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9,405 | 9,063 | 56de418fcffd8e1900b4b71e | generic | Amensalism is the type of relationship that exists where one species is inhibited or completely obliterated and one is unaffected. This type of symbiosis is relatively uncommon in rudimentary reference texts, but is omnipresent in the natural world.[citation needed] There are two types of amensalism, competition and an... | What is the name for the kind of symbiosis in which one organism is seriously harmed and there is no affect on the other? | {'text': 'Amensalism', 'answer_start': 0} |
55,663 | 55,321 | 5726635ddd62a815002e8364 | generic | In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament. The company sought a permanent establishment, while the Parliament would not willingly allow it greater autonomy and so relinquish the opportunity to exploit the company's profits. In 1712, another act renewed the status ... | Who argued against parliament on the trade issue that involded the East India Company | {'text': 'company lobby', 'answer_start': 65} |
73,090 | 72,748 | 5727d82a3acd2414000dedea | generic | In Europe, rates of tuberculosis began to rise in the early 1600s to a peak level in the 1800s, when it caused nearly 25% of all deaths. By the 1950s, mortality had decreased nearly 90%. Improvements in public health began significantly reducing rates of tuberculosis even before the arrival of streptomycin and other an... | When tuberculosis was at its worst in Europe, what percentage of deaths was TB-related? | {'text': '25%', 'answer_start': 118} |
95,853 | 95,511 | 5a68e03e8476ee001a58a81a | generic | IBM acquired Kenexa (2012) and SPSS (2009) and PwC's consulting business (2002), spinning off companies like printer manufacturer Lexmark (1991), and selling off product lines like its personal computer and x86 server businesses to Lenovo (2005, 2014). In 2014, IBM announced that it would go "fabless" by offloading IBM... | In what year did Lexmark acquire Kenexa? | {'text': '(2012)', 'answer_start': 20} |
39,301 | 38,959 | 5ad3a216604f3c001a3fea13 | generic | FBI Directors are appointed by the President of the United States. They must be confirmed by the United States Senate and serve a term of office of five years, with a maximum of ten years, if reappointed, unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends. J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by Calvin Cooli... | Who appoints the President of the United States? | {'text': 'FBI Directors', 'answer_start': 0} |
33,824 | 33,482 | 5a8cc8f2fd22b3001a8d8e66 | generic | Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ₥), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ¢), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dolla... | What is the Union based upon? | {'text': 'a decimal system of values', 'answer_start': 63} |
25,718 | 25,376 | 56f94c019b226e1400dd1301 | generic | 40°48′27″N 73°57′18″W / 40.8076°N 73.9549°W / 40.8076; -73.9549 120th Street traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem. It begins on Riverside Drive at the Interchurch Center. It then runs east between the campuses of Barnard College and the Union Theological Seminary, then cross... | Who formerly lived at 58 West? | {'text': 'Maya Angelou', 'answer_start': 589} |
39,053 | 38,711 | 5ad38f7f604f3c001a3fe621 | generic | On July 8, 2007 The Washington Post published excerpts from UCLA Professor Amy Zegart's book Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. The Post reported from Zegart's book that government documents show the CIA and FBI missed 23 potential chances to disrupt the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Th... | What two agencies cooperated well together? | {'text': 'FBI, CIA', 'answer_start': 494} |
102,917 | 102,575 | 5ad4c1195b96ef001a109f51 | generic | Spielberg's next film, Schindler's List, was based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a man who risked his life to save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust. Schindler's List earned Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director (it also won Best Picture). With the film a huge success at the box office, Spielberg used... | How many Holocaust survivors have filmed testimony for the Shoah Foundation? | {'text': '1,100', 'answer_start': 123} |
104,971 | 104,629 | 572f6c2ba23a5019007fc5fc | generic | A major problem in the managing of the Luftwaffe was Hermann Göring. Hitler believed the Luftwaffe was "the most effective strategic weapon", and in reply to repeated requests from the Kriegsmarine for control over aircraft insisted, "We should never have been able to hold our own in this war if we had not had an undiv... | What strategy could have worked against the British Empire? | {'text': 'strangle British sea communications', 'answer_start': 995} |
484 | 142 | 56bf91c6a10cfb1400551181 | generic | In November 2003, she embarked on the Dangerously in Love Tour in Europe and later toured alongside Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys for the Verizon Ladies First Tour in North America. On February 1, 2004, Beyoncé performed the American national anthem at Super Bowl XXXVIII, at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. After... | What was the name of the final album of Destiny's Child? | {'text': 'Destiny Fulfilled', 'answer_start': 664} |
129,632 | 129,290 | 5734465d879d6814001ca464 | generic | Hunter-gathering lifestyles remained prevalent in some parts of the New World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Siberia, as well as all of Australia, until the European Age of Discovery. They still persist in some tribal societies, albeit in rapid decline. Peoples that preserved paleolithic hunting-gathering until the recent pa... | Where does the hunter-gathering lifestyle persist, though in decline? | {'text': 'some tribal societies', 'answer_start': 200} |
120,469 | 120,127 | 57318951497a881900248fe9 | generic | About 5% of the Nicaraguan population are indigenous. The largest indigenous group in Nicaragua is the Miskito people. Their territory extended from Cape Camarón, Honduras, to Rio Grande, Nicaragua along the Mosquito Coast. There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak Miskito Coast Creole, Spanish, Rama a... | How did Creole English come about? | {'text': 'frequent contact with the British', 'answer_start': 378} |
12,085 | 11,743 | 56df705556340a1900b29b5d | generic | A regular international ferry service provided by Brittany Ferries operates from Millbay taking cars and foot passengers directly to France (Roscoff) and Spain (Santander) on the three ferries, MV Armorique, MV Bretagne and MV Pont-Aven. There is a passenger ferry between Stonehouse and the Cornish hamlet of Cremyll, w... | A passenger ferry operates between Cremyll and what location? | {'text': 'Stonehouse', 'answer_start': 273} |
33,189 | 32,847 | 570985f3ed30961900e84272 | generic | Orthodox Judaism holds that on Mount Sinai, the Written Law was transmitted along with an Oral Law. The words of the Torah (Pentateuch) were spoken to Moses by God; the laws contained in this Written Torah, the "Mitzvot", were given along with detailed explanations in the oral tradition as to how to apply and interpret... | Where was the written law and the oral law transmitted? | {'text': 'Mount Sinai', 'answer_start': 31} |
67,274 | 66,932 | 5726a8565951b619008f7948 | generic | Application of electric motors revolutionized industry. Industrial processes were no longer limited by power transmission using line shafts, belts, compressed air or hydraulic pressure. Instead every machine could be equipped with its own electric motor, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power t... | In what domain did electric motors reduce reliance on humans and animals? | {'text': 'agriculture', 'answer_start': 371} |
124,507 | 124,165 | 5732480e0fdd8d15006c68e3 | generic | Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is God's only direct creation, that everything else was created by means of Christ, and that the initial unassisted act of creation uniquely identifies Jesus as God's "only-begotten Son". Jesus served as a redeemer and a ransom sacrifice to pay for the sins of humanity. They belie... | What do Jehovah Witnesses believe Jesus died on rather than a traditional cross? | {'text': 'a single upright post', 'answer_start': 337} |
115,970 | 115,628 | 5730368a04bcaa1900d77381 | generic | Exceptions to the restrictions faced by Windows Store apps are given to web browsers. The user's default browser can distribute a Metro-style web browser in same package as the desktop version, which has access to functionality unavailable to other apps, such as being able to permanently run in the background, use mult... | What different options did the desktop version have? | {'text': 'able to permanently run in the background, use multiple background processes, and use Windows API code', 'answer_start': 269} |
38,436 | 38,094 | 570c0ad6ec8fbc190045bc29 | generic | According to FIG rules, only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics. This is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus; ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope—on a floor area, with a much gr... | What does rhythmic gymastics combine together? | {'text': 'ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation', 'answer_start': 109} |
79,681 | 79,339 | 5a7e703248f7d9001a0636f1 | generic | The retail trade in Cork city includes a mix of both modern, state of the art shopping centres and family owned local shops. Department stores cater for all budgets, with expensive boutiques for one end of the market and high street stores also available. Shopping centres can be found in many of Cork's suburbs, includi... | What is Opera Lane considered after Dublin Grafton Street? | {'text': 'the most expensive street in the country per sq. metre', 'answer_start': 872} |
11,759 | 11,417 | 56dec2c73277331400b4d717 | generic | In its April 2010 report, Progressive ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Schwarzenegger one of 11 "worst governors" in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Schwarzenegger's term as governor. | What group awarded Schwarzenegger the title of one of the 11 "worst governors" in a 2010 report? | {'text': 'Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington', 'answer_start': 60} |
113,867 | 113,525 | 573032da947a6a140053d279 | generic | In 2004, a large share of natural gas reserves in Iran were untapped. The addition of new hydroelectric stations and the streamlining of conventional coal and oil-fired stations increased installed capacity to 33,000 megawatts. Of that amount, about 75% was based on natural gas, 18% on oil, and 7% on hydroelectric powe... | When did Iran open its first geothermal plants? | {'text': '2004', 'answer_start': 326} |
35,040 | 34,698 | 5a396a1b2f14dd001ac72301 | generic | In May 2013, the club launched a new crest to improve the reproducibility of the design in print and broadcast media, particularly on a small scale. Critics[who?] suggested that it was external pressure from sports manufacturers Nike, Inc. that evoked the redesign as the number of colours has been reduced and the radia... | What percentage of people had a positive response to the new crest, as opposed to those who were negative or indifferent? | {'text': '91%', 'answer_start': 511} |
124,669 | 124,327 | 5ad3e322604f3c001a3ff54b | generic | A sociological comparative study by the Pew Research Center found that Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States ranked highest in statistics for getting no further than high school graduation, belief in God, importance of religion in one's life, frequency of religious attendance, frequency of prayers, frequency of Bibl... | What is one of the Protestant religions that encourages people to be engaged in politics? | {'text': "Jehovah's Witnesses", 'answer_start': 71} |
79,706 | 79,364 | 5a7e755348f7d9001a06370a | generic | The city is also home to the Heineken Brewery that brews Murphy's Irish Stout and the nearby Beamish and Crawford brewery (taken over by Heineken in 2008) which have been in the city for generations. 45% of the world's Tic Tac sweets are manufactured at the city's Ferrero factory. For many years, Cork was the home to F... | How many people in the city drink Heineken? | {'text': '45%', 'answer_start': 200} |
109,984 | 109,642 | 572f62ff947a6a140053c90c | generic | Tucson (/ˈtuːsɒn/ /tuːˈsɒn/) is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona. The 2010 United States Census put the population at 520,116, while the 2013 estimated population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 996,544. The Tucson MSA ... | What was the estimated population of the entire Tuscan area in 2013? | {'text': '996,544', 'answer_start': 296} |
45,726 | 45,384 | 5710224aa58dae1900cd68d8 | generic | Since 1642 (in the 13 colonies, the United States under the Articles of Confederation, and the current United States) an estimated 364 juvenile offenders have been put to death by the states and the federal government. The earliest known execution of a prisoner for crimes committed as a juvenile was Thomas Graunger in ... | About how many American juveniles have been executed since 1642? | {'text': '364', 'answer_start': 131} |
103,416 | 103,074 | 572f0356dfa6aa1500f8d563 | generic | There are several technologies aimed to provide better experience to passengers suffering from claustrophobia, anthropophobia or social anxiety. Israeli startup DigiGage uses motion sensors to scroll the pre-rendered images, building and floor-specific content on a screen embedded into the wall as the cab moves up and ... | New technologies aim to provide a better elevator experience to passengers who suffer from what? | {'text': 'claustrophobia, anthropophobia or social anxiety', 'answer_start': 95} |
58,419 | 58,077 | 5ad0a760645df0001a2cffb6 | generic | The Grands Magasins Dufayel was a huge department store with inexpensive prices built in 1890 in the northern part of Paris, where it reached a very large new customer base in the working class. In a neighborhood with few public spaces, it provided a consumer version of the public square. It educated workers to approac... | How were these stores the same as most during that time? | {'text': 'transform consumption from a business transaction into a direct relationship between consumer and sought-after goods', 'answer_start': 534} |
43,455 | 43,113 | 570e2f6e0b85d914000d7d20 | generic | In 1922, Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy brought profound changes to the colonial government in Italian Eritrea. After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just conquered Ethiopia i... | What was Eritrea chosen to be by the Italian government during the Italian Empire? | {'text': 'industrial center of Italian East Africa', 'answer_start': 556} |
77,158 | 76,816 | 5a8c8277fd22b3001a8d89ab | generic | Although Greg argued that an editor should be free to use his judgment to choose between competing substantive readings, he suggested that an editor should defer to the copy-text when "the claims of two readings ... appear to be exactly balanced. ... In such a case, while there can be no logical reason for giving prefe... | What do editors call variants that are not balanced? | {'text': 'indifferent', 'answer_start': 500} |
72,064 | 71,722 | 572803c92ca10214002d9b87 | generic | Modern chemistry emerged from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries through the material practices and theories promoted by alchemy, medicine, manufacturing and mining. A decisive moment came when 'chymistry' was distinguished from alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work The Sceptical Chymist, in 1661; although th... | What was Antoine Lavoisier's nickname? | {'text': 'Father of Modern Chemistry', 'answer_start': 586} |
126,447 | 126,105 | 5732840c06a3a419008acab7 | generic | Eliot and her circle, who included her companion George Henry Lewes (the biographer of Goethe) and the abolitionist and social theorist Harriet Martineau, were much influenced by the positivism of Auguste Comte, whom Martineau had translated. Comte had proposed an atheistic culte founded on human principles – a secular... | What main idea did the English believers of Comte's philosophy take from his writings? | {'text': 'religion of humanity', 'answer_start': 693} |
54,350 | 54,008 | 5acfca0c77cf76001a685fcd | generic | The terms piracy and theft are often associated with copyright infringement. The original meaning of piracy is "robbery or illegal violence at sea", but the term has been in use for centuries as a synonym for acts of copyright infringement. Theft, meanwhile, emphasizes the potential commercial harm of infringement to c... | What doesn't mean the same as robbery or illegal violence at sea? | {'text': 'piracy', 'answer_start': 101} |
58,089 | 57,747 | 5726763c708984140094c6e8 | generic | Bateman was responsible for the building of 36 new buildings for the university both on and off campus, including the expansion of the Harold B. Lee Library. He was also one of several key college leaders who brought about the creation of the Mountain West Conference, which BYU's athletics program joined — BYU previous... | Who replaced Bateman's successor? | {'text': 'Kevin J Worthen', 'answer_start': 783} |
5,669 | 5,327 | 56d12a0417492d1400aabb06 | generic | The teachings on the Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism, and are said to provide a conceptual framework for Buddhist thought. These four truths explain the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome. The four truths are:[note 4] | What teachings are the most important to Buddhism? | {'text': 'the Four Noble Truths', 'answer_start': 17} |
99,625 | 99,283 | 5a57d3d8770dc0001aeefdd6 | generic | Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco... | Who argued for subjective idealism? | {'text': "Hume's followers", 'answer_start': 8} |
81,398 | 81,056 | 572843d4ff5b5019007da04c | generic | Along with professional services, media companies are concentrated in London and the media distribution industry is London's second most competitive sector. The BBC is a significant employer, while other broadcasters also have headquarters around the City. Many national newspapers are edited in London. London is a majo... | What corporation is the major player in London's media distribution industry? | {'text': 'The BBC', 'answer_start': 157} |
78,698 | 78,356 | 5727a844ff5b5019007d9208 | generic | Dominic inspired his followers with loyalty to learning and virtue, a deep recognition of the spiritual power of worldly deprivation and the religious state, and a highly developed governmental structure. At the same time, Dominic inspired the members of his order to develop a "mixed" spirituality. They were both activ... | In what country did Dominican Order nuns thrive in? | {'text': 'England', 'answer_start': 669} |
72,664 | 72,322 | 5a7342b453a187001ae63179 | generic | With $18.8 million spent in 2013, Comcast has the seventh largest lobbying budget of any individual company or organization in the United States. Comcast employs multiple former US Congressmen as lobbyists. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association, which has multiple Comcast executives on its board, also rep... | How much did Comcast spend on lobbying efforts in 2012? | {'text': '$18.8 million', 'answer_start': 5} |
110,873 | 110,531 | 572fa22c04bcaa1900d76b1d | generic | Multi-layer printed circuit boards have trace layers inside the board. This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time. This results in an inseparable one piece product. For example, a four-layer PCB can be fabricated by starting from a two-sided copper-... | If you started with a two-sided laminate etched on either side, laminated to the top and bottom, and processed it again to get traces on the outside layers, how many layers would your final PCB have? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 251} |
20,996 | 20,654 | 56e7b24637bdd419002c438c | generic | On December 19, 2006, ESPN announced the purchase of a minority stake in the AFL. This deal included television rights for the ESPN family of networks. ESPN would televise a minimum of 17 regular season games, most on Monday nights, and nine playoff games, including ArenaBowl XXI on ABC. The deal resulted in added expo... | On what date did ESPN buy a minority share of the AFL? | {'text': 'December 19, 2006', 'answer_start': 3} |
402 | 60 | 56d443ef2ccc5a1400d830dc | generic | Beyoncé attended St. Mary's Elementary School in Fredericksburg, Texas, where she enrolled in dance classes. Her singing talent was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and she finished it, able to hit the high-pitched notes. Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after w... | What was the name of Beyoncé's first dance instructor? | {'text': 'Darlette Johnson', 'answer_start': 165} |
84,035 | 83,693 | 5728a76a2ca10214002da538 | generic | Akbar's son, Jahangir more or less followed father's policy. The Mughal dynasty ruled most of the Indian subcontinent by 1600. The reign of Shah Jahan was the golden age of Mughal architecture. He erected several large monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal at Agra, as well as the Moti Masjid, Agra, the R... | What reached it height during the reign of Shah Jehan? | {'text': 'Mughal architecture', 'answer_start': 173} |
18,144 | 17,802 | 56e15ca6cd28a01900c6780e | generic | Universal could seldom afford its own stable of stars, and often borrowed talent from other studios, or hired freelance actors. In addition to Stewart and Dietrich, Margaret Sullavan, and Bing Crosby were two of the major names that made a couple of pictures for Universal during this period. Some stars came from radio,... | What military comedy did Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in? | {'text': 'Buck Privates', 'answer_start': 471} |
87,219 | 86,877 | 572821484b864d190016451a | generic | Agriculture is dominated by the cultivation and sale of food crops such as cassava, peanuts, maize, sorghum, millet, sesame, and plantain. The annual real GDP growth rate is just above 3%. The importance of food crops over exported cash crops is indicated by the fact that the total production of cassava, the staple foo... | What type of agriculture is popular in the CAR? | {'text': 'food crops', 'answer_start': 56} |
67,901 | 67,559 | 5727bdfe3acd2414000deb2f | generic | Motorsport racecourses and events were banned in Switzerland following the 1955 Le Mans disaster with exception to events such as Hillclimbing. During this period, the country still produced successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Sebastian Buemi, Jo Siffert, Dominique Aegerter, successful World Touring Car C... | What was banned in Switzerland in 1955 after the Le Mans disaster? | {'text': 'Motorsport racecourses and events', 'answer_start': 0} |
105,085 | 104,743 | 572fc58bb2c2fd1400568436 | generic | The attitude of the Air Ministry was in contrast to the experiences of the First World War when a few German bombers caused physical and psychological damage out of all proportion to their numbers. Around 280 short tons (250 t) (9,000 bombs) had been dropped, killing 1,413 people and injuring 3,500 more. Most people ag... | Why had German raids decreased between 1916-1918? | {'text': 'countermeasures', 'answer_start': 457} |
128,074 | 127,732 | 5733a6424776f41900660f50 | generic | The College of Engineering was established in 1920, however, early courses in civil and mechanical engineering were a part of the College of Science since the 1870s. Today the college, housed in the Fitzpatrick, Cushing, and Stinson-Remick Halls of Engineering, includes five departments of study – aerospace and mechani... | How many departments are within the Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 271} |
61,835 | 61,493 | 57268be2dd62a815002e8904 | generic | Burma continues to be used in English by the governments of many countries, such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Official United States policy retains Burma as the country's name, although the State Department's website lists the country as "Burma (Myanmar)" and Barack Obama has referred to the country by ... | What is the country called in sessions of the United Nations? | {'text': 'United Nations uses Myanmar', 'answer_start': 469} |
24,847 | 24,505 | 56f89a8d9e9bad19000a01b7 | generic | Glaciers end in ice caves (the Rhone Glacier), by trailing into a lake or river, or by shedding snowmelt on a meadow. Sometimes a piece of glacier will detach or break resulting in flooding, property damage and loss of life. In the 17th century about 2500 people were killed by an avalanche in a village on the French-It... | What causes flooding, property damage, and loss of life? | {'text': 'a piece of glacier will detach or break', 'answer_start': 128} |
13,624 | 13,282 | 5acd5b4007355d001abf3ea5 | generic | Hunting-gathering was the common human mode of subsistence throughout the Paleolithic, but the observation of current-day hunters and gatherers does not necessarily reflect Paleolithic societies; the hunter-gatherer cultures examined today have had much contact with modern civilization and do not represent "pristine" c... | Hunter-gatherer cultures examined today have almost no contact with who? | {'text': 'modern civilization', 'answer_start': 267} |
107,353 | 107,011 | 572f043f03f9891900756b49 | generic | Many major events caused Europe to change around the start of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and the discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517. In England the modern period is often dated to the start of the Tudor ... | Who was defeated by Henry Vll at the battle of Bosworth? | {'text': 'Richard III', 'answer_start': 362} |
105,413 | 105,071 | 572ea0a603f989190075685d | generic | A species can be listed in two ways. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or NOAA Fisheries (also called the National Marine Fisheries Service) can directly list a species through its candidate assessment program, or an individual or organizational petition may request that the FWS or NMFS list a species. ... | How long is the screening period of an individual's or organization's petition to add a species to the list | {'text': '90-day screening period', 'answer_start': 557} |
108,187 | 107,845 | 57302473947a6a140053d18b | generic | The polarization of an antenna refers to the orientation of the electric field (E-plane) of the radio wave with respect to the Earth's surface and is determined by the physical structure of the antenna and by its orientation; note that this designation is totally distinct from the antenna's directionality. Thus, a simp... | When is a magnetic fields right angles to a electrical field? | {'text': 'transverse wave', 'answer_start': 458} |
23,635 | 23,293 | 56f7144e711bf01900a44917 | generic | He was General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–80), and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941–45). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1944–63), President (later President for Life) (1953–80) of the Socialist F... | What foreign decorations did Tito recieve? | {'text': 'Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath', 'answer_start': 661} |
51,525 | 51,183 | 5725c2d6ec44d21400f3d4fb | generic | In mid 2011, the Foundation announced in its new "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Strategy Overview" that its funding now focuses primarily on sanitation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, because access to improved sanitation is lowest in those regions. Their grant-making focus has been since 2011 on sanit... | What did the foundation announce in 2011 | {'text': 'In mid 2011, the Foundation announced in its new "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Strategy Overview"', 'answer_start': 0} |
20,657 | 20,315 | 56e7aa3300c9c71400d774ad | generic | Among all 17 railway stations in Nanjing, passenger rail service is mainly provided by Nanjing Railway Station and Nanjing South Railway Station, while other stations like Nanjing West Railway Station, Zhonghuamen Railway Station and Xianlin Railway Station serve minor roles. Nanjing Railway Station was first built in ... | How many railway stations are there in Nanjing? | {'text': '17', 'answer_start': 10} |
629 | 287 | 56d4c75a2ccc5a1400d8322f | generic | Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates that ran through to March 2014. It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most-successful tours of all time. In May, Beyoncé's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" with André 3000 o... | Beyoncé was an honorary chair of the 2013 what? | {'text': 'Met Gala.', 'answer_start': 404} |
36,165 | 35,823 | 5a2f504fa83784001a7d26f6 | generic | The Triassic was generally dry, a trend that began in the late Carboniferous, and highly seasonal, especially in the interior of Pangaea. Low sea levels may have also exacerbated temperature extremes. With its high specific heat capacity, water acts as a temperature-stabilizing heat reservoir, and land areas near large... | What caused the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event? | {'text': 'dry climate', 'answer_start': 700} |
117,602 | 117,260 | 5730b096396df9190009629d | generic | Though women were protected by late Sumerian law and were able to achieve a higher status in Sumer than in other contemporary civilizations, the culture was male-dominated. The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest such codification yet discovered, dating to the Ur-III "Sumerian Renaissance", reveals a glimpse at societal struc... | What gender dominated Sumerian culture? | {'text': 'male', 'answer_start': 157} |
35,459 | 35,117 | 5acd6eb107355d001abf41d8 | generic | The 1903 advent of heavier-than-air fixed-wing aircraft was closely followed in 1910 by the first experimental take-off of an airplane, made from the deck of a United States Navy vessel (cruiser USS Birmingham), and the first experimental landings were conducted in 1911. On 9 May 1912 the first airplane take-off from a... | In what year were the first experimental takeoffs of an airplane? | {'text': '1911', 'answer_start': 266} |
100,648 | 100,306 | 572bf9b1dfb02c14005c6b18 | generic | During the American Revolutionary War, Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals (in present-day Elizabethton) was attacked (1776) by Dragging Canoe and his warring faction of Cherokee who were aligned with the British Loyalists. These renegade Cherokee were referred to by settlers as the Chickamauga. They opposed North Carolina... | Who left Fort Watuaga, crossed the Appalachians, and attacked the British army in South Carolina in 1780? | {'text': 'Overmountain Men', 'answer_start': 669} |
123,863 | 123,521 | 5732013eb9d445190005e70c | generic | Like the Speaker of the House, the Minority Leaders are typically experienced lawmakers when they win election to this position. When Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, became Minority Leader in the 108th Congress, she had served in the House nearly 20 years and had served as minority whip in the 107th Congress. When her predecessor,... | When was Robert Michel elected minority leader? | {'text': '1981', 'answer_start': 771} |
69,198 | 68,856 | 5a45a19119a820001a1edac0 | generic | Competition for employees with the public and private sector is another problem that Nonprofit organizations will inevitably face, particularly for management positions. There are reports of major talent shortages in the nonprofit sector today regarding newly graduated workers, and NPOs have for too long relegated hiri... | What is another problem public sector competitors face? | {'text': 'Competition for employees with the public and private sector', 'answer_start': 0} |
40,114 | 39,772 | 570c5881b3d812140066d16a | generic | This trend for the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia – "anger and ill-will" – and John's own personality. From Henry II onwards, ira et malevolentia had come to describe the right of the king to express his anger and displeasur... | What was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia? | {'text': 'the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons', 'answer_start': 15} |
16,423 | 16,081 | 56e0cdc37aa994140058e723 | generic | Internet Explorer, on the other hand, was bundled free with the Windows operating system (and was also downloadable free), and therefore it was funded partly by the sales of Windows to computer manufacturers and direct to users. Internet Explorer also used to be available for the Mac. It is likely that releasing IE for... | What other OS could use Internet Explorer? | {'text': 'Mac', 'answer_start': 281} |
116,563 | 116,221 | 573071d98ab72b1400f9c4f1 | generic | Translation has served as a school of writing for many authors. Translators, including monks who spread Buddhist texts in East Asia, and the early modern European translators of the Bible, in the course of their work have shaped the very languages into which they have translated. They have acted as bridges for conveyin... | What have translators acted as by conveying knowledge between cultures? | {'text': 'bridges', 'answer_start': 300} |
97,643 | 97,301 | 5a0e0934d7c85000188644ff | generic | According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism. As a result, if it is stopped, there might be a delay in recovery. They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 that found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug (Co-phenotr... | What did the researchers discover about shigellosis? | {'text': 'diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism', 'answer_start': 50} |
20,277 | 19,935 | 5acf5c9477cf76001a684c39 | generic | In the U.S. News & World Report's "America’s Best Colleges" 2016 issue, KU’s School of Engineering was ranked tied for 90th among national universities. | In what place did the engineering school at KU appear in 2015? | {'text': '90th', 'answer_start': 119} |
102,095 | 101,753 | 572e85b403f989190075671c | generic | The Bovington signal course's director reported that Gaddafi successfully overcame problems learning English, displaying a firm command of voice procedure. Noting that Gaddafi's favourite hobbies were reading and playing football, he thought him an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious." Ga... | How did the Bovington signal course director view Gaddafi? | {'text': 'he thought him an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious."', 'answer_start': 231} |
27,283 | 26,941 | 56f9efa98f12f31900630004 | generic | In the tree a knot is either the base of a side branch or a dormant bud. A knot (when the base of a side branch) is conical in shape (hence the roughly circular cross-section) with the inner tip at the point in stem diameter at which the plant's vascular cambium was located when the branch formed as a bud. | What shape is the knot formed by a side branch's base? | {'text': 'conical', 'answer_start': 116} |
95,796 | 95,454 | 5ace5d7632bba1001ae4a410 | generic | Although reptiles are less abundant and diverse than amphibians, a number of snakes are conspicuous members of the fauna. One of the largest is the non-venomous black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta), while the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is among the smallest but most abundant. The American copperhea... | Which kind of turtle is only found in the eastern Appalachians? | {'text': 'eastern box turtle', 'answer_start': 656} |
72,157 | 71,815 | 57283431ff5b5019007d9ef8 | generic | Computer science, built upon a foundation of theoretical linguistics, discrete mathematics, and electrical engineering, studies the nature and limits of computation. Subfields include computability, computational complexity, database design, computer networking, artificial intelligence, and the design of computer hardw... | What science is based on linguistics, mathematics, and engineering? | {'text': 'Computer science', 'answer_start': 0} |
120,421 | 120,079 | 57318080497a881900248f92 | generic | Indigenous peoples of Brazil make up 0.4% of Brazil's population, or about 700,000 people, even though millions of Brazilians have some indigenous ancestry. Indigenous peoples are found in the entire territory of Brazil, although the majority of them live in Indian reservations in the North and Center-Western part of t... | How many different uncontacted tribes were confirmed in Brazil in 2007? | {'text': '67', 'answer_start': 406} |
17,620 | 17,278 | 56e1184ecd28a01900c67598 | generic | The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education and medicine, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activitie... | Bostons businesses rank top in the country for what? | {'text': 'environmental sustainability and investment', 'answer_start': 483} |
75,077 | 74,735 | 5727de03ff5b5019007d9718 | generic | In May 1845, the Baptist congregations in the United States split over slavery and missions. The Home Mission Society prevented slaveholders from being appointed as missionaries. The split created the Southern Baptist Convention, while the northern congregations formed their own umbrella organization now called the Ame... | Slaveholders were prevented from being appointed as what? | {'text': 'missionaries', 'answer_start': 165} |
11,750 | 11,408 | 56debfd9c65bf219000b3d31 | generic | It was rumored that Schwarzenegger might run for the United States Senate in 2010, as his governorship would be term-limited by that time. This turned out to be false. | What political office did people speculate Schwarzenegger might try for in 2010? | {'text': 'United States Senate', 'answer_start': 53} |
128,439 | 128,097 | 5ad2ed91604f3c001a3fd9e2 | generic | Applied Anthropology refers to the application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. It is a, "complex of related, research-based, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direc... | what is distincly different than Development Anthropology? | {'text': 'Applied Anthropology', 'answer_start': 0} |
93,900 | 93,558 | 572973313f37b319004783f3 | generic | The gyromagnetic ratio γ is the constant of proportionality between the frequency ν of nuclear magnetic resonance (or electron paramagnetic resonance for electrons) and the applied magnetic field B: ν = γB. It is difficult to measure gyromagnetic ratios precisely because of the difficulties in precisely measuring B, bu... | The gyromagnetic ratio is the constant proportion between the magentic field and what? | {'text': 'the frequency ν of nuclear magnetic resonance', 'answer_start': 68} |
100,529 | 100,187 | 572bc15c34ae481900deaef8 | generic | Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be calle... | What are the main subjects that are covered by the instructor? | {'text': 'reading, writing, mathematics, science and history', 'answer_start': 211} |
89,346 | 89,004 | 572878562ca10214002da39d | generic | A perceived turning point was when Blair controversially allied himself with US President George W. Bush in supporting the Iraq War, which caused him to lose much of his political support. The UN Secretary-General, among many, considered the war illegal. The Iraq War was deeply unpopular in most western countries, with... | Was the idea of the Iraq War popular or unpopular in Western countries? | {'text': 'deeply unpopular', 'answer_start': 272} |
22,353 | 22,011 | 56f743d9aef2371900625a66 | generic | It is in this time that the notation of music on a staff and other elements of musical notation began to take shape. This invention made possible the separation of the composition of a piece of music from its transmission; without written music, transmission was oral, and subject to change every time it was transmitted... | What can a musical scored be performed without? | {'text': "the composer's presence", 'answer_start': 387} |
110,999 | 110,657 | 5ace91de32bba1001ae4aa63 | generic | Through-hole manufacture adds to board cost by requiring many holes to be drilled accurately, and limits the available routing area for signal traces on layers immediately below the top layer on multi-layer boards since the holes must pass through all layers to the opposite side. Once surface-mounting came into use, sm... | What will not damage the PCB? | {'text': 'mechanical stress', 'answer_start': 522} |
99,570 | 99,228 | 572b352e111d821400f38ddc | generic | In response to the early-to-mid-17th century "continental rationalism" John Locke (1632–1704) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i.e., based upon experience. Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposit... | What does 'tabula rasa' mean? | {'text': 'blank tablet', 'answer_start': 365} |
80,076 | 79,734 | 5727c707ff5b5019007d94ec | generic | High-speed USB 2.0 hubs contain devices called transaction translators that convert between high-speed USB 2.0 buses and full and low speed buses. When a high-speed USB 2.0 hub is plugged into a high-speed USB host or hub, it operates in high-speed mode. The USB hub then uses either one transaction translator per hub t... | What kind of devices do High speed USB 2.0's contain? | {'text': 'transaction translators', 'answer_start': 47} |
30,650 | 30,308 | 5706b5100eeca41400aa0d69 | generic | Back in America the scene had still not progressed beyond a small number of clubs in Chicago, Detroit, Newark and New York City. However, many independent Chicago-based record labels were making appearances on the Dance Chart with their releases. In the UK, any house song released by a Chicago-based label was routinely... | what was different about the bass-line in the hip-hop influenced house songs? | {'text': 'more rugged', 'answer_start': 708} |
75,442 | 75,100 | 57276c415951b619008f89a0 | generic | Severe weather occurs regularly in North Carolina. On the average, a hurricane hits the state once a decade. Destructive hurricanes that have struck the state include Hurricane Fran, Hurricane Floyd, and Hurricane Hazel, the strongest storm to make landfall in the state, as a Category 4 in 1954. Hurricane Isabel stands... | What category of hurricane was Hazel? | {'text': '4', 'answer_start': 286} |
36,150 | 35,808 | 570ae1586d058f1900183140 | generic | The Late Jurassic spans from 163 million to 145 million years ago. The Late Jurassic featured a massive extinction of sauropods and Ichthyosaurs due to the separation of Pangaea into Laurasia and Gondwana in an extinction known as the Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction. Sea levels rose, destroying fern prairies and creatin... | How many years did the Late Jurassic cover? | {'text': '163 million to 145 million', 'answer_start': 29} |
100,712 | 100,370 | 572c86e9dfb02c14005c6ba1 | generic | Major corporations with headquarters in Tennessee include FedEx, AutoZone and International Paper, all based in Memphis; Pilot Corporation and Regal Entertainment Group, based in Knoxville; Eastman Chemical Company, based in Kingsport; the North American headquarters of Nissan Motor Company, based in Franklin; Hospital... | Where in Tennessee is the headquarters of International Paper? | {'text': 'Memphis', 'answer_start': 112} |
99,338 | 98,996 | 5ace55f632bba1001ae4a2ef | generic | Two aspects of indigenous pre-Hispanic culture that withstood time are chenchule' and inafa'maolek. Chenchule' is the intricate system of reciprocity at the heart of Chamorro society. It is rooted in the core value of inafa'maolek. Historian Lawrence Cunningham in 1992 wrote, "In a Chamorro sense, the land and its prod... | What is the Chamorro term for individualism? | {'text': "inafa'maolek", 'answer_start': 86} |
8,441 | 8,099 | 5ad0255e77cf76001a686b9c | generic | The current administration presides over an uneasy internal peace and faces difficult economic problems of stimulating recovery and reducing poverty, despite record-high oil prices since 2003. Natural gas and diamonds are also recent major Congolese exports, although Congo was excluded from the Kimberley Process in 200... | When was the Democratic Republic of Congo excluded from the Kimberly process? | {'text': '2004', 'answer_start': 317} |
24,310 | 23,968 | 56f7f2eca6d7ea1400e17300 | generic | The Period of Division from, A.D., 1138 – A.D., 1314, which included nearly 200 years of feudal fragmentation and which stemmed from Bolesław III's division of Poland among his sons, was the genesis of the social structure which saw the economic elevation of the great landowning feudal nobles (możni/Magnates, both eccl... | What stemmed the period of division? | {'text': "Bolesław III's division of Poland among his sons", 'answer_start': 133} |
108,300 | 107,958 | 572ef96cdfa6aa1500f8d50f | generic | The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with about 350,000 species. Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants; they are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and t... | What do angiosperms have in common with gymnosperms? | {'text': 'seed-producing plants', 'answer_start': 186} |
4,973 | 4,631 | 56ce7645aab44d1400b887c9 | generic | In 1974, the unmanned AstroFlight Sunrise plane made the first solar flight. On 29 April 1979, the Solar Riser made the first flight in a solar-powered, fully controlled, man carrying flying machine, reaching an altitude of 40 feet (12 m). In 1980, the Gossamer Penguin made the first piloted flights powered solely by p... | What altitude did the Solar Riser reach in feet? | {'text': '40', 'answer_start': 224} |
113,587 | 113,245 | 573007b9a23a5019007fcc6a | generic | Encompasses both secular and religious styles, the design and style made by Muslims and their construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture included the architectural types: the Mosque, the Tomb, the Palace and the Fort. Perhaps the most important expression of Islamic art is architecture, particularly th... | What type of decorations are used in Muslim world decorative art rather than pictures? | {'text': 'decorative calligraphy', 'answer_start': 563} |
62,687 | 62,345 | 5a81a04d31013a001a334cf6 | generic | Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning. These curly fibers typically are less than 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) long. The term also may apply to the longer textile fiber staple lint as well as the shorter fuzzy fibers from some upland species. Linters are traditionally us... | What does wool look like? | {'text': 'fine, silky fibers', 'answer_start': 19} |
56,517 | 56,175 | 57265d27708984140094c3a5 | generic | Digital cameras have far surpassed film in terms of sensitivity to light, with ISO equivalent speeds of up to 409,600, a number that is unfathomable in the realm of conventional film photography. Faster processors, as well as advances in software noise reduction techniques allow this type of processing to be executed t... | What does the higher speed do for the images produced? | {'text': 'a higher level of refinement', 'answer_start': 402} |
42,104 | 41,762 | 570d4103b3d812140066d5f4 | generic | When the war had begun, European public opinion heavily favored the Germans; many Italians attempted to sign up as volunteers at the Prussian embassy in Florence and a Prussian diplomat visited Giuseppe Garibaldi in Caprera. Bismarck's demand for the return of Alsace caused a dramatic shift in that sentiment in Italy, ... | In which city did many Italians attempt to proffer their services to the Prussian embassy? | {'text': 'Florence', 'answer_start': 153} |
55,844 | 55,502 | 572686e8dd62a815002e8831 | generic | At the Battle of Pulo Aura, which was probably the company's most notable naval victory, Nathaniel Dance, Commodore of a convoy of Indiamen and sailing aboard the Warley, led several Indiamen in a skirmish with a French squadron, driving them off. Some six years earlier, on 28 January 1797, five Indiamen, the Woodford,... | what general played the biggest role in the capture of the seven Dutch East Indiamen? | {'text': 'General Goddard', 'answer_start': 711} |
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