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102,274 | 101,932 | 57317eb2e6313a140071cfc3 | generic | On 2 March 1977 the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration of the Establishment of the People's Authority" at Gaddafi's behest. Dissolving the Libyan Arab Republic, it was replaced by the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Arabic: الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الاشتراكية, al-Jamāhīrīyah ... | How often did the General People's Congress occur? | {'text': 'annual', 'answer_start': 658} |
126,037 | 125,695 | 5733ef714776f4190066155a | generic | The Head of State of Portugal is the President of the Republic, elected to a five-year term by direct, universal suffrage. He or she has also supervision and reserve powers. These powers are often compared[by whom?] with the "moderator power" that was held by the King in the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy.[citation... | Who has the power to appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister? | {'text': 'President of the Republic', 'answer_start': 37} |
125,901 | 125,559 | 57333f25d058e614000b57c2 | generic | After defeating the Visigoths in only a few months, the Umayyad Caliphate started expanding rapidly in the peninsula. Beginning in 711, the land that is now Portugal became part of the vast Umayyad Caliphate's empire of Damascus, which stretched from the Indus river in the Indian sub-continent (now Pakistan) up to the ... | How long did it take the Emirate to become the Caliphate of Codoba? | {'text': 'almost two centuries', 'answer_start': 499} |
127,039 | 126,697 | 5732baf1328d981900602036 | generic | Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention. This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community... | What kind of countries get assistance with policing? | {'text': 'weak, failed or failing states', 'answer_start': 26} |
45,619 | 45,277 | 5ad3f536604f3c001a3ff97c | generic | Other capital crimes include: the use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, espionage, terrorism, certain violations of the Geneva Conventions that result in the death of one or more persons, and treason at the federal level; aggravated rape in Louisiana, Florida, and Oklahoma; extortionate kidnapping in ... | In what state is extortionate kidnapping not a capital offense? | {'text': 'Oklahoma', 'answer_start': 320} |
97,183 | 96,841 | 572a213aaf94a219006aa81d | generic | In southeast Europe agrarian societies first appeared in the 7th millennium BC, attested by one of the earliest farming sites of Europe, discovered in Vashtëmi, southeastern Albania and dating back to 6,500 BC. Anthropomorphic figurines have been found in the Balkans from 6000 BC, and in Central Europe by c. 5800 BC (L... | Who possibly created the earliest system of writing? | {'text': 'The Vinča culture', 'answer_start': 694} |
111,497 | 111,155 | 5730953e8ab72b1400f9c5ca | generic | Greek art has a long and varied history. Greeks have contributed to the visual, literary and performing arts. In the West, ancient Greek art was influential in shaping the Roman and later the modern western artistic heritage. Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards o... | What important heritage of art from Greece was celebrated during this time ? | {'text': 'the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists.', 'answer_start': 263} |
2,775 | 2,433 | 56cda9c462d2951400fa67e2 | generic | A Japan-exclusive manga series based on Twilight Princess, penned and illustrated by Akira Himekawa, was first released on February 8, 2016. The series is available solely via publisher Shogakukan's MangaOne mobile application. While the manga adaptation began almost ten years after the initial release of the game on w... | Who wrote and provided art for a Twilight Princess comic book series? | {'text': 'Akira Himekawa', 'answer_start': 85} |
32,101 | 31,759 | 5a836aeee60761001a2eb68b | generic | Britain's first use of brass occurred around the 3rd–2nd century BC. In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600. Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South Ameri... | When did Britain ban use of brass? | {'text': '3rd–2nd century BC', 'answer_start': 49} |
69,681 | 69,339 | 5ace3c2732bba1001ae49fbc | generic | A number of theories have been proposed regarding Avicenna's madhab (school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence). Medieval historian Ẓahīr al-dīn al-Bayhaqī (d. 1169) considered Avicenna to be a follower of the Brethren of Purity. On the other hand, Dimitri Gutas along with Aisha Khan and Jules J. Janssens demonstr... | Who's family is considered Sunni by modern writers? | {'text': 'Avicenna', 'answer_start': 616} |
92,435 | 92,093 | 572961af3f37b319004782e4 | generic | The morning after the election, the major candidates were neck and neck. It was clear that the result in Ohio, along with two other states who had still not declared (New Mexico and Iowa), would decide the winner. Bush had established a lead of around 130,000 votes but the Democrats pointed to provisional ballots that ... | Which state became the most important to secure Bush's presidential election? | {'text': 'the outcome of the election hinged solely on the result in Ohio', 'answer_start': 918} |
25,338 | 24,996 | 56f8e37f9b226e1400dd1198 | generic | Genetic engineering is now a routine research tool with model organisms. For example, genes are easily added to bacteria and lineages of knockout mice with a specific gene's function disrupted are used to investigate that gene's function. Many organisms have been genetically modified for applications in agriculture, in... | What is yet another application for which organisms have been modified for? | {'text': 'medicine', 'answer_start': 348} |
112,417 | 112,075 | 57302f5e947a6a140053d24e | generic | Rome's military confederation with the other peoples of the Italian peninsula meant that half of Rome's army was provided by the Socii, such as the Etruscans, Umbrians, Apulians, Campanians, Samnites, Lucani, Bruttii, and the various southern Greek cities. Polybius states that Rome could draw on 770,000 men at the begi... | What allowed Rome to source some of their military from other nearby areas? | {'text': 'military confederation with the other peoples', 'answer_start': 7} |
117,305 | 116,963 | 5a42aa7b4a4859001aac728a | generic | The company continued to carefully review submitted titles, giving them scores using a 40-point scale and allocating Nintendo's marketing resources accordingly. Each region performed separate evaluations. Nintendo of America also maintained a policy that, among other things, limited the amount of violence in the games ... | What was the policy of Genesis about games? | {'text': 'limited the amount of violence in the games on its systems', 'answer_start': 276} |
35,179 | 34,837 | 570a91194103511400d5985f | generic | The cup triumph was also Everton's passport to the Cup Winners' Cup—their first European campaign in the post-Heysel era. Progress under Joe Royle continued in 1995–96 as they climbed to sixth place in the Premiership. A fifteenth-place finish the following season saw Royle resign towards the end of the campaign, to be... | How many successive finishes did Walter Smith manage for the Everton FC? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 726} |
83,014 | 82,672 | 5ad2cbc3d7d075001a42a28f | generic | Northwestern has several housing options, including both traditional residence halls and residential colleges which gather together students who have a particular intellectual interest in common. Among the residential colleges are the Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies (CCS), Ayers College of Commerc... | How many fraternities does Southwestern recognize? | {'text': '21', 'answer_start': 652} |
87,985 | 87,643 | 5acfbdc477cf76001a685bd8 | generic | However, in order to manage the tensions present in the Spanish transition to democracy, the drafters of the current Spanish constitution avoided giving labels such as 'federal' to the territorial arrangements. Besides, unlike in the federal system, the main taxes are taken centrally from Madrid (except for the Basque ... | How did they ignore the tensions in the present of Spanish Transition to democracy? | {'text': "the drafters of the current Spanish constitution avoided giving labels such as 'federal' to the territorial arrangements", 'answer_start': 89} |
48,225 | 47,883 | 5ad34ebc604f3c001a3fdcc8 | generic | The modern pharmaceutical industry traces its roots to two sources. The first of these were local apothecaries that expanded from their traditional role distributing botanical drugs such as morphine and quinine to wholesale manufacture in the mid 1800s. Rational drug discovery from plants started particularly with the ... | Who is responsible for purification of Glaxo found in mineral sources? | {'text': 'German dye manufacturers', 'answer_start': 756} |
34,314 | 33,972 | 570a5bbf4103511400d59658 | generic | In the financial year ended 31 July 2013, Imperial had a total net income of £822.0 million (2011/12 – £765.2 million) and total expenditure of £754.9 million (2011/12 – £702.0 million). Key sources of income included £329.5 million from research grants and contracts (2011/12 – £313.9 million), £186.3 million from acad... | What was Imperial's net income for the financial year that ended on 31 July 2013? | {'text': '£822.0 million', 'answer_start': 77} |
119,277 | 118,935 | 573113d805b4da19006bcd57 | generic | With nitrides containing aluminium, most often AlGaN and AlGaInN, even shorter wavelengths are achievable. Ultraviolet LEDs in a range of wavelengths are becoming available on the market. Near-UV emitters at wavelengths around 375–395 nm are already cheap and often encountered, for example, as black light lamp replacem... | What sort of LEDs are becoming more available on the market? | {'text': 'Ultraviolet', 'answer_start': 107} |
87,954 | 87,612 | 5acf9dee77cf76001a685545 | generic | A distinguishing aspect of Indian federalism is that unlike many other forms of federalism, it is asymmetric. Article 370 makes special provisions for the state of Jammu and Kashmir as per its Instrument of Accession. Article 371 makes special provisions for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, ... | What never happens with President's Rule? | {'text': "the central government (through its appointed Governor) takes control of state's administration for certain months", 'answer_start': 483} |
91,036 | 90,694 | 572911821d04691400779015 | generic | Adult insects typically move about by walking, flying, or sometimes swimming (see below, Locomotion). As it allows for rapid yet stable movement, many insects adopt a tripedal gait in which they walk with their legs touching the ground in alternating triangles. Insects are the only invertebrates to have evolved flight.... | What can insects do with each other in a variety of ways? | {'text': 'communicate', 'answer_start': 811} |
130,058 | 129,716 | 5735190cacc1501500bac402 | generic | Since 1934, the sale of Federal Duck Stamps has generated $670 million, and helped to purchase or lease 5,200,000 acres (8,100 sq mi; 21,000 km2) of habitat. The stamps serve as a license to hunt migratory birds, an entrance pass for all National Wildlife Refuge areas, and are also considered collectors items often pur... | How many acres has the sale of Federal Duck Stamps helped to purchase or lease since 1934? | {'text': '5,200,000 acres', 'answer_start': 104} |
72,489 | 72,147 | 57270585708984140094d891 | generic | In glaciated areas where the glacier moves faster than one km per year, glacial earthquakes occur. These are large scale temblors that have seismic magnitudes as high as 6.1. The number of glacial earthquakes in Greenland peaks every year in July, August and September and is increasing over time. In a study using data ... | In what year were twice as many glacial earthquakes seen than in any other year in Greenland? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 451} |
35,903 | 35,561 | 5a0367eeaf157d001818f3b7 | generic | Lancashire is smaller than its historical extent following a major reform of local government. In 1889, the administrative county of Lancashire was created, covering the historical county except for the county boroughs such as Blackburn, Burnley, Barrow-in-Furness, Preston, Wigan, Liverpool and Manchester. The area ser... | What's the main river in Todmorden? | {'text': 'River Mersey', 'answer_start': 576} |
118,544 | 118,202 | 57310c4c497a881900248b2c | generic | Inline hockey was first played in 1995 and has also become more and more popular in the last years. The Women's inline hockey National Team participated in the 2008 FIRS World Championships. Namibia is the home for one of the toughest footraces in the world, the Namibian ultra marathon. The most famous athlete from Nam... | Which team participated in the 2008 FIRS World Championship? | {'text': "Women's inline hockey National Team", 'answer_start': 104} |
78,768 | 78,426 | 5727c1892ca10214002d9574 | generic | The Dominican friars quickly spread, including to England, where they appeared in Oxford in 1221. In the 13th century the order reached all classes of Christian society, fought heresy, schism, and paganism by word and book, and by its missions to the north of Europe, to Africa, and Asia passed beyond the frontiers of C... | What European country did the Dominican Friars quickly expand to? | {'text': 'England', 'answer_start': 50} |
113,931 | 113,589 | 5acd66ae07355d001abf40c2 | generic | The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km2, and a combined population of just under 70 mil... | The British Isles are a group of islands located off the southwestern coast of which continent? | {'text': 'Europe', 'answer_start': 84} |
5,750 | 5,408 | 56d1e4f7e7d4791d00902393 | generic | Not-self (Pāli: anatta; Sanskrit: anātman) is the third mark of existence. Upon careful examination, one finds that no phenomenon is really "I" or "mine"; these concepts are in fact constructed by the mind. In the Nikayas anatta is not meant as a metaphysical assertion, but as an approach for gaining release from suffe... | Buddha rejected the assertion "I have a Self" and what other related assertion? | {'text': '"I have no Self"', 'answer_start': 411} |
14,715 | 14,373 | 56dfdc887aa994140058e1d5 | generic | By the end of the 18th century a new room in the pub was established: the saloon.[citation needed] Beer establishments had always provided entertainment of some sort—singing, gaming or sport.[citation needed] Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear... | In what century did saloons become established? | {'text': '18th', 'answer_start': 18} |
55,571 | 55,229 | 572651775951b619008f6fc1 | generic | This time they succeeded, and on 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies. For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed comp... | What was the rank of the person who commanded the third voyage? | {'text': 'General', 'answer_start': 593} |
31,085 | 30,743 | 5707233f90286e26004fc952 | generic | Hidalgo was turned over to the Bishop of Durango, Francisco Gabriel de Olivares, for an official defrocking and excommunication on July 27, 1811. He was then found guilty of treason by a military court and executed by firing squad on July 30 at 7 in the morning. Before his execution, he thanked his jailers, Private Sol... | Hidalgo refused the use of what during his execution? | {'text': 'blindfold', 'answer_start': 521} |
69,341 | 68,999 | 5a7d062570df9f001a874f00 | generic | Poetry is a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has traditionally been distinguished from prose by its being set in verse;[a] prose is cast in sentences, poetry in lines; the syntax of prose is ... | What has non-traditionally been the distinguishing factor between poetry and prose? | {'text': 'verse', 'answer_start': 242} |
9,076 | 8,734 | 56ddd7179a695914005b9600 | generic | The Dutch Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), Republic of the United Netherlands or Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën), was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands s... | What are some other names the Dutch Republic is known by? | {'text': 'the United Provinces (Verenigde Provinciën), Federated Dutch Provinces (Foederatae Belgii Provinciae), and Dutch Federation (Belgica Foederata)', 'answer_start': 538} |
27,230 | 26,888 | 5ad3c82a604f3c001a3ff065 | generic | The massive amount of data storage required to archive uncompressed streams meant that inexpensive uncompressed storage options were not available to the consumer. In 2008, the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder was introduced. This device accepts HD content through component video inputs and stores the content in ... | When was the Hauppauge 1212 NonPersonal Video Recorder introduced? | {'text': '2008', 'answer_start': 167} |
33,998 | 33,656 | 5709cbff6d058f1900182bae | generic | The value of the U.S. dollar was therefore no longer anchored to gold, and it fell upon the Federal Reserve to maintain the value of the U.S. currency. The Federal Reserve, however, continued to increase the money supply, resulting in stagflation and a rapidly declining value of the U.S. dollar in the 1970s. This was l... | What was the value of the U.S. dollar no longer anchored to? | {'text': 'gold', 'answer_start': 65} |
56,583 | 56,241 | 572674a05951b619008f7318 | generic | The standard specifies how speed ratings should be reported by the camera. If the noise-based speed (40:1) is higher than the saturation-based speed, the noise-based speed should be reported, rounded downwards to a standard value (e.g. 200, 250, 320, or 400). The rationale is that exposure according to the lower satura... | What is the range for exposure latitude? | {'text': 'from the saturation-based speed to the 10:1 noise-based speed', 'answer_start': 441} |
15,160 | 14,818 | 5acf7cec77cf76001a684f4c | generic | American comics developed out of such magazines as Puck, Judge, and Life. The success of illustrated humour supplements in the New York World and later the New York American, particularly Outcault's The Yellow Kid, led to the development of newspaper comic strips. Early Sunday strips were full-page and often in colour.... | Which outlet didn't comic supplements find success in? | {'text': 'New York World', 'answer_start': 127} |
105,078 | 104,736 | 572fc229b2c2fd1400568405 | generic | Dowding accepted that as AOC, he was responsible for the day and night defence of Britain, and the blame, should he fail, would be laid at his door. When urgent changes and improvements needed to be made, Dowding seemed reluctant to act quickly. The Air Staff felt that this was due to his stubborn nature and reluctance... | The Air Ministry was critical of Dowding after which battle? | {'text': 'Battle of Britain Day', 'answer_start': 432} |
52,446 | 52,104 | 572693fddd62a815002e8a18 | generic | Dutch is written using the Latin script. Dutch uses one additional character beyond the standard alphabet, the digraph IJ. It has a relatively high proportion of doubled letters, both vowels and consonants, due to the formation of compound words and also to the spelling devices for distinguishing the many vowel sounds ... | What's the name for the type of accent that Dutch used to mark the difference between the word for "a" or "an" and the word for "one"? | {'text': 'acute accent', 'answer_start': 761} |
46,830 | 46,488 | 571ae22232177014007e9f8e | generic | Constantius, ordered Liberius into exile in 356 giving him, then, three days to comply. He was ordered into banishment to Beroea, in Thrace; Beroea (Thrace). He sent expensive presents, too, if he were to accept the Arian position but were refused. He sent him, indeed, five hundred pieces of gold "to bear his charges" ... | What did Liberius have to promise to do in order to return? | {'text': 'comply with the bishops', 'answer_start': 1307} |
82,384 | 82,042 | 5727d8bc4b864d1900163e66 | generic | In 1904, a British expedition to Tibet, spurred in part by a fear that Russia was extending its power into Tibet as part of The Great Game, invaded the country, hoping that negotiations with the 13th Dalai Lama would be more effective than with Chinese representatives. When the British-led invasion reached Tibet on Dec... | How many Tibetan troops died at the Massacre of Chumik Shenko? | {'text': '600', 'answer_start': 445} |
115,945 | 115,603 | 573032bba23a5019007fcf62 | generic | Windows Store apps run within a new set of APIs known as Windows Runtime, which supports programming languages such as C, C++, Visual Basic .NET, C#, along with HTML5 and JavaScript. If written in some "high-level" languages, apps written for Windows Runtime can be compatible with both Intel and ARM versions of Windows... | What kind of environment provides Windows apps extra security? | {'text': 'sandboxed environment', 'answer_start': 531} |
42,788 | 42,446 | 5ad2d616d7d075001a42a3fd | generic | On 6 September 2007, Belgian-based International Polar Foundation unveiled the Princess Elisabeth station, the world's first zero-emissions polar science station in Antarctica to research climate change. Costing $16.3 million, the prefabricated station, which is part of the International Polar Year, was shipped to the ... | What cost $13.6 million? | {'text': 'Princess Elisabeth station', 'answer_start': 79} |
116,947 | 116,605 | 5acff7c077cf76001a6866a2 | generic | Prior to the emergence of Kievan Rus' in the 9th century AD, the lands between the Baltic Sea and Black Sea were primarily populated by eastern Slavic tribes. In the northern region around Novgorod were the Ilmen Slavs and neighboring Krivichi, who occupied territories surrounding the headwaters of the West Dvina, Dnie... | Which tribe resided in the southeast? | {'text': 'Poliane', 'answer_start': 470} |
94,386 | 94,044 | 5729690daf94a219006aa3b9 | generic | Palermo has at least 2 circuits of City Walls - many pieces of which still survive. The first circuit surrounded the ancient core of the punic City - the so-called Palaeopolis (in the area east of Porta Nuova) and the Neopolis. Via Vittorio Emanuele was the main road east-west through this early walled city. The easter... | On what road was the eastern edge of the walled city? | {'text': 'Via Roma', 'answer_start': 353} |
64,418 | 64,076 | 57273c11dd62a815002e99e0 | generic | The French crown's increasing dominance over the Papacy culminated in the transference of the Holy See to Avignon in 1309. When the Pope returned to Rome in 1377, this led to the election of different popes in Avignon and Rome, resulting in the Papal Schism (1378–1417). The Schism divided Europe along political lines; ... | Who were the supporters of the Avignon Papacy? | {'text': 'France, her ally Scotland and the Spanish kingdoms', 'answer_start': 326} |
29,768 | 29,426 | 57060b8852bb891400689801 | generic | The city was incorporated in 1854, the same year in which the Camden and Atlantic Railroad train service began. Built on the edge of the bay, this served as the direct link of this remote parcel of land with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That same year, construction of the Absecon Lighthouse, designed by George Meade of ... | What is the name of the lighthouse that is located on the Atlantic City coast? | {'text': 'Absecon Lighthouse', 'answer_start': 272} |
120,318 | 119,976 | 57313428e6313a140071cd14 | generic | The first indigenous group encountered by Columbus were the 250,000 Taínos of Hispaniola who represented the dominant culture in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas. Within thirty years about 70% of the Taínos had died. They had no immunity to European diseases, so outbreaks of measles and smallpox ravaged their popul... | Who was the first group of indigenous people Columbus encountered? | {'text': 'the 250,000 Taínos of Hispaniola', 'answer_start': 56} |
3,327 | 2,985 | 56cdd4d762d2951400fa68ce | generic | The Longmen Shan Fault System is situated in the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau and contains several faults. This earthquake ruptured at least two imbricate structures in Longmen Shan Fault System, i.e. the Beichuan Fault and the Guanxian–Anxian Fault. In the epicentral area, the average slip in Beichuan Fault w... | How large was the slip 30 km northeast of the fault? | {'text': '3 metres', 'answer_start': 626} |
88,151 | 87,809 | 5728442e2ca10214002da203 | generic | Spain is a unitary state with a high level of decentralisation, often regarded as a federal system in all but name or a "federation without federalism". The country has been quoted as being "an extraordinarily decentralized country", with the central government accounting for just 18% of public spending, 38% for the re... | What does Spain's government accounts for? | {'text': '8% of public spending, 38% for the regional governments, 13% for the local councils, and the remaining 31% for the social security system', 'answer_start': 283} |
105,686 | 105,344 | 572ead9cc246551400ce44e0 | generic | In general relativity, a vanishing stress-energy tensor implies, through Einstein field equations, the vanishing of all the components of the Ricci tensor. Vacuum does not mean that the curvature of space-time is necessarily flat: the gravitational field can still produce curvature in a vacuum in the form of tidal forc... | what produces curvature in a vacuum? | {'text': 'tidal forces and gravitational waves', 'answer_start': 310} |
59,546 | 59,204 | 57266327f1498d1400e8dde5 | generic | Ruling elders are usually laymen (and laywomen in some denominations) who are elected by the congregation and ordained to serve with the teaching elders, assuming responsibility for nurture and leadership of the congregation. Often, especially in larger congregations, the elders delegate the practicalities of buildings... | In very large congregations, what do the elders delegate? | {'text': 'practicalities of buildings, finance, and temporal ministry', 'answer_start': 293} |
123,823 | 123,481 | 57321ff8e99e3014001e6530 | generic | Between 1832 and 2002 the currency of Greece was the drachma. After signing the Maastricht Treaty, Greece applied to join the eurozone. The two main convergence criteria were a maximum budget deficit of 3% of GDP and a declining public debt if it stood above 60% of GDP. Greece met the criteria as shown in its 1999 annu... | What was the currency of Greece until 2002? | {'text': 'drachma', 'answer_start': 53} |
54,199 | 53,857 | 5726d182dd62a815002e913e | generic | Meanwhile, on 10 October 1950, the 89th Tank Battalion was attached to the 1st Cavalry Division, increasing the armor available for the Northern Offensive. On 15 October, after moderate KPA resistance, the 7th Cavalry Regiment and Charlie Company, 70th Tank Battalion captured Namchonjam city. On 17 October, they flanke... | When was Pyongyang captured? | {'text': 'October 1950', 'answer_start': 492} |
66,798 | 66,456 | 5726bfee708984140094d064 | generic | The Samoan islands have been produced by vulcanism, the source of which is the Samoa hotspot which is probably the result of a mantle plume. While all of the islands have volcanic origins, only Savai'i, the western most island in Samoa, is volcanically active with the most recent eruptions in Mt Matavanu (1905–1911), M... | How many meters is 6,096 feet? | {'text': '1858', 'answer_start': 408} |
91,066 | 90,724 | 5728bc93ff5b5019007da5b6 | generic | Late Carboniferous and Early Permian insect orders include both extant groups, their stem groups, and a number of Paleozoic groups, now extinct. During this era, some giant dragonfly-like forms reached wingspans of 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in), making them far larger than any living insect. This gigantism may have been du... | In addition to Carboniferous, what other insect order is inclusive of extant groups, stem groups and Paleozoic groups? | {'text': 'Early Permian', 'answer_start': 23} |
89,132 | 88,790 | 57284dd0ff5b5019007da140 | generic | Political interest groups have stated that these laws remove important restrictions on governmental authority, and are a dangerous encroachment on civil liberties, possible unconstitutional violations of the Fourth Amendment. On 30 July 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the first legal challenge aga... | What did Section 215 of the Patriot Act allow the FBI to search? | {'text': "a person's business, bookstore, and library records", 'answer_start': 534} |
82,895 | 82,553 | 5727f1163acd2414000df054 | generic | The four-year, full-time undergraduate program comprises the majority of enrollments at the university and emphasizes instruction in the arts and sciences, plus the professions of engineering, journalism, communication, music, and education. Although a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences is required in all majo... | How many courses do undergrads typically take each quarter? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 667} |
84,486 | 84,144 | 572831bc2ca10214002da054 | generic | On 30 March, Nasser proclaimed a manifesto stipulating the restoration of civil liberties, greater parliamentary independence from the executive, major structural changes to the ASU, and a campaign to rid the government of corrupt elements. A public referendum approved the proposed measures in May, and held subsequent ... | What organization was to undergo a big overhaul? | {'text': 'ASU', 'answer_start': 178} |
22,250 | 21,908 | 56f6fc16711bf01900a448ce | generic | The term "classical music" has two meanings: the broader meaning includes all Western art music from the Medieval era to today, and the specific meaning refers to the music from the 1750s to the early 1830s—the era of Mozart and Haydn. This section is about the more specific meaning. | From the 1750's to the early 1830's is the era of Mozart and what other composer? | {'text': 'Haydn', 'answer_start': 229} |
78,653 | 78,311 | 5a308bcaf1f7c7001ab92dbc | generic | The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments. Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube. Beatboxing, more accurately known as vocal percussion, is a technique used in a cappella music popularized... | What did the Beach Boys use so they would sound like instruments? | {'text': 'nonsense words', 'answer_start': 25} |
25,517 | 25,175 | 56f8e31d9b226e1400dd118d | generic | Most Portuguese and Mestiços speak one of the African languages and Kriol as second languages. French is also taught in schools because Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking nations. Guinea-Bissau is a full member of the Francophonie. | Why is French taught in school? | {'text': 'Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking nations.', 'answer_start': 136} |
46,223 | 45,881 | 571117b1b654c5140001fb2a | generic | In 1986, Nintendo released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan, a type of floppy drive that uses a single-sided, proprietary 5 cm (2") disk and plugs into the cartridge port. It contains RAM for the game to load into and an extra single-cycle wavetable-lookup sound chip. The disks were originally obtained from kiosk... | What were the storage disks used for? | {'text': 'storing the game and saving progress', 'answer_start': 589} |
39,350 | 39,008 | 570c3da6ec8fbc190045be0c | generic | The Gospel of Luke begins its account of Mary's life with the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced her divine selection to be the mother of Jesus. According to gospel accounts, Mary was present at the Crucifixion of Jesus and is depicted as a member of the early Christian community in Jeru... | Which goespel begins its story of Mary with the Annunciation? | {'text': 'Gospel of Luke', 'answer_start': 4} |
94,835 | 94,493 | 5acfc1a577cf76001a685d08 | 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... | What is the only compound zinc is more reactive than? | {'text': 'steel', 'answer_start': 35} |
51,539 | 51,197 | 5a0cbb29f5590b0018dab52e | generic | Improved sanitation in the developing world is a global need, but a neglected priority as shown by the data collected by the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) of UNICEF and WHO. This program is tasked to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to drinking w... | What is needed for the WHO? | {'text': 'Improved sanitation in the developing world is a global need', 'answer_start': 0} |
21,119 | 20,777 | 56e8239437bdd419002c4461 | generic | Another occasionally used criterion for discriminating dialects from languages is that of linguistic authority, a more sociolinguistic notion. According to this definition, two varieties are considered dialects of the same language if (under at least some circumstances) they would defer to the same authority regarding ... | Why is Yiddish not a dialect of German? | {'text': 'a Yiddish speaker would not consult a German dictionary', 'answer_start': 717} |
98,000 | 97,658 | 572a8cd234ae481900deab73 | generic | In Singapore, madrasahs are private schools which are overseen by Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS, English: Islamic Religious Council of Singapore). There are six Madrasahs in Singapore, catering to students from Primary 1 to Secondary 4. Four Madrasahs are coeducational and two are for girls. Students take a range ... | What year is it planned for IB programs to be in place at Madrasah Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah? | {'text': '2019', 'answer_start': 868} |
5,021 | 4,679 | 56ce7d1aaab44d1400b88809 | generic | The International Organization for Standardization has established a number of standards relating to solar energy equipment. For example, ISO 9050 relates to glass in building while ISO 10217 relates to the materials used in solar water heaters. | ISO 9050 relates to standards for what? | {'text': 'glass in building', 'answer_start': 158} |
89,049 | 88,707 | 5a85e769b4e223001a8e72b8 | generic | In 2002, the Musharraf-led government took a firm stand against the jihadi organizations and groups promoting extremism, and arrested Maulana Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and took dozens of activists into custody. An official ban was imposed on the ... | How many government officials were taken into custody? | {'text': 'dozens', 'answer_start': 251} |
110,887 | 110,545 | 5ace6a8532bba1001ae4a62d | generic | Holes through a PCB are typically drilled with small-diameter drill bits made of solid coated tungsten carbide. Coated tungsten carbide is recommended since many board materials are very abrasive and drilling must be high RPM and high feed to be cost effective. Drill bits must also remain sharp so as not to mar or tear... | Holes through a PBC are drilled how? | {'text': 'with small-diameter drill bits', 'answer_start': 42} |
23,559 | 23,217 | 56f7ee11aef2371900625c6b | generic | The United Nations Charter states that treaties must be registered with the UN to be invoked before it or enforced in its judiciary organ, the International Court of Justice. This was done to prevent the proliferation of secret treaties that occurred in the 19th and 20th century. Section 103 of the Charter also states ... | What document states that treaties must be registered with the United Nations to be invoked before it or enforced in the International Court of Justice? | {'text': 'The United Nations Charter', 'answer_start': 0} |
14,995 | 14,653 | 5a10d81806e79900185c3411 | generic | ISPs provide Internet access, employing a range of technologies to connect users to their network. Available technologies have ranged from computer modems with acoustic couplers to telephone lines, to television cable (CATV), wireless Ethernet (wi-fi), and fiber optics. | Who provides the Internet? | {'text': 'ISPs', 'answer_start': 1} |
76,949 | 76,607 | 5a7fc1f48f0597001ac000a6 | generic | Spanish Supreme Court is the highest court for all cases in Spain (both private and public). Only those cases related to human rights can be appealed at the Constitutional Court (which also decides about acts accordance with Spanish Constitution).
In Spain, high courts cannot create binding precedents; however, lower r... | What do lower rank courts always observe? | {'text': 'Supreme Court interpretations', 'answer_start': 347} |
118,570 | 118,228 | 5acfe8c677cf76001a68641a | generic | Other mentionable newspapers are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, the weekly Windhoek Observer, the weekly Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times. Current affairs magazines include Insight Namibia, Vision2030 Focus magazine[citation needed] and Prime FOCUS. Sister Namibia Magazine stands out as ... | Who owns Prime FOCUS? | {'text': 'TrustCo', 'answer_start': 65} |
22,439 | 22,097 | 56f75395aef2371900625b1b | generic | Similarly, movies and television often revert to standard, clichéd snatches of classical music to convey refinement or opulence: some of the most-often heard pieces in this category include Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1, Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (as orchest... | What does classical music convey in movies and television? | {'text': 'refinement or opulence', 'answer_start': 105} |
129,163 | 128,821 | 57344560879d6814001ca452 | generic | Other Fortune 500 companies, while not headquartered in the area, do have a major presence. These include SunTrust Bank (based in Atlanta), Capital One Financial Corporation (officially based in McLean, Virginia, but founded in Richmond with its operations center and most employees in the Richmond area), and the medica... | What city is the headquarters of McKesson located in? | {'text': 'San Francisco', 'answer_start': 366} |
108,106 | 107,764 | 572ff739b2c2fd140056866f | generic | A Yagi-Uda array uses passive elements to greatly increase gain. It is built along a support boom that is pointed toward the signal, and thus sees no induced signal and does not contribute to the antenna's operation. The end closer to the source is referred to as the front. Near the rear is a single active element, typ... | What can take advantage of these elements to add more gain? | {'text': 'Yagi-Uda array', 'answer_start': 2} |
125,263 | 124,921 | 573253330fdd8d15006c69a5 | generic | In the 1970s, the Bronx was plagued by a wave of arson. The burning of buildings was predominantly in the poorest communities, like the South Bronx. The most common explanation of what occurred was that landlords decided to burn their low property-value buildings and take the insurance money as it was more lucrative to... | Where were poverty and unemployment the worst in the Bronx? | {'text': 'South Bronx', 'answer_start': 528} |
53,027 | 52,685 | 5ad198f2645df0001a2d20fc | generic | Many arrangements of electrical contacts are used. Large lamps may have a screw base (one or more contacts at the tip, one at the shell) or a bayonet base (one or more contacts on the base, shell used as a contact or used only as a mechanical support). Some tubular lamps have an electrical contact at either end. Miniat... | Whose power ratings range from about .0001 to .01? | {'text': 'incandescent light bulbs', 'answer_start': 578} |
19,173 | 18,831 | 56e6f6e0de9d371400068101 | generic | Contemporary Christian music (CCM) has several subgenres, one being "Christian AC". Radio & Records, for instance, lists Christian AC among its format charts. There has been crossover to mainstream and hot AC formats by many of the core artists of the Christian AC genre, notably Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kathy Trocc... | What genre of music is performed by MercyMe? | {'text': 'Christian AC', 'answer_start': 69} |
91,056 | 90,714 | 5728b8b93acd2414000dfd4b | generic | The higher-level phylogeny of the arthropods continues to be a matter of debate and research. In 2008, researchers at Tufts University uncovered what they believe is the world's oldest known full-body impression of a primitive flying insect, a 300 million-year-old specimen from the Carboniferous period. The oldest defi... | From what period do researchers believe that the oldest known full-body impression of a flying insect originates? | {'text': 'Carboniferous', 'answer_start': 283} |
25,380 | 25,038 | 56f8abb19e9bad19000a02b0 | generic | For a brief period in the 1790s, the British tried to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama. But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also up north in part of present South Senegal. | When was a rival foothold attempted at Bolama? | {'text': 'the 1790s', 'answer_start': 22} |
116,545 | 116,203 | 57306f658ab72b1400f9c4e7 | 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 ... | What include a synopsized adaptation of Twain's story? | {'text': '"Private History of the \'Jumping Frog\' Story"', 'answer_start': 360} |
19,404 | 19,062 | 56e790f337bdd419002c4156 | generic | Changes to DST rules cause problems in existing computer installations. For example, the 2007 change to DST rules in North America required many computer systems to be upgraded, with the greatest impact on email and calendaring programs; the upgrades consumed a significant effort by corporate information technologists. | In addition to calendaring programs, what kind of programs were most impacted by the changes? | {'text': 'email', 'answer_start': 206} |
102,412 | 102,070 | 57318f36e6313a140071d094 | generic | A fundamental part of Gaddafi's ideology was anti-Zionism. He believed that the state of Israel should not exist, and that any Arab compromise with the Israeli government was a betrayal of the Arab people. In large part due to their support of Israel, Gaddafi despised the United States, considering the country to be im... | Who compared Gaddafi to Hitler? | {'text': 'Blundy and Lycett', 'answer_start': 486} |
5,213 | 4,871 | 56d10dc217492d1400aab82f | generic | Following a headlining set at Coachella 2011 that was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "one of greatest hip-hop sets of all time", West released the collaborative album Watch the Throne with Jay-Z. By employing a sales strategy that released the album digitally weeks before its physical counterpart, Watch the Thr... | What was the name of the joint album Kanye made with Jay Z? | {'text': 'Watch the Throne', 'answer_start': 175} |
57,433 | 57,091 | 57292ace3f37b319004780a9 | generic | Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans.[citation needed] There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil (mainly in the South Region of the country), Argentina, Canada, South Africa, the post-So... | How many native German speakers in the world are there? | {'text': '100 million', 'answer_start': 17} |
3,255 | 2,913 | 56cdcb2c62d2951400fa6833 | generic | It is also known as the Wenchuan earthquake (Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn; literally: "Great Wenchuan earthquake"), after the location of the earthquake's epicenter, Wenchuan County, Sichuan. The epicenter was 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital, with a focal depth of 1... | What was the focal depth of the earthquake? | {'text': '19 km', 'answer_start': 319} |
105,627 | 105,285 | 5a876fda1d3cee001a6a119c | generic | Vacuum is space void of matter. The word stems from the Latin adjective vacuus for "vacant" or "void". An approximation to such vacuum is a region with a gaseous pressure much less than atmospheric pressure. Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they sometimes simply ca... | What latin term is used to describe an object under atmospheric pressure? | {'text': 'in vacuo', 'answer_start': 619} |
68,226 | 67,884 | 5acd55a707355d001abf3d8e | generic | Raleigh is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet. This area is known as the "fall line" because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. As a result, most of Raleigh features gently rolling hil... | What city is in the southeast region of North Carolina? | {'text': 'Raleigh', 'answer_start': 0} |
112,805 | 112,463 | 57322fdf0fdd8d15006c6829 | generic | The Battle of Leyte Gulf was arguably the largest naval battle in history and was the largest naval battle of World War II. It was a series of four distinct engagements fought off the Philippine island of Leyte from 23 to 26 October 1944. Leyte Gulf featured the largest battleships ever built, was the last time in hist... | When did the Battle of Leyte Gulf occur? | {'text': '23 to 26 October 1944', 'answer_start': 216} |
56,541 | 56,199 | 5a67c59cf038b7001ab0c465 | generic | The Recommended Exposure Index (REI) technique, new in the 2006 version of the standard, allows the manufacturer to specify a camera model’s EI choices arbitrarily. The choices are based solely on the manufacturer’s opinion of what EI values produce well-exposed sRGB images at the various sensor sensitivity settings. T... | What was retracted in the 2006 standards? | {'text': 'The Recommended Exposure Index (REI) technique', 'answer_start': 0} |
4,627 | 4,285 | 56ce623aaab44d1400b88721 | generic | The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scou... | Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird? | {'text': 'Maycomb, Alabama', 'answer_start': 112} |
125,972 | 125,630 | 5733b1924776f41900661055 | generic | With the occupation by Napoleon, Portugal began a slow but inexorable decline that lasted until the 20th century. This decline was hastened by the independence in 1822 of the country's largest colonial possession, Brazil. In 1807, as Napoleon's army closed in on Lisbon, the Prince Regent João VI of Portugal transferred... | Under whose occupation did Portugal begin a slow decline? | {'text': 'Napoleon', 'answer_start': 23} |
34,087 | 33,745 | 5a8cc9a1fd22b3001a8d8e74 | generic | Today, USD notes are made from cotton fiber paper, unlike most common paper, which is made of wood fiber. U.S. coins are produced by the United States Mint. U.S. dollar banknotes are printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and, since 1914, have been issued by the Federal Reserve. The "large-sized notes" issued ... | What size currency are the new larger notes similar to? | {'text': 'Philippines', 'answer_start': 631} |
126,177 | 125,835 | 573415824776f41900661825 | generic | Portugal has considerable resources of wind and river power, the two most cost-effective renewable sources. Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a trend towards the development of a renewable resource industry and reduction of both consumption and use of fossil fuel resources. In 2006, the world's largest... | Where was the Agucadoura Wave Farm located? | {'text': 'Norte region', 'answer_start': 525} |
114,894 | 114,552 | 5a62be8af8d794001af1c200 | generic | In 2003, additional UN sanctions were placed on Liberian timber exports, which had risen from US$5 million in 1997 to over US$100 million in 2002 and were believed to be funding rebels in Sierra Leone. These sanctions were lifted in 2006. Due in large part to foreign aid and investment inflow following the end of the w... | What was due in large part to foreign rebels in Sierra Leone? | {'text': 'Liberia maintains a large account deficit', 'answer_start': 324} |
103,466 | 103,124 | 572e82d1c246551400ce428f | generic | Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Among the giant planets in the Solar System, Neptune is the most dense. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranu... | What does the astronomical sign of Neptune represent? | {'text': "god Neptune's trident", 'answer_start': 601} |
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