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13,673 | 13,331 | 56dfc4a47aa994140058e17a | generic | Some agriculturalists also regularly hunt and gather (e.g., farming during the frost-free season and hunting during the winter). Still others in developed countries go hunting, primarily for leisure. In the Brazilian rainforest, those groups that recently did, or even continue to, rely on hunting and gathering techniqu... | What do they sometimes do for entertainment? | {'text': 'go hunting', 'answer_start': 165} |
42,668 | 42,326 | 570df8950b85d914000d7c43 | generic | At the decision-making point of their lives, youth is susceptible to drug addiction, sexual abuse, peer pressure, violent crimes and other illegal activities. Developmental Intervention Science (DIS) is a fusion of the literature of both developmental and intervention sciences. This association conducts youth intervent... | What does the DIS focus on in adolescents? | {'text': 'risky and inappropriate behaviors', 'answer_start': 435} |
71,031 | 70,689 | 5a57f473770dc0001aeefef5 | generic | About 69% of the population is of Dutch ancestry. Approximately 10% of the population consists of immigrants from Western countries, while 21% of the population is of non-Western origin (9% Moroccan, 5% Turkish, 3% Surinamese and Dutch Caribbean and 5% of other countries). Some of the city's boroughs have a relatively ... | What percentage of the the Netherlands population id immigrants from Western countries? | {'text': '10%', 'answer_start': 64} |
21,675 | 21,333 | 5ad3f47e604f3c001a3ff94b | generic | Henry VII added a Perpendicular style chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1503 (known as the Henry VII Chapel or the "Lady Chapel"). Much of the stone came from Caen, in France (Caen stone), the Isle of Portland (Portland stone) and the Loire Valley region of France (tuffeau limestone).[citation needed] | When was the Lady Chapel subtracted? | {'text': '1503', 'answer_start': 85} |
107,904 | 107,562 | 5a8a3e4f3b2508001a72a89f | generic | In the United States, the term "the 51st state" when applied to Canada can serve to highlight the similarities and close relationship between the United States and Canada. Sometimes the term is used disparagingly, intended to deride Canada as an unimportant neighbor. In the Quebec general election, 1989, the political ... | What is a negative connotation of Andre Perron? | {'text': 'to deride Canada as an unimportant neighbor', 'answer_start': 223} |
59,189 | 58,847 | 5acda11d07355d001abf487c | generic | At the end of the third quarter in 2008, Florida had the highest mortgage delinquency rate in the country, with 7.8% of mortgages delinquent at least 60 days. A 2009 list of national housing markets that were hard hit in the real estate crash included a disproportionate number in Florida. The early 21st-century buildin... | How many vacant homes were there in 2008? | {'text': '300,000', 'answer_start': 345} |
100,102 | 99,760 | 572b8a3b34ae481900deae87 | generic | The consensus among linguists is that modern, standard Czech originated during the eighteenth century. By then the language had developed a literary tradition, and since then it has changed little; journals from that period have no substantial differences from modern standard Czech, and contemporary Czechs can understa... | What did the Czech language abandon which survives in Slovak? | {'text': 'a distinction between phonemic /l/ and /ʎ/', 'answer_start': 560} |
12,149 | 11,807 | 56df7abd56340a1900b29c05 | generic | Since 1973 Plymouth has been supplied water by South West Water. Prior to the 1973 take over it was supplied by Plymouth County Borough Corporation. Before the 19th century two leats were built in order to provide drinking water for the town. They carried water from Dartmoor to Plymouth. A watercourse, known as Plymout... | From where did Drake's Leat draw water? | {'text': 'River Meavy', 'answer_start': 378} |
107,971 | 107,629 | 573077e1396df9190009613b | generic | Poland has historically been staunchly pro-American, dating back to General Tadeusz Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski's involvement in the American Revolution. This pro-American stance was reinforced following favorable American intervention in World War I (leading to the creation of an independent Poland) and the Cold Wa... | What led to the creation of an independent Poland? | {'text': 'favorable American intervention in World War I', 'answer_start': 207} |
119,891 | 119,549 | 57321138e17f3d1400422658 | generic | In some species, both parents care for nestlings and fledglings; in others, such care is the responsibility of only one sex. In some species, other members of the same species—usually close relatives of the breeding pair, such as offspring from previous broods—will help with the raising of the young. Such alloparenting... | True crows belong to what group? | {'text': 'Corvida', 'answer_start': 354} |
24,611 | 24,269 | 56f8984c9b226e1400dd0c84 | generic | Book 1 (at the head of the Odyssean section) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet. The storm drives the hero to the coast of Carthage, which historically was Rome's deadliest foe. The queen, Dido, welcomes the ancestor of the Romans, and under the influence of the... | Who reveals Rome's destiny to Aeneas? | {'text': 'Anchises', 'answer_start': 1087} |
119,735 | 119,393 | 57311339a5e9cc1400cdbc03 | generic | The Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx is well known as one of the first transitional fossils to be found, and it provided support for the theory of evolution in the late 19th century. Archaeopteryx was the first fossil to display both clearly traditional reptilian characteristics: teeth, clawed fingers, and a long, lizard-li... | Fossils with teeth, clawed fingers and a long lizard-like tail have what type of characteristics? | {'text': 'reptilian', 'answer_start': 249} |
6,441 | 6,099 | 56db1f69e7c41114004b4da6 | generic | For the finals, American Idol debuted a new state-of-the-art set and stage on March 11, 2008, along with a new on-air look. David Cook's performance of "Billie Jean" on top-ten night was lauded by the judges, but provoked controversy when they apparently mistook the Chris Cornell arrangement to be David Cook's own even... | Who was taken to the hospital after the top nine show? | {'text': 'David Cook', 'answer_start': 124} |
74,172 | 73,830 | 5727aa68ff5b5019007d9223 | generic | Hopkins School, a private school, was founded in 1660 and is the fifth-oldest educational institution in the United States. New Haven is home to a number of other private schools as well as public magnet schools, including Metropolitan Business Academy, High School in the Community, Hill Regional Career High School, Co... | What are the names of the two Achievement First charter schools located in New Haven? | {'text': 'Amistad Academy and Elm City College Prep', 'answer_start': 560} |
90,025 | 89,683 | 5728f9ce6aef05140015491a | generic | The Alaska Railroad was one of the last railroads in North America to use cabooses in regular service and still uses them on some gravel trains. It continues to offer one of the last flag stop routes in the country. A stretch of about 60 miles (100 km) of track along an area north of Talkeetna remains inaccessible by r... | The ARR was one of the last railroads in the US to use what? | {'text': 'cabooses', 'answer_start': 74} |
48,368 | 48,026 | 5ad36e63604f3c001a3fe20a | generic | Prior to the 20th century drugs were generally produced by small scale manufacturers with little regulatory control over manufacturing or claims of safety and efficacy. To the extent that such laws did exist, enforcement was lax. In the United States, increased regulation of vaccines and other biological drugs was spur... | When did the Pure Food And Laws Act get implemented? | {'text': '1906', 'answer_start': 636} |
18,743 | 18,401 | 5ad500215b96ef001a10a8eb | generic | Paper at this point is uncoated. Coated paper has a thin layer of material such as calcium carbonate or china clay applied to one or both sides in order to create a surface more suitable for high-resolution halftone screens. (Uncoated papers are rarely suitable for screens above 150 lpi.) Coated or uncoated papers may ... | Which resolution are coated papers rarely suited for? | {'text': 'screens above 150 lpi', 'answer_start': 266} |
89,022 | 88,680 | 5a85e4e4b4e223001a8e7278 | generic | The Obama administration began to reengage in Iraq with a series of airstrikes aimed at ISIS beginning on 10 August 2014. On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, citing the 2001 Authoriza... | What law did Congress cite, allowing it to take action against ISIS? | {'text': 'Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists', 'answer_start': 311} |
3,654 | 3,312 | 56cecff4aab44d1400b88abf | generic | On the evening of May 18, CCTV-1 hosted a special four-hour program called The Giving of Love (simplified Chinese: 爱的奉献; traditional Chinese: 愛的奉獻), hosted by regulars from the CCTV New Year's Gala and round-the-clock coverage anchor Bai Yansong. It was attended by a wide range of entertainment, literary, business and ... | How large were the donations from the program? | {'text': 'Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan', 'answer_start': 392} |
63,646 | 63,304 | 5726aa10708984140094cd55 | generic | Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station. On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Hinkley Point – already the site of the disused Hinkley Point A and the still operational Hinkley Point B power stations – was one of the eight sites it... | What is Hinkley point C | {'text': 'Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,588 | 72,246 | 5727017bf1498d1400e8f20b | generic | Comcast operates multiple cable-only channels (including E! Entertainment Television, the Golf Channel, and NBCSN), over-the-air national broadcast network channels (NBC and Telemundo), the film production studio Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts, with a global total of nearly 200 family entertainment l... | What two national over-the-air broadcast entities are owned by Comcast? | {'text': 'NBC and Telemundo', 'answer_start': 166} |
29,734 | 29,392 | 5706d83b0eeca41400aa0e72 | generic | The migration of birds also aids the movement of other species, including those of ectoparasites such as ticks and lice, which in turn may carry micro-organisms including those of concern to human health. Due to the global spread of avian influenza, bird migration has been studied as a possible mechanism of disease tra... | What is a greater threat of disease transmission? | {'text': 'import of pet and domestic birds', 'answer_start': 384} |
48,713 | 48,371 | 571d34cadd7acb1400e4c256 | generic | There has been increasing controversy surrounding pharmaceutical marketing and influence. There have been accusations and findings of influence on doctors and other health professionals through drug reps, including the constant provision of marketing 'gifts' and biased information to health professionals; highly preval... | Drug reps have been accused of giving what to health professionals? | {'text': "'gifts' and biased information", 'answer_start': 251} |
44,139 | 43,797 | 5a2207b0819328001af389c7 | generic | In 1896, Patrick and Gilbert observed that during a prolonged period of sleep deprivation, sleepiness increases and decreases with a period of approximately 24 hours. In 1918, J.S. Szymanski showed that animals are capable of maintaining 24-hour activity patterns in the absence of external cues such as light and change... | What was noticed in the rhythmic feeding time of birds in the early twentieth century? | {'text': 'circadian rhythms', 'answer_start': 365} |
114,014 | 113,672 | 5acd87c007355d001abf45e8 | generic | The earliest known use of the phrase Brytish Iles in the English language is dated 1577 in a work by John Dee. Today, this name is seen by some as carrying imperialist overtones although it is still commonly used. Other names used to describe the islands include the Anglo-Celtic Isles, Atlantic archipelago, British-Iri... | The most widely accepted term for Ireland is what? | {'text': 'British Isles', 'answer_start': 676} |
99,590 | 99,248 | 572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1d | generic | The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte... | When was Hume born? | {'text': '1711', 'answer_start': 37} |
118,218 | 117,876 | 5a2760d5d1a287001a6d0a40 | generic | Others have rejected that the doctrine of Immaculate Conception exists in Islam, the Quranic account does not confirm the Immaculate Conception exclusively for Mary as in Islam every human child is born pure and immaculate, her sinless birth is thus independent of the Christian docrtrine of original sin as no such doct... | Who does the hadith refer to as servents? | {'text': 'Mary and Jesus', 'answer_start': 924} |
86,365 | 86,023 | 5ad351c7604f3c001a3fdcf0 | generic | Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has criticized PS3's high development costs and inferior attach rate and return to that of Xbox 360 and Wii. He believes these factors are pushing developers away from working on the console. In an interview with The Times Kotick stated "I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlaySta... | What newspaper reported Kotick's concerns and his threat to keep supporting the PlayStation platform? | {'text': 'The Times', 'answer_start': 250} |
126,296 | 125,954 | 57327732b9d445190005eb42 | generic | Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the su... | What can be credited for the changes in the definition of humanism? | {'text': 'intellectual movements', 'answer_start': 329} |
100,441 | 100,099 | 5acd7bf407355d001abf4432 | generic | Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute... | Which organization has not had corruption in the educator sector? | {'text': 'Transparency International', 'answer_start': 518} |
23,171 | 22,829 | 56f8b40b9e9bad19000a0360 | generic | The city is home to the longest surviving stretch of medieval walls in England, as well as a number of museums such as Tudor House Museum, reopened on 30 July 2011 after undergoing extensive restoration and improvement; Southampton Maritime Museum; God's House Tower, an archaeology museum about the city's heritage and ... | What's the name of the museum located in one of Southampton's tower walls? | {'text': "God's House Tower", 'answer_start': 249} |
43,596 | 43,254 | 570e2db80b85d914000d7d13 | generic | The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore (pitchblende) by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials. This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of ur... | What is another term for uranium ore? | {'text': 'pitchblende', 'answer_start': 54} |
44,976 | 44,634 | 5ad3586b604f3c001a3fde28 | generic | Originally, Dell did not emphasize the consumer market, due to the higher costs and unacceptably low profit margins in selling to individuals and households; this changed when the company’s Internet site took off in 1996 and 1997. While the industry’s average selling price to individuals was going down, Dell's was goin... | What was happening to IBM's average sale to individuals? | {'text': 'going up', 'answer_start': 316} |
12,289 | 11,947 | 56de71014396321400ee28f4 | generic | In the Roman Catholic Church, obstinate and willful manifest heresy is considered to spiritually cut one off from the Church, even before excommunication is incurred. The Codex Justinianus (1:5:12) defines "everyone who is not devoted to the Catholic Church and to our Orthodox holy Faith" a heretic. The Church had alwa... | What group moved westward to give rise to the famous 11th and 12th century heresy in western Europe? | {'text': 'Paulicians', 'answer_start': 612} |
108,177 | 107,835 | 573021e4a23a5019007fce0c | generic | The definition of antenna gain or power gain already includes the effect of the antenna's efficiency. Therefore, if one is trying to radiate a signal toward a receiver using a transmitter of a given power, one need only compare the gain of various antennas rather than considering the efficiency as well. This is likewis... | What is used to signal toward a reciever? | {'text': 'transmitter', 'answer_start': 176} |
64,157 | 63,815 | 5ad3e9f6604f3c001a3ff6b6 | generic | Yale's English and Comparative Literature departments were part of the New Criticism movement. Of the New Critics, Robert Penn Warren, W.K. Wimsatt, and Cleanth Brooks were all Yale faculty. Later, the Yale Comparative literature department became a center of American deconstruction. Jacques Derrida, the father of deco... | Which Yale staffed labor historian advised other older labor historians? | {'text': 'David Montgomery', 'answer_start': 1129} |
54,691 | 54,349 | 5ad01a3277cf76001a6869fa | generic | The 2011 Business Software Alliance Piracy Study Standard, estimates the total commercial value of illegally copied software to be at $59 billion in 2010, with emerging markets accounting for $31.9 billion, over half of the total. Furthermore, mature markets for the first time received less PC shipments than emerging e... | Who accounted for less than half the total? | {'text': 'emerging markets', 'answer_start': 345} |
114,793 | 114,451 | 5a62a976f8d794001af1c19b | generic | On April 12, 1980, a military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe of the Krahn ethnic group overthrew and killed President William R. Tolbert, Jr.. Doe and the other plotters later executed a majority of Tolbert's cabinet and other Americo-Liberian government officials and True Whig Party members. The coup leaders f... | What did the United States criticize the PRC for? | {'text': 'corruption and political repression', 'answer_start': 528} |
121,999 | 121,657 | 5731d079e99e3014001e62dc | generic | The Vestals were a public priesthood of six women devoted to the cultivation of Vesta, goddess of the hearth of the Roman state and its vital flame. A girl chosen to be a Vestal achieved unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence. Upon entering her of... | Of what were the Vestals protectors? | {'text': 'vital flame', 'answer_start': 136} |
31,010 | 30,668 | 57071b959e06ca38007e942e | generic | The Chihuahuan Desert is home to a diverse ecosystem which is home to a large variety of mammals. The most common mammals in the desert include: Desert cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii, black-tailed jackrabbit Lepus californicus, hooded skunk Mephitis macroura, cactus mouse Peromyscus eremicus, swift fox Vulpes velox, w... | Which type of reptile is most common in the desert? | {'text': 'rattlesnake', 'answer_start': 599} |
13,467 | 13,125 | 5acd431b07355d001abf3afd | generic | Starting at the transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some 80,000 to 70,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers bands began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of (often larger) game and gathering a smaller selection of food. This specialization of work also involved creating s... | Agriculture ended how many years ago? | {'text': '12,000', 'answer_start': 667} |
72,430 | 72,088 | 5a358613788daf001a5f861b | generic | Thermally, a temperate glacier is at melting point throughout the year, from its surface to its base. The ice of a polar glacier is always below freezing point from the surface to its base, although the surface snowpack may experience seasonal melting. A sub-polar glacier includes both temperate and polar ice, dependin... | What temperature is a temperate glacier always above? | {'text': 'melting point', 'answer_start': 37} |
42,652 | 42,310 | 570df4f00dc6ce1900204d66 | generic | Dating violence is fairly prevalent within adolescent relationships. When surveyed, 10-45% of adolescents reported having experienced physical violence in the context of a relationship while a quarter to a third of adolescents reported having experiencing psychological aggression. This reported aggression includes hitt... | In heterosexual adolescent couples, is there a significant difference in the rates of male and female aggressors? | {'text': 'no', 'answer_start': 572} |
36,378 | 36,036 | 5a1f62bc54a786001a36b296 | generic | The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), which oversees the world's largest administrative judicial system under its Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR), has made extensive use of videoconferencing to conduct hearings at remote locations. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, the U.S. Social Security Administ... | What did the ODAR do to clear its hearing backlog in August 2010? | {'text': 'opened its fifth and largest videoconferencing-only National Hearing Center (NHC), in St. Louis, Missouri', 'answer_start': 430} |
92,653 | 92,311 | 5728e78b4b864d190016506a | generic | Through 2010, the party improved its vote in the Tasmanian and South Australian state elections and achieved state government in Victoria. In March 2011, the New South Wales Liberal-National Coalition led by Barry O'Farrell won government with the largest election victory in post-war Australian history at the State Ele... | Who led the new Liberal National Party of Queensland through the election in March 2012? | {'text': 'former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman', 'answer_start': 600} |
93,747 | 93,405 | 57296189af94a219006aa362 | generic | The assumption that black-body radiation is thermal leads to an accurate prediction: the total amount of emitted energy goes up with the temperature according to a definite rule, the Stefan–Boltzmann law (1879–84). But it was also known that the colour of the light given off by a hot object changes with the temperature... | What characteristic of the light emitted by a hot object changes with temperature? | {'text': 'the colour of the light given off', 'answer_start': 242} |
57,716 | 57,374 | 5a63f3017f3c80001a150bb5 | generic | Pan-Germanism's origins began in the early 19th century following the Napoleonic Wars. The wars launched a new movement that was born in France itself during the French Revolution. Nationalism during the 19th century threatened the old aristocratic regimes. Many ethnic groups of Central and Eastern Europe had been divi... | What wars took place in the 1900's? | {'text': 'Napoleonic Wars', 'answer_start': 70} |
7,151 | 6,809 | 56d62e521c85041400946f9d | generic | The latest study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to humans and dogs together proved that dogs have same response to voices and use the same parts of the brain as humans to do so. This gives dogs the ability to recognize emotional human sounds, making them friendly social pets to humans. | An MRI study on dogs proved that dogs have the same response as humans to what? | {'text': 'voices', 'answer_start': 123} |
50,115 | 49,773 | 5ad17166645df0001a2d1bbe | generic | During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. Oxford fired twice, but either both bullets missed or, as he later claimed, the guns had no sho... | What year was Queen Victorias last pregnancy? | {'text': '1840', 'answer_start': 37} |
6,012 | 5,670 | 56d28b0659d6e41400146065 | generic | Formal membership varies between communities, but basic lay adherence is often defined in terms of a traditional formula in which the practitioner takes refuge in The Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha), and the Sangha (the Buddhist community). At the present time, the teachings of all th... | West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and what? | {'text': 'progressive', 'answer_start': 503} |
46,413 | 46,071 | 5711252ab654c5140001fbc3 | generic | The NES was released after the "video game crash" of the early 1980s, whereupon many retailers and adults had regarded electronic games as being merely a passing fad, and many believed at first that the NES was another fad. Before the NES/Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing c... | Nintendo required what from its software developers? | {'text': 'licensed approval', 'answer_start': 772} |
46,881 | 46,539 | 571ae80b9499d21900609ba1 | generic | Perhaps, his most notable letter was his Festal Letter, written to his Church in Alexandria when he was in exile, as he could not be in their presence. This letter shows clearly his stand that accepting Jesus is the Divine Son of God is not optional but necessary; "I know moreover that not only this thing saddens you, ... | Did he think that the people that had exiled him were true believers? | {'text': 'outside of the true Faith', 'answer_start': 537} |
37,650 | 37,308 | 570b909a6b8089140040f985 | generic | Infrared vibrational spectroscopy (see also near-infrared spectroscopy) is a technique that can be used to identify molecules by analysis of their constituent bonds. Each chemical bond in a molecule vibrates at a frequency characteristic of that bond. A group of atoms in a molecule (e.g., CH2) may have multiple modes o... | What is the term for light radiation in the 4000–400 cm−1 spectrum? | {'text': 'the mid-infrared', 'answer_start': 721} |
127,445 | 127,103 | 573365634776f419006609cf | generic | Saint Barthélemy was for many years a French commune forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas region and department of France. Through a referendum in 2003, island residents sought separation from the administrative jurisdiction of Guadeloupe, and it was finally accomplished in 2007. The island of Saint Barthél... | Who officially represents St. Barts in French legislation? | {'text': 'A senator', 'answer_start': 578} |
114,828 | 114,486 | 573021a304bcaa1900d771ea | generic | Liberia is divided into fifteen counties, which, in turn, are subdivided into a total of 90 districts and further subdivided into clans. The oldest counties are Grand Bassa and Montserrado, both founded in 1839 prior to Liberian independence. Gbarpolu is the newest county, created in 2001. Nimba is the largest of the c... | When was Grand Bassa founded? | {'text': '1839', 'answer_start': 206} |
78,612 | 78,270 | 5727bd833acd2414000deb20 | generic | It is not clear exactly where collegiate a cappella began. The Rensselyrics of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (formerly known as the RPI Glee Club), established in 1873 is perhaps the oldest known collegiate a cappella group.[citation needed] However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs... | What is the name of the college a capella event that's been held since 1975? | {'text': "Georgetown Chimes' Cherry Tree Massacre", 'answer_start': 1561} |
45,379 | 45,037 | 5ad36c34604f3c001a3fe190 | generic | The company aims to reduce its external environmental impact through energy-efficient evolution of products, and also reduce its direct operational impact through energy-efficiency programs. Internal energy-efficiency programs reportedly save the company more than $3 million annually in energy-cost savings. The largest... | What doesn't Dell aim to reduce by creating energy efficient products? | {'text': 'external environmental impact', 'answer_start': 31} |
110,350 | 110,008 | 572f7c1504bcaa1900d76a01 | generic | Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. Urartu was established in 860 BC and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. In the 1st century BC the Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great. Armenia became the first state in ... | What kind of government does Armenia have? | {'text': 'democratic', 'answer_start': 35} |
36,914 | 36,572 | 5ad17818645df0001a2d1d67 | generic | US troops participated in a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia beginning in 1992. By 1993 the US troops were augmented with Rangers and special forces with the aim of capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, whose forces had massacred peacekeepers from Pakistan. During a raid in downtown Mogadishu, US troops became trap... | What was the name of the Korean warlord who directed massacres of peacekeeping troops? | {'text': 'Mohamed Farrah Aidid', 'answer_start': 185} |
8,906 | 8,564 | 56ddbb4b66d3e219004dacba | generic | Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers and scientists to tap into the clunky database. When the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. | Where was the event launching the publicly-available archive held? | {'text': 'University of California, Berkeley', 'answer_start': 261} |
56,088 | 55,746 | 5a1e277e3de3f40018b264fe | generic | All Latin characters required by Pe̍h-ōe-jī can be represented using Unicode (or the corresponding ISO/IEC 10646: Universal Character Set), using precomposed or combining (diacritics) characters. Prior to June 2004, the vowel akin to but more open than o, written with a dot above right, was not encoded. The usual worka... | What is expected to follow using diacritics? | {'text': 'Font support', 'answer_start': 763} |
39,310 | 38,968 | 570c347e6b8089140040fc3a | generic | The FBI has been frequently depicted in popular media since the 1930s. The bureau has participated to varying degrees, which has ranged from direct involvement in the creative process of film or TV series development, to providing consultation on operations and closed cases. A few of the notable portrayals of the FBI o... | Who is the movie Donnie Brasco based on? | {'text': 'Joseph D. Pistone', 'answer_start': 796} |
87,163 | 86,821 | 57281a552ca10214002d9dda | generic | Michel Djotodia took over as president and in May 2013 Central African Republic's Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye requested a UN peacekeeping force from the UN Security Council and on 31 May former President Bozizé was indicted for crimes against humanity and incitement of genocide. The security situation did not impro... | What faction was fighting against the remaining Bozize loyalists? | {'text': 'Séléka', 'answer_start': 482} |
93,300 | 92,958 | 57291cb03f37b3190047802e | generic | Later, the constitution was amended to state that the citizens of the 16 states had successfully achieved the unity of Germany in free self-determination and that the Basic Law thus applied to the entire German people. Article 23, which had allowed "any other parts of Germany" to join, was rephrased. It had been used i... | Article 23, before it was rephrased allowed what? | {'text': '"any other parts of Germany" to join', 'answer_start': 249} |
59,182 | 58,840 | 5acda08d07355d001abf486a | generic | The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Florida in 2010 was $748 billion. Its GDP is the fourth largest economy in the United States. In 2010, it became the fourth largest exporter of trade goods. The major contributors to the state's gross output in 2007 were general services, financial services, trade, transportation and... | What is the third smallest economy in the US? | {'text': 'Florida', 'answer_start': 36} |
69,967 | 69,625 | 5ace69ac32bba1001ae4a609 | generic | Avicenna's legacy in classical psychology is primarily embodied in the Kitab al-nafs parts of his Kitab al-shifa (The Book of Healing) and Kitab al-najat (The Book of Deliverance). These were known in Latin under the title De Anima (treatises "on the soul").[dubious – discuss] Notably, Avicenna develops what is called ... | What text embodies Avicenna's legacy in philosophy? | {'text': 'Kitab al-nafs', 'answer_start': 71} |
127,809 | 127,467 | 5733b463d058e614000b60c6 | generic | The parliamentary elections of 2005 aroused many accusations from opposition parties and international observers that President Emomalii Rahmon corruptly manipulates the election process and unemployment. The most recent elections, in February 2010, saw the ruling PDPT lose four seats in Parliament, yet still maintain ... | Why were parties upset in the 2005 election? | {'text': 'accusations from opposition parties and international observers that President Emomalii Rahmon corruptly manipulates the election process and unemployment', 'answer_start': 49} |
64,106 | 63,764 | 5ad3e856604f3c001a3ff645 | 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... | What is another term for some of Yale's public society buildings? | {'text': 'tombs', 'answer_start': 59} |
33,174 | 32,832 | 5a57ab82770dc0001aeefcc4 | generic | Jewish historians also note that certain customs of today's Orthodox are not continuations of past practice, but instead represent innovations that would have been unknown to prior generations. For example, the now-widespread haredi tradition of cutting a boy's hair for the first time on his third birthday (upshirin or... | What do historians note are continuations of past practices? | {'text': 'certain customs', 'answer_start': 33} |
24,596 | 24,254 | 5a7e4a7270df9f001a8756af | generic | The Georgics' tone wavers between optimism and pessimism, sparking critical debate on the poet's intentions, but the work lays the foundations for later didactic poetry. Virgil and Maecenas are said to have taken turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of... | Where were the Georgics written? | {'text': 'Actium', 'answer_start': 321} |
58,348 | 58,006 | 5acecd1d32bba1001ae4b487 | generic | A number of BYU alumni have found success in professional sports, representing the University in 7 MLB World Series, 5 NBA Finals, and 25 NFL Super Bowls. In baseball, BYU alumni include All-Stars Rick Aguilera '83, Wally Joyner '84, and Jack Morris '76. Professional basketball players include three-time NBA champion D... | Who has represented in 5 MLB World Series? | {'text': 'BYU alumni', 'answer_start': 12} |
104,874 | 104,532 | 57304f4f8ab72b1400f9c428 | generic | Public institutions of higher education in Charleston include the College of Charleston (the nation's 13th-oldest university), The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina. The city is also home to private universities, including the Charleston School of Law . Charle... | What Technical college have a campus at downtown Charleston? | {'text': 'Trident Technical College', 'answer_start': 469} |
78,714 | 78,372 | 5ad246f8d7d075001a428b14 | generic | As an adolescent, he had a particular love of theology and the Scriptures became the foundation of his spirituality. During his studies in Palencia, Spain, he experienced a dreadful famine, prompting Dominic to sell all of his beloved books and other equipment to help his neighbors. After he completed his studies, Bish... | Who entered the priesthood at the age of 30? | {'text': 'Dominic', 'answer_start': 372} |
26,987 | 26,645 | 56f9ebe18f12f3190062fffd | generic | Since 1972, International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector (ITU-R) had been working on creating a global recommendation for Analog HDTV. These recommendations, however, did not fit in the broadcasting bands which could reach home users. The standardization of MPEG-1 in 1993 also led to the acce... | Who standardizes HDTV specifications? | {'text': 'ETSI', 'answer_start': 627} |
59,889 | 59,547 | 5a7cc056e8bc7e001a9e1fbe | generic | The landscapes of Thuringia are quite diverse. The far north is occupied by the Harz mountains, followed by the Goldene Aue, a fertile floodplain around Nordhausen with the Helme as most important river. The north-west includes the Eichsfeld, a hilly and sometimes forested region, where the Leine river emanates. The ce... | What is the dreamscape of Eichsfeld? | {'text': 'hilly and sometimes forested', 'answer_start': 245} |
81,709 | 81,367 | 57280ddfff5b5019007d9be6 | generic | In the context of cultural studies, the idea of a text includes not only written language, but also films, photographs, fashion or hairstyles: the texts of cultural studies comprise all the meaningful artifacts of culture.[citation needed] Similarly, the discipline widens the concept of "culture". "Culture" for a cultu... | The idea of text in cultural studies can include what forms other than written language? | {'text': 'films, photographs, fashion or hairstyles', 'answer_start': 100} |
120,133 | 119,791 | 57314c0e05b4da19006bcff6 | generic | From 1889, when Guangxu began to rule in his own right, to 1898, the Empress Dowager lived in semi-retirement, spending the majority of the year at the Summer Palace. On November 1, 1897, two German Roman Catholic missionaries were murdered in the southern part of Shandong Province (the Juye Incident). In response, Ger... | Where were the missionaries killed? | {'text': 'Shandong Province', 'answer_start': 265} |
26,966 | 26,624 | 5ad3ac5e604f3c001a3febc0 | generic | The limited standardization of analog HDTV in the 1990s did not lead to global HDTV adoption as technical and economic constraints at the time did not permit HDTV to use bandwidths greater than normal television. | What was SDTV not permitted to do in the 90's? | {'text': 'use bandwidths greater than normal television', 'answer_start': 166} |
91,055 | 90,713 | 572913d3af94a219006aa045 | generic | The word "insect" comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning "with a notched or divided body", or literally "cut into", from the neuter singular perfect passive participle of insectare, "to cut into, to cut up", from in- "into" and secare "to cut"; because insects appear "cut into" three sections. Pliny the Elder intr... | Who introduced the Latin version of the word "insect"? | {'text': 'Pliny the Elder', 'answer_start': 300} |
73,770 | 73,428 | 57278af2dd62a815002e9fcd | generic | The name of the winning team is engraved on the silver band around the base as soon as the final has finished, in order to be ready in time for the presentation ceremony. This means the engraver has just five minutes to perform a task which would take twenty under normal conditions, although time is saved by engraving ... | When does the engraving take place? | {'text': 'as soon as the final has finished, in order to be ready in time for the presentation ceremony.', 'answer_start': 76} |
109,326 | 108,984 | 5ace37ff32bba1001ae49eed | generic | Another group of residences, known as the Village, is located in the northwest corner of Danforth Campus. Only open to upperclassmen and January Scholars, the North Side consists of Millbrook Apartments, The Village, Village East on-campus apartments, and all fraternity houses except the Zeta Beta Tau house, which is o... | Which North Side structure is closest to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house? | {'text': 'Millbrook Apartments', 'answer_start': 182} |
46,819 | 46,477 | 571ae11032177014007e9f79 | generic | Frances A. M. Forbes writes that when the Patriarch Alexander was on his death-bed he called Athanasius, who fled fearing he would be constrained to be made Bishop. "When the Bishops of the Church assembled to elect their new Patriarch, the whole Catholic population surrounded the church, holding up their hands to Heav... | Who did the Alexandrian people want to be their Bishop? | {'text': 'Give us Athanasius', 'answer_start': 336} |
11,563 | 11,221 | 5a835750e60761001a2eb5d3 | generic | The BBC is also renowned for its production of costume dramas, such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and contemporary social dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff and Our Friends in the North. The BBC has come under pressure to commission more programmes from independent British production companies, and indeed i... | What programs have been imported from English speaking countries and are currently shown? | {'text': 'The Simpsons from the United States and Neighbours from Australia', 'answer_start': 553} |
27,598 | 27,256 | 56f9fb6e8f12f31900630043 | generic | Inscriptions have been found beneath many of the rock paintings, but archaeologists have so far been unable to decipher this form of ancient writing. During the Stone age, the Doian culture and the Hargeisan culture flourished here with their respective industries and factories. | During what period did the Doian culture thrive? | {'text': 'the Stone age', 'answer_start': 157} |
11,556 | 11,214 | 5a835545e60761001a2eb5b8 | generic | Programmes, such as the politically fuelled Give My Head Peace (produced by BBC Northern Ireland) and the soap opera River City (produced by BBC Scotland), have been created specifically to cater for some viewers in their respective nations, who may have found programmes created for English audiences irrelevant. BBC Sc... | What type o program is Patrick Kielty Almost Live, shown on BBC Scotland? | {'text': 'talk show', 'answer_start': 842} |
53,551 | 53,209 | 5acd1e9107355d001abf35bd | generic | Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (18), and they were the first club to reach 8 League Championships. They hold the highest number of FA Cup trophies, 12. The club is one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succe... | In what year did Manchester United when its first League Championship? | {'text': '1971', 'answer_start': 424} |
81,889 | 81,547 | 5a6103b1e9e1cc001a33ce38 | generic | The South Saharan steppe and woodlands ecoregion is a narrow band running east and west between the hyper-arid Sahara and the Sahel savannas to the south. Movements of the equatorial Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bring summer rains during July and August which average 100 to 200 mm (3.9 to 7.9 in) but vary grea... | What is the name of the band running from north to south in the Sahara? | {'text': 'The South Saharan steppe', 'answer_start': 0} |
21,636 | 21,294 | 5ad3f31d604f3c001a3ff8df | generic | The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abb... | What is far away from the abbey? | {'text': 'Palace of Westminster', 'answer_start': 72} |
32,779 | 32,437 | 5a555888134fea001a0e1a3e | generic | If access is gained to a car's internal controller area network, it is possible to disable the brakes and turn the steering wheel. Computerized engine timing, cruise control, anti-lock brakes, seat belt tensioners, door locks, airbags and advanced driver assistance systems make these disruptions possible, and self-driv... | What makes cars a risk for computerized attacks? | {'text': 'Computerized engine', 'answer_start': 131} |
4,760 | 4,418 | 56d3e7442ccc5a1400d82f3e | generic | In 2006, Lee was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. During the ceremony, the students and audience gave Lee a standing ovation, and the entire graduating class held up copies of To Kill a Mockingbird to honor her.[note 5] Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 5, 200... | In 2007, which president awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom? | {'text': 'George W. Bush', 'answer_start': 335} |
1,177 | 835 | 56cbdbf36d243a140015ed9c | generic | Fryderyk's father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen. Nicolas tutored children of the Polish aristocracy, and in 1806 married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Fryderyk was baptized on East... | What language did Frédéric's father, Nicolas, insist on using in the household? | {'text': 'Polish', 'answer_start': 156} |
64,732 | 64,390 | 5ace332d32bba1001ae49dd4 | generic | In 2000, out of 45,693 households, 23.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.8% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 52.5% were nonfamilies. 35.5% of households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of... | In what year was the median age 82 years old? | {'text': '2000', 'answer_start': 3} |
31,348 | 31,006 | 59fb2338ee36d60018400d40 | generic | All England matches are broadcast with full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. From the 2008–09 season until the 2017–18 season, England's home and away qualifiers, and friendlies both home and away are broadcast live on ITV (often with the exception of STV, the ITV affiliate in central and northern Scotland). England's a... | In what year was Setanta Sports founded? | {'text': '2009', 'answer_start': 513} |
92,059 | 91,717 | 57290895af94a219006a9fb0 | generic | Paris and its close suburbs is home to numerous newspapers, magazines and publications including Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Canard enchaîné, La Croix, Pariscope, Le Parisien (in Saint-Ouen), Les Échos, Paris Match (Neuilly-sur-Seine), Réseaux & Télécoms, Reuters France, and L'Officiel de... | What television station is operated by the French government? | {'text': 'France 24', 'answer_start': 666} |
108,997 | 108,655 | 5a2d64e1f28ef0001a526537 | generic | Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part within the city of Santa Monica. One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those alon... | Who directed It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World? | {'text': 'Henry Jaglom', 'answer_start': 618} |
35,631 | 35,289 | 570afee9ec8fbc190045b7b1 | generic | The superstructure of a carrier (such as the bridge, flight control tower) are concentrated in a relatively small area called an island, a feature pioneered on the HMS Hermes in 1923. While the island is usually built on the starboard side of the fight deck, the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi and Hiryū had their isla... | What is concentrated in the small area called an island? | {'text': 'The superstructure of a carrier', 'answer_start': 0} |
6,471 | 6,129 | 56d3793a59d6e414001464c4 | generic | In the first major change to the judging panel, a fourth judge, Kara DioGuardi, was introduced. This was also the first season without executive producer Nigel Lythgoe who left to focus on the international versions of his show So You Think You Can Dance. The Hollywood round was moved to the Kodak Theatre for 2009 and ... | What venue hosted the Hollywood round on American Idol for the first time in 2009? | {'text': 'the Kodak Theatre', 'answer_start': 289} |
93,977 | 93,635 | 5ad1248d645df0001a2d0f1f | generic | By the end of 2011, total renewable power capacity worldwide exceeded 1,360 GW, up 8%. Renewables producing electricity accounted for almost half of the 208 GW of capacity added globally during 2011. Wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) accounted for almost 40% and 30% . Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contribute... | Renewables did not contribute what percentage to our energy consumption? | {'text': '19 percent', 'answer_start': 322} |
22,612 | 22,270 | 5ad4a796ba00c4001a268ef4 | generic | Around the 6th century, Slavs appeared on Byzantine borders in great numbers.[page needed] The Byzantine records note that grass would not regrow in places where the Slavs had marched through, so great were their numbers. After a military movement even the Peloponnese and Asia Minor were reported to have Slavic settlem... | Where were Slave settled at the beginning of the 6th century? | {'text': 'the Eastern Alps regions', 'answer_start': 452} |
107,522 | 107,180 | 572f494104bcaa1900d7680e | generic | The assertions of Chinese philosophy began to integrate concepts of Western philosophy, as steps toward modernization. By the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, there were many calls, such as the May Fourth Movement, to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China. There were attempts to ... | When did the Xinhai Revolution begin? | {'text': '1911', 'answer_start': 159} |
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