question: What was built in the 1990's to help return water to the river near downtown?


Answer: rural watershed areas

Context: The population density normally reported for Oklahoma City using the area of its city limits can be a bit misleading. Its urbanized zone covers roughly 244 sq mi (630 km2) resulting in a density of 2,500 per square mile (2013 est), compared with larger rural watershed areas incorporated by the city, which cover the remaining 377 sq mi (980 km2) of the city limits.

Question: What covers the remaining 377 square miles?


Answer: South Oklahoma City

Context: The city is bisected geographically and culturally by the North Canadian River, which basically divides North Oklahoma City and South Oklahoma City. The two halves of the city were actually founded and plotted as separate cities, but soon grew together. The north side is characterized by very diverse and fashionable urban neighborhoods near the city center and sprawling suburbs further north. South Oklahoma City is generally more blue collar working class and significantly more industrial, having grown up around the Stockyards and meat packing plants at the turn of the century, and is currently the center of the city's rapidly growing Latino community.

Question: Which side is known for primarily being industrial?


Answer: North Oklahoma City

Question: Which side is more urban and fashionable?


Answer: Crystal Bridge and Myriad Botanical Gardens

Context: Downtown Oklahoma City, which has 7,600 residents, is currently seeing an influx of new private investment and large scale public works projects, which have helped to resuscitate a central business district left almost deserted by the Oil Bust of the early 1980s. The centerpiece of downtown is the newly renovated Crystal Bridge and Myriad Botanical Gardens, one of the few elements of the Pei Plan to be completed. In the next few years a massive new central park will link the gardens near the CBD and the new convention center to be built just south of it to the North Canadian River, as part of a massive works project known as Core to Shore; the new park is part of MAPS3, a collection of civic projects funded by a 1-cent temporary (seven-year) sales tax increase.

Question: What are two newly renovated locations in downtown Oklahoma city?


Answer: humid subtropical climate

Context: Oklahoma City has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with frequent variations in weather daily and seasonally, except during the consistently hot and humid summer months. Prolonged and severe droughts (sometimes leading to wildfires in the vicinity) as well as very heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding and flooding occur with some regularity. Consistent winds, usually from the south or south-southeast during the summer, help temper the hotter weather. Consistent northerly winds during the winter can intensify cold periods. Severe ice storms and snowstorms happen sporadically during the winter.

Question: What type of climate does Oklahoma city?


Answer: 35.9 inches

Context: The average temperature is 61.4 °F (16.3 °C), with the monthly daily average ranging from 39.2 °F (4.0 °C) in January to 83.0 °F (28.3 °C) in July. Extremes range from −17 °F (−27 °C) on February 12, 1899 to 113 °F (45 °C) on August 11, 1936 and August 3, 2012; the last sub-zero (°F) reading was −5 °F (−21 °C) on February 10, 2011. Temperatures reach 100 °F (38 °C) on 10.4 days of the year, 90 °F (32 °C) on nearly 70 days, and fail to rise above freezing on 8.3 days. The city receives about 35.9 inches (91.2 cm) of precipitation annually, of which 8.6 inches (21.8 cm) is snow.

Question: How much precipitation on average falls within the city?


Answer: 8.6 inches

Question: Out of the precipitation that falls, how much of it is snow?


Answer: March

Context: Oklahoma City has a very active severe weather season from March through June, especially during April and May. Being in the center of what is colloquially referred to as Tornado Alley, it is prone to especially frequent and severe tornadoes, as well as very severe hailstorms and occasional derechoes. Tornadoes have occurred in every month of the year and a secondary smaller peak also occurs during autumn, especially October. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area is one of the most tornado-prone major cities in the world, with about 150 tornadoes striking within the city limits since 1890. Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by thirteen violent tornadoes, eleven F/EF4s and two F/EF5. On May 3, 1999 parts of southern Oklahoma City and nearby suburban communities suffered from one of the most powerful tornadoes on record, an F5 on the Fujita scale, with wind speeds estimated by radar at 318 mph (510 km/h). On May 20, 2013, far southwest Oklahoma City, along with Newcastle and Moore, was hit again by a EF5 tornado; it was 0.5 to 1.3 miles (0.80 to 2.09 km) wide and killed 23 people. Less than two weeks later, on May 31, another outbreak affected the Oklahoma City area, including an EF1 and an EF0 within the city and a tornado several miles west of the city that was 2.6 miles (4.2 km) in width, the widest tornado ever recorded.

Question: When is Oklahoma city sever weather season begin?


Answer: June

Question: When does Oklahoma city sever weather season end?


Answer: 150

Question: Approximately How many tornadoes have reached the city limits?


Answer: 2.6 miles

Question: How wide was the widest tornado ever?


Answer: May 2015

Context: With 19.48 inches of rainfall, May 2015 was by far Oklahoma City's record-wettest month since record keeping began in 1890. Across Oklahoma and Texas generally, there was record flooding in the latter part of the month

Question: When was the most rainfall for Oklahoma city?


Answer: 579,999

Context: As of the 2010 census, there were 579,999 people, 230,233 households, and 144,120 families residing in the city. The population density was 956.4 inhabitants per square mile (321.9/km²). There were 256,930 housing units at an average density of 375.9 per square mile (145.1/km²).

Question: How many people were counted in the 2010 census?


Answer: 230,233 households

Question: How many households were recorded in the 2010 census


Answer: 144,120 families

Question: How many families were recorded in the 2010 census?


Answer: 956.4

Question: What was the density of the population per square mile?


Answer: 256,930

Question: How many housing units were there for the 2010 census?


Answer: 230,233

Context: There were 230,233 households, 29.4% of which had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.4% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families. One person households account for 30.5% of all households and 8.7% of all households had someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.11.

Question: How many households were in Oklahoma city?


Answer: married couples

Question: What demographic was the most percentage of the households in total?


Answer: 2.47

Question: What is the average size for households?


Answer: 3.11

Question: What is the average size for families?


Answer: non-families

Question: What is the second highest demographic for households?


Answer: 34

Context: In the 2000 Census Oklahoma City's age composition was 25.5% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.7 males.

Question: What was Oklahoma cities median age in 2000?


Answer: females

Question: Which gender was prominent in that time?


Answer: late 1990s

Context: Oklahoma City has experienced significant population increases since the late 1990s. In May 2014, the U.S. Census announced Oklahoma City had an estimated population of 620,602 in 2014 and that it had grown 5.3 percent between April 2010 and June 2013. Since the official Census in 2000, Oklahoma City had grown 21 percent (a 114,470 raw increase) according to the Bureau estimates. The 2014 estimate of 620,602 is the largest population Oklahoma City has ever recorded. It is the first city in the state to record a population greater than 600,000 residents and the largest municipal population of the Great Plains region (OK, KS, NE, SD, ND).

Question: When did the population increases begin in Oklahoma city?


Answer: 620,602

Question: What was the estimated population of Oklahoma city in 2014


Answer: Oklahoma City

Context: Oklahoma City is the principal city of the eight-county Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area in Central Oklahoma and is the state's largest urbanized area. Based on population rank, the metropolitan area was the 42nd largest in the nation as of 2012.

Question: What is Oklahoma's largest urbanized area?


Answer: 42nd

Question: What place was Oklahoma cities population ranked in the nation in 2012?


Answer: Juárez Cartel

Context: With regards to Mexican drug cartels, Oklahoma City has traditionally been the territory of the notorious Juárez Cartel, but the Sinaloa Cartel has been reported as trying to establish a foothold in Oklahoma City. There are many rival gangs in Oklahoma City, one whose headquarters has been established in the city, the Southside Locos, traditionally known as Sureños.

Question: What cartel has been known to be in Oklahoma city?


Answer: 1978

Context: Oklahoma City also has its share of very brutal crimes, particularly in the 1970s. The worst of which occurred in 1978, when six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant on the city's south side were murdered execution-style in the restaurant's freezer. An intensive investigation followed, and the three individuals involved, who also killed three others in Purcell, Oklahoma, were identified. One, Harold Stafford, died in a motorcycle accident in Tulsa not long after the restaurant murders. Another, Verna Stafford, was sentenced to life without parole after being granted a new trial after she had previously been sentenced to death. Roger Dale Stafford, considered the mastermind of the murder spree, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1995.

Question: When were six employees found dead in a restaurants freezer?


Answer: 1995

Question: When was Roger Dale Stafford executed?


Answer: 5

Context: The Oklahoma City Police Department, has a uniformed force of 1,169 officers and 300+ civilian employees. The Department has a central police station and five substations covering 2,500 police reporting districts that average 1/4 square mile in size.

Question: How many substations does Oklahoma city have?


Answer: Timothy McVeigh

Context: On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed by a fertilizer bomb manufactured and detonated by Timothy McVeigh. The blast and catastrophic collapse killed 168 people and injured over 680. The blast shockwave destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 340-meter radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, causing at least an estimated $652 million worth of damage. The main suspect- Timothy McVeigh, was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001. It was the deadliest single domestic terrorist attack in US history, prior to 9/11.

Question: Who detonated the bomb in 1995?


Answer: 168

Question: How many people were killed in the bombing?


Answer: 680

Question: How many people were injured in the bombing?


Answer: $652 million

Question: How much money was the damage worth?


Answer: June 11, 2001

Question: When was Timothy McVeigh Executed?


Answer: 2

Context: While not in Oklahoma City proper, other large employers within the MSA region include: Tinker Air Force Base (27,000); University of Oklahoma (11,900); University of Central Oklahoma (2,900); and Norman Regional Hospital (2,800).

Question: How many universities are within the MSA region?


Answer: Norman Regional Hospital

Question: What hospital is in the MSA region


Answer: 27,000

Question: How many employees work for Tinker Air Force Base?


Answer: 2,800

Question: How many employees work for Norman Regional Hospital?


Answer: 11,900

Question: How many people work in University of Oklahoma?


Answer: $61.1 billion

Context: According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the metropolitan area's economic output grew by 33 percent between 2001 and 2005 due chiefly to economic diversification. Its gross metropolitan product was $43.1 billion in 2005 and grew to $61.1 billion in 2009.

Question: What was Oklahoma cities gross metropolitan product in 2009?


Answer: 2008

Context: In 2008, Forbes magazine named Oklahoma City the most "recession proof city in America". The magazine reported that the city had falling unemployment, one of the strongest housing markets in the country and solid growth in energy, agriculture and manufacturing. However, during the early 1980s, Oklahoma City had one of the worst job and housing markets due to the bankruptcy of Penn Square Bank in 1982 and then the post-1985 crash in oil prices.[citation needed]

Question: What year did forbes list Oklahoma city as "recession proof".


Answer: 1982

Question: When did Penn Square Bank go bankrupt?


Answer: 1985

Question: What year did the oil crash?


Answer: April 2006

Context: Other theaters include Lyric Theatre, Jewel Box Theatre, Kirkpatrick Auditorium, the Poteet Theatre, the Oklahoma City Community College Bruce Owen Theater and the 488-seat Petree Recital Hall, at the Oklahoma City University campus. The university also opened the Wanda L Bass School of Music and auditorium in April 2006.

Question: When was the Wanda L Bass School of Music and auditorium opened?


Answer: Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum at Omniplex

Context: The Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum at Omniplex) houses exhibits on science, aviation, and an IMAX theater. The museum formerly housed the International Photography Hall of Fame (IPHF) that exhibits photographs and artifacts from a large collection of cameras and other artifacts preserving the history of photography. IPHF honors those who have made significant contributions to the art and/or science of photography and relocated to St. Louis, Missouri in 2013.

Question: What was the original name of the Science Museum of Oklahoma?


Answer: 2013

Question: When was the International Photography Hall of Fame relocated?


Answer: 300

Context: The Museum of Osteology houses more than 300 real animal skeletons. Focusing on the form and function of the skeletal system, this 7,000 sq ft (650 m2) museum displays hundreds of skulls and skeletons from all corners of the world. Exhibits include adaptation, locomotion, classification and diversity of the vertebrate kingdom. The Museum of Osteology is the only one of its kind in America.

Question: How many animal skeletons are in the museum of Osteology?


Answer: 2009

Context: The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has galleries of western art and is home to the Hall of Great Western Performers. In contrast, the city will also be home to The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum that began construction in 2009 (although completion of the facility has been held up due to insufficient funding), on the south side of Interstate 40, southeast from Bricktown.

Question: When did The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum begin construction?


Answer: The Oklahoma City National Memorial

Context: The Oklahoma City National Memorial in the northern part of Oklahoma City's downtown was created as the inscription on its eastern gate of the Memorial reads, "to honor the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were changed forever on April 19, 1995"; the memorial was built on the land formerly occupied by the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building complex prior to its 1995 bombing. The outdoor Symbolic Memorial can be visited 24 hours a day for free, and the adjacent Memorial Museum, located in the former Journal Record building damaged by the bombing, can be entered for a small fee. The site is also home to the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a non-partisan, nonprofit think tank devoted to the prevention of terrorism.

Question: What is the name of Oklahoma Cities memorial?


Answer: Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

Question: What institute is located near the Oklahoma City National Memorial?


Answer: the banjo

Context: The American Banjo Museum located in the Bricktown Entertainment district is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music and heritage of America's native musical instrument – the banjo. With a collection valued at $3.5 million it is truly a national treasure. An interpretive exhibits tells the evolution of the banjo from its humble roots in American slavery, to bluegrass, to folk and world music.

Question: What musical instrument has it's own museum in Oklahoma City?


Answer: $3.5 million

Question: How much is the collection worth in the museum?


Answer: 2005

Context: The Oklahoma History Center is the history museum of the state of Oklahoma. Located across the street from the governor's mansion at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in northeast Oklahoma City, the museum opened in 2005 and is operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It preserves the history of Oklahoma from the prehistoric to the present day.

Question: When was the Oklahoma History Center created?


Answer: Oklahoma Historical Society

Question: Who operates the Oklahoma History Center?


Answer: northeast Oklahoma City

Question: Where is the Oklahoma History Center located?


Answer: Thunder

Context: Oklahoma City is home to several professional sports teams, including the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. The Thunder is the city's second "permanent" major professional sports franchise after the now-defunct AFL Oklahoma Wranglers and is the third major-league team to call the city home when considering the temporary hosting of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 NBA seasons.

Question: What NBA team hails from Oklahoma City?


Answer: Oklahoma City Dodgers

Context: Other professional sports clubs in Oklahoma City include the Oklahoma City Dodgers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Oklahoma City Energy FC of the United Soccer League, and the Crusaders of Oklahoma Rugby Football Club USA Rugby.

Question: What team is the affiliate to the Los Angeles Dodgers?


Answer: Chesapeake Energy Arena

Context: Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown is the principal multipurpose arena in the city which hosts concerts, NHL exhibition games, and many of the city's pro sports teams. In 2008, the Oklahoma City Thunder became the major tenant. Located nearby in Bricktown, the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark is the home to the city's baseball team, the Dodgers. "The Brick", as it is locally known, is considered one of the finest minor league parks in the nation.[citation needed]

Question: What is the name of the downtown arena?


Answer: Oklahoma City Thunder

Question: Which team became the main tenant of the arena in 2008?


Answer: Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark

Question: What is the name of the nearby minor league park?


Answer: Big 12 Baseball Tournament

Context: Oklahoma City is the annual host of the Big 12 Baseball Tournament, the World Cup of Softball, and the annual NCAA Women's College World Series. The city has held the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second round and hosted the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2007 and 2009. The major universities in the area – University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, and Oklahoma State University – often schedule major basketball games and other sporting events at Chesapeake Energy Arena and Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, although most home games are played at their campus stadiums.

Question: What is one annual event Oklahoma City hosts?


Answer: Remington Park

Context: Other major sporting events include Thoroughbred and Quarter horse racing circuits at Remington Park and numerous horse shows and equine events that take place at the state fairgrounds each year. There are numerous golf courses and country clubs spread around the city.

Question: What park hosts Quarter horse racing?


Answer: state fairgrounds

Question: Where are equine events hosted?


Answer: Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association

Context: The state of Oklahoma hosts a highly competitive high school football culture, with many teams in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) organizes high school football into eight distinct classes based on the size of school enrollment. Beginning with the largest, the classes are: 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, A, B, and C. Class 6A is broken into two divisions. Oklahoma City area schools in this division include: Edmond North, Mustang, Moore, Yukon, Edmond Memorial, Edmond Santa Fe, Norman North, Westmoore, Southmoore, Putnam City North, Norman, Putnam City, Putnam City West, U.S. Grant, Midwest City.

Question: What organization organizes High School football?


Answer: Clayton Bennett

Context: The Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA) has called Oklahoma City home since the 2008–09 season, when owner Clayton Bennett relocated the franchise from Seattle, Washington. The Thunder plays home games at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown Oklahoma City, known affectionately in the national media as 'the Peake' and 'Loud City'. The Thunder is known by several nicknames, including "OKC Thunder" and simply "OKC", and its mascot is Rumble the Bison.

Question: Who moved the Oklahoma City Thunder to Oklahoma City?


Answer: OKC

Question: What is one of the Thunders nicknames?


Answer: Bison

Question: What is the Thunders mascot?


Answer: 8th

Context: After a lackluster arrival to Oklahoma City for the 2008–09 season, the Oklahoma City Thunder secured a berth (8th) in the 2010 NBA Playoffs the next year after boasting its first 50-win season, winning two games in the first round against the Los Angeles Lakers. In 2012, Oklahoma City made it to the NBA Finals, but lost to the Miami Heat in five games. In 2013 the Thunder reached the Western Conference semifinals without All-Star guard Russell Westbrook, who was injured in their first round series against the Houston Rockets, only to lose to the Memphis Grizzlies. In 2014 Oklahoma City again reached the NBA's Western Conference Finals but eventually lost to the San Antonio Spurs in six games.

Question: What place were the Thunder in 2010 NBA playoffs?


Answer: Miami Heat

Question: Who did the Thunder play in the finals of 2012?


Answer: San Antonio Spurs

Question: Who did the Thunder lose to in the Western Conference finals?


Answer: 2009

Context: The Oklahoma City Thunder has been regarded by sports analysts as one of the elite franchises of the NBA's Western Conference and that of a media darling as the future of the league. Oklahoma City has earned Northwest Division titles every year since 2009 and has consistently improved its win record to 59-wins in 2014. The Thunder is led by first year head coach Billy Donovan and is anchored by several NBA superstars, including perennial All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook, 2014 MVP and four-time NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant, and Defensive Player of the Year nominee and shot-blocker Serge Ibaka.

Question: When did the Thunder start winning Northwest Division Titles?


Answer: Billy Donovan

Question: Who is the Thunders head coach?


Answer: Russell Westbrook

Question: Who is the Thunders point guard?


Answer: Ford Center

Context: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the NBA's New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) temporarily relocated to the Ford Center, playing the majority of its home games there during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. The team became the first NBA franchise to play regular-season games in the state of Oklahoma.[citation needed] The team was known as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets while playing in Oklahoma City. The team ultimately returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season. The Hornets played their final home game in Oklahoma City during the exhibition season on October 9, 2007 against the Houston Rockets.

Question: Where did the Hornets play after Hurricane Katrina?


Answer: Houston Rockets

Question: What team played against the Hornets in their final home game before leave Oklahoma City?


Answer: I. M. Pei

Context: One of the more prominent landmarks downtown is the Crystal Bridge at the Myriad Botanical Gardens, a large downtown urban park. Designed by I. M. Pei, the Crystal Bridge is a tropical conservatory in the area. The park has an amphitheater, known as the Water Stage. In 2007, following a renovation of the stage, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park relocated to the Myriad Gardens. The Myriad Gardens will undergo a massive renovation in conjunction with the recently built Devon Tower directly north of it.

Question: Who designed the bridge?


Answer: Water Stage

Question: What is the name of the amphitheater located inside the Botanical Gardens?


Answer: Remington Park

Context: The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is home to numerous natural habitats, WPA era architecture and landscaping, and hosts major touring concerts during the summer at its amphitheater. Oklahoma City also has two amusement parks, Frontier City theme park and White Water Bay water park. Frontier City is an 'Old West'-themed amusement park. The park also features a recreation of a western gunfight at the 'OK Corral' and many shops that line the "Western" town's main street. Frontier City also hosts a national concert circuit at its amphitheater during the summer. Oklahoma City also has a combination racetrack and casino open year-round, Remington Park, which hosts both Quarter horse (March – June) and Thoroughbred (August – December) seasons.

Question: Which place hosts racetracks and is a casino?


Answer: Frontier City

Question: Which amusement park is western themed?


Answer: Lake Stanley Draper

Context: Walking trails line Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser in the northwest part of the city and downtown at the canal and the Oklahoma River. The majority of the east shore area is taken up by parks and trails, including a new leashless dog park and the postwar-era Stars and Stripes Park. Lake Stanley Draper is the city's largest and most remote lake.

Question: Which lake is the cities largest lake?


Answer: American Banjo Museum

Context: Oklahoma City has a major park in each quadrant of the city, going back to the first parks masterplan. Will Rogers Park, Lincoln Park, Trosper Park, and Woodson Park were once connected by the Grand Boulevard loop, some sections of which no longer exist. Martin Park Nature Center is a natural habitat in far northwest Oklahoma City. Will Rogers Park is home to the Lycan Conservatory, the Rose Garden, and Butterfly Garden, all built in the WPA era. Oklahoma City is home to the American Banjo Museum, which houses a large collection of highly decorated banjos from the early 20th century and exhibits on the history of the banjo and its place in American history. Concerts and lectures are also held there.

Question: What place hosts concerts and lectures?


Answer: Will Rogers Park

Question: Where is the Lycan Conservatory located?


Answer: Mat Hoffman

Context: In April 2005, the Oklahoma City Skate Park at Wiley Post Park was renamed the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park to recognize Mat Hoffman, an Oklahoma City area resident and businessman that was instrumental in the design of the skate park and is a 10-time BMX World Vert champion. In March 2009, the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park was named by the National Geographic Society Travel Guide as one of the "Ten Best."

Question: Which BMX Champion had a park named after them in Oklahoma City?


Answer: March 2009

Question: When was Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park considered one of the best by National Geographic Society?


Answer: Mick Cornett

Context: The City of Oklahoma City has operated under a council-manager form of city government since 1927. Mick Cornett serves as Mayor, having first been elected in 2004, and re-elected in 2006, 2010, and 2014. Eight councilpersons represent each of the eight wards of Oklahoma City. City Manager Jim Couch was appointed in late 2000. Couch previously served as assistant city manager, Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) director and utilities director prior to his service as city manager.

Question: Who is the mayor of Oklahoma City?


Answer: 2004

Question: When was Mick Cornett first elected?


Answer: Jim Couch

Question: Who is the city Manager?