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11,908 | 11,566 | 56de7ab54396321400ee2952 | generic | The 1-mile-long (2 km) Breakwater in Plymouth Sound was designed by John Rennie in order to protect the fleet moving in and out of Devonport; work started in 1812. Numerous technical difficulties and repeated storm damage meant that it was not completed until 1841, twenty years after Rennie's death. In the 1860s, a rin... | When did construction commence on Plymouth Sound Breakwater? | {'text': '1812', 'answer_start': 158} |
98,934 | 98,592 | 572ac9cbbe1ee31400cb8257 | generic | The Forbes 400 survey estimated in 2004 that Teresa Heinz Kerry had a net worth of $750 million. However, estimates have frequently varied, ranging from around $165 million to as high as $3.2 billion, according to a study in the Los Angeles Times. Regardless of which figure is correct, Kerry was the wealthiest U.S. Sen... | What was Kerry's mother's name? | {'text': 'Rosemary Forbes Kerry', 'answer_start': 520} |
24,968 | 24,626 | 56f8bec89b226e1400dd0f15 | generic | During the Napoleonic Wars in the late 18th century and early 19th century, Napoleon annexed territory formerly controlled by the Habsburgs and Savoys. In 1798 he established the Helvetic Republic in Switzerland; two years later he led an army across the St. Bernard pass and conquered almost all of the Alpine regions. | When was the Helvetic Republic established? | {'text': '1798', 'answer_start': 155} |
21,607 | 21,265 | 5ad3f1d6604f3c001a3ff896 | generic | Since 1066, when Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror were crowned, the coronations of English and British monarchs have been held there. There have been at least 16 royal weddings at the abbey since 1100. Two were of reigning monarchs (Henry I and Richard II), although, before 1919, there had been none for some ... | Which two reigning monarchs had funerals at the abbey? | {'text': 'Henry I and Richard II', 'answer_start': 243} |
128,417 | 128,075 | 5733c827d058e614000b6243 | generic | Economic anthropology attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a sub-field of anthropology begin with the Polish-British founder of Anthropology, Broni... | What is Economic Anthropology mostly focused upon? | {'text': 'exchange', 'answer_start': 534} |
107,011 | 106,669 | 5a5686d86349e2001acdce01 | generic | Compact Disc + Graphics is a special audio compact disc that contains graphics data in addition to the audio data on the disc. The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, it can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is hooked up to a television set or a ... | What channels does a normal CD use? | {'text': 'R through W', 'answer_start': 511} |
58,585 | 58,243 | 572671565951b619008f72c9 | generic | The iconic department stores of New Zealand's three major centres are Smith & Caughey's (founded 1880), in New Zealand's most populous city, Auckland; Kirkcaldie & Stains (founded 1863) in the capital, Wellington; and Ballantynes (founded 1854) in New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch. These offer high-end an... | Where is H & J Smith's flagship store? | {'text': 'Invercargill', 'answer_start': 484} |
49,067 | 48,725 | 5ace62f532bba1001ae4a51b | generic | When maintenance is performed on asphalt pavements, such as milling to remove a worn or damaged surface, the removed material can be returned to a facility for processing into new pavement mixtures. The asphalt/bitumen in the removed material can be reactivated and put back to use in new pavement mixes. With some 95% o... | 99% of asphalt that is removed from road surfaces during what type of projects is reused for conducting industry surveys? | {'text': 'widening and resurfacing', 'answer_start': 662} |
104,918 | 104,576 | 5ad41dff604f3c001a400602 | generic | By 1840, the Market Hall and Sheds, where fresh meat and produce were brought daily, became a hub of commercial activity. The slave trade also depended on the port of Charleston, where ships could be unloaded and the slaves bought and sold. The legal importation of African slaves had ended in 1808, although smuggling w... | The region where cotton plantations weren't developed was known as what? | {'text': 'Black Belt', 'answer_start': 564} |
103,547 | 103,205 | 5acedf1f32bba1001ae4b7e7 | generic | In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus. Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations from the tables, leading Bouvard to hypothesise that an unknown body was perturbing the orbit through gravitational interaction. In 1843, John Couch Adams began work ... | What happened in February 1855? | {'text': 'he requested extra data from Sir George Airy, the Astronomer Royal, who supplied it', 'answer_start': 416} |
33,870 | 33,528 | 5709b165ed30961900e84427 | 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... | Having portraits of leaders on coins was compared to who's policies? | {'text': 'European monarchs', 'answer_start': 337} |
52,428 | 52,086 | 57268f9cf1498d1400e8e3d3 | generic | Like in English, Dutch has generalised the dative over the accusative case for all pronouns, e.g. Du me, je, Eng me, you, vs. Germ mich/mir dich/dir. There is one exception: the standard language prescribes that in the third person plural, hen is to be used for the direct object, and hun for the indirect object. This d... | In the lone exception to the dative case, which pronoun is prescribed for the third person plural direct object? | {'text': 'hen', 'answer_start': 240} |
31,131 | 30,789 | 57072adb9e06ca38007e94c3 | generic | The fauna in the state is just as diverse as the flora and varies greatly due to the large contrast in climates. In the mountain zone of the state the most observed mammals are: Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis), antelope jackrabbit (Lepus alleni), raccoon (Procyon lotor), hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura), wi... | The main cause of degradation has been what? | {'text': 'grazing', 'answer_start': 840} |
87,265 | 86,923 | 5a4fd6f0af0d07001ae8cc42 | generic | There is no cure for asthma. Symptoms can be prevented by avoiding triggers, such as allergens and irritants, and by the use of inhaled corticosteroids. Long-acting beta agonists (LABA) or antileukotriene agents may be used in addition to inhaled corticosteroids if asthma symptoms remain uncontrolled. Treatment of rapi... | How do you treat LABA if it gets worse? | {'text': 'with an inhaled short-acting beta-2 agonist such as salbutamol and corticosteroids taken by mouth', 'answer_start': 354} |
92,769 | 92,427 | 5728efe24b864d19001650d2 | generic | It should be noted that many samurai forces that were active throughout this period were not deployed to Korea; most importantly, the daimyo Tokugawa Ieyasu carefully kept forces under his command out of the Korean campaigns, and other samurai commanders who were opposed to Hideyoshi's domination of Japan either mulled... | Which military leader avoided sending his soldiers to Korea? | {'text': 'Tokugawa Ieyasu', 'answer_start': 141} |
2,204 | 1,862 | 56ce8d5daab44d1400b88875 | generic | Many accessories have been made for the iPod line. A large number are made by third party companies, although many, such as the iPod Hi-Fi, are made by Apple. Some accessories add extra features that other music players have, such as sound recorders, FM radio tuners, wired remote controls, and audio/visual cables for T... | Who manufactures a pedometer accessory for the iPod? | {'text': 'Nike', 'answer_start': 384} |
106,984 | 106,642 | 5a56842a6349e2001acdcddb | generic | CDs are susceptible to damage during handling and from environmental exposure. Pits are much closer to the label side of a disc, enabling defects and contaminants on the clear side to be out of focus during playback. Consequently, CDs are more likely to suffer damage on the label side of the disc. Scratches on the clea... | What causes edges of CDs to be incorrectly sealed? | {'text': 'Geotrichum candidum', 'answer_start': 604} |
94,108 | 93,766 | 57295f18af94a219006aa33d | generic | The PV industry has seen drops in module prices since 2008. In late 2011, factory-gate prices for crystalline-silicon photovoltaic modules dropped below the $1.00/W mark. The $1.00/W installed cost, is often regarded in the PV industry as marking the achievement of grid parity for PV. These reductions have taken many s... | What cost is often regarded as marking the achievment of grid parity for PV? | {'text': '$1.00/W installed cost', 'answer_start': 175} |
90,306 | 89,964 | 5728aba2ff5b5019007da416 | generic | Logically, no number of positive outcomes at the level of experimental testing can confirm a scientific theory, but a single counterexample is logically decisive: it shows the theory, from which the implication is derived, to be false. To say that a given statement (e.g., the statement of a law of some scientific theor... | What political theory did Popper say did not meet his falsifiability criterion? | {'text': 'Marxism', 'answer_start': 927} |
45,671 | 45,329 | 5ad3f90f604f3c001a3ffa9b | generic | Various methods have been used in the history of the American colonies and the United States but only five methods are currently used. Historically, burning, crushing, breaking on wheel, and bludgeoning were used for a small number of executions, while hanging was the most common method. The last person burned at the s... | How many execution methods are currently outlawed in the United States? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 102} |
123,523 | 123,181 | 5a2f0530a83784001a7d2643 | generic | The Juscelino Kubitschek bridge, also known as the 'President JK Bridge' or the 'JK Bridge', crosses Lake Paranoá in Brasília. It is named after Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, former president of Brazil. It was designed by architect Alexandre Chan and structural engineer Mário Vila Verde. Chan won the Gustav Lindent... | What did Mario Vila Verde win in 2003? | {'text': 'the Gustav Lindenthal Medal', 'answer_start': 302} |
62,522 | 62,180 | 57273abddd62a815002e99cd | generic | The advent of the Industrial Revolution in Britain provided a great boost to cotton manufacture, as textiles emerged as Britain's leading export. In 1738, Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, of Birmingham, England, patented the roller spinning machine, as well as the flyer-and-bobbin system for drawing cotton to a more even thi... | When was a new spinning machine patented that boosted cotton production? | {'text': '1738', 'answer_start': 149} |
109,781 | 109,439 | 572f692804bcaa1900d768f8 | generic | In this paper, he described a new system for storing and working with large databases. Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in CODASYL, Codd's idea was to use a "table" of fixed-length records, with each table used for a different type of entity. A linked-list system would... | What system assists a user in seeing a table? | {'text': 'DBMS', 'answer_start': 722} |
11,308 | 10,966 | 5a63433e68151a001a9222be | generic | The period between 1815 and 1871 saw a large number of revolutionary attempts and independence wars. Balkan nations began to regain independence from the Ottoman Empire. Italy unified into a nation state. The capture of Rome in 1870 ended the Papal temporal power. Rivalry in a scramble for empires spread in what is kno... | When were there many struggles for Italy? | {'text': 'between 1815 and 1871', 'answer_start': 11} |
79,303 | 78,961 | 5727d3e4ff5b5019007d9647 | generic | Numerous plays are put on every year at Eton College; there is one main theatre, called the Farrer (seating 400) and 2 Studio theatres, called the Caccia Studio and Empty Space (seating 90 and 80 respectively). There are about 8 or 9 house productions each year, around 3 or 4 "independent" plays (not confined solely to... | What is the name of Eton's largest theatre? | {'text': 'Farrer', 'answer_start': 92} |
28,151 | 27,809 | 56fb7fc38ddada1400cd648b | generic | During the 11th century, developments in philosophy and theology led to increased intellectual activity. There was debate between the realists and the nominalists over the concept of "universals". Philosophical discourse was stimulated by the rediscovery of Aristotle and his emphasis on empiricism and rationalism. Scho... | When did Peter Lombard die? | {'text': '1164', 'answer_start': 379} |
47,832 | 47,490 | 5ad2b797d7d075001a42a039 | generic | Colonial records of French and Spanish slave ships and sales, and plantation records in all the former colonies, often have much more information about slaves, from which researchers are reconstructing slave family histories. Genealogists have begun to find plantation records, court records, land deeds and other source... | What did Asians generally not learn to read and write? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 597} |
27,606 | 27,264 | 56fa00e2f34c681400b0bf4b | generic | According to most scholars, the ancient Land of Punt and its inhabitants formed part of the ethnogenesis of the Somali people. The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut. The pyramidal structures, temples and ancient... | What ancient land was connected to the modern Somali people? | {'text': 'Land of Punt', 'answer_start': 40} |
110,816 | 110,474 | 5ace62d032bba1001ae4a511 | generic | When the board has no embedded components it is more correctly called a printed wiring board (PWB) or etched wiring board. However, the term printed wiring board has fallen into disuse. A PCB populated with electronic components is called a printed circuit assembly (PCA), printed circuit board assembly or PCB assembly ... | The IPC preferred term for assembled backplates is what? | {'text': 'backplane assemblies', 'answer_start': 439} |
88,839 | 88,497 | 57284244ff5b5019007da029 | generic | Because the actions involved in the "war on terrorism" are diffuse, and the criteria for inclusion are unclear, political theorist Richard Jackson has argued that "the 'war on terrorism' therefore, is simultaneously a set of actual practices—wars, covert operations, agencies, and institutions—and an accompanying series... | Who said that 9/11 drew a line between 'the civil and the savage'? | {'text': 'John Ashcroft', 'answer_start': 466} |
4,426 | 4,084 | 56d1104317492d1400aab88b | generic | Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities. Stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in the 1930s, and a street in the Bronx was renamed Stickball Boulevard in the late 2000s to memorialize this. | In what borough is Stickball Boulevard located? | {'text': 'the Bronx', 'answer_start': 163} |
116,895 | 116,553 | 5a4ea64baf0d07001ae8cb98 | generic | Many ground crew at the airport work at the aircraft. A tow tractor pulls the aircraft to one of the airbridges, The ground power unit is plugged in. It keeps the electricity running in the plane when it stands at the terminal. The engines are not working, therefore they do not generate the electricity, as they do in f... | When should the ground crew be done removing luggage? | {'text': 'in 90 minutes', 'answer_start': 1642} |
20,936 | 20,594 | 56e7a35800c9c71400d77462 | generic | In 2014, the league announced the granting of a new franchise to former Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, previously part-owner of the Jacksonville Sharks. That franchise, the Las Vegas Outlaws, were originally to play in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in 2015, but instead played their home games at the Thomas ... | Where did the Outlaws play their home games? | {'text': 'the Thomas & Mack Center', 'answer_start': 309} |
53,554 | 53,212 | 572616c289a1e219009ac233 | generic | Arsenal Ladies are the women's football club affiliated to Arsenal. Founded in 1987, they turned semi-professional in 2002 and are managed by Clare Wheatley. Arsenal Ladies are the most successful team in English women's football. In the 2008–09 season, they won all three major English trophies – the FA Women's Premier... | When did the Arsenal Ladies team become semi-professional? | {'text': '2002', 'answer_start': 118} |
64,110 | 63,768 | 5ad3e856604f3c001a3ff649 | generic | Yale's secret society buildings (some of which are called "tombs") were built both to be private yet unmistakable. A diversity of architectural styles is represented: Berzelius, Donn Barber in an austere cube with classical detailing (erected in 1908 or 1910); Book and Snake, Louis R. Metcalfe in a Greek Ionic style (e... | Who wasn't the architect behind the Manuscript Society building? | {'text': 'King Lui-Wu', 'answer_start': 648} |
56,547 | 56,205 | 572665495951b619008f7197 | generic | The Standard Output Sensitivity (SOS) technique, also new in the 2006 version of the standard, effectively specifies that the average level in the sRGB image must be 18% gray plus or minus 1/3 stop when the exposure is controlled by an automatic exposure control system calibrated per ISO 2721 and set to the EI with no ... | With what standard is the automatic exposure control system calibrated? | {'text': 'ISO 2721', 'answer_start': 285} |
52,870 | 52,528 | 5ad188d0645df0001a2d1ebb | generic | In 1872, Russian Alexander Lodygin invented an incandescent light bulb and obtained a Russian patent in 1874. He used as a burner two carbon rods of diminished section in a glass receiver, hermetically sealed, and filled with nitrogen, electrically arranged so that the current could be passed to the second carbon when ... | Who did not demonstrate at the world fair in 1900 in Paris? | {'text': 'Alexander de Lodyguine', 'answer_start': 396} |
50,124 | 49,782 | 572406670a492a19004355f0 | generic | Between April 1877 and February 1878, she threatened five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin. Disraeli's expansionist foreign policy, which Victoria endorsed, led to c... | Who returned as prime minister when Disraeli lost the general election in 1880? | {'text': 'Gladstone', 'answer_start': 854} |
20,963 | 20,621 | 56e7af3b37bdd419002c4337 | generic | The league's 2016 schedule, announced on the league's website on December 10, 2015, shows an eight-team league playing a 16-game regular season over 18 weeks, with two bye weeks for each team, one on a rotational basis and the other a "universal bye" for all teams during the Independence Day weekend, the first weekend ... | How many teams are active in the AFL for 2016? | {'text': 'eight', 'answer_start': 93} |
55,668 | 55,326 | 5a845d137cf838001a46a78e | generic | In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament. The company sought a permanent establishment, while the Parliament would not willingly allow it greater autonomy and so relinquish the opportunity to exploit the company's profits. In 1712, another act renewed the status ... | What imports were forbidden in India in 1720? | {'text': 'British', 'answer_start': 382} |
113,194 | 112,852 | 57301b33a23a5019007fcd70 | generic | Tourism is a major industry owing to the city's climate, its beaches, and numerous tourist attractions such as Balboa Park, Belmont amusement park, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and SeaWorld San Diego. San Diego's Spanish and Mexican heritage is reflected in the many historic sites across the city, such as ... | What popular park in San Diego is home to the San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld, and countless museums? | {'text': 'Balboa Park', 'answer_start': 111} |
33,487 | 33,145 | 5acd831a07355d001abf44fd | generic | Cask-conditioned ales (or cask ales) are unfiltered and unpasteurised beers. These beers are termed "real ale" by the CAMRA organisation. Typically, when a cask arrives in a pub, it is placed horizontally on a frame called a "stillage" which is designed to hold it steady and at the right angle, and then allowed to cool... | What takes beer several hours to do after being tapped and vented? | {'text': '"drop"', 'answer_start': 740} |
46,607 | 46,265 | 57199b4a10f8ca1400304e4c | generic | His biography of Anthony the Great entitled Life of Antony(Βίος καὶ Πολιτεία Πατρὸς Ἀντωνίου, Vita Antonii) became his most widely-read work. Translated into several languages, it played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity. Depicting Anthony as an illiterate and h... | The so-called Athanasian Creed draws upon the phraseology of what? | {'text': "Augustine's De trinitate", 'answer_start': 690} |
6,155 | 5,813 | 56daf04ae7c41114004b4b4b | generic | The show had originally planned on having four judges following the Pop Idol format; however, only three judges had been found by the time of the audition round in the first season, namely Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell. A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen but he dropped out citing "ima... | When did American Idol change to a four-judge panel? | {'text': 'season eight', 'answer_start': 599} |
20,093 | 19,751 | 5ad3d8d6604f3c001a3ff384 | generic | The 1961 volcanic eruption destroyed the Tristan da Cunha canned crawfish factory, which was rebuilt a short time later. The crawfish catchers and processors work for the South African company Ovenstone, which has an exclusive contract to sell crawfish to the United States and Japan. Even though Tristan da Cunha is a U... | What may expedite the updating of communication equipment on the island? | {'text': 'financial problems', 'answer_start': 533} |
61,240 | 60,898 | 5726cf30f1498d1400e8ebe6 | generic | In September 1993, Madonna embarked on The Girlie Show World Tour, in which she dressed as a whip-cracking dominatrix surrounded by topless dancers. In Puerto Rico she rubbed the island's flag between her legs on stage, resulting in outrage among the audience. In March 1994, she appeared as a guest on the Late Show wit... | What did the critics call Madonna after the Letterman show? | {'text': 'a sexual renegade', 'answer_start': 609} |
51,955 | 51,613 | 5a85c600b4e223001a8e7214 | generic | Since their domestication, a large number of breeds of chickens have been established, but with the exception of the white Leghorn, most commercial birds are of hybrid origin. In about 1800, chickens began to be kept on a larger scale, and modern high-output poultry farms were present in the United Kingdom from around ... | When did the poultry business end permanently in the United States? | {'text': 'the mid-20th century', 'answer_start': 405} |
117,254 | 116,912 | 5a42a1924a4859001aac7257 | generic | To compete with the popular Family Computer in Japan, NEC Home Electronics launched the PC Engine in 1987, and Sega Enterprises followed suit with the Mega Drive in 1988. The two platforms were later launched in North America in 1989 as the TurboGrafx-16 and the Genesis respectively. Both systems were built on 16-bit a... | What did SEGA release in 1987? | {'text': 'the PC Engine', 'answer_start': 84} |
69,561 | 69,219 | 5a7a571321c2de001afe9b85 | generic | Literature allows readers to access intimate emotional aspects of a person’s character that would not be obvious otherwise. It benefits the psychological development and understanding of the reader. For example, it allows a person to access emotional states from which the person has distanced himself or herself. An ent... | D. Michael wrote an entry about young adult fiction in what publication? | {'text': '‘‘The English Journal’’', 'answer_start': 358} |
55,350 | 55,008 | 5a39d5592f14dd001ac72608 | generic | Mammals include the largest animals on the planet, the rorquals and other large whales, as well as some of the most intelligent, such as elephants, primates, including humans, and cetaceans. The basic body type is a four-legged land-borne animal, but some mammals are adapted for life at sea, in the air, in trees, or on... | How small is the average fetus? | {'text': '30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in)', 'answer_start': 475} |
40,992 | 40,650 | 570d9ca3df2f5219002ed03a | generic | The introduction of the guided missile resulted in a significant shift in anti-aircraft strategy. Although Germany had been desperate to introduce anti-aircraft missile systems, none became operational during World War II. Following several years of post-war development, however, these systems began to mature into viab... | The introduction of what caused the larger anti-aircraft guns to disappear in the USSR? | {'text': 'SA-2 Guideline systems', 'answer_start': 533} |
29,336 | 28,994 | 5705f31875f01819005e77b9 | generic | On December 16, 2015, the Supreme Court of India mandated several restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to curb pollution. Among the measures, the court ordered to stop registrations of diesel cars and sport utility vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc and over until March 31, 2016. The court also order... | The Supreme Court restricted registration of some vehicles with engines of 2000 cc and over until what date? | {'text': 'March 31, 2016', 'answer_start': 284} |
17,908 | 17,566 | 56e16dafcd28a01900c67911 | generic | Various LGBT publications serve the city's large LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community such as The Rainbow Times, the only minority and lesbian-owned LGBT newsmagazine. Founded in 2006, The Rainbow Times is now based out of Boston, but serves all of New England. | What is the name of the citys only lesbian owned LGBT magazine? | {'text': 'The Rainbow Times', 'answer_start': 113} |
30,431 | 30,089 | 5ad26cdcd7d075001a4293ac | generic | In the early 1980s, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5, and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played various styles of dance music, including older disco records (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, newer Italo disco, B-Boy hip hop music by Man Parrish,... | Who were the chicago radio jocks that played dance music in the early 1970s? | {'text': 'The Hot Mix 5', 'answer_start': 40} |
20,447 | 20,105 | 5acf652e77cf76001a684d46 | generic | The first union was built on campus in 1926 as a campus community center. The unions are still the "living rooms" of campus today and include three locations – the Kansas Union and Burge Union at the Lawrence Campus and Jayhawk Central at the Edwards Campus. The KU Memorial Unions Corporation manages the KU Bookstore (... | What is the name of the faculty union on the Edwards Campus of KU? | {'text': 'Jayhawk Central', 'answer_start': 220} |
93,574 | 93,232 | 5a671251f038b7001ab0c1c0 | generic | Addition of lead(II) oxide lowers melting point, lowers viscosity of the melt, and increases refractive index. Lead oxide also facilitates solubility of other metal oxides and is used in colored glasses. The viscosity decrease of lead glass melt is very significant (roughly 100 times in comparison with soda glasses); t... | What makes the Pb2+ ion vitreous? | {'text': 'high ionic radius', 'answer_start': 473} |
81,029 | 80,687 | 5728c1a24b864d1900164d63 | generic | Thousands more employees work in Midtown, north of the central business district. Midtown's anchors are the city's largest single employer Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, and the Henry Ford Health System in New Center. Midtown is also home to watchmaker Shinola and an array of small and/or startup compa... | Other than Downtown and Midtown, what area boasts a fast growing restaurant scene? | {'text': 'Corktown', 'answer_start': 440} |
30,116 | 29,774 | 5706219a52bb8914006898d8 | generic | In 1991, there were only two proposals available that could be completely assessed for an MPEG audio standard: Musicam (Masking pattern adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding And Multiplexing) and ASPEC (Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy Coding). The Musicam technique, as proposed by Philips (the Netherlands), ... | How many proposals were available in 1991? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 25} |
124,577 | 124,235 | 5ad3d773604f3c001a3ff347 | generic | Divorce is discouraged, and remarriage is forbidden unless a divorce is obtained on the grounds of adultery, which they refer to as "a scriptural divorce". If a divorce is obtained for any other reason, remarriage is considered adulterous unless the prior spouse has died or is since considered to have committed sexual ... | In most Christian religions willfully non-supporting one's family will result in what? | {'text': 'Divorce', 'answer_start': 0} |
117,480 | 117,138 | 5a64f5eac2b11c001a425b52 | generic | However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bif... | Who believes the Sumerians lived in the area of modern Persia? | {'text': 'Professor Juris Zarins', 'answer_start': 480} |
114,397 | 114,055 | 5a79dbb517ab25001a8a00ff | generic | In game play, players attempt to create goal-scoring opportunities through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling, passing the ball to a team-mate, and by taking shots at the goal, which is guarded by the opposing goalkeeper. Opposing players may try to regain control of the ball by intercepting a pass or... | Who is the only one who does not have the authority to stop the game when something is wrong? | {'text': 'referee', 'answer_start': 576} |
51,374 | 51,032 | 57260e5b271a42140099d409 | generic | The Hellenistic age also saw a rise in the disillusionment with traditional religion. The rise of philosophy and the sciences had removed the gods from many of their traditional domains such as their role in the movement of the heavenly bodies and natural disasters. The Sophists proclaimed the centrality of humanity an... | Rulers brought the concept of divinity to where? | {'text': 'down to earth', 'answer_start': 621} |
71,354 | 71,012 | 5726db50708984140094d3bf | generic | When anti-German demonstrations erupted in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Comintern ordered the Czech Communist Party to employ all of its strength to paralyze "chauvinist elements." Moscow soon forced the Communist Parties of France and Great Britain to adopt an anti-war position. On 7 September, Stalin called Georgi Dim... | French communists voted for what? | {'text': 'war credits', 'answer_start': 726} |
44,724 | 44,382 | 570fa4fe5ab6b81900390f68 | generic | Research focusing on sexual orientation uses scales of assessment to identify who belongs in which sexual population group. It is assumed that these scales will be able to reliably identify and categorize people by their sexual orientation. However, it is difficult to determine an individual's sexual orientation throug... | How many components are used in assessment? | {'text': 'three components', 'answer_start': 430} |
32,245 | 31,903 | 5709690e200fba1400367f81 | generic | Boundaries can be inclusive or exclusive depending on how they are perceived by other people. An exclusive boundary arises, for example, when a person adopts a marker that imposes restrictions on the behaviour of others. An inclusive boundary is created, by contrast, by the use of a marker with which other people are r... | What are the two types of group boundaries? | {'text': 'inclusive or exclusive', 'answer_start': 18} |
3,866 | 3,524 | 56cede40aab44d1400b88b74 | generic | The trial in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger in 1735 helped to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by King George II as King's College in Lower Manhattan. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the... | Under what king did the founding of Columbia University occur? | {'text': 'George II', 'answer_start': 178} |
55,243 | 54,901 | 5a627da5f8d794001af1c040 | generic | On 20 May 2011, Royal Dutch Shell's final investment decision for the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility was finalized following the discovery of the remote offshore Prelude field—located off Australia's northwestern coast and estimated to contain about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equ... | When did Royal Dutch Shell make its first investment into FLNG? | {'text': '20 May 2011', 'answer_start': 3} |
2,745 | 2,403 | 56d1352fe7d4791d00901fff | generic | On release, Twilight Princess was considered to be the greatest Zelda game ever made by many critics including writers for 1UP.com, Computer and Video Games, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Game Informer, GamesRadar, IGN and The Washington Post. Game Informer called it "so creative that it rivals the best that Hollywood has... | Who specifically commended the game for the very long quests? | {'text': 'Javier Glickman', 'answer_start': 1532} |
77,403 | 77,061 | 5727ae913acd2414000de982 | generic | In 1925, 78.26 rpm was chosen as the standard because of the introduction of the electrically powered synchronous turntable motor. This motor ran at 3600 rpm, such that a 46:1 gear ratio would produce 78.26 rpm. In parts of the world that used 50 Hz current, the standard was 77.92 rpm (3,000 rpm with a 77:2 ratio), whi... | Why are these records known as '78s'? | {'text': 'to distinguish them from other newer disc record formats', 'answer_start': 502} |
108,647 | 108,305 | 572f8a0d947a6a140053ca44 | generic | In the greater metropolitan area, 13% of the population live below the poverty line. According to a 2012 report submitted by GHMC to the World Bank, Hyderabad has 1,476 slums with a total population of 1.7 million, of whom 66% live in 985 slums in the "core" of the city (the part that formed Hyderabad before the April ... | Which percentage of Hyderabad's population is below the poverty line? | {'text': '13%', 'answer_start': 34} |
76,240 | 75,898 | 57279587708984140094e18e | generic | On July 1, 1988, the fourth and last day of a bruising 19th Party Conference, Gorbachev won the backing of the tired delegates for his last-minute proposal to create a new supreme legislative body called the Congress of People's Deputies. Frustrated by the old guard's resistance, Gorbachev embarked on a set of constitu... | What did Gorbachev hope to create? | {'text': 'new supreme legislative body', 'answer_start': 168} |
11,950 | 11,608 | 56df5a5d96943c1400a5d408 | generic | In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Plymouth is represented by the three constituencies of Plymouth Moor View, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport and South West Devon and within the European Parliament as South West England. In the 2015 general election all three constituencies returned Conservative MPs, who were Olive... | As of 2015, what political party did all of Plymouth's MPs belong to? | {'text': 'Conservative', 'answer_start': 288} |
43,791 | 43,449 | 570e43e60dc6ce1900204ef9 | generic | Uranium ore is mined in several ways: by open pit, underground, in-situ leaching, and borehole mining (see uranium mining). Low-grade uranium ore mined typically contains 0.01 to 0.25% uranium oxides. Extensive measures must be employed to extract the metal from its ore. High-grade ores found in Athabasca Basin deposit... | What is the average percentage of uranium oxide contained in the ores mined in the Athabasca Basin? | {'text': '23%', 'answer_start': 364} |
19,611 | 19,269 | 5a78c075b73996001af5b068 | generic | The British Architectural Library, sometimes referred to as the RIBA Library, was established in 1834 upon the founding of the institute with donations from members. Now, with over four million items, it is one of the three largest architectural libraries in the world and the largest in Europe. Some items from the coll... | When was the RIBA library removed? | {'text': '1834', 'answer_start': 97} |
102,518 | 102,176 | 572e833acb0c0d14000f1217 | generic | The Greek Cypriot population, meanwhile, had become hopeful that the British administration would lead to enosis. The idea of enosis was historically part of the Megali Idea, a greater political ambition of a Greek state encompassing the territories with Greek inhabitants in the former Ottoman Empire, including Cyprus ... | The Megali Idea was actively pursued by whom? | {'text': 'Cypriot Orthodox Church', 'answer_start': 401} |
20,307 | 19,965 | 5acf5ed177cf76001a684c93 | generic | The University of Kansas Medical Center features three schools: the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Health Professions. Furthermore, each of the three schools has its own programs of graduate study. As of the Fall 2013 semester, there were 3,349 students enrolled at KU Med. The Medical Center also ... | At what other KU campus is a two year program available? | {'text': 'Wichita', 'answer_start': 356} |
44,864 | 44,522 | 57101b41a58dae1900cd689a | generic | One of the uses for scales that assess sexual orientation is determining what the prevalence of different sexual orientations are within a population. Depending on subject's age, culture and sex, the prevalence rates of homosexuality vary depending on which component of sexual orientation is being assessed: sexual attr... | Out of sexual attraction, sexual behovior, and sexual identity which will show more accurately the amount of homosexuals in a population? | {'text': 'Assessing sexual attraction will yield the greatest prevalence of homosexuality in a population', 'answer_start': 365} |
92,389 | 92,047 | 5a723f3b0efcfe001a8aff2f | generic | During August and September 2004, there was an intense focus on events that occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bush was accused of failing to fulfill his required service in the Texas Air National Guard. However, the focus quickly shifted to the conduct of CBS News after they aired a segment on 60 Minutes Wedn... | What news agency did a staffing change in 1970? | {'text': 'CBS News', 'answer_start': 266} |
15,193 | 14,851 | 5acf87db77cf76001a685127 | generic | Japanese comics and cartooning (manga),[g] have a history that has been seen as far back as the anthropomorphic characters in the 12th-to-13th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, 17th-century toba-e and kibyōshi picture books, and woodblock prints such as ukiyo-e which were popular between the 17th and 20th centuries. The kib... | What picture newspapers from the 17th century show manga origins? | {'text': 'toba-e and kibyōshi picture books', 'answer_start': 185} |
85,179 | 84,837 | 5a81395c31013a001a334bf3 | generic | Psychoactive drugs can impair the judgment of time. Stimulants can lead both humans and rats to overestimate time intervals, while depressants can have the opposite effect. The level of activity in the brain of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine may be the reason for this. Such chemicals will either ... | What causes humans to estimate time intervals? | {'text': 'depressants', 'answer_start': 131} |
1,401 | 1,059 | 56cc02376d243a140015ee53 | generic | Although the two displayed great respect and admiration for each other, their friendship was uneasy and had some qualities of a love-hate relationship. Harold C. Schonberg believes that Chopin displayed a "tinge of jealousy and spite" towards Liszt's virtuosity on the piano, and others have also argued that he had beco... | What did Frédéric introduce Liszt as in when referring to him in his letters up to 1848? | {'text': 'my friend Liszt', 'answer_start': 983} |
123,619 | 123,277 | 57320b1be17f3d140042260f | generic | Greece was accused of trying to cover up the extent of its massive budget deficit in the wake of the global financial crisis. The allegation was prompted by the massive revision of the 2009 budget deficit forecast by the new PASOK government elected in October 2009, from "6–8%" (estimated by the previous New Democracy ... | What did a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority say the deficit had been inflated to justify? | {'text': 'harsher austerity measures', 'answer_start': 674} |
96,664 | 96,322 | 572a2f0e3f37b3190047877e | generic | In 1768 Russian-backed Ukrainian Haidamaks, pursuing Polish confederates, entered Balta, an Ottoman-controlled town on the border of Bessarabia in Ukraine, and massacred its citizens and burned the town to the ground. This action provoked the Ottoman Empire into the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. The Treaty of Küçük K... | Near what region was Balta bording? | {'text': 'Bessarabia', 'answer_start': 133} |
61,610 | 61,268 | 5a79bd6e17ab25001a8a003c | generic | Early on, American courts, even after the Revolution, often did cite contemporary English cases. This was because appellate decisions from many American courts were not regularly reported until the mid-19th century; lawyers and judges, as creatures of habit, used English legal materials to fill the gap. But citations t... | Whose cases did English courts cite early on? | {'text': 'American', 'answer_start': 10} |
12,828 | 12,486 | 5ad2d589d7d075001a42a3f4 | generic | The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] commonly c... | Pliny the Younger was said to be the scapegoat of who? | {'text': 'Nero', 'answer_start': 367} |
24,087 | 23,745 | 56f95b049e9bad19000a0871 | generic | The German Empire had primarily economic interests in Micronesia. The Japanese interests were in land. Despite the Marshalls' small area and few resources, the absorption of the territory by Japan would to some extent alleviate Japan's problem of an increasing population with a diminishing amount of available land to h... | About how many Japanese emigrated to the Marshalls when it was a Japanese colony? | {'text': '1,000', 'answer_start': 386} |
54,131 | 53,789 | 5726b8a5f1498d1400e8e8e1 | generic | Although Kim's early successes had led him to predict that he would end the war by the end of August, Chinese leaders were more pessimistic. To counter a possible U.S. deployment, Zhou Enlai secured a Soviet commitment to have the Soviet Union support Chinese forces with air cover, and deployed 260,000 soldiers along t... | Where did the Chinese military deploy troops in preparation for the arrival of US troops? | {'text': 'the Korean border', 'answer_start': 823} |
36,021 | 35,679 | 5a0378d6af157d001818f468 | generic | More recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Martland (1954-2013, ... | In what year did Harrison Birtwistle receive the Sir title? | {'text': '1948', 'answer_start': 273} |
100,368 | 100,026 | 5acd77a607355d001abf4398 | generic | While considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed beginning in the 19th century, some parents found reasons to be discontented with the new system. Alternative education developed in part as a reaction to perceived limita... | What aren't some examples of alternative schools? | {'text': 'Montessori schools, Waldorf schools (or Steiner schools), Friends schools', 'answer_start': 527} |
51,813 | 51,471 | 5725dcfb271a42140099d2b4 | generic | The Museo Torres García is located in the Old Town, and exhibits Joaquín Torres García's unusual portraits of historical icons and cubist paintings akin to those of Picasso and Braque. The museum was established by Manolita Piña Torres, the widow of Torres Garcia, after his death in 1949. She also set up the García Tor... | The Museo Torres Garcia exhibits whose unusual portraits? | {'text': 'Joaquín Torres García', 'answer_start': 65} |
100,462 | 100,120 | 5acd810107355d001abf44ae | generic | Some claim that there is education inequality because children did not exceed the education of their parents. This education inequality is then associated with income inequality. Although critical thinking is a goal of education, criticism and blame are often the unintended by products of our current educational proces... | What are some of the claims being pointed towards education equality? | {'text': 'children did not exceed the education of their parents', 'answer_start': 54} |
106,882 | 106,540 | 5a567a6f6349e2001acdcda2 | generic | The CD was planned to be the successor of the gramophone record for playing music, rather than primarily as a data storage medium. From its origins as a musical format, CDs have grown to encompass other applications. In 1983, following the CD's introduction, Immink and Braat presented the first experiments with erasabl... | When was the DVD first released? | {'text': '1990', 'answer_start': 438} |
24,472 | 24,130 | 56f84216aef2371900625f68 | generic | All children of the Polish nobility inherited their noble status from a noble mother and father. Any individual could attain ennoblement (nobilitacja) for special services to the state. A foreign noble might be naturalised as a Polish noble (Polish: "indygenat") by the Polish king (later, from 1641, only by a general s... | What does an individual do to attain ennoblement? | {'text': 'special services to the state', 'answer_start': 155} |
82,594 | 82,252 | 5727be5c4b864d1900163c49 | generic | In the UK and Ireland, "exhibition match" and "friendly match" refer to two different types of matches. The types described above as friendlies are not termed exhibition matches, while annual all-star matches such as those held in the US Major League Soccer or Japan's Japanese League are called exhibition matches rathe... | What are 'friendlies' to honor a player usually called in the UK? | {'text': 'testimonial matches', 'answer_start': 606} |
31,881 | 31,539 | 57095096efce8f15003a7dea | generic | In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, the origin of the name of the metal from aes сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later corrupted to сuprum, from which the words copper (English), cuivre (French), Koper (Dutch) and Kupfer (German) are all derived. Its compounds are commonly encountered as copper(II) sal... | Where was copper mostly mined at in the Roman era? | {'text': 'Cyprus', 'answer_start': 50} |
102,797 | 102,455 | 572e88f5dfa6aa1500f8d0de | generic | His first professional TV job came when he was hired to direct one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode of Night Gallery. The segment, "Eyes," starred Joan Crawford; she and Spielberg were reportedly close friends until her death. The episode is unusual in his body of work, in that the camerawork is more highly s... | What was Steven Spielberg's first feature-length assignment? | {'text': 'an episode of The Name of the Game called "L.A. 2017".', 'answer_start': 466} |
39,779 | 39,437 | 570e53690b85d914000d7e3e | generic | Melbourne is experiencing high population growth, generating high demand for housing. This housing boom has increased house prices and rents, as well as the availability of all types of housing. Subdivision regularly occurs in the outer areas of Melbourne, with numerous developers offering house and land packages. Howe... | What types of surburban development did Melbourne policies promote? | {'text': 'medium-density and high-density', 'answer_start': 381} |
125,742 | 125,400 | 5733679bd058e614000b5a52 | generic | The first visible institution to run into trouble in the United States was the Southern California–based IndyMac, a spin-off of Countrywide Financial. Before its failure, IndyMac Bank was the largest savings and loan association in the Los Angeles market and the seventh largest mortgage originator in the United States.... | Who was IndyMac's parent corporation? | {'text': 'IndyMac Bancorp', 'answer_start': 575} |
42,965 | 42,623 | 5ad2aed0d7d075001a429ef8 | generic | Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica at 4,892 m (16,050 ft), is located in the Ellsworth Mountains. Antarctica contains many other mountains, on both the main continent and the surrounding islands. Mount Erebus on Ross Island is the world's southernmost active volcano. Another well-known volcano is found on De... | What island had a volcanic eruption in 1907? | {'text': 'Deception Island', 'answer_start': 318} |
36,609 | 36,267 | 5a70ba5a8abb0b001a6760e3 | generic | At launch, the Xbox 360 was available in two configurations: the "Xbox 360" package (unofficially known as the 20 GB Pro or Premium), priced at US$399 or GB£279.99, and the "Xbox 360 Core", priced at US$299 and GB£209.99. The original shipment of the Xbox 360 version included a cut-down version of the Media Remote as a... | How much was the Xbox 360 Arcade? | {'text': 'US$299', 'answer_start': 200} |
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