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46,466 | 46,124 | 5711288ea58dae1900cd6cd9 | generic | The original model Famicom featured two game controllers, both of which were hardwired to the back of the console. The second controller lacked the START and SELECT buttons, but featured a small microphone. Relatively few games made use of this feature. The earliest produced Famicom units initially had square A and B b... | The second Famicom controller lacked START and what other button? | {'text': 'SELECT', 'answer_start': 158} |
71,342 | 71,000 | 5ad28656d7d075001a4298df | generic | On 10 January 1941, Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement settling several ongoing issues. Secret protocols in the new agreement modified the "Secret Additional Protocols" of the German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, ceding the Lithuanian Strip to the Soviet Union in exchange for 7.5 million dollars ... | How long didn't the Russians have to relocate from the german occupied regions? | {'text': 'two and a half months', 'answer_start': 866} |
47,876 | 47,534 | 5ad2c44ed7d075001a42a15e | generic | Stanley Crouch wrote in a New York Daily News piece "Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan," in a column entitled "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me." During the 2008 campaign, the African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times accused white liberals of flocking to Obama because... | What is a term for a black person who does not help the mainstream white agenda? | {'text': 'Magic Negro', 'answer_start': 331} |
101,382 | 101,040 | 572e7c79cb0c0d14000f11b2 | generic | Realizing that war was imminent, Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it. The result caused uproar across Europe. Because of Prussia's alliance with Britain, Austria formed an alliance with France, seeing an opportunity to recapture Silesia, which had been lost in a previous war. Reluctantly, by follo... | What country allied with Prussia? | {'text': "Prussia's alliance with Britain", 'answer_start': 143} |
68,044 | 67,702 | 5a284cb7d1a287001a6d0b21 | generic | The president serves as a chief of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. A prime minister appointed by the president serves as head of government and in turn appoints the Council of Ministers. The unicameral National Assembly is Mali's sole legislative body, consisting of deputies elected to five-year terms... | What is the president had of? | {'text': 'government', 'answer_start': 147} |
123,054 | 122,712 | 5731ce3ab9d445190005e576 | generic | In the course of this religious upheaval, the German Peasants' War of 1524–25 swept through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principalities. After the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries and the French Wars of Religion, the confessional division of the states of the Holy Roman Empire eventually erupted in the Th... | What war was waged from 1618 to 1648? | {'text': "the Thirty Years' War", 'answer_start': 314} |
13,519 | 13,177 | 56df907838dc42170015205a | generic | Some hunter-gatherer cultures, such as the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, lived in particularly rich environments that allowed them to be sedentary or semi-sedentary. | What kind of area allowed a more permanent settlement? | {'text': 'rich environments', 'answer_start': 116} |
78,925 | 78,583 | 5727dd912ca10214002d985a | generic | Albert the Great wrote that wisdom and understanding enhance one's faith in God. According to him, these are the tools that God uses to commune with a contemplative. Love in the soul is both the cause and result of true understanding and judgement. It causes not only an intellectual knowledge of God, but a spiritual an... | What cannot see God itself? | {'text': 'The soul', 'answer_start': 673} |
3,429 | 3,087 | 56cebae8aab44d1400b8893e | generic | In terms of school casualties, thousands of school children died due to shoddy construction. In Mianyang City, seven schools collapsed, burying at least 1,700 people. At least 7,000 school buildings throughout the province collapsed. Another 700 students were buried in a school in Hanwang. At least 600 students and sta... | How many schools collapsed in Mianyang City? | {'text': 'seven', 'answer_start': 111} |
90,649 | 90,307 | 5728a13e3acd2414000dfb9b | generic | Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1878, the instrument's popularity rebounded. The Exposition was one of many stops for a popular new performing group the Estudiantes Españoles (Spanish Students). They danced and played guitars, violins and the bandurria, which became confused with the mandolin. Along with the ene... | When was it said that mandolin's popularity peaked? | {'text': 'early years of the 20th century.', 'answer_start': 640} |
23,375 | 23,033 | 56f7083a711bf01900a448f6 | generic | Modern treaties, regardless of subject matter, usually contain articles governing where the final authentic copies of the treaty will be deposited and how any subsequent disputes as to their interpretation will be peacefully resolved. | What type of resolution to disputes is typically outlined in a treaty? | {'text': 'peaceful', 'answer_start': 214} |
123,164 | 122,822 | 573209dfe17f3d14004225fb | generic | This branch of Protestantism is distinguished by belief in the baptism with the Holy Spirit as an experience separate from conversion that enables a Christian to live a Holy Spirit–filled and empowered life. This empowerment includes the use of spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and divine healing—two other de... | What three things are Pentecostals committed to? | {'text': 'biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous', 'answer_start': 393} |
76,012 | 75,670 | 57278d495951b619008f8d45 | generic | In the United States, botanist Asa Gray an American colleague of Darwin negotiated with a Boston publisher for publication of an authorised American version, but learnt that two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print Origin. Darwin was delighted by the... | Why couldn't Asa Gray use a Boston publisher for an American version of On the Origin of Species? | {'text': 'two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print Origin', 'answer_start': 174} |
117,720 | 117,378 | 5a6541cfc2b11c001a425cfd | generic | Periodically "clean slate" decrees were signed by rulers which cancelled all the rural (but not commercial) debt and allowed bondservants to return to their homes. Customarily rulers did it at the beginning of the first full year of their reign, but they could also be proclaimed at times of military conflict or crop fa... | Who some times cleared commercial debts? | {'text': 'rulers', 'answer_start': 50} |
43,718 | 43,376 | 5ad15364645df0001a2d1784 | generic | A person can be exposed to uranium (or its radioactive daughters, such as radon) by inhaling dust in air or by ingesting contaminated water and food. The amount of uranium in air is usually very small; however, people who work in factories that process phosphate fertilizers, live near government facilities that made or... | What doesn't REL stand for? | {'text': 'recommended exposure limit', 'answer_start': 1000} |
56,069 | 55,727 | 5a1e22e53de3f40018b264e9 | generic | Hokkien, especially Taiwanese, is sometimes written in the Latin script using one of several alphabets. Of these the most popular is Pe̍h-ōe-jī (traditional Chinese: 白話字; simplified Chinese: 白话字; pinyin: Báihuàzì). POJ was developed first by Presbyterian missionaries in China and later by the indigenous Presbyterian Ch... | How long has the mixed script been actively used? | {'text': 'since the late 19th century', 'answer_start': 384} |
100,711 | 100,369 | 572c85fcdfb02c14005c6b9c | generic | Major outputs for the state include textiles, cotton, cattle, and electrical power. Tennessee has over 82,000 farms, roughly 59 percent of which accommodate beef cattle. Although cotton was an early crop in Tennessee, large-scale cultivation of the fiber did not begin until the 1820s with the opening of the land betwee... | Which river landform partly in Tennessee provided the most fertile land for cotton production? | {'text': 'Mississippi Delta', 'answer_start': 383} |
47,586 | 47,244 | 571ddffdb64a571400c71dbd | generic | In their attempt to ensure white supremacy decades after emancipation, in the early 20th century, most southern states created laws based on the one-drop rule, defining as black, persons with any known African ancestry. This was a stricter interpretation than what had prevailed in the 19th century; it ignored the many ... | Prior to the 1900s, what was the socially accepted rule for racial interpretation? | {'text': 'judging a person by appearance and association.', 'answer_start': 399} |
33,852 | 33,510 | 5709adeced30961900e84401 | generic | The Constitution of the United States of America provides that the United States Congress has the power "To coin money". Laws implementing this power are currently codified at 31 U.S.C. § 5112. Section 5112 prescribes the forms, in which the United States dollars should be issued. These coins are both designated in Sec... | What is an example of a copper alloy dollar? | {'text': 'Sacagawea dollar', 'answer_start': 373} |
11,983 | 11,641 | 56df612c96943c1400a5d481 | generic | A band of Middle Devonian limestone runs west to east from Cremyll to Plymstock including the Hoe. Local limestone may be seen in numerous buildings, walls and pavements throughout Plymouth. To the north and north east of the city is the granite mass of Dartmoor; the granite was mined and exported via Plymouth. Rocks b... | What river was used to ferry granite from Dartmoor to Plymouth? | {'text': 'Tamar', 'answer_start': 336} |
124,346 | 124,004 | 57323b8ae17f3d1400422751 | generic | Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group claims a worldwide membership of more than 8.2 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance figures of more than 15 million, and an annual Memorial a... | What are the Jehovah Witnesses? | {'text': 'millenarian restorationist Christian denomination', 'answer_start': 25} |
88,238 | 87,896 | 5ace602d32bba1001ae4a479 | generic | Earthworms are Oligochaetes that support terrestrial food chains both as prey and in some regions are important in aeration and enriching of soil. The burrowing of marine polychaetes, which may constitute up to a third of all species in near-shore environments, encourages the development of ecosystems by enabling water... | How do earthworms ruin the soil they live in? | {'text': 'aeration and enriching', 'answer_start': 115} |
120,850 | 120,508 | 573153a7a5e9cc1400cdbe84 | generic | In China, red (simplified Chinese: 红; traditional Chinese: 紅; pinyin: hóng) is the symbol of fire and the south (both south in general and Southern China specifically). It carries a largely positive connotation, being associated with courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, happiness, passion, and summer. ... | Who wrote the Little Red Book? | {'text': 'Chairman Mao Tse-Tung', 'answer_start': 1068} |
30,546 | 30,204 | 5ad28119d7d075001a4297e0 | generic | Detroit techno is an offshoot of Chicago house music. It was developed starting in the late 80s, one of the earliest hits being "Big Fun" by Inner City. Detroit techno developed as the legendary disc jockey The Electrifying Mojo conducted his own radio program at this time, influencing the fusion of eclectic sounds int... | What was the nickname of Juan Kraftwerk, Derrick Saunderson, and Devin May? | {'text': 'the "godfathers" of Detroit Techno', 'answer_start': 657} |
43,049 | 42,707 | 570e0a430b85d914000d7c8a | generic | The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (also known as the Environmental Protocol or Madrid Protocol) came into force in 1998, and is the main instrument concerned with conservation and management of biodiversity in Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is advised on environment... | What group advises the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting? | {'text': 'Committee for Environmental Protection', 'answer_start': 368} |
83,070 | 82,728 | 5ad2d01cd7d075001a42a332 | generic | Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in addition to numerous club sports. The women's lacrosse team won five consecutive NCAA national championships between 2005 and 2009, went undefeated in 2005 and 2009, added more NCAA championships in 2011 and 2012, giving them 7 NCAA champ... | How many of Southwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances? | {'text': '12', 'answer_start': 552} |
39,838 | 39,496 | 570e66100dc6ce1900205010 | generic | Batman's Treaty with the Aborigines was annulled by the New South Wales governor (who at the time governed all of eastern mainland Australia), with compensation paid to members of the association. In 1836, Governor Bourke declared the city the administrative capital of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, and ... | What was the settlement originally named? | {'text': 'Batmania', 'answer_start': 413} |
93,387 | 93,045 | 57292b1f6aef051400154b1f | generic | The governments in Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg are designated by the term Senate. In the three free states of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia the government is referred to as the State Government (Staatsregierung), and in the other ten states the term Land Government (Landesregierung) is used. Before January 1, 2000, Bav... | How many people are in the executive branch senate in Berlin? | {'text': 'eight', 'answer_start': 716} |
48,476 | 48,134 | 5ad37ba5604f3c001a3fe3ff | generic | The thalidomide tragedy resurrected Kefauver's bill to enhance drug regulation that had stalled in Congress, and the Kefauver-Harris Amendment became law on 10 October 1962. Manufacturers henceforth had to prove to FDA that their drugs were effective as well as safe before they could go on the US market. The FDA receiv... | What did the FDA study discover? | {'text': 'nearly 40 percent of these products were not effective', 'answer_start': 582} |
45,827 | 45,485 | 571047cea58dae1900cd6996 | generic | Enlightenment era religious commentary was a response to the preceding century of religious conflict in Europe, especially the Thirty Years' War. Theologians of the Enlightenment wanted to reform their faith to its generally non-confrontational roots and to limit the capacity for religious controversy to spill over int... | Who dropped any passages dealing with miracles or visitations of angels from his work the Jefferson Bible? | {'text': 'Thomas Jefferson', 'answer_start': 707} |
120,539 | 120,197 | 5ad4c1a75b96ef001a109f60 | generic | Red is the color at the end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange and opposite violet. Red color has a predominant light wavelength of roughly 620–740 nanometres. Red is one of the additive primary colors of visible light, along with green and blue, which in Red Green Blue (RGB) color systems are combined to ... | What is the color opposite orange and next to violet on the spectrum of visible light? | {'text': 'Red', 'answer_start': 0} |
22,450 | 22,108 | 56f756c6a6d7ea1400e171d7 | generic | Some critics express the opinion that it is only from the mid-19th century, and especially in the 20th century, that the score began to hold such a high significance. Previously, improvisation (in preludes, cadenzas and ornaments), rhythmic flexibility (e.g., tempo rubato), improvisatory deviation from the score and or... | A score-centric approach strictly emphasizes what? | {'text': 'block-rhythms', 'answer_start': 817} |
23,143 | 22,801 | 56f8ab6a9b226e1400dd0db7 | generic | During the latter half of the 20th century, a more diverse range of industry also came to the city, including aircraft and car manufacture, cables, electrical engineering products, and petrochemicals. These now exist alongside the city's older industries of the docks, grain milling, and tobacco processing. | What century saw more diverse industries come to Southampton? | {'text': '20th', 'answer_start': 30} |
67,587 | 67,245 | 5726ab0ddd62a815002e8c6a | generic | Switzerland is one of the richest and wealthiest countries in the world. Switzerland ranks top or close to the top in several metrics of national performance, including government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and human development. It has the highest nominal wealth (financia... | What is Switzerland's ranking for per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list? | {'text': 'eighth-highest', 'answer_start': 406} |
102,560 | 102,218 | 572e898bdfa6aa1500f8d0f2 | generic | The events of the summer of 1974 dominate the politics on the island, as well as Greco-Turkish relations. Around 150,000 settlers from Turkey are believed to be living in the north—many of whom were forced from Turkey by the Turkish government—in violation of the Geneva Convention and various UN resolutions. Following ... | How many settlers from Turkey were living in the north? | {'text': '150,000', 'answer_start': 113} |
8,269 | 7,927 | 5ad0030877cf76001a686759 | generic | Under the 1963 constitution, Massamba-Débat was elected President for a five-year term. During Massamba-Débat's term in office the regime adopted "scientific socialism" as the country's constitutional ideology. In 1965, Congo established relations with the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, North Korea and N... | How many Chinese troops were invited into the Congo? | {'text': 'several hundred', 'answer_start': 371} |
37,634 | 37,292 | 5a07c6570ff9ab00181693c0 | generic | The onset of infrared is defined (according to different standards) at various values typically between 700 nm and 800 nm, but the boundary between visible and infrared light is not precisely defined. The human eye is markedly less sensitive to light above 700 nm wavelength, so longer wavelengths make insignificant con... | What is the defined boundary between visible and infrared light? | {'text': 'at various values typically between 700 nm and 800 nm', 'answer_start': 68} |
104,111 | 103,769 | 5acd8b8b07355d001abf46aa | generic | In the Soviet Union, in the 1970s, a comparison was made between systems electrified at 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC (50 Hz). The results showed that percentage losses in the overhead wires (catenary and contact wires) was over 3 times greater for 3 kV DC than for 25 kV AC. But when the conversion losses were all taken into ac... | Most of the conversion for the DC program took place inside what? | {'text': 'the locomotive', 'answer_start': 960} |
35,068 | 34,726 | 5a3976a52f14dd001ac7234c | generic | Everton have a large fanbase, with the eighth highest average attendance in the Premier League in the 2008–09 season. The majority of Everton's matchday support comes from the North West of England, primarily Merseyside, Cheshire, West Lancashire and parts of Western Greater Manchester along with many fans who travel f... | What's the official supporters club for Liverpool F.C.? | {'text': 'FOREVERTON', 'answer_start': 812} |
96,886 | 96,544 | 572a6389d562191400bc86ae | generic | Ottoman cuisine refers to the cuisine of the capital, Istanbul, and the regional capital cities, where the melting pot of cultures created a common cuisine that most of the population regardless of ethnicity shared. This diverse cuisine was honed in the Imperial Palace's kitchens by chefs brought from certain parts of ... | Preparing food at the Yalıs of the Pashas was one way Ottoman Cuisine might spread to whom? | {'text': 'the population', 'answer_start': 443} |
16,280 | 15,938 | 56e0fb41231d4119001ac52d | generic | The circumlunar program (Zond), created by Vladimir Chelomey's design bureau OKB-52, was to fly two cosmonauts in a stripped-down Soyuz 7K-L1, launched by Chelomey's Proton UR-500 rocket. The Zond sacrificed habitable cabin volume for equipment, by omitting the Soyuz orbital module. Chelomey gained favor with Khruschev... | Which type of craft were two astronauts to fly in during Zond? | {'text': 'Soyuz 7K-L1', 'answer_start': 130} |
123,792 | 123,450 | 5a7b578321c2de001afe9f10 | generic | In 2010 Piraeus handled 513,319 TEUs, followed by Thessaloniki, which handled 273,282 TEUs. In the same year, 83.9 million people passed through Greece's ports, 12.7 million through the port of Paloukia in Salamis, another 12.7 through the port of Perama, 9.5 million through Piraeus and 2.7 million through Igoumenitsa.... | What organization is owned by Pier II in Piraeus? | {'text': 'COSCO', 'answer_start': 486} |
1,126 | 784 | 56cf5734aab44d1400b8907c | generic | At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Fr... | What year did Chopin become a citizen of France? | {'text': '1835', 'answer_start': 415} |
1,581 | 1,239 | 56cfe6cf234ae51400d9c03b | generic | In London Chopin took lodgings at Dover Street, where the firm of Broadwood provided him with a grand piano. At his first engagement, on 15 May at Stafford House, the audience included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The Prince, who was himself a talented musician, moved close to the keyboard to view Chopin's techniq... | Where did Chopin stay while in London? | {'text': 'Dover Street', 'answer_start': 34} |
89,706 | 89,364 | 5728d51a4b864d1900164f07 | generic | The Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonian: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, EKA) is providing higher education in art, design, architecture, media, art history and conservation while Viljandi Culture Academy of University of Tartu has an approach to popularise native culture through such curricula as native construction, native bla... | What institute promotes awareness of native culture? | {'text': 'Viljandi Culture Academy of University of Tartu', 'answer_start': 170} |
111,858 | 111,516 | 5733eeae4776f41900661544 | generic | The Premier League has the highest revenue of any football league in the world, with total club revenues of €2.48 billion in 2009–10. In 2013–14, due to improved television revenues and cost controls, the Premier League had net profits in excess of £78 million, exceeding all other football leagues. In 2010 the Premier ... | What were the total revenues of the Premier League in the 2009-10 season? | {'text': '€2.48 billion', 'answer_start': 108} |
84,714 | 84,372 | 5a610e97e9e1cc001a33ce6d | generic | Maintaining continuity with his predecessors, John XXIII continued the gradual reform of the Roman liturgy, and published changes that resulted in the 1962 Roman Missal, the last typical edition containing the Tridentine Mass established in 1570 by Pope Pius V at the request of the Council of Trent and whose continued ... | Why did Pope John XXIII establish the Tridentine Mass? | {'text': 'at the request of the Council of Trent', 'answer_start': 261} |
65,477 | 65,135 | 5727a9fa4b864d19001639e7 | 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 was the second time period that a significant change began to happen in Cubism? | {'text': 'between 1917 and 1920', 'answer_start': 248} |
105,784 | 105,442 | 5a87ad601d3cee001a6a12ce | generic | Ion gauges are used in ultrahigh vacuum. They come in two types: hot cathode and cold cathode. In the hot cathode version an electrically heated filament produces an electron beam. The electrons travel through the gauge and ionize gas molecules around them. The resulting ions are collected at a negative electrode. The ... | What are the two types of mass spectrometers? | {'text': 'hot cathode and cold cathode', 'answer_start': 65} |
91,495 | 91,153 | 57291d851d0469140077906b | generic | In his 2003 paper, "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy", A. W. F. Edwards argued that rather than using a locus-by-locus analysis of variation to derive taxonomy, it is possible to construct a human classification system based on characteristic genetic patterns, or clusters inferred from multilocus genetic dat... | What type of classification system for humans did A.W.F. Edwards argue for? | {'text': 'characteristic genetic patterns', 'answer_start': 239} |
111,691 | 111,349 | 572fc024a23a5019007fc956 | generic | The managing director of London Weekend Television (LWT), Greg Dyke, met with the representatives of the "big five" football clubs in England in 1990. The meeting was to pave the way for a break away from The Football League. Dyke believed that it would be more lucrative for LWT if only the larger clubs in the country ... | Why did Dyke only want the larger clubs featured on national television? | {'text': 'Dyke believed that it would be more lucrative for LWT if only the larger clubs in the country were featured on national television', 'answer_start': 226} |
90,595 | 90,253 | 5ad16e61645df0001a2d1afd | generic | Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard (the top). Pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, which exert more press... | What was louder than modern instruments? | {'text': 'Pre-mandolin instruments', 'answer_start': 71} |
27,824 | 27,482 | 56fae9108f12f319006302b3 | generic | During regular, day-to-day activities, Somali women usually wear the guntiino, a long stretch of cloth tied over the shoulder and draped around the waist. It is usually made out of alandi, which is a textile common in the Horn region and some parts of North Africa. The garment can be worn in different styles. It can al... | What is the underskirt of the dirac called? | {'text': 'the gorgorad', 'answer_start': 660} |
77,772 | 77,430 | 5a824e8131013a001a3353ce | generic | TCM's library of films spans several decades of cinema and includes thousands of film titles. Besides its deals to broadcast film releases from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies also maintains movie licensing rights agreements with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Cent... | What spans several decades of agreements? | {'text': "TCM's library of films", 'answer_start': 0} |
48,143 | 47,801 | 571ced8fdd7acb1400e4c1aa | generic | By the 1890s the profound effect of adrenal extracts on many different tissue types had been discovered, setting off a search both for the mechanism of chemical signalling and efforts to exploit these observations for the development of new drugs. The blood pressure raising and vasoconstrictive effects of adrenal extra... | In what year was epinephrine discovered? | {'text': '1897', 'answer_start': 540} |
93,218 | 92,876 | 5a4731935fd40d001a27dd6d | generic | Federalism is one of the entrenched constitutional principles of Germany. According to the German constitution (called Grundgesetz or in English Basic Law), some topics, such as foreign affairs and defense, are the exclusive responsibility of the federation (i.e., the federal level), while others fall under the shared ... | What do the states have exclusive responsibility of? | {'text': 'foreign affairs and defense', 'answer_start': 178} |
54,138 | 53,796 | 5726bcb2708984140094cfb5 | generic | Meanwhile, U.S. garrisons in Japan continually dispatched soldiers and matériel to reinforce defenders in the Pusan Perimeter. Tank battalions deployed to Korea directly from the U.S. mainland from the port of San Francisco to the port of Pusan, the largest Korean port. By late August, the Pusan Perimeter had some 500 ... | Where in the United States was the tank battalion located? | {'text': 'San Francisco', 'answer_start': 210} |
130,599 | 130,257 | 5a7dcd9270df9f001a8751bf | generic | In bulk, matter can exist in several different forms, or states of aggregation, known as phases, depending on ambient pressure, temperature and volume. A phase is a form of matter that has a relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (such as density, specific heat, refractive index, and so forth).... | How many phases are there total? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 346} |
113,099 | 112,757 | 5ad4c8cc5b96ef001a10a07d | generic | The climate in San Diego, like most of Southern California, often varies significantly over short geographical distances resulting in microclimates. In San Diego, this is mostly because of the city's topography (the Bay, and the numerous hills, mountains, and canyons). Frequently, particularly during the "May gray/June... | What is the average January high temperature in downtown San Diego? | {'text': '50 °F (10 °C)', 'answer_start': 881} |
2,235 | 1,893 | 56cc88386d243a140015f000 | generic | iPods with color displays use anti-aliased graphics and text, with sliding animations. All iPods (except the 3rd-generation iPod Shuffle, the 6th & 7th generation iPod Nano, and iPod Touch) have five buttons and the later generations have the buttons integrated into the click wheel – an innovation that gives an unclutt... | What other device shares the interface used by the iPod Touch? | {'text': 'iPhone', 'answer_start': 1084} |
18,364 | 18,022 | 56e3bb5d39bdeb14003478d5 | generic | The two different historical Estonian languages (sometimes considered dialects), the North and South Estonian languages, are based on the ancestors of modern Estonians' migration into the territory of Estonia in at least two different waves, both groups speaking considerably different Finnic vernaculars. Modern standar... | What are the names of the two separate Estonian languages? | {'text': 'North and South Estonian languages', 'answer_start': 85} |
36,883 | 36,541 | 5ad1737c645df0001a2d1c42 | generic | The United States originally wished to remain neutral when World War I broke out in August 1914. However, it insisted on its right as a neutral party to immunity from German submarine attack, even though its ships carried food and raw materials to Britain. In 1917 the Germans resumed submarine attacks, knowing that it ... | When World War I started, what was the official UK position? | {'text': 'neutral', 'answer_start': 46} |
124,992 | 124,650 | 57325fade17f3d14004228fa | generic | Due to a complete estrangement between the two as a result of campaigning, Truman and Eisenhower had minimal discussions about the transition of administrations. After selecting his budget director, Joseph M. Dodge, Eisenhower asked Herbert Brownell and Lucius Clay to make recommendations for his cabinet appointments. ... | Who was Eisenhower's budget director? | {'text': 'Joseph M. Dodge', 'answer_start': 199} |
84,219 | 83,877 | 5727f5c13acd2414000df0cd | generic | In the 1950 parliamentary elections, the Wafd Party of el-Nahhas gained a victory—mostly due to the absence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which boycotted the elections—and was perceived as a threat by the Free Officers as the Wafd had campaigned on demands similar to their own. Accusations of corruption against Wafd polit... | What group boycotted the 1950 elections? | {'text': 'Muslim Brotherhood', 'answer_start': 115} |
380 | 38 | 56d43f7e2ccc5a1400d830cb | generic | A self-described "modern-day feminist", Beyoncé creates songs that are often characterized by themes of love, relationships, and monogamy, as well as female sexuality and empowerment. On stage, her dynamic, highly choreographed performances have led to critics hailing her as one of the best entertainers in contemporary... | What magazine named Beyoncé as the most powerful female musician for 2015? | {'text': 'Forbes', 'answer_start': 985} |
110,786 | 110,444 | 572fe57704bcaa1900d76e73 | generic | Each species of pathogen has a characteristic spectrum of interactions with its human hosts. Some organisms, such as Staphylococcus or Streptococcus, can cause skin infections, pneumonia, meningitis and even overwhelming sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response producing shock, massive vasodilation and death. Yet these... | How pathogenes interact with it's human host? | {'text': 'pathogen has a characteristic spectrum of interactions', 'answer_start': 16} |
21,010 | 20,668 | 56e7b37437bdd419002c4398 | generic | The NFL Network ceased airing Arena Football League games partway through the 2012 season as a result of ongoing labor problems within the league. Briefly, the games were broadcast on a tape delay to prevent the embarrassment that would result should the players stage a work stoppage immediately prior to a scheduled br... | Why did the NFL Network begin to broadcast games again? | {'text': 'the labor issues were resolved', 'answer_start': 506} |
66,183 | 65,841 | 5a81c18c31013a001a334e55 | generic | The Assembly consisted of nine seats, with electors casting nine equal votes, of which no more than two could be given to any individual candidate. It is a method of voting called a "weighted first past the post system". Four of the members of the Assembly formed the Executive Council, which devised policy and acted as... | How many seats does the Assembly of Norfolk Island eliminate? | {'text': 'nine', 'answer_start': 26} |
60,497 | 60,155 | 5a5fd1bbeae51e001ab14c8f | generic | Goodman, now disconnected from Marvel, set up a new company called Seaboard Periodicals in 1974, reviving Marvel's old Atlas name for a new Atlas Comics line, but this lasted only a year and a half. In the mid-1970s a decline of the newsstand distribution network affected Marvel. Cult hits such as Howard the Duck fell ... | The mid-1970s brought what favourable change for Marvel? | {'text': 'newsstand distribution', 'answer_start': 233} |
68,886 | 68,544 | 5726fd0f5951b619008f8423 | generic | Believing the northern approaches to the city too well defended, especially due to the presence of a large star fort and because Sevastopol was on the south side of the inlet from the sea that made the harbour, Sir John Burgoyne, the engineer advisor, recommended that the allies attack Sevastopol from the south. This w... | When did the army march to the southeast? | {'text': '25 September', 'answer_start': 384} |
86,141 | 85,799 | 5ad34254604f3c001a3fdc09 | generic | PlayStation 3 console protects certain types of data and uses digital rights management to limit the data's use. Purchased games and content from the PlayStation Network store are governed by PlayStation's Network Digital Rights Management (NDRM). The NDRM allows users to access the data from up to 2 different PlayStat... | How many same PS3s can one user access? | {'text': '2', 'answer_start': 300} |
127,503 | 127,161 | 57336cced058e614000b5ad0 | generic | On 7 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both St. Barthélemy and (separately) to the neighbouring Saint Martin. The new status took effect on 15 July 2007, when the first territorial council was elected, according to the law. The island has a president (elected every five years), a... | How many years does a president have in office in St. Barts? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 306} |
85,673 | 85,331 | 5a62844ef8d794001af1c090 | generic | St. John's is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway, one of the longest national highways in the world. The divided highway, also known as "Outer Ring Road" in the city, runs just outside the main part of the city, with exits to Pitts Memorial Drive, Topsail Road, Team Gushue Highway, Thorburn Road, Allandal... | What is the longest national highway in the world? | {'text': 'Trans-Canada Highway', 'answer_start': 42} |
109,586 | 109,244 | 5acd38ac07355d001abf3984 | generic | Spinal cord fibers dedicated to carrying A-delta fiber pain signals, and others that carry both A-delta and C fiber pain signals up the spinal cord to the thalamus in the brain have been identified. Other spinal cord fibers, known as wide dynamic range neurons, respond to A-delta and C fibers, but also to the large A-b... | Whose 1986 picture of pain is influential today? | {'text': 'Melzack and Casey', 'answer_start': 788} |
102,776 | 102,434 | 57318c2ca5e9cc1400cdc02d | generic | In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the photography merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to a magazine interviewer, "My dad's still-camera was broken, so I asked the scoutmaster if I could tell a story with my father's movie... | What film led to Close Encounters? | {'text': 'Firelight', 'answer_start': 797} |
98,792 | 98,450 | 572ab1b4f75d5e190021fc44 | generic | Kerry was arrested on May 30, 1971, during a VVAW march to honor American POWs held captive by North Vietnam. The march was planned as a multi-day event from Concord to Boston, and while in Lexington, participants tried to camp on the village green. At 2:30 a.m., local and state police arrested 441 demonstrators, inclu... | How many people were arrested with Kerry? | {'text': '441', 'answer_start': 296} |
45,894 | 45,552 | 57108677a58dae1900cd6a03 | generic | Hume and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed a 'science of man', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behaved in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awaren... | Whose philosophical concepts directly influenceed James Madison and thus the U.S. Constitution? | {'text': 'Hume', 'answer_start': 424} |
108,339 | 107,997 | 572f1c4203f9891900756b9a | generic | The earliest known macrofossil confidently identified as an angiosperm, Archaefructus liaoningensis, is dated to about 125 million years BP (the Cretaceous period), whereas pollen considered to be of angiosperm origin takes the fossil record back to about 130 million years BP. However, one study has suggested that the ... | What is the earliest known angiosperm? | {'text': 'Archaefructus liaoningensis', 'answer_start': 72} |
127,291 | 126,949 | 5a69a4ed5ce1a5001a969652 | generic | Jonassohn and Björnson postulate that the major reason why no single generally accepted genocide definition has emerged is because academics have adjusted their focus to emphasise different periods and have found it expedient to use slightly different definitions to help them interpret events. For example, Frank Chalk ... | Two women and what man concentrated on academic paradigms? | {'text': 'Ted Gurr', 'answer_start': 503} |
103,722 | 103,380 | 572ea4b0c246551400ce4458 | generic | In 2007, it was discovered that the upper troposphere of Neptune's south pole was about 10 K warmer than the rest of its atmosphere, which averages approximately 73 K (−200 °C). The temperature differential is enough to let methane, which elsewhere is frozen in the troposphere, escape into the stratosphere near the pol... | How much warmer is Neptune's south pole to the rest of it's atmosphere? | {'text': '10 K', 'answer_start': 88} |
75,356 | 75,014 | 57279e5bff5b5019007d912d | generic | In 2001, a voluntary agreement called the Harkin-Engel Protocol, was accepted by the international cocoa and chocolate industry to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, as defined by ILO's Convention 182, in West Africa. This agreement created a foundation named International Cocoa Initiative in 2002. The foundati... | What was the foundation that was the direct result of the agreement? | {'text': 'International Cocoa Initiative', 'answer_start': 268} |
29,824 | 29,482 | 570621a675f01819005e79d7 | generic | From May 13 to May 16 in 1929, Johnson hosted a conference for organized crime figures from all across America. The men who called this meeting were Masseria family lieutenant Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss Johnny "the Fox" Torrio, with heads of the Bugs and Meyer Mob, Meyer Lansky and ... | What was Charles Luciano's nickname? | {'text': 'Lucky', 'answer_start': 185} |
53,518 | 53,176 | 5acd1b6207355d001abf3556 | generic | Arsenal have appeared in a number of media "firsts". On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. A decade later, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and the reserves was the first football match... | In what stadium was Arsenal playing in for the first televised game? | {'text': 'Highbury', 'answer_start': 88} |
88,438 | 88,096 | 5728318bff5b5019007d9ed2 | generic | Earthworms make a significant contribution to soil fertility. The rear end of the Palolo worm, a marine polychaete that tunnels through coral, detaches in order to spawn at the surface, and the people of Samoa regard these spawning modules as a delicacy. Anglers sometimes find that worms are more effective bait than ar... | What type of worm have there been proposals to farm? | {'text': 'Ragworms', 'answer_start': 406} |
122,423 | 122,081 | 5731a8f7e17f3d14004222d0 | generic | YouTube has enabled people to more directly engage with government, such as in the CNN/YouTube presidential debates (2007) in which ordinary people submitted questions to U.S. presidential candidates via YouTube video, with a techPresident co-founder saying that Internet video was changing the political landscape. Desc... | Who was the co-sponsor of the condemnation by the US Senate over the kony 2012 video? | {'text': 'Senator Lindsey Graham', 'answer_start': 746} |
56,736 | 56,394 | 57267e13f1498d1400e8e1a1 | generic | The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District is formed, as it is the case in all legislatures in Mexico, by both single-seat and proportional seats, making it a system of parallel voting. The Federal District is divided into 40 electoral constituencies of similar population which elect one representative by first-p... | How many representatives make up the Federal District? | {'text': '26', 'answer_start': 483} |
32,351 | 32,009 | 5a14a3c2a54d4200185292d2 | generic | As a non-directive and flexible analytical tool, the concept of boundaries helps both to map and to define the changeability and mutability that are characteristic of people's experiences of the self in society. While identity is a volatile, flexible and abstract 'thing', its manifestations and the ways in which it is ... | What do boundaries help create? | {'text': 'Markers', 'answer_start': 528} |
43,961 | 43,619 | 5ad1542d645df0001a2d179e | generic | Most ingested uranium is excreted during digestion. Only 0.5% is absorbed when insoluble forms of uranium, such as its oxide, are ingested, whereas absorption of the more soluble uranyl ion can be up to 5%. However, soluble uranium compounds tend to quickly pass through the body, whereas insoluble uranium compounds, es... | What happens to a minority of ingested uranium? | {'text': 'excreted', 'answer_start': 25} |
90,907 | 90,565 | 5ad231f3d7d075001a428745 | generic | Instruments were marketed by teacher-dealers, much as the title character in the popular musical The Music Man. Often, these teacher-dealers conducted mandolin orchestras: groups of 4-50 musicians who played various mandolin family instruments. However, alongside the teacher-dealers were serious musicians, working to c... | What did these student-dealers often conduct? | {'text': 'mandolin orchestras', 'answer_start': 151} |
119,323 | 118,981 | 57311faae6313a140071cc54 | generic | Phosphor-based LED efficiency losses are due to the heat loss from the Stokes shift and also other phosphor-related degradation issues. Their luminous efficacies compared to normal LEDs depend on the spectral distribution of the resultant light output and the original wavelength of the LED itself. For example, the lumi... | What type of emitter is used in phosphor-based white LED methods? | {'text': 'monochrome', 'answer_start': 765} |
80,694 | 80,352 | 5acd1db907355d001abf35a7 | generic | Unicode defines two mapping methods: the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings. An encoding maps (possibly a subset of) the range of Unicode code points to sequences of values in some fixed-size range, termed code values. The numbers in the names of the enc... | What maps an encoding? | {'text': 'the range of Unicode code points', 'answer_start': 183} |
71,471 | 71,129 | 5ad28e3cd7d075001a429a42 | generic | In response to the publication of the secret protocols and other secret German–Soviet relations documents in the State Department edition Nazi–Soviet Relations (1948), Stalin published Falsifiers of History, which included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's claim to share in a divisio... | How long did Stalins version of what happened between the British and the Soviets last? | {'text': "until the Soviet Union's dissolution", 'answer_start': 527} |
57,048 | 56,706 | 5726625e5951b619008f711a | generic | Two days after the marriage, Bonaparte left Paris to take command of the Army of Italy. He immediately went on the offensive, hoping to defeat the forces of Piedmont before their Austrian allies could intervene. In a series of rapid victories during the Montenotte Campaign, he knocked Piedmont out of the war in two wee... | In which series of battles did Napoleon eliminate the forces of Piedmont from the war? | {'text': 'the Montenotte Campaign', 'answer_start': 250} |
67,548 | 67,206 | 5ad16cf3645df0001a2d1ac8 | generic | The brushless wound-rotor synchronous doubly-fed (BWRSDF) machine is the only electric machine with a truly dual ported transformer circuit topology (i.e., both ports independently excited with no short-circuited port). The dual ported transformer circuit topology is known to be unstable and requires a multiphase slip-... | How doesn't a brushless wound rotor achieve stability? | {'text': 'multiphase slip-ring-brush assembly to propagate limited power to the rotor winding set', 'answer_start': 304} |
41,810 | 41,468 | 5aceb7e032bba1001ae4b170 | generic | The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United... | How many uniformed services are there in Canada? | {'text': 'seven', 'answer_start': 147} |
45,895 | 45,553 | 57108677a58dae1900cd6a04 | generic | Hume and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed a 'science of man', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behaved in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awaren... | Who popularised Hume's philosophical concepts? | {'text': 'Dugald Stewart', 'answer_start': 548} |
36,332 | 35,990 | 5a1f824b54a786001a36b2f3 | generic | Typical use of the various technologies described above include calling or conferencing on a one-on-one, one-to-many or many-to-many basis for personal, business, educational, deaf Video Relay Service and tele-medical, diagnostic and rehabilitative use or services. New services utilizing videocalling and videoconferenc... | What services do inmates incarcerated in penitentiaries use? | {'text': 'videocalling and videoconferencing', 'answer_start': 289} |
103,487 | 103,145 | 5aceddfb32bba1001ae4b7aa | generic | Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was su... | Who didn't discover Neptune? | {'text': 'Alexis Bouvard', 'answer_start': 202} |
114,192 | 113,850 | 5acd9f2e07355d001abf484c | generic | There are two sovereign states in the isles: Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ireland, sometimes called the Republic of Ireland, governs five sixths of the island of Ireland, with the remainder of the island forming Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom ... | For legislative purposes, Scotland, Southern Ireland, England and Wales form what? | {'text': 'separate legal jurisdiction', 'answer_start': 1377} |
19,594 | 19,252 | 5a78bef6b73996001af5b029 | generic | RIBA Enterprises is the commercial arm of RIBA, with a registered office in Newcastle upon Tyne, a base at 15 Bonhill Street in London, and an office in Newark. It employs over 250 staff, approximately 180 of whom are based in Newcastle. | How many people quit working for RIBA Enterprises? | {'text': 'over 250', 'answer_start': 172} |
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