query: What is the nickname of Andrei Radzionau's team?

pos: Andrei Radzionau Andrei Radzionau (Belarusian: Андрэй Радзіонаў born June 16, 1985 in Minsk) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Radzionau is also a varsity swimmer for the Louisville Cardinals,who graduated with a BA in Environmental Analysis from University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

pos: Louisville Cardinals The Louisville Cardinals (also known as the Cards) are the athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. Teams play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, beginning in the 2014 season. While playing in the Big East Conference from 2005 through 2013, the Cardinals captured 17 regular season Big East titles and 33 Big East Tournament titles totaling 50 Big East Championships across all sports. With their 2013 Sugar Bowl appearance against the Florida Gators, the Cardinals football team became the only football team in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to have appeared in and won two Bowl Championship Series bowls, having defeated Wake Forest 24–13 in the 2007 Orange Bowl and Florida 33–23 in the 2013 Sugar Bowl. On November 28, 2012, Louisville received and accepted an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference and became a participating member in all sports in 2014. In 2013, Louisville defeated the Michigan Wolverines to win the 2013 Men's Basketball NCAA Championship, capturing their third such championship in school history.

neg: HKm Zvolen Hokejový Klub mesta Zvolen is a professional Slovak ice hockey club based in Zvolen. The club has won the Slovak league championship twice and the IIHF Continental Cup in 2005. The team is nicknamed "Rytieri"; it means Knights in English.

neg: Latvijas Universitāte men's basketball The Latvijas Universitāte men's basketball team represents University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, also known as LU. and it plays in Latvian Basketball league. The team is currently coached by Guntis Endzels.

neg: Górnik Łęczna GKS Górnik Łęczna is a sports club based in Łęczna, Poland. It is best known for its men's professional football team, which competes in I Liga, the second division in the Polish football league system. The club also fields teams in women's football and wrestling.

neg: Liga Națională (women's basketball) The Liga Națională, formerly known as Divizia A, is the women's top-tier professional basketball league of Romania. Established in 1950, it is currently contested by eleven teams. Universitatea Cluj is the Liga Națională's most successful club with fourteen titles including a ten-years winning streak between 1984 and 1994, while CSM Târgoviște and ICIM Arad have dominated the championship in subsequent years with ten and eight titles respectively.

neg: Kaposvári Rákóczi FC Kaposvári Rákóczi FC is a football club in Kaposvár, Hungary. Their home stadium is Stadion Kaposvár Rákoczi. The team is named after Francis II Rákóczi, a Transylvanian prince and national hero and they are also often referred to be the nickname "Somogyiak", referring to Somogy County, where the team plays.

neg: Paul Rusu Paul Alexandru Rusu (born 10 September 1984) is a Romanian rugby union player. He plays in the prop position for amateur SuperLiga club Baia Mare and București based European Challenge Cup side the Wolves. He also plays for Romania's national team the Oaks.

neg: Spartak Moscow (bandy club) Spartak Moscow (Спартак Москва) was a Russian bandy club, which was founded in 1910 and changed names a number of times before it got its final name as part of the sport society Spartak. The bandy club was discontinued in 1961. For other department of this club in Moscow, see Spartak Moscow.

neg: Wahoos Wahoos, or Hoos for short, is an unofficial nickname for sports teams of the University of Virginia, officially referred to as the Cavaliers. The terms are both also used in a more general context by students and alumni to refer to themselves as fans and alumni of the University. While there is no evidence that the nickname stems from the wahoo fish, it is often claimed by students that a "wahoo is a type of bass fish that is capable [of] drinking twice its weight."

neg: Asseco Gdynia Asseco Gdynia is a Polish professional basketball team, based in Gdynia. The team plays in the Polish PLK. The club's sponsorship name comes from the company Asseco. Historically the team is one of the most successful in Poland, mainly because of the nine championships in a row the team won from 2004 till 2012.

neg: Argentina national rugby league team The Argentina national rugby league team (nicknamed the Penguins) represent Argentina in the sport of rugby league football.

neg: Wembley Wizards The Wembley Wizards is a nickname for the Scotland national football team who defeated England 5–1 at Wembley in the 1928 British Home Championship.

neg: Dinamo-2 Moscow Dinamo-2 Moscow ("Динамо-2" in Russian) are a futsal club based in Moscow, Russia.

neg: Argentina national rugby union team The Argentina national rugby team, officially nicknamed Los Pumas, play in sky blue and white jerseys, and are organised by the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR, from the Spanish: "Unión Argentina de Rugby").

neg: New Zealand national American football team The New Zealand national American football team, nicknamed the Steelblacks, represent New Zealand in international American football (gridiron) competitions. Steelblacks is the new nickname for the team following the transition of governance of the sport to New Zealand American Football Federation, replacing Ironblacks. The Ironblacks were formerly known as the Haka, until 2003 when the branding changed to the present Ironblacks image in preparation for Oceania Bowl II against the Australian Outbacks. The "Ironblacks" nickname is one of many national team nicknames related to the All Blacks.

neg: VVS Moscow VVS Moscow (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы (Москва) / in English: "Moscow Military Air Force") was a Soviet sports club representing the Soviet Air Force. Among the sports the club participated in were football, ice hockey, basketball, and volleyball. They won the Soviet national basketball league championship in 1952, as well as the Soviet national volleyball league championship in 1952, and the Soviet national ice hockey league championship three times, in the years 1951, 1952, and 1953.

neg: AFC Metalul Buzău AFC Metalul Buzău, commonly known as Metalul Buzău, is a Romanian professional football club based in Buzău, Romania, founded in 1954. Currently the team plays in Liga III.

neg: Raul Costin Raul Rǎzvan Costin, (born January 29, 1985, Romania), is a Romanian footballer who plays for Argeș Pitești. His predominant position is central midfielder but he can also play in a more defensive role and also as a right back. He is best known for his simple distribution and long shots.

neg: Dynamo Leningrad (bandy club) Dynamo Leningrad (Russian: «Динамо» Ленинград) was a bandy club in Saint Petersburg, which existed from 1924-1965. During that time, Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad.

neg: Stadionul Dinamo Dinamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bucharest, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dinamo București.

neg: Dynamo Mayak HK Dynamo Mayak (Russian: ХК «Динамо-Маяк» Краснотурьинск, literally "HC Dynamo-Lighthouse") is a bandy club in Krasnoturyinsk, Russia. The club was founded in 1948 and has earlier been playing in the Russian Bandy Super League, the top-tier of Russian bandy. The home games are played at Stadium Mayak in Krasnoturyinsk. The club colours are red, white and blue.


query: Italian professional racing driver, Alex Zanardi, has held the drivers' title in the Italian Superturismo Championship, established in what year?

pos: Italian Superturismo Championship The Italian Superturismo Championship (Campionato Italiano Superturismo) is Italy's national motorsport series for touring cars. It was established in 1987 and its drivers' title has been held by such notable drivers as Le Mans winner Emanuele Pirro and two-time Champ Car champion Alex Zanardi.

pos: Alex Zanardi Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi (] ; born 23 October 1966) is an Italian professional racing driver and paracyclist.

neg: 1995 Italian Superturismo Championship The 1995 Italian Superturismo Championship is the ninth edition of the Italian Superturismo Championship. The season began in Misano on 23 April and finished in Vallelunga on 8 October, after ten rounds. Emanuele Pirro won the championship, driving an Audi A4 Quattro; the German manufacturer won the constructors' championship, while Mauro Trione won the privateers' trophy.

neg: 1972 in motorsport The following is an overview of the events of 1972 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.

neg: 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship The 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2015 Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships.

neg: 2010 in motorsport The following is an overview of the events of 2010 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.

neg: Carlo Salamano Carlo Salamano (1891 - 19 January 1969) was an Italian racecar driver. A resident of Turin, in 1923 he drove a FIAT 805 to win the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the event also serving as the inaugural European Grand Prix; it was the first victory by an automobile equipped with a supercharger in a significant European event. While an official championship had yet to be established, he was considered to be the season champion by historians.

neg: Proteam Motorsport Proteam Motorsport is an Italian auto racing team based in Arezzo that was set up by former driver Valmiro Presenzini in 1997. They are best known for their efforts in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. Their time in the WTCC has seen them become the most successful independent team in the championship, winning three Independent Team titles in 1996, 2007 and 2008. Initially the team would enter Renault related events across Europe. Presenzini himself competed in The Renault Clio Cup, Renault 5 Turbo Cup and the Megane cup. After success in these series, they started a programme for the European Touring Car Championship, which they entered in 2003. They have entered cars in the Italian Clio Cup, the Ferrari Challenge, and as of 2006, the Italian Superturismo Championship with driver Cristian Ricciarini.

neg: 1973 in motorsport The following is an overview of the events of 1973 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.

neg: 1997 Molson Indy Vancouver The 1997 Molson Indy Vancouver was the 15th round of the 1997 CART season. At that time, the Italian driver Alex Zanardi was the leader of the standings with 39 points in front of the French-Brazilian driver Gil de Ferran.

neg: Formula 4 FIA Formula 4, also called FIA F4, is an open-wheel racing car category intended for junior drivers. There is no global championship, but rather individual nations or regions can host their own championships in compliance with a universal set of rules and specifications.

neg: Super Touring Super Touring, Class 2 or Class II was a motor racing Touring Cars category defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) for national touring car racing in 1993. It was based on the "2 litre Touring Car Formula" created for the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in 1990. The FIA organised a World Cup for the category each year from 1993 to 1995, and adopted the term "Super Tourer" from 1995.

neg: Super 1 National Kart Championships The "Super 1 National Kart Championships" "S1" or "Super One" is a karting championship based in the United Kingdom. It has been in operation since 1983 and is regarded as the premier karting championship in the UK, producing many famous drivers including Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, David Coulthard, Dan Wheldon, Anthony Davidson and Jason Plato among others.

neg: Intercontinental Rally Challenge The Intercontinental Rally Challenge was an FIA-sanctioned rallying series organised by SRW Events and Eurosport Events, and aimed to "give new opportunities to young or amateur rally drivers competing in recognised regional and international rallies, while offering organisers an innovative TV format concept, created by Eurosport." The series focused on Group N and Group A spec cars up to 2000 cc, including Super 2000, R4, R2 and R3.

neg: 1970 1000km of Monza The 1970 1000 km of Monza was an endurance race held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy on April 25, 1970. It was the fourth round of the 1970 International Championship for Makes. This was the first official 1000 km race at Monza that used only the road course; in 1956 and 1965-1969 the organizers utilized the combined road and banking courses; but the banking was abandoned because of safety issues; the 1969 1000 km race was the last race ever held on the concrete-surfaced banking. Mexican driver Pedro Rodríguez won this race in John Wyer's Gulf-sponsored Porsche 917K, he was able to hold off 3 hard-charging works Ferrari 512's after his co-driver Leo Kinnunen lost most of the lead Rodríguez had built up. Ex-Ferrari driver John Surtees returned to Ferrari after 4 years to drive a works 512.

neg: Enzo Ferrari Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, (] ; 18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as ""il Commendatore"" or ""il Drake"". In his final years he was often referred to as ""l'Ingegnere"" (the Engineer) or ""il Grande Vecchio" (the Great Old Man)".

neg: BTC Touring In motor racing, BTC Touring (BTC-T) was the set of new regulations for the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) introduced in 2001 BTCC, after the demise of the Supertouring category.

neg: V8 Ute Racing Series The V8 Ute Racing Series is an Australian motor racing series for utilities, derived from the Australian Production Car Championship. It was conceived in 2000 by PROCAR chief Ross Palmer, V8 Ute Patron Ian McAlister and current category manager of SPHERIX Craig Denyer and launched March 2001, as V8 Brute Utes, at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. The series was instantly popular, in part because of aggressive driving style of competitors, a style encouraged by the use of reverse grid racing, but also because of its very fan friendly marketing which included gimmicks like referring to each of its drivers by a nickname.

neg: Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. (] ) is an Italian car manufacturer, founded as A.L.F.A. ("Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili", "Anonymous Lombard Automobile Factory") on 24 June 1910, in Milan. The brand is known for sporty vehicles and has been involved in car racing since 1911.

neg: Alessandro Zampedri Alessandro Zampedri (born 3 October 1969 in Brescia) is an Italian race car driver. He started three Indy 500s (1995, 1996, and 1997).

neg: Campionato Italiano The Campionato Italiano, (Italian Championship), was a domestic championship which took place in Italy for between 1958 and 1963, for Formula Junior cars. From 1964 onwards, the championship ran Formula Three specification cars instead.

neg: Alex Ciompi Alessandro "Alex" Ciompi (born 16 June 1985 in Massa Marittima) is an Italian racing driver. He has competed in such series as Euroseries 3000, Formula Renault 3.5 Series and the Italian Formula Three Championship.


query: An American indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, United States, made up of husband-and-wife duo released their debut on what date?

pos: Cape Dory (album) Cape Dory is the debut studio album by American indie pop band Tennis, released on January 18, 2011 on Fat Possum Records.

pos: Tennis (band) Tennis is an American indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, United States, made up of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. The duo formed in 2010, and released their debut album, "Cape Dory", in 2011. Their second album, "Young & Old", was released the following year. Their third release, "Ritual in Repeat" (2014), was released on Communion records. The band's fourth album, "Yours Conditionally", was released in 2017.

neg: Connect the Dots (MisterWives album) Connect the Dots is the second studio album by American indie pop band MisterWives, released on May 19, 2017 through Republic Records. The album serves as a follow-up to the band's debut studio album, "Our Own House" (2015). It was produced by Butch Walker and Etienne Bowler.

neg: Girlyboi Girlyboi are an American folk pop duo originally from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 2015, Girlyboi started recording and performing in Europe as an "act of love". After releasing three singles - "Actual Woman", "Whole", and "Bedside", Girlyboi released its debut EP, "Actual Woman", on December 17, 2015 at Rough Trade Records in New York City.

neg: The Smoking Flowers The Smoking Flowers are a rock duo from Nashville, TN composed of husband and wife Scott and Kim Collins. Their style incorporates stylings from roots, alt-country, punk, and folk. Their sound has been described by Alt Country Magazine as, "less traditional than your classic country-folk duo by bringing a punk-attitude and energy to their highly infectious songs. A marriage of song and voice that is uniquely their own."

neg: We Didn't Say That! We Didn't Say That! is the debut album by American teen pop duo Daphne and Celeste, released in the summer of 2000. It received mixed reviews from the press, with Dean Carlson of AllMusic and "Melody Maker" giving it four out of five stars, and "NME" giving it five out of ten stars.

neg: Oh, This Old Thing? Oh, This Old Thing? is the debut album by Twin Cities-based band Sleeping in the Aviary, released on February 6, 2007 on Science of Sound Records.

neg: Bliss Release Bliss Release is the debut album by Australian band Cloud Control. Released on 14 May 2010, "Bliss Release" was met with critical acclaim.

neg: The New Year (band) The New Year is an American indie rock band that formed in 1999. The band was started by former Bedhead members Matt and Bubba Kadane. They released their first album in 2000, "Newness Ends", which like their following albums was recorded with Steve Albini. "The End Is Near" (2004) and "The New Year" (2008) followed, with both being received positively by music critics at Pitchfork Media and AllMusic. In February 2017, the band announced their first album in nine years, "Snow", which is set to be released on April 28, 2017.

neg: The Morning Of The Morning Of is an American pop/indie/rock band originating from Newburgh, New York, United States. The band's first EP, "Welcome Change. Goodbye Gravity", held a steady spot in the Top 50 best selling albums on Smartpunk.com for six months. They also hold a steady spot on PureVolume's Top 100, and top 10 in their pop genre. Their first full length effort, "The World as We Know It" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" heatseekers chart at No. 18 and peaked at the No. 25 pop album on iTunes. They recorded their most recent album, "The Way I Fell In", with producer Jim Wirt (No Doubt, Jacks Mannequin, Incubus, Hoobastank, The Rocket Summer). The album was released on May 11, 2010 and debuted No. 10 on the U.S. "Billboard" heatseekers chart.

neg: Everly (group) Everly was an American folk musical duo formed in Battle Ground, Washington in 2008 by friends Bethany Joy Lenz and Amber Sweeney. Their debut EP, "Mission Bell", was launched on iTunes.

neg: Overcome by Happiness Overcome by Happiness is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Pernice Brothers, released in 1998.

neg: Middle Brother (album) Middle Brother is the eponymous debut album by the folk-rock band Middle Brother, released on March 1, 2011 on Partisan Records. The band members, all of whom had been in their own bands before forming "Middle Brother", described the band's debut album as a "one-off" that they didn't want to take precedence over their original projects.

neg: Young the Giant (album) Young the Giant is the debut album by American indie rock band Young the Giant. It was released digitally by the Roadrunner record label on October 26, 2010, and was followed by a physical CD and vinyl release in the United States on January 25, 2011. The album was released in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2011.

neg: Come Around (album) Come Around is the debut studio album from Minneapolis, Minnesota pop rock band Sing It Loud. It was released on Epitaph Records on September 23, 2008.

neg: Marriage Records Marriage Records is a small, independent record label based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 2001 by Curtis Knapp and Adrian Orange. The label has released a number of albums by musicians such as Adam Forkner, Dirty Projectors, Little Wings, Lucky Dragons, Tune-Yards, Yacht, and Karl Blau. Artists on the label frequently collaborate and swap members.

neg: The Gray Havens The Gray Havens are an American Christian folk pop husband and wife duo, David and Licia Radford, from Crystal Lake, Illinois. They started their music recording careers in 2012. Their first release, an extended play, "Where Eyes Don't Go", was released by Zodlounge Music, in 2013. Their first full album, "Fire and Stone", was released in 2015 with funds raised on Kickstarter

neg: PHOX PHOX is an American six-piece alternative folk / indie pop band from Baraboo, Wisconsin. PHOX's self-titled debut LP was released on June 24, 2014.

neg: The Maine discography The Maine is an American rock band, formed in Tempe, Arizona in 2007. The band has released five studio albums, seven extended plays, seven singles and six music videos. Their debut album, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" was released on July 8, 2008, peaking at No. 40 on "Billboard" 200. Their second album, "Black & White" was released on July 13, 2010, peaking No.19 on "Billboard" 200. Their third album, "Pioneer" was released on December 6, 2011 and peaked at No. 90 on "Billboard" 200. Forever Halloween, their fourth album, was released on June 4, 2013 and peaked at No. 39 on "Billboard" 200. Their fifth album American Candy, was released on March 31, 2015 and peaked at No. 37 on "Billboard" 200.

neg: Kisses (band) Kisses is a new wave pop rock duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010. The band consists of Jesse Kivel (vocals/lead guitarist) and Zinzi Edmundson (instrumentals/keyboardist). The duo released their debut album "The Heart of the Nightlife" on November 8, 2010. The duo's second album, "Kids in L.A.", was released on May 14, 2013. In addition to Kisses, Kivel is currently a member of the indie pop band Princeton.

neg: We Are the In Crowd We Are the In Crowd is an American pop rock/pop punk band from Poughkeepsie, New York, formed in 2009. The band consists of Taylor Jardine, Jordan Eckes, Mike Ferri, Rob Chianelli, and Cameron Hurley. They released their debut EP, "Guaranteed To Disagree", on June 8, 2010 and followed it up with their first full-length album, "Best Intentions" in 2011. Their second full-length album, "Weird Kids", was released on February 18, 2014. The band announced a hiatus in February 2016.

neg: Hyland (band) Hyland is an American Christian rock band originating from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band released two EPs independently before signing to Tooth & Nail Records on October 25, 2010. Their debut album was released on May 3, 2011.


query: Who is the director of an Astronomy Institute located on an island with an area of 4028 sqmi?

pos: Institute for Astronomy The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is a research unit within the University of Hawaii system, led by Günther Hasinger as Director. IfA main headquarters are located at 2680 Woodlawn Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, , on the University of Hawaii at Mānoa campus. Additional facilities are located at Pukalani, Maui and Hilo on Hawaiʻ i island (the Big Island). IfA employs over 150 astronomers and support staff. IfA astronomers perform research into solar system objects, stars, galaxies and cosmology.

pos: Hawaii (island) Hawaiʻi ( ; ] ) is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the largest and the southeastern-most of the Hawaiian Islands, a chain of volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. With an area of 4028 sqmi , it is larger than all of the other islands in the archipelago combined and is the largest island in the United States. However, it only has 13% of Hawaii's people. The island of Hawaii is the third largest island in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand.

neg: George Herbig George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.

neg: Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Spanish: "Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos", ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The observatory site is operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, based on nearby Tenerife. ORM is part of the European Northern Observatory.

neg: Marine Science Institute (San Francisco Bay) The Marine Science Institute (MSI) is a nonprofit organization focusing on marine science research and education. MSI was founded in 1970 and currently is situated in Redwood City, California adjacent to the Port of Redwood City. In the San Francisco Bay Area MSI has a mission driving marine education for schoolchildren and continues to receive grants to supplement their donations.

neg: Harvard College Observatory The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and was founded in 1839. With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it forms part of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

neg: Uraniborg Uraniborg (Danish: "Uranienborg" , Swedish: "Uraniborg" ) was a Danish astronomical observatory and alchemical laboratory established and operated by Tycho Brahe. It was built  1576 – c. 1580 on Hven, an island in the Øresund between Zealand and Scania, which at that time was part of Denmark. Shortly after its construction, the observatory was expanded with an underground facility, Stjerneborg, on an adjacent site.

neg: Ilmin International Relations Institute Ilmin International Relations Institute (IIRI) is a research institute at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in April 1995, IIRI was named after Sang-man Kim, Korea University’s former chairman of the board of trustees. In 1995, Dr. Sung-joo Han was appointed as the first director.

neg: National Astronomical Observatory of China The National Astronomy Observatory of China (NAOC, the acronym was officially claimed as standing for National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ) was founded on April 25, 2001 through the merging of four CAS observatories, three CAS observing stations and one CAS research centre. The Headquarters of the NAOC are situated in the northern suburbs of Beijing on the site of the former Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO), and take responsibility for all matters relating to the former BAO. The reformation of management structure imitated to National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) of USA and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

neg: Rozhen Observatory Rozhen Observatory (Bulgarian: Национална астрономическа обсерватория - Рожен , "НАО-Рожен"; English: National Astronomical Observatory - Rozhen , "NAO-Rozhen"), also known as the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory, is an astronomical observatory, located in the Smolyan Province, 90 kilometers south of the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The nearest town, Chepelare, is 15 kilometers away. The observatory is owned and operated by the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). It was officially opened on 13 March 1981, almost 20 years after Bogomil Kovachev – a professor of astronomy at BAS, known as its founder – had started working towards that goal. The Observatory is the largest in Southeastern Europe and has an active team of about 50 astronomers. It is the principal center for astronomical research in Bulgaria. The minor planet 6267 Rozhen, was discovered at, and named after the observatory.

neg: Martin Harwit Martin Harwit (born 9 March 1931 in Prague) is a Czech-American astronomer, author, and was director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1995. He is known for his scientific work on Infrared astronomy, as a professor at Cornell University.

neg: Bruhnsøya Bruhnsøya (English: Bruhns Island ) is a small island in Kong Ludvigøyane, an island group in Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya. The island is named after the German astronomer Carl Christian Bruhns (1830–81).

neg: Kavli Institute for Cosmology The Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, (KICC) is a research establishment set up through collaboration of the University of Cambridge and the Kavli Foundation. It is operated by two of the University's astronomy groups: the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) and the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. The Institute aims to encourage advancements in our knowledge and understanding of the Universe, with initial emphasis on the Universe at high redshifts.

neg: Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre The Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (Latvian: "Ventspils Starptautiskais radioastronomijas centrs" – "VIRAC") is an ex-Soviet radio astronomy installation 30 km north of Ventspils, Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Ance parish. The installation was secret until 1993 after Latvia regained independence. It was taken over by the Latvian Academy of Sciences after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army in 1994. Since then, the two remaining radio telescopes have been repaired.

neg: Collurania-Teramo Observatory The Collurania Observatory, also Teramo Observatory, (Italian: "Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania "Vincenzo Cerulli")" , is an astronomical observatory located in Teramo, in Abruzzo region of central Italy. It was founded by Vincenzo Cerulli in 1890, who was later honoured by having it bear his name. The observatory is owned and operated by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). It has the IAU code 037.

neg: John Beverley Oke John Beverley Oke (23 March 1928 – 2 March 2004) was an astronomer and professor of astronomy at Caltech. He worked in astronomical photometry and spectroscopy and is well known for creating instruments for the detection and measurement of cosmic phenomena. His instruments were used on the 200 in Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar, California and the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. “He was one of the first really serious and really excellent astronomer-instrumentalists,” says James E. Gunn, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University Observatory, “and he and the instruments he designed and built were very largely responsible for keeping Palomar and the 200-inch telescope so far ahead of the rest of the world during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.”

neg: Nha Trang Oceanography Institute The Nha Trang Oceanography Institute or Institute of Oceanography in Nhatrang is an oceanography institute located at 1 Cau Da St., next to Cau Da Wharf, about 6km from the centre of Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province, Vietnam. Established in 1923, it was one of the first centres for scientific research in Vietnam and is an important location for tropical oceanographic research.

neg: Louis J. Lanzerotti Louis John Lanzerotti (born April 16, 1938) is a Distinguished Research Professor of physics in the "Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research" at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey.

neg: Wake Island Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, 1,501 mi east of Guam, 2,298 mi west of Honolulu and 1,991 mi southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States Minor Outlying Islands that is also claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Wake Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and the nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 592 mi to the southeast.

neg: John Paul Wild Dr John Paul (Paul) Wild AC CBE MA ScD (Cantab.) FRS FTSE FAA (17 May 192310 May 2008) was a British-born Australian scientist. Following service in World War II as a radar officer in the Royal Navy, he became a radio astronomer in Australia for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the fore-runner of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph, near Narrabri, New South Wales. The Paul Wild Observatory at Culgoora is named after him.

neg: Nanpu Island Nanpu Island () is an island in Dashi Town (), Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is located at the south of Luoxi Island (), the east of Chencun, Shunde, and the west and north of Dashi Town Centre. Its total area is about 10.7 square kilometres. Many fashionable residential estates, including Guangzhou Country Garden, are built in there. The island connects with Luoxi Island by Nanpu Bridge () and Lijiang Bridge () and Dashi Town Centre by Nanpu Dadao ().

neg: Earth-Life Science Institute Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) is an established independent permanent scientific research institute based at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. ELSI employs more than 70 scientists in disciplines ranging from astrophysics to biology, who perform collaborative research on the broad connections between the origin and evolution of planets and life.


query: What is the population of the city located on the highway that is in the United States running parallel to/overlapping Interstate 39?

pos: Shobonier, Illinois Shobonier is an unincorporated community, located on U.S. Route 51, about 10 miles south of Vandalia in Fayette County, Illinois. The population for the Shobonier ZIP code area, including rural areas surrounding the community, was 839 at the 2010 census.

pos: U.S. Route 51 U.S. Route 51 is a south-north United States highway that runs for 1286 mi from the western suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana to within 100 ft of the Wisconsin–Michigan border. Much of the highway in Illinois and southern Wisconsin runs parallel to or overlaps Interstate 39 (I-39), and much of the route in several states also parallels the Illinois Central Railroad. The highway's northern terminus is between Hurley, Wisconsin, and Ironwood, Michigan, where it ends with a T interchange at US 2. Its southern terminus is Laplace, Louisiana, ending at US 61.

neg: Lexington, Kentucky Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States. Known as the "Horse Capital of the World," it is the heart of the state's Bluegrass region. With a mayor-alderman form of government, it is one of two cities in Kentucky designated by the state as first-class; the other is the state's largest city of Louisville. In the 2016 U.S. Census Estimate, the city's population was 318,449, anchoring a metropolitan area of 506,751 people and a combined statistical area of 723,849 people. Due to constant increases in population, Lexington suffers the worst traffic congestion in Kentucky, because two interstates bypass the city to the north and east, resulting in a lack of freeways (besides partial freeway New Circle Road) going through the most populated areas of the city.

neg: Interstate 35 in Iowa Interstate 35 (I-35) is a north–south Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minnesota. In Iowa, the highway runs from south to north through the center of the state, roughly parallel to U.S. Highway 69 (US 69) and US 65. It enters the state near Lamoni from Missouri and continues north through the southern Iowa drift plain. In the Des Moines area, I-35 is overlapped by I-80 and the two routes bypass Des Moines to the west and north. I-235, the only auxiliary route of I-35, serves the suburbs and downtown Des Moines; it begins and ends at the two interchanges where I-35 and I-80 meet. Near Mason City and Clear Lake, US 18 and Iowa Highway 27 (Iowa 27) overlap with I-35. Shortly after, US 18 splits off to the west in Clear Lake, while Iowa 27 runs with I-35 until they reach the Minnesota state line.

neg: Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,872 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area, as of 2016 . Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

neg: Dallas Dallas ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. The city's population ranks ninth in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat; however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816. The United States Census Bureau's estimate for the city's population increased to 1,317,929 as of July 1, 2016.

neg: Kentucky Route 393 Kentucky Route 393 (KY 393) is a state highway in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. Its northern terminus is US 42. From there it continues 5.5 mi south to a 0.04 mi overlap with KY 146 in Buckner. It then splits south to continue for 2.5 mi where it junctions KY 22 near Centerfield. It follows KY 22 east for 1 mi until it splits to the south. It continues 1.5 mi south and then terminates at Mount Zion Road. There are no low clearances or weight limits on this particular state route. As of 2009, this route has been relocated and improved. From the interchange of Interstate 71, it has been widened to three lanes with a center turn lane. It has been improved to the junction of State Route 22.

neg: Spokane, Washington Spokane ( ) is a city located in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States. It is located along the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, 92 mi south of the Canada–US border, approximately 20 mi from the Washington–Idaho border, and 280 mi east of Seattle along Interstate 90.

neg: U.S. Route 395 U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a U.S. Route in the western United States. The southern terminus of the route is in the Mojave Desert at Interstate 15 near Hesperia. The northern terminus is at the Canada–US border near Laurier, where the road becomes Highway 395 upon entering British Columbia, Canada. At one time, the route extended south to San Diego. I-15 replaced the stretch of 395 that ran from San Diego to Hesperia. "Old Highway 395" can be seen along or near I-15 in many locations before it branches off at Hesperia to head north.

neg: Colorado State Highway 392 State Highway 392 is a 45.33 mi long state highway in northern Colorado. SH 392 begins at a junction with U.S. Highway 287 south of Fort Collins and proceeds eastward. It intersects I-25 at Exit 262 and continues east through the towns of Windsor and Lucerne. The highway continues northeast and serves several small towns. The highway nominally ends north of Briggsdale at SH 14 where it becomes Weld County Road 77.

neg: Santee, California Santee is a suburb of San Diego in San Diego County, California, with a population of 53,413 at the 2010 census. Although it is a part of the East County region, Santee is located just 18 mi from the Pacific Ocean. The city is connected to the coastline by State Route 52, a six-lane freeway that runs from Interstate 5 in La Jolla to State Route 67 in El Cajon. The city is bisected by the San Diego River, a linear greenbelt that includes parks, trails and more than 1,100 acre of natural riparian habitat.

neg: Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln (pronounced ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 93.46 sqmi with a population of 280,364 in 2016. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 71st-largest in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln-Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas. The statistical area is home to 348,720 people, making it the 105th-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

neg: New York State Route 9A New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) is a state highway in the vicinity of New York City in the United States. Its southern terminus is at the northern end of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City, where it intersects with both the unsigned Interstate 478 (I-478) and FDR Drive. The northern terminus of NY 9A is at U.S. Route 9 (US 9) in Peekskill. It is predominantly an alternate route of US 9 between New York City and Peekskill; however, in New York City, it is a major route of its own as it runs along the West Side Highway and Henry Hudson Parkway. In Westchester County, NY 9A follows the Briarcliff–Peekskill Parkway.

neg: Interstate 359 Interstate 359 (I-359) is a part of the Interstate Highway System in the US state of Alabama. It is a spur route that runs for 2.76 mi entirely within the city limits of Tuscaloosa. Its termini are just south of I-20/I-59 interchange on the south side of town and U.S. Highway 43 (US 43) in downtown Tuscaloosa. The entire length is concurrent with U.S. Highway 11 (US 11) and Alabama State Route 69 (SR 69), with both continuing as at grade thoroughfares north and south of the shorter Interstate.

neg: Interstate 25 in New Mexico Interstate 25 (I-25) in the U.S. state of New Mexico follows the north–south corridor through Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It replaced U.S. Route 85 (US 85), which is no longer signed, but still exists in route logs sharing the I-25 alignment. I-25 starts in New Mexico at an interchange with I-10 in Las Cruces and extends roughly 460 mi before reaching Colorado. I-25 passes through principally rural land through central New Mexico and passes through or near the cities of Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences, Socorro, Belen, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and Raton.

neg: Loop (Texarkana) The Loop is a beltway around Texarkana, TX and Texarkana, AR, twin cities in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Texas, running about 16 miles (26 km). Consisting a section of Interstate 49 in Arkansas, and Loop 151 and a section of I-369 and U.S. Highway 59 in Texas, it forms a three-quarter loop around the east, south and west sides of the city. (Interstate 30 completes the circle on the north side.) The Loop is built to Interstate Freeway Standards.

neg: Washington Street (Indianapolis) Washington Street is the primary east–west street in Indianapolis, in the central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. The street follows the route of the National Road for almost all of its length in the city of Indianapolis. For a time, its entire length was designated as U.S. Route 40 (US 40) before that highway was re-aligned with the southern segment of Interstate 465 (I-465); now only the segments of Washington Street between I-465 and the city limits on either side of the city are part of US 40.

neg: Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with a population of 176,588 in 2015. The fourth-largest Tennessee city, it is the seat of Hamilton County. Located in southeastern Tennessee in East Tennessee, on the Tennessee River, served by multiple railroads and Interstate highways, Chattanooga is a transit hub. Chattanooga lies 120 mi northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, 120 mi southwest of Knoxville, Tennessee, 135 mi southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, 120 mi northeast of Huntsville, Alabama, and 148 mi northeast of Birmingham, Alabama.

neg: Alabama State Route 39 State Route 39 (SR 39) is a 23.057 mi state highway in the western part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at its intersection with U.S. Route 11 (US 11) near Livingston. The northern terminus of the highway is at its intersection with SR 14 at Clinton, an unincorporated community in western Greene County.

neg: Jackson, Michigan Jackson is a city located along Interstate 94 in the south central area of the U.S. state of Michigan, about 40 mi west of Ann Arbor and 35 mi south of Lansing. It is the county seat of Jackson County.

neg: Interstate 25 in Colorado In the U.S. state of Colorado, Interstate 25 follows the north–south corridor through Colorado Springs and Denver. The highway enters the state from the north near Carr and exits the state near Starkville. The highway also runs through the cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, and Pueblo. The route is concurrent with U.S. Highway 87 through the entire length of the state. I-25 replaced U.S. Highway 87 and most of U.S. Highway 85 for through traffic.

neg: U.S. Route 62 in New York U.S. Route 62 (US 62) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from the United States–Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York. In the U.S. state of New York, US 62 extends 102.77 mi from the New York–Pennsylvania border south of Jamestown to an intersection with New York State Route 104 (NY 104) in downtown Niagara Falls. It bypasses the city of Jamestown and serves the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, along with several villages. It is the only north–south mainline U.S. highway in Western New York.


query: Félix Vieuille, was a French operatic bass who sang for more than four decades with the Opéra-Comique in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, he created roles in numerous world premieres, most notably portraying Arkel in the original production of Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera in five acts, with music by who?

pos: Félix Vieuille Félix Vieuille (15 October 1872, Saujon – 28 February 1953, Saujon) was a French operatic bass who sang for more than four decades with the Opéra-Comique in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century. He created roles in numerous world premieres, most notably portraying Arkel in the original production of Claude Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" in 1902 which he went on to sing 208 times at that house. He possessed a rich voice and a solid technique which helped sustain his career for a long time. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings made on the Odeon, Lyrophon, and Beka labels.

pos: Pelléas et Mélisande (opera) Pelléas et Mélisande ("Pelléas and Mélisande") is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play "Pelléas et Mélisande". It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande in a performance conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. The only opera Debussy ever completed, it is considered a landmark in 20th-century music.

neg: Le chalet Le chalet is an opéra comique in one act by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville after the singspiel "Jery und Bätely " by Goethe. The score re-uses material from Adam's Prix de Rome cantata "Ariane a Naxos" (1825). The text for the singspiel had previously been set to music by Peter Winter, 1790, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, 1801, and Conradin Kreutzer, 1810, and later by Donizetti, 1836, Julius Rietz, 1841, Heinrich Stihl, 1867, and Ingeborg Bronsart, 1873.

neg: La journée aux aventures La journée aux aventures ("The Day of Adventures") is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of an "opéra comique" in three acts. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 16 November 1816. The libretto is by Pierre-David-Augustin Chapelle and Louis Mezières-Miot. This was the last of the composer's works to be premiered in his lifetime and was a great success; it enjoyed 66 performances before the end of 1817 and helped remedy the financial problems of the Opéra-Comique. It was revived to acclaim in a German translation in Berlin in December 1839.

neg: Vénus et Adonis Vénus et Adonis is an opera ("tragédie en musique") in a prologue and 5 acts composed by Henri Desmarets to a libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Based on the story of Venus and Adonis in Book X of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", it was first performed by the Académie Royale de Musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 28 July 1697 with Marie Le Rochois and Louis Gaulard Dumesny in the title roles. Desmarets staged a major revival of the work with a new prologue at the court of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine in 1707. During the composer's lifetime, it was performed in Germany, Belgium, and France, but then fell into obscurity. Its first staging in modern times took place at the Opéra de Nancy on 28 April 2006.

neg: The Paris Waltz The Paris Waltz (French: La Valse de Paris) is a 1950 French-Italian historical musical film directed by Marcel Achard and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jacques Charon. It portrays the life of the nineteenth century composer Jacques Offenbach.

neg: La Terre Promise La Terre Promise is an oratorio in three parts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by the composer based on the French translation of the Vulgate by Silvestre de Sacy. It was first performed at L'église Saint-Eustache in Paris on March 15, 1900, with Jean Noté, baritone, Lydia Nervil, soprano, and the orchestra and chorus totaling 400, directed by a former pupil of Massenet, Eugène d'Harcourt. The work was preceded at its first performance by the French premiere of "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" (given as "La dernière Cène des Apôtres").

neg: Jean Vieuille Jean Vieuille was a French bass-baritone singer (born Paris, 14 February 1902, died Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, 6 April 1967) who enjoyed a long stage career mainly centred at the Paris Opéra-Comique.

neg: Opera Opera (] ; English plural: "operas"; Italian plural: "opere" ] ) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. In traditional opera, singers do two types of singing: recitative, a speech-inflected style and arias, a more melodic style, in which notes are sung in a sustained fashion. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor.

neg: Don Quichotte Don Quichotte ("Don Quixote") is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

neg: Die Harmonie der Welt Die Harmonie der Welt ("The Harmony of the World") is an opera in five acts by Paul Hindemith. The German libretto was by the composer.

neg: Antigone (Honegger) Antigone is an opera ("tragédie musicale") in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy "Antigone" by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel.

neg: Orion (Lacoste) Orion is an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 17 February 1728. It takes the form of a "tragédie en musique" in a prologue and five acts. The libretto was begun by Joseph de Lafont, and completed after his death by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin. The plot is based on the Greek myth of Orion.

neg: Le timbre d'argent Le timbre d'argent ("The Silver Bell") is an opéra fantastique in four acts by composer Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. Although completed in 1865, the opera did not receive its premiere performance until 23 February 1877, when it was presented by Albert Vizentini's Théâtre National Lyrique at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris. It includes the well-known aria "Le bonheur est chose légère."

neg: Manon Manon (] ) is an "opéra comique" in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel "L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (Act I), Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Acts II and III), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act IV).

neg: Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique may refer to the opera company commonly known as the Paris Opera or to one of several different theatres used during periods when the company was officially named the Académie Royale de Musique:

neg: Hérodiade Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella "Hérodias" (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.

neg: Carlton Gauld Carlton Gauld (before 1931 – after 1960) was an American operatic bass who had a prolific career during the 1930s through the 1960s. Raised in Bedford, Indiana, Gustos first rose to prominence at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, making his debut with the company in the 1931–1932 season as the King of Egypt in Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida". He made his debut with the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1932, shortly followed by his European debut at the Opéra Comique as Nilakantha in Delibes's "Lakmé". He remained at the Opéra Comique for three years, portraying a variety of roles like, Basilio in "The Barber of Seville", the title role in Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", the Prior in Massenet's "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame", de Grieux in "Manon", Lothario in "Mignon", Ramon in Charles Gounod's "Mireille", the four villains in "The Tales of Hoffmann", Count Almaviva in "Le nozze di Figaro", and Scarpia in "Tosca" among others. He also sang in the world premiere of Emmanuel Bondeville's "L’École des maris" (1933) with the company.

neg: Le faucon (opera) Le faucon (English: The Falcon , Russian: Сокол ) is an "opéra comique" in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Dmitry Bortniansky with a French language libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière. It was first performed on 11 October 1786 at the Gatchina Palace in Russia by aristocratic amateur singers. The plot is borrowed from Boccaccio's "The Decameron" (Fifth Day, 9th tale) which also served as the basis for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1771 comic opera "Le faucon" (libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine) (and later for Gounod's "La colombe").

neg: Polyxène et Pirrhus Polyxène et Pirrhus ("Polyxena and Pyrrhus") is an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 21 October 1706. It takes the form of a "tragédie lyrique" in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre.

neg: Philippe Musard Philippe Musard (8 November 1792 – 31 March 1859) was a French composer who was crucial to the development and popularity of the promenade concert. One of the most famous personalities of Europe during the 1830s and 1840s, his concerts in Paris and London were riotous (in several senses of the word) successes. Best known for his "galop" and "quadrille" pieces, he composed many of these numbers himself, usually borrowing famous themes of other composers. Musard plays an important role in the development of light classical music, the faculty of publicity in music, and in the role of the conductor as a musical celebrity. He has been largely forgotten subsequent to his retirement in the early 1850s.

neg: Canente (Collasse) Canente (English: "Canens") is an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 4 November 1700. It takes the form of a "tragédie lyrique" in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. A new setting by the composer Antoine Dauvergne appeared in 1760.


query: Which band first achieved popularity in the 1990s and wrote a single that has sold 205,000 copies as of July 2010?

pos: Jesus of Suburbia "Jesus of Suburbia" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the fifth and final single from the group's seventh studio album, "American Idiot", and the second song on the album. With the song running for 9 minutes and 9 seconds, it is Green Day's second longest song (with the band's longest song being fellow "American Idiot" song "Homecoming", which runs for 9 minutes and 19 seconds) and the group's longest song to be released as a single. The studio version of the song, a five movement piece, runs just over 9 minutes and was considered to be unfriendly for radio, so it was cut down to 6½ minutes for the radio edit. The long version was still played on many album rock and alternative rock radio stations. At most live shows on the first leg of the group's 21st Century Breakdown World Tour, the band would pick a member from the audience to play guitar for the song. The single has sold 205,000 copies as of July 2010.

pos: American Idiot American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day. Produced by Rob Cavallo, the album was released in the UK on September 20, 2004 and in the US on September 21, 2004 by Reprise Records. Green Day first achieved popularity in the 1990s with a string of successful albums. Following disappointing sales of their sixth album, "Warning" (2000), the band took a break before recording their next album, titled "Cigarettes and Valentines." The recording process was cut short when the album's master tapes were stolen. Rather than re-record that material, the group decided to start over.

neg: Bing Bang Boom (song) "Bing Bang Boom" is a song written by Hugh Prestwood, and recorded by American country music band Highway 101. It was released in April 1991 as the first single and title track from their album "Bing Bang Boom". The song reached number 14 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in June 1991.

neg: The Saw Doctors The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in the Republic of Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the country's all-time biggest-selling single. Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. On 15 February 2008, they received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards.

neg: Happy Nowhere Happy Nowhere is the debut studio album by the American rock band Dog's Eye View. The album is best known for its lead single, "Everything Falls Apart", which achieved considerable airplay and chart success in 1995 and 1996.

neg: Good Enough (Dodgy song) "Good Enough" is a single released by English Britpop band Dodgy. The single was released on 29 July 1996 and was the band's highest charting single hitting number 4 in the UK. It is featured on the "Sliding Doors" soundtrack.

neg: Break It Down Again "Break It Down Again" is a song by British band Tears For Fears, released as the first single from their 1993 album "Elemental". The song was an international hit, reaching #20 in the UK, #25 in the US, and the Top 40 in several other countries, also topping the US "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was particularly successful in Italy, where it peaked at #7 and in Canada, reaching #4 for two consecutive weeks in August 1993.

neg: Nobody Hears "Nobody Hears" is a song recorded by rock band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released as the first single from the band's 1992 album "The Art of Rebellion", and became their biggest U.S. hit at the time, peaking at number 28 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock chart.

neg: Lemon Parade Lemon Parade is Tonic's first album, released in 1996. The album has sold 1,300,000 copies to date, and reached platinum status in the United States. Tonic released a live EP with enhanced material called "Live and Enhanced" based on the success of this album. "If You Could Only See" was a hit single on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks charts reaching #1, and also reached #11 on the Billboard Airplay Hot 100, where it spent 63 weeks on the chart.

neg: Supersonic (Oasis song) "Supersonic" is the debut single by the English rock band Oasis. Written by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher, it was released on 11 April 1994 as Oasis' debut single and later appeared on their debut album "Definitely Maybe" in August 1994.

neg: River of Deceit "River of Deceit" is a song by the American rock band Mad Season, released in 1995 as the first single from the band's only studio album, "Above" (1995). The song reached number two on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and is the band's most well known song.

neg: I Saw Red I Saw Red is a song by American rock band Warrant. It was released in December 1990 as the second single from Warrant's second album "Cherry Pie". The song was one of Warrant's most successful singles, reaching number ten on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in February 1991, number fourteen on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #36 on the Australian charts and spawning a music video.

neg: Outshined "Outshined" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Outshined" was released in 1991 as the second single from the band's third studio album, "Badmotorfinger" (1991). The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album, "A-Sides", the 2010 compilation album, "Telephantasm" and the live album "Live on I-5".

neg: Eye for an Eye (song) "Eye for an Eye" is the first single by metal band Soulfly, released in 1998. The song is the first track of the debut album "Soulfly". However, "Eye for an Eye" is the tenth single written by Max Cavalera overall. His last single was Sepultura's "Ratamahatta" before he left the band and formed Soulfly. It has become Soulfly's trademark song, and is used at the closing of every Soulfly show since 1998.

neg: George (Headless Chickens song) "George" is a number-one hit single by New Zealand rock band Headless Chickens released in 1994.

neg: The Day We Find Love "The Day We Find Love" is a song by English boy band 911. It was released in the United Kingdom through Virgin Records on 10 February 1997 as the fourth single from their debut studio album "The Journey" (1997).

neg: 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi, that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold (lead vocals/drums), Todd Harrell (bass), and Matt Roberts (lead guitar, backing vocals). They were soon joined by rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson. The band rose to international fame with their first single, "Kryptonite", which charted in the top three on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. The band then signed with Republic Records and released their debut album, "The Better Life", in 2000. The album was the 11th-best-selling album of the year and was certified 6x platinum in the United States. They were later joined by drummer Richard Liles, who played during the tour for their first album.

neg: Come On You Reds "Come on You Reds" is a song recorded by the 1994 Manchester United football squad along with the rock group Status Quo. It first entered the UK Singles Chart on 30 April 1994, and remained there for a total of 15 weeks, reaching a two-week high of number-one. The song is the only (as of 2016) club side football single to reach number 1 in the UK chart – however, "Three Lions" (in 1996 and 1998), "Back Home" (in 1970), "World in Motion" (in 1990) and "Shout" (in 2010) have all topped the charts for the England national side.

neg: Runaway (The Corrs song) "Runaway" is the debut single by the Irish family band The Corrs. It was released in September 1995, and had middling chart success except in Ireland and Australia, where it peaked at #10. In the UK Singles Chart, it reached #49. It was re-released in 1999 and was much more successful, reaching #2 in the UK.

neg: I Wanna Be Adored "I Wanna Be Adored" is a song by the British rock band The Stone Roses. It was the first track on their debut album, "The Stone Roses", and was released as a single. The US release charted at number 18 on the "Billboard" Modern Rock chart in 1990. In 1991, the single was released in the UK, Germany and Japan featuring previously unreleased B-sides.

neg: The Drowners "The Drowners" is the debut single by Suede, released on 11 May 1992 on Nude Records. It charted at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart. Though not a hit at first, it amassed airplay over time and has become one of the band's definitive singles. The song has been considered by many to be the beginning of the Britpop movement along with Blur's "Popscene". The title track featured two videos, one in rotation in the UK and the other in America

neg: Don't Let's Start "Don't Let's Start" is a popular song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, from their eponymous debut album "They Might Be Giants". It was the first single released from the album, released as a maxi-single. The song is one of the band's most popular and well-known songs, despite failing to achieve significant commercial success. The single peaked at #94 on the Australian ARIA singles chart in 1988. It was later re-released by Elektra in 1990 after the success of the band's third album, "Flood".


query: Who was the wife of a photographer famed for his photographic portraits in the early 20th century?

pos: Adolph de Meyer Baron Adolph de Meyer (1 September 1868 – 6 January 1946) was a photographer famed for his photographic portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Ruth St. Denis, King George V of the United Kingdom, and Queen Mary. He was also the first official fashion photographer for the American magazine "Vogue", appointed to that position in 1913.

pos: Mary of Teck Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V.

neg: Mary Steen Mary Dorothea Frederica Steen (28 October 1856 – 7 April 1939) was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the age of 28, she opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. She later became Denmark's first female court photographer, working not only with the Danish royal family but, at the invitation of Princess Alexandra, with the British royal family too. She also played an important part in improving conditions for female workers and encouraging women to take up the profession of photography.

neg: Jane Ussher Jane Ussher MNZM (born 1953) is a New Zealand photographer, best known for her portrait photography work. She has been the chief photographer of the "New Zealand Listener" for over 25 years, and is most notable for her portraiture.

neg: Rose Clark Rose Clark (1852–1942) was an early 20th-century American painter and pictorial photographer. She is best known for the photographs she exhibited with Elizabeth Flint Wade under their joint names, either as "Rose Clark and Elizabeth Flint Wade" or as "Misses Clark and Wade".

neg: Nadine Blacklock Nadine Blacklock (1953–1998) was a nature photographer best known for her detailed nature photography of the Lake Superior area. She was married to Craig Blacklock, a well-known photographer in his own right. She died in a car accident on Highway 61 near Two Harbors, Minnesota.

neg: Sanora Babb Sanora Babb (April 21, 1907 – December 31, 2005) was an American novelist, poet, and literary editor. She was the wife of Chinese American cinematographer James Wong Howe.

neg: Helen Brush Jenkins Helen Marie Brush Jenkins (April 1919 – June 12, 2013) was one of the first women News Photographers in the world. Brush Jenkins,based in Los Angeles California where she got her start working for the now-defunct Los Angeles "Daily News", beginning in the 1940s, she was considered a pioneer in the news industry. At the time she was the first women who worked as a news photographer.She disliked being called a Photo Journalist and insisted in being known as a News Photog. Taught by her husband Gilmer,(Gib), Brush, She took his job at the Dailey News when he went to war as a photographer for the OSS. She worked for the "Daily News" for more than twelve years. Her subjects included President Harry Truman, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin. Changes made by Gilmer Loring Brush.

neg: Jane Martha St. John Jane Martha St. John (née Hicks Beach, 1801–1882) was an early English photographer. She is remembered for her calotypes of Rome and other towns in Italy, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

neg: Jean Howard Jean Howard (born Ernestine Mahoney; October 13, 1910 – March 20, 2000) was an American actress and photographer. She was born in Longview, Texas and died in Beverly Hills, California.

neg: Phil Stern Philip "Snapdragon" Stern (September 3, 1919 – December 13, 2014) was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in the "Darby's Rangers" unit in the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II.

neg: Germaine Krull Germaine Luise Krull (29 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner. Her nationality has been categorized as German, French, and Dutch, but she spent years in Brazil, Republic of the Congo, Thailand, and India. Described as "an especially outspoken example" of a group of early 20th-century female photographers who "could lead lives free from convention", she is best known for photographically-illustrated books such as her 1928 portfolio "Métal".

neg: Constance Adams DeMille Constance Adams DeMille (April 27, 1873 - July 17, 1960) actress and wife of filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille.

neg: Wynn Bullock Wynn Bullock (April 18, 1902 – November 16, 1975) was an American photographer whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world. He received substantial critical acclaim during his lifetime, published numerous books and is mentioned in all the standard histories of modern photography.

neg: David Bachrach David Bachrach, Jr. (1845–1921) was an American commercial photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He made contributions to the technical, artistic, and professional advancements in the field as well as being the founder of a photographic dynasty that became a unique institution in the United States. He became the spokesman for photographers at the turn of the 20th century who were confronted with a welter of technical and artistic choices. He regularly published in the leading photographic journals of the time and experimented with self-toning papers. He developed the first practical process for photographic printing on canvas, and a forerunner of the present-day photoengraving system. Bachrach, Inc., which was founded in 1910 and is still headed by the Bachrach family, had studios in all the major east coast cities. The Bachrachs, beginning with David, established the idea of "official portraiture," becoming the leading portrait photographers in the United States well into the 1960s.

neg: Lotte Jacobi Johanna Alexandra "Lotte" Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a German-American photographer.

neg: Lydia Clarke Lydia Marie Clarke (born April 14, 1923) is an American actress and photographer, and the widow of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston.

neg: Fonville Winans Theodore Fonville Winans (August 22, 1911 – September 13, 1992) was an American photographer whose black-and-white images documented south Louisiana people and places. He established a successful practice as a wedding and portrait photographer, but is best known for his images of south Louisiana's rugged outdoors, and its fishermen and swamp dwellers.

neg: Maxwell Frederic Coplan Maxwell Frederic Coplan (February 13, 1912 – July 1, 1985) was an American photographer. His subjects included Bob Dylan, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, as well as many other noted public figures of his time.

neg: James Wallace Black James Wallace Black (February 10, 1825 – January 5, 1896), known professionally as J.W. Black, was an early American photographer whose career was marked by experimentation and innovation.

neg: Sam Tata Sam Tata (September 30, 1911 – July 3, 2005) was a noted photographer and photojournalist.

neg: Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler ("née" Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for fewer than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer; she began seeing him often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a photographer, and many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.


query: What kind of transit system is the M1 part of?

pos: M1 (Copenhagen) M1 of the Copenhagen Metro, colored green on the map, runs from Vanløse to Vestamager. It connects the Ørestad neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark, to the city center. The line is elevated while traveling through Ørestad, while it runs in a tunnel below the city center. From Christianshavn to Vanløse, the line is shared with M2.

pos: Copenhagen Metro Copenhagen Metro (Danish: "Københavns Metro" ) is a 24/7 rapid transit system in Copenhagen, Denmark, serving the municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, and Tårnby.

neg: Masivo Integrado de Occidente The Masivo Integrado de Occidente (English: Western Mass Integrated ), also referred to as MIO, is a bus rapid transit system that serves Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The system is operated through articulated buses which move in dedicated lanes. Approximately 97% of the city's spatial perimeter will be covered by this system, involving nearly 243 kilometers. The MIO will cover approximately 72% of Cali's public transportation needs.

neg: M1 motorway The M1 is a south-north motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first road to be built to motorway standard in the country was the Preston By-pass, which later became part of the M6.

neg: Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria) The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) was a Government of Victoria owned corporate body that operated suburban passenger trains, trams and buses in Victoria, Australia. It was set up under Section 15 of the Transport Act 1983 and commenced operation on 1 July 1983. It was a statutory body set up to manage the trams formerly operated by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, the metropolitan train operations of the former VicRail, and the operations of the former Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority.

neg: M1 motorway (Republic of Ireland) The M1 motorway (Irish: "Mótarbhealach M1" ) is a motorway in Ireland. It forms the large majority of the N1 national primary road connecting Dublin towards Belfast along the east of the island of Ireland. The route heads north via Swords, Drogheda and Dundalk to the Northern Irish border just south of Newry in County Armagh, where it joins the A1 road and further on, the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland. It also forms a significant part of the road connection between Dublin and the Northern Irish cities of Newry, and Lisburn.

neg: Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (東京都交通局 , Tōkyō-to Kōtsū-kyoku ) , also known as Toei (都営 ) , is a bureau of Tokyo Metropolitan Government which operates public transport services in Tokyo. Among its services, Toei Subway is one of two rapid transit systems which make up the Tokyo subway system, the other being Tokyo Metro.

neg: History of the New York City Subway The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City, New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority, which is itself controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. In 2016, an average of 5.66 million passengers used the system daily, making it the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world.

neg: Movia (transit agency) Trafikselskabet Movia is the public transport agency that is responsible for buses and certain local railways in Copenhagen and the part of Denmark east of the Great Belt, covering the regions Sjælland and Hovedstaden, except for Bornholm, which is a 100% owner of BAT, formerly, before 1 January 2003, transit agency Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab. It does not own any buses and trains itself, but pays subcontractors to run them. It is a part owner of train company Lokaltog. It has an integrated fare system in collaboration with the Copenhagen metro and DSB, which means that the same tickets are valid on all buses and trains.

neg: Westlink (road) The Westlink road in Belfast, Northern Ireland is a dual carriageway throughpass, designated the A12, connecting the M1 to the M2 and M3 motorways which run south, north and east of the city, respectively. The road forms part of European route E01.

neg: M18 motorway (Ireland) The M18 motorway (Irish: "Mótarbhealach M18" ) is an inter-urban motorway in Ireland, forming part of the Limerick, Ennis to Galway national primary road, which, in turn, forms part of the Atlantic Corridor called for as part of the Transport 21 project.

neg: Metro Donostialdea Metro Donostialdea is a rapid transit (metro) system serving the city of San Sebastián and the Donostialdea area, within Gipuzkoa and reaching the city of Hendaye. The line was renamed "Metro Donostialdea" and converted into an urban rapid transit system in August 2012, and it was previously known as the "Topo" line ("topo" being Spanish for "mole") and part of the Euskotren Trena commuter rail network. In August 2012 its livery was changed to reflect the new brand, "metro donostialdea", and new stations were opened, creating the called "Line 1" and seven new stations are expected to be constructed and opened within the city of San Sebastián to complete the aforementioned first line It is operated by the Basque Railways and it uses meter gauge.

neg: Meijō Line The Meijō Line (名城線 , Meijō-sen ) is a subway line forming part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan, operated by Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya. It is a loop line that runs from Kanayama, via Sakae, Ōzone, Nagoya Daigaku, and back to Kanayama, all within Nagoya. The Meijō Line color on maps is wisteria purple. Its stations are numbered with the prefix "M". Officially, the line consists of Nagoya City Rapid Railway Line 2 (名古屋市高速度鉄道第2号線 , Nagoya-shi Kōsokudo Tetsudō Dai-ni-gō-sen ) , the western part, and Line 4 (第4号線 , Dai-yon-gō-sen ) , the eastern part. All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card.

neg: Brussels Metro The Brussels Metro (French: "Métro de Bruxelles" , Dutch: "Brusselse metro" ) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of four conventional metro lines and three premetro lines. The metro-grade lines are M1, M2, M5, and M6 with some shared sections, covering a total of 39.9 km , with 59 metro-only stations. The premetro network consists of three tram lines (T3, T4, and T7) that partly travel over underground sections that were intended to be eventually converted into metro lines. Underground stations in the premetro network use the same design as metro stations. A few short underground tramway sections exist, so there is a total of 52.0 km of underground metro and tram network. There are a total of 69 metro and premetro stations as of 2011.

neg: Metrobus (Sydney) Metrobus is an Australian high frequency, high capacity bus network in Sydney that links key employment and growth centres. Metrobuses run every 10 minutes during peak periods, 15 minutes during off-peak weekday periods, and 20 minutes on weekends, with the intention of making timetables obsolete. Buses are painted in a distinctive red livery and all Metrobuses are wheelchair accessible. All route numbers are prefixed with an "M" followed by 2 numbers.

neg: Maryland Transit Administration The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It is better known as MTA Maryland to avoid confusion with other cities' transit agencies who share the initials MTA. The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. There are 80 bus lines serving Baltimore's public transportation needs, along with other services that include the Light Rail, Metro Subway, and MARC Train. With nearly half the population of Baltimore residents lacking access to a car, the MTA is an important part of the regional transit picture. The system has many connections to other transit agencies of Central Maryland, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and south-central Pennsylvania (Hanover, Harrisburg, and York): WMATA, Charm City Circulator, Regional Transportation Agency of Central Maryland, Annapolis Transit, Rabbit Transit, Ride-On, and TransIT.

neg: Mendocino Transit Authority The Mendocino Transit Authority (MTA) is a public bus system that serves Ukiah, the Mendocino Valley, and coastal regions of Mendocino County, California.

neg: NER Class M1 The North Eastern Railway Class M1 (LNER Class D17/1) is a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive, designed by Wilson Worsdell. 20 initial engines were built, then 30 further units were built, designated Class Q (LNER Class D17/2).

neg: Muncie Indiana Transit System Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) is the local bus service for Muncie, Indiana. MITS has 14 routes that originate in downtown Muncie and branch out about 4 miles in all directions. Some routes add buses during school hours to help shuttle students. MITSPlus vehicles are available upon request by disabled people who cannot use the mass-transit buses.

neg: Public transport in Havering Public transport in the London Borough of Havering, in northeast London, England, is a mix of National Rail, London Underground, London Overground and Crossrail and London Buses services. Rail services are primarily radial to central London with bus services providing most of the orbital connections. The public transport authority is Transport for London and the local authority is Havering London Borough Council.

neg: Vörösmarty utca (Budapest Metro) Vörösmarty utca (Vörösmarty street) is a station of the yellow M1 (Millennium Underground) line of the Budapest Metro.

neg: List of MAX Light Rail stations Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail transit system serving the Portland metropolitan area. The system is operated by TriMet, a public agency that operates public transit in the Portland area. Serving an average of 130,000 passengers a day (in Fiscal Year 2012), MAX Light Rail is one of the largest light rail systems in the United States in terms of ridership.


query: What American director, born Joseph McGinty Nichol, directed the pilot episode of "Chuck"?

pos: Chuck Versus the Intersect "Chuck Versus the Intersect" is the pilot episode of the American action-comedy television series "Chuck". The episode was directed by McG and written by series co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. It originally aired on September 24, 2007.

pos: McG Joseph McGinty Nichol (born August 9, 1968), known mononymously as McG, is an American director, producer, and former record producer.

neg: Pilot (Breaking Bad) "Pilot" (titled "Breaking Bad" on DVD and Blu-ray releases) is the first episode of the American television drama series "Breaking Bad". It originally aired on AMC on January 20, 2008, and was written and directed by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan.

neg: Joseph Sargent Joseph Sargent (born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente; July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American film director. Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature-length works were arguably the theatrical releases: Burt Reynolds action movie "White Lightning", Gregory Peck biopic "MacArthur", and horror anthology "Nightmares". His most popular feature film was subway thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career.

neg: John David Coles John David Coles is an American film and television director. He directed five episodes of the HBO sitcom "Sex and the City", as well as episodes of "Grey's Anatomy", "Law & Order", "The West Wing", "Desperate Housewives", "Homeland", and "11.22.63".

neg: Wartnerchaney Joseph Wartnerchaney is an American director, screenwriter, and editor.

neg: Jamie Babbit Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films "But I'm a Cheerleader", "The Quiet" and "Itty Bitty Titty Committee". She has also directed episodes of television programs including "Gilmore Girls", "Malcolm in the Middle", "United States of Tara", "Looking", "Nip/Tuck", and "The L Word".

neg: Gary Conrad Gary Conrad (born February 27, 1943) is an American animation director, who has worked on shows including "The Fairly OddParents" and "Danny Phantom". He is a graduate of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.

neg: Cheers (season 2) The second season of "Cheers", an American situation comedy television series, originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 29, 1983, and May 10, 1984, with 22 episodes. The show was created by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles, and was produced by Charles Burrows Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television. The second season has been released on DVD as a four-disc set.

neg: Marc Buckland Marc Buckland is an American television director and producer.

neg: Pilot (Person of Interest) "Pilot" is the first episode of the crime drama television series "Person of Interest". It originally aired on CBS in the United States on September 22, 2011. The episode was written by series creator Jonathan Nolan and directed by David Semel.

neg: Stephen J. Bartowski Stephen Joseph Bartowski is a recurring character on the television series "Chuck" portrayed by actor Scott Bakula. Stephen is the estranged father of Chuck and Ellie Bartowski, and under the government codename "Orion" was the chief designer of the Intersect.

neg: Scott Krinsky Scott Krinsky (born November 24, 1968) is a Los Angeles-based actor and comic best known for his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes on the hit TV series "Chuck" and his role as Darryl on "The O.C."

neg: Jeff Tremaine Jeffery James Tremaine (born September 4, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, television director, and television producer. He is most closely associated with the "Jackass" franchise, having been involved since the inception of the first TV show.

neg: Marita Grabiak Marita Jane Grabiak (born in Ambridge, Pennsylvania) is an American television director. She began her career as a production assistant on the film "The Men's Club" (1986) along with fellow Joss Whedon collaborator Tim Minear. She has directed episodes of several television series including "Dawson's Creek", "Dollhouse", "ER", "Firefly", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", "Smallville", "Cold Case", "Gilmore Girls", "Everwood", "Battlestar Galactica", "Lost", "The Inside", "Alias", "", "Point Pleasant", "One Tree Hill", and most recently, "American Horror Story".

neg: James Quinn (director) James Quinn is an American film and television director.

neg: Pilot (Raising Hope) "Pilot" is the series premiere of the Fox sitcom "Raising Hope". The episode was written by series creator, Greg Garcia and directed by Michael Fresco. The episode premiered September 21, 2010, on the Fox television network.

neg: John Stuart Scott John Stuart Scott (sometimes credited as John Scott or John S. Scott) is an American television director and Producer who has directed episodes for several well-known series including "Glee", "The Office" and "Chuck".

neg: Chuck Versus First Class "Chuck Versus First Class" is the fifth episode of "Chuck"' s third season. It aired on January 25, 2010 in the US (January 24 in Canada). While Chuck embarks on his first solo mission, Morgan faces a continued revolt of his co-workers masterminded by Lester.

neg: Paris Barclay Paris K.C. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director and producer, and writer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 150 episodes of television to date, for series such as "NYPD Blue", "ER", "The West Wing", "", "Lost", "The Shield", "House", "Law & Order", "Monk", "Numb3rs", "City of Angels", "Cold Case", and more recently "Sons of Anarchy", "The Bastard Executioner", "The Mentalist", "Weeds", "", "In Treatment", "Glee", "Smash" and "The Good Wife", "Extant", and "Manhattan", "Empire", and "Scandal". Most recently, Barclay worked as an executive producer and principal director for the Fox series "Pitch", and directed the CBS pilot, "Perfect Citizen."

neg: Dexter (episode) "Dexter", or "Pilot", is the pilot episode of the first season television drama series "Dexter", which premiered on October 1, 2006 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by developer James Manos, Jr. and directed by Michael Cuesta. It was based on the opening of the novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay. The pilot introduces the series' protagonist, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a Miami Metro Police Department blood spatter analyst with a double life as a serial killer. While solving murders in the Homicide division, Dexter also spends his time hunting and killing murderers and criminals who have escaped the justice system. The pilot introduces the "Ice Truck Killer", a serial killer who targets prostitutes and leaves their bodies dismembered and bloodless, and the rivalry that develops between the killer and Dexter.

neg: Seed of Chucky Seed of Chucky is a 2004 American supernatural comedy slasher film, the fifth installment of the "Child's Play" series, and sequel to 1998's "Bride of Chucky". The film was written and directed by Don Mancini, who created the series and has written all of the films. With this entry, Mancini made his directorial debut. The film is set six years after "Child's Play 3" and "Bride of Chucky" and follows a young doll named Glen, the son of Chucky and Tiffany, resurrecting his parents, causing chaos.