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111,900 | 111,558 | 5ad0dcf5645df0001a2d06fb | generic | Television has played a major role in the history of the Premier League. The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992 was at the time a radical decision, but one that has paid off. At the time pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market, as was charging fans to watch live ... | In which year did BSkyB assign broadcasting rights to the League? | {'text': '1992', 'answer_start': 137} |
59,848 | 59,506 | 5a7cbd54e8bc7e001a9e1f95 | generic | Thuringia became a landgraviate in 1130 AD. After the extinction of the reigning Ludowingian line of counts and landgraves in 1247 and the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247–1264), the western half became independent under the name of "Hesse", never to become a part of Thuringia again. Most of the remaining Thuring... | When did Thuringia lose status as a landgraviate? | {'text': '1130 AD', 'answer_start': 35} |
51,925 | 51,583 | 5a85c369b4e223001a8e71ff | generic | "Poultry" is a term used for any kind of domesticated bird, captive-raised for its utility, and traditionally the word has been used to refer to wildfowl (Galliformes) and waterfowl (Anseriformes). "Poultry" can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, raised for the production of mea... | What is the only type of bird listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as poultry? | {'text': 'guinea fowl', 'answer_start': 472} |
27,518 | 27,176 | 56fa4e5e8f12f31900630111 | generic | In buildings made of other materials, wood will still be found as a supporting material, especially in roof construction, in interior doors and their frames, and as exterior cladding. | What might wood be used for in a building made from brick or other materials? | {'text': 'supporting material', 'answer_start': 68} |
6,968 | 6,626 | 56d5c9061c85041400946dca | generic | Some breeds of dogs are prone to certain genetic ailments such as elbow and hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, pulmonic stenosis, cleft palate, and trick knees. Two serious medical conditions particularly affecting dogs are pyometra, affecting unspayed females of all types and ages, and bloat, which affects the larger... | What are some dogs prone to? | {'text': 'genetic ailments', 'answer_start': 41} |
113,053 | 112,711 | 572ff3d3a23a5019007fcba0 | generic | The city lies on approximately 200 deep canyons and hills separating its mesas, creating small pockets of natural open space scattered throughout the city and giving it a hilly geography. Traditionally, San Diegans have built their homes and businesses on the mesas, while leaving the urban canyons relatively wild. Thus... | What bodies of water can be found separating different developed areas of the city? | {'text': 'reservoirs', 'answer_start': 797} |
16,322 | 15,980 | 56e10a04cd28a01900c674a2 | generic | The first landing was followed by another, precision landing on Apollo 12 in November 1969. NASA had achieved its first landing goal with enough Apollo spacecraft and Saturn V launchers left for eight follow-on lunar landings through Apollo 20, conducting extended-endurance missions and transporting the landing crews i... | When did the Apollo 14 mission land successfully? | {'text': 'February 1971', 'answer_start': 1195} |
90,063 | 89,721 | 5ad411f0604f3c001a40021c | generic | The bulk of remaining commercial flight offerings come from small regional commuter airlines such as Ravn Alaska, PenAir, and Frontier Flying Service. The smallest towns and villages must rely on scheduled or chartered bush flying services using general aviation aircraft such as the Cessna Caravan, the most popular air... | What model is the most popular seacraft in Alaska? | {'text': 'Cessna Caravan', 'answer_start': 284} |
104,523 | 104,181 | 57300d74a23a5019007fccd1 | generic | After Charles II of England (1630–1685) was restored to the English throne in 1660 following Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, he granted the chartered Province of Carolina to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663. It took seven years before the group arranged for settlement expedi... | What was the plan to settle and develop the Province of Carolina? | {'text': 'the Grand Model', 'answer_start': 458} |
125,370 | 125,028 | 57325f03b9d445190005eac1 | generic | Since then, the Bronx has always supported the Democratic Party's nominee for President, starting with a vote of 2-1 for the unsuccessful Al Smith in 1928, followed by four 2-1 votes for the successful Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Both had been Governors of New York, but Republican former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey won only 28% o... | How much of the Bronx's vote in 1948 did Truman get? | {'text': '55%', 'answer_start': 355} |
32,854 | 32,512 | 5a555504134fea001a0e1a37 | generic | Desktop computers and laptops are commonly infected with malware either to gather passwords or financial account information, or to construct a botnet to attack another target. Smart phones, tablet computers, smart watches, and other mobile devices such as Quantified Self devices like activity trackers have also become... | What could be collected from your devices by an attacker? | {'text': 'personal information, including sensitive health information.', 'answer_start': 477} |
92,420 | 92,078 | 5a72550a53a187001ae630d0 | generic | Bush and Kerry met for the third and final debate at Arizona State University on October 13. 51 million viewers watched the debate which was moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS News. However, at the time of the ASU debate, there were 15.2 million viewers tuned in to watch the Major League Baseball playoffs broadcast simu... | What college did Cheney's daughter graduate from? | {'text': 'Arizona State University', 'answer_start': 53} |
92,789 | 92,447 | 5728f14c2ca10214002daaf8 | generic | The relative peace of the Tokugawa era was shattered with the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's massive U.S. Navy steamships in 1853. Perry used his superior firepower to force Japan to open its borders to trade. Prior to that only a few harbor towns, under strict control from the Shogunate, were allowed to particip... | Which force invaded Japan in 1853? | {'text': 'U.S. Navy', 'answer_start': 107} |
129,353 | 129,011 | 5a82f946e60761001a2eb285 | generic | Because it is normal to have bacterial colonization, it is difficult to know which chronic wounds are infected. Despite the huge number of wounds seen in clinical practice, there are limited quality data for evaluated symptoms and signs. A review of chronic wounds in the Journal of the American Medical Association's "R... | What is rarely seen in clinical practice? | {'text': 'wounds', 'answer_start': 139} |
66,197 | 65,855 | 5726b83f5951b619008f7bc0 | generic | It was announced on 19 March 2015 that self-governance for the island would be revoked by the Commonwealth and replaced by a local council with the state of New South Wales providing services to the island. A reason given was that the island had never gained self-sufficiency and was being heavily subsidised by the Comm... | What did the Commonwealth want to replace the Norfolk Island government with? | {'text': 'a local council', 'answer_start': 123} |
56,358 | 56,016 | 57263d16271a42140099d7b5 | generic | The Warnerke Standard Sensitometer consisted of a frame holding an opaque screen with an array of typically 25 numbered, gradually pigmented squares brought into contact with the photographic plate during a timed test exposure under a phosphorescent tablet excited before by the light of a burning Magnesium ribbon. The ... | What does the last exposed number on the plate represent? | {'text': "'degrees' Warnerke", 'answer_start': 364} |
84,514 | 84,172 | 57283627ff5b5019007d9f2e | generic | Because of his ability to motivate nationalistic passions, "men, women, and children wept and wailed in the streets" after hearing of his death, according to Nutting. The general Arab reaction was one of mourning, with thousands of people pouring onto the streets of major cities throughout the Arab world. Over a dozen ... | How many eople died in Breuit because of unrest caused by Nasser's death? | {'text': 'Over a dozen', 'answer_start': 307} |
130,371 | 130,029 | 5735d0026c16ec1900b92818 | generic | Institute of Medicine, the central college of Tribhuwan University is the first medical college of Nepal and is located in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu. It was established in 1972 and started to impart medical education from 1978. A number of medical colleges including Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal Medical College, KIST M... | What does KUSMS stand for? | {'text': 'Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences', 'answer_start': 425} |
113,650 | 113,308 | 572fefaeb2c2fd140056860a | generic | In 633 AD, Rashidun Arabs invaded Iran and conquered it by 651 AD, largely converting Iranian people from their indigenous faiths of Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism to Sunni Islam. Arabic replaced Persian as the official language, while Persian remained the language of both ordinary people and of literature. Iran became... | What year did the Rashidun Arabs conquer Iran? | {'text': '651 AD', 'answer_start': 59} |
17,413 | 17,071 | 56e16caee3433e1400422f04 | generic | The Germanic superstrate has had different outcomes in Spanish and Catalan. For example, Catalan fang "mud" and rostir "to roast", of Germanic origin, contrast with Spanish lodo and asar, of Latin origin; whereas Catalan filosa "spinning wheel" and pols "temple", of Latin origin, contrast with Spanish rueca and sien, o... | What is the origin of language elements found in Catalan and not in Spanish? | {'text': 'Germanic', 'answer_start': 4} |
136 | 136 | 138420 | pubqa | An increased number of suspected outbreaks of gastroenteritis linked to bathing water were reported to the Finnish food- and waterborne outbreak (FWO) registry in July and August 2014. The investigation reports were assessed by a national outbreak investigation panel. Eight confirmed outbreaks were identified among... | How was the event first detected?
| {'answer_id': 273714, 'document_id': 445540, 'question_id': 138420, 'text': 'via the media', 'answer_start': 1513, 'answer_category': 'SHORT'} |
105,276 | 104,934 | 57304d95069b531400832031 | generic | In the north, substantial efforts were made against Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland, which were large ports on the English east coast. On 9 April 1941 Luftflotte 2 dropped 150 tons of high explosives and 50,000 incendiaries from 120 bombers in a five-hour attack. Sewer, rail, docklands, and electric installations we... | Sunderland saw how many incendiaries used against it on 25 April? | {'text': '9,000 incendiaries', 'answer_start': 432} |
124,116 | 123,774 | 5731f63a0fdd8d15006c6697 | generic | Historically, the name Armenian has come to internationally designate this group of people. It was first used by neighbouring countries of ancient Armenia. The earliest attestations of the exonym Armenia date around the 6th century BC. In his trilingual Behistun Inscription dated to 517 BC, Darius I the Great of Persia... | What did Xenophon say Armenian language sounded like? | {'text': 'Persians', 'answer_start': 831} |
23,408 | 23,066 | 56f71cd0711bf01900a44989 | generic | Originally, international law was unaccepting of treaty reservations, rejecting them unless all parties to the treaty accepted the same reservations. However, in the interest of encouraging the largest number of states to join treaties, a more permissive rule regarding reservations has emerged. While some treaties stil... | Originally reservations were rejected under international law unless which parties of the treaty accepted them? | {'text': 'all parties', 'answer_start': 92} |
30,816 | 30,474 | 570702a89e06ca38007e92ac | generic | Typographically, the basic difference between the majuscules and minuscules is not that the majuscules are big and minuscules small, but that the majuscules generally have the same height. The height of the minuscules varies, as some of them have parts higher or lower than the average, i.e. ascenders and descenders. In... | Besides the number 6, which number makes of the ascender set in some traditional or classical fonts? | {'text': '8', 'answer_start': 609} |
11,087 | 10,745 | 56de43294396321400ee2738 | generic | Some countries were not included for various reasons, mainly the unavailability of certain crucial data. The following United Nations Member States were not included in the 2011 report: North Korea, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, South Sudan, Somalia and Tuvalu. | Which East Asian dictatorship was excluded from the 2011 report? | {'text': 'North Korea', 'answer_start': 186} |
84,774 | 84,432 | 5a6117cfe9e1cc001a33cee0 | generic | John XXIII died of peritonitis caused by a perforated stomach at 19:49 local time on 3 June 1963 at the age of 81, ending a historic pontificate of four years and seven months. He died just as a Mass for him finished in Saint Peter's Square below, celebrated by Luigi Traglia. After he died, his brow was ritually tapped... | What did Luigi Traglia die of? | {'text': 'peritonitis caused by a perforated stomach', 'answer_start': 19} |
61,753 | 61,411 | 5a79f42917ab25001a8a0208 | generic | The law of criminal procedure in the United States consists of a massive overlay of federal constitutional case law interwoven with the federal and state statutes that actually provide the foundation for the creation and operation of law enforcement agencies and prison systems as well as the proceedings in criminal tri... | What have US legislatures been able to enact successfully? | {'text': 'statutes that would actually force law enforcement officers to respect the constitutional rights', 'answer_start': 393} |
81,257 | 80,915 | 5727f0a93acd2414000df040 | generic | During the Tudor period the Reformation produced a gradual shift to Protestantism, much of London passing from church to private ownership. The traffic in woollen cloths shipped undyed and undressed from London to the nearby shores of the Low Countries, where it was considered indispensable. But the tentacles of Englis... | Typically what were the nationalities of ships that traveled to and from England via the Straight of Gibraltar? | {'text': 'Italian or Ragusan', 'answer_start': 587} |
66,736 | 66,394 | 5726b35f5951b619008f7b06 | generic | However, Samoans greatly resented New Zealand's colonial rule, and blamed inflation and the catastrophic 1918 flu epidemic on its misrule. By the late 1920s the resistance movement against colonial rule had gathered widespread support. One of the Mau leaders was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a half Samoan and half Swedish mer... | What was the name of the Mau leader who was of Samoan and Swedish descent? | {'text': 'Olaf Frederick Nelson', 'answer_start': 263} |
104,425 | 104,083 | 5a774d432d6d7f001a4a9fbb | generic | Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants. Mr Veltman's language shift studies document high bilingualism rates and subsequent adoption of English as the pref... | Who undertook the most complete study of Hispanic language adoption? | {'text': 'Calvin Veltman', 'answer_start': 0} |
62,061 | 61,719 | 5728eae32ca10214002daa92 | generic | During World War II, the British destroyed the major government buildings, oil wells and mines for tungsten, tin, lead and silver to keep them from the Japanese. Myanmar was bombed extensively by both sides. After independence, the country was in ruins with its major infrastructure completely destroyed. After a parliam... | When was Myanmar given sovereignty to rule it's own nation ? | {'text': '1948, Prime Minister U Nu embarked upon a policy of nationalisation and the state was declared the owner of all land.', 'answer_start': 352} |
91,683 | 91,341 | 5728b348ff5b5019007da4d7 | generic | Paris is the home of the most visited art museum in the world, the Louvre, as well as the Musée d'Orsay, noted for its collection of French Impressionist art, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, a museum of modern and contemporary art. The notable architectural landmarks of Paris include Notre Dame Cathedral (12th ce... | How many visitors did Paris receive in 2014? | {'text': '22.4 million', 'answer_start': 465} |
48,516 | 48,174 | 571d13cbdd7acb1400e4c214 | generic | In April 1994, the results of a Merck-sponsored study, the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study, were announced. Researchers tested simvastatin, later sold by Merck as Zocor, on 4,444 patients with high cholesterol and heart disease. After five years, the study concluded the patients saw a 35% reduction in their cho... | How much did Zocor reduce the chance of dying from a heart attack? | {'text': '42%', 'answer_start': 391} |
110,431 | 110,089 | 572fac9304bcaa1900d76bcb | generic | At the end of the war, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire. Signed between the Allied and Associated Powers and Ottoman Empire at Sèvres on 10 August 1920, the Treaty of Sèvres promised to maintain the existence of the Armenian republic and to attach the former territories of Ottoman Armenia to... | Who signed the Treaty of Sevres? | {'text': 'Allied and Associated Powers and Ottoman Empire', 'answer_start': 104} |
123,446 | 123,104 | 5a2ef3eda83784001a7d25d7 | generic | Besides being the political center, Brasília is an important economic center. Brasília has the highest city gross domestic product (GDP) of 99.5 billion reais representing 3.76% of the total Brazilian GDP. The main economic activity of the federal capital results from its administrative function. Its industrial plannin... | What does the film industry put emphasis on in Brasilia? | {'text': 'environmental preservation and maintaining ecological balance', 'answer_start': 590} |
126,492 | 126,150 | 5a82119631013a001a33519b | generic | Humanists reacted against this utilitarian approach and the narrow pedantry associated with it. They sought to create a citizenry (frequently including women) able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity and thus capable of engaging the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent... | What was it about the utilitarian beliefs that humanism believers loved? | {'text': 'narrow pedantry', 'answer_start': 60} |
112,429 | 112,087 | 573039c004bcaa1900d773c7 | generic | The legions of the late Republic were, structurally, almost entirely heavy infantry. The legion's main sub-unit was called a cohort and consisted of approximately 480 infantrymen. The cohort was therefore a much larger unit than the earlier maniple sub-unit, and was divided into six centuries of 80 men each. Each centu... | Who would now be used as scouts instead of fighting alongside the army in the battlefield? | {'text': 'cavalry troops', 'answer_start': 386} |
111,926 | 111,584 | 5733f3234776f4190066158b | generic | The first Sky television rights agreement was worth £304 million over five seasons. The next contract, negotiated to start from the 1997–98 season, rose to £670 million over four seasons. The third contract was a £1.024 billion deal with BSkyB for the three seasons from 2001–02 to 2003–04. The league brought in £320 mi... | How much was the second television rights contract awarded to Sky worth? | {'text': '£670 million', 'answer_start': 156} |
95,980 | 95,638 | 5729cc793f37b31900478569 | generic | In 1952, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., published the company's first written equal opportunity policy letter, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and 11 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1961, IBM's nondiscrimination policy was expanded to include sex, national origin, a... | In 1961 IBM's nondiscrimination policy was expanded to include what? | {'text': 'sex, national origin, and age', 'answer_start': 297} |
71,832 | 71,490 | 572721a4708984140094da4b | generic | When an inductive circuit is opened, the current through the inductance collapses quickly, creating a large voltage across the open circuit of the switch or relay. If the inductance is large enough, the energy will generate a spark, causing the contact points to oxidize, deteriorate, or sometimes weld together, or dest... | What type of capacitor is used to make a path to bypass the contact points? | {'text': 'A snubber capacitor', 'answer_start': 349} |
69,463 | 69,121 | 5726cdcbdd62a815002e90c8 | generic | In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Hesiod, who wrote Works and Days and Theogony, are some of the earliest, and most influential, of Ancient Greek literature. Classical Greek genres included philosophy, poetry, historiography, comedies and dramas. Plato and Aristotle authore... | Plato and Aristotle wrote what type of literature? | {'text': 'philosophical texts', 'answer_start': 322} |
14,387 | 14,045 | 56df8d8438dc421700152036 | generic | In 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario, George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a pate... | Which country did Bell first try to get a patent? | {'text': 'Britain', 'answer_start': 268} |
26,489 | 26,147 | 5acfc2d177cf76001a685d65 | generic | Ningbo, Wenzhou, Taizhou and Zhoushan are important commercial ports. The Hangzhou Bay Bridge between Haiyan County and Cixi, is the longest bridge over a continuous body of sea water in the world. | What kind of ports are Taizhou and Ningbo not considered? | {'text': 'commercial', 'answer_start': 52} |
32,828 | 32,486 | 5a5d023b5e8782001a9d5e55 | generic | China's network security and information technology leadership team was established February 27, 2014. The leadership team is tasked with national security and long-term development and co-ordination of major issues related to network security and information technology. Economic, political, cultural, social and milita... | Which fields unrelated to network security does China's leadership team research? | {'text': 'Economic, political, cultural, social and military fields', 'answer_start': 272} |
57,620 | 57,278 | 5a63d9c07f3c80001a150b5f | generic | The native language of Germans is German, a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch, and sharing many similarities with the North Germanic and Scandinavian languages. Spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and the most wide... | How many people speak German around the world? | {'text': '100 million', 'answer_start': 229} |
3,606 | 3,264 | 56cec9e1aab44d1400b88a62 | generic | On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort. The United States shared some of its satellite images of the quake-stricken areas with Chinese authorities. During the weekend, the US sent into China two U.S. Air Force C-17's carrying supplies, which incl... | What did the US share? | {'text': 'satellite images of the quake-stricken areas', 'answer_start': 151} |
21,225 | 20,883 | 5ad27008d7d075001a429441 | generic | Italy is home to a vast array of native regional minority languages, most of which are Romance-based and have their own local variants. These regional languages are often referred to colloquially or in non-linguistic circles as Italian "dialects," or dialetti (standard Italian for "dialects"). However, the majority of ... | Most of Italy's languages have what kind of base along with shared variants? | {'text': 'Romance', 'answer_start': 87} |
92,471 | 92,129 | 57296b6f1d046914007793fa | generic | The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate). Because of the Act's restrictions on candidates' and parties' fundraising, a large number of so-cal... | Where did the moniker McCain-Feingold Bill come from? | {'text': 'its sponsors in the United States Senate', 'answer_start': 178} |
35,098 | 34,756 | 5a39739f2f14dd001ac7233c | generic | On 16 June 2006, it was announced that Everton had entered into talks with Knowsley Council and Tesco over the possibility of building a new 55,000 seat stadium, expandable to over 60,000, in Kirkby. The club took the unusual move of giving its supporters a say in the club's future by holding a ballot on the proposal, ... | On what date was the ballot held? | {'text': '16 June 2006', 'answer_start': 3} |
77,243 | 76,901 | 5a8c8fa5fd22b3001a8d8b07 | generic | In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied t... | What did Skousen delete ink and pencil remnants from? | {'text': 'Printer’s Manuscript', 'answer_start': 419} |
2,187 | 1,845 | 56cc7f9c6d243a140015efb2 | generic | The dock connector also allowed the iPod to connect to accessories, which often supplement the iPod's music, video, and photo playback. Apple sells a few accessories, such as the now-discontinued iPod Hi-Fi, but most are manufactured by third parties such as Belkin and Griffin. Some peripherals use their own interface,... | Which iPod accessory was made by Apple but is no longer produced? | {'text': 'iPod Hi-Fi', 'answer_start': 196} |
98,499 | 98,157 | 572a9c79111d821400f38c3e | generic | Philadelphia's importance and central location in the colonies made it a natural center for America's revolutionaries. By the 1750s, Philadelphia had surpassed Boston to become the largest city and busiest port in British America, and second in the British Empire, behind London. The city hosted the First Continental Co... | How many Revolutionary War battles were fought around Philadelphia? | {'text': 'Several', 'answer_start': 531} |
12,356 | 12,014 | 5a5ad3d09c0277001abe71c6 | generic | Although less common than in earlier periods, in modern times, formal charges of heresy within Christian churches still occur. Issues in the Protestant churches have included modern biblical criticism and the nature of God. In the Catholic Church, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith criticizes writings for "... | What charge is just as common in modern times? | {'text': 'heresy', 'answer_start': 81} |
119,747 | 119,405 | 573115ade6313a140071cc13 | generic | The first large, diverse lineage of short-tailed avialans to evolve were the enantiornithes, or "opposite birds", so named because the construction of their shoulder bones was in reverse to that of modern birds. Enantiornithes occupied a wide array of ecological niches, from sand-probing shorebirds and fish-eaters to t... | When did enantiornithes become extinct? | {'text': 'end of the Mesozoic era', 'answer_start': 508} |
82,722 | 82,380 | 5a125b556614be00188f253f | generic | High school football teams frequently participate in controlled scrimmages with other teams during preseason practice, but exhibition games are rare because of league rules and concerns about finances, travel and player injuries, along with enrollments not being registered until the early part of August in most school ... | What type of exhibition game do freshmen normally playing? | {'text': 'all-star game', 'answer_start': 435} |
15,954 | 15,612 | 5acd2e8e07355d001abf381a | generic | There were aspirated stops at three places of articulation: labial, coronal, and velar /pʰ tʰ kʰ/. Earlier Greek, represented by Mycenaean Greek, likely had a labialized velar aspirated stop /kʷʰ/, which later became labial, coronal, or velar depending on dialect and phonetic environment. | Unaspirated stops were at which three places of articulation? | {'text': 'labial, coronal, and velar', 'answer_start': 60} |
63,059 | 62,717 | 572695b6f1498d1400e8e474 | generic | Eventually resulting in 17 libel writs in total, The Sun ran a series of false stories about the pop musician Elton John from 25 February 1987. They began with an invented account of the singer having sexual relationships with rent boys. The singer-songwriter was abroad on the day indicated in the story, as former Sun ... | Where did The Sun offer to fly gay men in 1987? | {'text': 'Norway', 'answer_start': 1044} |
47,406 | 47,064 | 5a8cef33fd22b3001a8d905b | generic | A UCLA research study published in the June 2006 issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that people can improve cognitive function and brain efficiency through simple lifestyle changes such as incorporating memory exercises, healthy eating, physical fitness and stress reduction into their daily liv... | After 17 says, they showed greater what? | {'text': 'word fluency', 'answer_start': 598} |
35,436 | 35,094 | 570aae5d4103511400d59922 | generic | Another deck structure that can be seen is a ski-jump ramp at the forward end of the flight deck. This was first developed to help launch STOVL aircraft take off at far higher weights than is possible with a vertical or rolling takeoff on flat decks. Originally developed by the Royal Navy, it since has been adopted by ... | What does the ski-jump ramp prevent a fully loaded and fueled aircraft from doing? | {'text': 'either stalling out or crashing directly into the sea', 'answer_start': 823} |
64,450 | 64,108 | 5ad0246777cf76001a686b87 | generic | Martin Luther, a German monk, started the German Reformation by posting 95 theses on the castle church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. The immediate provocation spurring this act was Pope Leo X’s renewal of the indulgence for the building of the new St. Peter's Basilica in 1514. Luther was challenged to recant his h... | What didn't Martin Luther post on the castle church of Wittenberg? | {'text': '95 theses', 'answer_start': 72} |
127,229 | 126,887 | 5a6960605ce1a5001a9695f2 | generic | In the same judgement the ECHR reviewed the judgements of several international and municipal courts judgements. It noted that International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice had agreed with the narrow interpretation, that biological-physical destruction was necessary fo... | In its preparations, what was the source of other considerations by the International Court of Justice? | {'text': 'the judgements of several international and municipal courts', 'answer_start': 40} |
49,393 | 49,051 | 5722c9db0dadf01500fa1eeb | generic | Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided... | What year did Prince Albert die? | {'text': '1861', 'answer_start': 267} |
18,452 | 18,110 | 56e3c6788c00841900fbaef7 | generic | During the Perestroika era, The Law on the Status of the Estonian Language was adopted in January 1989. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the restoration of Republic of Estonia's independence. Estonian went back to being the only state language in Estonia which in practice meant that use of Estonian was promoted ... | What historical event once again freed Estonia? | {'text': 'collapse of the Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 108} |
113,499 | 113,157 | 572ff982b2c2fd14005686a5 | generic | Other influential Muslim philosophers include al-Jahiz, a pioneer in evolutionary thought; Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), a pioneer of phenomenology and the philosophy of science and a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Aristotle's concept of place (topos); Al-Biruni, a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy; ... | What type of work is Ibn al-Haytham known to have pioneered? | {'text': 'phenomenology and the philosophy of science', 'answer_start': 130} |
35,529 | 35,187 | 5acd84c307355d001abf453d | generic | The disadvantage of the ski-jump is the penalty it exacts on aircraft size, payload, and fuel load (and thus range); heavily laden aircraft can not launch using a ski-jump because their high loaded weight requires either a longer takeoff roll than is possible on a carrier deck, or assistance from a catapult or JATO roc... | Why is a ski-jump included on mixed flight deck operations where helicopters are present? | {'text': 'would eliminate one or more helicopter landing areas', 'answer_start': 670} |
100,336 | 99,994 | 5acd74fd07355d001abf4324 | generic | Secondary education in the United States did not emerge until 1910, with the rise of large corporations and advancing technology in factories, which required skilled workers. In order to meet this new job demand, high schools were created, with a curriculum focused on practical job skills that would better prepare stud... | What emerged in 1912? | {'text': 'Secondary education', 'answer_start': 0} |
115,332 | 114,990 | 573369bd4776f41900660a6a | generic | Whitehead also described religion more technically as "an ultimate craving to infuse into the insistent particularity of emotion that non-temporal generality which primarily belongs to conceptual thought alone." In other words, religion takes deeply felt emotions and contextualizes them within a system of general truth... | What was Whitehead's technical definition of religion? | {'text': '"an ultimate craving to infuse into the insistent particularity of emotion that non-temporal generality which primarily belongs to conceptual thought alone."', 'answer_start': 54} |
25,500 | 25,158 | 56f8e05b9e9bad19000a0655 | generic | Beginning around 2005, drug traffickers based in Latin America began to use Guinea-Bissau, along with several neighboring West African nations, as a transshipment point to Europe for cocaine. The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state". The government and the mili... | Who described Guinea-Bissau as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state"? | {'text': 'a United Nations official', 'answer_start': 220} |
5,103 | 4,761 | 56d0fdf617492d1400aab700 | generic | After graduating from high school, West received a scholarship to attend Chicago's American Academy of Art in 1997 and began taking painting classes, but shortly after transferred to Chicago State University to study English. He soon realized that his busy class schedule was detrimental to his musical work, and at 20 h... | What was the name of the CD that Kanye recorded based on his failed college experience? | {'text': 'College Dropout', 'answer_start': 636} |
13,652 | 13,310 | 5acd5e7b07355d001abf3f46 | generic | Some of the theorists who advocate this "revisionist" critique imply that, because the "pure hunter-gatherer" disappeared not long after colonial (or even agricultural) contact began, nothing meaningful can be learned about prehistoric hunter-gatherers from studies of modern ones (Kelly, 24-29; see Wilmsen) | What do some theorists imply about modern hunter-gatherers? | {'text': 'nothing meaningful can be learned', 'answer_start': 184} |
31,781 | 31,439 | 5ad41e54604f3c001a40063a | generic | The Houston area has over 150 active faults (estimated to be 300 active faults) with an aggregate length of up to 310 miles (500 km), including the Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system which runs through the center of the city. There have been no significant historically recorded earthquakes in Houston, but researche... | What geological feature has been placed underground to cause sinking in areas of southeast Houston? | {'text': 'water', 'answer_start': 494} |
67,173 | 66,831 | 5726eae2708984140094d5e5 | generic | On 24 April 2014, it was reported in the Italian magazine Credere that the late pope could possibly be beatified on 19 October 2014. This report from the magazine further stated that several cardinals and bishops would meet on 5 May to confirm the miracle that had previously been approved, and then present it to Pope F... | What group declared the healing a miracle by Paul VI? | {'text': 'The Congregation for the Causes of Saints', 'answer_start': 389} |
56,704 | 56,362 | 572678f75951b619008f73c3 | generic | Due in large part to the persuasion of representative Servando Teresa de Mier, Mexico City was chosen because it was the center of the country's population and history, even though Querétaro was closer to the center geographically. The choice was official on November 18, 1824, and Congress delineated a surface area of ... | Where was the government of Mexico City moved to at the time it was declared capital of Mexico? | {'text': 'Texcoco', 'answer_start': 555} |
106,616 | 106,274 | 5ad22fa8d7d075001a428692 | generic | According to Shia beliefs, those who are firmly rooted in knowledge like Muhammad and the imams know the secrets of the Quran. According to Tabatabaei, the statement "none knows its interpretation except God" remains valid, without any opposing or qualifying clause. Therefore, so far as this verse is concerned, the kno... | According to Sunni Muslims, who is the only one who can fully know the a Quranic interpretation? | {'text': 'God', 'answer_start': 204} |
95,985 | 95,643 | 5a68f6908476ee001a58a92a | generic | In 1952, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., published the company's first written equal opportunity policy letter, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and 11 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1961, IBM's nondiscrimination policy was expanded to include sex, national origin, a... | How many people were involved in the Brown vs. Board of Education case? | {'text': '34', 'answer_start': 401} |
76,709 | 76,367 | 5727a3762ca10214002d928a | generic | Modern biblical scholarship treats the account in the synoptic gospels as a literary creation by the author of the Mark Gospel, amended in the Luke and Matthew accounts, intended to heighten the importance of what they saw as a theologically significant event, and not intended to be taken literally. This image of darkn... | Who describes the idea of an eclipse as totally wrong? | {'text': 'Géza Vermes', 'answer_start': 538} |
13,261 | 12,919 | 56df4ef48bc80c19004e4a48 | generic | The population density normally reported for Oklahoma City using the area of its city limits can be a bit misleading. Its urbanized zone covers roughly 244 sq mi (630 km2) resulting in a density of 2,500 per square mile (2013 est), compared with larger rural watershed areas incorporated by the city, which cover the rem... | What covers the remaining 377 square miles? | {'text': 'rural watershed areas', 'answer_start': 253} |
35,842 | 35,500 | 570ac1574103511400d59986 | generic | The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two royal duchies in England. It has landholdings throughout the region and elsewhere, operating as a property company, but also exercising the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster. While the administrative boundaries changed in the 1970s, the county palatine boundarie... | Who exercises the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster? | {'text': 'The Duchy of Lancaster', 'answer_start': 0} |
25,398 | 25,056 | 56f8c76e9e9bad19000a04ae | generic | Luís Cabral, brother of Amílcar and co-founder of PAIGC, was appointed the first President of Guinea-Bissau. Following independence, the PAIGC killed thousands of local Guinean soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against guerrillas. Some escaped to settle in Portugal or other African nations. One of ... | Where were the soldiers buried? | {'text': 'Cumerá, Portogole, and Mansabá', 'answer_start': 554} |
7,296 | 6,954 | 56daf3b2e7c41114004b4b7f | generic | After being lit at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece on March 24, the torch traveled to the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, and then to Beijing, arriving on March 31. From Beijing, the torch was following a route passing through six continents. The torch has visited cities along the Silk Road, symb... | What is the name of the stadium in Greece were the torch was taken to? | {'text': 'Panathinaiko Stadium', 'answer_start': 113} |
68,814 | 68,472 | 5726cbd0708984140094d194 | generic | In February 1853, the British government of Lord Aberdeen, the prime minister, re-appointed Stratford Canning as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.:110 Having resigned the ambassadorship in January, he had been replaced by Colonel Rose as chargé d'affaires. Lord Stratford then turned around and sailed back to Co... | After resigning where did Stratford Canning sail off to? | {'text': 'Constantinople', 'answer_start': 318} |
31,707 | 31,365 | 570a9a214103511400d59869 | 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,... | According to the 2000 census, what is the population of Houston? | {'text': '1,953,631', 'answer_start': 601} |
73,539 | 73,197 | 5ad41aa1604f3c001a4004cd | generic | A study in 2007 by Mark Long, an economics professor at the University of Washington, demonstrated that the alternatives of affirmative action proved ineffective in restoring minority enrollment in public flagship universities in California, Texas, and Washington. More specifically, apparent rebounds of minority enroll... | How were rebounds of minority enrollment rejected in Long's report? | {'text': 'increasing minority enrollment in high schools of those states', 'answer_start': 345} |
92,247 | 91,905 | 5728cd4f3acd2414000dfedd | generic | Bush's margin of victory in the popular vote was the smallest ever for a reelected incumbent president, but marked the first time since his father's victory 16 years prior that a candidate won a majority of the popular vote. The electoral map closely resembled that of 2000, with only three states changing sides: New Me... | How large of a gap was there between Bush's and Kerry's votes? | {'text': 'the smallest ever', 'answer_start': 49} |
29,493 | 29,151 | 5706b0940eeca41400aa0d2c | generic | The 2011 World Wealth Report ranks economic activity in New Delhi at 39, but overall the capital is ranked at 37, above cities like Jakarta and Johannesburg. New Delhi with Beijing shares the top position as the most targeted emerging markets retail destination among Asia-Pacific markets. | New Delhi shares the position as the most targeted retail destination in Asia-Pacific markets with what other city? | {'text': 'Beijing', 'answer_start': 173} |
54,122 | 53,780 | 57269c875951b619008f77cb | generic | The Battle of Osan, the first significant American engagement of the Korean War, involved the 540-soldier Task Force Smith, which was a small forward element of the 24th Infantry Division which had been flown in from Japan. On 5 July 1950, Task Force Smith attacked the North Koreans at Osan but without weapons capable ... | In what country is the US's Task Force Smith located? | {'text': 'Japan', 'answer_start': 217} |
125,238 | 124,896 | 5732516be17f3d1400422865 | generic | The territory now contained within Bronx County was originally part of Westchester County, one of the 12 original counties of the English Province of New York. The present Bronx County was contained in the town of Westchester and parts of the towns of Yonkers, Eastchester, and Pelham. In 1846, a new town, West Farms, w... | How many counties did New York originally have? | {'text': '12', 'answer_start': 102} |
41,094 | 40,752 | 570e22010dc6ce1900204ddd | generic | Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/; Sanskrit: saṃskṛtam [səmskr̩t̪əm] or saṃskṛta, originally saṃskṛtā vāk, "refined speech") is the primary sacred language of Hinduism, a philosophical language in Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, and a literary language that was in use as a lingua franca in Greater India. It is a standardi... | What language is the sacred language of Hinduism? | {'text': 'Sanskrit', 'answer_start': 0} |
28,927 | 28,585 | 5706cd480eeca41400aa0e42 | generic | After the First World War, however, it became apparent that the number of mixed-race people was growing at a faster rate than the white population, and by 1930 fear of the "half-caste menace" undermining the White Australia ideal from within was being taken as a serious concern. Dr. Cecil Cook, the Northern Territory P... | What did people fear in 1930? | {'text': '"half-caste menace"', 'answer_start': 172} |
97,493 | 97,151 | 572a8c4c111d821400f38be2 | generic | For Hayek, the supposedly stark difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism has much importance and Hayek places heavy weight on this distinction in his defence of transitional dictatorship. For example, when Hayek visited Venezuela in May 1981, he was asked to comment on the prevalence of totalitarian regi... | Hayek believed that authoritarianism was very different from what? | {'text': 'totalitarianism', 'answer_start': 72} |
88,835 | 88,493 | 5a85a812b4e223001a8e7161 | generic | U.S. President Barack Obama has rarely used the term, but in his inaugural address on 20 January 2009, he stated "Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." In March 2009 the Defense Department officially changed the name of operations from "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Continge... | What university did Jeh Johnson work for? | {'text': 'Oxford', 'answer_start': 828} |
79,052 | 78,710 | 5ad26a5bd7d075001a429312 | generic | The center of all mystical experience is, of course, Christ. English Dominicans sought to gain a full knowledge of Christ through an imitation of His life. English mystics of all types tended to focus on the moral values that the events in Christ's life exemplified. This led to a "progressive understanding of the meani... | What type of understanding of scripture did the French Order subscribe to? | {'text': 'progressive', 'answer_start': 282} |
7,352 | 7,010 | 56db0184e7c41114004b4c1f | generic | Greece: On March 24, 2008, the Olympic Flame was ignited at Olympia, Greece, site of the ancient Olympic Games. The actress Maria Nafpliotou, in the role of a High Priestess, ignited the torch of the first torchbearer, a silver medalist of the 2004 Summer Olympics in taekwondo Alexandros Nikolaidis from Greece, who ha... | What place had police experience violent problems with protesters? | {'text': 'Nepal.', 'answer_start': 1175} |
46,218 | 45,876 | 5ad2b1fcd7d075001a429f75 | generic | Nintendo also made two turbo controllers for the NES called NES Advantage and the NES Max. Both controllers had a Turbo feature, a feature where one tap of the button represented multiple taps. This feature allowed players to shoot much faster during shooter games. The NES Advantage had two knobs that adjusted the firi... | Which three accessories were featured in the movie The Wizard? | {'text': 'Power Pad and the Power Glove', 'answer_start': 938} |
10,751 | 10,409 | 56e4744d39bdeb140034793d | generic | On the difference between the ideals of architecture and mere construction, the renowned 20th-century architect Le Corbusier wrote: "You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I... | What part of him did Le Corbusier say proper architecture touched? | {'text': 'heart', 'answer_start': 296} |
106,133 | 105,791 | 572f91f3a23a5019007fc77e | generic | In 144 BC Emperor Jing abolished private minting in favor of central-government and commandery-level minting; he also introduced a new coin. Emperor Wu introduced another in 120 BC, but a year later he abandoned the ban liangs entirely in favor of the wuzhu (五銖) coin, weighing 3.2 g (0.11 oz). The wuzhu became China's ... | What was the mass of the wuzhu coin? | {'text': '3.2 g', 'answer_start': 278} |
81,982 | 81,640 | 5728ca094b864d1900164e30 | generic | In the 16th century the northern fringe of the Sahara, such as coastal regencies in present-day Algeria and Tunisia, as well as some parts of present-day Libya, together with the semi-autonomous kingdom of Egypt, were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. From 1517 Egypt was a valued part of the Ottoman Empire, ownership of ... | What was the local language during this time in Egypt? | {'text': 'Arabic', 'answer_start': 671} |
24,417 | 24,075 | 56f82cb7aef2371900625ea7 | generic | About that time the "executionist movement" (Polish: "egzekucja praw"--"execution of the laws") began to take form. Its members would seek to curb the power of the magnates at the Sejm and to strengthen the power of king and country. In 1562 at the Sejm in Piotrków they would force the magnates to return many leased cr... | What was the movement called also known as execution of laws? | {'text': '"executionist movement', 'answer_start': 20} |
73,233 | 72,891 | 5ad410c7604f3c001a4001c8 | generic | When Eisenhower was elected President in 1952, he believed hiring practices and anti-discrimination laws should be decided by the states, although the administration gradually continued to desegregate the Armed Forces and the federal government.:50 The President also established the Government Contract Committee in 195... | What was the last purpose of the Government Contract Committee? | {'text': 'conducted surveys of the racial composition of federal employees and tax-supported contractors', 'answer_start': 330} |
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