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83,479 | 83,137 | 5acd751c07355d001abf4343 | generic | At present the A35 autoroute, which parallels the Rhine between Karlsruhe and Basel, and the A4 autoroute, which links Paris with Strasbourg, penetrate close to the centre of the city. The Grand contournement ouest (GCO) project, programmed since 1999, plans to construct a 24 km (15 mi) long highway connection between ... | How long is the A35? | {'text': '24 km', 'answer_start': 274} |
90,370 | 90,028 | 5ad25d88d7d075001a428ef9 | generic | As early as 1934, Popper wrote of the search for truth as "one of the strongest motives for scientific discovery." Still, he describes in Objective Knowledge (1972) early concerns about the much-criticised notion of truth as correspondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician Alfred Tarski... | What did Tarski write about the search for truth in 1934? | {'text': 'one of the strongest motives for scientific discovery', 'answer_start': 59} |
22,819 | 22,477 | 56f754a3a6d7ea1400e171bf | generic | Marcin Woźniak and colleagues (2010) searched for specifically Slavic sub-group of R1a1a [M17]. Working with haplotypes, they found a pattern among Western Slavs which turned out to correspond to a newly discovered marker, M458, which defines subclade R1a1a7. This marker correlates remarkably well with the distribution... | When did Marcin Woźniak search specifically for Slavic sub-group of R1a1a [M17]? | {'text': '2010', 'answer_start': 31} |
47,261 | 46,919 | 5a8cdbcafd22b3001a8d8f57 | generic | Another major way to distinguish different memory functions is whether the content to be remembered is in the past, retrospective memory, or in the future, prospective memory. Thus, retrospective memory as a category includes semantic, episodic and autobiographical memory. In contrast, prospective memory is memory for ... | If a memory is triggered by a time, which kind of memory is this not? | {'text': 'Time-based prospective memories', 'answer_start': 482} |
11,667 | 11,325 | 56de74decffd8e1900b4b93e | generic | He tells that during this time he ran into a friend who told him that he was teaching Transcendental Meditation (TM), which prompted Schwarzenegger to reveal he had been struggling with anxiety for the first time in his life: "Even today, I still benefit from [the year of TM] because I don't merge and bring things toge... | What does TM stand for? | {'text': 'Transcendental Meditation', 'answer_start': 86} |
38,295 | 37,953 | 5a650b16c2b11c001a425bb4 | generic | Other international standards bodies have ratified character encodings such as ISO/IEC 646 that are identical or nearly identical to ASCII, with extensions for characters outside the English alphabet and symbols used outside the United States, such as the symbol for the United Kingdom's pound sterling (£). Almost every... | Why are the other versions of ASCII charging extra for extensions? | {'text': 'true ASCII is defined strictly only by the ANSI standard', 'answer_start': 662} |
16,703 | 16,361 | 56e10ac2cd28a01900c674bc | generic | BeiDou-2 (formerly known as COMPASS) is not an extension to the older BeiDou-1, but rather supersedes it outright. The new system will be a constellation of 35 satellites, which include 5 geostationary orbit satellites for backward compatibility with BeiDou-1, and 30 non-geostationary satellites (27 in medium Earth orb... | How many non-geostationary orbit satellites will the BeiDou-2 system have? | {'text': '30', 'answer_start': 265} |
26,237 | 25,895 | 56f904a39e9bad19000a07dd | generic | Resorting to this verbal device, however, did not protect the "Ancient Near East" from the inroads of "the Middle East." For example, a high point in the use of "Ancient Near East" was for Biblical scholars the Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament by James Bennett Pritchard, a textbook of first edit... | James Bennett Pritchard wrote what? | {'text': 'Texts relating to the Old Testament', 'answer_start': 232} |
33,648 | 33,306 | 570a66e66d058f1900182e14 | generic | The starch source in a beer provides the fermentable material and is a key determinant of the strength and flavour of the beer. The most common starch source used in beer is malted grain. Grain is malted by soaking it in water, allowing it to begin germination, and then drying the partially germinated grain in a kiln. ... | What is generally used as starch in most beer? | {'text': 'malted grain', 'answer_start': 174} |
119,871 | 119,529 | 57320cb40fdd8d15006c671a | generic | Breeding usually involves some form of courtship display, typically performed by the male. Most displays are rather simple and involve some type of song. Some displays, however, are quite elaborate. Depending on the species, these may include wing or tail drumming, dancing, aerial flights, or communal lekking. Females ... | Most courtship displays involve some type of what? | {'text': 'song', 'answer_start': 148} |
11,707 | 11,365 | 56de8b764396321400ee2a0e | generic | During the 1980s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars. Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense of humor, separating him from more serious action hero films, such as the alternative universe poster for Terminator 2: Judgment Day star... | What year was Schwarzenegger's film The Running Man released? | {'text': '1987', 'answer_start': 472} |
91,817 | 91,475 | 5728d7142ca10214002da91b | generic | In 2012 the Paris agglomeration (urban area) counted 28,800 people without a fixed residence, an increase of 84 percent since 2001; it represents 43 percent of the homeless in all of France. Forty-one percent were women, and 29 percent were accompanied by children. Fifty-six percent of the homeless were born outside Fr... | How many homeless shelters are in Paris? | {'text': 'sixty', 'answer_start': 406} |
55,292 | 54,950 | 5a62926df8d794001af1c0ee | generic | It was unclear if Shell would recommence drilling in mid-2013, following the "Kulluk" incident and, in February 2013, the corporation stated that it would "pause" its closely watched drilling project off the Alaskan coast in 2013, and will instead prepare for future exploration. In January 2014, the corporation announc... | What project was based in Alaska? | {'text': 'the "Kulluk"', 'answer_start': 73} |
59,135 | 58,793 | 5acd9c7b07355d001abf480c | generic | In 1998, Democratic voters dominated areas of the state with a high percentage of racial minorities and transplanted white liberals from the northeastern United States, known colloquially as "snowbirds". South Florida and the Miami metropolitan area are dominated by both racial minorities and white liberals. Because of... | What did democrat voters do in 1999? | {'text': 'dominated areas of the state with a high percentage of racial minorities', 'answer_start': 27} |
109,436 | 109,094 | 572f5441a23a5019007fc54a | generic | In 1994, responding to the need for a more useful system for describing chronic pain, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) classified pain according to specific characteristics: (1) region of the body involved (e.g. abdomen, lower limbs), (2) system whose dysfunction may be causing the pain (e.g.,... | What do some people feel the IASP's system is inadequate for? | {'text': 'guiding research and treatment', 'answer_start': 534} |
82,559 | 82,217 | 5a1233c36614be00188f249b | generic | In the early days of association football, known simply as football or soccer, friendly matches (or "friendlies") were the most common type of match. However, since the development of The Football League in England in 1888, league tournaments became established, in addition to lengthy derby and cup tournaments. By the ... | What was established in addition to brief derby in cup tournaments? | {'text': 'league tournaments', 'answer_start': 224} |
24,368 | 24,026 | 56f81878a6d7ea1400e173b2 | generic | The Polish nobility enjoyed many rights that were not available to the noble classes of other countries and, typically, each new monarch conceded them further privileges. Those privileges became the basis of the Golden Liberty in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Despite having a king, Poland was called the nobility'... | WHy did the state affairs partly grow up on? | {'text': 'the extinction of the male-line descendants of the old royal dynasty', 'answer_start': 561} |
3,540 | 3,198 | 56d66f3e1c85041400947117 | generic | In 2008, State Council established a counterpart support plan (《汶川地震灾后恢复重建对口支援方案》). The plan is to arrange 19 eastern and central province and municipalitie to help 18 counties, on "one province to one affected county" basis. The plan spanned 3 years, and cost no less than one percent of the province or municipality's ... | What is the basis for this plan? | {'text': 'one province to one affected county', 'answer_start': 182} |
14,034 | 13,692 | 56e099747aa994140058e618 | generic | The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. It was, by 1961, the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1974, there were 475 i... | What two countries produced more petroleum than Russia in 1961? | {'text': 'the United States and Saudi Arabia', 'answer_start': 259} |
12,382 | 12,040 | 5a5ad8379c0277001abe71e3 | generic | Orthodox Judaism considers views on the part of Jews who depart from traditional Jewish principles of faith heretical. In addition, the more right-wing groups within Orthodox Judaism hold that all Jews who reject the simple meaning of Maimonides's 13 principles of Jewish faith are heretics. As such, most of Orthodox Ju... | What overlaps in Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism? | {'text': 'some theological and practical overlap', 'answer_start': 569} |
105,665 | 105,323 | 5a87d4d219b91f001a626e4b | generic | Rapid decompression can be much more dangerous than vacuum exposure itself. Even if the victim does not hold his or her breath, venting through the windpipe may be too slow to prevent the fatal rupture of the delicate alveoli of the lungs. Eardrums and sinuses may be ruptured by rapid decompression, soft tissues may br... | What is venting through the windpipe also called? | {'text': 'barotrauma', 'answer_start': 470} |
73,987 | 73,645 | 57295be46aef051400154d6a | generic | Since approximately 2000, many parts of downtown New Haven have been revitalized, with new restaurants, nightlife, and small retail stores. In particular, the area surrounding the New Haven Green has experienced an influx of apartments and condominiums. In recent years, downtown retail options have increased with the o... | What has happen in New Haven Green during the 2000s? | {'text': 'experienced an influx of apartments', 'answer_start': 200} |
34,993 | 34,651 | 5a396d042f14dd001ac72328 | generic | On matchdays, in a tradition going back to 1962, players walk out to the theme tune to Z-Cars, named "Johnny Todd", a traditional Liverpool children's song collected in 1890 by Frank Kidson which tells the story of a sailor betrayed by his lover while away at sea, although on two separate occasions in the 1994, they ra... | Who wrote "Get Ready for This"? | {'text': 'Frank Kidson', 'answer_start': 177} |
88,511 | 88,169 | 572836213acd2414000df70b | generic | The "Lophotrochozoa" hypothesis is also supported by the fact that many phyla within this group, including annelids, molluscs, nemerteans and flatworms, follow a similar pattern in the fertilized egg's development. When their cells divide after the 4-cell stage, descendants of these 4 cells form a spiral pattern. In th... | What is the Lophotrochozoa spiral egg-cell pattern sometimes called? | {'text': 'spiral determinate cleavage', 'answer_start': 552} |
125,570 | 125,228 | 57332ba74776f41900660734 | generic | The collateralized debt obligation in particular enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime and other lending, extending or increasing the housing bubble and generating large fees. This essentially places cash payments from multiple mortgages or other debt obligations into a single pool... | What securities had lower credit ratings but potentially a higher rate of return? | {'text': 'Securities with lower priority', 'answer_start': 480} |
107,547 | 107,205 | 572f56ddb2c2fd1400568049 | generic | After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government. Despite the fact that various warlords gained control of the government in Beijing during the warlord era, this did not constitute a new era of control or governance, because other ... | What happened to China after the 20th century revolutions? | {'text': "shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government.", 'answer_start': 42} |
51,066 | 50,724 | 5725bd9f271a42140099d100 | generic | The first of the Diadochi wars broke out when Perdiccas planned to marry Alexander's sister Cleopatra and began to question Antigonus I Monophthalmus' leadership in Asia Minor. Antigonus fled for Greece, and then, together with Antipater and Craterus (the satrap of Cilicia who had been in Greece fighting the Lamian war... | Who was Alexander's sister? | {'text': 'Cleopatra', 'answer_start': 92} |
96,710 | 96,368 | 572a3b61af94a219006aa8e6 | generic | In 1915, as the Russian Caucasus Army continued to advance into eastern Anatolia, the Ottoman government started the deportation of its ethnic Armenian population, resulting in the death of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in what became known as the Armenian Genocide. The genocide was carried out during and after W... | Armenian women and children were deported on death marches through what desert? | {'text': 'the Syrian desert', 'answer_start': 587} |
75,056 | 74,714 | 5727dcc53acd2414000dee49 | generic | Both Roger Williams and John Clarke, his compatriot and coworker for religious freedom, are variously credited as founding the earliest Baptist church in North America. In 1639, Williams established a Baptist church in Providence, Rhode Island, and Clarke began a Baptist church in Newport, Rhode Island. According to a ... | Who founded the earliest Baptist church in North America? | {'text': 'Roger Williams and John Clarke', 'answer_start': 5} |
93,244 | 92,902 | 5a47387c5fd40d001a27dd7f | generic | A new delimitation of the federal territory keeps being debated in Germany, though "Some scholars note that there are significant differences among the American states and regional governments in other federations without serious calls for territorial changes ...", as political scientist Arthur B. Gunlicks remarks. He ... | What keeps being debated in America? | {'text': 'delimitation of the federal territory', 'answer_start': 6} |
86,801 | 86,459 | 57280ee3ff5b5019007d9c00 | generic | The modern concept of an abstract group developed out of several fields of mathematics. The original motivation for group theory was the quest for solutions of polynomial equations of degree higher than 4. The 19th-century French mathematician Évariste Galois, extending prior work of Paolo Ruffini and Joseph-Louis Lagr... | What modern concept was created from many fields of mathematics? | {'text': 'abstract group', 'answer_start': 25} |
45,690 | 45,348 | 571019eab654c5140001f7f5 | generic | The legal administration of the death penalty in the United States is complex. Typically, it involves four critical steps: (1) sentencing, (2) direct review, (3) state collateral review, and (4) federal habeas corpus. Recently, a narrow and final fifth level of process – (5) the Section 1983 challenge – has become incr... | In what year were there 73 death penalty convictions? | {'text': '2014', 'answer_start': 644} |
114,051 | 113,709 | 57301aeaa23a5019007fcd66 | generic | The islands enjoy a mild climate and varied soils, giving rise to a diverse pattern of vegetation. Animal and plant life is similar to that of the northwestern European continent. There are however, fewer numbers of species, with Ireland having even less. All native flora and fauna in Ireland is made up of species that... | In Ireland where does the native animal and plant species mostly come from? | {'text': 'Europe, and Great Britain', 'answer_start': 348} |
37,987 | 37,645 | 570bd878ec8fbc190045bb6b | generic | Brazil's Atlantic Forest is considered one such hotspot, containing roughly 20,000 plant species, 1,350 vertebrates, and millions of insects, about half of which occur nowhere else.[citation needed] The island of Madagascar and India are also particularly notable. Colombia is characterized by high biodiversity, with th... | Which country has about 10% of the species on Earth? | {'text': 'Colombia', 'answer_start': 534} |
2,351 | 2,009 | 56cd7a3f62d2951400fa6604 | generic | iPods have won several awards ranging from engineering excellence,[not in citation given] to most innovative audio product, to fourth best computer product of 2006. iPods often receive favorable reviews; scoring on looks, clean design, and ease of use. PC World says that iPod line has "altered the landscape for portabl... | Which publication praised iPods for revolutionizing the industry? | {'text': 'PC World', 'answer_start': 253} |
39,118 | 38,776 | 5ad3b4e5604f3c001a3fed93 | generic | In December 1994, after being tipped off by his former FBI handler about a pending indictment under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Bulger fled Boston and went into hiding. For 16 years, he remained at large. For 12 of those years, Bulger was prominently listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitiv... | Whose murder did John B Callahan help to plan? | {'text': 'Connolly', 'answer_start': 661} |
13,810 | 13,468 | 5a29976503c0e7001a3e17fd | generic | UNFPA has been falsely accused by anti-family planning groups of providing support for government programs which have promoted forced-abortions and coercive sterilizations. Controversies regarding these claims have resulted in a sometimes shaky relationship between the organization and three presidential administration... | Controversy regarding these accusations has caused harmony with how many presidential administrations? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 287} |
116,858 | 116,516 | 573094c48ab72b1400f9c5be | generic | There are a number of aids available to pilots, though not all airports are equipped with them. A visual approach slope indicator (VASI) helps pilots fly the approach for landing. Some airports are equipped with a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) to help pilots find the direction to the airport. VORs are often accompani... | What helps pilots fly the approach for landing? | {'text': 'visual approach slope indicator', 'answer_start': 98} |
37,110 | 36,768 | 570b5245ec8fbc190045b982 | generic | The Berbers along the Barbary Coast (modern day Libya) sent pirates to capture merchant ships and hold the crews for ransom. The U.S. paid protection money until 1801, when President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay and sent in the Navy to challenge the Barbary States, the First Barbary War followed. After the U.S.S. Ph... | What city did William Eaton capture to end the first Barbary War? | {'text': 'Derna', 'answer_start': 531} |
128,856 | 128,514 | 5a68ef1a8476ee001a58a8bb | generic | In the mid-fifteenth century, the religion of Sikhism was born. During the Mughal empire, many Hindus increasingly adopted Sikhism. These became a formidable military force against the Mughals and later against the Afghan Empire. After fighting Ahmad Shah Durrani in the later eighteenth century, the Sikhs took control ... | Who led the Sikhs in the late eighteenth century? | {'text': 'Ahmad Shah Durrani', 'answer_start': 245} |
1,762 | 1,420 | 56cffa2a234ae51400d9c1d0 | generic | With his mazurkas and polonaises, Chopin has been credited with introducing to music a new sense of nationalism. Schumann, in his 1836 review of the piano concertos, highlighted the composer's strong feelings for his native Poland, writing that "Now that the Poles are in deep mourning [after the failure of the November... | What year did Schumann review Chopin's piano concertos? | {'text': '1836', 'answer_start': 130} |
69,372 | 69,030 | 5726c2c4f1498d1400e8ea80 | generic | Greek drama exemplifies the earliest form of drama of which we have substantial knowledge. Tragedy, as a dramatic genre, developed as a performance associated with religious and civic festivals, typically enacting or developing upon well-known historical or mythological themes. Tragedies generally presented very seriou... | In what year was War Of The Worlds originally presented? | {'text': '1938', 'answer_start': 464} |
13,270 | 12,928 | 56df54048bc80c19004e4aa9 | generic | Oklahoma City has a very active severe weather season from March through June, especially during April and May. Being in the center of what is colloquially referred to as Tornado Alley, it is prone to especially frequent and severe tornadoes, as well as very severe hailstorms and occasional derechoes. Tornadoes have oc... | Approximately How many tornadoes have reached the city limits? | {'text': '150', 'answer_start': 537} |
103,307 | 102,965 | 572eb90bcb0c0d14000f14c5 | generic | Some skyscraper buildings and other types of installation feature a destination operating panel where a passenger registers their floor calls before entering the car. The system lets them know which car to wait for, instead of everyone boarding the next car. In this way, travel time is reduced as the elevator makes few... | What is the downside to a :destination operating panel"? | {'text': 'passenger waiting times may be longer as they will not necessarily be allocated the next car to depart', 'answer_start': 464} |
51,470 | 51,128 | 5725b72fec44d21400f3d43d | generic | In November 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are adopting an open access (OA) policy for publications and data, "to enable the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded by the foundation, including any underlying data sets". This move has been widely app... | What did the foundation announce in November 2014 | {'text': 'In November 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are adopting an open access (OA) policy for publications and data', 'answer_start': 0} |
6,318 | 5,976 | 56db09ace7c41114004b4caa | generic | Ruben Studdard emerged as the winner, beating Clay Aiken by a small margin. Out of a total of 24 million votes, Studdard finished just 134,000 votes ahead of Aiken. This slim margin of victory was controversial due to the large number of calls that failed to get through. In an interview prior to season five, executive ... | How many votes were cast for the finale? | {'text': '24 million', 'answer_start': 94} |
65,313 | 64,971 | 57269560dd62a815002e8a5c | generic | The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass, time, and volume supports (rather than contradicts) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler as early as 1920, but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg. Contemporary views of Cubism are complex, ... | Who's work undermined Douglass Coopers terms describing Cubism? | {'text': 'Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger', 'answer_start': 1301} |
102,730 | 102,388 | 57318b4d05b4da19006bd276 | generic | Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukr... | Where was Spielberg born? | {'text': 'Cincinnati, Ohio', 'answer_start': 22} |
54,370 | 54,028 | 5acfcaec77cf76001a686017 | generic | Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization. Courts have disting... | What haven't courts said there is a difference between? | {'text': 'copyright infringement and theft', 'answer_start': 335} |
93,560 | 93,218 | 572947c3af94a219006aa24b | generic | From the 19th century, there was a revival in many ancient glass-making techniques including cameo glass, achieved for the first time since the Roman Empire and initially mostly used for pieces in a neo-classical style. The Art Nouveau movement made great use of glass, with René Lalique, Émile Gallé, and Daum of Nancy ... | What early civilization made cameo glass? | {'text': 'Roman Empire', 'answer_start': 144} |
83,601 | 83,259 | 5727d6782ca10214002d97b6 | generic | According to Forbes magazine, Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, and SandRidge Energy Corporation are the largest private oil-related companies in the nation, and all of Oklahoma's Fortune 500 companies are energy-related. Tulsa's ONEOK and Williams Companies are the state's la... | Which largest private oil companies are based in Oklahoma City? | {'text': 'Devon Energy Corporation, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, and SandRidge Energy Corporation', 'answer_start': 50} |
76,880 | 76,538 | 57278aac708984140094e057 | generic | The titles of state supreme court vary, which can cause confusion between jurisdictions because one state may use a name for its highest court that another uses for a lower court. In New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia the highest court is called the Court of Appeals, a name used by many states for their i... | What may cause some confusion in the US regarding state supreme courts? | {'text': 'titles of state supreme court vary', 'answer_start': 4} |
14,971 | 14,629 | 56dfbb8c231d4119001abd3e | generic | On 23 April 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was reported to be considering a new rule that will permit ISPs to offer content providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net neutrality position. A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, a... | what did the fcc choose to apply to the internet? | {'text': 'Title II (common carrier)', 'answer_start': 1240} |
128,538 | 128,196 | 5ad2f672604f3c001a3fda6d | generic | Anthrozoology (also known as "human–animal studies") is the study of interaction between living things. It is a burgeoning interdisciplinary field that overlaps with a number of other disciplines, including anthropology, ethology, medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine and zoology. A major focus of anthrozoologic re... | What fields developed from Anthrozoology? | {'text': 'anthropology, sociology, biology, and philosophy', 'answer_start': 516} |
112,207 | 111,865 | 572fdbd404bcaa1900d76de7 | generic | Rome's preoccupation with its war with Carthage provided an opportunity for Philip V of the kingdom of Macedonia, located in the north of the Greek peninsula, to attempt to extend his power westward. Philip sent ambassadors to Hannibal's camp in Italy, to negotiate an alliance as common enemies of Rome. However, Rome d... | At what point did Rome discover that an alliance between Philip V and Hannibal had been achieved? | {'text': "Philip's emissaries were captured by a Roman fleet", 'answer_start': 349} |
22,977 | 22,635 | 56f8574aa6d7ea1400e175a9 | generic | Elsewhere, remnants of the medieval water supply system devised by the friars can still be seen today. Constructed in 1290, the system carried water from Conduit Head (remnants of which survive near Hill Lane, Shirley) some 1.7 kilometres to the site of the friary inside the town walls. The friars granted use of the wa... | What's the name of the landmark on Commercial Road where remains of the friars' water system can be seen? | {'text': 'Conduit House', 'answer_start': 446} |
8,805 | 8,463 | 56de0a94cffd8e1900b4b56c | generic | Polytechnics in Malaysia has been operated for almost 44 years. The institutions provide courses for bachelor's degree & Bachelor of Science (BSc) (offer at Premier Polytechnics for September 2013 intake & 2014 intake), Advanced Diploma, Diploma and Special Skills Certificate. It was established by the Ministry of Educ... | In what city in the state of Perak is the Politeknik Ungku Omar located? | {'text': 'Ipoh', 'answer_start': 452} |
27,212 | 26,870 | 56faca31f34c681400b0c12f | generic | Sony's PlayStation 3 has extensive HD compatibility because of its built in Blu-ray disc based player, so does Microsoft's Xbox 360 with the addition of Netflix and Windows Media Center HTPC streaming capabilities, and the Zune marketplace where users can rent or purchase digital HD content. Recently, Nintendo released... | What high definition gaming platform did Nintendo recently release? | {'text': 'The Wii U', 'answer_start': 372} |
27,886 | 27,544 | 56fb2a7cf34c681400b0c1db | generic | In European history, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieva... | What is the first period of the three that Western history is traditionally divided into? | {'text': 'Antiquity', 'answer_start': 302} |
63,360 | 63,018 | 5726a7695951b619008f7935 | generic | The term "push-pull" was established in 1987 as an approach for integrated pest management (IPM). This strategy uses a mixture of behavior-modifying stimuli to manipulate the distribution and abundance of insects. "Push" means the insects are repelled or deterred away from whatever resource that is being protected. "Pu... | What does IPM stand for? | {'text': 'integrated pest management', 'answer_start': 64} |
34,304 | 33,962 | 570a596e6d058f1900182d84 | generic | In 1907, the newly established Board of Education found that greater capacity for higher technical education was needed and a proposal to merge the City and Guilds College, the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science was approved and passed, creating The Imperial College of Science and Technology as a co... | Who proposed a merger of many colleges in 1907? | {'text': 'Board of Education', 'answer_start': 31} |
111,454 | 111,112 | 5ad29becd7d075001a429bdb | generic | During and after the Greek War of Independence, Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling state, raising funds and awareness abroad. Greek merchant families already had contacts in other countries and during the disturbances many set up home around the Mediterranean (notably Marseilles in Fran... | What did they do that contributed to the French's success of establishment? | {'text': 'important in establishing the fledgling state, raising funds and awareness abroad', 'answer_start': 76} |
33,954 | 33,612 | 5a8cd4c6fd22b3001a8d8f1a | generic | The U.S. dollar was created by the Constitution and defined by the Coinage Act of 1792. It specified a "dollar" to be based in the Spanish milled dollar and of 371 grains and 4 sixteenths part of a grain of pure or 416 grains (27.0 g) of standard silver and an "eagle" to be 247 and 4 eighths of a grain or 270 grains (1... | What defined the Hamilton? | {'text': 'Coinage Act of 1792', 'answer_start': 67} |
52,770 | 52,428 | 57261fd438643c19005ad04c | generic | In 1901 the accession of Edward VII saw new life breathed into the palace. The new King and his wife Queen Alexandra had always been at the forefront of London high society, and their friends, known as "the Marlborough House Set", were considered to be the most eminent and fashionable of the age. Buckingham Palace—the ... | What was at odds with Nash's original work in the palace? | {'text': "King Edward's heavy redecorations", 'answer_start': 570} |
59,747 | 59,405 | 57269458dd62a815002e8a30 | generic | The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Malawi has 150 congregations and 17 000–20 000 members. It was a mission of the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland. The Restored Reformed Church works with RPCM. Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Malawi is an existing small church. Part of the Presbyterian Church in Malawi and Zam... | The Church of Central Africa-Presbyterian often offers what services? | {'text': 'education, health ministries as well as worship', 'answer_start': 472} |
58,004 | 57,662 | 5728253a2ca10214002d9ef4 | generic | BYU offers programs in liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing and law. The university is broadly organized into 11 colleges or schools at its main Provo campus, with certain colleges and divisions defining their own admission standards. The university also admini... | How many master's programs does BYU have? | {'text': '68', 'answer_start': 585} |
38,511 | 38,169 | 5a6115e6e9e1cc001a33cec4 | generic | The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμνός (gymnos) meaning "naked", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω (gymnazo), whose meaning is to train naked", "train in gymnastic exercise", generally "to train, to exercise". The verb had this meaning, because athletes in ancient times exercised and compet... | What greek noun means "naked"? | {'text': 'gymnos', 'answer_start': 68} |
25,546 | 25,204 | 56f8edb59e9bad19000a0710 | generic | The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Guinea Bissau was 1000. This compares with 804.3 in 2008 and 966 in 1990. The under 5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births, was 195 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under 5's mortality was 24. The number of midwives per 1,000 live births was 3; one out of... | How many midwives are listed per 1,000 live births? | {'text': '3', 'answer_start': 307} |
103,163 | 102,821 | 5731ce62e17f3d1400422440 | generic | In 2002, Spielberg was one of eight flagbearers who carried the Olympic Flag into Rice-Eccles Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 M... | How did Life Magazine recognize Spielberg? | {'text': 'the most influential person of his generation', 'answer_start': 404} |
52,891 | 52,549 | 5ad18abc645df0001a2d1ed0 | generic | Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp in 1878. Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights" on 14 October 1878. After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and other metals, in the end Edison returned ... | What did Edison turn refuse to use after his experiment with platinum and other metals? | {'text': 'carbon', 'answer_start': 325} |
37,545 | 37,203 | 59d29da22763a60018284112 | generic | The 100th meridian roughly corresponds with the line that divides the Great Plains into an area that receive 20 inches (510 millimetres) or more of rainfall per year and an area that receives less than 20 in (510 mm). In this context, the High Plains, as well as Southern Alberta, south-western Saskatchewan and Eastern ... | What meridian comprises the southern edge of the Great Plains? | {'text': '100th', 'answer_start': 4} |
63,954 | 63,612 | 5ad3ddcb604f3c001a3ff445 | 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... | Where did undergraduate women live during the last few years of women being allowed to attend Yale? | {'text': 'Vanderbilt Hall', 'answer_start': 749} |
63,881 | 63,539 | 5ad3d467604f3c001a3ff2a8 | generic | In 1909–10, football faced a crisis resulting from the failure of the previous reforms of 1905–06 to solve the problem of serious injuries. There was a mood of alarm and mistrust, and, while the crisis was developing, the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton developed a project to reform the sport and forestall p... | What did the rebellion to the old football measures start? | {'text': 'Intercollegiate Athletic Association', 'answer_start': 632} |
57,451 | 57,109 | 57264622f1498d1400e8dad9 | generic | The Germanic peoples during the Migrations Period came into contact with other peoples; in the case of the populations settling in the territory of modern Germany, they encountered Celts to the south, and Balts and Slavs towards the east. The Limes Germanicus was breached in AD 260. Migrating Germanic tribes commingled... | During the Migrations period Germans would encounter what group in the south? | {'text': 'Celts', 'answer_start': 181} |
96,632 | 96,290 | 572a24703f37b31900478733 | generic | The discovery of new maritime trade routes by Western European states allowed them to avoid the Ottoman trade monopoly. The Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 initiated a series of Ottoman-Portuguese naval wars in the Indian Ocean throughout the 16th century. The Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire, allied w... | New coins were a proclamation of independence by the Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire from whom? | {'text': 'the Portuguese', 'answer_start': 528} |
107,200 | 106,858 | 572f97a804bcaa1900d76ac1 | generic | The Pro Electron standard, the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association part numbering scheme, begins with two letters: the first gives the semiconductor type (A for germanium, B for silicon, and C for materials like GaAs); the second letter denotes the intended use (A for diode, C for general-purpose tr... | What is the first letter in the part numbering scheme? | {'text': 'the semiconductor type', 'answer_start': 151} |
114,146 | 113,804 | 57302f4004bcaa1900d77309 | generic | Viking invasions began in the 9th century, followed by more permanent settlements, particularly along the east coast of Ireland, the west coast of modern-day Scotland and the Isle of Man. Though the Vikings were eventually neutralised in Ireland, their influence remained in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterfo... | England became a possession of which country when it became conquered after the first millennium? | {'text': 'Denmark', 'answer_start': 462} |
91,047 | 90,705 | 5728ab90ff5b5019007da40b | generic | The word "insect" comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning "with a notched or divided body", or literally "cut into", from the neuter singular perfect passive participle of insectare, "to cut into, to cut up", from in- "into" and secare "to cut"; because insects appear "cut into" three sections. Pliny the Elder intr... | Who introduced the Latin term for insect, borrowing from the Greek vernacular? | {'text': 'Pliny the Elder', 'answer_start': 300} |
117,821 | 117,479 | 5730d756b7151e1900c0156e | generic | In 1974 ministerial government was introduced to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony through a change to the Constitution. In that year a general election was held; and a referendum was held in December 1974 to determine whether the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands should each have their own administration. As a co... | What did the Tuvaluan Order 1976 recognize Tuvalu to be? | {'text': 'British dependency', 'answer_start': 478} |
13,955 | 13,613 | 56df53fe96943c1400a5d3c3 | generic | On December 25, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic was renamed the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day. This name and "Russia" were specified as the official state names in the April 21, 1992 amendment to the existing constitution and were retained as such in the 1993 Constituti... | When did the Soviet Union break up? | {'text': 'December 25, 1991', 'answer_start': 3} |
3,108 | 2,766 | 5ad24104d7d075001a42894a | generic | The song was released as a digital download on 25 September 2015. It received mixed reviews from critics and fans, particularly in comparison to Adele's "Skyfall". The mixed reception to the song led to Shirley Bassey trending on Twitter on the day it was released. It became the first Bond theme to reach number one in ... | What was released as a digital download on 15 September 2015? | {'text': 'song', 'answer_start': 4} |
105,255 | 104,913 | 5730490704bcaa1900d7747d | generic | The attacks were focused against western ports in March. These attacks produced some breaks in morale, with civil leaders fleeing the cities before the offensive reached its height. But the Luftwaffe's effort eased in the last 10 attacks as seven Kampfgruppen moved to Austria in preparation for the Balkans Campaign in ... | What was focused in March? | {'text': 'western ports', 'answer_start': 33} |
92,472 | 92,130 | 57296b6f1d046914007793fb | generic | The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate). Because of the Act's restrictions on candidates' and parties' fundraising, a large number of so-cal... | How did the 527 groups come up with their title? | {'text': 'Named for a section of the Internal Revenue Code', 'answer_start': 344} |
11,113 | 10,771 | 5ad0d264645df0001a2d0546 | generic | The 2009 Human Development Report by UNDP was released on October 5, 2009, and covers the period up to 2007. It was titled "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development". The top countries by HDI were grouped in a new category called "very high human development". The report refers to these countries as develope... | How does the 2008 Human Development Report refer to countries that rank "very high"? | {'text': 'developed countries', 'answer_start': 312} |
16,596 | 16,254 | 5acd345807355d001abf394a | generic | The original idea of a Chinese satellite navigation system was conceived by Chen Fangyun and his colleagues in the 1980s. According to the China National Space Administration, the development of the system would be carried out in three steps: | Who said the system would be developed in four total steps? | {'text': 'China National Space Administration', 'answer_start': 139} |
102,672 | 102,330 | 572eaab3c246551400ce4492 | generic | The traditional folk music of Cyprus has several common elements with Greek, Turkish, and Arabic music including Greco-Turkish dances such as the sousta, syrtos, zeibekikos, tatsia, and karsilamas as well as the Middle Eastern-inspired tsifteteli and arapies. There is also a form of musical poetry known as chattista wh... | Traditional Cyprus music has what other types of genres in common? | {'text': 'Greek, Turkish, and Arabic', 'answer_start': 70} |
81,832 | 81,490 | 5a4c43b77a6c4c001a2bbbcc | generic | The effects of local surface low pressure are extremely limited because upper-level subsidence still continues to block any form of air ascent. Also, to be protected against rain-bearing weather systems by the atmospheric circulation itself, the desert is made even drier by his geographical configuration and location. ... | what is explained by the subtropical low-pressure? | {'text': 'the extreme aridity of the Sahara', 'answer_start': 328} |
79,129 | 78,787 | 57278d87dd62a815002ea03b | generic | The Duke of Wellington is often incorrectly quoted as saying that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton". Wellington was at Eton from 1781 to 1784 and was to send his sons there. According to Nevill (citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket mat... | During what years was the Duke of Wellington at Eton? | {'text': '1781 to 1784', 'answer_start': 158} |
25,828 | 25,486 | 56f8bfeb9b226e1400dd0f23 | generic | Most of the space in the brain is taken up by axons, which are often bundled together in what are called nerve fiber tracts. A myelinated axon is wrapped in a fatty insulating sheath of myelin, which serves to greatly increase the speed of signal propagation. (There are also unmyelinated axons). Myelin is white, making... | Axons grouped together are known as what? | {'text': 'nerve fiber tracts', 'answer_start': 105} |
82,714 | 82,372 | 5727c73cff5b5019007d94fb | generic | High school football teams frequently participate in controlled scrimmages with other teams during preseason practice, but exhibition games are rare because of league rules and concerns about finances, travel and player injuries, along with enrollments not being registered until the early part of August in most school ... | What is the most common type of high school football exhibition game? | {'text': 'all-star', 'answer_start': 435} |
30,092 | 29,750 | 57061d0c75f01819005e79a3 | generic | The MP3 lossy audio data compression algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called auditory masking. In 1894, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer reported that a tone could be rendered inaudible by another tone of lower frequency. In 1959, Richard Ehmer described a complete set of audi... | What is the limitation in human hearing referred to as? | {'text': 'auditory masking', 'answer_start': 114} |
93,667 | 93,325 | 5a671b11f038b7001ab0c1f1 | generic | In physics, the standard definition of a glass (or vitreous solid) is a solid formed by rapid melt quenching. The term glass is often used to describe any amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg. If the cooling is sufficiently rapid (relative to the characteristic crystallization time) then crys... | What predicts amorphous phases? | {'text': 'rigidity theory', 'answer_start': 586} |
27,379 | 27,037 | 56fa184cf34c681400b0bfac | generic | The greatest strength increase due to drying is in the ultimate crushing strength, and strength at elastic limit in endwise compression; these are followed by the modulus of rupture, and stress at elastic limit in cross-bending, while the modulus of elasticity is least affected. | What property of wood is least affected by drying? | {'text': 'elasticity', 'answer_start': 250} |
30,938 | 30,596 | 570714f39e06ca38007e93c6 | generic | Santa Bárbara became the launching place for expeditions into New Mexico by Spanish conquistadors like: Antonio de Espejo, Gaspar Castaño, Antonio Gutiérrez de Umaña, Francisco Leyba de Bonilla, and Vicente de Zaldívar. Several expeditions were led to find a shorter route from Santa Barbara to New Mexico. In April 1598... | Which U.S. state benefited from this road? | {'text': 'New Mexico', 'answer_start': 732} |
47,720 | 47,378 | 5ad2b8f4d7d075001a42a04d | generic | In the 1980s, parents of mixed-race children began to organize and lobby for the addition of a more inclusive term of racial designation that would reflect the heritage of their children. When the U.S. government proposed the addition of the category of "bi-racial" or "multiracial" in 1988, the response from the public... | Why was Diane Watson in favor of the multiracial category? | {'text': 'loss of political and economic power', 'answer_start': 567} |
118,936 | 118,594 | 5730db0aaca1c71400fe5b17 | generic | This is the passive, active, and dynamic employment of capabilities to respond to imminent or on-going actions against Air Force or Air Force-protected networks, the Air Force's portion of the Global Information Grid, or expeditionary communications assigned to the Air Force. Cyberspace defense incorporates CNE, comput... | What does Cyberspace defense include? | {'text': 'CNE, computer network defense (CND), and CNA techniques', 'answer_start': 309} |
10,305 | 9,963 | 56de110e4396321400ee25a3 | generic | The geographical regions in which Iranian languages were spoken were pushed back in several areas by newly neighbouring languages. Arabic spread into some parts of Western Iran (Khuzestan), and Turkic languages spread through much of Central Asia, displacing various Iranian languages such as Sogdian and Bactrian in par... | Ossetic is a version of which Scythian language? | {'text': 'Saka', 'answer_start': 967} |
72,213 | 71,871 | 5a10f78906e79900185c3497 | generic | Digimon was first conceived as a virtual pet toy in the vein of Tamagotchis and, as such, took influence from Tamagotchis' cute and round designs. The small areas of the screens (16 by 16 pixels) meant that character designers had to create monsters whose forms would be easily recognizable. As such, many of the early D... | What has mostly been in individual process throughout the franchise history? | {'text': 'character creation', 'answer_start': 729} |
45,664 | 45,322 | 5ad3fbc1604f3c001a3ffb76 | generic | After the September 2011 execution of Troy Davis, believed by many to be innocent, Richard Dieter, the director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said this case was a clear wake-up call to politicians across the United States. He said: "They weren't expecting such passion from people in opposition to the death p... | Who was the Death Penalty Information Center secretary? | {'text': 'Richard Dieter', 'answer_start': 83} |
108,823 | 108,481 | 572f21e6b2c2fd1400567f40 | generic | Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field (Santa Monica Airport) for the Douglas Aircraft Company. In 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes made it back, after having covered 27,553 miles (44,342 km) in 175 ... | The Douglas Company had facilities in Santa Monica through what decade? | {'text': '1960s', 'answer_start': 509} |
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