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29,982 | 29,640 | 5706e5579e06ca38007e91fc | generic | Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board shown, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, "Marven Gardens". The misspelling was said to have been introduced by Charles Todd and passed on when his home-made Monopoly board was copied by Charles Darrow and thence Parker Brothers. It was not ... | What is the name of the original property that Marvin Gardens takes its name from? | {'text': 'Marven Gardens', 'answer_start': 122} |
51,520 | 51,178 | 5a0cb6f8f5590b0018dab51a | generic | The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) program of the Gates Foundation was launched in mid-2005 as a "Learning Initiative," and became a full-fledged program under the Global Development Division in early 2010. The Foundation has since 2005 undertaken a wide range of efforts in the WASH sector involving research, expe... | What year was the Global Development Division program launched? | {'text': 'mid-2005', 'answer_start': 88} |
31,228 | 30,886 | 57097da1ed30961900e84206 | generic | The just-noticeable difference (jnd) (the threshold at which a change is perceived) depends on the tone's frequency content. Below 500 Hz, the jnd is about 3 Hz for sine waves, and 1 Hz for complex tones; above 1000 Hz, the jnd for sine waves is about 0.6% (about 10 cents). The jnd is typically tested by playing two to... | The just-noticeable difference, at which a change is perceived depends on what? | {'text': "the tone's frequency content", 'answer_start': 95} |
85,863 | 85,521 | 572841842ca10214002da1af | generic | In 1950, von Neumann became a consultant to the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), whose function was to advise the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States Secretary of Defense on the development and use of new technologies. He also became an adviser to the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), which ... | What military organization did von NEumann also consult with for military aspect of nuclear weapons? | {'text': 'Armed Forces Special Weapons Project', 'answer_start': 268} |
35,093 | 34,751 | 570a87f76d058f1900182f5c | generic | On 16 June 2006, it was announced that Everton had entered into talks with Knowsley Council and Tesco over the possibility of building a new 55,000 seat stadium, expandable to over 60,000, in Kirkby. The club took the unusual move of giving its supporters a say in the club's future by holding a ballot on the proposal, ... | Who did Everton enter talks with to build a new 55,000 seat stadium in Kirkby? | {'text': 'Knowsley Council and Tesco', 'answer_start': 75} |
2,954 | 2,612 | 56cddc2a62d2951400fa690a | generic | Christoph Waltz was cast in the role of Franz Oberhauser, though he refused to comment on the nature of the part. It was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Dave Bautista was cast as Mr. Hinx after producers sought an actor with a background in contact sports. After casting Bérénice ... | Who did Christoph Waltz portray in Spectre? | {'text': 'Franz Oberhauser', 'answer_start': 40} |
103,085 | 102,743 | 5731ca31b9d445190005e559 | generic | Spielberg's films often deal with several recurring themes. Most of his films deal with ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances. In an AFI interview in August 2000 Spielberg commented on his interest in the possibility of extr... | What theme is common to Spielberg's films? | {'text': 'ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances', 'answer_start': 88} |
112,236 | 111,894 | 572fee59b2c2fd14005685f8 | generic | The Jugurthine War of 111–104 BC was fought between Rome and Jugurtha of the North African kingdom of Numidia. It constituted the final Roman pacification of Northern Africa, after which Rome largely ceased expansion on the continent after reaching natural barriers of desert and mountain. Following Jugurtha's usurpatio... | Who attempted to usurp the throne of Numidia? | {'text': 'Jugurtha', 'answer_start': 425} |
14,144 | 13,802 | 5ace059132bba1001ae49982 | generic | After reconquering Estonia and Latvia in 1944, the Russian SFSR annexed their easternmost territories around Ivangorod and within the modern Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts in 1944-1945. | What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1934? | {'text': 'Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts', 'answer_start': 141} |
69,867 | 69,525 | 5726e2bf708984140094d4c4 | generic | Avicenna was a devout Muslim and sought to reconcile rational philosophy with Islamic theology. His aim was to prove the existence of God and His creation of the world scientifically and through reason and logic. Avicenna's views on Islamic theology (and philosophy) were enormously influential, forming part of the core... | What did Avicenna want to reconcile with Islamic theology? | {'text': 'rational philosophy', 'answer_start': 53} |
31,306 | 30,964 | 59fb1ceeee36d60018400d0e | generic | To begin with, England had no permanent home stadium. They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908. Wembley Stadium was opened in 1923 and became their home ground. The relationship between England and FIFA became strained, ... | In what year was the first World Cup played? | {'text': '1906', 'answer_start': 74} |
117,047 | 116,705 | 5ad0085c77cf76001a6867ba | generic | After the Rus' attack on Constantinople in 860, the Byzantine Patriarch Photius sent missionaries north to convert the Rus' and the Slavs. Prince Rastislav of Moravia had requested the Emperor to provide teachers to interpret the holy scriptures, so in 863 the brothers Cyril and Methodius were sent as missionaries, due... | What year did Rus accept a pope? | {'text': '867', 'answer_start': 913} |
4,635 | 4,293 | 56d121d317492d1400aaba27 | generic | Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lo... | What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial? | {'text': 'Tom Robinson', 'answer_start': 40} |
19,273 | 18,931 | 56e7462d37bdd419002c3e0b | generic | The fate of Willett's 1907 proposal illustrates several political issues involved. The proposal attracted many supporters, including Balfour, Churchill, Lloyd George, MacDonald, Edward VII (who used half-hour DST at Sandringham), the managing director of Harrods, and the manager of the National Bank. However, the oppos... | Which political supporter of Willett's proposal had already used the half-hour version of DST at Sandringham? | {'text': 'Edward VII', 'answer_start': 178} |
76,238 | 75,896 | 572794d5dd62a815002ea114 | generic | On October 17, 1987, about 3,000 Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan complaining about the condition of Lake Sevan, the Nairit chemicals plant, and the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, and air pollution in Yerevan. Police tried to prevent the protest but took no action to stop it once the march was underway. The demonstrati... | Where did the protest march start? | {'text': 'Opera Plaza', 'answer_start': 491} |
73,491 | 73,149 | 57275d295951b619008f88ca | generic | In the US, a prominent form of racial preferences relates to access to education, particularly admission to universities and other forms of higher education. Race, ethnicity, native language, social class, geographical origin, parental attendance of the university in question (legacy admissions), and/or gender are some... | Instead of being allowed to set numerical targets, what did the Court rule that universities are allowed to do? | {'text': '"goals" and "timetables" for diversity could be set', 'answer_start': 735} |
99,860 | 99,518 | 5a7c75e2e8bc7e001a9e1e2d | generic | The 2nd edition (1787) contained a Refutation of Idealism to distinguish his transcendental idealism from Descartes's Sceptical Idealism and Berkeley's anti-realist strain of Subjective Idealism. The section Paralogisms of Pure Reason is an implicit critique of Descartes' idealism. Kant says that it is not possible to ... | What does Descartes say is impossible? | {'text': "to infer the 'I' as an object", 'answer_start': 317} |
83,934 | 83,592 | 572879b54b864d1900164a21 | generic | Ronald Inden writes that by the 8th century CE symbols of Hindu gods "replaced the Buddha at the imperial centre and pinnacle of the cosmo-political system, the image or symbol of the Hindu god comes to be housed in a monumental temple and given increasingly elaborate imperial-style puja worship". Although Buddhism did... | What was the style of worship of Hindu Gods? | {'text': 'elaborate', 'answer_start': 259} |
46,684 | 46,342 | 571aa5df10f8ca140030525c | generic | Early in the year 343 we find Athanasius had travelled, via Rome, from Alexandria, North Africa, to Gaul; nowadays Belgium / Holland and surrounding areas, where Hosius of Cordoba was Bishop, the great champion of orthodoxy in the West. The two, together, set out for Sardica. A full Council of the Church was convened /... | Was Athanasius permitted admission to the Council? | {'text': 'objections were overridden by the orthodox bishops', 'answer_start': 1289} |
38,583 | 38,241 | 570ceadbfed7b91900d45ad9 | generic | General gymnastics enables people of all ages and abilities to participate in performance groups of 6 to more than 150 athletes. They perform synchronized, choreographed routines. Troupes may consist of both genders and are not separated into age divisions. The largest general gymnastics exhibition is the quadrennial W... | How many participants are there? | {'text': '30 million', 'answer_start': 590} |
22,239 | 21,897 | 56f6f981711bf01900a448ad | generic | Vocal music in the Renaissance is noted for the flourishing of an increasingly elaborate polyphonic style. The principal liturgical forms which endured throughout the entire Renaissance period were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt se... | What liturgical form besides motets endured throughout the entire Renaissance period? | {'text': 'masses', 'answer_start': 198} |
121,088 | 120,746 | 573176cae6313a140071cf6b | generic | Cairo University is ranked as 401-500 according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking) and 551-600 according to QS World University Rankings. American University in Cairo is ranked as 360 according to QS World University Rankings and Al-Azhar University, Alexandria University and Ain Shams Uni... | According to QS World University Rankings, where does American University in Cairo rank? | {'text': '360', 'answer_start': 210} |
61,066 | 60,724 | 572765c7dd62a815002e9c24 | generic | Nonvascular land plants are embryophytes that lack the vascular tissues xylem and phloem. They include mosses, liverworts and hornworts. Pteridophytic vascular plants with true xylem and phloem that reproduced by spores germinating into free-living gametophytes evolved during the Silurian period and diversified into se... | What event led to the diversification of seed plants? | {'text': 'evolution of the seed habit', 'answer_start': 1126} |
67,205 | 66,863 | 57269f3b708984140094cbff | generic | Found in applications as diverse as industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives, electric motors can be powered by direct current (DC) sources, such as from batteries, motor vehicles or rectifiers, or by alternating current (AC) sources, such as from the power g... | What is the largest rating of an electric motor? | {'text': '100 megawatts', 'answer_start': 668} |
34,104 | 33,762 | 5a8ce29dfd22b3001a8d8fb1 | generic | Technically, all these coins are still legal tender at face value, though some are far more valuable today for their numismatic value, and for gold and silver coins, their precious metal value. From 1965 to 1970 the Kennedy half dollar was the only circulating coin with any silver content, which was removed in 1971 and... | What are non copper and nickel coins valuable for? | {'text': 'their numismatic value', 'answer_start': 111} |
15,632 | 15,290 | 56e077e77aa994140058e521 | generic | Unemployment levels are low (31 individuals in 2013, compared to 50 in 2004 and 342 in 1998). Employment is dominated by the public sector, the number of government positions has fallen from 1,142 in 2006 to just over 800 in 2013. St Helena’s private sector employs approximately 45% of the employed labour force and is ... | How many individuals were unemployed on the island in 2013? | {'text': '31', 'answer_start': 29} |
113,671 | 113,329 | 572ff633a23a5019007fcbbd | generic | In 1935, Reza Shah requested the international community to refer to the country by its native name, Iran. As the New York Times explained at the time, "At the suggestion of the Persian Legation in Berlin, the Tehran government, on the Persian New Year, Nowruz, March 21, 1935, substituted Iran for Persia as the officia... | Who endorsed a move to use Persia and Iran interchangeably after opposition to the official name change? | {'text': 'Professor Ehsan Yarshater', 'answer_start': 415} |
101,329 | 100,987 | 572e8ce903f9891900756776 | generic | Penalties never result in a score for the offence. For example, a point-of-foul infraction committed by the defence in their end zone is not ruled a touchdown, but instead advances the ball to the one-yard line with an automatic first down. For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the... | In which North American style of football is the line of scrimmage never inside the one-yard line? | {'text': 'Canadian', 'answer_start': 460} |
62,575 | 62,233 | 5727444df1498d1400e8f578 | generic | Successful cultivation of cotton requires a long frost-free period, plenty of sunshine, and a moderate rainfall, usually from 600 to 1,200 mm (24 to 47 in). Soils usually need to be fairly heavy, although the level of nutrients does not need to be exceptional. In general, these conditions are met within the seasonally ... | What type of tolerances make cotton an ideal crop for semiarid areas? | {'text': 'salt and drought', 'answer_start': 1141} |
122,309 | 121,967 | 5acd6af007355d001abf4147 | generic | In February 2015, YouTube announced the launch of a new app specifically for use by children visiting the site, called YouTube Kids. It allows parental controls and restrictions on who can upload content, and is available for both Android and iOS devices. Later on August 26, 2015, YouTube Gaming was launched, a platfor... | What OS is YouTube kids unavailable? | {'text': 'Android and iOS', 'answer_start': 231} |
43,004 | 42,662 | 5ad2d83cd7d075001a42a444 | generic | Due to its location at the South Pole, Antarctica receives relatively little solar radiation. This means that it is a very cold continent where water is mostly in the form of ice. Precipitation is low (most of Antarctica is a desert) and almost always in the form of snow, which accumulates and forms a giant ice sheet w... | Why does Antarctica receive solar radiation? | {'text': 'Due to its location at the South Pole', 'answer_start': 0} |
7,251 | 6,909 | 56d9e452dc89441400fdb8b5 | generic | In Hindu mythology, Yama, the god of death owns two watch dogs who have four eyes. They are said to watch over the gates of Naraka. Hunter god Muthappan from North Malabar region of Kerala has a hunting dog as his mount. Dogs are found in and out of the Muthappan Temple and offerings at the shrine take the form of bron... | Offerings left at the Muthappan Temple shrine take on what form? | {'text': 'bronze dog figurines', 'answer_start': 316} |
112,186 | 111,844 | 572fd193b2c2fd14005684a2 | generic | Despite early victories, Pyrrhus found his position in Italy untenable. Rome steadfastly refused to negotiate with Pyrrhus as long as his army remained in Italy. Facing unacceptably heavy losses from each encounter with the Roman army, Pyrrhus withdrew from the peninsula (hence the term "Pyrrhic victory"). In 275 BC, P... | What ultimately caused Pyrrhus to vacate completely from the country of Italy? | {'text': 'Seeing little hope for further gains', 'answer_start': 502} |
72,226 | 71,884 | 5a10f99606e79900185c34a0 | generic | Digimon hatch from types of eggs which are called Digi-Eggs (デジタマ, Dejitama?). In the English iterations of the franchise there is another type of Digi-Egg that can be used to digivolve, or transform, Digimon. This second type of Digi-Egg is called a Digimental (デジメンタル, Dejimentaru?) in Japanese. (This type of Digi-Egg... | What permanently increases when Digimon evolve? | {'text': 'their powers', 'answer_start': 571} |
79,055 | 78,713 | 5727fe574b864d19001641a2 | generic | The English concentrated on the spirit of the events of Christ's life, not the literality of events. They neither expected nor sought the appearance of the stigmata or any other physical manifestation. They wanted to create in themselves that environment that allowed Jesus to fulfill His divine mission, insofar as they... | The English Dominican Order wanted to put what at the center of their study of Christ? | {'text': 'love', 'answer_start': 370} |
84,799 | 84,457 | 572808cd2ca10214002d9c1f | generic | The 50th anniversary of his death was celebrated on 3 June 2013 by Pope Francis, who visited his tomb and prayed there, then addressing the gathered crowd and spoke about the late pope. The people that gathered there at the tomb were from Bergamo, the province where the late pope came from. A month later, on 5 July 201... | Who celebrated his 50th anniversary? | {'text': 'Pope Francis', 'answer_start': 67} |
105,913 | 105,571 | 572eae75c246551400ce44fd | generic | The Han dynasty was an age of economic prosperity and saw a significant growth of the money economy first established during the Zhou dynasty (c. 1050–256 BC). The coinage issued by the central government mint in 119 BC remained the standard coinage of China until the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD). The period saw a number ... | A money based economy was first entrenched in what dynasty? | {'text': 'Zhou', 'answer_start': 129} |
124,683 | 124,341 | 57325817b9d445190005ea68 | generic | Authors including William Whalen, Shawn Francis Peters and former Witnesses Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Alan Rogerson and William Schnell have claimed the arrests and mob violence in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s were the consequence of what appeared to be a deliberate course of provocation of authorities and... | What authors have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for the purpose of publicity? | {'text': 'Whalen, Harrison and Schnell', 'answer_start': 361} |
55,253 | 54,911 | 5a627e97f8d794001af1c050 | generic | Shell sold 9.5% of its 23.1% stake in Woodside Petroleum in June 2014 and advised that it had reached an agreement for Woodside to buy back 9.5% of its shares at a later stage. Shell became a major shareholder in Woodside after a 2001 takeover attempt was blocked by then federal Treasurer Peter Costello and the corpora... | How much Woodside stock in Shell sell in 2001? | {'text': '9.5%', 'answer_start': 11} |
12,320 | 11,978 | 5a5acfc49c0277001abe71a1 | generic | In Eastern Christianity heresy most commonly refers to those beliefs declared heretical by the first seven Ecumenical Councils.[citation needed] Since the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation, various Christian churches have also used the concept in proceedings against individuals and groups those churches deeme... | What reformation was caused by various heretical groups? | {'text': 'Protestant Reformation', 'answer_start': 176} |
74,140 | 73,798 | 572a334d1d04691400779845 | generic | In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit over reverse discrimination brought by 20 white and Hispanic firefighters against the city. The suit involved the 2003 promotion test for the New Haven Fire Department. After the tests were scored, no blacks scored high enough to qualify for considera... | The 2009 Supreme Court Case which had the City of New Haven versus who? | {'text': '20 white and Hispanic firefighters', 'answer_start': 108} |
9,790 | 9,448 | 5ad3ec9d604f3c001a3ff770 | generic | Among other things, the Information Management Group is responsible for the conduct of electronic warfare and the protection of the Armed Forces' communications and computer networks. Within the group, this operational role is fulfilled by the Canadian Forces Information Operations Group, headquartered at CFS Leitrim i... | When was the Directorate of Non-Cybernetics established? | {'text': 'June 2011', 'answer_start': 699} |
125,894 | 125,552 | 57333e3fd058e614000b57b6 | generic | In 27 BC, Lusitania gained the status of Roman province. Later, a northern province of Lusitania was formed, known as Gallaecia, with capital in Bracara Augusta, today's Braga. There are still many ruins of castros (hill forts) all over modern Portugal and remains of Castro culture. Numerous Roman sites are scattered a... | What are castros? | {'text': 'hill forts', 'answer_start': 216} |
96,522 | 96,180 | 5a3bff79cc5d22001a521ce7 | generic | Representatives of the Polish government officially took over the civilian administration of the southern part of East Prussia on 23 May 1945. Subsequently Polish expatriates from Polish lands annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians and Lemkos from southern Poland, expelled in Operation Vistula in 1947, were ... | How many chose to emigrate to West Germany in the 1950s? | {'text': '55,227', 'answer_start': 835} |
30,181 | 29,839 | 57062e7e52bb89140068993f | generic | In November 1997, the website mp3.com was offering thousands of MP3s created by independent artists for free. The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from CDs, which would have previously been nearly impossible. The first large peer-to-peer filesharing network, Napster, ... | How did people come into possession of MP3s? | {'text': 'ripped from CDs', 'answer_start': 192} |
91,445 | 91,103 | 57290c2f3f37b31900477fcf | generic | For the anthropologists Lieberman and Jackson (1995), however, there are more profound methodological and conceptual problems with using cladistics to support concepts of race. They claim that "the molecular and biochemical proponents of this model explicitly use racial categories in their initial grouping of samples".... | What did Lieberman and Jackon find profound problems using cladistics to support concepts of? | {'text': 'race', 'answer_start': 171} |
49,183 | 48,841 | 5ace60db32bba1001ae4a49d | generic | The value of the deposit was obvious from the start, but the means of extracting the bitumen were not. The nearest town, Fort McMurray, Alberta was a small fur trading post, other markets were far away, and transportation costs were too high to ship the raw bituminous sand for paving. In 1915, Sidney Ells of the Federa... | The largest fur trading post was in what town? | {'text': 'Fort McMurray, Alberta', 'answer_start': 121} |
68,299 | 67,957 | 5726b41e5951b619008f7b19 | generic | Raleigh receives an average of 6.0 inches (15.2 cm) of snow in winter. Freezing rain and sleet also occur most winters, and occasionally the area experiences a major damaging ice storm. On January 24–25, 2000, Raleigh received its greatest snowfall from a single storm – 20.3 inches (52 cm) – the Winter Storm of January... | How much snow does Raleigh get? | {'text': '6.0 inches', 'answer_start': 31} |
4,087 | 3,745 | 56cf322eaab44d1400b88e0b | generic | New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (23 km) of public beaches. Parks in New York City include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Forest Park, and Washington Square Park. The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park with 2,700 acres (1,093... | What is the biggest public park in the city? | {'text': 'Pelham Bay Park', 'answer_start': 281} |
52,758 | 52,416 | 57261ed8ec44d21400f3d924 | generic | Adjacent to the palace is the Royal Mews, also designed by Nash, where the royal carriages, including the Gold State Coach, are housed. This rococo gilt coach, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760, has painted panels by G. B. Cipriani. It was first used for the State Opening of Parliament by George III in 1762 and ... | In what year was the Gold State Coach first used? | {'text': '1762', 'answer_start': 311} |
17,337 | 16,995 | 56e1373de3433e1400422cc2 | generic | Martorell's outstanding novel of chivalry Tirant lo Blanc (1490) shows a transition from Medieval to Renaissance values, something that can also be seen in Metge's work. The first book produced with movable type in the Iberian Peninsula was printed in Catalan. | In what was the first Catalan book printed on the Iberian Peninsula? | {'text': 'movable type', 'answer_start': 199} |
45,962 | 45,620 | 571096f2a58dae1900cd6a91 | generic | Several Americans, especially Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, played a major role in bringing Enlightenment ideas to the New World and in influencing British and French thinkers. Franklin was influential for his political activism and for his advances in physics. The cultural exchange during the Age of Enlighte... | Attempts to reconcile which two fields resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy? | {'text': 'science and religion', 'answer_start': 850} |
57,160 | 56,818 | 572697b35951b619008f7778 | generic | Napoleon continued to entertain a grand scheme to establish a French presence in the Middle East in order to put pressure on Britain and Russia, and perhaps form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire. In February 1806, Ottoman Emperor Selim III finally recognized Napoleon as Emperor. He also opted for an alliance with Fr... | Napoleon formed an alliance with the empire of which Persian ruler? | {'text': 'Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar', 'answer_start': 545} |
11,777 | 11,435 | 56decc79c65bf219000b3d36 | generic | Schwarzenegger signed another executive order on October 17, 2006 allowing California to work with the Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. They plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by issuing a limited amount of carbon credits to each power plant in participating states. Any power plants that exceed emis... | What green technology did Schwarzenegger have installed at home to reduce his carbon footprint? | {'text': 'solar panels', 'answer_start': 716} |
29,073 | 28,731 | 5705ec4652bb8914006896b1 | generic | The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company where he was working went bankrupt because of the complaints of a Jamaican hurricane. Being unemployed, Walter decid... | The first publisher and editor of The Times when to prison for what crime when printed in his newspaper? | {'text': 'libel', 'answer_start': 1059} |
81,419 | 81,077 | 57287f88ff5b5019007da27c | generic | There are 366 railway stations in the London Travelcard Zones on an extensive above-ground suburban railway network. South London, particularly, has a high concentration of railways as it has fewer Underground lines. Most rail lines terminate around the centre of London, running into eighteen terminal stations, with th... | Why does South London have such a high number of railways? | {'text': 'it has fewer Underground lines.', 'answer_start': 185} |
95,093 | 94,751 | 5a2c3244bfd06b001a5aea3d | generic | From about 1800 a fresh influx of Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings, gave a new impetus to neoclassicism, the Greek Revival. There was little to no direct knowledge of Greek civilization before the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, when an expedition funded by ... | I don't know: what was George Lyttelton commission to produce? | {'text': 'the first Greek building in England', 'answer_start': 520} |
125,120 | 124,778 | 57327e2db3a91d1900202db6 | generic | In 1957, the state of Arkansas refused to honor a federal court order to integrate their public school system stemming from the Brown decision. Eisenhower demanded that Arkansas governor Orval Faubus obey the court order. When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sen... | Who was the governor of Arkansas in 1957? | {'text': 'Orval Faubus', 'answer_start': 187} |
47,549 | 47,207 | 571a9c0e10f8ca14003051ad | generic | Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them. In California and the western US, there were greater nu... | Were Latino residents also prohibited from marrying whites? | {'text': 'were prohibited from official relationships with whites.', 'answer_start': 363} |
80,340 | 79,998 | 5727b298ff5b5019007d92cb | generic | The Second Sino-Japanese War was soon followed by the resumed Chinese Civil War, and the cities of East China fell to the Communists one after another, the Kuomintang government again tried to make Sichuan its stronghold on the mainland, although it already saw some Communist activity since it was one area on the road ... | Who led the defense of Chongqing in November 1949? | {'text': 'Chiang Kai-Shek', 'answer_start': 339} |
18,813 | 18,471 | 56e7621400c9c71400d7706c | generic | In Europe, and other regions using the ISO 216 paper sizing system, the weight is expressed in grammes per square metre (g/m2 or usually just g) of the paper. Printing paper is generally between 60 g and 120 g. Anything heavier than 160 g is considered card. The weight of a ream therefore depends on the dimensions of t... | Besides thickness, what attribute is used in stating the weight of a ream in Europe? | {'text': 'dimensions', 'answer_start': 305} |
104,754 | 104,412 | 5ad42188604f3c001a40076b | generic | The traditional Charleston accent has long been noted in the state and throughout the South. It is typically heard in wealthy white families who trace their families back generations in the city. It has ingliding or monophthongal long mid-vowels, raises ay and aw in certain environments, and is nonrhotic. Sylvester Pri... | "Charleston's Provincialisms" wasn't published in what year? | {'text': '1887', 'answer_start': 455} |
41,134 | 40,792 | 570e291c0dc6ce1900204e10 | generic | Sanskrit linguist Madhav Deshpande says that when the term "Sanskrit" arose it was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking. Knowledge of Sanskrit was a marker of social class and educational attainment in ancient India, a... | Of what was Sanskrit once thought to be a divider? | {'text': 'social class', 'answer_start': 261} |
65,335 | 64,993 | 57269edadd62a815002e8b2d | generic | The most serious objection to regarding the Demoiselles as the origin of Cubism, with its evident influence of primitive art, is that "such deductions are unhistorical", wrote the art historian Daniel Robbins. This familiar explanation "fails to give adequate consideration to the complexities of a flourishing art that ... | During which years did the conscious begin to look for a new style in Germany, Italy, Russia, and Holland? | {'text': '1905 and 1908,', 'answer_start': 410} |
39,861 | 39,519 | 570e6b5f0b85d914000d7ec3 | generic | Melbourne has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) and is well known for its changeable weather conditions. This is mainly due to Melbourne's location situated on the boundary of the very hot inland areas and the cool southern ocean. This temperature differential is most pronounced in the spr... | What is one cause for Melbourne's fluctuating weather patterns? | {'text': "Melbourne's location situated on the boundary of the very hot inland areas and the cool southern ocean", 'answer_start': 157} |
110,666 | 110,324 | 572fb096a23a5019007fc8a4 | generic | Gram-positive bacteria possess a thick cell wall containing many layers of peptidoglycan and teichoic acids. In contrast, gram-negative bacteria have a relatively thin cell wall consisting of a few layers of peptidoglycan surrounded by a second lipid membrane containing lipopolysaccharides and lipoproteins. Lipopolysac... | What can different structure of the cell walls of bacteria effect? | {'text': 'differences in antibiotic susceptibility', 'answer_start': 757} |
28,934 | 28,592 | 5706ce092eaba6190074ad0f | generic | The official policy became one of biological and cultural assimilation: "Eliminate the full-blood and permit the white admixture to half-castes and eventually the race will become white". This led to different treatment for "black" and "half-caste" individuals, with lighter-skinned individuals targeted for removal from... | What was this process referred to? | {'text': 'the Stolen Generation', 'answer_start': 474} |
104,076 | 103,734 | 572f54f7b2c2fd140056802d | generic | The first attempts to use standard-frequency single-phase AC were made in Hungary as far back as 1923, by the Hungarian Kálmán Kandó on the line between Budapest-Nyugati and Alag, using 16 kV at 50 Hz. The locomotives carried a four-pole rotating phase converter feeding a single traction motor of the polyphase inductio... | What type of the converter was used in hungarian locomotives of that time? | {'text': 'four-pole rotating phase converter', 'answer_start': 228} |
63,952 | 63,610 | 5ad3ddcb604f3c001a3ff443 | generic | In 1966, Yale began discussions with its sister school Vassar College about merging to foster coeducation at the undergraduate level. Vassar, then all-female and part of the Seven Sisters—elite higher education schools that historically served as sister institutions to the Ivy League when the Ivy League still only admi... | What society did Amy Solomon drop out at Yale? | {'text': 'St. Anthony Hall', 'answer_start': 584} |
51,254 | 50,912 | 5725e93b38643c19005ace6d | generic | Modern interpretations see this period as a civil war between Hellenized and orthodox forms of Judaism. Out of this revolt was formed an independent Jewish kingdom known as the Hasmonaean Dynasty, which lasted from 165 BCE to 63 BCE. The Hasmonean Dynasty eventually disintegrated in a civil war, which coincided with ci... | Who was the last Hasmonean ruler? | {'text': 'Antigonus II Mattathias', 'answer_start': 364} |
35,119 | 34,777 | 570a8c064103511400d5983f | generic | Everton's biggest rivalry is with neighbours Liverpool, against whom they contest the Merseyside derby. The Merseyside derby is usually a sellout fixture, and has been known as the "friendly derby" because both sets of fans can often be seen side by side red and blue inside the stadium both at Anfield and Goodison Park... | What derby does Everton FC contest against Liverpool? | {'text': 'Merseyside', 'answer_start': 108} |
28,814 | 28,472 | 5706621052bb891400689a05 | generic | Alan Dershowitz described Sudan as an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid." Former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler echoed the accusation. | How did Alan Dershozitz describe the Sudan? | {'text': 'an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid."', 'answer_start': 35} |
44,244 | 43,902 | 5ad354ab604f3c001a3fdd8c | generic | Elizabeth's many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and reciprocal visits to and from the Pope. She has seen major constitutional changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. She has also reigned through various wars... | When was the last year the Pope traveled to England to meet Elizabeth? | {'text': '2015', 'answer_start': 447} |
129,644 | 129,302 | 5734477e879d6814001ca46c | generic | Archaeologist Louis Binford criticised the idea that early hominids and early humans were hunters. On the basis of the analysis of the skeletal remains of the consumed animals, he concluded that hominids and early humans were mostly scavengers, not hunters, and this idea is popular among some archaeologists and paleoan... | What idea did Binford take issue with? | {'text': 'that early hominids and early humans were hunters', 'answer_start': 48} |
130,656 | 130,314 | 5a7e070b70df9f001a875439 | generic | The term "matter" is used throughout physics in a bewildering variety of contexts: for example, one refers to "condensed matter physics", "elementary matter", "partonic" matter, "dark" matter, "anti"-matter, "strange" matter, and "nuclear" matter. In discussions of matter and antimatter, normal matter has been referred... | Physics has broadly agreed on the definition of what? | {'text': 'matter', 'answer_start': 485} |
15,572 | 15,230 | 56e06abd7aa994140058e47f | generic | The citizens of Saint Helena hold British Overseas Territories citizenship. On 21 May 2002, full British citizenship was restored by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002. See also British nationality law. | What act restored the full British citizenship of the citizens of Saint Helena? | {'text': 'British Overseas Territories Act 2002', 'answer_start': 137} |
38,905 | 38,563 | 5ad368bc604f3c001a3fe0c1 | generic | Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States, in which a bootlegger was caught through telephone tapping, the United States Supreme Court ruled that FBI wiretaps did not violate the Fourth Amendment as unlawful search and seizure, as lo... | When did Hoover stop using wiretapping? | {'text': '1920s', 'answer_start': 38} |
52,323 | 51,981 | 572668875951b619008f71d6 | generic | During the second half of the 19th century Dutch was banned from all levels of education by both Prussia and France and lost most of its functions as a cultural language. In both Germany and France the Dutch standard language is largely absent and speakers of these Dutch dialects will use German or French in everyday s... | Other than France, what country does not give Dutch legal status as a language? | {'text': 'Germany', 'answer_start': 375} |
97,546 | 97,204 | 5a0df6a9d7c850001886448f | generic | Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour. This can progres... | What are the warning signs of diarrhea? | {'text': 'loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour', 'answer_start': 235} |
52,844 | 52,502 | 5725c812ec44d21400f3d553 | generic | Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than most other types of electric lighting; incandescent bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light, with standard light bulbs averaging about 2.2%. The remaining energy is converted into heat. The luminous efficacy of a typical incandescent bulb is 1... | Are incandescent bulbs more or less efficient than most electric lighting? | {'text': 'less efficient', 'answer_start': 28} |
26,591 | 26,249 | 56f992449e9bad19000a0af4 | generic | Zhejiang is the home of Yueju (越劇), one of the most prominent forms of Chinese opera. Yueju originated in Shengzhou and is traditionally performed by actresses only, in both male and female roles. Other important opera traditions include Yongju (of Ningbo), Shaoju (of Shaoxing), Ouju (of Wenzhou), Wuju (of Jinhua), Tai... | Who plays male roles in Yueju? | {'text': 'actresses', 'answer_start': 150} |
50,234 | 49,892 | 57240d2b0ba9f01400d97b55 | generic | Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated. She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury. Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was... | What year did Gladstone resign? | {'text': '1885', 'answer_start': 48} |
56,417 | 56,075 | 57264675dd62a815002e803b | generic | Before the advent of the ASA system, the system of Weston film speed ratings was introduced by Edward Faraday Weston (1878–1971) and his father Dr. Edward Weston (1850–1936), a British-born electrical engineer, industrialist and founder of the US-based Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, with the Weston model 617... | When was the Weston model 617 created? | {'text': 'August 1932', 'answer_start': 377} |
101,274 | 100,932 | 572e8686c246551400ce42c2 | generic | Play stops when the ball carrier's knee, elbow, or any other body part aside from the feet and hands, is forced to the ground (a tackle); when a forward pass is not caught on the fly (during a scrimmage); when a touchdown (see below) or a field goal is scored; when the ball leaves the playing area by any means (being c... | What is the term for play stopped because the ball carrier, although not fully tackled, can no longer advance the ball? | {'text': 'forward progress', 'answer_start': 454} |
30,357 | 30,015 | 5706653e75f01819005e7b9c | generic | Besides lossy compression methods, lossless formats are a significant alternative to MP3 because they provide unaltered audio content, though with an increased file size compared to lossy compression. Lossless formats include FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), Apple Lossless and many others. | What is the downside of using a lossless format? | {'text': 'increased file size', 'answer_start': 150} |
67,379 | 67,037 | 5726b5dcf1498d1400e8e86b | generic | Currents induced into this winding provide the rotor magnetic field. The shape of the rotor bars determines the speed-torque characteristics. At low speeds, the current induced in the squirrel cage is nearly at line frequency and tends to be in the outer parts of the rotor cage. As the motor accelerates, the slip frequ... | Changing the shapes of the bars creates what? | {'text': 'variable resistance', 'answer_start': 520} |
87,161 | 86,819 | 57281a552ca10214002d9dd8 | generic | Michel Djotodia took over as president and in May 2013 Central African Republic's Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye requested a UN peacekeeping force from the UN Security Council and on 31 May former President Bozizé was indicted for crimes against humanity and incitement of genocide. The security situation did not impro... | What mass murder did Bozize commit? | {'text': 'genocide', 'answer_start': 274} |
77,980 | 77,638 | 57279345f1498d1400e8fca1 | generic | Vaiśeṣika metaphysical premises are founded on a form of atomism, that the reality is composed of four substances (earth, water, air, fire). Each of these four are of two types: atomic (paramāṇu) and composite. An atom is, according to Vaiśeṣika scholars, that which is indestructible (anitya), indivisible, and has a sp... | What are the substances of Vaisesika reality? | {'text': 'earth, water, air, fire', 'answer_start': 115} |
116,257 | 115,915 | 573026e0a23a5019007fce7f | generic | The Swazi bicameral Parliament or Libandla consists of the Senate (30 seats; 10 members appointed by the House of Assembly and 20 appointed by the monarch; to serve five-year terms) and the House of Assembly (65 seats; 10 members appointed by the monarch and 55 elected by popular vote; to serve five-year terms). The el... | How many seats are in the Senate of Swaziland? | {'text': '30 seats', 'answer_start': 67} |
90,361 | 90,019 | 5ad25ba0d7d075001a428e7b | generic | In The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism, Popper developed a critique of historicism and a defence of the "Open Society". Popper considered historicism to be the theory that history develops inexorably and necessarily according to knowable general laws towards a determinate end. He argued that... | What did Popper argue is founded on correct assumptions regarding the nature of scientific law and prediction? | {'text': 'historicism', 'answer_start': 455} |
13,935 | 13,593 | 5acdf58232bba1001ae498e1 | generic | Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks established the Soviet state on 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown during the October Revolution. Initially, the state did not have an official name and wasn't... | Which group originally destroyed the Soviet state? | {'text': 'the Bolsheviks', 'answer_start': 40} |
108,180 | 107,838 | 57302439a23a5019007fce37 | generic | This is fortunate, since antennas at lower frequencies which are not rather large (a good fraction of a wavelength in size) are inevitably inefficient (due to the small radiation resistance Rr of small antennas). Most AM broadcast radios (except for car radios) take advantage of this principle by including a small loop... | Small and minimal frequency antennas are know to be what? | {'text': 'inefficient', 'answer_start': 139} |
49,473 | 49,131 | 57257d8e69ff041400e58e0c | generic | In 1853, Victoria gave birth to her eighth child, Leopold, with the aid of the new anaesthetic, chloroform. Victoria was so impressed by the relief it gave from the pain of childbirth that she used it again in 1857 at the birth of her ninth and final child, Beatrice, despite opposition from members of the clergy, who c... | After nine pregnancies, what could Victoria have been suffering from that would make her sad and depressed? | {'text': 'post-natal depression', 'answer_start': 457} |
93,113 | 92,771 | 5a7b96bd21c2de001afea187 | generic | Beta testing comes after alpha testing and can be considered a form of external user acceptance testing. Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the programming team known as beta testers. The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can en... | What is the term for the public test that continues for a definite amount of time? | {'text': 'perpetual beta', 'answer_start': 564} |
3,229 | 2,887 | 5ad24762d7d075001a428b32 | generic | Christopher Orr, writing in The Atlantic, also criticised the film, saying that Spectre "backslides on virtually every [aspect]". Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer called Craig's performance "Bored, James Bored." Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for The Washington Post, stated that the film turned into "a disappointi... | Christopher Orr of the New Yorker said what about Spectre? | {'text': 'backslides on virtually every [aspect]', 'answer_start': 89} |
78,589 | 78,247 | 5a3049aaf1f7c7001ab92d3e | generic | Barbershop music is one of several uniquely American art forms. The earliest reports of this style of a cappella music involved African Americans. The earliest documented quartets all began in barbershops. In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and ... | What did the barbershop group change its name to officially in 1938? | {'text': 'the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS)', 'answer_start': 466} |
126,414 | 126,072 | 5732813857eb1f1400fd2d4e | generic | The words of the comic playwright P. Terentius Afer reverberated across the Roman world of the mid-2nd century BCE and beyond. Terence, an African and a former slave, was well placed to preach the message of universalism, of the essential unity of the human race, that had come down in philosophical form from the Greeks... | What was the name of the main belief Terence offered | {'text': 'universalism', 'answer_start': 208} |
37,503 | 37,161 | 570b745a6b8089140040f976 | generic | A few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Bon Jovi were still able to achieve a commercial hit with "It's My Life" from their double platinum-certified album Crush (2000). and AC/DC released the platinum-certified Stiff Upper Lip (2000) Aerosmith released a n... | What band released an album called Stiff Upper Lip in 2000? | {'text': 'AC/DC', 'answer_start': 237} |
63,567 | 63,225 | 572698f9dd62a815002e8aa4 | generic | The main coastal towns are, from the west to the north-east, Minehead, Watchet, Burnham-on-Sea, Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon and Portishead. The coastal area between Minehead and the eastern extreme of the administrative county's coastline at Brean Down is known as Bridgwater Bay, and is a National Nature Reserve. North... | what does the western coastline look like | {'text': 'the coastline is high and dramatic where the plateau of Exmoor meets the sea, with high cliffs and waterfalls.', 'answer_start': 566} |
65,474 | 65,132 | 5727a9fa4b864d19001639e4 | generic | A significant modification of Cubism between 1914 and 1916 was signaled by a shift towards a strong emphasis on large overlapping geometric planes and flat surface activity. This grouping of styles of painting and sculpture, especially significant between 1917 and 1920, was practiced by several artists; particularly th... | What did the critic Maurice Raynal begin to refer to Cubism in around 1917-1920? | {'text': "'crystal' Cubism", 'answer_start': 550} |
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