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9,171 | 8,829 | 56dde17c66d3e219004dad85 | generic | The free trade spirit of the time received a strong augmentation through the development of a modern, effective stock market in the Low Countries. The Netherlands has the oldest stock exchange in the world, founded in 1602 by the Dutch East India Company. While Rotterdam has the oldest bourse in the Netherlands, the wo... | When was the stock exchange founded in the Netherlands? | {'text': '1602', 'answer_start': 218} |
28,482 | 28,140 | 5a820f9431013a001a335176 | generic | The particular contrasts which are phonemic in a language can change over time. At one time, [f] and [v], two sounds that have the same place and manner of articulation and differ in voicing only, were allophones of the same phoneme in English, but later came to belong to separate phonemes. This is one of the main fact... | With the passage of phenomes what particular things phonemic in a language are known to change? | {'text': 'contrasts', 'answer_start': 15} |
85,744 | 85,402 | 5728115c3acd2414000df39b | generic | Von Neumann's habilitation was completed on December 13, 1927, and he started his lectures as a privatdozent at the University of Berlin in 1928. By the end of 1927, von Neumann had published twelve major papers in mathematics, and by the end of 1929, thirty-two papers, at a rate of nearly one major paper per month. Hi... | Where did Von Neumann begin to lecture in 1928? | {'text': 'University of Berlin', 'answer_start': 116} |
53,574 | 53,232 | 5725ea37271a42140099d309 | generic | There is no easy way to determine when clothing was first developed, but some information has been inferred by studying lice. The body louse specifically lives in clothing, and diverge from head lice about 107,000 years ago, suggesting that clothing existed at that time. Another theory is that modern humans are the onl... | What habitat is the body louse specific to? | {'text': 'clothing', 'answer_start': 163} |
92,764 | 92,422 | 5728ef234b864d19001650c8 | generic | In 1592, and again in 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, aiming to invade China (唐入り) through Korea, mobilized an army of 160,000 peasants and samurai and deployed them to Korea. (See Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, Chōsen-seibatsu (朝鮮征伐?). Taking advantage of arquebus mastery and extensive wartime experience from the Sengoku p... | When did Toyotomi Hideyoshi first send an army to Korea? | {'text': '1592', 'answer_start': 3} |
107,096 | 106,754 | 5a7b60ef21c2de001afe9fa2 | generic | Although several companies each produce over a billion individually packaged (known as discrete) transistors every year, the vast majority of transistors are now produced in integrated circuits (often shortened to IC, microchips or simply chips), along with diodes, resistors, capacitors and other electronic components,... | How many logic gates are in a microchip? | {'text': 'twenty', 'answer_start': 399} |
85,663 | 85,321 | 5a628335f8d794001af1c088 | generic | St. John's has traditionally been one of the safest cities in Canada to live; however, in recent years crime in the city has steadily increased. While nationally crime decreased by 4% in 2009, the total crime rate in St. John's saw an increase of 4%. During this same time violent crime in the city decreased 6%, compare... | What decreased by 1% in the city? | {'text': 'violent crime', 'answer_start': 273} |
67,712 | 67,370 | 57279543f1498d1400e8fcca | generic | Direct democracy and federalism are hallmarks of the Swiss political system. Swiss citizens are subject to three legal jurisdictions: the commune, canton and federal levels. The 1848 federal constitution defines a system of direct democracy (sometimes called half-direct or representative direct democracy because it is ... | What are the two hallmarks of the Swiss political system? | {'text': 'Direct democracy and federalism', 'answer_start': 0} |
55,841 | 55,499 | 5a847ff97cf838001a46a895 | generic | During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its vessels such as the Lord Nelson. This was not so that they could carry cannon to fend off warships, privateers and pirates on their voyages to India and China (that they could do without permission) but so that, shou... | How many guns were taken from the Earl of Mornington? | {'text': 'six', 'answer_start': 492} |
25,242 | 24,900 | 56f8c7b29b226e1400dd0fbf | generic | Alleles at a locus may be dominant or recessive; dominant alleles give rise to their corresponding phenotypes when paired with any other allele for the same trait, whereas recessive alleles give rise to their corresponding phenotype only when paired with another copy of the same allele. For example, if the allele speci... | When do recessive alleles give rise to their corresponding phenotype? | {'text': 'when paired with another copy of the same allele', 'answer_start': 238} |
19,702 | 19,360 | 5a7b55d121c2de001afe9ee8 | generic | The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives. NARA is officially responsible for mainta... | Where is the public not legally allowed to vote? | {'text': 'Electoral College', 'answer_start': 520} |
40,695 | 40,353 | 5ad55d205b96ef001a10acc6 | generic | Intel had tried unsuccessfully to push Apple to migrate the Macintosh platform to Intel chips. Apple concluded that Intel's CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) architecture ultimately would not be able to compete against RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processors. While the Motorola 68040 offered the same f... | What did Intel successfully try to push Apple to migrate to? | {'text': 'Intel chips', 'answer_start': 82} |
124,341 | 123,999 | 5a53f1c6bdaabd001a386814 | generic | Armenians enjoy many different native and foreign foods. Arguably the favorite food is khorovats an Armenian-styled barbecue. Lavash is a very popular Armenian flat bread, and Armenian paklava is a popular dessert made from filo dough. Other famous Armenian foods include the kabob (a skewer of marinated roasted meat an... | What is the favorite fruit that is part of Armenian-style barbecue? | {'text': 'Apricots', 'answer_start': 639} |
23,816 | 23,474 | 56f7f60daef2371900625cf3 | generic | In 1968, Tito offered Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček to fly to Prague on three hours notice if Dubček needed help in facing down the Soviets. In April 1969, Tito removed generals Ivan Gošnjak and Rade Hamović in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia due to the unpreparedness of the Yugoslav army to resp... | How much time did Tito give Dubcek to fly to Prague? | {'text': 'three hours', 'answer_start': 79} |
68,323 | 67,981 | 5acd5e3407355d001abf3f26 | generic | As of the 2000 United States census, there were 276,093 persons (July 2008 estimate was 380,173) and 61,371 families residing in Raleigh. The population density was 2,409.2 people per square mile (930.2/km²). There were 120,699 housing units at an average density of 1,053.2 per square mile (406.7/km²). The racial compo... | How many families moved out of Raleigh in 2000? | {'text': '61,371', 'answer_start': 101} |
12,297 | 11,955 | 56de71114396321400ee28fd | generic | In France the Cathars grew to represent a popular mass movement and the belief was spreading to other areas. The Cathar Crusade was initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc. Heresy was a major justification for the Inquisition (Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis, Inquiry on Heret... | What was a major reason and justification for the Europian wars of religion? | {'text': 'Heresy', 'answer_start': 216} |
66,732 | 66,390 | 5a625267f8d794001af1bf54 | generic | From the end of World War I until 1962, New Zealand controlled Samoa as a Class C Mandate under trusteeship through the League of Nations, then through the United Nations. There followed a series of New Zealand administrators who were responsible for two major incidents. In the first incident, approximately one fifth o... | What organization was responsible for governing New Zeland from 1919-1962? | {'text': 'the Department of External Affairs', 'answer_start': 438} |
83,596 | 83,254 | 5727d60cff5b5019007d9668 | generic | Oklahoma is the nation's third-largest producer of natural gas, fifth-largest producer of crude oil, and has the second-greatest number of active drilling rigs, and ranks fifth in crude oil reserves. While the state ranked eighth for installed wind energy capacity in 2011, it is at the bottom of states in usage of rene... | What is Oklahoma's rank among states producing crude oil? | {'text': 'fifth', 'answer_start': 64} |
85,867 | 85,525 | 572842b04b864d190016482e | generic | In 1955, von Neumann became a commissioner of the AEC. He accepted this position and used it to further the production of compact hydrogen bombs suitable for Intercontinental ballistic missile delivery. He involved himself in correcting the severe shortage of tritium and lithium 6 needed for these compact weapons, and ... | What was the concern with longer range ICBM with Hbomb? | {'text': 'relative inaccuracy of the missile', 'answer_start': 546} |
105,922 | 105,580 | 572eb82403f9891900756995 | generic | After 92 AD, the palace eunuchs increasingly involved themselves in court politics, engaging in violent power struggles between the various consort clans of the empresses and empress dowagers, causing the Han's ultimate downfall. Imperial authority was also seriously challenged by large Daoist religious societies which... | Which King took the seat of power from Emperor Xian? | {'text': 'Cao Pi', 'answer_start': 626} |
102,748 | 102,406 | 57318afba5e9cc1400cdc022 | generic | Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of al... | What is Spielberg's net worth? | {'text': 'more than $3 billion', 'answer_start': 472} |
109,432 | 109,090 | 5accff6407355d001abf314b | generic | Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most developed countries. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Psychological factors such as social support, hypnotic suggestion, excitement, or distraction can significan... | What is the most common reason for physician euthanasia? | {'text': 'Pain', 'answer_start': 0} |
81,050 | 80,708 | 5728c740ff5b5019007da688 | generic | Known as the world's automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for that industry. Detroit's auto industry, some of which was converted to wartime defense production, was an important element of the American "Arsenal of Democracy" supporting the Allied powers during World War II. It is an important source of popular mus... | What "Arsenal" was Detroit a part of ? | {'text': 'Arsenal of Democracy', 'answer_start': 208} |
130,072 | 129,730 | 573519d9879d6814001cab2b | generic | The Arabian oryx, a species of large antelope, once inhabited much of the desert areas of the Middle East. However, the species' striking appearance made it (along with the closely related scimitar-horned oryx and addax) a popular quarry for sport hunters, especially foreign executives of oil companies working in the r... | What large species of antelope once made its home in the desert areas of the Middle East? | {'text': 'The Arabian oryx', 'answer_start': 0} |
27,413 | 27,071 | 56fa236c8f12f319006300de | generic | If a heavy piece of pine is compared with a lightweight piece it will be seen at once that the heavier one contains a larger proportion of latewood than the other, and is therefore showing more clearly demarcated growth rings. In white pines there is not much contrast between the different parts of the ring, and as a r... | What feature of a piece of pine with more latewood would be more clear and pronounced? | {'text': 'growth rings', 'answer_start': 213} |
5,722 | 5,380 | 56d1d6fae7d4791d0090228d | generic | Buddhist scholars have produced a number of intellectual theories, philosophies and world view concepts (see, for example, Abhidharma, Buddhist philosophy and Reality in Buddhism). Some schools of Buddhism discourage doctrinal study, and some regard it as essential practice. | Who has produced a number of theories and concepts such as Abhidharma and Reality in Buddhism? | {'text': 'Buddhist scholars', 'answer_start': 0} |
74,671 | 74,329 | 5a6fe7618abb0b001a67602f | generic | Both Alsatian and Standard German were for a time banned from public life (including street and city names, official administration, and educational system). Though the ban has long been lifted and street signs today are often bilingual, Alsace-Lorraine is today very French in language and culture. Few young people spe... | What area is primarily Standard German in culture? | {'text': 'Alsace-Lorraine', 'answer_start': 238} |
43,463 | 43,121 | 570e30ec0dc6ce1900204e57 | generic | When Emperor Haile Selassie unilaterally dissolved the Eritrean parliament and annexed the country in 1962, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) waged an armed struggle for independence. The ensuing Eritrean War for Independence went on for 30 years against successive Ethiopian governments until 1991, when the Eritrean ... | Who waged an armed struggle for independence in 1962 after Eritrea was annexed? | {'text': 'ELF', 'answer_start': 139} |
128,041 | 127,699 | 573398ebd058e614000b5e68 | generic | A Science Hall was built in 1883 under the direction of Fr. Zahm, but in 1950 it was converted to a student union building and named LaFortune Center, after Joseph LaFortune, an oil executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Commonly known as "LaFortune" or "LaFun," it is a 4-story building of 83,000 square feet that provides the... | After which individual was the LaFortune Center Notre Dame named? | {'text': 'Joseph LaFortune', 'answer_start': 157} |
84,289 | 83,947 | 572801f13acd2414000df207 | generic | Nasser mediated discussions between the pro-Western, pro-Soviet, and neutralist conference factions over the composition of the "Final Communique" addressing colonialism in Africa and Asia and the fostering of global peace amid the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union. At Bandung Nasser sought a proclamation ... | What did Nasser pursue for Palestinians? | {'text': 'right of return', 'answer_start': 482} |
4,967 | 4,625 | 56d0880f234ae51400d9c353 | generic | Development of a solar-powered car has been an engineering goal since the 1980s. The World Solar Challenge is a biannual solar-powered car race, where teams from universities and enterprises compete over 3,021 kilometres (1,877 mi) across central Australia from Darwin to Adelaide. In 1987, when it was founded, the winn... | What was the average speed of a winning solar powered car by 2007? | {'text': '90.87 kilometres per hour (56.46 mph)', 'answer_start': 430} |
63,227 | 62,885 | 5a70dbb38abb0b001a6761c6 | generic | Pesticides are substances meant for attracting, seducing, and then destroying any pest. They are a class of biocide. The most common use of pesticides is as plant protection products (also known as crop protection products), which in general protect plants from damaging influences such as weeds, fungi, or insects. This... | How are plants that protect themselves from pests classified? | {'text': 'They are a class of biocide', 'answer_start': 88} |
18,601 | 18,259 | 5ad4df9a5b96ef001a10a4ff | generic | Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes. | From what type of fibers are rags made? | {'text': 'cellulose pulp', 'answer_start': 71} |
24,532 | 24,190 | 5a7e6b4048f7d9001a0636cf | generic | Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on... | What is the Iliad about? | {'text': 'the founding act of Rome', 'answer_start': 360} |
108,714 | 108,372 | 572fa925947a6a140053cb1c | generic | Although the city is not particularly noted for theatre and drama, the state government promotes theatre with multiple programmes and festivals in such venues as the Ravindra Bharati, Shilpakala Vedika and Lalithakala Thoranam. Although not a purely music oriented event, Numaish, a popular annual exhibition of local an... | What type of art might one encounter at Lalithakala Thoranam? | {'text': 'theatre and drama', 'answer_start': 48} |
19,710 | 19,368 | 56e7756f00c9c71400d77154 | generic | The Office of the Federal Register publishes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others. It also administers the Electoral College. | What office publishes the Federal Register? | {'text': 'The Office of the Federal Register', 'answer_start': 0} |
36,777 | 36,435 | 5a70c0118abb0b001a67615c | generic | Since these problems surfaced, Microsoft has attempted to modify the console to improve its reliability. Modifications include a reduction in the number, size, and placement of components, the addition of dabs of epoxy on the corners and edges of the CPU and GPU as glue to prevent movement relative to the board during ... | Where was extra epoxy placed on the models before the S? | {'text': 'the corners and edges of the CPU and GPU', 'answer_start': 222} |
81,051 | 80,709 | 5728c740ff5b5019007da689 | generic | Known as the world's automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for that industry. Detroit's auto industry, some of which was converted to wartime defense production, was an important element of the American "Arsenal of Democracy" supporting the Allied powers during World War II. It is an important source of popular mus... | What nickname for Detroit recognizes it's musical history? | {'text': 'Motown', 'answer_start': 400} |
69,119 | 68,777 | 5a457b0d19a820001a1eda7a | generic | A charity is a nonprofit organisation that meets stricter criteria regarding its purpose and the method in which it makes decisions and reports its finances. For example, a charity is generally not allowed to pay its Trustees. In England and Wales, charities may be registered with the Charity Commission. In Scotland, t... | What is the definition of a trade union? | {'text': 'a nonprofit organisation that meets stricter criteria regarding its purpose and the method in which it makes decisions and reports its finances', 'answer_start': 13} |
130,300 | 129,958 | 5735c1dedc94161900571fba | generic | The enclosed compound of the Narayanhity Palace Museum is in the north-central part of Kathmandu. "Narayanhity" comes from Narayana, a form of the Hindu god Lord Vishnu, and Hiti, meaning "water spout" (Vishnu's temple is located opposite the palace, and the water spout is located east of the main entrance to the preci... | Where in Kathmandu is Narayanhity Palace Museum located? | {'text': 'north-central', 'answer_start': 65} |
18,020 | 17,678 | 56e14927e3433e1400422d59 | generic | Despite Laemmle's role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew, Laemmle chose not to develop a theater chain. He also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. This policy nearly bankrupted the studio when actor-director Erich v... | In what year was Foolish Wives produced? | {'text': '1922', 'answer_start': 436} |
118,307 | 117,965 | 5acf9d1077cf76001a6854f1 | generic | From 1904 to 1907, the Herero and the Namaqua took up arms against the Germans and in calculated punitive action by the German occupiers, the 'first genocide of the Twentieth Century' was committed. In the Herero and Namaqua genocide, 10,000 Nama (half the population) and approximately 65,000 Hereros (about 80% of the ... | What percentage of Namaqua were murdered by Germans? | {'text': 'about 80% of the population', 'answer_start': 303} |
22,601 | 22,259 | 5ad4a6bbba00c4001a268ed5 | generic | According to eastern homeland theory, prior to becoming known to the Roman world, Slavic-speaking tribes were part of the many multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia – such as the Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic empires. The Slavs emerged from obscurity when the westward movement of Germans in the 5th and 6th centuries CE (th... | When did the Sarmatians move westward? | {'text': 'the 5th and 6th centuries CE', 'answer_start': 288} |
84,388 | 84,046 | 572821723acd2414000df529 | generic | In the fall of 1958, Nasser formed a tripartite committee consisting of Zakaria Mohieddin, al-Hawrani, and Salah Bitar to oversee developments in Syria. By moving the latter two, who were Ba'athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run. He put Syria... | Who did Lebanon elect in 1958? | {'text': 'Fuad Chehab', 'answer_start': 562} |
77,960 | 77,618 | 57278fba5951b619008f8d8e | generic | The Yoga school builds on the Samkhya school theory that jñāna (knowledge) is a sufficient means to moksha. It suggests that systematic techniques/practice (personal experimentation) combined with Samkhya's approach to knowledge is the path to moksha. Yoga shares several central ideas with Advaita Vedanta, with the dif... | What is the meaning of jnana? | {'text': 'knowledge', 'answer_start': 64} |
27,691 | 27,349 | 56fad729f34c681400b0c154 | generic | The history of Islam in Somalia is as old as the religion itself. The early persecuted Muslims fled to various places in the region, including the city of Zeila in modern-day northern Somalia, so as to seek protection from the Quraysh. Somalis were among the first populations on the continent to embrace Islam. With ver... | From whom were the early Muslims fleeing? | {'text': 'the Quraysh', 'answer_start': 223} |
106,581 | 106,239 | 5ad23010d7d075001a4286ad | generic | According to Tabatabaei, there are acceptable and unacceptable esoteric interpretations. Acceptable ta'wil refers to the meaning of a verse beyond its literal meaning; rather the implicit meaning, which ultimately is known only to God and can't be comprehended directly through human thought alone. The verses in questio... | What aren't the two type of ta'wil? | {'text': 'acceptable and unacceptable', 'answer_start': 35} |
55,388 | 55,046 | 57262598271a42140099d59f | generic | If Mammalia is considered as the crown group, its origin can be roughly dated as the first known appearance of animals more closely related to some extant mammals than to others. Ambondro is more closely related to monotremes than to therian mammals while Amphilestes and Amphitherium are more closely related to the the... | Which group are Ambondro's closely related to? | {'text': 'monotremes', 'answer_start': 215} |
87,893 | 87,551 | 572827732ca10214002d9f5d | generic | Whilst it is often perceived as an optimal solution for states comprising different cultural or ethnic communities, the federalist model seems to work best in largely homogeneous states such as the United States, Germany or Australia, but there is also evidence to the contrary such as in Switzerland. Tensions between t... | What are homogeneous states? | {'text': 'United States, Germany or Australia', 'answer_start': 198} |
93,783 | 93,441 | 5a3ab54e3ff257001ab84214 | generic | The black-body problem was revisited in 1905, when Rayleigh and Jeans (on the one hand) and Einstein (on the other hand) independently proved that classical electromagnetism could never account for the observed spectrum. These proofs are commonly known as the "ultraviolet catastrophe", a name coined by Paul Ehrenfest i... | Who refused the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918? | {'text': 'Max Planck', 'answer_start': 625} |
101,971 | 101,629 | 572e951fdfa6aa1500f8d184 | generic | The Feynman Lectures on Physics is perhaps his most accessible work for anyone with an interest in physics, compiled from lectures to Caltech undergraduates in 1961–64. As news of the lectures' lucidity grew, professional physicists and graduate students began to drop in to listen. Co-authors Robert B. Leighton and Mat... | Once the popularity on the lectures grew, who began to attend? | {'text': 'professional physicists and graduate students', 'answer_start': 209} |
45,242 | 44,900 | 5ad35ca7604f3c001a3fde90 | generic | Despite plans of expanding into other global regions and product segments, Dell was heavily dependent on U.S. corporate PC market, as desktop PCs sold to both commercial and corporate customers accounted for 32 percent of its revenue, 85 percent of its revenue comes from businesses, and Sixty-four percent of its revenu... | What year were Dell's PC profits growing? | {'text': '2006', 'answer_start': 375} |
31,312 | 30,970 | 57098741ed30961900e84292 | generic | England is quite a successful nation at the UEFA European Football Championship, having finished in third place in 1968 and reached the semi-final in 1996. England hosted Euro 96 and have appeared in eight UEFA European Championship Finals tournaments, tied for ninth-best. The team has also reached the quarter-final on... | Where does England rank in terms of the number of UEFA European Football Championship appearances? | {'text': 'tied for ninth-best', 'answer_start': 253} |
21,542 | 21,200 | 56e8909199e8941900975e95 | generic | SC Bern is the major ice hockey team of Bern who plays at the PostFinance Arena. The team has ranked highest in attendance for a European hockey team for more than a decade. The PostFinance Arena was the main host of the 2009 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, including the opening game and the final of the tournament... | What is the major hockey league team of Bern? | {'text': 'SC Bern', 'answer_start': 0} |
56,746 | 56,404 | 572680f85951b619008f74fb | generic | For administrative purposes, the Federal District is divided into 16 "delegaciones" or boroughs. While not fully equivalent to a municipality, the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy, and since 2000 their heads of government are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of gover... | How were the heads of the boroughs originally established? | {'text': 'appointed by the head of government of the Federal District', 'answer_start': 290} |
88,896 | 88,554 | 572843fc4b864d1900164865 | generic | The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists or "AUMF" was made law on 14 September 2001, to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on 11 September 2001. It authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, org... | When was the War Powers Resolution passed? | {'text': '1973', 'answer_start': 780} |
63,069 | 62,727 | 572697ec5951b619008f7783 | generic | On 17 November 1989, The Sun headlined a page 2 news story titled "STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL." The Sun favourably cited the opinions of Lord Kilbracken, a member of the All Parliamentary Group on AIDS. Lord Kilbracken said that only one person out of the 2,372 individuals with HIV/AIDS mentioned in a... | How did other news outlets report on Lord Kilbracken's words? | {'text': "none of them presented Lord Kilbracken's ideas without context or criticism", 'answer_start': 856} |
111,086 | 110,744 | 57301cee947a6a140053d11f | generic | Cordwood construction can save significant space and was often used with wire-ended components in applications where space was at a premium (such as missile guidance and telemetry systems) and in high-speed computers, where short traces were important. In cordwood construction, axial-leaded components were mounted betw... | What gets mounted in the middle of two parallel planes in a cordwood construction? | {'text': 'axial-leaded components', 'answer_start': 279} |
10,211 | 9,869 | 56ddf3bb9a695914005b9720 | generic | The multitude of Middle Iranian languages and peoples indicate that great linguistic diversity must have existed among the ancient speakers of Iranian languages. Of that variety of languages/dialects, direct evidence of only two have survived. These are: | What characteristic of Middle Iranian civilization is shown by the number of different languages and their speakers? | {'text': 'linguistic diversity', 'answer_start': 74} |
36,191 | 35,849 | 5a1f590a54a786001a36b277 | generic | The MC controls the conferencing while it is active on the signaling plane, which is simply where the system manages conferencing creation, endpoint signaling and in-conferencing controls. This component negotiates parameters with every endpoint in the network and controls conferencing resources. While the MC controls ... | What does the MP control while active on the signaling plane? | {'text': 'the conferencing', 'answer_start': 16} |
76,253 | 75,911 | 57279998dd62a815002ea1a5 | generic | Gorbachev refused to make any changes to the status of Nagorno Karabakh, which remained part of Azerbaijan. He instead sacked the Communist Party Leaders in both Republics – on May 21, 1988, Kamran Baghirov was replaced by Abdulrahman Vezirov as First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party. From July 23 to Septemb... | Who was First Secretary prior to Vezirov? | {'text': 'Kamran Baghirov', 'answer_start': 191} |
8,199 | 7,857 | 56dcdb2e66d3e219004dab30 | generic | The political stability and development of hydrocarbon production made Republic of Congo the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf of Guinea and provided the country with a relative prosperity despite the poor state of its infrastructure and public services and an unequal distribution of oil revenues. | What is the Congo's rank among other oil generating nations in the Gulf of Guinea? | {'text': 'fourth', 'answer_start': 93} |
18,793 | 18,451 | 5ad505735b96ef001a10aa08 | generic | The thickness of paper is often measured by caliper, which is typically given in thousandths of an inch in the United States and in thousandths of a mm in the rest of the world. Paper may be between 0.07 and 0.18 millimetres (0.0028 and 0.0071 in) thick. | What is often given in hundredths of an mm? | {'text': 'caliper', 'answer_start': 44} |
85,132 | 84,790 | 5a7e2e0d70df9f001a87552d | generic | While the Big Bang model is well established in cosmology, it is likely to be refined in the future. Little is known about the earliest moments of the universe's history. The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems require the existence of a singularity at the beginning of cosmic time. However, these theorems assume that ... | What will happen to the idea of the Planck temperature in the future? | {'text': 'likely to be refined', 'answer_start': 65} |
128,199 | 127,857 | 5733c743d058e614000b622e | generic | George Gipp was the school's legendary football player during 1916–20. He played semiprofessional baseball and smoked, drank, and gambled when not playing sports. He was also humble, generous to the needy, and a man of integrity. It was in 1928 that famed coach Knute Rockne used his final conversation with the dying Gi... | Against which opponent did Knute Rockne tell his team to "win one for the Gipper?" | {'text': 'the Army team', 'answer_start': 362} |
70,902 | 70,560 | 5726f8b75951b619008f83b3 | generic | Nigeria has also been pervaded by political corruption. It was ranked 143 out of 182 countries in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index; however, it improved to 136th position in 2014. More than $400 billion were stolen from the treasury by Nigeria's leaders between 1960 and 1999. In late 2013,... | In 2011 rankings, how bad was Nigeria's corruption ranking? | {'text': '143 out of 182 countries', 'answer_start': 70} |
50,081 | 49,739 | 5724041d0ba9f01400d97b19 | generic | In 1870, republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, was boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. A republican rally in Trafalgar Square demanded Victoria's removal, and Radical MPs spoke against her. In August and September 1871, she was seriously ill with an abscess in her arm,... | What year was the Third French Republic established? | {'text': '1870', 'answer_start': 3} |
55,745 | 55,403 | 57267423f1498d1400e8e020 | generic | Despite stiff resistance from the East India lobby in parliament and from the Company's shareholders, the Act passed. It introduced substantial governmental control and allowed British India to be formally under the control of the Crown, but leased back to the Company at £40,000 for two years. Under the Act's most impo... | By having 3 members on the council in Calcutta from the British Government they were always able to ____ the two EIC members? | {'text': 'outvote', 'answer_start': 521} |
68,431 | 68,089 | 5726bb4add62a815002e8e8c | generic | According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, in 2010 the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the city reported 1,740 incidents of violent crime and 12,995 incidents of property crime – far below both the national average and the North Carolina average. Of the violent crimes repo... | How many incidents of motor vehicle theft were there in 2010? | {'text': '870', 'answer_start': 624} |
24,820 | 24,478 | 56f88e93a6d7ea1400e1775a | generic | The first British Mont Blanc ascent was in 1788; the first female ascent in 1819. By the mid-1850s Swiss mountaineers had ascended most of the peaks and were eagerly sought as mountain guides. Edward Whymper reached the top of the Matterhorn in 1865 (after seven attempts), and in 1938 the last of the six great north fa... | What year did Edward Whymper reach the top of the Matterhorn? | {'text': '1865', 'answer_start': 245} |
14,122 | 13,780 | 5acdfd2f32bba1001ae4995d | generic | The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937, which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. | The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was rejected by the Russian Constitution of 1937 | {'text': 'Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic', 'answer_start': 124} |
94,826 | 94,484 | 572b5afd34ae481900deadc0 | generic | The production for sulfidic zinc ores produces large amounts of sulfur dioxide and cadmium vapor. Smelter slag and other residues of process also contain significant amounts of heavy metals. About 1.1 million tonnes of metallic zinc and 130 thousand tonnes of lead were mined and smelted in the Belgian towns of La Calam... | What is the ratio that anthropogenic and natural emissions occur at? | {'text': '20 to 1', 'answer_start': 971} |
34,064 | 33,722 | 5a8cfb3efd22b3001a8d90bd | generic | Under the Bretton Woods system established after World War II, the value of gold was fixed to $35 per ounce, and the value of the U.S. dollar was thus anchored to the value of gold. Rising government spending in the 1960s, however, led to doubts about the ability of the United States to maintain this convertibility, go... | What was the fixed value of stocks? | {'text': '$35 per ounce', 'answer_start': 94} |
28,001 | 27,659 | 56fb673d8ddada1400cd63cd | generic | The ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Empire survived the movements and invasions in the west mostly intact, but the papacy was little regarded, and few of the western bishops looked to the bishop of Rome for religious or political leadership. Many of the popes prior to 750 were more concerned with Byzantine affair... | When did Gregory the Great become pope? | {'text': '590', 'answer_start': 442} |
3,642 | 3,300 | 56d663b11c850414009470e4 | generic | The Red Cross Society of China flew 557 tents and 2,500 quilts valued at 788,000 yuan (US$113,000) to Wenchuan County. The Amity Foundation already began relief work in the region and has earmarked US$143,000 for disaster relief. The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs said that they have provided 30,000 tents for those ... | How much has the Amity Foundation designated for disaster relief? | {'text': 'US$143,000', 'answer_start': 198} |
125,886 | 125,544 | 57333879d058e614000b578e | generic | Portugal maintains a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government and is a developed country with an advanced economy, and a high living standard, having the 18th highest Social Progress in the world, putting it ahead of other Western European countries like France, Spain and Italy. It is a member of numerou... | In 2001, Portugal was the first country in the world to do what? | {'text': 'decriminalized the usage of all common drugs', 'answer_start': 512} |
99,186 | 98,844 | 572ab2abf75d5e190021fc4e | generic | Rajasthan is famous for its forts, carved temples, and decorated havelis, which were built by Rajput kings in pre-Muslim era Rajasthan.[citation needed] Rajasthan's Jaipur Jantar Mantar, Mehrangarh Fort and Stepwell of Jodhpur, Dilwara Temples, Chittorgarh Fort, Lake Palace, miniature paintings in Bundi, and numerous c... | What are the notable houses in Jaipur made from? | {'text': 'a type of sandstone dominated by a pink hue', 'answer_start': 457} |
66,155 | 65,813 | 5a81ba0631013a001a334dff | generic | Sixty-two percent of islanders are Christians. After the death of the first chaplain Rev G. H. Nobbs in 1884, a Methodist church was formed and in 1891 a Seventh-day Adventist congregation led by one of Nobbs' sons. Some unhappiness with G. H. Nobbs, the more organised and formal ritual of the Church of England service... | What percentage of the population of Norfolk Island do Christians avoid? | {'text': 'Sixty-two percent', 'answer_start': 0} |
58,627 | 58,285 | 5ad0c4c2645df0001a2d0282 | generic | The site where the Saint Petersburg Passage sprawls had been devoted to trade since the city's foundation in the early 18th century. It had been occupied by various shops and warehouses (Maly Gostiny Dvor, Schukin Dvor, Apraksin Dvor) until 1846, when Count Essen-Stenbock-Fermor acquired the grounds to build an elite s... | What unknown author described parts of the mall in his books? | {'text': 'Dostoyevsky', 'answer_start': 682} |
30,873 | 30,531 | 57070e6c9e06ca38007e934e | generic | In March 1912, in Chihuahua, Gen. Pascual Orozco revolted. Immediately President Francisco Madero commanded Gen. Victoriano Huerta of the Federal Army, to put down the Orozco revolt. The governor of Chihuahua mobilized the state militia led by Colonel Pancho Villa to supplement General Huerta. By June, Villa notified H... | With whom did Orozco side? | {'text': 'Huerta', 'answer_start': 764} |
124,881 | 124,539 | 573249b1b9d445190005e9bf | generic | In November 1942, he was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA) through the new operational Headquarters Allied (Expeditionary) Force Headquarters (A(E)FHQ). The word "expeditionary" was dropped soon after his appointment for security reasons. Th... | What appointment did Eisenhower receive in November of 1942? | {'text': 'Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations', 'answer_start': 40} |
123,765 | 123,423 | 57321bdce17f3d14004226a1 | generic | Greece's rail network is estimated to be at 2,548 km. Rail transport in Greece is operated by TrainOSE, a subsidiary of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). Most of the country's network is standard gauge (1,565 km), while the country also has 983 km of narrow gauge. A total of 764 km of rail are electrified. Gree... | Who is TrainOSE a subsidiary of? | {'text': 'the Hellenic Railways Organization', 'answer_start': 120} |
123,749 | 123,407 | 5a7b534b21c2de001afe9ebd | generic | In recent years a number of well-known tourism-related organizations have placed Greek destinations in the top of their lists. In 2009 Lonely Planet ranked Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city, the world's fifth best "Ultimate Party Town", alongside cities such as Montreal and Dubai, while in 2011 the island... | What Greek city was rated the world's worst ultimate party town by 2008's Lonely Planet? | {'text': 'Thessaloniki', 'answer_start': 156} |
96,566 | 96,224 | 572a11661d04691400779724 | generic | The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey, was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia. After co... | Where was the Ottoman empire founded? | {'text': 'northwestern Anatolia', 'answer_start': 289} |
38,870 | 38,528 | 570c9785b3d812140066d23b | generic | Two days later, it was announced that Luis Enrique would return to Barcelona as head coach, after he agreed to a two-year deal. He was recommended by sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta, his former national teammate. Following Enrique's arrival, Barcelona broke their transfer record when they paid Liverpool F.C. betwe... | Who returned to Barcelona as head coach? | {'text': 'Luis Enrique', 'answer_start': 38} |
105,490 | 105,148 | 5a8489e57cf838001a46a8e3 | generic | Long before the exemption is considered by the Endangered Species Committee, the Forest Service, and either the FWS or the NMFS will have consulted on the biological implications of the timber harvest. The consultation can be informal, to determine if harm may occur; and then formal if the harm is believed to be likely... | What kind of consultation does the Endangered Species use when harm is likely? | {'text': 'formal', 'answer_start': 277} |
63,761 | 63,419 | 5726b792dd62a815002e8de2 | generic | State schools in Somerset are provided by three local education authorities: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council. All state schools are comprehensive. In some areas primary, infant and junior schools cater for ages four to eleven, after which the pupils move on to second... | What are the state schools in somerset | {'text': 'Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council', 'answer_start': 77} |
63,064 | 62,722 | 572696f75951b619008f776f | generic | Television personality Piers Morgan, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun's Bizarre pop column, has said that during the late 1980s, at Kelvin MacKenzie's behest, he was ordered to speculate on the sexuality of male pop stars for a feature headlined "The Poofs of Pop". He also recalls MacKenzie headlining... | Which column did Piers Morgan edit at The Sun? | {'text': 'Bizarre pop column', 'answer_start': 90} |
41,316 | 40,974 | 5a2994e803c0e7001a3e17ed | generic | In order to explain the common features shared by Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages, many scholars have proposed the Indo-Aryan migration theory, asserting that the original speakers of what became Sanskrit arrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the north-west some time during the early second millenni... | When did the original speakers of Sanskrit migrate to the north-west? | {'text': 'early second millennium BCE', 'answer_start': 299} |
87,178 | 86,836 | 5a32ecbabd0d7f001aef950e | generic | In the southwest, the Dzanga-Sangha National Park is located in a rain forest area. The country is noted for its population of forest elephants and western lowland gorillas. In the north, the Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park is well-populated with wildlife, including leopards, lions, cheetahs and rhinos, and the B... | What park is located to the northeast of Sudan? | {'text': 'Bamingui-Bangoran National Park', 'answer_start': 319} |
5,451 | 5,109 | 56cf86a3234ae51400d9be00 | generic | West is among the most critically acclaimed artists of the twenty-first century, receiving praise from music critics, fans, fellow musicians, artists, and wider cultural figures for his work. AllMusic editor Jason Birchmeier writes of his impact, "As his career progressed throughout the early 21st century, West shatter... | What famous English artist was Kanye compared to by The Guardian? | {'text': 'David Bowie', 'answer_start': 1105} |
89,080 | 88,738 | 5a85e99bb4e223001a8e72d8 | generic | In September 2009, a U.S. Drone strike reportedly killed Ilyas Kashmiri, who was the chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, a Kashmiri militant group associated with Al-Qaeda. Kashmiri was described by Bruce Riedel as a 'prominent' Al-Qaeda member, while others described him as the head of military operations for Al-Qaeda... | How long was Waziristan the new battlefield? | {'text': 'two-day', 'answer_start': 574} |
76,221 | 75,879 | 572790d55951b619008f8daf | generic | On September 10, 1987, after a lecture from hardliner Yegor Ligachev at the Politburo for allowing these two unsanctioned demonstrations in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin wrote a letter of resignation to Gorbachev, who had been holidaying on the Black Sea. Gorbachev was stunned – no one had ever voluntarily resigned from the Po... | What was Gorbachev's reaction to Yeltsin's resignation? | {'text': 'stunned', 'answer_start': 262} |
15,449 | 15,107 | 56e02d8d231d4119001abf8b | generic | The Dutch Republic formally made claim to Saint Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it. By 1651, the Dutch had mainly abandoned the island in favour of their colony at the Cape of Good Hope. | Which colony did the Dutch abandon the island for? | {'text': 'Cape of Good Hope.', 'answer_start': 230} |
73,402 | 73,060 | 572747fddd62a815002e9a78 | generic | In the year 2000, according to a study by American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affirmative action promoted diversity within colleges and universities. This has been shown to have positive effects on the educational outcomes and experiences of college students as well as the teaching of faculty members.... | What does AAUP stand for? | {'text': 'American Association of University Professors', 'answer_start': 42} |
96,063 | 95,721 | 5a6936a55ce1a5001a9695ac | generic | The birthplace of IBM, Endicott, suffered pollution for decades, however. IBM used liquid cleaning agents in circuit board assembly operation for more than two decades, and six spills and leaks were recorded, including one leak in 1979 of 4,100 gallons from an underground tank. These left behind volatile organic compou... | What has drinking water been contaminated with for decades, making it unsafe in Endicott? | {'text': 'volatile organic compounds', 'answer_start': 366} |
117,431 | 117,089 | 5a42ed244a4859001aac73a7 | generic | Japan saw the release of the Satellaview, a modem which attached to the Super Famicom's expansion port and connected to the St.GIGA satellite radio station. Users of the Satellaview could download gaming news and specially designed games, which were frequently either remakes of or sequels to older Famicom titles, relea... | When did dial-up stop broadcasting in the US? | {'text': 'June 30, 2000', 'answer_start': 404} |
31,279 | 30,937 | 59fb1d95ee36d60018400d1a | generic | Their first ever defeat on home soil to a foreign team was an 0–2 loss to the Republic of Ireland, on 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park. A 6–3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their second defeat by a foreign team at Wembley. In the return match in Budapest, Hungary won 7–1. This still stands as England's worst ever defea... | What was the score of England's football teams biggest win? | {'text': '7–1', 'answer_start': 268} |
25,851 | 25,509 | 56f8c61b9b226e1400dd0f89 | generic | Brains are most simply compared in terms of their size. The relationship between brain size, body size and other variables has been studied across a wide range of vertebrate species. As a rule, brain size increases with body size, but not in a simple linear proportion. In general, smaller animals tend to have larger br... | Which group of animals have brains 5-10 times larger than the formula predicts? | {'text': 'primates', 'answer_start': 675} |
59,234 | 58,892 | 5726563add62a815002e81e3 | generic | While attending Ealing Art College, Tim Staffell became friends with Farrokh Bulsara, a fellow student who had assumed the English name of Freddie. Bulsara felt that he and the band had the same tastes and soon became a keen fan of Smile. In late 1970, after Staffell left to join the band Humpy Bong, the remaining Smil... | What band did Tim Staffell join after leaving Smile? | {'text': 'Humpy Bong', 'answer_start': 290} |
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