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45,283 | 44,941 | 570fe5335ab6b81900391099 | generic | The combined business is expected to address the markets for scale-out architecture, converged infrastructure and private cloud computing, playing to the strengths of both EMC and Dell. Commentators have questioned the deal, with FBR Capital Markets saying that though it makes a "ton of sense" for Dell, it's a "nightma... | What type of computing is the combined effort of EMC and Dell slated to address? | {'text': 'private cloud computing', 'answer_start': 114} |
69,518 | 69,176 | 5726e03b708984140094d467 | generic | Genre fiction also showed it could question reality in its 20th century forms, in spite of its fixed formulas, through the enquiries of the skeptical detective and the alternative realities of science fiction. The separation of "mainstream" and "genre" forms (including journalism) continued to blur during the period up... | Critics based in what movement find fault in objective realism? | {'text': 'post-modern', 'answer_start': 498} |
86,210 | 85,868 | 5ad344ed604f3c001a3fdc47 | generic | PlayStation Portable can connect with PlayStation 3 in many ways, including in-game connectivity. For example, Formula One Championship Edition, a racing game, was shown at E3 2006 using a PSP as a real-time rear-view mirror. In addition, users are able to download original PlayStation format games from the PlayStation... | What's the name of the feature that would let you play a game on your PSP while having it with you? | {'text': 'Remote Play', 'answer_start': 412} |
88,860 | 88,518 | 5a838ac4e60761001a2eb7a1 | generic | The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet war in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989). The United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China supported the Islamist Afghan mujahadeen guerillas against the military forces of the Soviet Union and the Democratic Repu... | What is the WIJFAJC also known as? | {'text': 'World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders', 'answer_start': 535} |
99,708 | 99,366 | 5a57e8b9770dc0001aeefeb3 | generic | In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t... | When did Irvin Rock publish his essay? | {'text': '1903', 'answer_start': 41} |
52,347 | 52,005 | 57266f10f1498d1400e8df97 | generic | In Suriname today, Dutch is the sole official language, and over 60 percent of the population speaks it as a mother tongue. Dutch is the obligatory medium of instruction in schools in Suriname, even for non-native speakers. A further twenty-four percent of the population speaks Dutch as a second language. Suriname gain... | What year did Suriname join the Dutch Language Union? | {'text': '2004', 'answer_start': 436} |
122,035 | 121,693 | 5731e68eb9d445190005e640 | generic | Livy presents these as signs of widespread failure in Roman religio. The major prodigies included the spontaneous combustion of weapons, the apparent shrinking of the sun's disc, two moons in a daylit sky, a cosmic battle between sun and moon, a rain of red-hot stones, a bloody sweat on statues, and blood in fountains ... | What is the only proof of religious success over prodigies? | {'text': "Rome's victory", 'answer_start': 854} |
104,428 | 104,086 | 5a774d432d6d7f001a4a9fbe | generic | Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants. Mr Veltman's language shift studies document high bilingualism rates and subsequent adoption of English as the pref... | What is the preferred language of Hispanophone immigrants? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 301} |
66,630 | 66,288 | 5726b5565951b619008f7b4e | generic | Writing to a friend in May 1795, Burke surveyed the causes of discontent: "I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendency, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism [i.e. corporate tyranny, as practiced by the British East Indies Company], as they affect these countries, and as the... | When did Burke decide Indianism was the worst threat? | {'text': 'March 1796', 'answer_start': 454} |
115,657 | 115,315 | 5733cd2bd058e614000b62b7 | generic | The emergence of antibiotic resistance has prompted restrictions on their use in the UK in 1970 (Swann report 1969), and the EU has banned the use of antibiotics as growth-promotional agents since 2003. Moreover, several organizations (e.g., The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), American Public Health Associatio... | What 3 medical associations supported the bills? | {'text': "American Holistic Nurses' Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association (APHA)", 'answer_start': 1045} |
120,589 | 120,247 | 57312c6005b4da19006bce36 | generic | The Romans liked bright colors, and many Roman villas were decorated with vivid red murals. The pigment used for many of the murals was called vermilion, and it came from the mineral cinnabar, a common ore of mercury. It was one of the finest reds of ancient times – the paintings have retained their brightness for more... | What pigment was used to paint villas in ancient Rome? | {'text': 'vermilion', 'answer_start': 143} |
22,927 | 22,585 | 56f7197b711bf01900a4495c | generic | Significant employers in Southampton include The University of Southampton, Southampton Solent University, Southampton Airport, Ordnance Survey, BBC South, the NHS, ABP and Carnival UK. Southampton is noted for its association with the RMS Titanic, the Spitfire and more generally in the World War II narrative as one of... | What war is Southampton often associated with? | {'text': 'World War II', 'answer_start': 288} |
93,846 | 93,504 | 5a3abd893ff257001ab84242 | generic | Bohr also introduced the quantity , now known as the reduced Planck constant, as the quantum of angular momentum. At first, Bohr thought that this was the angular momentum of each electron in an atom: this proved incorrect and, despite developments by Sommerfeld and others, an accurate description of the electron angul... | What is the extended Planck constant also known as? | {'text': 'the quantity', 'answer_start': 21} |
15,972 | 15,630 | 5acd307e07355d001abf387b | generic | Later, during the Koine Greek period, the aspirated and voiceless stops /tʰ d/ of Attic Greek lenited to voiceless and voiced fricatives, yielding /θ ð/ in Medieval and Modern Greek. | Arctic Greek lenited to what? | {'text': 'voiceless and voiced fricatives', 'answer_start': 105} |
94,283 | 93,941 | 57295b78af94a219006aa312 | generic | During 734 BC the Phoenicians, a sea trading people from the north of ancient Canaan, built a small settlement on the natural harbor of Palermo. Some sources suggest they named the settlement "Ziz." It became one of the three main Phoenician colonies of Sicily, along with Motya and Soluntum. However, the remains of the... | Besides Ziz, what other two major settlements belonged to the Phoenicians | {'text': 'Motya and Soluntum', 'answer_start': 273} |
97,454 | 97,112 | 572a798abe1ee31400cb8024 | generic | Hayek also wrote that the state can play a role in the economy, and specifically, in creating a "safety net". He wrote, "There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: s... | What sort of system did Hayek propose the government create? | {'text': 'social insurance', 'answer_start': 486} |
91,996 | 91,654 | 572900de3f37b31900477f62 | generic | Like the rest of France, Paris has been predominantly Roman Catholic since the early Middle Ages, though religious attendance is now low. A majority of Parisians are still nominally Roman Catholic. According to 2011 statistics, there are 106 parishes and curates in the city, plus separate parishes for Spanish, Polish a... | How many parishes and curates were there in 2011? | {'text': '106', 'answer_start': 238} |
94,837 | 94,495 | 5acfc1a577cf76001a685d0a | generic | Zinc is more reactive than iron or steel and thus will attract almost all local oxidation until it completely corrodes away. A protective surface layer of oxide and carbonate (Zn
5(OH)
6(CO
3)
2) forms as the zinc corrodes. This protection lasts even after the zinc layer is scratched but degrades through time as the zi... | How is zinc applied to wounds? | {'text': 'electrochemically or as molten zinc', 'answer_start': 358} |
68,379 | 68,037 | 5726b8c8dd62a815002e8e32 | generic | North Carolina Museum of Art, occupying a large suburban campus on Blue Ridge Road near the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, maintains one of the premier public art collections located between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. In addition to its extensive collections of American Art, European Art and ancient art, the mus... | When was the Auguste Rodine exhibit? | {'text': '2000', 'answer_start': 390} |
52,003 | 51,661 | 572646a7708984140094c12d | generic | It is widely agreed that the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is the ancestor of all breeds of domestic duck (with the exception of the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata), which is not closely related to other ducks). Ducks are farmed mainly for their meat, eggs, and down. As is the case with chickens, various breeds have bee... | What breed of duck is considered the first? | {'text': 'mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is the ancestor of all breeds of domestic duck (with the exception of the Muscovy duck', 'answer_start': 29} |
103,119 | 102,777 | 5ad4d70c5b96ef001a10a2e5 | generic | In terms of casting and production itself, Spielberg has a known penchant for working with actors and production members from his previous films. For instance, he has cast Richard Dreyfuss in several films: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Always. Aside from his role as Indiana Jones, Spielberg also cast H... | What movie was Frank Welker's first voicework? | {'text': 'Gremlins', 'answer_start': 652} |
49,241 | 48,899 | 5ace32ce32bba1001ae49dc1 | generic | Asphalt/bitumen can sometimes be confused with "coal tar", which is a visually similar black, thermoplastic material produced by the destructive distillation of coal. During the early and mid-20th century when town gas was produced, coal tar was a readily available byproduct and extensively used as the binder for road ... | Which similar oil can asphalt be confused with? | {'text': 'coal tar', 'answer_start': 48} |
38,724 | 38,382 | 570c3aa8ec8fbc190045be02 | generic | Barça's local rival has always been Espanyol. Blanc-i-blaus, being one of the clubs granted royal patronage, was founded exclusively by Spanish football fans, unlike the multinational nature of Barça's primary board. The founding message of the club was clearly anti-Barcelona, and they disapprovingly saw FC Barcelona a... | Of what does team Espanyol view Barcelona as a team ? | {'text': 'foreigners', 'answer_start': 332} |
25,095 | 24,753 | 56f8997b9b226e1400dd0c93 | generic | Advances in understanding genes and inheritance continued throughout the 20th century. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was shown to be the molecular repository of genetic information by experiments in the 1940s to 1950s. The structure of DNA was studied by Rosalind Franklin using X-ray crystallography, which led James D. W... | What was shown to be the molecular repository of genetic information by experiments in the 1940s to 1950s? | {'text': 'Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)', 'answer_start': 87} |
60,372 | 60,030 | 57266134dd62a815002e8322 | generic | Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. Launching his new line from his... | When was Marvel founded? | {'text': '1939', 'answer_start': 102} |
83,747 | 83,405 | 5727e7d44b864d1900163fb9 | generic | In descending order of population, Oklahoma's largest cities in 2010 were: Oklahoma City (579,999, +14.6%), Tulsa (391,906, −0.3%), Norman (110,925, +15.9%), Broken Arrow (98,850, +32.0%), Lawton (96,867, +4.4%), Edmond (81,405, +19.2%), Moore (55,081, +33.9%), Midwest City (54,371, +0.5%), Enid (49,379, +5.0%), and St... | How many people lived in Stillwater in 2010? | {'text': '45,688', 'answer_start': 330} |
20,855 | 20,513 | 56e79c6300c9c71400d773ab | generic | While some teams have enjoyed considerable on-field and even financial success, many teams in the history of the league have enjoyed little success either on or off of the field of play. There are a number of franchises which existed in the form of a number of largely-unrelated teams under numerous management groups un... | What team did the New York CityHawks become after moving to Hartford? | {'text': 'New England Sea Wolves', 'answer_start': 448} |
123,841 | 123,499 | 5a7b5ae321c2de001afe9f55 | generic | IMF's forecast said that Greece's unemployment rate would hit the highest 14.8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14.1 in 2014. But in fact, the Greek economy suffered a prolonged high unemployemnt. The unemployment figure was between 9 per cent and 11 per cent in 2009, and it soared to 28 per cent in 2013. In 2015, Gree... | What is thought to have helped Greece's potential output? | {'text': 'prolonged massive unemployment', 'answer_start': 430} |
61,692 | 61,350 | 572cb395dfb02c14005c6c03 | generic | Unlike the situation with the states, there is no plenary reception statute at the federal level that continued the common law and thereby granted federal courts the power to formulate legal precedent like their English predecessors. Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judici... | Where do the federal courts fall? | {'text': 'the federal Judiciary Acts', 'answer_start': 302} |
46,142 | 45,800 | 57110273b654c5140001fab1 | generic | Along with secular matters, readers also favoured an alphabetical ordering scheme over cumbersome works arranged along thematic lines. The historian Charles Porset, commenting on alphabetization, has said that "as the zero degree of taxonomy, alphabetical order authorizes all reading strategies; in this respect it coul... | What ordering scheme did readers prefer? | {'text': 'alphabetical', 'answer_start': 53} |
65,552 | 65,210 | 5727be66ff5b5019007d940c | generic | The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters. Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The M... | Did cubism influence other fields outside of painting and scuplture? | {'text': 'The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields,', 'answer_start': 0} |
28,202 | 27,860 | 56fb84ebb28b3419009f1de4 | generic | During this period the practice of manuscript illumination gradually passed from monasteries to lay workshops, so that according to Janetta Benton "by 1300 most monks bought their books in shops", and the book of hours developed as a form of devotional book for lay-people. Metalwork continued to be the most prestigious... | Who noted that 14th century monks bought books in shops? | {'text': 'Janetta Benton', 'answer_start': 132} |
116,477 | 116,135 | 5730609f396df919000960c1 | generic | Though earlier approaches to translation are less commonly used today, they retain importance when dealing with their products, as when historians view ancient or medieval records to piece together events which took place in non-Western or pre-Western environments. Also, though heavily influenced by Western traditions ... | What do Chinese and related translations retain unique to their tradition? | {'text': 'theories and philosophies', 'answer_start': 449} |
16,524 | 16,182 | 5a4d7b69755ab9001a10f3fc | generic | Early web browsers supported only a very simple version of HTML. The rapid development of proprietary web browsers led to the development of non-standard dialects of HTML, leading to problems with interoperability. Modern web browsers support a combination of standards-based and de facto HTML and XHTML, which should be... | What did the rapid development of modern web browsers lead to? | {'text': 'the development of non-standard dialects of HTML', 'answer_start': 122} |
18,443 | 18,101 | 56e3c5ce8c00841900fbaeee | generic | When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages (Russian being the other one). As with Latvia many immigrants entered Estonia under Soviet encouragement. In the second half of the 1970s, the pressure of bilingu... | Who invaded Estonia? | {'text': 'Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 45} |
111,483 | 111,141 | 5ad29d1ad7d075001a429c0a | generic | Modern Greek has, in addition to Standard Modern Greek or Dimotiki, a wide variety of dialects of varying levels of mutual intelligibility, including Cypriot, Pontic, Cappadocian, Griko and Tsakonian (the only surviving representative of ancient Doric Greek). Yevanic is the language of the Romaniotes, and survives in s... | What language still survives as the representation of the one of the four religious orders of historic Greece? | {'text': 'Tsakonian', 'answer_start': 190} |
23,527 | 23,185 | 56f75adda6d7ea1400e171fb | generic | A party's consent to a treaty is invalid if it had been given by an agent or body without power to do so under that state's domestic law. States are reluctant to inquire into the internal affairs and processes of other states, and so a "manifest violation" is required such that it would be "objectively evident to any S... | A manifest violation is required to invalidate a party's consent to a treaty due to a reluctance internationally to inquire into what aspects of other states? | {'text': 'the internal affairs and processes', 'answer_start': 175} |
86,590 | 86,248 | 572a9ea734ae481900deabe5 | generic | In Commonwealth realms other than the UK, royal assent is granted or withheld either by the realm's sovereign or, more frequently, by the representative of the sovereign, the governor-general. In federated realms, assent in each state, province, or territory is granted or withheld by the representatives of the sovereig... | In Canada, who is authorized to defer assent and to whom? | {'text': 'A lieutenant governor may defer assent to the governor general, and the governor general may defer assent to federal bills to the sovereign.', 'answer_start': 533} |
12,205 | 11,863 | 56df827c56340a1900b29c9a | generic | Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Frank Bickerton both lived in the city. Artists include Beryl Cook whose paintings depict the culture of Plymouth and Robert Lenkiewicz, whose paintings investigated themes of vagrancy, sexual behaviour and suicide, lived in the city from the 1960s until his death in 2002. Il... | What genre of music does John Surman play? | {'text': 'Jazz', 'answer_start': 479} |
116,590 | 116,248 | 57307593396df91900096123 | 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 does it take a person to be able to do? | {'text': 'comprehend the context of the original text', 'answer_start': 166} |
31,422 | 31,080 | 57094c819928a81400471504 | generic | In the 1960s, Downtown Houston consisted of a collection of mid-rise office structures. Downtown was on the threshold of an energy industry–led boom in 1970. A succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s—many by real estate developer Gerald D. Hines—culminating with Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-fl... | What is the second tallest building in Houston? | {'text': 'Wells Fargo Plaza', 'answer_start': 639} |
32,006 | 31,664 | 5a836fe6e60761001a2eb6ec | generic | Copper-alloy touch surfaces have natural intrinsic properties to destroy a wide range of microorganisms (e.g., E. coli O157:H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Staphylococcus, Clostridium difficile, influenza A virus, adenovirus, and fungi). Some 355 copper alloys were proven to kill more than 99.9%... | What disease do hospitals hope to prevent by installing golden doorknobs? | {'text': "Legionnaires' disease", 'answer_start': 1166} |
79,943 | 79,601 | 5727c88fff5b5019007d953d | generic | Galicia has a surface area of 29,574 square kilometres (11,419 sq mi). Its northernmost point, at 43°47′N, is Estaca de Bares (also the northernmost point of Spain); its southernmost, at 41°49′N, is on the Portuguese border in the Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés Natural Park. The easternmost longitude is at 6°42′W on the bo... | What is its northernmost point? | {'text': 'Estaca de Bares', 'answer_start': 110} |
32,766 | 32,424 | 5a554385134fea001a0e1a04 | generic | Denial of service attacks are designed to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Attackers can deny service to individual victims, such as by deliberately entering a wrong password enough consecutive times to cause the victim account to be locked, or they may overload the capabilities of ... | Why is it difficult to defend against DDos? | {'text': 'the attack comes from a large number of points', 'answer_start': 543} |
4,686 | 4,344 | 56cf477faab44d1400b88f16 | generic | In a 1964 interview, Lee remarked that her aspiration was "to be ... the Jane Austen of South Alabama." Both Austen and Lee challenged the social status quo and valued individual worth over social standing. When Scout embarrasses her poorer classmate, Walter Cunningham, at the Finch home one day, Calpurnia, their black... | Who does Scout Tease and humiliate at their house? | {'text': 'Walter Cunningham', 'answer_start': 252} |
117,018 | 116,676 | 5ad005de77cf76001a686775 | generic | The Byzantine Empire was able to take advantage of the turmoil to expand its political influence and commercial relationships, first with the Khazars and later with the Rus' and other steppe groups. The Byzantines established the Theme of Cherson, formally known as Klimata, in the Crimea in the 830s to defend against r... | What was written in 830? | {'text': 'the Theme of Cherson,', 'answer_start': 226} |
122,778 | 122,436 | 5731cb92e99e3014001e628d | generic | The court noted that it "is a matter of history that this very practice of establishing governmentally composed prayers for religious services was one of the reasons which caused many of our early colonists to leave England and seek religious freedom in America." The lone dissenter, Justice Potter Stewart, objected to ... | Who was the lone dissenter in the Supreme Court's ruling? | {'text': 'Justice Potter Stewart', 'answer_start': 284} |
4,922 | 4,580 | 56d00697234ae51400d9c297 | generic | Solar power is anticipated to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2050, with solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power contributing 16 and 11 percent to the global overall consumption, respectively. | When is solar power is foreseen to become the largest source of electricity? | {'text': '2050', 'answer_start': 82} |
114,137 | 113,795 | 57302db9a23a5019007fcf1c | generic | Anglo-Saxons arrived as Roman power waned in the 5th century AD. Initially, their arrival seems to have been at the invitation of the Britons as mercenaries to repulse incursions by the Hiberni and Picts. In time, Anglo-Saxon demands on the British became so great that they came to culturally dominate the bulk of south... | What era did Ireland enter when the Roman Empire ended? | {'text': 'golden age', 'answer_start': 889} |
39,553 | 39,211 | 570cdc1afed7b91900d45a37 | generic | Mary had been venerated since Early Christianity, and is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the religion. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Churches believe that Mary, as Mother of Jesus, is the Mother of God and the Theotokos, literally "Giver of birth to... | What is Mary called in Islam? | {'text': 'Maryam', 'answer_start': 736} |
5,877 | 5,535 | 56d23eaeb329da140004ec54 | generic | In Eastern Buddhism, there is also a distinctive Vinaya and ethics contained within the Mahayana Brahmajala Sutra (not to be confused with the Pali text of that name) for Bodhisattvas, where, for example, the eating of meat is frowned upon and vegetarianism is actively encouraged (see vegetarianism in Buddhism). In Jap... | Distinctive Vinaya and ethics are contained within what sutra? | {'text': 'Mahayana Brahmajala', 'answer_start': 88} |
64,486 | 64,144 | 57274fac5951b619008f8817 | generic | The predominant school of thought in the 13th century was the Thomistic reconciliation of the teachings of Aristotle with Christian theology. The Condemnation of 1277, enacted at the University of Paris, placed restrictions on ideas that could be interpreted as heretical; restrictions that had implication for Aristotel... | On what types of ideas did the Condemnation of 1277 place restrictions? | {'text': 'heretical', 'answer_start': 262} |
96,131 | 95,789 | 5729e6923f37b319004785b7 | generic | In 1807, Thomas Young was possibly the first to use the term "energy" instead of vis viva, in its modern sense. Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis described "kinetic energy" in 1829 in its modern sense, and in 1853, William Rankine coined the term "potential energy". The law of conservation of energy was also first postulated in... | When was the law of conservation of energy first postulated? | {'text': '19th century', 'answer_start': 331} |
42,316 | 41,974 | 570d7908fed7b91900d4618b | generic | While the republican government was amenable to war reparations or ceding colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense, declared on 6 September that France would not "yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses." The republic the... | What was the republican government amenable to? | {'text': 'war reparations', 'answer_start': 48} |
32,443 | 32,101 | 57096446ed30961900e8406c | generic | Census-wise, the state is placed 21st on the population chart, followed by Tripura at 22nd place. Kangra district was top ranked with a population strength of 1,507,223 (21.98%), Mandi district 999,518 (14.58%), Shimla district 813,384 (11.86%), Solan district 576,670 (8.41%), Sirmaur district 530,164 (7.73%), Una dist... | Who was top ranked in population strength? | {'text': 'Kangra district', 'answer_start': 98} |
16,459 | 16,117 | 56e0d133231d4119001ac3dd | generic | This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), for example http://en.wikipedia.org/, into the browser. The prefix of the URL, the Uniform Resource Identifier or URI, determines how the URL will be interpreted. The most commonly used kind of URI starts with http: and identifies a resource to ... | What is the determining factor in how a URL will be interpreted? | {'text': 'The prefix of the URL', 'answer_start': 131} |
100,649 | 100,307 | 572bf9b1dfb02c14005c6b19 | 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 lost the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina? | {'text': 'the British Army', 'answer_start': 772} |
22,831 | 22,489 | 5ad4c7595b96ef001a10a042 | generic | Pomors are distinguished by the presence of Y Haplogroup N among them. Postulated to originate from southeast Asia, it is found at high rates in Uralic peoples. Its presence in Pomors (called "Northern Russians" in the report) attests to the non-Slavic tribes (mixing with Finnic tribes of northern Eurasia). Autosomally... | What are Y Haplogroup N distinguished by? | {'text': 'Pomors', 'answer_start': 0} |
41,198 | 40,856 | 5a299b2003c0e7001a3e183e | generic | From the Rigveda until the time of Pāṇini (fourth century BCE) the development of the early Vedic language can be observed in other Vedic texts: the Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda, Brahmanas, and Upanishads. During this time, the prestige of the language, its use for sacred purposes, and the importance attached to it... | What allowed sanskrit to change linguistically? | {'text': 'the prestige of the language', 'answer_start': 228} |
25,006 | 24,664 | 56f8c8379e9bad19000a04bf | generic | Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945. At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had h... | Where was the battle at Riva Ridge? | {'text': 'Italy', 'answer_start': 117} |
70,122 | 69,780 | 5726dc26708984140094d3e5 | generic | For instance, to look up the character where the sound is not known, e.g., 松 (pine tree), the user first determines which part of the character is the radical (here 木), then counts the number of strokes in the radical (four), and turns to the radical index (usually located on the inside front or back cover of the dicti... | What contains four strokes? | {'text': 'right half of the character', 'answer_start': 645} |
79,211 | 78,869 | 5ad217acd7d075001a4283e0 | generic | The long-standing claim that the present uniform was first worn as mourning for the death of George III is unfounded. "Eton dress" has undergone significant changes since its standardisation in the 19th century. Originally (along with a top-hat and walking-cane), Etonian dress was reserved for formal occasions, but boy... | In what century did George III die? | {'text': '19th', 'answer_start': 198} |
47,365 | 47,023 | 571a72d84faf5e1900b8a9b5 | generic | Brain areas involved in the neuroanatomy of memory such as the hippocampus, the amygdala, the striatum, or the mammillary bodies are thought to be involved in specific types of memory. For example, the hippocampus is believed to be involved in spatial learning and declarative learning, while the amygdala is thought to ... | What is the hippocampus's relationship to memory? | {'text': 'believed to be involved in spatial learning and declarative learning', 'answer_start': 217} |
39,567 | 39,225 | 5ad14069645df0001a2d13b8 | 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... | Where was Joseph born? | {'text': 'Nazareth in Galilee', 'answer_start': 44} |
123,668 | 123,326 | 5732138be17f3d1400422676 | generic | As a consequence, there was a crisis in international confidence in Greece's ability to repay its sovereign debt, as reflected by the rise of the country's borrowing rates (although their slow rise – the 10-year government bond yield only exceeded 7% in April 2010 – coinciding with a large number of negative articles, ... | What was the total amount of the rescue package given to Greece? | {'text': '€110 billion', 'answer_start': 710} |
73,914 | 73,572 | 57293f52af94a219006aa1e7 | generic | In 1637 a small party of Puritans reconnoitered the New Haven harbor area and wintered over. In April 1638, the main party of five hundred Puritans who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of the Reverend John Davenport and the London merchant Theophilus Eaton sailed into the harbor. These settlers we... | What was the name of the Native Americans that sold them the land? | {'text': 'Quinnipiacs,', 'answer_start': 568} |
127,411 | 127,069 | 573410864776f419006617e5 | generic | Other authors have focused on the structural conditions leading up to genocide and the psychological and social processes that create an evolution toward genocide. Ervin Staub showed that economic deterioration and political confusion and disorganization were starting points of increasing discrimination and violence in... | In the build-up to genocide, what have other authors focused on? | {'text': 'structural conditions', 'answer_start': 34} |
61,922 | 61,580 | 5726e7a1dd62a815002e9498 | generic | Opinions differ whether the transition to liberal democracy is underway. According to some reports, the military's presence continues as the label 'disciplined democracy' suggests. This label asserts that the Burmese military is allowing certain civil liberties while clandestinely institutionalising itself further into... | What type of government does Burma operate under ? | {'text': "'disciplined democracy", 'answer_start': 147} |
50,705 | 50,363 | 5acf923377cf76001a6852cc | generic | Since the founding of Freemasonry, many Bishops of the Church of England have been Freemasons, such as Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher. In the past, few members of the Church of England would have seen any incongruity in concurrently adhering to Anglican Christianity and practicing Freemasonry. In recent decades, however, r... | What Austrian Archbishop was a member of the Freemasons? | {'text': 'Geoffrey Fisher', 'answer_start': 114} |
55,026 | 54,684 | 57268071dd62a815002e8771 | generic | Greek cuisine is characteristic of the healthy Mediterranean diet, which is epitomized by dishes of Crete. Greek cuisine incorporates fresh ingredients into a variety of local dishes such as moussaka, stifado, Greek salad, fasolada, spanakopita and souvlaki. Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece like skordal... | What is added to almost every dish in Greece? | {'text': 'Olive oil', 'answer_start': 773} |
24,816 | 24,474 | 56f88c53a6d7ea1400e17751 | generic | While Mont Blanc was first climbed in 1786, most of the Alpine four-thousanders were climbed during the first half of the 19th century; the ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 marked the end of the golden age of alpinism. Karl Blodig (1859–1956) was among the first to successfully climb all the major 4,000 m peaks. He com... | Who was among the first to successfully climb all the major 4,000m peaks? | {'text': 'Karl Blodig', 'answer_start': 219} |
90,895 | 90,553 | 5728b4714b864d1900164c71 | generic | Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. According to Clarence L. Partee, the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. Partee c... | Where was Joseph Bohmann from? | {'text': 'Chicago', 'answer_start': 303} |
127,734 | 127,392 | 5aced21d32bba1001ae4b5b8 | generic | During the late 19th Century the Jadidists established themselves as an Islamic social movement throughout the region. Although the Jadidists were pro-modernization and not necessarily anti-Russian the Russians viewed the movement as a threat.[citation needed] Russian troops were required to restore order during uprisi... | The uprisings against the Khanate of Poland took place between what year? | {'text': '1910 and 1913', 'answer_start': 362} |
60,410 | 60,068 | 57267044dd62a815002e84d3 | generic | Atlas, rather than innovate, took a proven route of following popular trends in television and movies—Westerns and war dramas prevailing for a time, drive-in movie monsters another time—and even other comic books, particularly the EC horror line. Atlas also published a plethora of children's and teen humor titles, incl... | What was Marvel's major offshoot with Westerns, war stories, and monster comics called? | {'text': 'Atlas', 'answer_start': 0} |
104,501 | 104,159 | 57300a06b2c2fd1400568789 | generic | The Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of three counties: Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester. As of the 2013 U.S. Census, the metropolitan statistical area had a total population of 712,239 people. North Charleston is the second-largest city in the Charleston-North Charlest... | How many people lived in the Charleston=North Charleston Urban Area in 2010? | {'text': '548,404', 'answer_start': 649} |
25,553 | 25,211 | 56f8ee329e9bad19000a071c | generic | Education is compulsory from the age of 7 to 13. The enrollment of boys is higher than that of girls. In 1998, the gross primary enrollment rate was 53.5%, with higher enrollment ratio for males (67.7%) compared to females (40%). | What was the gross primary enrollment rate for females? | {'text': '40%', 'answer_start': 224} |
45,865 | 45,523 | 571079ada58dae1900cd69d5 | generic | The first technical dictionary was drafted by John Harris and entitled Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Harris' book avoided theological and biographical entries; instead it concentrated on science and technology. Published in 1704, the Lexicon technicum was the first book to... | What was the first technical dictionary drafted by John Harris titled? | {'text': 'Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences', 'answer_start': 71} |
47,224 | 46,882 | 5a8cd294fd22b3001a8d8ef2 | generic | Short-term memory is supported by transient patterns of neuronal communication, dependent on regions of the frontal lobe (especially dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and the parietal lobe. Long-term memory, on the other hand, is maintained by more stable and permanent changes in neural connections widely spread througho... | What type of patterns is long-term memory supported by? | {'text': 'transient', 'answer_start': 34} |
47,947 | 47,605 | 571a5a3d10f8ca1400304fed | generic | It is estimated that in the 11th century Ashkenazi Jews composed only three percent of the world's Jewish population, while at their peak in 1931 they accounted for 92 percent of the world's Jews. Immediately prior to the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world stood at approximately 16.7 million. Statistical figure... | Who made rough calculations and implied that Ashkenazi Jews make up less than 74% of the Jewish population worldwide? | {'text': 'Sergio DellaPergola', 'answer_start': 427} |
39,169 | 38,827 | 570c2e976b8089140040fbdd | generic | In 1939, the Bureau began compiling a custodial detention list with the names of those who would be taken into custody in the event of war with Axis nations. The majority of the names on the list belonged to Issei community leaders, as the FBI investigation built on an existing Naval Intelligence index that had focused... | When would the people on the custodial detention list be arrested? | {'text': 'in the event of war with Axis', 'answer_start': 119} |
5,695 | 5,353 | 56d0a745234ae51400d9c3fc | generic | The Noble Eightfold Path—the fourth of the Buddha's Noble Truths—consists of a set of eight interconnected factors or conditions, that when developed together, lead to the cessation of dukkha. These eight factors are: Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, R... | What are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path? | {'text': 'Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration', 'answer_start': 218} |
68,477 | 68,135 | 5726acfcf1498d1400e8e6d7 | generic | The first recorded nutritional experiment with human subjects is found in the Bible's Book of Daniel. Daniel and his friends were captured by the king of Babylon during an invasion of Israel. Selected as court servants, they were to share in the king's fine foods and wine. But they objected, preferring vegetables (puls... | How long did the trial diet last? | {'text': '10 days', 'answer_start': 491} |
85,712 | 85,370 | 572807b63acd2414000df2aa | generic | Von Neumann's mathematical analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. In a short list of facts about his life he submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, he stated "The part of my work I consider most essential is that on quantum mechanics, which developed in Göt... | What work did Von Nemann do in Berlin in 1930 and Princeton 1935 - 39? | {'text': 'operator theory', 'answer_start': 411} |
96,758 | 96,416 | 572a468aaf94a219006aa929 | generic | The Ottoman Navy vastly contributed to the expansion of the Empire's territories on the European continent. It initiated the conquest of North Africa, with the addition of Algeria and Egypt to the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Starting with the loss of Greece in 1821 and Algeria in 1830, Ottoman naval power and control over ... | Egypt was added to the Ottoman Empire in what year? | {'text': '1517', 'answer_start': 215} |
124,090 | 123,748 | 5a84e14b7cf838001a46ab0b | generic | Gephardt added that "inclusion and empowerment of the people on the line have to be done to get the best performance" from the minority party. Other techniques for fostering party harmony include the appointment of task forces composed of partisan colleagues with conflicting views to reach consensus on issues; the crea... | What group is the President responsible for the creation of when elected? | {'text': 'task forces', 'answer_start': 215} |
86,700 | 86,358 | 572ab0ca111d821400f38cd9 | generic | In Belgium, the sanction royale has the same legal effect as royal assent; the Belgian constitution requires a theoretically possible refusal of royal sanction to be countersigned—as any other act of the monarch—by a minister responsible before the House of Representatives. The monarch promulgates the law, meaning that... | Who declared the King capable of excersizing power again after a brief lapse in 1990? | {'text': 'both houses of parliament', 'answer_start': 1044} |
40,149 | 39,807 | 570c5d56b3d812140066d191 | generic | The king returned west but is said to have lost a significant part of his baggage train along the way. Roger of Wendover provides the most graphic account of this, suggesting that the king's belongings, including the Crown Jewels, were lost as he crossed one of the tidal estuaries which empties into the Wash, being suc... | What did the king lose on his way to the west? | {'text': 'significant part of his baggage', 'answer_start': 50} |
72,084 | 71,742 | 572829073acd2414000df5db | generic | Modern geology, like modern chemistry, gradually evolved during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Benoît de Maillet and the Comte de Buffon saw the Earth as much older than the 6,000 years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations ... | What geological theory was applied to the Paris Basin? | {'text': 'layers of rock could be dated by the fossils they contained', 'answer_start': 869} |
50,772 | 50,430 | 5725b77c271a42140099d091 | generic | The Jewish Legion, a group primarily of Zionist volunteers, assisted, in 1918, in the British conquest of Palestine. Arab opposition to British rule and Jewish immigration led to the 1920 Palestine riots and the formation of a Jewish militia known as the Haganah (meaning "The Defense" in Hebrew), from which the Irgun a... | What is the Jewish Legion? | {'text': 'a group primarily of Zionist volunteers', 'answer_start': 19} |
112,138 | 111,796 | 5ad0eaf1645df0001a2d0852 | generic | Its main body is solid sterling silver and silver gilt, while its plinth is made of malachite, a semi-precious stone. The plinth has a silver band around its circumference, upon which the names of the title-winning clubs are listed. Malachite's green colour is also representative of the green field of play. The design ... | How is the second ribbon symbolised? | {'text': 'symbolised by the captain of the title winning team as he raises the trophy', 'answer_start': 505} |
38,346 | 38,004 | 570be36dec8fbc190045bbc8 | generic | Other animals, such as rabbits and rodents, practise coprophagia behaviours - eating specialised faeces in order to re-digest food, especially in the case of roughage. Capybara, rabbits, hamsters and other related species do not have a complex digestive system as do, for example, ruminants. Instead they extract more nu... | What is the practive of coprophagia behaviours? | {'text': 'eating specialised faeces in order to re-digest food', 'answer_start': 78} |
75,874 | 75,532 | 57277f26f1498d1400e8f9e4 | generic | Poetry, in particular, was a staple of court life. Nobles and ladies-in-waiting were expected to be well versed in the art of writing poetry as a mark of their status. Every occasion could call for the writing of a verse, from the birth of a child to the coronation of an emperor, or even a pretty scene of nature. A wel... | What was said to show low status or "poor breeding"? | {'text': 'poor or hasty writing', 'answer_start': 617} |
108,297 | 107,955 | 57306e47069b5314008320d2 | generic | It is a fundamental property of antennas that the electrical characteristics of an antenna described in the next section, such as gain, radiation pattern, impedance, bandwidth, resonant frequency and polarization, are the same whether the antenna is transmitting or receiving. For example, the "receiving pattern" (sensi... | What is one electrical trait of an antenna? | {'text': 'radiation pattern', 'answer_start': 136} |
106,209 | 105,867 | 572fac1d04bcaa1900d76bc1 | generic | Han-era astronomers adopted a geocentric model of the universe, theorizing that it was shaped like a sphere surrounding the earth in the center. They assumed that the Sun, Moon, and planets were spherical and not disc-shaped. They also thought that the illumination of the Moon and planets was caused by sunlight, that l... | What did astronomers during this area believe to be the center of the universe? | {'text': 'the earth', 'answer_start': 120} |
92,207 | 91,865 | 5728e15c4b864d1900164ffc | generic | As god of colonization, Apollo gave oracular guidance on colonies, especially during the height of colonization, 750–550 BCE. According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy. However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneifo... | What does Lykegenes mean? | {'text': 'born in Lycia', 'answer_start': 622} |
8,307 | 7,965 | 56dcf81e66d3e219004dab6c | generic | In the controversial elections in 2002, Sassou won with almost 90% of the vote cast. His two main rivals, Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas, were prevented from competing and the only remaining credible rival, Andre Milongo, advised his supporters to boycott the elections and then withdrew from the race. A new constitution,... | Which politican left the presidential race after supporting a boycott by voters? | {'text': 'Milongo', 'answer_start': 211} |
77,154 | 76,812 | 57279701dd62a815002ea148 | 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... | Are there times when an editor's judgement should be deferred? | {'text': 'the claims of two readings ... appear to be exactly balanced', 'answer_start': 185} |
25,933 | 25,591 | 56f97eb89e9bad19000a09c6 | generic | One of the primary functions of a brain is to extract biologically relevant information from sensory inputs. The human brain is provided with information about light, sound, the chemical composition of the atmosphere, temperature, head orientation, limb position, the chemical composition of the bloodstream, and more. I... | The group of creatures that can sense electric fields is what? | {'text': 'fish', 'answer_start': 498} |
99,352 | 99,010 | 5ace57d732bba1001ae4a33b | generic | The cosmopolitan and multicultural nature of modern Guam poses challenges for Chamorros struggling to preserve their culture and identity amidst forces of acculturation. The increasing numbers of Chamorros, especially Chamorro youth, relocating to the U.S. Mainland has further complicated both definition and preservati... | What has benefitted modern-day Chamorro? | {'text': 'forces of acculturation', 'answer_start': 145} |
92,072 | 91,730 | 5728b3aeff5b5019007da4e9 | generic | As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst ... | What was the term for hymns sung to Apollo? | {'text': 'paeans', 'answer_start': 707} |
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