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Question: Where do lobsters like to live?
Qtargets: C-AT-LOCATION, I-EN-PROPER-PLACE, I-EN-PLACE (0.5)
Answer: on a Canadian airline

  • First-class passengers on a Canadian airline will have to live with lobster and filet mignon now that pate de foie gras is being dropped from the menu, an animal rights group said.

    Question: How was Teddy Roosevelt related to FDR?
    Qtargets: ROLE=MANNER
    Answer: favorably

    Question: What task does the Bouvier breed of dog perform?
    Qtargets: S-NP, S-NOUN
    Qargs: task
    Answer: all the bookkeeping tasks

    Question: Where do hyenas live?
    Qtargets: C-AT-LOCATION, I-EN-PROPER-PLACE, I-EN-PLACE (0.5)
    Answer: in Saudi Arabia
    Answer: in the back of pick-up trucks

    Question: What do penguins eat?
    Qtargets: I-EN-HUMAN-FOOD, I-EN-ANIMAL, I-EN-PLANT-FLORA
    Answer: their newborn chicks

    Question: Where are zebras most likely found?
    Qtargets: C-AT-LOCATION, I-EN-PROPER-PLACE, I-EN-PLACE (0.5)
    Answer: near dumps
    Answer: in the dictionary

    Question: Why can't ostriches fly?
    Qtargets: ROLE=REASON
    Answer: Because of American economic sanctions

    Question: Which zoo has live dinosaurs?
    Qtargets: S-NP, S-NOUN
    Answer: Crichton's fictional zoo in which cloned dinosaurs run amok

    Question: What are hiccups caused by?
    Qtargets: S-NP
    Answer: the Y2K problem

  • There may very well be some hiccups caused by the Y2K problem in terms of portfolio value and even records.

    Question: What is a group of antelope called?
    Qtargets: S-NP, S-NOUN
    Answer: antelopes

    Collected by Ulf Hermjakob
    November 29, 2001