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32,933 | 32,591 | 57099ea3200fba14003681dd | generic | Computers control functions at many utilities, including coordination of telecommunications, the power grid, nuclear power plants, and valve opening and closing in water and gas networks. The Internet is a potential attack vector for such machines if connected, but the Stuxnet worm demonstrated that even equipment cont... | What is a potential attack vector for utilities such as the power grid? | {'text': 'The Internet', 'answer_start': 188} |
113,237 | 112,895 | 5ad4d61a5b96ef001a10a2a3 | generic | Many popular museums, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego Museum of Man, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Diego Air & Space Museum are located in Balboa Park, which is also the location of the San Diego Zoo. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD... | In what district can't historic ship exhibits be found? | {'text': 'Columbia district downtown', 'answer_start': 476} |
101,154 | 100,812 | 572e7b91dfa6aa1500f8d017 | generic | Canadian football is also played at the high school, junior, collegiate, and semi-professional levels: the Canadian Junior Football League, formed May 8, 1974, and Quebec Junior Football League are leagues for players aged 18–22, many post-secondary institutions compete in Canadian Interuniversity Sport for the Vanier ... | On which date was the Canadian Junior Football League formed? | {'text': 'May 8, 1974', 'answer_start': 147} |
6,644 | 6,302 | 56db3174e7c41114004b4f1c | generic | The fourteenth season premiered on January 7, 2015. Ryan Seacrest returned to host, while Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick, Jr. returned for their respective fourth, third and second seasons as judges. Eighth season runner-up Adam Lambert filled in for Urban during the New York City auditions. Randy Jackso... | Who took Urban's spot at the New York auditions? | {'text': 'Adam Lambert', 'answer_start': 239} |
62,767 | 62,425 | 5a668029f038b7001ab0bee7 | generic | In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No information is lost in lo... | What can not be lossy or lossless? | {'text': 'Compression', 'answer_start': 158} |
94,715 | 94,373 | 5729701b1d04691400779453 | generic | Zinc is an essential mineral perceived by the public today as being of "exceptional biologic and public health importance", especially regarding prenatal and postnatal development. Zinc deficiency affects about two billion people in the developing world and is associated with many diseases. In children it causes growth... | How many people are affected by zinc deficiency? | {'text': 'two billion', 'answer_start': 211} |
14,334 | 13,992 | 56df836e5ca0a614008f9bef | generic | At the homestead, Bell set up his own workshop in the converted carriage house near to what he called his "dreaming place", a large hollow nestled in trees at the back of the property above the river. Despite his frail condition upon arriving in Canada, Bell found the climate and environs to his liking, and rapidly imp... | Where was the Six Nations Reserve located? | {'text': 'Onondaga', 'answer_start': 458} |
114,589 | 114,247 | 5a1378cec8eab200188dc987 | generic | The styles that resulted fall within several categories. In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture— and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo. From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable,... | What style was the English-speaking world's equivalent of the Georgian style? | {'text': 'European Rococo', 'answer_start': 237} |
79,818 | 79,476 | 5a7e969448f7d9001a06376d | generic | There are a variety of watersports in Cork, including rowing and sailing. There are five rowing clubs training on the river Lee, including Shandon BC, UCC RC, Pres RC, Lee RC, and Cork BC. Naomhóga Chorcaí is a rowing club whose members row traditional naomhóga on the Lee in occasional competitions. The "Ocean to City"... | How long has The Royal Cork Yacht Club trained on the Lee? | {'text': 'since 2005', 'answer_start': 349} |
25,525 | 25,183 | 56f8e4d89b226e1400dd119e | generic | Approximately 10% of the country's population belong to the Christian community, and 40% continue to hold Indigenous beliefs. These statistics can be misleading, however, as many residents practice syncretic forms of Islamic and Christian faiths, combining their practices with traditional African beliefs. | What percentage of the population is Christian? | {'text': 'Approximately 10%', 'answer_start': 0} |
70,130 | 69,788 | 5726dd13f1498d1400e8edba | generic | While new characters can be easily coined by writing on paper, they are difficult to represent on a computer – they must generally be represented as a picture, rather than as text – which presents a significant barrier to their use or widespread adoption. Compare this with the use of symbols as names in 20th century mu... | What has their been a prominent supply of in the 20th century? | {'text': 'symbols', 'answer_start': 285} |
117,652 | 117,310 | 5730b7842461fd1900a9cfdf | generic | It was believed that when people died, they would be confined to a gloomy world of Ereshkigal, whose realm was guarded by gateways with various monsters designed to prevent people entering or leaving. The dead were buried outside the city walls in graveyards where a small mound covered the corpse, along with offerings ... | Where were dead Sumerians buried? | {'text': 'outside the city walls in graveyards', 'answer_start': 222} |
61,114 | 60,772 | 57278a735951b619008f8cd4 | generic | Kingdom Plantae belongs to Domain Eukarya and is broken down recursively until each species is separately classified. The order is: Kingdom; Phylum (or Division); Class; Order; Family; Genus (plural genera); Species. The scientific name of a plant represents its genus and its species within the genus, resulting in a si... | What part of the name is always capitalized? | {'text': 'the genus', 'answer_start': 610} |
76,234 | 75,892 | 572794d5dd62a815002ea110 | generic | On October 17, 1987, about 3,000 Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan complaining about the condition of Lake Sevan, the Nairit chemicals plant, and the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, and air pollution in Yerevan. Police tried to prevent the protest but took no action to stop it once the march was underway. The demonstrati... | When was the Yerevan demonstration? | {'text': 'October 17, 1987', 'answer_start': 3} |
111,603 | 111,261 | 5ad0b6aa645df0001a2d0127 | generic | The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders. Seasons run from August to May. Teams play 38 matches each (playing each team in the league twice, home and away), totalling 380 matches in the season. Most games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons; others during weekday eve... | What are mostly played on Sunday mornings? | {'text': 'games', 'answer_start': 243} |
35,618 | 35,276 | 5acd770707355d001abf4387 | generic | The current US fleet of Nimitz-class carriers will be followed into service (and in some cases replaced) by the ten-ship Gerald R. Ford class. It is expected that the ships will be more automated in an effort to reduce the amount of funding required to staff, maintain and operate its supercarriers. The main new feature... | How much does the Harrison R. Ford-class carrier weigh? | {'text': '100,000 ton', 'answer_start': 863} |
63,344 | 63,002 | 5726a373708984140094cca9 | generic | In order to reduce negative impacts, it is desirable that pesticides be degradable or at least quickly deactivated in the environment. Such loss of activity or toxicity of pesticides is due to both innate chemical properties of the compounds and environmental processes or conditions. For example, the presence of haloge... | What may slow pesticide movement? | {'text': 'Adsorption to soil', 'answer_start': 407} |
84,748 | 84,406 | 5a611382e9e1cc001a33cea6 | generic | On 10 May 1963, John XXIII received the Balzan Prize in private at the Vatican but deflected achievements of himself to the five popes of his lifetime, Pope Leo XIII to Pius XII. On 11 May, the Italian President Antonio Segni officially awarded Pope John XXIII with the Balzan Prize for his engagement for peace. While i... | What award was given to Pope Pius XII on May 10, 1963? | {'text': 'the Balzan Prize', 'answer_start': 36} |
121,084 | 120,742 | 5731756c05b4da19006bd1cc | generic | As a result of modernisation efforts over the years, Egypt's healthcare system has made great strides forward. Access to healthcare in both urban and rural areas greatly improved and immunisation programs are now able to cover 98% of the population. Life expectancy increased from 44.8 years during the 1960s to 72.12 ye... | What was life expectancy in 1960s? | {'text': '44.8 years', 'answer_start': 281} |
60,815 | 60,473 | 5726865bf1498d1400e8e2b4 | generic | The ability of the Dominions to set their own foreign policy, independent of Britain, was recognised at the 1923 Imperial Conference. Britain's request for military assistance from the Dominions at the outbreak of the Chanak Crisis the previous year had been turned down by Canada and South Africa, and Canada had refuse... | When was the Balfour Declaration issued? | {'text': '1926', 'answer_start': 416} |
28,302 | 27,960 | 56fb93b3b28b3419009f1e48 | generic | One of the major developments in the military sphere during the Late Middle Ages was the increased use of infantry and light cavalry. The English also employed longbowmen, but other countries were unable to create similar forces with the same success. Armour continued to advance, spurred by the increasing power of cros... | Along with light cavalry, what military arm was used with increasing frequency in the Late Middle Ages? | {'text': 'infantry', 'answer_start': 106} |
110,942 | 110,600 | 572fd62fb2c2fd14005684ea | generic | Unpopulated boards are usually bare-board tested for "shorts" and "opens". A short is a connection between two points that should not be connected. An open is a missing connection between points that should be connected. For high-volume production a fixture or a rigid needle adapter is used to make contact with copper ... | What's an absent connection that needs to be linked up on an unpopulated board called? | {'text': 'An open', 'answer_start': 148} |
46,754 | 46,412 | 571ab0c810f8ca14003052ed | generic | Nonetheless, within a few years of his death, Gregory of Nazianzus called him the "Pillar of the Church". His writings were well regarded by all Church fathers who followed, in both the West and the East, who noted their rich devotion to the Word-become-man, great pastoral concern, and profound interest in monasticism.... | What day is he celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church? | {'text': '18 January', 'answer_start': 689} |
129,529 | 129,187 | 57342eb44776f41900661a2b | generic | The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with... | What can the clearance of pathogens be influenced by in an individual? | {'text': 'genetic variants', 'answer_start': 101} |
37,228 | 36,886 | 5ad1741f645df0001a2d1c6b | generic | Starting in 1940 (18 months before Pearl Harbor), the nation mobilized, giving high priority to air power. American involvement in World War II in 1940–41 was limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China. The U.S. entered officially on 8 December 1941 f... | When did the US officially enter World War I? | {'text': '8 December 1941', 'answer_start': 303} |
50,626 | 50,284 | 5acf889e77cf76001a685142 | generic | The ritual form on which the Grand Orient of France was based was abolished in England in the events leading to the formation of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813. However the two jurisdictions continued in amity (mutual recognition) until events of the 1860s and 1870s drove a seemingly permanent wedge between ... | When was the United Grand Lodge of England demolished? | {'text': '1813', 'answer_start': 166} |
92,617 | 92,275 | 5728e1754b864d1900165000 | generic | During McMahon's period in office, Neville Bonner joined the Senate and became the first Indigenous Australian in the Australian Parliament. Bonner was chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971 and celebrated his maiden parliamentary speech with a boomerang throwing display on the lawns of Parliament... | Who became the first indigenous Austrailian in Parliament? | {'text': 'Neville Bonner', 'answer_start': 35} |
14,908 | 14,566 | 56dff2937aa994140058e2a8 | generic | In 1966 The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel became infamous as the scene of a murder committed by gangster Ronnie Kray. The Ten Bells is associated with several of the victims of Jack the Ripper. In 1955, Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, shot David Blakely as he emerged from The Magdala in South H... | What is the present name of the former Crown and Anchor? | {'text': 'The Crown Tavern', 'answer_start': 501} |
104,927 | 104,585 | 5ad41e4e604f3c001a40062f | generic | After the defeat of the Confederacy, federal forces remained in Charleston during the city's reconstruction. The war had shattered the prosperity of the antebellum city. Freed slaves were faced with poverty and discrimination, but a large community of free people of color had been well-established in the city before th... | What else did freed slaves face in prewar Charleston besides discrimination? | {'text': 'poverty', 'answer_start': 199} |
74,842 | 74,500 | 57278281708984140094df99 | generic | The King presides over a period of misrule in which conventional social rules may be broken and reckless behavior is encouraged. Festivities are held in the open air, beginning with a cercavila, a ritual procession throughout the town to call everyone to attend. Rues of masked revelers dance alongside. On Thursday Dijo... | When may conventional social rules be broken? | {'text': 'a period of misrule', 'answer_start': 23} |
64,286 | 63,944 | 5ad01d0777cf76001a686a78 | generic | The term "Late Middle Ages" refers to one of the three periods of the Middle Ages, along with the Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages. Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodization in his History of the Florentine People (1442). Flavio Biondo used a similar framework in Decades of Histor... | What 1863 work resulted in the standard use of tripartite periodization? | {'text': 'Universal History Divided into an Ancient, Medieval, and New Period', 'answer_start': 476} |
33,724 | 33,382 | 570a718e4103511400d5971f | generic | The strength of beers has climbed during the later years of the 20th century. Vetter 33, a 10.5% abv (33 degrees Plato, hence Vetter "33") doppelbock, was listed in the 1994 Guinness Book of World Records as the strongest beer at that time, though Samichlaus, by the Swiss brewer Hürlimann, had also been listed by the ... | What year did the brewing company BrewDog start producing a beer called Ghost Deer? | {'text': '2011', 'answer_start': 690} |
41,258 | 40,916 | 570e61b00dc6ce1900204fde | generic | Sanskrit has also influenced Sino-Tibetan languages through the spread of Buddhist texts in translation. Buddhism was spread to China by Mahayana missionaries sent by Ashoka, mostly through translations of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Many terms were transliterated directly and added to the Chinese vocabulary. Chinese wor... | What were transliterated and added to the Chinese language? | {'text': 'Many terms', 'answer_start': 232} |
75,403 | 75,061 | 5727a8aa2ca10214002d9313 | generic | While full-time work hinders schooling, empirical evidence is varied on the relationship between part-time work and school. Sometimes even part-time work may hinder school attendance or performance. On the other hand, many poor children work for resources to attend school. Children who are not doing well at school some... | What can relieve tension for children at work? | {'text': 'Good relations with a supervisor', 'answer_start': 369} |
93,459 | 93,117 | 572914e2af94a219006aa04d | generic | Fused quartz is a glass made from chemically-pure SiO2 (silica). It has excellent thermal shock characteristics, being able to survive immersion in water while red hot. However, its high melting-temperature (1723 °C) and viscosity make it difficult to work with. Normally, other substances are added to simplify processi... | What percentage of soda-lime glass is silica? | {'text': '70 to 74', 'answer_start': 694} |
96,282 | 95,940 | 5acd4c3307355d001abf3c56 | generic | Matter may be converted to energy (and vice versa), but mass cannot ever be destroyed; rather, mass/energy equivalence remains a constant for both the matter and the energy, during any process when they are converted into each other. However, since is extremely large relative to ordinary human scales, the conversion o... | Matter can't be converted to what? | {'text': 'energy', 'answer_start': 27} |
35,503 | 35,161 | 570abe786d058f19001830ca | generic | On the recovery side of the flight deck, the adaptation to the aircraft loadout is mirrored. Non-VTOL or conventional aircraft cannot decelerate on their own, and almost all carriers using them must have arrested-recovery systems (-BAR, e.g. CATOBAR or STOBAR) to recover their aircraft. Aircraft that are landing extend... | What do aircraft do when landing in order to stop on a short distance? | {'text': 'extend a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck', 'answer_start': 314} |
38,437 | 38,095 | 570c0ad6ec8fbc190045bc2a | generic | According to FIG rules, only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics. This is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus; ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope—on a floor area, with a much gr... | What five seperate apparatuses are used in the five separate routines? | {'text': 'ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope', 'answer_start': 257} |
110,335 | 109,993 | 573444c0879d6814001ca447 | generic | To prevent further loss of groundwater, Tucson has been involved in water conservation and groundwater preservation efforts, shifting away from its reliance on a series of Tucson area wells in favor of conservation, consumption-based pricing for residential and commercial water use, and new wells in the more sustainabl... | What is the CAP? | {'text': 'Central Arizona Project Aqueduct', 'answer_start': 389} |
86,908 | 86,566 | 5a81d44431013a001a334f0f | generic | For any prime number p, there is also the multiplicative group of integers modulo p. Its elements are the integers 1 to p − 1. The group operation is multiplication modulo p. That is, the usual product is divided by p and the remainder of this division is the result of modular multiplication. For example, if p = 5, the... | How many integers does p = 5 have? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 327} |
50,357 | 50,015 | 5726367789a1e219009ac578 | generic | In 1799, English Freemasonry almost came to a halt due to Parliamentary proclamation. In the wake of the French Revolution, the Unlawful Societies Act 1799 banned any meetings of groups that required their members to take an oath or obligation. The Grand Masters of both the Moderns and the Antients Grand Lodges called ... | What year did parliament rescind the exemption of 1799 given to the Freemasons? | {'text': '1967', 'answer_start': 754} |
67,914 | 67,572 | 5728b9464b864d1900164ce0 | generic | The cuisine of Switzerland is multifaceted. While some dishes such as fondue, raclette or rösti are omnipresent through the country, each region developed its own gastronomy according to the differences of climate and languages. Traditional Swiss cuisine uses ingredients similar to those in other European countries, a... | What dairy product is produced in the valley of Emmental? | {'text': 'Emmental', 'answer_start': 383} |
81,159 | 80,817 | 5728dacc2ca10214002da9aa | generic | Detroit is served by various private schools, as well as parochial Roman Catholic schools operated by the Archdiocese of Detroit. As of 2013[update] there are four Catholic grade schools and three Catholic high schools in the City of Detroit, with all of them in the city's west side. The Archdiocese of Detroit lists a ... | On which side of the city of the city are all of the Catholic schools located? | {'text': 'west', 'answer_start': 274} |
97,537 | 97,195 | 572abec0be1ee31400cb8200 | generic | In Why F A Hayek is a Conservative, British policy analyst Madsen Pirie claims Hayek mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook. Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to ru... | According to Pirie, conservatives dislike change only when its forced upon them by whom? | {'text': 'people in authority who think they know how to run things better', 'answer_start': 271} |
120,721 | 120,379 | 5ad4e19e5b96ef001a10a532 | generic | Unlike vermilion or red ochre, made from minerals, red lake pigments are made by mixing organic dyes, made from insects or plants, with white chalk or alum. Red lac was made from the gum lac, the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, particularly the Laccifer lacca from India. Carmine lake was ... | What continent is Laccifer lacca found on? | {'text': 'South America', 'answer_start': 368} |
28,901 | 28,559 | 5706c0ba2eaba6190074ace9 | generic | Afro-Spaniards are Spanish nationals of West/Central African descent. They today mainly come from Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal. Additionally, many Afro-Spaniards born in Spain are from the former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea. Today,... | How many Afro-Spaniards currently live in Spain? | {'text': 'an estimated 683,000', 'answer_start': 331} |
102,476 | 102,134 | 572e7cf003f98919007566a7 | generic | The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd mi... | When did Ottoman rule occur in Cyprus? | {'text': 'between 1571 and 1878', 'answer_start': 773} |
12,391 | 12,049 | 56de739f4396321400ee292d | generic | In other contexts the term does not necessarily have pejorative overtones and may even be complimentary when used, in areas where innovation is welcome, of ideas that are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo in any practice and branch of knowledge. Scientist/author Isaac Asimov considered heresy as an abstra... | What has heresy within the scientific community repeatedly become? | {'text': 'orthodoxy', 'answer_start': 696} |
78,278 | 77,936 | 5a73b82742eae6001a389994 | generic | The United States has become essentially a two-party system. Since a conservative (such as the Republican Party) and liberal (such as the Democratic Party) party has usually been the status quo within American politics. The first parties were called Federalist and Republican, followed by a brief period of Republican do... | What kind of support did Teddy Roosevelt have outside the South? | {'text': 'weak support', 'answer_start': 1341} |
90,012 | 89,670 | 5ad41050604f3c001a400195 | generic | Alaska has few road connections compared to the rest of the U.S. The state's road system covers a relatively small area of the state, linking the central population centers and the Alaska Highway, the principal route out of the state through Canada. The state capital, Juneau, is not accessible by road, only a car ferry... | Why is there a debate about not moving the capital of Alaska to another town? | {'text': 'Juneau, is not accessible by road', 'answer_start': 269} |
98,046 | 97,704 | 572a6fc47a1753140016af5a | generic | Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, enter... | What did Forbes call Miami in 2008? | {'text': "America's Cleanest City", 'answer_start': 444} |
16,103 | 15,761 | 56e196cfcd28a01900c679f0 | generic | H
2 is produced in chemistry and biology laboratories, often as a by-product of other reactions; in industry for the hydrogenation of unsaturated substrates; and in nature as a means of expelling reducing equivalents in biochemical reactions. | How does nature produce H2? | {'text': 'expelling reducing equivalents in biochemical reactions', 'answer_start': 186} |
124,192 | 123,850 | 5a53d803bdaabd001a386776 | generic | Following the breakup of the Russian Empire in the aftermath of World War I for a brief period, from 1918 to 1920, Armenia was an independent republic. In late 1920, the communists came to power following an invasion of Armenia by the Red Army, and in 1922, Armenia became part of the Transcaucasian SFSR of the Soviet U... | When was the Red Army part of an independent republic after the Russian Empire breakup? | {'text': 'from 1918 to 1920', 'answer_start': 96} |
112,314 | 111,972 | 57300ba704bcaa1900d77078 | generic | The plebeians had finally achieved political equality with the patricians. However, the plight of the average plebeian had not changed. A small number of plebeian families achieved the same standing that the old aristocratic patrician families had always had, but the new plebeian aristocrats became as uninterested in t... | What did the rebelling plebeians want before they returned to Rome? | {'text': 'more rights', 'answer_start': 481} |
65,901 | 65,559 | 5726ae06f1498d1400e8e6fe | generic | At a certain temperature, (usually between 1,500 °F (820 °C) and 1,600 °F (870 °C), depending on carbon content), the base metal of steel undergoes a change in the arrangement of the atoms in its crystal matrix, called allotropy. This allows the small carbon atoms to enter the interstices of the iron crystal, diffusing... | What are the characteristics of steel if it is cooled to quickly? | {'text': 'very hard and brittle', 'answer_start': 1322} |
2,103 | 1,761 | 56cc57466d243a140015ef24 | generic | Before the release of iOS 5, the iPod branding was used for the media player included with the iPhone and iPad, a combination of the Music and Videos apps on the iPod Touch. As of iOS 5, separate apps named "Music" and "Videos" are standardized across all iOS-powered products. While the iPhone and iPad have essentially... | Prior to iOS 5, how many apps were required to play music and videos on iPhone and iPad? | {'text': 'one', 'answer_start': 98} |
85,679 | 85,337 | 5a6284e3f8d794001af1c094 | generic | Metrobus Transit is responsible for public transit in the region. Metrobus has a total of 19 routes, 53 buses and an annual ridership of 3,014,073. Destinations include the Avalon Mall, The Village Shopping Centre, Memorial University, Academy Canada, the College of the North Atlantic, the Marine Institute, the Confede... | What transit has 53 routes? | {'text': 'Metrobus Transit', 'answer_start': 0} |
33,457 | 33,115 | 5acd6eb307355d001abf41e9 | generic | Nearly all beer includes barley malt as the majority of the starch. This is because its fibrous hull remains attached to the grain during threshing. After malting, barley is milled, which finally removes the hull, breaking it into large pieces. These pieces remain with the grain during the mash, and act as a filter bed... | What is done to the barley after it is milled? | {'text': 'malting', 'answer_start': 155} |
116,525 | 116,183 | 57306625396df919000960e7 | generic | Many non-transparent-translation theories draw on concepts from German Romanticism, the most obvious influence being the German theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher. In his seminal lecture "On the Different Methods of Translation" (1813) he distinguished between translation methods that move "the writer ... | Moving the writer toward the reader would be an example of what type of translation method? | {'text': 'transparency', 'answer_start': 348} |
35,959 | 35,617 | 5a0379efaf157d001818f46f | generic | Liverpool produced a number of nationally and internationally successful popular singers in the 1950s, including traditional pop stars Frankie Vaughan and Lita Roza, and one of the most successful British rock and roll stars in Billy Fury. Many Lancashire towns had vibrant skiffle scenes in the late 1950s, out of which... | When was Billy Furry born? | {'text': '1962', 'answer_start': 647} |
19,259 | 18,917 | 56e73fb737bdd419002c3df9 | generic | Beginning and ending dates are roughly the reverse in the southern hemisphere. For example, mainland Chile observed DST from the second Saturday in October to the second Saturday in March, with transitions at 24:00 local time. The time difference between the United Kingdom and mainland Chile could therefore be five hou... | In the southern hemisphere, what aspect of DST is about the reverse of that of the northern hemisphere? | {'text': 'Beginning and ending dates', 'answer_start': 0} |
108,036 | 107,694 | 572f4583947a6a140053c84c | generic | However a log-periodic dipole array consists of a number of dipole elements of different lengths in order to obtain a somewhat directional antenna having an extremely wide bandwidth: these are frequently used for television reception in fringe areas. The dipole antennas composing it are all considered "active elements"... | What is the main application of these set ups? | {'text': 'television reception', 'answer_start': 213} |
71,246 | 70,904 | 5ad28049d7d075001a4297ae | generic | On 24 August, Pravda and Izvestia carried news of the non-secret portions of the Pact, complete with the now infamous front-page picture of Molotov signing the treaty, with a smiling Stalin looking on. The news was met with utter shock and surprise by government leaders and media worldwide, most of whom were aware only... | Which diplomat never leaked information about the secret agreements? | {'text': 'Hans von Herwarth', 'answer_start': 615} |
81,570 | 81,228 | 5727bf163acd2414000deb55 | generic | In the humanities, one sense of culture, as an attribute of the individual, has been the degree to which they have cultivated a particular level of sophistication, in the arts, sciences, education, or manners. The level of cultural sophistication has also sometimes been seen to distinguish civilizations from less compl... | What was sometimes used or worn by early humans to form some type of culture visibly? | {'text': 'body modification, clothing or jewelry', 'answer_start': 763} |
25,183 | 24,841 | 56f8b7f99e9bad19000a0396 | generic | Early work in molecular genetics suggested the model that one gene makes one protein. This model has been refined since the discovery of genes that can encode multiple proteins by alternative splicing and coding sequences split in short section across the genome whose mRNAs are concatenated by trans-splicing. | How are alternative splicing and coding sequences distributed? | {'text': 'split in short section across the genome', 'answer_start': 222} |
20,884 | 20,542 | 56e79e5c37bdd419002c4261 | generic | Because of the sudden loss of the New Orleans franchise, the league announced in October that the beginning of the free agency period would be delayed in order to accommodate a dispersal draft. Dates were eventually announced as December 2 for the dispersal draft and December 4 for free agency, but shortly before the d... | When was free agency scheduled to begin after the delay? | {'text': 'December 11', 'answer_start': 551} |
80,764 | 80,422 | 5acd276d07355d001abf3707 | generic | Several subsets of Unicode are standardized: Microsoft Windows since Windows NT 4.0 supports WGL-4 with 652 characters, which is considered to support all contemporary European languages using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic script. Other standardized subsets of Unicode include the Multilingual European Subsets: MES-1 (L... | How many Latin characters are supported in WGL-4? | {'text': '335', 'answer_start': 339} |
66,629 | 66,287 | 5726b5565951b619008f7b4d | 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... | Which continent did Jacobinism affect? | {'text': 'Europe', 'answer_start': 372} |
117,269 | 116,927 | 5730a3d08ab72b1400f9c630 | generic | On August 23, 1991,[a] Nintendo released the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, a redesigned version of the Super Famicom, in North America for US$199. The SNES was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in April 1992 for GB£150, with a German release following a few weeks later. Most of the PAL region versions o... | How much did the SNES cost in the US? | {'text': 'US$199', 'answer_start': 146} |
105,022 | 104,680 | 572fa2e1a23a5019007fc7fc | generic | In addition to the dead and wounded, government leaders feared mass psychological trauma from aerial attack and a resulting collapse of civil society. A committee of psychiatrists reported to the government in 1938 that there would be three times as many mental as physical casualties from aerial bombing, implying three... | Psychiatrists believe in 1938 that mental trauma could reach how many millions? | {'text': 'three to four', 'answer_start': 315} |
130,398 | 130,056 | 5a6b5d0fa9e0c9001a4e9f44 | generic | Most MIs occur due to coronary artery disease. Risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, lack of exercise, obesity, high blood cholesterol, poor diet, and excessive alcohol intake, among others. The mechanism of an MI often involves the complete blockage of a coronary artery caused by a rupture of an... | What is used to confirm a artery spasm? | {'text': 'ECGs', 'answer_start': 575} |
90,880 | 90,538 | 5ad23048d7d075001a4286b9 | generic | The mandolin has been used extensively in the traditional music of England and Scotland for generations. Simon Mayor is a prominent British player who has produced six solo albums, instructional books and DVDs, as well as recordings with his mandolin quartet the Mandolinquents. The instrument has also found its way int... | What was US's biggest selling album? | {'text': 'Fog on the Tyne', 'answer_start': 725} |
29,063 | 28,721 | 5705e06c52bb891400689645 | generic | The Times is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font, Times Modern. The Times was printed in broa... | How long was The Times printed in broadsheet format? | {'text': '219 years', 'answer_start': 338} |
15,899 | 15,557 | 5acd293a07355d001abf3755 | generic | In Danish and most southern varieties of German, the "lenis" consonants transcribed for historical reasons as ⟨b d ɡ⟩ are distinguished from their fortis counterparts ⟨p t k⟩, mainly in their lack of aspiration. | In English, "lenis" consonants are know as what? | {'text': '⟨b d ɡ⟩', 'answer_start': 110} |
16,544 | 16,202 | 56e0ec76231d4119001ac44e | generic | The first BeiDou system, officially called the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System (simplified Chinese: 北斗卫星导航试验系统; traditional Chinese: 北斗衛星導航試驗系統; pinyin: Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng shìyàn xìtǒng) and also known as BeiDou-1, consists of three satellites and offers limited coverage and applications. It has bee... | What was the first BeiDou system called? | {'text': 'the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System', 'answer_start': 43} |
203 | 203 | 138422 | pubqa | On Monday 15 January 2007, a municipality in Denmark received the first of several complaints from citizens who reported severe diarrhoea and vomiting over the weekend. Over the same period, the drinking water in many houses was reported to be discoloured and of unusual smell and taste. The local authorities immediatel... | How many people were hospitalized?
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22,867 | 22,525 | 56f7608daef2371900625b7c | generic | Throughout their history, Slavs came into contact with non-Slavic groups. In the postulated homeland region (present-day Ukraine), they had contacts with the Iranic Sarmatians and the Germanic Goths. After their subsequent spread, they began assimilating non-Slavic peoples. For example, in the Balkans, there were Paleo... | Who did the Slavs have contact with in Ukraine? | {'text': 'Iranic Sarmatians and the Germanic Goths', 'answer_start': 158} |
20,324 | 19,982 | 5acf5f8077cf76001a684cb1 | generic | Tuition at KU is 13 percent below the national average, according to the College Board, and the University remains a best buy in the region.[citation needed] | What is a phrase that expresses the value of the education offered at KU with respect to its grades? | {'text': 'best buy', 'answer_start': 117} |
127,028 | 126,686 | 5732b8ac328d98190060202b | generic | Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police informatio... | Where has cross-border policing been most under-studied? | {'text': 'outside of Europe', 'answer_start': 21} |
130,425 | 130,083 | 5a6b8d93a9e0c9001a4e9f77 | generic | At least one quarter of all MIs are silent, without chest pain or other symptoms. These cases can be discovered later on electrocardiograms, using blood enzyme tests, or at autopsy without a prior history of related complaints. Estimates of the prevalence of silent MIs vary between 22 and 64%. A silent course is more c... | What have been ruled out as possible explanations for silent MIs in diabetics? | {'text': 'differences in pain threshold, autonomic neuropathy, and psychological factors', 'answer_start': 530} |
128,913 | 128,571 | 573401aa4776f419006616b2 | generic | Punjab has the largest economy in Pakistan, contributing most to the national GDP. The province's economy has quadrupled since 1972. Its share of Pakistan's GDP was 54.7% in 2000 and 59% as of 2010. It is especially dominant in the service and agriculture sectors of Pakistan's economy. With its contribution ranging fro... | What manpower does Punjab provide? | {'text': 'largest pool of professionals and highly skilled (technically trained) manpower in Pakistan', 'answer_start': 458} |
37,701 | 37,359 | 5a07e4543fc8740018207031 | generic | Infrared tracking, also known as infrared homing, refers to a passive missile guidance system, which uses the emission from a target of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared part of the spectrum to track it. Missiles that use infrared seeking are often referred to as "heat-seekers", since infrared (IR) is just belo... | What term describes the spectrum of light that is part of the visible spectrum? | {'text': 'infrared', 'answer_start': 294} |
75,542 | 75,200 | 5727884e708984140094e02a | generic | On April 12, 1776, the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British Crown, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The dates of both of these events are memorialized on the state flag and state seal. Throug... | How many North Carolina mountain men fought at King's Mountain? | {'text': '1000', 'answer_start': 669} |
24,031 | 23,689 | 56f78d9daef2371900625bc9 | generic | The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in an expedition commanded by Miguel López de Legazpi discovered an island on January 9, 1530, possibly Mejit, at 10°N, which they named "Los Barbudos". The Spaniards went ashore and traded with the local inhabitants. On January 10, the Spaniards sighted another island t... | On what date did Legazpi's expedition see the island it named Placeres? | {'text': 'January 10', 'answer_start': 270} |
43,395 | 43,053 | 570e28710dc6ce1900204e07 | generic | The culture of Eritrea has been largely shaped by the country's location on the Red Sea coast. One of the most recognizable parts of Eritrean culture is the coffee ceremony. Coffee (Ge'ez ቡን būn) is offered when visiting friends, during festivities, or as a daily staple of life. During the coffee ceremony, there are tr... | How many rounds is coffee served in during a coffee ceremony? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 370} |
99,534 | 99,192 | 5a57bbb3770dc0001aeefd18 | generic | In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail (known as "Abubacer" or "Ebn Tophail" in the West) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child "f... | When was John Locke's essay written? | {'text': '1671', 'answer_start': 569} |
123,854 | 123,512 | 5732003be99e3014001e6435 | generic | The current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of the United States House of Representatives serves as floor leader of the opposition party, and is the counterpart to the Majority Leader. Unlike the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader is on the ballot for Speaker of the House during the convening of the Congress. If the Mi... | If minority party takes control of congress, who is usually in link to become majority leader? | {'text': 'Minority Leader', 'answer_start': 432} |
114,100 | 113,758 | 573026db947a6a140053d19d | generic | The population of England rose rapidly during the 19th and 20th centuries whereas the populations of Scotland and Wales have shown little increase during the 20th century, with the population of Scotland remaining unchanged since 1951. Ireland for most of its history comprised a population proportionate to its land are... | How large is the Irish diaspora that was caused by the Great Irish Famine? | {'text': 'fifteen times the current population of the island', 'answer_start': 762} |
52,198 | 51,856 | 5725ba9aec44d21400f3d47e | generic | Outside of the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Historical minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France and Germany, and in Indonesia,[n 1] while u... | Islands in the Caribbean that include Dutch as an official language include Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and what other place? | {'text': 'Aruba', 'answer_start': 169} |
73,493 | 73,151 | 5ad41984604f3c001a40046a | generic | In the US, a prominent form of racial preferences relates to access to education, particularly admission to universities and other forms of higher education. Race, ethnicity, native language, social class, geographical origin, parental attendance of the university in question (legacy admissions), and/or gender are some... | What is another term for kids who don't get preferential treatment due to their parents attending the same university? | {'text': 'legacy admissions', 'answer_start': 278} |
27,526 | 27,184 | 56fa50008f12f3190063011d | generic | Engineered wood products, glued building products "engineered" for application-specific performance requirements, are often used in construction and industrial applications. Glued engineered wood products are manufactured by bonding together wood strands, veneers, lumber or other forms of wood fiber with glue to form a... | Wood fibers from wood strands, lumber, and what other source can be glued together to make larger units? | {'text': 'veneers', 'answer_start': 256} |
117,603 | 117,261 | 5730b096396df9190009629e | generic | Though women were protected by late Sumerian law and were able to achieve a higher status in Sumer than in other contemporary civilizations, the culture was male-dominated. The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest such codification yet discovered, dating to the Ur-III "Sumerian Renaissance", reveals a glimpse at societal struc... | Whose code reveals a bit about the societal structure through Sumerian law? | {'text': 'Ur-Nammu', 'answer_start': 185} |
66,458 | 66,116 | 5726a993dd62a815002e8c56 | generic | Initially, Burke did not condemn the French Revolution. In a letter of 9 August 1789, Burke wrote: "England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud! The thing indeed, though I thought I saw something like it in progress for several years, has still someth... | When did Burke first publicly condemn the French Revolution? | {'text': '9 February 1790', 'answer_start': 1497} |
114,444 | 114,102 | 5a79e31817ab25001a8a015b | generic | The length of the pitch for international adult matches is in the range of 100–110 m (110–120 yd) and the width is in the range of 64–75 m (70–80 yd). Fields for non-international matches may be 90–120 m (100–130 yd) length and 45–90 m (50–100 yd) in width, provided that the pitch does not become square. In 2008, the I... | What year did the IFAB initially reject a fixed size as a standard pitch dimension for international matches? | {'text': '2008', 'answer_start': 309} |
65,133 | 64,791 | 5726bda85951b619008f7cb5 | generic | Expansive interior light has been a feature of Gothic cathedrals since the first structure was opened. The metaphysics of light in the Middle Ages led to clerical belief in its divinity and the importance of its display in holy settings. Much of this belief was based on the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, a sixth-century... | Who held the belief that all light, including light reflected from walls and surfaces was divine? | {'text': 'Pseudo-Dionysius', 'answer_start': 400} |
44,948 | 44,606 | 571034a1a58dae1900cd6963 | generic | One person may presume knowledge of another person's sexual orientation based upon perceived characteristics, such as appearance, clothing, tone of voice, and accompaniment by and behavior with other people. The attempt to detect sexual orientation in social situations is known as gaydar; some studies have found that g... | What is a term for someone who tries to determine someones sexuality? | {'text': 'gaydar', 'answer_start': 282} |
37,019 | 36,677 | 570b46f8ec8fbc190045b94e | generic | Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam or the "RVN"), the United States, supplemented by South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. The allies fought against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) as well as the National Liberation Front (NLF, a... | By what name were fighters of the National Liberation Front known? | {'text': 'Viet Cong', 'answer_start': 349} |
88,031 | 87,689 | 5acfb06877cf76001a685894 | generic | Federalism in the United States is the evolving relationship between state governments and the federal government of the United States. American government has evolved from a system of dual federalism to one of associative federalism. In "Federalist No. 46," James Madison asserted that the states and national governmen... | What happened in Federalist No. 82 | {'text': 'Alexander Hamilton, writing in "Federalist No. 28," suggested that both levels of government would exercise authority to the citizens\' benefit', 'answer_start': 420} |
47,788 | 47,446 | 571df51db64a571400c71e30 | generic | Multiracial people who wanted to acknowledge their full heritage won a victory of sorts in 1997, when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) changed the federal regulation of racial categories to permit multiple responses. This resulted in a change to the 2000 United States Census, which allowed participants to sele... | When were the OMB racial directive made mandatory for every government form? | {'text': '2003', 'answer_start': 661} |
31,709 | 31,367 | 5ad41fbf604f3c001a4006bb | generic | According to the 2010 Census, whites made up 51% of Houston's population; 26% of the total population were non-Hispanic whites. Blacks or African Americans made up 25% of Houston's population. American Indians made up 0.7% of the population. Asians made up 6% (1.7% Vietnamese, 1.3% Chinese, 1.3% Indian, 0.9% Pakistani,... | How much of Texas's population is white? | {'text': '51%', 'answer_start': 45} |
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