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91,649 | 91,307 | 572942763f37b319004781bb | generic | In the United States, the practice of racial profiling has been ruled to be both unconstitutional and a violation of civil rights. There is active debate regarding the cause of a marked correlation between the recorded crimes, punishments meted out, and the country's populations. Many consider de facto racial profiling... | What has impacted the debate on the legitimate use of known phenotypical characteristics? | {'text': 'misuse of racial categories', 'answer_start': 391} |
27,798 | 27,456 | 56fae6fe8f12f31900630283 | generic | Football is the most popular sport amongst Somalis. Important competitions are the Somalia League and Somalia Cup. The multi-ethnic Ocean Stars, Somalia's national team, first participated at the Olympic Games in 1972 and has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then. The equally diverse Somali b... | What sport do Somalis most enjoy? | {'text': 'Football', 'answer_start': 0} |
16,835 | 16,493 | 5acd514807355d001abf3d0c | generic | The three latest satellites will jointly undergo testing of a new system of navigation signaling and inter-satellite links, and start providing navigation services when ready. | Four of the newest satellites will undergo what? | {'text': 'testing of a new system of navigation signaling and inter-satellite links', 'answer_start': 49} |
121,950 | 121,608 | 5731bb00e99e3014001e621b | generic | Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented. After the Roman defeat at Cannae two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the Forum Boarium, in a stone chamber "which had on a previous occasion [228 BC] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings". Livy avoids the word "s... | Before the invasion of what area was human sacrifice carried out? | {'text': 'Gaul', 'answer_start': 478} |
69,267 | 68,925 | 5a7a304717ab25001a8a0384 | generic | Literature consists of written productions, often restricted to those deemed to have artistic or intellectual value. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera, letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, but intertwined with the roman concept of cultura: learning or cultiv... | What are the two Greek roots for "literature?" | {'text': 'Its Latin root literatura/litteratura', 'answer_start': 117} |
56,408 | 56,066 | 57264597f1498d1400e8dad2 | generic | On an international level the German DIN 4512 system has been effectively superseded in the 1980s by ISO 6:1974, ISO 2240:1982, and ISO 5800:1979 where the same sensitivity is written in linear and logarithmic form as "ISO 100/21°" (now again with degree symbol). These ISO standards were subsequently adopted by DIN as ... | When were the last ISO standards adopted? | {'text': 'July 2002', 'answer_start': 568} |
1,481 | 1,139 | 56cfe09e234ae51400d9bfdb | generic | From 1842 onwards, Chopin showed signs of serious illness. After a solo recital in Paris on 21 February 1842, he wrote to Grzymała: "I have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." He was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from Alkan to participate in a repeat performance of ... | What specific illness does modern evidence point to Chopin having? | {'text': 'temporal lobe epilepsy', 'answer_start': 786} |
32,298 | 31,956 | 570979bfed30961900e841c4 | generic | A person may display either relative weakness or relative strength in terms of both exploration and commitments. When assigned categories, four possible permutations result: identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, identity moratorium, and identity achievement. Diffusion is when a person lacks both exploration in life... | What is the permutation when a person commits to identity choices? | {'text': 'identity achievement', 'answer_start': 241} |
4,986 | 4,644 | 56d08f34234ae51400d9c389 | generic | Hydrogen production technologies been a significant area of solar chemical research since the 1970s. Aside from electrolysis driven by photovoltaic or photochemical cells, several thermochemical processes have also been explored. One such route uses concentrators to split water into oxygen and hydrogen at high temperat... | What is one of the thermochemical processes that has been explored besides electrolysis? | {'text': 'uses concentrators to split water into oxygen and hydrogen at high temperatures', 'answer_start': 245} |
52,815 | 52,473 | 5a7a50c717ab25001a8a04e0 | generic | During World War II, the palace was bombed nine times, the most serious and publicised of which resulted in the destruction of the palace chapel in 1940. Coverage of this event was played in cinemas all over the UK to show the common suffering of rich and poor. One bomb fell in the palace quadrangle while King George V... | How many times was the palace remodeled in WWII? | {'text': 'nine times', 'answer_start': 43} |
35,531 | 35,189 | 570ac2e34103511400d599a0 | generic | One STOBAR carrier: Liaoning was originally built as the 57,000 tonne Soviet Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier Varyag and was later purchased as a stripped hulk by China in 1998 on the pretext of use as a floating casino, then partially rebuilt and towed to China for completion. Liaoning was commissioned on 25 September ... | Why did China purchase the STOBAR carrier Liaoning in 1998? | {'text': 'on the pretext of use as a floating casino', 'answer_start': 176} |
58,002 | 57,660 | 572654245951b619008f6fd5 | generic | BYU offers programs in liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing and law. The university is broadly organized into 11 colleges or schools at its main Provo campus, with certain colleges and divisions defining their own admission standards. The university also admini... | What institution controls BYU? | {'text': 'Church Educational System', 'answer_start': 429} |
13,794 | 13,452 | 5a2980b803c0e7001a3e17cb | generic | The Fund raises awareness of and supports efforts to meet these needs in developing countries, advocates close attention to population concerns, and helps developing nations formulate policies and strategies in support of sustainable development. Dr. Osotimehin assumed leadership in January 2011. The Fund is also repre... | Who else is not represented by The Fund? | {'text': 'Goodwill Ambassadors', 'answer_start': 336} |
106,429 | 106,087 | 572ebb02cb0c0d14000f14e1 | generic | The language of the Quran has been described as "rhymed prose" as it partakes of both poetry and prose; however, this description runs the risk of failing to convey the rhythmic quality of Quranic language, which is more poetic in some parts and more prose-like in others. Rhyme, while found throughout the Quran, is con... | Which parts of the Quran are the least poetic? | {'text': 'Later', 'answer_start': 706} |
67,391 | 67,049 | 5ad16638645df0001a2d19b3 | generic | In a WRIM, the rotor winding is made of many turns of insulated wire and is connected to slip rings on the motor shaft. An external resistor or other control devices can be connected in the rotor circuit. Resistors allow control of the motor speed, although significant power is dissipated in the external resistance. A ... | What can a resistor never control? | {'text': 'motor speed', 'answer_start': 236} |
113,903 | 113,561 | 573039a3b2c2fd1400568a9a | generic | Iran received access to the Internet in 1993. According to 2014 census, around 40% of the population of Iran are Internet users. Iran ranks 24th among countries by number of Internet users. According to the statistics provided by the web information company of Alexa, Google Search and Yahoo! are the most used search en... | What percentage of cloud-based instant messaging platform Telegram's users are from Iran? | {'text': 'Over 80%', 'answer_start': 335} |
111,116 | 110,774 | 5730221db2c2fd140056890b | generic | During World War II, the development of the anti-aircraft proximity fuse required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity. The Centralab Division of Globe Union submitted a proposal which met the requirements: a ceramic plate would be screenprinted with metal... | Who was in charge of the Centralab Division of Globe Union when the PCB used in anti-aircraft fuses was invented? | {'text': 'Harry W. Rubinstein', 'answer_start': 696} |
99,303 | 98,961 | 5ace4e3932bba1001ae4a236 | generic | Guam lies between 13.2°N and 13.7°N and between 144.6°E and 145.0°E, and has an area of 212 square miles (549 km2), making it the 32nd largest island of the United States. It is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana island chain and is also the largest island in Micronesia. This island chain was created by... | What is the smallest island in Micronesia? | {'text': 'Guam', 'answer_start': 0} |
389 | 47 | 56d440df2ccc5a1400d830d1 | generic | Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, to Celestine Ann "Tina" Knowles (née Beyincé), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager. Beyoncé's name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name. Beyoncé's younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former member of Destiny's Child. ... | What company did Beyoncé's father work for when she was a child? | {'text': 'Xerox', 'answer_start': 152} |
109,903 | 109,561 | 5a8c8aacfd22b3001a8d8a66 | generic | The final stage of database design is to make the decisions that affect performance, scalability, recovery, security, and the like. This is often called physical database design. A key goal during this stage is data independence, meaning that the decisions made for performance optimization purposes should be invisible ... | What factor is not reflected in performance requirements? | {'text': 'Physical design', 'answer_start': 351} |
39,194 | 38,852 | 5ad38461604f3c001a3fe522 | generic | After Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA, 1994), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, 1996), and the Economic Espionage Act (EEA, 1996), the FBI followed suit and underwent a technological upgrade in 1998, just as it did with its CART team in 1991. Co... | What team underwent a technological downgrade in 1991? | {'text': 'CART', 'answer_start': 299} |
116,164 | 115,822 | 5ad4a1b7ba00c4001a268e7f | generic | In May 2014, the Government of China banned the internal purchase of Windows 8-based products under government contracts requiring "energy-efficient" devices. The Xinhua News Agency claimed that Windows 8 was being banned in protest of Microsoft's support lifecycle policy and the end of support for Windows XP (which, a... | When did the Chinese government ban the purchase of Windows 9 products? | {'text': 'May 2014', 'answer_start': 3} |
18,624 | 18,282 | 56e746fc00c9c71400d76f1d | generic | The oldest known archaeological fragments of the immediate precursor to modern paper, date to the 2nd century BC in China. The pulp papermaking process is ascribed to Cai Lun, a 2nd-century AD Han court eunuch. With paper as an effective substitute for silk in many applications, China could export silk in greater quant... | What century is the first papermaking process attributed to? | {'text': '2nd', 'answer_start': 98} |
10,578 | 10,236 | 56de4022cffd8e1900b4b70c | generic | Courts check both the executive branch and the legislative branch through judicial review. This concept is not written into the Constitution, but was envisioned by many of the Constitution's Framers (for example, The Federalist Papers mention it). The Supreme Court established a precedent for judicial review in Marbury... | Who is responsible for judicial review? | {'text': 'Courts', 'answer_start': 0} |
103,591 | 103,249 | 572e923bdfa6aa1500f8d15e | generic | Most languages today, even in countries that have no direct link to Greco-Roman culture, use some variant of the name "Neptune" for the planet. However, in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as "sea king star" (海王星), because Neptune was the god of the sea. In Mongolian, Neptune is called Da... | What did the Greeks call Neptune? | {'text': 'Poseidon', 'answer_start': 440} |
106,416 | 106,074 | 5ad228d0d7d075001a42856e | generic | It's generally accepted that there are around 750 verses in the Quran dealing with natural phenomenon. In many of these verses the study of nature is "encouraged and highly recommended," and historical Islamic scientists like Al-Biruni and Al-Battani derived their inspiration from verses of the Quran. Mohammad Hashim K... | Al-Biruni is a example of a artist of which religion? | {'text': 'Muslim', 'answer_start': 850} |
82,912 | 82,570 | 5727f3593acd2414000df0b0 | generic | In the fall of 2014, among the six undergraduate schools, 40.6% of undergraduate students are enrolled in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, 21.3% in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 14.3% in the School of Communication, 11.7% in the Medill School of Journalism, 5.7% in the Bienen School... | In the fall of 2014, which school did 21.3% of undergraduates enroll in? | {'text': 'McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science', 'answer_start': 162} |
56,184 | 55,842 | 57266174708984140094c42a | generic | Since all contact between the wrestlers must cease if any part of the body is touching, or underneath, the ropes, many wrestlers will attempt to break submission holds by deliberately grabbing the bottom ropes. This is called a "rope break", and it is one of the most common ways to break a submission hold. Most holds l... | When must contact stop between wrestlers? | {'text': 'if any part of the body is touching, or underneath, the ropes,', 'answer_start': 51} |
70,533 | 70,191 | 572950c96aef051400154cbd | generic | This is a socio-economic bloc of nations in or near the Caribbean Sea. Other outlying member states include the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Suriname in South America, along with Belize in Central America. The Turks and Caicos Islands, an associate member of CARICOM, and the Commonwealth of The B... | What did the Virgin Islands announce in 2007? | {'text': 'they would seek ties with CARICOM', 'answer_start': 603} |
85,842 | 85,500 | 57283ad62ca10214002da12c | generic | Von Neumann made fundamental contributions in exploration of problems in numerical hydrodynamics. For example, with Robert D. Richtmyer he developed an algorithm defining artificial viscosity that improved the understanding of shock waves. A problem was that when computers solved hydrodynamic or aerodynamic problems, t... | The algorithm defining artificial viscosity is a fundamental contribution to what area? | {'text': 'numerical hydrodynamics', 'answer_start': 73} |
84,892 | 84,550 | 5a80df868f0597001ac001dd | generic | Artifacts from the Paleolithic suggest that the moon was used to reckon time as early as 6,000 years ago. Lunar calendars were among the first to appear, either 12 or 13 lunar months (either 354 or 384 days). Without intercalation to add days or months to some years, seasons quickly drift in a calendar based solely on ... | How many seasons were in a year in the original Mayan calendars? | {'text': '18', 'answer_start': 836} |
27,962 | 27,620 | 56fb630db28b3419009f1ce6 | generic | In Western Europe, some of the older Roman elite families died out while others became more involved with Church than secular affairs. Values attached to Latin scholarship and education mostly disappeared, and while literacy remained important, it became a practical skill rather than a sign of elite status. In the 4th ... | In what century did Gregory of Tours live? | {'text': '6th', 'answer_start': 435} |
88,791 | 88,449 | 5a3c9ecfcc5d22001a521e3f | generic | Adherents of different religions generally disagree as to how to best worship God and what is God's plan for mankind, if there is one. There are different approaches to reconciling the contradictory claims of monotheistic religions. One view is taken by exclusivists, who believe they are the chosen people or have exclu... | What does the New Age movement believe they have exclusive access to? | {'text': 'absolute truth', 'answer_start': 335} |
79,747 | 79,405 | 5727de8b4b864d1900163ee4 | generic | Within the city there have been two tram networks in operation. A proposal to develop a horse-drawn tram (linking the city's railway termini) was made by American George Francis Train in the 1860s, and implemented in 1872 by the Cork Tramway Company. However, the company ceased trading in 1875 after Cork Corporation re... | How many tram systems were in Cork? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 32} |
45,814 | 45,472 | 571040eca58dae1900cd6985 | generic | The influence of science also began appearing more commonly in poetry and literature during the Enlightenment. Some poetry became infused with scientific metaphor and imagery, while other poems were written directly about scientific topics. Sir Richard Blackmore committed the Newtonian system to verse in Creation, a Ph... | In what year did Newton die? | {'text': '1727', 'answer_start': 384} |
37,564 | 37,222 | 59d2a5782763a6001828415f | generic | The rural Plains have lost a third of their population since 1920. Several hundred thousand square miles (several hundred thousand square kilometers) of the Great Plains have fewer than 6 inhabitants per square mile (2.3 inhabitants per square kilometer)—the density standard Frederick Jackson Turner used to declare the... | How many high schools remain in Kansas? | {'text': '6,000', 'answer_start': 469} |
70,305 | 69,963 | 572932133f37b319004780e6 | generic | Despite the small land mass, place names are repeated; there are, for example, two islands named Long Island, three bays named Long Bay (on Somerset, Main, and Cooper's islands), two Horseshoe Bays (one in Southampton, on the Main Island, the other at Morgan's Point, formerly Tucker's Island), there are two roads throu... | What name do the bays in Southampton and Morgan's Point share? | {'text': 'Horseshoe', 'answer_start': 183} |
50,445 | 50,103 | 5acf93b877cf76001a685314 | generic | In 1933, the Orthodox Church of Greece officially declared that being a Freemason constitutes an act of apostasy and thus, until he repents, the person involved with Freemasonry cannot partake of the Eucharist. This has been generally affirmed throughout the whole Eastern Orthodox Church. The Orthodox critique of Freem... | What year did the Orthodox Church of Greece declare that not being a Freemason constituted an act of apostasy? | {'text': '1933', 'answer_start': 3} |
26,400 | 26,058 | 56f9872e9e9bad19000a0a3d | generic | After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province toda... | What production did the agricultural policy favor over industrial and cash crops? | {'text': 'grain', 'answer_start': 525} |
109,369 | 109,027 | 572f4f74a23a5019007fc519 | generic | The CIA established its first training facility, the Office of Training and Education, in 1950. Following the end of the Cold War, the CIA's training budget was slashed, which had a negative effect on employee retention. In response, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet established CIA University in 2002. CIA ... | What event decreased the CIA's training budget? | {'text': 'the Cold War', 'answer_start': 117} |
4,173 | 3,831 | 56cf39b4aab44d1400b88eb2 | generic | New York City has a high degree of income disparity as indicated by its Gini Coefficient of 0.5 for the city overall and 0.6 for Manhattan. The disparity is driven by wage growth in high-income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower-income brackets. In the first quarter of 2014, the average weekly wa... | What previous mayor of New York is a billionaire? | {'text': 'Michael R. Bloomberg', 'answer_start': 599} |
18,919 | 18,577 | 5ad50dc65b96ef001a10ab0c | generic | Paper waste accounts for up to 40% of total waste produced in the United States each year, which adds up to 71.6 million tons of paper waste per year in the United States alone. The average office worker in the US prints 31 pages every day. Americans also use on the order of 16 billion paper cups per year. | In what country does an average office worker print 71.6 million pages of paper every day? | {'text': 'United States', 'answer_start': 66} |
101,794 | 101,452 | 572e843cc246551400ce42ab | generic | Following the completion of his PhD in 1942, Feynman held an appointment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant professor of physics. The appointment was spent on leave for his involvement in the Manhattan project. In 1945, he received a letter from Dean Mark Ingraham of the College of Letters and Scien... | Where did Feynman spend his time during his contract at UW? | {'text': 'Manhattan project', 'answer_start': 212} |
34,675 | 34,333 | 570a61f14103511400d596a3 | generic | A distinction can be made between emotional episodes and emotional dispositions. Emotional dispositions are also comparable to character traits, where someone may be said to be generally disposed to experience certain emotions. For example, an irritable person is generally disposed to feel irritation more easily or qui... | What other traits are emotional dispositions similar to? | {'text': 'character traits', 'answer_start': 127} |
24,618 | 24,276 | 56f899199b226e1400dd0c8b | generic | Book 7 (beginning the Iliadic half) opens with an address to the muse and recounts Aeneas' arrival in Italy and betrothal to Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus. Lavinia had already been promised to Turnus, the king of the Rutulians, who is roused to war by the Fury Allecto, and Amata Lavinia's mother. In Book 8, Aeneas ... | To whom is Aeneas betrothed? | {'text': 'Lavinia', 'answer_start': 125} |
70,482 | 70,140 | 57294d293f37b3190047821a | generic | In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways began operating scheduled flying-boat airline services from New York and Baltimore to Darrell's Island, Bermuda. In 1948, regularly scheduled commercial airline service by land-based aeroplanes began to Kindley Field (now L.F. Wade International Airport), helping... | What helped tourism grow to new heights in the 1960-1970's? | {'text': 'regularly scheduled commercial airline service by land-based aeroplanes', 'answer_start': 179} |
41,328 | 40,986 | 570e6cc60b85d914000d7ecd | generic | Many Sanskrit dramas also indicate that the language coexisted with Prakrits, spoken by multilingual speakers with a more extensive education. Sanskrit speakers were almost always multilingual. In the medieval era, Sanskrit continued to be spoken and written, particularly by learned Brahmins for scholarly communication... | How large of a group in society use Sanskrit? | {'text': 'thin layer', 'answer_start': 333} |
71,569 | 71,227 | 5726e7cc5951b619008f8201 | generic | Last but not least the electric double-layer capacitor (now Supercapacitors) were invented. In 1957 H. Becker developed a "Low voltage electrolytic capacitor with porous carbon electrodes". He believed that the energy was stored as a charge in the carbon pores used in his capacitor as in the pores of the etched foils o... | In what component of electrolytic capacitors did Becker believe was similar to the porous carbon electrodes? | {'text': 'the pores of the etched foils', 'answer_start': 289} |
73,155 | 72,813 | 5ad40ec3604f3c001a400126 | generic | Affirmative action is a subject of controversy. Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion of... | Not having quotas regarding admissions or employment has been criticized and said to be what kind of discrimination? | {'text': 'reverse', 'answer_start': 851} |
33,919 | 33,577 | 5709bb3ded30961900e84458 | generic | There is ongoing debate about whether central banks should target zero inflation (which would mean a constant value for the U.S. dollar over time) or low, stable inflation (which would mean a continuously but slowly declining value of the dollar over time, as is the case now). Although some economists are in favor of a... | What would zero inflation mean for the US dollar over time? | {'text': 'constant value', 'answer_start': 101} |
50,719 | 50,377 | 5725b267b80e561500fa6f29 | generic | On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine. This UN plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and also specified an area of Jerusalem and its environs which was to be administered by the UN under an inter... | When was the end of the British Mandate set? | {'text': 'midnight on 14 May 1948', 'answer_start': 394} |
85,091 | 84,749 | 5a812b0331013a001a334bb6 | generic | Einstein showed in his thought experiments that people travelling at different speeds, while agreeing on cause and effect, measure different time separations between events, and can even observe different chronological orderings between non-causally related events. Though these effects are typically minute in the human... | In what case do these effects become much more relative? | {'text': 'for objects moving at speeds approaching the speed of light', 'answer_start': 373} |
44,814 | 44,472 | 57100e4da58dae1900cd682c | generic | Most definitions of sexual orientation include a psychological component, such as the direction of an individual's erotic desires, or a behavioral component, which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s. Some people prefer simply to follow an individual's self-definition or identity. Scientific and pro... | What do the majority of defintions surronding sexual orientation include? | {'text': "psychological component, such as the direction of an individual's erotic desires, or a behavioral component", 'answer_start': 49} |
75,225 | 74,883 | 5727708f708984140094dd9b | generic | Maplecroft Child Labour Index 2012 survey reports 76 countries pose extreme child labour complicity risks for companies operating worldwide. The ten highest risk countries in 2012, ranked in decreasing order, were: Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Burundi, Pakistan and Ethiopia. Of... | According to the Maplecroft Child Labour Index how many countries post risks for child labour? | {'text': '76', 'answer_start': 50} |
105,410 | 105,068 | 5a845daa7cf838001a46a798 | generic | President Richard Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate and called on the 93rd United States Congress to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation. Congress responded with a completely rewritten law, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 which was signed by Nixon on December 28, 1973... | What grew out of CEQ? | {'text': 'NEPA', 'answer_start': 487} |
128,721 | 128,379 | 573425624776f41900661959 | generic | Simultaneously with these conflicts, bison, a keystone species and the primary protein source that Native people had survived on for centuries were being destroyed. Some estimates say there were over 13 million bison in Montana in 1870. In 1875, General Philip Sheridan pleaded to a joint session of Congress to authoriz... | About how many bison were in Montana in 1870? | {'text': 'over 13 million', 'answer_start': 195} |
53,312 | 52,970 | 5acd052e07355d001abf31bd | generic | Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first eleven seasons at the club, although on no occasion were they able to retain the title. As of July 2013, they were one of only five teams, the others being Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, and Manchester City, to have... | Who won the 2012-2013 Championship League? | {'text': 'Blackburn Rovers', 'answer_start': 265} |
102,591 | 102,249 | 572e97d1c246551400ce43ad | generic | Dams remain the principal source of water both for domestic and agricultural use; Cyprus has a total of 107 dams (plus one currently under construction) and reservoirs, with a total water storage capacity of about 330,000,000 m3 (1.2×1010 cu ft). Water desalination plants are gradually being constructed to deal with re... | What has the government invested in to help supply water for Cyprus? | {'text': 'desalination plants', 'answer_start': 414} |
34,998 | 34,656 | 570a80f26d058f1900182edb | generic | Everton hold the record for the most seasons in England's top tier (Division One/Premier League), at 111 seasons out of 114 as of 2014–15 (the club played in Division 2 in 1930–31 and from 1951–54). They are one of seven teams to have played all 22 seasons of the Premier League since its inception in August 1992 – the ... | What match has been played the most since the inception of the Premier League? | {'text': 'Everton against Aston Villa', 'answer_start': 417} |
92,268 | 91,926 | 5a7222ad0efcfe001a8afe3d | generic | The Bush administration then turned its attention to Iraq, and argued the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq had become urgent. Among the stated reasons were that Saddam's regime had tried to acquire nuclear material and had not properly accounted for biological and chemical material it was known to have ... | What did Saddam Hussein believe the Bush administration had acquired? | {'text': 'weapons of mass destruction', 'answer_start': 403} |
174 | 174 | 138466 | pubqa | At the end of July 2006, an unusually high number of patients with acute diarrhoea were reported by the accident and emergency departments in Taranto, Apulia. Subsequently, a field investigation was conducted jointly by the Apulia Regional Epidemiological Observatory and the Regional Reference Laboratory in Bari, and... | What were the associated pathogens of concern? | {'answer_id': 274438, 'document_id': 445595, 'question_id': 138466, 'text': 'rotavirus and norovirus ', 'answer_start': 5479, 'answer_category': 'SHORT'} |
18,287 | 17,945 | 5ad160e4645df0001a2d190e | generic | Burdened with debt, in 2004 Vivendi Universal sold 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (including the studio and theme parks) to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBCUniversal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. After that de... | What percentage did General Electric sell to Vivendi Universal? | {'text': '80%', 'answer_start': 51} |
25,675 | 25,333 | 56f93cda9e9bad19000a0819 | generic | 24th Street is in two parts. 24th Street starts at First Avenue and it ends at Madison Avenue, because of Madison Square Park. 25th Street, which is in three parts, starts at FDR Drive, is a pedestrian plaza between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue, and ends at Madison. Then West 24th and 25th Streets continue from Fi... | After being interrupted, where do 24th and 25th Streets continue from? | {'text': 'Fifth Avenue', 'answer_start': 318} |
41,520 | 41,178 | 570d5dadb3d812140066d759 | generic | The Valencia Metro derailment occurred on 3 July 2006 at 1 pm. CEST (1100 UTC) between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations on Line 1 of the Metrovalencia mass transit system. 43 people were killed and more than ten were seriously injured. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash. Both the Valencian government ... | How many people were gravely injured by the derailment? | {'text': 'more than ten', 'answer_start': 200} |
122,430 | 122,088 | 5731abcbb9d445190005e458 | generic | Conversely, YouTube has also allowed government to more easily engage with citizens, the White House's official YouTube channel being the seventh top news organization producer on YouTube in 2012 and in 2013 a healthcare exchange commissioned Obama impersonator Iman Crosson's YouTube music video spoof to encourage youn... | the white house's youtube channel was the what number ranked news channel on youtube in 2012? | {'text': 'seventh', 'answer_start': 138} |
36,176 | 35,834 | 570aec4d6b8089140040f614 | generic | It was only in the 1980s that digital telephony transmission networks became possible, such as with ISDN networks, assuring a minimum bit rate (usually 128 kilobits/s) for compressed video and audio transmission. During this time, there was also research into other forms of digital video and audio communication. Many o... | In what decade was digital telephony transmission made possible? | {'text': 'the 1980s', 'answer_start': 15} |
1,538 | 1,196 | 56cf50b2aab44d1400b88fbd | generic | Chopin has figured extensively in Polish literature, both in serious critical studies of his life and music and in fictional treatments. The earliest manifestation was probably an 1830 sonnet on Chopin by Leon Ulrich. French writers on Chopin (apart from Sand) have included Marcel Proust and André Gide; and he has also... | An 1830 sonnet was written about Chopin by what man? | {'text': 'Leon Ulrich', 'answer_start': 205} |
35,060 | 34,718 | 5a396ecb2f14dd001ac72331 | generic | There have been indications since 1996 that Everton will move to a new stadium. The original plan was for a new 60,000-seat stadium to be built, but in 2000 a proposal was submitted to build a 55,000 seat stadium as part of the King's Dock regeneration. This was unsuccessful as Everton failed to generate the £30 millio... | What percentage of the costs for the proposed stadium was Liverpool F.C. able to raise? | {'text': '50%', 'answer_start': 653} |
42,291 | 41,949 | 570d75b4b3d812140066d993 | generic | The French Marines and naval infantry intended for the invasion of northern Germany were dispatched to reinforce the French Army of Châlons and fell into captivity at Sedan along with Napoleon III. A shortage of officers, following the capture of most of the professional French army at the Siege of Metz and at the Batt... | The French Marines and naval infantry were dispatched to reinforce what? | {'text': 'French Army of Châlons', 'answer_start': 117} |
66,899 | 66,557 | 5a62963af8d794001af1c120 | generic | Lemi Ponifasio is a director and choreographer who is prominent internationally with his dance Company MAU. Neil Ieremia's company Black Grace has also received international acclaim with tours to Europe and New York. Hip hop has had a significant impact on Samoan culture. According to Katerina Martina Teaiwa, PhD from... | What has Neil Leremia's company MAU recieved when touring in Europe and NY? | {'text': 'international acclaim', 'answer_start': 161} |
37,125 | 36,783 | 570b53996b8089140040f87f | generic | The Navy was modernized in the 1880s, and by the 1890s had adopted the naval power strategy of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan—as indeed did every major navy. The old sailing ships were replaced by modern steel battleships, bringing them in line with the navies of Britain and Germany. In 1907, most of the Navy's battleship... | What replaced the older sailing ships in the navy? | {'text': 'modern steel battleships', 'answer_start': 194} |
62,021 | 61,679 | 57288a732ca10214002da453 | generic | The immediate cause of the riots is unclear, with many commentators citing the killing of ten Burmese Muslims by ethnic Rakhine after the rape and murder of a Rakhine woman as the main cause. Whole villages have been "decimated". Over 300 houses and a number of public buildings have been razed. According to Tun Khin, t... | How many are believed to have been uprooted by this unrest ? | {'text': 'It displaced more than 52,000 people', 'answer_start': 669} |
21,644 | 21,302 | 5ad3f384604f3c001a3ff911 | generic | The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 12th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The abbot often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from th... | Who was unemployed on royal service? | {'text': 'The abbot', 'answer_start': 0} |
84,040 | 83,698 | 5728a97f3acd2414000dfc41 | generic | The empire went into decline thereafter. The Mughals suffered several blows due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans. During the decline of the Mughal Empire, several smaller states rose to fill the power vacuum and themselves were contributing factors to the decline. In 1737, the Maratha general Bajirao of the Marat... | What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857 also called? | {'text': '1857 War of Independence', 'answer_start': 1164} |
84,444 | 84,102 | 57282a8cff5b5019007d9e61 | generic | In October 1961, Nasser embarked on a major nationalization program for Egypt, believing the total adoption of socialism was the answer to his country's problems and would have prevented Syria's secession. In order to organize and solidify his popular base with Egypt's citizens and counter the army's influence, Nasser ... | What year was the National Charter released? | {'text': '1962', 'answer_start': 355} |
66,216 | 65,874 | 5726bc4cdd62a815002e8ebb | generic | Norfolk Island was originally a colony acquired by settlement but was never within the British Settlements Act. It was accepted as a territory of Australia, separate from any state, by the Norfolk Island Act 1913 (Cth), passed under the territories power (Constitution section 122) and made effective in 1914. In 1976 th... | Norfolk Island became a territory of what country? | {'text': 'Australia', 'answer_start': 146} |
13,050 | 12,708 | 56df152ec65bf219000b3f4f | generic | With the record company a global operation in 1965, the Columbia Broadcasting System upper management started pondering changing the name of their record company subsidiary from Columbia Records to CBS Records. | CBS began thinking of a name change to their record label in what year? | {'text': '1965', 'answer_start': 46} |
126,904 | 126,562 | 5acebb1632bba1001ae4b209 | generic | Colquhoun's utilitarian approach to the problem – using a cost-benefit argument to obtain support from businesses standing to benefit – allowed him to achieve what Henry and John Fielding failed for their Bow Street detectives. Unlike the stipendiary system at Bow Street, the river police were full-time, salaried offic... | What schedule did the Thames River Police employees not work? | {'text': 'full-time', 'answer_start': 295} |
101,968 | 101,626 | 5a8de1c1df8bba001a0f9d13 | generic | In a 1992 New York Times article on Feynman and his legacy, James Gleick recounts the story of how Murray Gell-Mann described what has become known as "The Feynman Algorithm" or "The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm" to a student: "The student asks Gell-Mann about Feynman's notes. Gell-Mann says no, Dick's methods are... | What newspaper was Feynman never featured in? | {'text': 'New York Times', 'answer_start': 10} |
116,349 | 116,007 | 5730487aa23a5019007fd071 | generic | In 2004, the Swaziland government acknowledged for the first time that it suffered an AIDS crisis, with 38.8% of tested pregnant women infected with HIV (see AIDS in Africa). The then Prime Minister Themba Dlamini declared a humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of drought, land degradation, increased poverty,... | Of pregnant women, how many are believed to be infected with HIV? | {'text': '38.8%', 'answer_start': 104} |
33,276 | 32,934 | 5a57a531770dc0001aeefcb6 | generic | However, the Orthodox claim to absolute fidelity to past tradition has been challenged by scholars who contend that the Judaism of the Middle Ages bore little resemblance to that practiced by today's Orthodox. Rather, the Orthodox community, as a counterreaction to the liberalism of the Haskalah movement, began to embr... | What explicitly prefers a more stricter position regarding Passover dietary laws? | {'text': 'Talmud', 'answer_start': 541} |
32,934 | 32,592 | 57099ea3200fba14003681de | generic | Computers control functions at many utilities, including coordination of telecommunications, the power grid, nuclear power plants, and valve opening and closing in water and gas networks. The Internet is a potential attack vector for such machines if connected, but the Stuxnet worm demonstrated that even equipment cont... | What demonstrated equipment controlled by computers not connected to the internet can also be vulnerable? | {'text': 'the Stuxnet worm', 'answer_start': 266} |
13,689 | 13,347 | 5acd629407355d001abf4032 | generic | There are nevertheless a number of contemporary hunter-gatherer peoples who, after contact with other societies, continue their ways of life with very little external influence. One such group is the Pila Nguru (Spinifex people) of Western Australia, whose habitat in the Great Victoria Desert has proved unsuitable for ... | The habitat located where has proved suitable for European agriculture? | {'text': 'in the Great Victoria Desert', 'answer_start': 265} |
65,942 | 65,600 | 5a20a20a8a6e4f001aa08de7 | generic | Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people. Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times. Copper was the hard... | What did humans began alloying around 2500 A.D.? | {'text': 'copper and tin', 'answer_start': 485} |
91,118 | 90,776 | 572932821d04691400779152 | generic | Insects have segmented bodies supported by exoskeletons, the hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata: a head, a thorax and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, and, if pres... | An insect's body is divided into what kind of units? | {'text': 'interconnected', 'answer_start': 170} |
19,456 | 19,114 | 56e7b1e900c9c71400d77507 | generic | Western France, Spain, and other areas skew time zones and shift clocks, in effect observing DST in winter with an extra hour in summer. Nome, Alaska, is at 165°24′ W longitude, which is just west of center of the idealized Samoa Time Zone (165° W), but Nome observes Alaska Time (135° W) with DST, so it is slightly mor... | What's a third name for double daylight saving time or Double Summer Time used in Europe? | {'text': 'Central European Midsummer Time', 'answer_start': 614} |
89,285 | 88,943 | 5ad13d3e645df0001a2d1348 | generic | Foot resigned and was replaced as leader by Neil Kinnock, with Roy Hattersley as his deputy. The new leadership progressively dropped unpopular policies. The miners strike of 1984–85 over coal mine closures, for which miners' leader Arthur Scargill was blamed, and the Wapping dispute led to clashes with the left of the... | When was the lorry driver's strike? | {'text': '1984–85', 'answer_start': 175} |
67,450 | 67,108 | 5ad16823645df0001a2d1a0b | generic | Nothing in the principle of any of the motors described above requires that the iron (steel) portions of the rotor actually rotate. If the soft magnetic material of the rotor is made in the form of a cylinder, then (except for the effect of hysteresis) torque is exerted only on the windings of the electromagnets. Takin... | What is absent in a coreless RC motor? | {'text': 'iron core', 'answer_start': 512} |
7,263 | 6,921 | 56d9dfc9dc89441400fdb882 | generic | Jewish law does not prohibit keeping dogs and other pets. Jewish law requires Jews to feed dogs (and other animals that they own) before themselves, and make arrangements for feeding them before obtaining them. In Christianity, dogs represent faithfulness. | What does a dog represent in the Christian culture? | {'text': 'faithfulness', 'answer_start': 243} |
85,774 | 85,432 | 57281c093acd2414000df4bf | generic | With this contribution of von Neumann, the axiomatic system of the theory of sets became fully satisfactory, and the next question was whether or not it was also definitive, and not subject to improvement. A strongly negative answer arrived in September 1930 at the historic mathematical Congress of Königsberg, in which... | Where was Godel's statement about axiomatic system made in 1930? | {'text': 'Congress of Königsberg', 'answer_start': 288} |
20,583 | 20,241 | 56e79a5837bdd419002c4207 | generic | Nanjing borders Yangzhou to the northeast, one town downstream when following the north bank of the Yangtze, Zhenjiang to the east, one town downstream when following the south bank of the Yangtze, and Changzhou to the southeast. On its western boundary is Anhui province, where Nanjing borders five prefecture-level cit... | What city is on the border of Nanjing to the East? | {'text': 'Zhenjiang', 'answer_start': 109} |
122,049 | 121,707 | 5731ec3db9d445190005e6a3 | generic | In the later Imperial era, the burial and commemorative practises of Christian and non-Christians overlapped. Tombs were shared by Christian and non-Christian family members, and the traditional funeral rites and feast of novemdialis found a part-match in the Christian Constitutio Apostolica. The customary offers of wi... | What did St Augustine believe that funeral feasts gave an opportunity for? | {'text': 'alms of food', 'answer_start': 518} |
95,319 | 94,977 | 5a2c82aebfd06b001a5aebb4 | generic | The topic of language for writers from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik prior to the 19th century made a distinction only between speakers of Italian or Slavic, since those were the two main groups that inhabited Dalmatian city-states at that time. Whether someone spoke Croatian or Serbian was not an important distinction then, ... | What did writers from Croatian literature make a distinction between prior to the 19th century? | {'text': 'speakers of Italian or Slavic', 'answer_start': 120} |
95,102 | 94,760 | 5a2c3359bfd06b001a5aea46 | generic | Seen in its wider social context, Greek Revival architecture sounded a new note of sobriety and restraint in public buildings in Britain around 1800 as an assertion of nationalism attendant on the Act of Union, the Napoleonic Wars, and the clamour for political reform. It was to be William Wilkins's winning design for ... | The design of what college marked the end of Greek revival? | {'text': 'Downing College', 'answer_start': 347} |
10,728 | 10,386 | 5acf9bfc77cf76001a685492 | generic | In the early 19th century, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin wrote Contrasts (1836) that, as the titled suggested, contrasted the modern, industrial world, which he disparaged, with an idealized image of neo-medieval world. Gothic architecture, Pugin believed, was the only "true Christian form of architecture." | What type of architecture did Pugin consider truly non-Christian? | {'text': 'Gothic', 'answer_start': 221} |
33,872 | 33,530 | 5709b165ed30961900e84429 | generic | The early currency of the United States did not exhibit faces of presidents, as is the custom now; although today, by law, only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency. In fact, the newly formed government was against having portraits of leaders on the currency, a practice compared to... | Other than Greek and Roman mythology, who else was featured on the "heads" side of past coins? | {'text': 'composite Native Americans', 'answer_start': 600} |
77,603 | 77,261 | 5727f6c94b864d19001640bc | generic | It was not unusual for electric recordings to be played back on acoustic phonographs. The Victor Orthophonic phonograph was a prime example where such playback was expected. In the Orthophonic, which benefited from telephone research, the mechanical pickup head was redesigned with lower resonance than the traditional m... | What is one example of an acoustic phonograph on which one would listen to electric recordings? | {'text': 'Victor Orthophonic phonograph', 'answer_start': 90} |
2,610 | 2,268 | 56d12e4a17492d1400aabb8c | generic | Prior Zelda games have employed a theme of two separate, yet connected, worlds. In A Link to the Past, Link travels between a "Light World" and a "Dark World"; in Ocarina of Time, as well as in Oracle of Ages, Link travels between two different time periods. The Zelda team sought to reuse this motif in the series' late... | What device seemed well-suited for Link's arrow shooting ability? | {'text': 'Wii Remote', 'answer_start': 1292} |
42,712 | 42,370 | 5ad23a42d7d075001a42884f | generic | Integral to the story of the origin of the name "Antarctica" is how it was not named Terra Australis—this name was given to Australia instead, and it was because of a mistake made by people who decided that a significant landmass would not be found farther south than Australia. Explorer Matthew Flinders, in particular,... | What book did Matthew Flinders write in the 18th century? | {'text': 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', 'answer_start': 449} |
103,614 | 103,272 | 5acee04a32bba1001ae4b815 | generic | From its discovery in 1846 until the subsequent discovery of Pluto in 1930, Neptune was the farthest known planet. When Pluto was discovered it was considered a planet, and Neptune thus became the penultimate known planet, except for a 20-year period between 1979 and 1999 when Pluto's elliptical orbit brought it closer... | Now that Pluto isn't a planet, what is Uranus known for in our solar system? | {'text': 'outermost known planet', 'answer_start': 659} |
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