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2,176 | 1,834 | 56cc66d16d243a140015efa3 | generic | Originally, a FireWire connection to the host computer was used to update songs or recharge the battery. The battery could also be charged with a power adapter that was included with the first four generations. | What was an alternate method of charging the iPod? | {'text': 'power adapter', 'answer_start': 146} |
31,831 | 31,489 | 5ad42248604f3c001a4007bc | generic | Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League (NHL). The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that made one World Series appearance in 2005. The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Asso... | When did the the Houston Astros miss going to the World Series? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 264} |
3,178 | 2,836 | 5ad2446bd7d075001a428a59 | generic | Spectre opened in Germany with $22.45 million (including previews), which included a new record for the biggest Saturday of all time, Australia with $8.7 million (including previews) and South Korea opened to $8.2 million (including previews). Despite the 13 November Paris attacks, which led to numerous theaters being ... | Where did the film open with $14.6 million despite the 11 November Paris attacks? | {'text': 'France', 'answer_start': 406} |
115,614 | 115,272 | 5a65dc17c2b11c001a425d76 | generic | Several molecular mechanisms of antibacterial resistance exist. Intrinsic antibacterial resistance may be part of the genetic makeup of bacterial strains. For example, an antibiotic target may be absent from the bacterial genome. Acquired resistance results from a mutation in the bacterial chromosome or the acquisition... | What can be absent from the resistance genes? | {'text': 'antibiotic target', 'answer_start': 171} |
65,780 | 65,438 | 5726a5d15951b619008f78f1 | generic | In Anglo-American academic political philosophy, the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971 is considered a milestone. Rawls used a thought experiment, the original position, in which representative parties choose principles of justice for the basic structure of society from behind a veil of ignorance.... | What did John Rawsl publish? | {'text': 'A Theory of Justice', 'answer_start': 81} |
14,758 | 14,416 | 56dfe16f7aa994140058e209 | generic | After the development of the large London Porter breweries in the 18th century, the trend grew for pubs to become tied houses which could only sell beer from one brewery (a pub not tied in this way was called a Free house). The usual arrangement for a tied house was that the pub was owned by the brewery but rented out ... | What was the name of the private individual who rented out a pub owned by a brewery? | {'text': 'landlord', 'answer_start': 345} |
89,389 | 89,047 | 5ad154b9645df0001a2d17be | generic | Harriet Harman became the Leader of the Opposition and acting Leader of the Labour Party following the resignation of Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010, pending a leadership election subsequently won by Ed Miliband. Miliband emphasised "responsible capitalism" and greater state intervention to change the balance of the UK ec... | What did Harriet Harman emphasize? | {'text': 'responsible capitalism', 'answer_start': 231} |
106,511 | 106,169 | 572ec9a7cb0c0d14000f156e | generic | The first fully attested complete translations of the Quran were done between the 10th and 12th centuries in Persian. The Samanid king, Mansur I (961-976), ordered a group of scholars from Khorasan to translate the Tafsir al-Tabari, originally in Arabic, into Persian. Later in the 11th century, one of the students of A... | Whose student wrote a Persian tafsir of the Quran in the 11th century? | {'text': 'Abu Mansur Abdullah al-Ansari', 'answer_start': 319} |
82,063 | 81,721 | 5727c3d12ca10214002d95c3 | generic | Most legal theorists believe that the rule of law has purely formal characteristics, meaning that the law must be publicly declared, with prospective application, and possess the characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty, but there are no requirements with regard to the content of the law. Others, includin... | According to some legal theorists, for what are there no requirements for something to be considered a law? | {'text': 'content', 'answer_start': 284} |
38,751 | 38,409 | 570c4b09fed7b91900d4584e | generic | FC Barcelona had a successful start in regional and national cups, competing in the Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the club won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and participated in the first Copa del Rey, losing 1–2 to Bizcaya in the final. Hans Gamper — now known as Joan Gamper — became club p... | What was the first cup Barcelona won? | {'text': 'Copa Macaya', 'answer_start': 173} |
98,064 | 97,722 | 572a70a327b69114009ef5b6 | generic | Miami is noted as "the only major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle", a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native. The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wildernes... | Where was Julia Tuttle born? | {'text': 'Cleveland', 'answer_start': 133} |
90,071 | 89,729 | 5ad4123d604f3c001a40022d | generic | Many communities have small air taxi services. These operations originated from the demand for customized transport to remote areas. Perhaps the most quintessentially Alaskan plane is the bush seaplane. The world's busiest seaplane base is Lake Hood, located next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, where fl... | Where is the busiest boat base in the world? | {'text': 'Lake Hood', 'answer_start': 240} |
100,667 | 100,325 | 572c00d6f182dd1900d7c7b2 | generic | In February 1861, secessionists in Tennessee's state government—led by Governor Isham Harris—sought voter approval for a convention to sever ties with the United States, but Tennessee voters rejected the referendum by a 54–46% margin. The strongest opposition to secession came from East Tennessee (which later tried to ... | Which region of Tennessee swung in favor of secession in the June 1861 referendum? | {'text': 'Middle Tennessee', 'answer_start': 812} |
121,025 | 120,683 | 5731596ee6313a140071ce62 | generic | The new government drafted and implemented a constitution in 1923 based on a parliamentary system. Saad Zaghlul was popularly elected as Prime Minister of Egypt in 1924. In 1936, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was concluded. Continued instability due to remaining British influence and increasing political involvement by the... | How long did British military presence remain in Egypt? | {'text': '1954', 'answer_start': 557} |
114,817 | 114,475 | 573020b2947a6a140053d158 | generic | The subsequent 2005 elections were internationally regarded as the most free and fair in Liberian history. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard-trained economist and former Minister of Finance, was elected as the first female president in Africa. Upon her inauguration, Sirleaf requested the extradition of Taylor from Niger... | Who was elected the first female president of Africa? | {'text': 'Ellen Johnson Sirleaf', 'answer_start': 107} |
1,161 | 819 | 56cbda8d6d243a140015ed90 | generic | Fryderyk Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, 46 kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 22 February 1810, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus (in Polish, he was Fryde... | Despite the birthdate given by parish baptismal, what date is given by the composer and his family instead? | {'text': '1 March', 'answer_start': 393} |
116,595 | 116,253 | 5a7e354170df9f001a875565 | generic | Relying exclusively on unedited machine translation, however, ignores the fact that communication in human language is context-embedded and that it takes a person to comprehend the context of the original text with a reasonable degree of probability. It is certainly true that even purely human-generated translations ar... | What can translations completely done by a human not be prone to? | {'text': 'error', 'answer_start': 331} |
20,666 | 20,324 | 56e7ab2337bdd419002c42fe | generic | Express highways such as Hu–Ning, Ning–He, Ning–Hang enable commuters to travel to Shanghai, Hefei, Hangzhou, and other important cities quickly and conveniently. Inside the city of Nanjing, there are 230 km (140 mi) of highways, with a highway coverage density of 3.38 kilometres per hundred square kilometrs (5.44 mi/1... | What is the total coverage of the city with roads, in miles? | {'text': '181.15 mi/100 sq mi', 'answer_start': 427} |
22,337 | 21,995 | 56f738413d8e2e1400e37492 | generic | Burgh (2006), suggests that the roots of Western classical music ultimately lie in ancient Egyptian art music via cheironomy and the ancient Egyptian orchestra, which dates to 2695 BC. This was followed by early Christian liturgical music, which itself dates back to the Ancient Greeks[citation needed]. The development ... | What music followed ancient Egyptian art music? | {'text': 'early Christian liturgical music,', 'answer_start': 206} |
287 | 287 | 138466 | pubqa | Following an unusually heavy rainfall in June 2009, a community-wide outbreak of Campylobacter gastroenteritis occurred in a small Danish town. The outbreak investigation consisted of (1) a cohort study using an e-questionnaire of disease determinants, (2) microbiological study of stool samples, (3) serological study o... | What were the associated pathogens of concern? | {'answer_id': 273674, 'document_id': 445516, 'question_id': 138466, 'text': 'Campylobacter spp', 'answer_start': 1186, 'answer_category': 'SHORT'} |
26,206 | 25,864 | 56f8ff3d9b226e1400dd1245 | generic | Working closely in conjunction with the definition of the Near East provided by the State Department is the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA), an educational institution of the United States Department of Defense. It teaches courses and holds seminars and workshops for government officials and mi... | What is NESA? | {'text': 'an educational institution of the United States Department of Defense', 'answer_start': 166} |
46,418 | 46,076 | 5ad2a578d7d075001a429dc7 | generic | The NES was released after the "video game crash" of the early 1980s, whereupon many retailers and adults had regarded electronic games as being merely a passing fad, and many believed at first that the NES was another fad. Before the NES/Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing c... | What did no licensing lead to regarding games? | {'text': 'higher quality', 'answer_start': 803} |
100,766 | 100,424 | 572ca3fcf182dd1900d7c814 | generic | The Baker v. Carr (1962) decision of the US Supreme Court established the principle of "one man, one vote", requiring state legislatures to redistrict to bring Congressional apportionment in line with decennial censuses. It also required both houses of state legislatures to be based on population for representation and... | A bias in Tennessee politics favoring which type of geographical district gave rise to the Baker v. Carr Supreme Court case? | {'text': 'rural', 'answer_start': 426} |
54,460 | 54,118 | 5726d529dd62a815002e91a4 | generic | United States v. LaMacchia 871 F.Supp. 535 (1994) was a case decided by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts which ruled that, under the copyright and cybercrime laws effective at the time, committing copyright infringement for non-commercial motives could not be prosecuted under criminal ... | When was United States v. LaMacchia contested? | {'text': '1994', 'answer_start': 44} |
10,068 | 9,726 | 5ad30e3b604f3c001a3fdb11 | generic | Until 1917, it was possible for someone who was not a priest, but only in minor orders, to become a cardinal (see "lay cardinals", below), but they were enrolled only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century, Reginald Pole was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it... | What was possible for someone to become who was not a priest, but only in major orders? | {'text': 'a cardinal', 'answer_start': 98} |
76,216 | 75,874 | 57278c7b5951b619008f8d23 | generic | On February 7, 1987, dozens of political prisoners were freed in the first group release since Khrushchev's "thaw" in the mid-1950s. On May 6, 1987, Pamyat, a Russian nationalist group, held an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow. The authorities did not break up the demonstration and even kept traffic out of the demo... | Who demonstrated close to the Kremlin in July of 1978? | {'text': 'Crimean Tatars', 'answer_start': 506} |
77,986 | 77,644 | 5a5e50095bc9f4001a75aec7 | generic | Vaiśeṣika metaphysical premises are founded on a form of atomism, that the reality is composed of four substances (earth, water, air, fire). Each of these four are of two types: atomic (paramāṇu) and composite. An atom is, according to Vaiśeṣika scholars, that which is indestructible (anitya), indivisible, and has a sp... | What is not a function of atoms? | {'text': 'Whatever human beings perceive', 'answer_start': 457} |
109,021 | 108,679 | 572f31b3a23a5019007fc4d0 | generic | The university's first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, and Eliot was named President of the Board of Trustees. Early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John O'Fallon, but Eliot failed to s... | When did Washington University secure its charter? | {'text': '1853', 'answer_start': 132} |
106,985 | 106,643 | 5a56842a6349e2001acdcddc | generic | CDs are susceptible to damage during handling and from environmental exposure. Pits are much closer to the label side of a disc, enabling defects and contaminants on the clear side to be out of focus during playback. Consequently, CDs are more likely to suffer damage on the label side of the disc. Scratches on the clea... | Where is the metal reflective layer located? | {'text': 'the clear side', 'answer_start': 166} |
66,706 | 66,364 | 5726a5daf1498d1400e8e609 | generic | Mission work in Samoa had begun in late 1830 by John Williams, of the London Missionary Society arriving in Sapapali'i from The Cook Islands and Tahiti. According to Barbara A. West, "The Samoans were also known to engage in ‘headhunting', a ritual of war in which a warrior took the head of his slain opponent to give t... | What English organization did John Williams belong to? | {'text': 'London Missionary Society', 'answer_start': 70} |
4,675 | 4,333 | 56ce98e7aab44d1400b888bf | generic | The second part of the novel deals with what book reviewer Harding LeMay termed "the spirit-corroding shame of the civilized white Southerner in the treatment of the Negro". In the years following its release, many reviewers considered To Kill a Mockingbird a novel primarily concerned with race relations. Claudia Durst... | When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place? | {'text': '1955', 'answer_start': 531} |
75,910 | 75,568 | 57276da85951b619008f89bc | generic | On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It... | What was the expedition called that Charles Darwin discovered some of his evidence? | {'text': 'Beagle expedition', 'answer_start': 496} |
46,686 | 46,344 | 5aceb9df32bba1001ae4b1e3 | generic | Early in the year 343 we find Athanasius had travelled, via Rome, from Alexandria, North Africa, to Gaul; nowadays Belgium / Holland and surrounding areas, where Hosius of Cordoba was Bishop, the great champion of orthodoxy in the West. The two, together, set out for Sardica. A full Council of the Church was convened /... | Where is Gaul not currently located? | {'text': 'Belgium', 'answer_start': 115} |
53,865 | 53,523 | 572678f5f1498d1400e8e0e4 | generic | Rookie Starlin Castro debuted in early May (2010) as the starting shortstop. However, the club played poorly in the early season, finding themselves 10 games under .500 at the end of June. In addition, long-time ace Carlos Zambrano was pulled from a game against the White Sox on June 25 after a tirade and shoving match... | Who debuted as the starting shortstop in early May 2010? | {'text': 'Starlin Castro', 'answer_start': 7} |
39,560 | 39,218 | 570cdd7cb3d812140066d2cd | generic | Mary resided in "her own house"[Lk.1:56] in Nazareth in Galilee, possibly with her parents, and during her betrothal — the first stage of a Jewish marriage — the angel Gabriel announced to her that she was to be the mother of the promised Messiah by conceiving him through the Holy Spirit, and she responded, "I am the h... | What is the first stage of Jewish marriage? | {'text': 'betrothal', 'answer_start': 107} |
120,617 | 120,275 | 5731314305b4da19006bce75 | generic | Red played an important role in Chinese philosophy. It was believed that the world was composed of five elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and that each had a color. Red was associated with fire. Each Emperor chose the color that his fortune-tellers believed would bring the most prosperity and good fortune t... | What element was red associated with in Chinese philosophy? | {'text': 'fire', 'answer_start': 201} |
96,844 | 96,502 | 572a5abcd562191400bc8697 | generic | Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose did not develop to the extent that contemporary Divan poetry did. A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of sec (سجع, also transliterated as seci), or rhymed prose, a type of writing descended from the Arabic saj' and which presc... | Prose in the Ottoman empire did not develop to a higher level until which century? | {'text': 'the 19th century', 'answer_start': 6} |
96,033 | 95,691 | 5a69098b8476ee001a58a9fa | generic | IBM announced it will launch its new software, called "Open Client Offering" which is to run on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X. The company states that its new product allows businesses to offer employees a choice of using the same software on Windows and its alternatives. This means that "Open Client Of... | What does using Apple's Mac OS X help to cut according to Microsoft? | {'text': 'costs', 'answer_start': 338} |
44,331 | 43,989 | 5ad381c2604f3c001a3fe49b | generic | Elizabeth's personal fortune has been the subject of speculation for many years. Jock Colville, who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, estimated her wealth in 1971 at £2 million (equivalent to about £25 million today). In 1993, Buckingham Palace called estimates of £100 million "grossl... | Who is the wealthiest person in the UK as of 2015? | {'text': 'Jock Colville', 'answer_start': 81} |
60,380 | 60,038 | 572663b25951b619008f713d | generic | Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics #1 (cover dated Oct. 1939), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first appearances of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features. The issue was a great success, with it and a second printing the follo... | What was the cover date on Marvel Comics #1? | {'text': 'Oct. 1939', 'answer_start': 58} |
116,547 | 116,205 | 5a7e2cf070df9f001a875521 | generic | Mark Twain provided humorously telling evidence for the frequent unreliability of back-translation when he issued his own back-translation of a French translation of his short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". He published his back-translation in a 1903 volume together with his English-language ... | Who provided a boring example of the unreliability of back-translation? | {'text': 'Mark Twain', 'answer_start': 0} |
26,553 | 26,211 | 5acfc4ee77cf76001a685e08 | generic | The rapid development of religions in Zhejiang has driven the local committee of ethnic and religious affairs to enact measures to rationalise them in 2014, variously named "Three Rectifications and One Demolition" operations or "Special Treatment Work on Illegally Constructed Sites of Religious and Folk Religion Activ... | When did the slow development of religions in Zhejiang drive the local committee of ethnic and religious affairs to enact measures to rationalise them? | {'text': '2014', 'answer_start': 151} |
98,581 | 98,239 | 572aae4ff75d5e190021fc2c | generic | There has also been an increase of yuppie, bohemian, and hipster types particularly around Center City, the neighborhood of Northern Liberties, and in the neighborhoods around the city's universities, such as near Temple in North Philadelphia and particularly near Drexel and University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelp... | Name a University located in the city? | {'text': 'Drexel and University of Pennsylvania', 'answer_start': 265} |
124,070 | 123,728 | 573248f40fdd8d15006c68ff | generic | When the White House is controlled by the House majority party, then the House minority leader assumes a larger role in formulating alternatives to executive branch initiatives and in acting as a national spokesperson for his or her party. "As Minority Leader during [President Lyndon Johnson's] Democratic administratio... | What is the difference in role for Minority leader when majority party holds white house? | {'text': 'assumes a larger role in formulating alternatives to executive branch initiatives and in acting as a national spokesperson for his or her party', 'answer_start': 95} |
114,250 | 113,908 | 57304141b2c2fd1400568b03 | generic | The United Kingdom and Ireland have separate media, although British television, newspapers and magazines are widely available in Ireland, giving people in Ireland a high level of familiarity with cultural matters in the United Kingdom. Irish newspapers are also available in the UK, and Irish state and private televisi... | What types of media give the people of Ireland information about what is going on in Britain? | {'text': 'British television, newspapers and magazines', 'answer_start': 61} |
23,165 | 22,823 | 56f8b1c99e9bad19000a0344 | generic | Southampton's strong economy is promoting redevelopment, and major projects are proposed, including the city's first skyscrapers on the waterfront. The three towers proposed will stand 23 storeys high and will be surrounded by smaller apartment blocks, office blocks and shops. There are also plans for a 15-storey hotel... | What factor is very strong in Southampton that encourages redevelopment of the city? | {'text': 'economy', 'answer_start': 21} |
59,222 | 58,880 | 572685f55951b619008f7580 | generic | NASCAR (headquartered in Daytona Beach) begins all three of its major auto racing series in Florida at Daytona International Speedway in February, featuring the Daytona 500, and ends all three Series in November at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Daytona also has the Coke Zero 400 NASCAR race weekend around Independence Day ... | What does St Pete feature for a race | {'text': 'The Grand Prix of St. Petersburg', 'answer_start': 414} |
25,491 | 25,149 | 56f8deb99b226e1400dd1148 | generic | Guinea-Bissau has started to show some economic advances after a pact of stability was signed by the main political parties of the country, leading to an IMF-backed structural reform program. The key challenges for the country in the period ahead are to achieve fiscal discipline, rebuild public administration, improve ... | What happened in Portugal that contributed to Guinea-Bissau's independence? | {'text': 'the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution', 'answer_start': 469} |
28,164 | 27,822 | 56fb81078ddada1400cd64a7 | generic | Among the results of the Greek and Islamic influence on this period in European history was the replacement of Roman numerals with the decimal positional number system and the invention of algebra, which allowed more advanced mathematics. Astronomy advanced following the translation of Ptolemy's Almagest from Greek int... | What invention led to advances in mathematics? | {'text': 'algebra', 'answer_start': 189} |
83,793 | 83,451 | 57283f66ff5b5019007d9ff3 | generic | The Mesolithic period in the Indian subcontinent was followed by the Neolithic period, when more extensive settlement of the subcontinent occurred after the end of the last Ice Age approximately 12,000 years ago. The first confirmed semipermanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago in the Bhimbetka rock shelters in mo... | What happened in India during the Neolithic period? | {'text': 'extensive settlement', 'answer_start': 97} |
3,121 | 2,779 | 5ad24169d7d075001a42896a | generic | During the December 2014 press conference announcing the start of filming, Aston Martin and Eon unveiled the new DB10 as the official car for the film. The DB10 was designed in collaboration between Aston Martin and the filmmakers, with only 10 being produced especially for Spectre as a celebration of the 50th annivers... | Aston Martin produced only 20 of what for the film? | {'text': 'car', 'answer_start': 134} |
41,347 | 41,005 | 570e71fb0b85d914000d7f10 | generic | Orientalist scholars of the 18th century like Sir William Jones marked a wave of enthusiasm for Indian culture and for Sanskrit. According to Thomas Trautmann, after this period of "Indomania", a certain hostility to Sanskrit and to Indian culture in general began to assert itself in early 19th century Britain, manifes... | What did British of the 19th century want India to be as soon as possible? | {'text': 'assimilated to Britain', 'answer_start': 496} |
83,231 | 82,889 | 5727d8054b864d1900163e56 | generic | In the 1520s during the Protestant Reformation, the city, under the political guidance of Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck and the spiritual guidance of Martin Bucer embraced the religious teachings of Martin Luther. Their adherents established a Gymnasium, headed by Johannes Sturm, made into a University in the following cent... | Who was the political guide during the Protestant Reformation? | {'text': 'Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck', 'answer_start': 90} |
115,720 | 115,378 | 5733d670d058e614000b637a | generic | Vaccines rely on immune modulation or augmentation. Vaccination either excites or reinforces the immune competence of a host to ward off infection, leading to the activation of macrophages, the production of antibodies, inflammation, and other classic immune reactions. Antibacterial vaccines have been responsible for a... | What type of vaccines have saved millions of lives? | {'text': 'Antibacterial vaccines', 'answer_start': 270} |
106,643 | 106,301 | 572eb90fc246551400ce456c | generic | The capital city, Washington, District of Columbia, is a federal district located on land donated by the state of Maryland. (Virginia had also donated land, but it was returned in 1849.) The United States also has overseas territories with varying levels of independence and organization: in the Caribbean the territorie... | What is the capital city of the US? | {'text': 'Washington, District of Columbia', 'answer_start': 18} |
63,928 | 63,586 | 5726b0b6708984140094cdec | generic | Milton Winternitz led the Yale Medical School as its dean from 1920 to 1935. Dedicated to the new scientific medicine established in Germany, he was equally fervent about "social medicine" and the study of humans in their culture and environment. He established the "Yale System" of teaching, with few lectures and fewer... | What is the Yale System? | {'text': 'few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system', 'answer_start': 298} |
101,710 | 101,368 | 572e7d44dfa6aa1500f8d02d | generic | The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach Feynman something new. From his mother he gained the sense of humor that he had throughout his life. As a child, he had a talent for engineering, maintained an ex... | What talent did Feynman have, even early in his childhood? | {'text': 'engineering', 'answer_start': 291} |
88,302 | 87,960 | 5ace80a432bba1001ae4a896 | generic | The brain generally forms a ring round the pharynx (throat), consisting of a pair of ganglia (local control centers) above and in front of the pharynx, linked by nerve cords either side of the pharynx to another pair of ganglia just below and behind it. The brains of polychaetes are generally in the prostomium, while t... | Where are clitellates' teeth? | {'text': 'in the peristomium or sometimes the first segment behind the peristomium', 'answer_start': 344} |
113,779 | 113,437 | 5730175f04bcaa1900d7716b | generic | On September 22, 1980, the Iraqi army invaded the Iranian Khuzestan, and the Iran–Iraq War began. Although the forces of Saddam Hussein made several early advances, by mid 1982, the Iranian forces successfully managed to drive the Iraqi army back into Iraq. In July 1982, with Iraq thrown on the defensive, Iran took the... | When did the Iran-Iraq War finally end? | {'text': '1988', 'answer_start': 475} |
96,837 | 96,495 | 572a5969b8ce0319002e2ad7 | generic | The Ottomans absorbed some of the traditions, art and institutions of cultures in the regions they conquered, and added new dimensions to them. Numerous traditions and cultural traits of previous empires (in fields such as architecture, cuisine, music, leisure and government) were adopted by the Ottoman Turks, who elab... | When the Ottoman empire conquered a region what also became a part of the empire? | {'text': 'some of the traditions, art and institutions of cultures', 'answer_start': 22} |
13,861 | 13,519 | 56df6aee5ca0a614008f99ef | generic | Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), criticized the State Department investigation, saying the investigators were shown "Potemkin Villages" where residents had been intimidated into lying about the family-planning program. Dr. Nafis Sadik, former director of UNFPA said her agency had been pivotal in reversing China's coer... | What sort of techniques did the State Department conclude were still being employed by China? | {'text': 'coercive techniques', 'answer_start': 467} |
79,762 | 79,420 | 5727e0834b864d1900163f11 | generic | The Cork Suburban Rail system also departs from Kent Station and provides connections to parts of Metropolitan Cork. Stations include Little Island, Mallow, Midleton, Fota and Cobh. In July 2009 the Glounthaune to Midleton line was reopened, with new stations at Carrigtwohill and Midleton (with future stations planned ... | What new stations were added to the Glounthaune to Midleton line? | {'text': 'Carrigtwohill and Midleton', 'answer_start': 263} |
97,266 | 96,924 | 5a7d349070df9f001a87500a | generic | A significant and far-reaching shift in human subsistence and lifestyle was to be brought about in areas where crop farming and cultivation were first developed: the previous reliance on an essentially nomadic hunter-gatherer subsistence technique or pastoral transhumance was at first supplemented, and then increasingl... | What was brought about by crop rotating? | {'text': 'A significant and far-reaching shift in human subsistence and lifestyle', 'answer_start': 0} |
57,062 | 56,720 | 57266bb4f1498d1400e8df32 | generic | During the campaign, Bonaparte became increasingly influential in French politics. He founded two newspapers: one for the troops in his army and another for circulation in France. The royalists attacked Bonaparte for looting Italy and warned that he might become a dictator. All told, Napoleon's forces extracted an esti... | For what action during the Italian campaign did the royalists condemn Bonaparte? | {'text': 'looting', 'answer_start': 217} |
45,896 | 45,554 | 571087b8b654c5140001f959 | generic | Both Locke and Rousseau developed social contract theories in Two Treatises of Government and Discourse on Inequality, respectively. While quite different works, Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau agreed that a social contract, in which the government's authority lies in the consent of the governed, is necessary for man to li... | What did Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau agree was necessary for a man to live in civil society? | {'text': 'social contract', 'answer_start': 204} |
66,467 | 66,125 | 5726ab16f1498d1400e8e68f | generic | In January 1790, Burke read Dr. Richard Price's sermon of 4 November 1789 entitled, A Discourse on the Love of our Country, to the Revolution Society. That society had been founded to commemorate the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In this sermon Price espoused the philosophy of universal "Rights of Men". Price argued tha... | What philosophy did Price support? | {'text': 'universal "Rights of Men"', 'answer_start': 277} |
95,598 | 95,256 | 57299db76aef051400155032 | generic | The range is mostly located in the United States but extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100 to 300 mi (160 to 480 km) wide, running from the island of Newfoundland 1,500 mi (2,400 km) southwestward to Central Alabama in the United States.[discuss] The range covers parts of the islands of Saint Pierre... | What country do the Appalachian mountains extend into? | {'text': 'Canada', 'answer_start': 79} |
691 | 349 | 56bea9043aeaaa14008c91b3 | generic | On January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York under heavy security. Two days later, Jay Z released "Glory", a song dedicated to their child, on his website Lifeandtimes.com. The song detailed the couple's pregnancy struggles, including a miscarriage Beyoncé su... | Which song by Jay Z talked about the pregnancy struggles? | {'text': 'Glory', 'answer_start': 160} |
35,349 | 35,007 | 5a6794bef038b7001ab0c300 | generic | Each of these four dialects was associated with an independent kingdom on the island. Of these, Northumbria south of the Tyne, and most of Mercia, were overrun by the Vikings during the 9th century. The portion of Mercia that was successfully defended, and all of Kent, were then integrated into Wessex under Alfred the ... | What became the standard language in the 900's? | {'text': 'Early West Saxon', 'answer_start': 400} |
6,364 | 6,022 | 56d374a259d6e41400146443 | generic | Season five began on January 17, 2006. It remains the highest-rated season in the show's run so far. Two of the more prominent contestants during the Hollywood round were the Brittenum twins who were later disqualified for identity theft. | Which two contestants were removed from the show for accusations of identity theft? | {'text': 'the Brittenum twins', 'answer_start': 171} |
83,829 | 83,487 | 57284ab33acd2414000df8b5 | generic | In the later Vedic Age, a number of small kingdoms or city states had covered the subcontinent, many mentioned in Vedic, early Buddhist and Jaina literature as far back as 500 BCE. sixteen monarchies and "republics" known as the Mahajanapadas—Kashi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji (or Vriji), Malla, Chedi, Vatsa (or Vamsa... | What were the sixteen kingdoms called? | {'text': 'Mahajanapadas', 'answer_start': 229} |
107,325 | 106,983 | 572efd2003f9891900756b25 | generic | Society in the Japanese "Tokugawa period" (Edo society), unlike the shogunates before it, was based on the strict class hierarchy originally established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The daimyo, or lords, were at the top, followed by the warrior-caste of samurai, with the farmers, artisans, and traders ranking below. In some ... | What group was considered at the top of the Strict Class Society? | {'text': 'The daimyo, or lords,', 'answer_start': 176} |
64,140 | 63,798 | 5726ed335951b619008f8288 | generic | Yale's museum collections are also of international stature. The Yale University Art Gallery, the country's first university-affiliated art museum, contains more than 180,000 works, including Old Masters and important collections of modern art, in the Swartout and Kahn buildings. The latter, Louis Kahn's first large-sc... | How many items are in The Yale University Art Gallery? | {'text': 'more than 180,000', 'answer_start': 157} |
108,577 | 108,235 | 572f75bd04bcaa1900d7699b | generic | In 1769 Hyderabad city became the formal capital of the Nizams. In response to regular threats from Hyder Ali (Dalwai of Mysore), Baji Rao I (Peshwa of the Maratha Empire), and Basalath Jung (Asif Jah II's elder brother, who was supported by the Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau), the Nizam signed a subsidiary alliance with t... | Which military occupied Hyderabad city in a protection role? | {'text': 'British Indian Army', 'answer_start': 364} |
86,486 | 86,144 | 57280839ff5b5019007d9b6e | generic | During the rule of the succeeding Hanoverian dynasty, power was gradually exercised more by parliament and the government. The first Hanoverian monarch, George I, relied on his ministers to a greater extent than did previous monarchs. Later Hanoverian monarchs attempted to restore royal control over legislation: George... | In attempting to take back control, George III and George IV opposed which church movement? | {'text': 'Catholic Emancipation', 'answer_start': 359} |
129,763 | 129,421 | 573606536c16ec1900b9290c | generic | During the feudal and colonial times in British India, hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas and nawabs, as well as British officers, maintained a whole corps of shikaris (big-game hunters), who were native professional hunters. They would be headed by a master of the ... | Where was hunting reguarded as a regal sport? | {'text': 'British India', 'answer_start': 40} |
16,428 | 16,086 | 5a4d39a27a6c4c001a2bbc6a | 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... | In what other way did Java contribute to Windows and Microsoft application sales? | {'text': 'through "lock-in" to Microsoft\'s browser', 'answer_start': 717} |
20,323 | 19,981 | 5acf5f8077cf76001a684cb0 | generic | Tuition at KU is 13 percent below the national average, according to the College Board, and the University remains a best buy in the region.[citation needed] | Who provides money for educational costs? | {'text': 'the College Board', 'answer_start': 69} |
107,445 | 107,103 | 572f2be3b2c2fd1400567f5b | generic | Under Peter I (the Great), Russia was proclaimed an Empire in 1721 and became recognized as a world power. Ruling from 1682 to 1725, Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War, forcing it to cede West Karelia and Ingria (two regions lost by Russia in the Time of Troubles), as well as Estland and Livland, securing ... | Through what period did Peter I rule? | {'text': '1682 to 1725', 'answer_start': 119} |
39,876 | 39,534 | 570e6f710dc6ce1900205065 | generic | The Melbourne rail network has its origins in privately built lines from the 1850s gold rush era, and today the suburban network consists of 209 suburban stations on 16 lines which radiate from the City Loop, a partially underground metro section of the network beneath the Central Business District (Hoddle Grid). Flind... | How often does the XPT to Sydney depart? | {'text': 'twice a day', 'answer_start': 1041} |
41,743 | 41,401 | 570d38f2b3d812140066d56b | generic | In April 2014, it was announced that GE was in talks to acquire the global power division of French engineering group Alstom for a figure of around $13 billion. A rival joint bid was submitted in June 2014 by Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) with Siemens seeking to acquire Alstom's gas turbine business for... | When did GE announce it was in talks to acquire the French engineering group Alstom? | {'text': 'April 2014', 'answer_start': 3} |
69,855 | 69,513 | 5726d6abdd62a815002e91ef | generic | The Necessary exists 'due-to-Its-Self', and has no quiddity/essence (mahiyya) other than existence (wujud). Furthermore, It is 'One' (wahid ahad) since there cannot be more than one 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' without differentia (fasl) to distinguish them from each other. Yet, to require differentia entails tha... | What is something that the necessary does not have? | {'text': 'a definition', 'answer_start': 653} |
35,733 | 35,391 | 5a2e180bf28ef0001a526790 | generic | On July 22, 2008, in the aftermath of the Southwest Airlines inspection scandal, a bill was unanimously approved in the House to tighten regulations concerning airplane maintenance procedures, including the establishment of a whistleblower office and a two-year "cooling off" period that FAA inspectors or supervisors of... | What was the two year "cooling off" period for whistleblowers for? | {'text': 'must wait before they can work for those they regulated', 'answer_start': 332} |
3,969 | 3,627 | 56cfde18234ae51400d9bfaf | generic | The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. | The Occupy Wall Street protests that took place in Zuccotti Park was on which date? | {'text': 'September 17, 2011', 'answer_start': 103} |
91,299 | 90,957 | 572999816aef051400155010 | generic | Insect ecology is the scientific study of how insects, individually or as a community, interact with the surrounding environment or ecosystem.:3 Insects play one of the most important roles in their ecosystems, which includes many roles, such as soil turning and aeration, dung burial, pest control, pollination and wild... | Beetles are also known as what? | {'text': 'scavengers', 'answer_start': 373} |
4,926 | 4,584 | 56d074ff234ae51400d9c2ef | generic | Commercial CSP plants were first developed in the 1980s. Since 1985 the eventually 354 MW SEGS CSP installation, in the Mojave Desert of California, is the largest solar power plant in the world. Other large CSP plants include the 150 MW Solnova Solar Power Station and the 100 MW Andasol solar power station, both in Sp... | Where is the largest solar power plant in the world located? | {'text': 'Mojave Desert of California', 'answer_start': 120} |
70,469 | 70,127 | 5ad41060604f3c001a4001a9 | generic | The most famous escapee was the Boer prisoner of war Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne who was serving a life sentence for "conspiracy against the British government and on (the charge of) espionage.". On the night of 25 June 1902, Duquesne slipped out of his tent, worked his way over a barbed-wire fence, swam 1.5 miles (... | What was Captain Joubert Fritz Duquesne serving a sentence for? | {'text': 'conspiracy against the British government and on (the charge of) espionage', 'answer_start': 121} |
80,152 | 79,810 | 5727f4544b864d1900164099 | generic | A unit load is defined as 100 mA in USB 1.x and 2.0, and 150 mA in USB 3.0. A device may draw a maximum of five unit loads from a port in USB 1.x and 2.0 (500 mA), or six unit loads in USB 3.0 (900 mA). There are two types of devices: low-power and high-power. A low-power device (such as a USB HID) draws at most one-un... | How much is a unit load in USB 3.0? | {'text': '150 mA', 'answer_start': 57} |
79,507 | 79,165 | 5a5d280f5e8782001a9d5e92 | generic | Temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) or above 25 °C (77 °F) are rare. Cork Airport records an average of 1,227.9 millimetres (4.029 ft) of precipitation annually, most of which is rain. The airport records an average of 7 days of hail and 11 days of snow or sleet a year; though it only records lying snow for 2 days of the y... | What is rarely below 25 degrees C? | {'text': 'Temperatures', 'answer_start': 0} |
90,396 | 90,054 | 5ad265b1d7d075001a4291be | generic | Knowledge, for Popper, was objective, both in the sense that it is objectively true (or truthlike), and also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge as object) independent of the knowing subject (Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972). He proposed three worlds: World One, be... | How many different worlds or realities did Einstein define in Objective Knowledge? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 293} |
23,862 | 23,520 | 56f82554aef2371900625e27 | generic | In the years following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, some historians stated that human rights were suppressed in Yugoslavia under Tito, particularly in the first decade up until the Tito-Stalin split. On 4 October 2011, the Slovenian Constitutional Court found a 2009 naming of a street in Ljubljana after Tito to be un... | Several public area of Slovenia bear which person's name. | {'text': 'Tito', 'answer_start': 426} |
22,692 | 22,350 | 56f7406ca6d7ea1400e1711c | generic | Pan-Slavism, a movement which came into prominence in the mid-19th century, emphasized the common heritage and unity of all the Slavic peoples. The main focus was in the Balkans where the South Slavs had been ruled for centuries by other empires: the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice. Th... | How long did the Soviet Union retain a hegemonic role? | {'text': 'until the period 1989–1991', 'answer_start': 540} |
53,311 | 52,969 | 5acd052e07355d001abf31bc | generic | Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first eleven seasons at the club, although on no occasion were they able to retain the title. As of July 2013, they were one of only five teams, the others being Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, and Manchester City, to have... | Who did Arsenal compete against in the 2005-06 Championship League? | {'text': 'Chelsea', 'answer_start': 283} |
3,092 | 2,750 | 56ceddd1aab44d1400b88b58 | generic | In September 2015 it was announced that Sam Smith and regular collaborator Jimmy Napes had written the film's title theme, "Writing's on the Wall", with Smith performing it for the film. Smith said the song came together in one session and that he and Napes wrote it in under half an hour before recording a demo. Satisf... | What was the name of the song played during the opening credits? | {'text': "Writing's on the Wall", 'answer_start': 124} |
21,097 | 20,755 | 5ad25c9dd7d075001a428eb7 | generic | A nonstandard dialect, like a standard dialect, has a complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, but is usually not the beneficiary of institutional support. Examples of a nonstandard English dialect are Southern American English, Western Australian English, Scouse and Tyke. The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wrigh... | Unlike a nonstandard dialect, what does a standard dialect have? | {'text': 'complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax', 'answer_start': 54} |
12,748 | 12,406 | 5acd158a07355d001abf33f3 | generic | Scientific "Materialism" is often synonymous with, and has so far been described, as being a reductive materialism. In recent years, Paul and Patricia Churchland have advocated a radically contrasting position (at least, in regards to certain hypotheses); eliminativist materialism holds that some mental phenomena simpl... | Scientific materialism is not synonymous with what? | {'text': 'reductive materialism', 'answer_start': 93} |
89,874 | 89,532 | 5728a5753acd2414000dfbc3 | generic | Statehood for Alaska was an important cause of James Wickersham early in his tenure as a congressional delegate. Decades later, the statehood movement gained its first real momentum following a territorial referendum in 1946. The Alaska Statehood Committee and Alaska's Constitutional Convention would soon follow. State... | From which areas did Alaskan supporters face political challenges? | {'text': 'mostly in the U.S. Congress but also within Alaska', 'answer_start': 405} |
120,243 | 119,901 | 573162fbe6313a140071cebc | generic | By the end of the 18th century the population had risen to 300 million from approximately 150 million during the late Ming dynasty. The dramatic rise in population was due to several reasons, including the long period of peace and stability in the 18th century and the import of new crops China received from the America... | What crops were imported? | {'text': 'peanuts, sweet potatoes and maize. New species of rice', 'answer_start': 333} |
122,938 | 122,596 | 5ad14c25645df0001a2d1638 | generic | Steven Waldman notes that; "The evangelicals provided the political muscle for the efforts of Madison and Jefferson, not merely because they wanted to block official churches but because they wanted to keep the spiritual and secular worlds apart." "Religious freedom resulted from an alliance of unlikely partners," writ... | What didn't evangelicals want to keep apart? | {'text': 'spiritual and secular worlds', 'answer_start': 211} |
81,326 | 80,984 | 572823dc4b864d1900164556 | generic | London's buildings are too diverse to be characterised by any particular architectural style, partly because of their varying ages. Many grand houses and public buildings, such as the National Gallery, are constructed from Portland stone. Some areas of the city, particularly those just west of the centre, are character... | What is England's oldest standing palace from the Tudor period? | {'text': 'Hampton Court Palace', 'answer_start': 587} |
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