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2,426 | 2,084 | 56d1162317492d1400aab8ee | generic | The story focuses on series protagonist Link, who tries to prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by a corrupted parallel dimension known as the Twilight Realm. To do so, he takes the form of both a Hylian and a wolf, and is assisted by a mysterious creature named Midna. The game takes place hundreds of years after Ocarina... | What is the name of the mysterious creature that assists Link? | {'text': 'Midna', 'answer_start': 261} |
69,212 | 68,870 | 57278f075951b619008f8d7b | generic | It has been mentioned that most nonprofits will never be able to match the pay of the private sector and therefore should focus their attention on benefits packages, incentives and implementing pleasurable work environments. Pleasurable work conditions are ranked as being more preferable than a high salary and implacab... | Can Npos match the wages of public and private sector employers? | {'text': 'will never be able to match the pay', 'answer_start': 43} |
94,851 | 94,509 | 5acfc41c77cf76001a685dd6 | generic | Other widely used alloys that contain zinc include nickel silver, typewriter metal, soft and aluminium solder, and commercial bronze. Zinc is also used in contemporary pipe organs as a substitute for the traditional lead/tin alloy in pipes. Alloys of 85–88% zinc, 4–10% copper, and 2–8% aluminium find limited use in cer... | What has zinc been replaced with in pipe organs? | {'text': 'lead/tin alloy', 'answer_start': 216} |
60,686 | 60,344 | 57266bc1708984140094c571 | generic | The British and French struggles in India became but one theatre of the global Seven Years' War (1756–1763) involving France, Britain and the other major European powers. The signing of the Treaty of Paris (1763) had important consequences for the future of the British Empire. In North America, France's future as a col... | When was the Seven Years' War? | {'text': '1756–1763', 'answer_start': 97} |
94,574 | 94,232 | 572a17786aef051400155262 | generic | In Ancient Egypt green was the symbol of regeneration and rebirth, and of the crops made possible by the annual flooding of the Nile. For painting on the walls of tombs or on papyrus, Egyptian artists used finely-ground malachite, mined in the west Sinai and the eastern desert- A paintbox with malachite pigment was fou... | How did Egyptians dye fabrics yellow? | {'text': 'saffron', 'answer_start': 523} |
121,982 | 121,640 | 5731cbc10fdd8d15006c6537 | generic | Rome had no separate priestly caste or class. The highest authority within a community usually sponsored its cults and sacrifices, officiated as its priest and promoted its assistants and acolytes. Specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as haruspices and oracles were available for consultation. ... | What was lacking as to the profession of a priest class in Rome? | {'text': 'separate priestly caste', 'answer_start': 12} |
50,516 | 50,174 | 5725140d0a492a19004356e8 | generic | Many Islamic anti-Masonic arguments are closely tied to both antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, though other criticisms are made such as linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah). Some Muslim anti-Masons argue that Freemasonry promotes the interests of the Jews around the world and that one of its aims ... | What is another group that anti-masonic muslims link to zionism? | {'text': 'Rotary', 'answer_start': 471} |
7,674 | 7,332 | 56d97560dc89441400fdb4ae | generic | There were several protests along the torch relay route. Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, including pro-democracy activist Szeto Wah, waved novelty inflatable plastic Olympic flames, which they said symbolised democracy. They wanted accountability for the Tiananme... | Why is Chan suing the Hong Kong government? | {'text': 'her human rights were breached.', 'answer_start': 1640} |
50,931 | 50,589 | 5725cc4e271a42140099d1f7 | generic | Most Israelis are drafted into the military at the age of 18. Men serve two years and eight months and women two years. Following mandatory service, Israeli men join the reserve forces and usually do up to several weeks of reserve duty every year until their forties. Most women are exempt from reserve duty. Arab citize... | What age are most Israelis drafted into the military? | {'text': '18', 'answer_start': 58} |
19,874 | 19,532 | 5a7b99a521c2de001afea19d | generic | NARA also maintains the Presidential Library system, a nationwide network of libraries for preserving and making available the documents of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. The Presidential Libraries include: | What is the system that Herbert Hoover founded? | {'text': 'the Presidential Library system', 'answer_start': 20} |
78,513 | 78,171 | 5a303fbff1f7c7001ab92cfe | generic | A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The St. Olaf College Choir was established as an outgrowth of the local St. John's Lutheran Church, where Christiansen wa... | Who started a prominent choir in 1911? | {'text': 'F. Melius Christiansen', 'answer_start': 106} |
84,021 | 83,679 | 5728a31d4b864d1900164b14 | generic | Ahom Kingdom (1228–1826) was a kingdom and tribe which rose to prominence in present-day Assam early in the thirteenth century. They ruled much of Assam from the 13th century until the establishment of British rule in 1838. The Ahoms brought with them a tribal religion and a language of their own, however they later me... | What kingdom came to power in Assam? | {'text': 'Ahom Kingdom', 'answer_start': 0} |
116,506 | 116,164 | 573062ec396df919000960de | generic | The movement to translate English and European texts transformed the Arabic and Ottoman Turkish languages, and new words, simplified syntax, and directness came to be valued over the previous convolutions. Educated Arabs and Turks in the new professions and the modernized civil service expressed skepticism, writes Chri... | What was a neologism expressing the introduction of new ideas via translation? | {'text': 'Darwinism', 'answer_start': 738} |
82,289 | 81,947 | 5acfdec377cf76001a686361 | generic | Although spoken Tibetan varies according to the region, the written language, based on Classical Tibetan, is consistent throughout. This is probably due to the long-standing influence of the Tibetan empire, whose rule embraced (and extended at times far beyond) the present Tibetan linguistic area, which runs from north... | What is Sichuan derived from? | {'text': 'ancient Indian Brāhmī script', 'answer_start': 548} |
103,241 | 102,899 | 572e88edcb0c0d14000f126e | generic | In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke. The design of the Otis safety elevator is somewhat similar to one type still used today. A governor device engages knurled roller(s), locking the elevator to its guides should the elevator descend at excessive s... | What did the govenor device engage to lock the elevator? | {'text': 'knurled roller(s)', 'answer_start': 224} |
109,200 | 108,858 | 5ace2a4532bba1001ae49c51 | generic | Olin has a network of more than 16,000 alumni worldwide. Over the last several years, the school’s endowment has increased to $213 million (2004) and annual gifts average $12 million per year.[citation needed] Simon Hall was opened in 1986 after a donation from John E. Simon. On May 2, 2014, the $90 million conjoined K... | How much money did John E. Simon donate? | {'text': '$12 million', 'answer_start': 171} |
70,821 | 70,479 | 5726e8e4708984140094d581 | generic | The Nigerian government has commissioned the overseas production and launch of four satellites. The Nigeriasat-1 was the first satellite to be built under the Nigerian government sponsorship. The satellite was launched from Russia on 27 September 2003. Nigeriasat-1 was part of the world-wide Disaster Monitoring Constel... | When did Nigeria launch its first satellite? | {'text': '27 September 2003', 'answer_start': 234} |
73,903 | 73,561 | 57293d9e1d046914007791cc | generic | New Haven (local /nuː ˈheɪvən/, noo-HAY-vən), in the U.S. state of Connecticut, is the principal municipality in Greater New Haven, which had a total population of 862,477 in 2010. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of the Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, which in turn comprises ... | What is Connecticut's biggest city? | {'text': 'Bridgeport', 'answer_start': 424} |
30,981 | 30,639 | 570718ed9e06ca38007e9426 | generic | But the peace in the state did not last long, the elections of 1875 caused new hostilities. Ángel Trías led a new movement against the government in June 1875 and maintained control over the government until September 18, 1875 when Donato Guerra the orchestrator of the Revolution of the North was captured. Donato Guerr... | Guerra was assassinated in a suburb of which city? | {'text': 'Chihuahua City', 'answer_start': 354} |
24,351 | 24,009 | 56f815cea6d7ea1400e173a5 | generic | In the late 14th century, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great reformed the Grand Duchy's army: instead of calling all men to arms, he created forces comprising professional warriors—bajorai ("nobles"; see the cognate "boyar"). As there were not enough nobles, Vytautas trained suitable men, relieving the... | WHo reformed the grand duchy army? | {'text': 'Vytautas the Great', 'answer_start': 59} |
121,759 | 121,417 | 57319e32e99e3014001e618a | generic | A national university is generally a university created or run by a national state but at the same time represents a state autonomic institution which functions as a completely independent body inside of the same state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations, f... | In what year did Argentina's University Revolution occur? | {'text': '1918', 'answer_start': 557} |
12,905 | 12,563 | 56df6bf35ca0a614008f9a00 | generic | In the past, the Malays used to call the Portuguese Serani from the Arabic Nasrani, but the term now refers to the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia. | What does the term refer to now? | {'text': 'the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia', 'answer_start': 111} |
2,093 | 1,751 | 56cc55fa6d243a140015ef14 | generic | Like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued). | In addition to playing music, what other function can the iPod perform? | {'text': 'data storage', 'answer_start': 62} |
81,132 | 80,790 | 5728d5b54b864d1900164f11 | generic | Detroit has struggled with high crime for decades. Detroit held the title of murder capital between 1985-1987 with a murder rate around 58 per 100,000. Crime has since decreased and, in 2014, the murder rate was 43.4 per 100,000, lower than in St. Louis, Missouri. Although the murder rate increased by 6% during the fir... | How many murders did Detroit have in 2014? | {'text': '299', 'answer_start': 496} |
76,872 | 76,530 | 5727897ff1498d1400e8fb36 | generic | The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the ultimate court for criminal and civil matters in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and for civil matters in Scotland. (The supreme court for criminal matters in Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.) The Supreme Court was established by the Constitutional Reform Act ... | What legislation established the Supremacy of the Supreme Court of the UK? | {'text': 'Constitutional Reform Act 2005', 'answer_start': 294} |
77,219 | 76,877 | 5727a0d9ff5b5019007d914e | generic | Although some earlier unpublished studies had been prepared, not until the early 1970s was true textual criticism applied to the Book of Mormon. At that time BYU Professor Ellis Rasmussen and his associates were asked by the LDS Church to begin preparation for a new edition of the Holy Scriptures. One aspect of that ef... | Whose observations were included in the 1981 publication of the Book of Mormon? | {'text': 'Larson', 'answer_start': 1092} |
106,121 | 105,779 | 572f8f36a23a5019007fc754 | generic | During the Eastern Han, conscription could be avoided if one paid a commutable tax. The Eastern Han court favored the recruitment of a volunteer army. The volunteer army comprised the Southern Army (Nanjun 南軍), while the standing army stationed in and near the capital was the Northern Army (Beijun 北軍). Led by Colonels ... | What army was based near the capital? | {'text': 'Northern Army', 'answer_start': 277} |
1,920 | 1,578 | 56cd6a3d62d2951400fa659f | generic | Shih-Shan Henry Tsai writes that the Yongle Emperor sent his eunuch Yang Sanbao into Tibet in 1413 to gain the allegiance of various Tibetan princes, while the Yongle Emperor paid a small fortune in return gifts for tributes in order to maintain the loyalty of neighboring vassal states such as Nepal and Tibet. However,... | Why did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet? | {'text': 'the allegiance of various Tibetan princes', 'answer_start': 107} |
65,618 | 65,276 | 5a21a5b98a6e4f001aa08e53 | generic | Chanakya, 4th Century BC Indian political philosopher. The Arthashastra provides an account of the science of politics for a wise ruler, policies for foreign affairs and wars, the system of a spy state and surveillance and economic stability of the state. Chanakya quotes several authorities including Bruhaspati, Ushana... | Who is Prachetasa a descendant of? | {'text': 'a descendant of a lineage of political philosophers', 'answer_start': 385} |
122,019 | 121,677 | 5731d6d4e99e3014001e631e | generic | Public religion took place within a sacred precinct that had been marked out ritually by an augur. The original meaning of the Latin word templum was this sacred space, and only later referred to a building. Rome itself was an intrinsically sacred space; its ancient boundary (pomerium) had been marked by Romulus himsel... | What was the original meaning of the templum in Latin? | {'text': 'sacred space', 'answer_start': 155} |
121,992 | 121,650 | 5731cf22e99e3014001e62d0 | generic | Public priests were appointed by the collegia. Once elected, a priest held permanent religious authority from the eternal divine, which offered him lifetime influence, privilege and immunity. Therefore, civil and religious law limited the number and kind of religious offices allowed an individual and his family. Religi... | What group selected public priests in Rome? | {'text': 'collegia', 'answer_start': 37} |
82,736 | 82,394 | 5727c22d4b864d1900163c97 | generic | Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. In... | How many acres is the modern-day Northwestern campus in Evanston? | {'text': '240', 'answer_start': 402} |
78,854 | 78,512 | 5ad251e0d7d075001a428cf4 | generic | The spiritual tradition of Dominic's Order is punctuated not only by charity, study and preaching, but also by instances of mystical union. The Dominican emphasis on learning and on charity distinguishes it from other monastic and mendicant orders. As the order first developed on the European continent, learning contin... | What did the friars and sisters in Christ not struggle with? | {'text': 'for a deeply personal, intimate relationship with God.', 'answer_start': 417} |
42,051 | 41,709 | 570d9d86df2f5219002ed050 | generic | The army employs various individual weapons to provide light firepower at short ranges. The most common weapons used by the army are the compact variant of the M16 rifle, the M4 carbine, as well as the 7.62×51mm variant of the FN SCAR for Army Rangers. The primary sidearm in the U.S. Army is the 9 mm M9 pistol; the M11... | What is the primary sidearm used by the U.S. Army? | {'text': '9 mm M9 pistol', 'answer_start': 297} |
102,700 | 102,358 | 572eae27cb0c0d14000f1452 | generic | Seafood and fish dishes include squid, octopus, red mullet, and sea bass. Cucumber and tomato are used widely in salads. Common vegetable preparations include potatoes in olive oil and parsley, pickled cauliflower and beets, asparagus and taro. Other traditional delicacies of are meat marinated in dried coriander seeds... | What are some famous seafood and fish dishes? | {'text': 'squid, octopus, red mullet, and sea bass', 'answer_start': 32} |
60,272 | 59,930 | 5726e3165951b619008f8171 | generic | Social predation offers the possibility of predators to kill creatures larger than those that members of the species could overpower singly. Lions, hyenas, wolves, dholes, African wild dogs, and piranhas can kill large herbivores that single animals of the same species usually don't dispatch. Social predation allows so... | What hunting style allows chimpanzees to prey upon colobus monkeys? | {'text': 'Social predation', 'answer_start': 0} |
62,912 | 62,570 | 5726882b708984140094c912 | generic | The world's first commercial broadcast automation audio compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1983, using the psychoacoustic principle of the masking of critical bands first published in 1967, he started developing a practical application based... | Who was an engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires? | {'text': 'Oscar Bonello', 'answer_start': 92} |
41,243 | 40,901 | 5a2ad6af5b078a001a2f0714 | generic | Sanskrit originated in an oral society, and the oral tradition was maintained through the development of early classical Sanskrit literature. Writing was not introduced to India until after Sanskrit had evolved into the Prakrits; when it was written, the choice of writing system was influenced by the regional scripts o... | What influenced the original scripts of the scribes? | {'text': 'Prakrits', 'answer_start': 220} |
55,276 | 54,934 | 5a62874bf8d794001af1c0ac | generic | Further problems hampered the Arctic project after the commencement of drilling in 2012, as Shell dealt with a series of issues that involved air permits, Coast Guard certification of a marine vessel and severe damage to essential oil-spill equipment. Additionally, difficult weather conditions resulted in the delay of ... | What certification was the Kulluk missing? | {'text': 'Coast Guard certification', 'answer_start': 155} |
118,808 | 118,466 | 5730f2a1497a881900248a86 | generic | The Russian alphabet has many systems of character encoding. KOI8-R was designed by the Soviet government and was intended to serve as the standard encoding. This encoding was and still is widely used in UNIX-like operating systems. Nevertheless, the spread of MS-DOS and OS/2 (IBM866), traditional Macintosh (ISO/IEC 88... | What system used CP1251 encoding? | {'text': 'Microsoft Windows', 'answer_start': 330} |
84,381 | 84,039 | 572820a64b864d19001644fe | generic | On 14 July, Iraqi army officers Abdel Karim Qasim and Abdel Salam Aref overthrew the Iraqi monarchy and, the next day, Iraqi prime minister and Nasser's chief Arab antagonist, Nuri al-Said, was killed. Nasser recognized the new government and stated that "any attack on Iraq was tantamount to an attack on the UAR". On 1... | What two men overthrew the Iraqi monarchy? | {'text': 'Abdel Karim Qasim and Abdel Salam Aref', 'answer_start': 32} |
128,777 | 128,435 | 5733f8154776f419006615ef | generic | Punjab is Pakistan's second largest province in terms of land area at 205,344 km2 (79,284 sq mi), after Balochistan, and is located at the north western edge of the geologic Indian plate in South Asia. The province is bordered by Kashmir (Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, India) to the northeast, the Indian... | How many square miles is Punjab? | {'text': '79,284', 'answer_start': 83} |
93,027 | 92,685 | 57291e76af94a219006aa0a1 | generic | Specification-based testing aims to test the functionality of software according to the applicable requirements. This level of testing usually requires thorough test cases to be provided to the tester, who then can simply verify that for a given input, the output value (or behavior), either "is" or "is not" the same as... | What term is used to test functionality of the software accordingly with the application requirements? | {'text': 'Specification-based testing', 'answer_start': 0} |
1,813 | 1,471 | 56cc41416d243a140015eee4 | generic | In 1207, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan (r. 1206–1227) conquered and subjugated the ethnic Tangut state of the Western Xia (1038–1227). In the same year, he established diplomatic relations with Tibet by sending envoys there. The conquest of the Western Xia alarmed Tibetan rulers, who decided to pay tribute to the Mongo... | Who was Genghis Khan's successor? | {'text': 'Ögedei Khan', 'answer_start': 407} |
99,575 | 99,233 | 5a57cd60770dc0001aeefd90 | generic | In response to the early-to-mid-17th century "continental rationalism" John Locke (1632–1704) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i.e., based upon experience. Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposit... | When was Descartes born? | {'text': '1632', 'answer_start': 83} |
113,530 | 113,188 | 5a5445ca134fea001a0e16e2 | generic | In astronomy, Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis. The corrections made to the geocentric model by al-Battani, Averroes, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urdi and Ibn al-Shatir were later incorporated into the Copernican helio... | What measurment did Copernicas improve? | {'text': "the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis", 'answer_start': 81} |
123,439 | 123,097 | 5731e0fce99e3014001e6394 | 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 is Brasilia's GDP? | {'text': '99.5 billion reais', 'answer_start': 140} |
2,994 | 2,652 | 56cf4745aab44d1400b88f0c | generic | Mendes revealed that production would begin on 8 December 2014 at Pinewood Studios, with filming taking seven months. Mendes also confirmed several filming locations, including London, Mexico City and Rome. Van Hoytema shot the film on Kodak 35 mm film stock. Early filming took place at Pinewood Studios, and around Lon... | What type of film was used? | {'text': 'Kodak 35 mm film stock', 'answer_start': 236} |
103,061 | 102,719 | 5ad4cebe5b96ef001a10a138 | generic | Spielberg has filmed and is currently in post-production on an adaptation of Roald Dahl's celebrated children's story The BFG. Spielberg's DreamWorks bought the rights in 2010, originally intending John Madden to direct. The film was written by E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and is co-produced by Walt Disney Pictur... | In what month in 2010 did Dreamworks buy the rights to The BFG? | {'text': 'May', 'answer_start': 468} |
48,442 | 48,100 | 571d0ddb5efbb31900334e88 | generic | In the U.S., a push for revisions of the FD&C Act emerged from Congressional hearings led by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee in 1959. The hearings covered a wide range of policy issues, including advertising abuses, questionable efficacy of drugs, and the need for greater regulation of the industry. While momentum ... | Congressional hearings emerged addressing revisions to what act? | {'text': 'FD&C', 'answer_start': 41} |
15,438 | 15,096 | 56e02b8a7aa994140058e2ef | generic | The Portuguese found the island uninhabited, with an abundance of trees and fresh water. They imported livestock, fruit trees and vegetables, and built a chapel and one or two houses. Though they formed no permanent settlement, the island was an important rendezvous point and source of food for ships travelling from As... | What did the island have an abundance of when discovered? | {'text': 'trees and fresh water.', 'answer_start': 66} |
62,260 | 61,918 | 5ace97a932bba1001ae4ab9d | generic | By the 1st century, Babylonia, to which Jews migrated to after the Babylonian conquest as well as after the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, already held a speedily growing population of an estimated 1,000,000 Jews, which increased to an estimated 2 million between the years 200 CE – 500 CE, both by natural growth and by ... | Where did the Jews migrate to before the Babylonian conquest? | {'text': 'Babylonia', 'answer_start': 20} |
55,561 | 55,219 | 5a8452777cf838001a46a725 | generic | Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to th... | Who did the French merchants petition to get permission to sail the Indian Ocean? | {'text': 'Queen Elizabeth I', 'answer_start': 94} |
79,832 | 79,490 | 5a7e994048f7d9001a063779 | generic | The most notable cricket club in Cork is Cork County Cricket Club, which was formed in 1874. Although located within the Munster jurisdiction, the club plays in the Leinster Senior League. The club plays at the Mardyke, a ground which has hosted three first-class matches in 1947, 1961 and 1973. All three involved Irela... | What league does the Harlequins Cricket Club play in? | {'text': 'Leinster Senior League', 'answer_start': 165} |
42,137 | 41,795 | 570d4d53fed7b91900d45e47 | generic | In the Prussian province of Posen, with a large Polish population, there was strong support for the French and angry demonstrations at news of Prussian-German victories—a clear manifestation of Polish nationalist feeling. Calls were also made for Polish recruits to desert from the Prussian Army—though these went mainly... | What significant consequence was a result of German-Polish relations? | {'text': 'prolonged period of repressive measures', 'answer_start': 612} |
2,642 | 2,300 | 5a8dae8adf8bba001a0f9b70 | generic | The team worked on a Wii control scheme, adapting camera control and the fighting mechanics to the new interface. A prototype was created that used a swinging gesture to control the sword from a first-person viewpoint, but was unable to show the variety of Link's movements. When the third-person view was restored, Aonu... | Who provided information about the game's controls in December of 2006? | {'text': 'NGC Magazine', 'answer_start': 566} |
74,816 | 74,474 | 57277db4dd62a815002e9e96 | generic | Other regions host festivities of smaller extent, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs, such as Tyrnavos (Thessaly), Kozani (West Macedonia), Rethymno (Crete) and in Xanthi (East Macedonia and Thrace). Tyrnavos holds an annual Phallus festival, a traditional "phallkloric" event in which giant, g... | In what square do the bands all play at once? | {'text': 'Ntoltso', 'answer_start': 1075} |
40,387 | 40,045 | 5ad565d65b96ef001a10adc5 | generic | Statistics from late 2003 indicate that Apple had 2.06 percent of the desktop share in the United States that had increased to 2.88 percent by Q4 2004. As of October 2006, research firms IDC and Gartner reported that Apple's market share in the U.S. had increased to about 6 percent. Figures from December 2006, showing ... | Who are CID and Gartner? | {'text': 'research firms', 'answer_start': 172} |
29,084 | 28,742 | 5705ef7375f01819005e779e | generic | The Times was the first newspaper to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England. | The Times was the first newspaper to send correspondents to what kind of event? | {'text': 'war', 'answer_start': 42} |
18,689 | 18,347 | 56e74f5300c9c71400d76f8a | generic | There are two major mechanical pulps, the thermomechanical one (TMP) and groundwood pulp (GW). In the TMP process, wood is chipped and then fed into large steam heated refiners, where the chips are squeezed and converted to fibres between two steel discs. In the groundwood process, debarked logs are fed into grinders w... | Besides the thermomechanical process, what is a process used in pulping? | {'text': 'groundwood pulp', 'answer_start': 73} |
126,539 | 126,197 | 5a82003531013a001a3350ae | generic | The ad fontes principle also had many applications. The re-discovery of ancient manuscripts brought a more profound and accurate knowledge of ancient philosophical schools such as Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism, whose Pagan wisdom the humanists, like the Church fathers of old, tended, at least initially, to consider as... | Who couldn't quote a line of Terence? | {'text': 'Seneca', 'answer_start': 1035} |
54,330 | 53,988 | 5acfc8f777cf76001a685f7e | generic | Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's crea... | Who is unprotected by copyright laws? | {'text': "The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned", 'answer_start': 271} |
36,963 | 36,621 | 5ad17172645df0001a2d1bc8 | generic | Sectional tensions had long existed between the states located north of the Mason–Dixon line and those south of it, primarily centered on the "peculiar institution" of slavery and the ability of states to overrule the decisions of the national government. During the 1840s and 1850s, conflicts between the two sides beca... | What dividing line separated slave states from non-free states? | {'text': 'Mason–Dixon', 'answer_start': 76} |
45,800 | 45,458 | 5ad3fe7f604f3c001a3ffc41 | generic | Pharmaceutical companies whose products are used in the three-drug cocktails for lethal injections are predominantly European, and they have strenuously objected to the use of their drugs for executions and taken steps to prevent their use. For example, Hospira, the sole American manufacturer of sodium thiopental, the ... | When did Hospira begin to manufacture its lethal injection drug for the United States? | {'text': '2011', 'answer_start': 381} |
94,767 | 94,425 | 572b5334111d821400f38e67 | generic | Zinc chemistry is similar to the chemistry of the late first-row transition metals nickel and copper, though it has a filled d-shell, so its compounds are diamagnetic and mostly colorless. The ionic radii of zinc and magnesium happen to be nearly identical. Because of this some of their salts have the same crystal stru... | Whit what donors does zinc form stable complexes? | {'text': 'N- and S-', 'answer_start': 585} |
122,207 | 121,865 | 57323080e17f3d14004226ff | generic | With the abatement of persecution, St. Jerome acknowledged the Empire as a bulwark against evil but insisted that "imperial honours" were contrary to Christian teaching. His was an authoritative but minority voice: most Christians showed no qualms in the veneration of even "pagan" emperors. The peace of the emperors wa... | Who said the imperial honors were against Christian teachings? | {'text': 'St. Jerome', 'answer_start': 35} |
111,072 | 110,730 | 5ace96bf32bba1001ae4ab4d | generic | The printed circuit board industry defines heavy copper as layers exceeding three ounces of copper, or approximately 0.0042 inches (4.2 mils, 105 μm) thick. PCB designers and fabricators often use heavy copper when design and manufacturing circuit boards in order to increase current-carrying capacity as well as resista... | The printed circuit board industry defines light copper as what? | {'text': 'layers exceeding three ounces of copper', 'answer_start': 59} |
12,360 | 12,018 | 56de723e4396321400ee291c | generic | Perhaps due to the many modern negative connotations associated with the term heretic, such as the Spanish inquisition, the term is used less often today. The subject of Christian heresy opens up broader questions as to who has a monopoly on spiritual truth, as explored by Jorge Luis Borges in the short story "The Theo... | Who was the author of the short story "The Theologians"? | {'text': 'Jorge Luis Borges', 'answer_start': 274} |
3,849 | 3,507 | 56cfb43d234ae51400d9beab | generic | On August 24, 1673, Dutch captain Anthonio Colve took over the colony of New York from England and rechristened it "New Orange" to honor the Prince of Orange, King William III. However, facing defeat from the British and French, who had teamed up to destroy Dutch trading routes, the Dutch returned the island to England... | August 24, 1673 is when which Dutch officer took control of NYC? | {'text': 'Anthonio Colve', 'answer_start': 34} |
1,306 | 964 | 56cbef3a6d243a140015edfe | generic | Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisław Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever." With Woyciechowski, he headed for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. Later that month, i... | In what year did his companion Woyciechowski depart to Poland to enlist for the uprising in Warsaw? | {'text': '1830', 'answer_start': 343} |
34,510 | 34,168 | 5a103c85decec900184755e3 | generic | Hanover was founded in medieval times on the east bank of the River Leine. Its original name Honovere may mean "high (river)bank", though this is debated (cf. das Hohe Ufer). Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural... | What city was found on the west bank of the river Leine? | {'text': 'Hanover', 'answer_start': 0} |
81,730 | 81,388 | 5a39b0472f14dd001ac72591 | generic | In the United States, Lindlof and Taylor write, "Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition". The American version of cultural studies initially concerned itself more with understanding the subjective and appropriative side of audience reactions to, and uses of, mass culture; for examp... | What never criticized the Marxist assumption of a single, dominant meaning, shared by all, for any cultural product? | {'text': 'feminist cultural studies', 'answer_start': 1148} |
113,557 | 113,215 | 5a544b3c134fea001a0e16fc | generic | More than 20% of the world's population is Muslim. Current estimates conclude that the number of Muslims in the world is around 1,5 billion. Muslims are the majority in 49 countries, they speak hundreds of languages and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Major languages spoken by Muslims include Arabic, Urdu, Bengal... | What percentage of the world is made up of Muslim nations? | {'text': '20%', 'answer_start': 10} |
19,233 | 18,891 | 56e7299137bdd419002c3ddc | generic | Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United Stat... | What is the German word for Daylight Saving Time? | {'text': 'Sommerzeit', 'answer_start': 111} |
30,109 | 29,767 | 57061f8275f01819005e79b9 | generic | As a doctoral student at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Karlheinz Brandenburg began working on digital music compression in the early 1980s, focusing on how people perceive music. He completed his doctoral work in 1989. MP3 is directly descended from OCF and PXFM, representing the outcome of the collaborat... | Who did Brandenburg work with in music compression? | {'text': 'Fraunhofer Society', 'answer_start': 733} |
16,193 | 15,851 | 56e084b77aa994140058e599 | generic | Von Braun and his team were sent to the United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground, located in New Mexico, in 1945. They set about assembling the captured V2s and began a program of launching them and instructing American engineers in their operation. These tests led to the first rocket to take photos from outer s... | What year was the German rocket team moved to Alabama? | {'text': '1950', 'answer_start': 520} |
26,990 | 26,648 | 5ad3b2f6604f3c001a3fed30 | generic | Since 1972, International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector (ITU-R) had been working on creating a global recommendation for Analog HDTV. These recommendations, however, did not fit in the broadcasting bands which could reach home users. The standardization of MPEG-1 in 1993 also led to the acce... | What is the DVD's role? | {'text': 'develops and agrees upon specifications', 'answer_start': 552} |
101,858 | 101,516 | 572e8b9edfa6aa1500f8d103 | generic | Feynman was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1965. At this time in the early 1960s, Feynman exhausted himself by working on multiple major projects at the same time, including a request, while at Caltech, to "spruce up" the teaching of undergraduates. After three years devoted to the task, he... | Why did publisher change the cover picture on Feynman's book? | {'text': 'connections to drugs and rock and roll', 'answer_start': 543} |
94,803 | 94,461 | 5acfbf4877cf76001a685c38 | generic | The name of the metal was probably first documented by Paracelsus, a Swiss-born German alchemist, who referred to the metal as "zincum" or "zinken" in his book Liber Mineralium II, in the 16th century. The word is probably derived from the German zinke, and supposedly meant "tooth-like, pointed or jagged" (metallic zin... | What are some of the other outlawed words for zinc? | {'text': 'Indian tin, tutanego, calamine, and spinter', 'answer_start': 572} |
61,842 | 61,500 | 572690725951b619008f76b9 | generic | The Bronze Age arrived circa 1500 BC when people in the region were turning copper into bronze, growing rice and domesticating poultry and pigs; they were among the first people in the world to do so. Human remains and artifacts from this era were discovered in Monywa District in the Sagaing Division. The Iron Age bega... | By what name is the era in the 3rd millennium around 1500 BC known? | {'text': 'The Bronze Age', 'answer_start': 0} |
64,619 | 64,277 | 5ad02f5777cf76001a686d7e | generic | Hunyadi succeeded during the Siege of Belgrade in 1456 against the Ottomans, the biggest victory against that empire in decades. This battle became a real Crusade against the Muslims, as the peasants were motivated by the Franciscan monk Saint John of Capistrano, who came from Italy predicating Holy War. The effect tha... | When John Hunyadi died, which province was left in peace? | {'text': 'Pannonia', 'answer_start': 467} |
116,883 | 116,541 | 5a4ea42b755ab9001a10f561 | generic | Hazards to aircraft include debris, nesting birds, and reduced friction levels due to environmental conditions such as ice, snow, or rain. Part of runway maintenance is airfield rubber removal which helps maintain friction levels. The fields must be kept clear of debris using cleaning equipment so that loose material d... | Why must the field be kept clear of nesting birds? | {'text': 'so that loose material does not become a projectile and enter an engine duct', 'answer_start': 296} |
111,541 | 111,199 | 5730a045069b5314008321d2 | generic | Greek surnames were widely in use by the 9th century supplanting the ancient tradition of using the father’s name, however Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics. Commonly, Greek male surnames end in -s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case. Exceptionally, some end in... | What does it mean to have the letters OU added to the ending of a males last name ? | {'text': 'some end in -ou, indicating the genitive case of this proper noun for patronymic reasons.', 'answer_start': 309} |
68,136 | 67,794 | 5726ab455951b619008f7988 | generic | Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The c... | What county is Raleigh in? | {'text': 'Dare', 'answer_start': 636} |
81,882 | 81,540 | 5728c5644b864d1900164dc0 | generic | The South Saharan steppe and woodlands ecoregion is a narrow band running east and west between the hyper-arid Sahara and the Sahel savannas to the south. Movements of the equatorial Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bring summer rains during July and August which average 100 to 200 mm (3.9 to 7.9 in) but vary grea... | What is the average rainfall between the months of July and August? | {'text': '100 to 200 mm', 'answer_start': 277} |
22,547 | 22,205 | 5ad49c8eba00c4001a268daf | generic | The earliest mentions of Slavic raids across the lower River Danube may be dated to the first half of the 6th century, yet no archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before c. 600 AD. | When was archaeological evidence of Slavic settlements first discovered? | {'text': 'the 6th century', 'answer_start': 102} |
30,949 | 30,607 | 570716129e06ca38007e93df | generic | The anti-clerical feeling was widespread, and Durango supported the initial reaction against the government at Mexico. In May 1832, José Urrea, a rising officer, supported the restoration of President Pedraza. On July 20, Governor Elorriaga was reinstated, and Baca along with the legislative minority were brought back ... | Who supported the reaction against the government? | {'text': 'Durango', 'answer_start': 46} |
67,054 | 66,712 | 5726c10add62a815002e8f81 | generic | Reform of the liturgy had been a part of the liturgical movements in the 20th century mainly in France, and Germany which were officially recognized by Pius XII in his encyclical Mediator Dei. During the pontificate of Pius XII, the Vatican eased regulations on the use of Latin in Roman Catholic liturgies, permitting s... | What were revised between 1951 and 1955? | {'text': 'Easter liturgies', 'answer_start': 418} |
94,876 | 94,534 | 572b7d1b111d821400f38eb3 | generic | Roughly one quarter of all zinc output in the United States (2009), is consumed in the form of zinc compounds; a variety of which are used industrially. Zinc oxide is widely used as a white pigment in paints, and as a catalyst in the manufacture of rubber. It is also used as a heat disperser for the rubber and acts to ... | Why is zinc oxide useful in photocopying products? | {'text': 'semiconductor', 'answer_start': 445} |
94,426 | 94,084 | 57296fea6aef051400154eac | generic | The port of Palermo, founded by the Phoenicians over 2,700 years ago, is, together with the port of Messina, the main port of Sicily. From here ferries link Palermo to Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Tunis and other cities and carry a total of almost 2 million passengers annually. It is also an important port for cru... | How many passengers do Palermo's ferries carry each year? | {'text': '2 million', 'answer_start': 253} |
60,710 | 60,368 | 57266e705951b619008f7285 | generic | Since 1718, transportation to the American colonies had been a penalty for various criminal offences in Britain, with approximately one thousand convicts transported per year across the Atlantic. Forced to find an alternative location after the loss of the 13 Colonies in 1783, the British government turned to the newly... | When did the first shipment of British convicts leave for Australia? | {'text': '1787', 'answer_start': 925} |
97,718 | 97,376 | 5a0e45e0d7c850001886457d | generic | While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. There are concerns that antibiotics may increase the risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome in people infected with Escherichia coli O157:H7. In resource-poor countries, treatment with antibiotics ma... | Where is treatment for antibiotic resistance beneficial? | {'text': 'In resource-poor countries', 'answer_start': 263} |
90,265 | 89,923 | 5ad23a10d7d075001a428844 | generic | Karl Popper's rejection of Marxism during his teenage years left a profound mark on his thought. He had at one point joined a socialist association, and for a few months in 1919 considered himself a communist. During this time he became familiar with the Marxist view of economics, class-war, and history. Although he qu... | What ideology did Popper never become disillusioned with? | {'text': 'Marxism', 'answer_start': 375} |
4,117 | 3,775 | 56cf3442aab44d1400b88e39 | generic | The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian. Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non-His... | By what percentage did the non-Hispanic white population decrease? | {'text': '3', 'answer_start': 45} |
88,229 | 87,887 | 5ace5e2332bba1001ae4a422 | generic | Although many species can reproduce asexually and use similar mechanisms to regenerate after severe injuries, sexual reproduction is the normal method in species whose reproduction has been studied. The minority of living polychaetes whose reproduction and lifecycles are known produce trochophore larvae, that live as p... | What can asexual reproduction techniques prevent annelids from doing? | {'text': 'regenerate after severe injuries', 'answer_start': 76} |
76,361 | 76,019 | 572821f52ca10214002d9e9f | generic | On October 24, the union Supreme Soviet passed a law eliminating special seats for Communist Party and other official organizations' representatives. On October 26, twenty factories in Lviv held strikes and meetings to protest the police brutality of October 1 and the authorities' unwillingness to prosecute those respo... | Where were the strikes? | {'text': 'Lviv', 'answer_start': 185} |
65,303 | 64,961 | 572693d7708984140094cabc | generic | Historians have divided the history of Cubism into phases. In one scheme, the first phase of Cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, a phrase coined by Juan Gris a posteriori, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1910 and 1912 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, rem... | From what years did High Cubism take place? | {'text': '1909 to 1914', 'answer_start': 723} |
71,291 | 70,949 | 5726d90bf1498d1400e8ed06 | generic | After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort. The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, whi... | The Soviets took over and setup a fake government in what country? | {'text': 'Finnish Democratic Republic', 'answer_start': 548} |
103,937 | 103,595 | 572f2ce3a23a5019007fc4b6 | generic | 3 kV DC is used in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland, the northern Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Chile, and former Soviet Union countries (also using 25 kV 50 Hz AC). It was formerly used by the Milwaukee Road from Harlowton, Montana to Seattle-Tacoma, across the Continental Divide and including extensi... | What does the railway system of US use DC or AC? | {'text': 'AC', 'answer_start': 582} |
41,167 | 40,825 | 570e2c350dc6ce1900204e31 | generic | Many Sanskrit loanwords are also found in Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, particularly the older form in which nearly half the vocabulary is borrowed. Other Austronesian languages, such as traditional Malay and modern Indonesian, also derive much of their vocabulary from Sanskrit, albeit to a lesser extent, w... | Where does traditional Malay get many of its loanwords? | {'text': 'Sanskrit', 'answer_start': 282} |
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