Southern California, often abbreviated SoCal, is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost 10 counties. The region is traditionally described as "eight counties", based on demographics and economic ties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The more extensive 10-county definition, including Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is also used based on historical political divisions. Southern California is a major economic center for the state of California and the United States.
What is Southern California often abbreviated as?
Ground Truth Answers: SoCalSoCalSoCal
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Despite being traditionall described as "eight counties", how many counties does this region actually have?
Ground Truth Answers: 10 counties1010
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What is a major importance of Southern California in relation to California and the United States?
Ground Truth Answers: economic centermajor economic centereconomic center
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What are the ties that best described what the "eight counties" are based on?
Ground Truth Answers: demographics and economic tieseconomicdemographics and economic
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The reasons for the las two counties to be added are based on what?
Ground Truth Answers: historical political divisionshistorical political divisionshistorical political divisions
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The 8- and 10-county definitions are not used for the greater Southern California Megaregion, one of the 11 megaregions of the United States. The megaregion's area is more expansive, extending east into Las Vegas, Nevada, and south across the Mexican border into Tijuana.
What is the name of the region that is not defined by the eight or 10 county definitions?
Ground Truth Answers: Southern California Megaregionthe greater Southern California MegaregionSouthern California Megaregion
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How many megaregions are there in the United States?
Ground Truth Answers: 111111
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What is the name of the state that the megaregion expands to in the east?
Ground Truth Answers: NevadaNevadaNevada
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Which border does the megaregion extend over?
Ground Truth Answers: MexicanMexicanMexican
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What is the name of the area past the border that the megaregion extends into?
Ground Truth Answers: TijuanaTijuanaTijuana
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Southern California includes the heavily built-up urban area stretching along the Pacific coast from Ventura, through the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Inland Empire, and down to Greater San Diego. Southern California's population encompasses seven metropolitan areas, or MSAs: the Los Angeles metropolitan area, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties; the Inland Empire, consisting of Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the San Diego metropolitan area; the Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura metropolitan area; the Santa Barbara metro area; the San Luis Obispo metropolitan area; and the El Centro area. Out of these, three are heavy populated areas: the Los Angeles area with over 12 million inhabitants, the Riverside-San Bernardino area with over four million inhabitants, and the San Diego area with over 3 million inhabitants. For CSA metropolitan purposes, the five counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura are all combined to make up the Greater Los Angeles Area with over 17.5 million people. With over 22 million people, southern California contains roughly 60 percent of California's population.
Which coastline does Southern California touch?
Ground Truth Answers: PacificPacificPacific
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How many metropolitan areas does Southern California's population encompass?
Ground Truth Answers: sevensevenseven
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How many inhabitants does the Los Angeles area contain?
Ground Truth Answers: 12 millionover 12 million inhabitants12 million
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Which of the three heavily populated areas has the least number of inhabitants?
Ground Truth Answers: San Diegothe San Diego areaSan Diego
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How many people does the Greater Los Angeles Area have?
Ground Truth Answers: 17.5 millionover 17.5 million17.5 million
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To the east is the Colorado Desert and the Colorado River at the border with Arizona, and the Mojave Desert at the border with the state of Nevada. To the south is the Mexico–United States border.
What is the name of the water body that is found to the east?
Ground Truth Answers: Colorado Riverthe Colorado RiverColorado River
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What is the name of the desert on the border of Arizona?
Ground Truth Answers: Colorado Desertthe Colorado DesertColorado Desert
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What is the name of the desert near the border of Nevada?
Ground Truth Answers: Mojave Desertthe Mojave DesertMojave Desert
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What is the name of the border to the south?
Ground Truth Answers: Mexico–United States borderthe Mexico–United States borderMexico–United States border
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Within southern California are two major cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as three of the country's largest metropolitan areas. With a population of 3,792,621, Los Angeles is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States. To the south and with a population of 1,307,402 is San Diego, the second most populous city in the state and the eighth most populous in the nation.
The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego are a part of which state?
Ground Truth Answers: CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia
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What is the population of Los Angeles?
Ground Truth Answers: 3,792,6213,792,6213,792,621
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Which city is the most populous in California?
Ground Truth Answers: Los AngelesLos AngelesLos Angeles
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What is the eighth most populous city in the nation?
Ground Truth Answers: San DiegoSan DiegoSan Diego
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In which cardinal direction from Los Angeles is San Diego?
Ground Truth Answers: southsouth
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Its counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside are the five most populous in the state and all are in the top 15 most populous counties in the United States.
Orange, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino make up four of the five counties. What is the name of the last county?
Ground Truth Answers: Los AngelesLos AngelesRiverside
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What country are all the counties in?
Ground Truth Answers: United Statesthe United StatesLos Angeles
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What are Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside?
Ground Truth Answers: countiescountiesfive most populous in the state
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What is the lowest ranking one of the counties could have in terms of most populous counties in the United States?
Ground Truth Answers: 1515Riverside
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What is the smallest geographical region discussed?
Ground Truth Answers: countiesRiverside
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The motion picture, television, and music industry is centered on the Los Angeles in southern California. Hollywood, a district within Los Angeles, is also a name associated with the motion picture industry. Headquartered in southern California are The Walt Disney Company (which also owns ABC), Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers. Universal, Warner Brothers, and Sony also run major record companies as well.
What is the name given to the district that is associated with the motion picture industry?
Ground Truth Answers: HollywoodHollywoodHollywood
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Which city does the Hollywood district belong to?
Ground Truth Answers: Los AngelesLos AngelesLos Angeles
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Which company owns ABC?
Ground Truth Answers: The Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company
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Other than the motion picture and television industry, what other major industry is centered in Los Angeles?
Ground Truth Answers: musicmajor record companies
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Other than Universal and Warner Brothers, what other company runs a major record company?
Ground Truth Answers: SonySonySony
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Southern California is also home to a large home grown surf and skateboard culture. Companies such as Volcom, Quiksilver, No Fear, RVCA, and Body Glove are all headquartered here. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, professional surfers Rob Machado, Tim Curran, Bobby Martinez, Pat O'Connell, Dane Reynolds, and Chris Ward, and professional snowboarder Shaun White live in southern California. Some of the world's legendary surf spots are in southern California as well, including Trestles, Rincon, The Wedge, Huntington Beach, and Malibu, and it is second only to the island of Oahu in terms of famous surf breaks. Some of the world's biggest extreme sports events, including the X Games, Boost Mobile Pro, and the U.S. Open of Surfing are all in southern California. Southern California is also important to the world of yachting. The annual Transpacific Yacht Race, or Transpac, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, is one of yachting's premier events. The San Diego Yacht Club held the America's Cup, the most prestigious prize in yachting, from 1988 to 1995 and hosted three America's Cup races during that time.
Other than surf, what other culture is southern California home to?
Ground Truth Answers: skateboardskateboardskateboard
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What is the name of the professional skateboarder that lives in southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Tony HawkTony HawkTony Hawk
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What famous snowbaorder lives in southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Shaun WhiteShaun WhiteShaun White
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Southern California is second to which island in terms of famous serf breaks?
Ground Truth Answers: OahuOahuOahu
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What is the shortened name of the annual yacht race that takes place?
Ground Truth Answers: TranspacTranspacTranspac
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Many locals and tourists frequent the southern California coast for its popular beaches, and the desert city of Palm Springs is popular for its resort feel and nearby open spaces.
What is the name of the desert city?
Ground Truth Answers: Palm SpringsPalm SpringsPalm Springs
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Other than the desert city why do many locals and tourists frequent southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: beachesfor its popular beachesbeaches
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Which region of California is Palm Springs located in?
Ground Truth Answers: southernthe desertsouthern
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Other than for its resort feel, what is Palm Springs popular for?
Ground Truth Answers: open spacesnearby open spacesnearby open spaces
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"Southern California" is not a formal geographic designation, and definitions of what constitutes southern California vary. Geographically, California's north-south midway point lies at exactly 37° 9' 58.23" latitude, around 11 miles (18 km) south of San Jose; however, this does not coincide with popular use of the term. When the state is divided into two areas (northern and southern California), the term "southern California" usually refers to the ten southern-most counties of the state. This definition coincides neatly with the county lines at 35° 47′ 28″ north latitude, which form the northern borders of San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino counties. Another definition for southern California uses Point Conception and the Tehachapi Mountains as the northern boundary.
Geographically speaking, where is California's north - south midway point in terms of latitude?
Ground Truth Answers: 37° 9' 58.23"37° 9' 58.23"37° 9' 58.23"
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How many miles south of San Jose is the north - south midway point located?
Ground Truth Answers: 111111
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The term "southern" California usually refers to how many of the southern-most counties of the state?
Ground Truth Answers: tententen
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Other than Point Conception, what landmark is used in the other definition of southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Tehachapi MountainsTehachapi Mountains
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Point Conception is an example of a landmark among what boundary of southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: northernthe Tehachapi Mountainsnorthern
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Though there is no official definition for the northern boundary of southern California, such a division has existed from the time when Mexico ruled California, and political disputes raged between the Californios of Monterey in the upper part and Los Angeles in the lower part of Alta California. Following the acquisition of California by the United States, the division continued as part of the attempt by several pro-slavery politicians to arrange the division of Alta California at 36 degrees, 30 minutes, the line of the Missouri Compromise. Instead, the passing of the Compromise of 1850 enabled California to be admitted to the Union as a free state, preventing southern California from becoming its own separate slave state.
Which country used to rule California?
Ground Truth Answers: MexicoMexicoMexico
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Los Angeles is in the lower part of what?
Ground Truth Answers: Alta CaliforniaAlta CaliforniaAlta California
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Which Californio is located in the upper part?
Ground Truth Answers: MontereyMontereyMonterey
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What was the name of the legislation passed in 1850?
Ground Truth Answers: the Missouri Compromisethe Compromise of 1850Compromise of 1850
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The legislation allowed California to be admitted to the Union as what kind of state?
Ground Truth Answers: freea free statefree
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Subsequently, Californios (dissatisfied with inequitable taxes and land laws) and pro-slavery southerners in the lightly populated "Cow Counties" of southern California attempted three times in the 1850s to achieve a separate statehood or territorial status separate from Northern California. The last attempt, the Pico Act of 1859, was passed by the California State Legislature and signed by the State governor John B. Weller. It was approved overwhelmingly by nearly 75% of voters in the proposed Territory of Colorado. This territory was to include all the counties up to the then much larger Tulare County (that included what is now Kings, most of Kern, and part of Inyo counties) and San Luis Obispo County. The proposal was sent to Washington, D.C. with a strong advocate in Senator Milton Latham. However, the secession crisis following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the proposal never coming to a vote.
Other than land laws, what else were the Californios dissatisfied with?
Ground Truth Answers: inequitable taxesinequitable taxesinequitable taxes
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What was the name given to the regions in which the pro - slavery southerners lived?
Ground Truth Answers: Cow CountiesCow CountiesCow Counties
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How many times did southern California attempt to achieve a separate statehood?
Ground Truth Answers: threethreethree
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What was the percentage of people that voted in favor of the Pico Act of 1859?
Ground Truth Answers: 7575%75
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Which Senator was a strong advocate for the Pico Act?
Ground Truth Answers: Milton LathamMilton LathamMilton Latham
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In 1900, the Los Angeles Times defined southern California as including "the seven counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura and Santa Barbara." In 1999, the Times added a newer county—Imperial—to that list.
Which newspaper defined southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Los Angeles Timesthe Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
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In which year did the newspaper define southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: 190019001900
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In which year did the newspaper change its previous definition?
Ground Truth Answers: 199919991999
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What was the newer county added to the list?
Ground Truth Answers: ImperialImperial1999
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How many counties initially made up the definition of southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: sevensevenseven
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The state is most commonly divided and promoted by its regional tourism groups as consisting of northern, central, and southern California regions. The two AAA Auto Clubs of the state, the California State Automobile Association and the Automobile Club of Southern California, choose to simplify matters by dividing the state along the lines where their jurisdictions for membership apply, as either northern or southern California, in contrast to the three-region point of view. Another influence is the geographical phrase South of the Tehachapis, which would split the southern region off at the crest of that transverse range, but in that definition, the desert portions of north Los Angeles County and eastern Kern and San Bernardino Counties would be included in the southern California region due to their remoteness from the central valley and interior desert landscape.
Which organizations most commonly divide and promote the state?
Ground Truth Answers: regional tourism groupsregional tourism groupsAAA Auto Clubs
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Other than the Automobile Club of Southern California, what other AAA Auto Club chose to simplify the divide?
Ground Truth Answers: California State Automobile Associationthe California State Automobile AssociationCalifornia State Automobile Association
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The two AAA clubs divided the state into a northern and southern California as opposed to what point of view?
Ground Truth Answers: three-regionthe three-region point of viewthree-region
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Which mountain range influenced the split of the regions?
Ground Truth Answers: Tehachapisthe TehachapisTehachapis
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In the definition based off the mountain range, which region would the desert portions of north Los Angeles County be included in?
Ground Truth Answers: southernsouthern Californiasouthern California
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Southern California consists of a heavily developed urban environment, home to some of the largest urban areas in the state, along with vast areas that have been left undeveloped. It is the third most populated megalopolis in the United States, after the Great Lakes Megalopolis and the Northeastern megalopolis. Much of southern California is famous for its large, spread-out, suburban communities and use of automobiles and highways. The dominant areas are Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Riverside-San Bernardino, each of which is the center of its respective metropolitan area, composed of numerous smaller cities and communities. The urban area is also host to an international metropolitan region in the form of San Diego–Tijuana, created by the urban area spilling over into Baja California.
Where does southern California's megalopolis standard in terms of population nationwide?
Ground Truth Answers: thirdthirdthird
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Although southern california consts of a heavily developed urban environment, how much of it has been left undeveloped?
Ground Truth Answers: vast areasvast areasvast areas
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Southern Californian communities are well known to be large, spread - out, and what other characteristic?
Ground Truth Answers: suburbansuburbansuburban communities and use of automobiles and highways
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Outside of its use of automobiles, what else is southern California famous for using?
Ground Truth Answers: highwayshighways
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What kind of region can be found inside the urban area of southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: international metropolitanan international metropolitan regioninternational metropolitan
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Traveling south on Interstate 5, the main gap to continued urbanization is Camp Pendleton. The cities and communities along Interstate 15 and Interstate 215 are so inter-related that Temecula and Murrieta have as much connection with the San Diego metropolitan area as they do with the Inland Empire. To the east, the United States Census Bureau considers the San Bernardino and Riverside County areas, Riverside-San Bernardino area as a separate metropolitan area from Los Angeles County. While many commute to L.A. and Orange Counties, there are some differences in development, as most of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties (the non-desert portions) were developed in the 1980s and 1990s. Newly developed exurbs formed in the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, the Victor Valley and the Coachella Valley with the Imperial Valley. Also, population growth was high in the Bakersfield-Kern County, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo areas.
What is the main gap to continued urbanization?
Ground Truth Answers: Camp PendletonCamp PendletonCamp Pendleton
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Other than the San Diego metropolitan area, what other area are the communities along Interstates 15 and 215 connected with?
Ground Truth Answers: Inland EmpireTemecula and Murrieta
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Who considers Los Angeles County to be a separate metropolitan area?
Ground Truth Answers: United States Census Bureauthe United States Census BureauUnited States Census Bureau
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Other than L.A. which other county do many people commute to?
Ground Truth Answers: OrangeOrange CountiesOrange
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Other than the 1980s, in which decade did most of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties develop?
Ground Truth Answers: 1990s1990s1990s
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Southern California contains a Mediterranean climate, with infrequent rain and many sunny days. Summers are hot and dry, while winters are a bit warm or mild and wet. Serious rain can occur unusually. In the summers, temperature ranges are 90-60's while as winters are 70-50's, usually all of Southern California have Mediterranean climate. But snow is very rare in the Southwest of the state, it occurs on the Southeast of the state.
What kind of climate does southern California maintain?
Ground Truth Answers: Mediterraneana Mediterranean climateMediterranean
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Other than many sunny days, what characteristic is typical for the climate in souther California?
Ground Truth Answers: infrequent raininfrequent raininfrequent rain
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What is the low end of the temperature range in summer?
Ground Truth Answers: 60's60's60's
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How frequent is snow in the Southwest of the state?
Ground Truth Answers: very rarevery rarevery rare
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What is the high end of the temperature range in winter?
Ground Truth Answers: 707070
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Southern California consists of one of the more varied collections of geologic, topographic, and natural ecosystem landscapes in a diversity outnumbering other major regions in the state and country. The region spans from Pacific Ocean islands, shorelines, beaches, and coastal plains, through the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges with their peaks, into the large and small interior valleys, to the vast deserts of California.
The region spans starting at islands found in which body of water?
Ground Truth Answers: Pacific OceanPacific OceanPacific Ocean
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What term best describes southern California's collection of landscapes?
Ground Truth Answers: variedvariednatural ecosystem
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What type of landscapes other than geologic and natural ecosystem landscapes can be found in southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: topographictopographictopographic
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The region spans which mountains other than the Transverse ranges?
Ground Truth Answers: PeninsularPeninsular RangesPeninsular Ranges
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The mountain ranges tail off into what kind of geographical formation?
Ground Truth Answers: valleysvalleysinterior valleys
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Each year, the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Nearly all of them are so small that they are not felt. Only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15–20 are greater than magnitude 4.0. The magnitude 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake was particularly destructive, causing a substantial number of deaths, injuries, and structural collapses. It caused the most property damage of any earthquake in U.S. history, estimated at over $20 billion.
How many earthquakes does southern California experience in a year?
Ground Truth Answers: 10,00010,00010,000
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Generally speaking, what size are the earthquakes that hit southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: smallsmallsmall
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What magnitude was the 1994 Northridge earthquake?
Ground Truth Answers: 6.76.76.7
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What kind of destruction did the 1994 earthquake cause the most of in US history?
Ground Truth Answers: property damageproperty damage
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How much was the 1994 earthquake estimated to have cost?
Ground Truth Answers: $20 billionover $20 billionover $20 billion
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Many faults are able to produce a magnitude 6.7+ earthquake, such as the San Andreas Fault, which can produce a magnitude 8.0 event. Other faults include the San Jacinto Fault, the Puente Hills Fault, and the Elsinore Fault Zone. The USGS has released a California Earthquake forecast which models Earthquake occurrence in California.
Which fault can produce a magnitude earthquake of 8.0?
Ground Truth Answers: San Andreasthe San Andreas FaultSan Andreas Fault
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What magnitude of earthquake can many faults produce?
Ground Truth Answers: 6.76.7+6.7+
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Other than the San Jacinto Fault, and the Elsinore Fault, name one other fault.
Ground Truth Answers: Puente Hillsthe Puente Hills FaultPuente Hills Fault
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Which organization released a California Earthquake forecast?
Ground Truth Answers: USGSThe USGSUSGS
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The earthquake forecast models what features of earthquakes in California?
Ground Truth Answers: occurrenceoccurrenceoccurrence
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Southern California is divided culturally, politically, and economically into distinctive regions, each containing its own culture and atmosphere, anchored usually by a city with both national and sometimes global recognition, which are often the hub of economic activity for its respective region and being home to many tourist destinations. Each region is further divided into many culturally distinct areas but as a whole combine to create the southern California atmosphere.
Southern California's distinctive regions are divided culturally, politically and what other trait?
Ground Truth Answers: economicallyeconomicallyeconomically
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Outside of national recognition, what other kind of recognition do some of the cities get?
Ground Truth Answers: globalglobalglobal
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Cities that anchor the regions are often the hub for what kind of activity?
Ground Truth Answers: economiceconomiceconomic activity
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As of the 2010 United States Census, southern California has a population of 22,680,010. Despite a reputation for high growth rates, southern California's rate grew less than the state average of 10.0% in the 2000s as California's growth became concentrated in the northern part of the state due to a stronger, tech-oriented economy in the Bay Area and an emerging Greater Sacramento region.
Southern California had a population of 22,680,010 according to the census from which year?
Ground Truth Answers: 201020102010
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What does southern California have a reputation for?
Ground Truth Answers: high growth rateshigh growth rateshigh growth rates
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What is the state average growth rate?
Ground Truth Answers: 10.0%10.0%10.0%
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What kind of economy did northern California start to grow in the 2000s?
Ground Truth Answers: tech-orientedtech-oriented
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Which region began to grow and assert itself in the 2000s?
Ground Truth Answers: Greater SacramentoGreater SacramentoGreater Sacramento
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Southern California consists of one Combined Statistical Area, eight Metropolitan Statistical Areas, one international metropolitan area, and multiple metropolitan divisions. The region is home to two extended metropolitan areas that exceed five million in population. These are the Greater Los Angeles Area at 17,786,419, and San Diego–Tijuana at 5,105,768. Of these metropolitan areas, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area, and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura metropolitan area form Greater Los Angeles; while the El Centro metropolitan area and San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area form the Southern Border Region. North of Greater Los Angeles are the Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Bakersfield metropolitan areas.
What is the name associated with the eight areas that make up a part of southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Metropolitan Statistical AreasMetropolitan Statistical AreasMetropolitan Statistical Areas
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How many extended metropolitan areas are there?
Ground Truth Answers: twotwotwo
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Each of the extended metropolitan areas has a population that exceeds what number?
Ground Truth Answers: five millionfive millionfive million
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What does the El Centro metropolitan area and San Diego-Carslbad-San Marcos metropolitan area form?
Ground Truth Answers: Southern Border Regionthe Southern Border RegionSouthern Border Region
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What is the population of the Greater Los Angeles Area?
Ground Truth Answers: 17,786,41917,786,41917,786,419
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Los Angeles (at 3.7 million people) and San Diego (at 1.3 million people), both in southern California, are the two largest cities in all of California (and two of the eight largest cities in the United States). In southern California there are also twelve cities with more than 200,000 residents and 34 cities over 100,000 in population. Many of southern California's most developed cities lie along or in close proximity to the coast, with the exception of San Bernardino and Riverside.
What is the largest city in all of California?
Ground Truth Answers: Los AngelesLos AngelesLos Angeles
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What is the population of the second largest city in California?
Ground Truth Answers: 1.3 million1.3 millionSan Diego
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How many cities in southern California have over 200,000 residents?
Ground Truth Answers: twelvetwelvetwelve
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There are 34 cities in southern California that have a population exceeding what number?
Ground Truth Answers: 100,000100,000100,000
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Other than San Bernardino, which other developed southern Californian city is not in close proximity to the coast?
Ground Truth Answers: RiversideRiversideRiverside
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Southern California's economy is diverse and one of the largest in the United States. It is dominated and heavily dependent upon abundance of petroleum, as opposed to other regions where automobiles not nearly as dominant, the vast majority of transport runs on this fuel. Southern California is famous for tourism and Hollywood (film, television, and music). Other industries include software, automotive, ports, finance, tourism, biomedical, and regional logistics. The region was a leader in the housing bubble 2001–2007, and has been heavily impacted by the housing crash.
What resource is the economy of southern California depedent on?
Ground Truth Answers: petroleumpetroleumpetroleum
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Southern California is most famous for tourism and what notably named district?
Ground Truth Answers: HollywoodHollywoodHollywood
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The region was a leader in what event between 2001 - 2007?
Ground Truth Answers: the housing bubblethe housing bubble
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Southern California's economy can be described as one of the largest in the United States and what other characteristic?
Ground Truth Answers: diversediversediverse
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What was the effect of the housing crash on the region?
Ground Truth Answers: heavily impactedheavily impacted
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Since the 1920s, motion pictures, petroleum and aircraft manufacturing have been major industries. In one of the richest agricultural regions in the U.S., cattle and citrus were major industries until farmlands were turned into suburbs. Although military spending cutbacks have had an impact, aerospace continues to be a major factor.
Motion pictures, petroleum and aircraft manufacturing have been major industries since which decade?
Ground Truth Answers: 1920s1920s1920s
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What characteristic best describes the agricultural regions that could be found?
Ground Truth Answers: richestrichone of the richest
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Outside of livestock, what else was considered a major industry in the agriculture regions?
Ground Truth Answers: citruscitruscitrus
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Which type of livestock was the argricultural region known for?
Ground Truth Answers: cattlecattlecattle
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What industry has managed to survive major military spending cutbacks?
Ground Truth Answers: aerospaceaerospaceaerospace
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Southern California is home to many major business districts. Central business districts (CBD) include Downtown Los Angeles, Downtown San Diego, Downtown San Bernardino, Downtown Bakersfield, South Coast Metro and Downtown Riverside.
What type of district is southern California home to many of?
Ground Truth Answers: businessmajor businessmajor business
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What does CBD stand for?
Ground Truth Answers: Central business districtsCentral business districtsCentral business districts
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What is the only district in the CBD to not have "downtown" in it's name?
Ground Truth Answers: South Coast MetroSouth Coast MetroSouth Coast Metro
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Within the Los Angeles Area are the major business districts of Downtown Burbank, Downtown Santa Monica, Downtown Glendale and Downtown Long Beach. Los Angeles itself has many business districts including the Downtown Los Angeles central business district as well as those lining the Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile including Century City, Westwood and Warner Center in the San Fernando Valley.
Downtown Burbank is an example of what kind of district?
Ground Truth Answers: businessmajor business districtsmajor business
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Downtown Santa Monica and Downtown Glendale are a part of which area?
Ground Truth Answers: Los Angeles Areathe Los Angeles Areamajor business
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Warner Center is located in which area?
Ground Truth Answers: San Fernando Valleythe San Fernando ValleySan Fernando Valley
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Century City is an example of a district that belongs to which city?
Ground Truth Answers: Los AngelesLos AngelesLos Angeles
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The San Bernardino-Riverside area maintains the business districts of Downtown San Bernardino, Hospitality Business/Financial Centre, University Town which are in San Bernardino and Downtown Riverside.
The Sand Bernardino - Riverside area maintains what kind of district?
Ground Truth Answers: businessbusiness districtsbusiness
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Other than San Bernardino, what is the name of the other city that maintains the districts including University Town?
Ground Truth Answers: RiversideRiversideDowntown Riverside
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Other than Downtown San Bernardino, and University Town, what is the name of another business district in the San Bernardino-Riverside area?
Ground Truth Answers: Hospitality Business/Financial CentreDowntown RiversideHospitality Business/Financial Centre
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Orange County is a rapidly developing business center that includes Downtown Santa Ana, the South Coast Metro and Newport Center districts; as well as the Irvine business centers of The Irvine Spectrum, West Irvine, and international corporations headquartered at the University of California, Irvine. West Irvine includes the Irvine Tech Center and Jamboree Business Parks.
Which county is developing its business center?
Ground Truth Answers: OrangeOrange CountyOrange County
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Where are international corporations headquartered?
Ground Truth Answers: University of California, Irvinethe University of California, IrvineUniversity of California
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Jamboree Business Parks belongs to which business center?
Ground Truth Answers: West IrvineWest IrvineWest Irvine
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What other business district does Orange County envelop outside of Downtown Santa Ana and Newport Center?
Ground Truth Answers: South Coast Metrothe South Coast MetroSouth Coast Metro
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At what rate is Orange County developing its business centers?
Ground Truth Answers: rapidlyrapidlyrapidly
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Downtown San Diego is the central business district of San Diego, though the city is filled with business districts. These include Carmel Valley, Del Mar Heights, Mission Valley, Rancho Bernardo, Sorrento Mesa, and University City. Most of these districts are located in Northern San Diego and some within North County regions.
What is the central business district of San Diego?
Ground Truth Answers: Downtown San DiegoDowntown San DiegoDowntown
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Other than its main central business district, where are the majority of San Diego's business districts located?
Ground Truth Answers: Northern San DiegoNorthern San DiegoNorthern San Diego
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Outside of Northern San Diego, which other region contains business districts?
Ground Truth Answers: North CountyNorth CountyNorth County regions
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University City is an example of a business district located in which city?
Ground Truth Answers: San DiegoSan DiegoSan Diego
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Southern California is home to Los Angeles International Airport, the second-busiest airport in the United States by passenger volume (see World's busiest airports by passenger traffic) and the third by international passenger volume (see Busiest airports in the United States by international passenger traffic); San Diego International Airport the busiest single runway airport in the world; Van Nuys Airport, the world's busiest general aviation airport; major commercial airports at Orange County, Bakersfield, Ontario, Burbank and Long Beach; and numerous smaller commercial and general aviation airports.
What is the second busiest airport in the United States?
Ground Truth Answers: Los Angeles International AirportLos Angeles International AirportLos Angeles International Airport
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What is the metric they use to determine how busy airports are?
Ground Truth Answers: passenger volumepassenger volumepassenger volume
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What ranking in terms of busiest airports from international passenger volume is the Los Angeles International Airport?
Ground Truth Answers: thirdthirdthird
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Which airport is home to the busiest single runway in the world?
Ground Truth Answers: San Diego International AirportSan Diego International AirportSan Diego International Airport
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What is the world's busiest general aviation airport?
Ground Truth Answers: Van Nuys AirportVan Nuys AirportVan Nuys Airport
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Six of the seven lines of the commuter rail system, Metrolink, run out of Downtown Los Angeles, connecting Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties with the other line connecting San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties directly.
What is the name of the commuter rail system?
Ground Truth Answers: MetrolinkMetrolinkMetrolink
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How many lines does the commuter rail system have?
Ground Truth Answers: sevensevenseven
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How many lines run out of Downtown Los Angeles?
Ground Truth Answers: SixSixSix
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A single line connects San Bernardino, Riverside and what other county?
Ground Truth Answers: OrangeOrangeOrange
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Southern California is also home to the Port of Los Angeles, the United States' busiest commercial port; the adjacent Port of Long Beach, the United States' second busiest container port; and the Port of San Diego.
What is the United States busiest commercial port?
Ground Truth Answers: Port of Los Angelesthe Port of Los AngelesPort of Los Angeles
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What is the second busiest container port in the United States?
Ground Truth Answers: Port of San DiegoPort of Long BeachPort of Long Beach
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The Port of Long Beach belongs to which region of California?
Ground Truth Answers: SouthernSouthern CaliforniaSouthern
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The Tech Coast is a moniker that has gained use as a descriptor for the region's diversified technology and industrial base as well as its multitude of prestigious and world-renowned research universities and other public and private institutions. Amongst these include 5 University of California campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and San Diego); 12 California State University campuses (Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Northridge, Pomona, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Marcos, and San Luis Obispo); and private institutions such as the California Institute of Technology, Chapman University, the Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Scripps College), Loma Linda University, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, Pepperdine University, University of Redlands, University of San Diego, and the University of Southern California.
What is the moniker that is being used to describe the region's diversified technology?
Ground Truth Answers: The Tech CoastThe Tech CoastTech Coast
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What kind of universities is the region famous for?
Ground Truth Answers: researchresearchresearch
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What kind of university is the California Institute of Technology?
Ground Truth Answers: privateprivateprivate
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How many campuses does the University of California have?
Ground Truth Answers: 555
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How many campuses does the California State University have?
Ground Truth Answers: 121212
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Professional sports teams in Southern California include teams from the NFL (Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers); NBA (Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers); MLB (Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, San Diego Padres); NHL (Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks); and MLS (LA Galaxy).
The Los Angeles Rams are an example of what kind of sports team?
Ground Truth Answers: NFLProfessionalNFL
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The Los Angeles Clippers are a team belonging to which sport?
Ground Truth Answers: NBANBANBA
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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are from which sport?
Ground Truth Answers: MLBMLBMLB
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What is the other NHL team aside from the Anaheim Ducks to reside in Southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: Los Angeles KingsLos Angeles KingsLos Angeles Kings
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What is the lone MLS team that belongs to southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: LA GalaxyLA GalaxyLA Galaxy
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From 2005 to 2014, there were two Major League Soccer teams in Los Angeles — the LA Galaxy and Chivas USA — that both played at the StubHub Center and were local rivals. However, Chivas were suspended following the 2014 MLS season, with a second MLS team scheduled to return in 2018.
Which team was suspended from the MLS?
Ground Truth Answers: Chivas USAChivasChivas
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How many teams did Los Angeles used to have?
Ground Truth Answers: twotwotwo
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Which year resulted in the suspension of one of the two soccer teams?
Ground Truth Answers: 201420142014
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What was the name of the stadium that the teams played in?
Ground Truth Answers: StubHub Centerthe StubHub CenterStubHub Center
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When is the suspended team scheduled to return?
Ground Truth Answers: 2018in 20182018
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College sports are also popular in southern California. The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans both field teams in NCAA Division I in the Pac-12 Conference, and there is a longtime rivalry between the schools.
What other kind of sport is popular in southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: CollegeCollegeCollege
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The Bruins belong to which college?
Ground Truth Answers: UCLAUCLAUCLA
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What is the name of the team from USC?
Ground Truth Answers: TrojansTrojansTrojans
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Which conference do the teams in southern California play in?
Ground Truth Answers: Pac-12the Pac-12Pac-12
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The two listed teams play for which NCAA group?
Ground Truth Answers: Division IDivision IDivision I
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Rugby is also a growing sport in southern California, particularly at the high school level, with increasing numbers of schools adding rugby as an official school sport.
What is a growing sport in southern California?
Ground Truth Answers: RugbyRugbyRugby
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At which level of education is this sport becoming more popular?
Ground Truth Answers: high schoolhigh schoolhigh school
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What is rugby rapidly becoming with high schools?
Ground Truth Answers: an official school sportan official schoolofficial school sport
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