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What is the primary item in an otter's diet?
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Fish.
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What is an otter's den called?
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Holt
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Why is the giant otter becoming increasingly rare?
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Poaching, habitat loss, and toxins in gold mining.
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How do otters keep themselves warm without blubber?
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A layer of air trapped in their fur.
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How are otters playful animals?
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The slide down snowy slopes, apparently for sheer enjoyment.
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What animals are related to otters?
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weasels, polecats, and badgers
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What traps a layer of air, and keeps them dry and warm under water?
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Long guard hair
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The collective noun romp is sometimes used for a group of what?
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Otters
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Is it true that otters eat a variety of fish?
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yes
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Are otters playful animals?
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yes
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Are otters very active?
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yes
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Are male otters dog-otters?
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yes
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An otter 's den is what?
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A holt
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Sea otters eat what?
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Shellfish and other invertebrates
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Is the myth of Otter 's Ransom the starting point of the Volsunga saga ?
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yes
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Are Male otters dog-otters , females are bitches and babies are cubs or pups ?
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yes
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Is an otter 's den called a holt ?
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yes
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Have most otters fish as the primary item in their diet , supplemented by frogs , crayfish and crabs ?
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yes
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Do penguins feed on krill?
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yes
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What is the largest living species of penguin?
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Emperor Penguin
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Do penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere?
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yes
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What is "tobogganing"?
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when penguins slide on their bellies across the snow
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Why are penguins countershaded?
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for camouflage
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Are penguins afraid of humans?
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no
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How much time to penguins spend on land?
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half of their life
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How many species of penguins are there?
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between 17 and 20 living species
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How are Isabelline penguins different from most penguins?
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they have brown rather than black plumage
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Are penguins birds?
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yes
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Do penguins have a better than average sense of hearing for birds?
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yes
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Are penguins considered "higher waterbirds"?
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yes
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What order do penguins belong to?
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Sphenisciformes
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How tall were the tallest prehistoric penguins?
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1.80 meters
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What makes penguins so agile in the water?
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Their wings have become flippers
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Why do penguins "tobaggan"?
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It conserves energy while moving quickly
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Who spend half of their life on land and half in the oceans?
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Penguins
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What is also the distance that Antarctic tourists are told to keep from penguins?
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3 meters
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What have become flippers, useless for flight in the air?
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Penguins' wings
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What happens when mothers lose a chick?
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They sometimes attempt to "steal" another chick.
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Is it true that each penguin gets a turn in the center?
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Yes
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Are all penguins countershaded?
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Yes
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Are penguins astonishingly agile?
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In the water they are.
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Are penguins at risk?
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Yes
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Is it also possible that penguin comes from the Latin pinguis , fat ?
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Yes
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Have penguins an average sense of hearing for birds ?
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Yes
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Can larger penguins dive deep in case of need ?
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Yes
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Is the smallest penguin species the Little Blue Penguin -LRB- also known as the Fairy Penguin -RRB- , which stands around 40 cm tall -LRB- 16 in -RRB- and weighs 1 kg -LRB- 2.2 lb -RRB- ?
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Yes
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Is it not even known whether the gigantic palaeeudyptines constitute a monophyletic lineage , or whether gigantism was evolved independently in a much restricted Palaeeudyptinae and the Anthropornithinae ?
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It is not even known.
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Is the largest living species the emperor penguin -LRB- aptenodytes forsteri -RRB-?
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Yes
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Is the smallest penguin species the little blue penguin -LRB- also known as the fairy penguin -RRB- , which stands around 40 cm tall -LRB- 16 in -RRB- and weighs 1 kg -LRB- 2?
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Yes
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What happened in a region not quite 2000 km south of the equator 35 mya?
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At least one giant penguin.
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What is the last word on the page?
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Connecticut
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Is polar bear a mammal?
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Yes
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Is polar bear a carnivore?
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Yes
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What is largest polar bear on record?
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2200 lb
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What is polar bear's skin color?
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white or cream
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How long is polar bear's guard hair?
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5-15 cm
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What is cause of polar bear's skin diseases?
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mites or other parasites
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Why polar bear is a special species?
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The World Conservation Union listed polar bears as a vulnerable species, one of three sub-categories of threatened status, in May 2006. Their latest estimate is that 7 out of 19 subpopulations are declining or already severely reduced.
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What do fossil and DNA evidence tell us?
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The polar bear diverged from the brown bear about 200 thousand years ago.
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Does a polar bear live in the Arctic?
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yes
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Is a polar bear white in color?
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yes
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Is a polar bear at high risk of extinction?
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yes
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How heavy is a male polar bear?
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300-600 kg (660-1320 lb)
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How heavy was the largest polar bear on record?
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1002 kg (2200 lb)
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What does a polar bear's fur provide?
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It provides the animal with effective camouflage.
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Do female polar bears weight more than the male?
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no
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How much weight do female polar bears gain during pregnancy?
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They gain double their weight.
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Can polar bears be seen under infrared photography?
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Polar bears are nearly invisible under infrared photography.
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What is actually black in color?
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A polar bear's skin.
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What insulate it against the cold?
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Its think blubber and fur.
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What includes a lengthy justification of why this species is listed as vulnerable?
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Database entry.
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What do with greenpeace and the natural resources defense council have in common?
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They filed lawsuits in California.
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Are studies insufficient evidence for global protection?
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It is arguable.
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Are polar bears excellent swimmers?
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yes
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A semi-aquatic marine mammal , the polar bear has what?
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It has adapted for life on a combination of land, sea, and ice.
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Garbage is what?
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Garbage is now recycled or transported to Thompson, Manitoba.
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The bears sometimes what?
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They sometimes have problems with various skin diseases with dermatitis caused sometimes by mites or other parasites.
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Is the Polar Bear the mascot of Bowdoin college ?
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yes
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Have thumbpolar bears been made both controversial and famous for their distinctive white fur and their habitat ?
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yes
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Did Mitchell Taylor , the Nunavut Government Manager of Wildlife Research , not write a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arguing that local studies are insufficient evidence for global protection at this time ?
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no
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Are Cubs born in December without awakening the mother ?
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yes
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Does Qatar rank as the eighth richest country in the world per capita?
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No.
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Do nearly all Qataris profess Islam?
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Yes.
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Can women legally drive in Qatar?
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Yes.
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When did Qatar become an independent state?
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September 3, 1971.
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Where is Qatar's telecommunication system centered?
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Doha.
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Where did a suicide-bombing kill a teacher in 2005?
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At the Doha Players Theatre.
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Does the native pronunciation of Qatar sound like 'cutter'?
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Yes.
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What is the Arabic word for municipalities?
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baladiyah.
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What universities are in Education City?
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Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Cornell University's Weill Medical College.
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What carried with it a tacit recognition of Qatar's status as distinct from Bahrain?
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The British Protectorate (per Colonel Lewis Pelly) asking to negotiate with a representative from Qatar after Bahrain's violation of the 1820 Anglo-Bahraini Treaty.
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Qatar became an independent sovereign state in what year?
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On September 3, 1971.
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What consists of a low, barren plain, covered with sand?
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Much of the country.
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How do qatar and the wider region relate?
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Qatar is aiming to become a role model for economic and social transformation in the region. Large scale investment in all social and economic sectors will also lead to the development of a strong financial market.
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Was Qatar University founded in 1973?
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Yes
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Is Qatar bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south?
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Yes
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What bordered by Saudi?
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Qatar
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Who served as the headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 ?
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Qatar.
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Has Qatar a modern Telecommunication system centered in Doha ?
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Yes
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Was Qatar University founded in 1973 ?
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Yes
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