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77,576 | 77,234 | 5727ee154b864d190016403e | generic | Evidence from the early technical literature concerning electrical recording suggests that it wasn't until the 1942–1949 period that there were serious efforts to standardize recording characteristics within an industry. Heretofore, electrical recording technology from company to company was considered a proprietary ar... | How far back did records show the art of sound recordings? | {'text': '1925', 'answer_start': 346} |
101,293 | 100,951 | 572e885c03f989190075673e | generic | On the field at the beginning of a play are two teams of 12 (unlike 11 in American football). The team in possession of the ball is the offence and the team defending is referred to as the defence. Play begins with a backwards pass through the legs (the snap) by a member of the offensive team, to another member of the ... | What is the term for the team who begins a play with control of the ball? | {'text': 'offence', 'answer_start': 136} |
25,537 | 25,195 | 56f8e6839e9bad19000a06cd | generic | Malaria kills more residents; 9% of the population have reported infection, It causes three times as many deaths as AIDS. In 2008, fewer than half of children younger than five slept under antimalaria nets or had access to antimalarial drugs. | How many children under five slept under antimalaria nets in 2008? | {'text': 'fewer than half', 'answer_start': 131} |
60,233 | 59,891 | 572682cd708984140094c882 | generic | The act of predation can be broken down into a maximum of four stages: Detection of prey, attack, capture and finally consumption. The relationship between predator and prey is one that is typically beneficial to the predator, and detrimental to the prey species. Sometimes, however, predation has indirect benefits to t... | What is the first step of the predator-prey interaction? | {'text': 'Detection of prey', 'answer_start': 71} |
121,805 | 121,463 | 5731a318b9d445190005e425 | generic | Other historians find incongruity in the proposition that the very place where the vast number of the scholars that influenced the scientific revolution received their education should also be the place that inhibits their research and the advancement of science. In fact, more than 80% of the European scientists betwee... | What percentage of scientists from 1450–1650 in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography were taught in a university? | {'text': 'more than 80%', 'answer_start': 273} |
76,743 | 76,401 | 5a8cb110fd22b3001a8d8d4b | generic | In Johannine "agent Christology" the submission of Jesus to crucifixion is a sacrifice made as an agent of God or servant of God, for the sake of eventual victory. This builds on the salvific theme of the Gospel of John which begins in John 1:29 with John the Baptist's proclamation: "The Lamb of God who takes away the ... | What did John the Baptist want to take away? | {'text': 'the sins of the world', 'answer_start': 316} |
105,314 | 104,972 | 573056242461fd1900a9cd5e | generic | Some writers claim the Air Staff ignored a critical lesson, however: British morale did not break. Targeting German morale, as Bomber Command would do, was no more successful. Aviation strategists dispute that morale was ever a major consideration for Bomber Command. Throughout 1933–39 none of the 16 Western Air Plans ... | Aviation strategists disputed over what? | {'text': 'that morale was ever a major consideration for Bomber Command.', 'answer_start': 205} |
109,834 | 109,492 | 5a8c4494fd22b3001a8d8687 | generic | Another approach to hardware support for database management was ICL's CAFS accelerator, a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities. In the long term, these efforts were generally unsuccessful because specialized database machines could not keep pace with the rapid development and progress of gene... | What is a CAFS decelerator? | {'text': 'a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities', 'answer_start': 89} |
63,449 | 63,107 | 5a7130740efcfe001a8afda0 | generic | Since before 2000 BC, humans have utilized pesticides to protect their crops. The first known pesticide was elemental sulfur dusting used in ancient Sumer about 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia. The Rig Veda, which is about 4,000 years old, mentions the use of poisonous plants for pest control. By the 15th centur... | Since before 2000 BC what three toxic chemicals were used to kill pests? | {'text': 'arsenic, mercury, and lead', 'answer_start': 347} |
79,973 | 79,631 | 5727de8e3acd2414000dee8e | generic | In comparison to the other regions of Spain, the major economic benefit of Galicia is its fishing Industry. Galicia is a land of economic contrast. While the western coast, with its major population centers and its fishing and manufacturing industries, is prosperous and increasing in population, the rural hinterland — ... | What are the landholdings that the farming industry uses called? | {'text': 'minifundios', 'answer_start': 445} |
22,443 | 22,101 | 56f75395aef2371900625b1f | generic | Similarly, movies and television often revert to standard, clichéd snatches of classical music to convey refinement or opulence: some of the most-often heard pieces in this category include Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1, Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (as orchest... | Who wrote Night on Bald Mountain? | {'text': 'Mussorgsky', 'answer_start': 273} |
96,546 | 96,204 | 5a3c02eacc5d22001a521d23 | generic | After the expulsion of the German population ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians were settled in the northern part. In the Soviet part of the region, a policy of eliminating all remnants of German history was pursued. All German place names were replaced by new Russian names. The exclave was a military zone, w... | In what year did Leonid Brezhnev come to power? | {'text': '1967', 'answer_start': 412} |
93,680 | 93,338 | 572988531d04691400779516 | generic | Although the atomic structure of glass shares characteristics of the structure in a supercooled liquid, glass tends to behave as a solid below its glass transition temperature. A supercooled liquid behaves as a liquid, but it is below the freezing point of the material, and in some cases will crystallize almost instant... | In cooled glass, what types of movement stop? | {'text': 'rotational and translational', 'answer_start': 694} |
8,927 | 8,585 | 5a6b06d9a9e0c9001a4e9e78 | generic | After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. According to Jeff Kaplan of the Internet Archive in November 2010, other sites were still being archived, but more recent captures would become visible only after the next major indexing, an infrequent operation. | When did Kaplan make comments about the Open Directory? | {'text': 'November 2010', 'answer_start': 140} |
110,896 | 110,554 | 572fa92fb2c2fd14005682d7 | generic | The hole walls for boards with two or more layers can be made conductive and then electroplated with copper to form plated-through holes. These holes electrically connect the conducting layers of the PCB. For multi-layer boards, those with three layers or more, drilling typically produces a smear of the high temperatu... | Etch-back removes glass fibers and what other material? | {'text': 'resin', 'answer_start': 774} |
83,360 | 83,018 | 572813372ca10214002d9d57 | generic | In addition to the cathedral, Strasbourg houses several other medieval churches that have survived the many wars and destructions that have plagued the city: the Romanesque Église Saint-Étienne, partly destroyed in 1944 by Allied bombing raids, the part Romanesque, part Gothic, very large Église Saint-Thomas with its S... | What organ did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart play on? | {'text': 'Silbermann organ', 'answer_start': 319} |
103,896 | 103,554 | 5acd6d9d07355d001abf41b3 | generic | Disadvantages of electric traction include high capital costs that may be uneconomic on lightly trafficked routes; a relative lack of flexibility since electric trains need electrified tracks or onboard supercapacitors and charging infrastructure at stations; and a vulnerability to power interruptions. Different region... | Third rails are considered safer than overhead wires, but are considered what? | {'text': 'unsightly', 'answer_start': 700} |
31,324 | 30,982 | 570987d5200fba1400368151 | generic | England qualified for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico as reigning champions, and reached the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out by West Germany. England had been 2–0 up, but were eventually beaten 3–2 after extra time. They failed in qualification for the 1974, leading to Ramsey's dismissal, and 1978 FIFA Wo... | Where did the 1982 FIFA World Cup take place? | {'text': 'Spain', 'answer_start': 406} |
35,643 | 35,301 | 570affb86b8089140040f697 | generic | 1 CATOBAR carrier: Charles de Gaulle is a 42,000 tonne nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, commissioned in 2001 and is the flagship of the French Navy (Marine Nationale). The ship carries a complement of Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard, Dassault Rafale M and E‑2C Hawkeye aircraft, EC725 Caracal and AS532 Cougar helicopte... | What is another name for the French Navy? | {'text': 'Marine Nationale', 'answer_start': 150} |
77,714 | 77,372 | 57277ba9f1498d1400e8f95e | generic | In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Entertainment under the same corporate umbrella, also gave TCM access to Warner Bros.' library of films released after 1949 (which itself includes other acquired entities such as the Lorimar, Saul Z... | When did MGM give Warner Home Video the rights to MGM/UA's films on home video? | {'text': 'March 1999', 'answer_start': 544} |
9,108 | 8,766 | 5a1c89fcb4fb5d001871468c | generic | Most of the Low Countries had come under the rule of the House of Burgundy and subsequently the House of Habsburg. In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule. Charles was succeeded by his son, King Philip II of Spain. In 1568 the Neth... | When did the House of Burgundy issue the Pragmatic Sanction? | {'text': '1549', 'answer_start': 118} |
100,494 | 100,152 | 572bbc0a111d821400f38f6b | generic | Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat... | In universities where are the departments of educational psychology normally held? | {'text': 'faculties of education', 'answer_start': 668} |
103,110 | 102,768 | 5ad4d6215b96ef001a10a2ad | generic | The most persistent theme throughout his films is tension in parent-child relationships. Parents (often fathers) are reluctant, absent or ignorant. Peter Banning in Hook starts off in the beginning of the film as a reluctant married-to-his-work parent who through the course of the film regains the respect of his childr... | What was Oskar Schindler in real life? | {'text': 'father', 'answer_start': 853} |
126,969 | 126,627 | 5acec62832bba1001ae4b37e | generic | Michel Foucault claims that the contemporary concept of police as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by German and French legal scholars and practitioners in Public administration and Statistics in the 17th and early 18th centuries, most notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treati... | Who co-wrote the 'Treatise on the Police'? | {'text': 'Nicolas Delamare', 'answer_start': 273} |
27,723 | 27,381 | 56fadfc58f12f3190063020d | generic | While the distribution of Somalis per country in Europe is hard to measure because the Somali community on the continent has grown so quickly in recent years, an official 2010 estimate reported 108,000 Somalis living in the United Kingdom. Somalis in Britain are largely concentrated in the cities of London, Sheffield, ... | About how many Somalis live in the UK? | {'text': '108,000', 'answer_start': 194} |
89,152 | 88,810 | 5a860401b4e223001a8e739d | generic | Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morality, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. The notion of a "war" against "terrorism" has proven highly contentious, with critics charging that it has been exploited by ... | What is another name for War on Drugs? | {'text': 'War on Terror', 'answer_start': 17} |
3,726 | 3,384 | 56d65c671c850414009470bc | generic | Besides parents, Liu Shaokun (刘绍坤), a Sichuan school teacher, was detained on June 25, 2008 for "disseminating rumors and destroying social order" about the Sichuan earthquake. Liu’s family was later told that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion. Liu had travelled to the Shifang, ... | Where did he call the schoolhouses shoddy? | {'text': 'in a media interview', 'answer_start': 462} |
51,924 | 51,582 | 5a84d0da7cf838001a46aaad | generic | "Poultry" is a term used for any kind of domesticated bird, captive-raised for its utility, and traditionally the word has been used to refer to wildfowl (Galliformes) and waterfowl (Anseriformes). "Poultry" can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, raised for the production of mea... | What is the Japanese term for "domesticated chicken?" | {'text': 'Gallus gallus', 'answer_start': 1096} |
91,736 | 91,394 | 5728c5bc4b864d1900164dc8 | generic | Most of the postwar's presidents of the Fifth Republic wanted to leave their own monuments in Paris; President Georges Pompidou started the Centre Georges Pompidou (1977), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing began the Musée d'Orsay (1986); President François Mitterrand, in power for 14 years, built the Opéra Bastille (1985-1989),... | How many years was Francois Mitterrand in power? | {'text': '14', 'answer_start': 273} |
115,142 | 114,800 | 5ad3cc25604f3c001a3ff13c | generic | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | How did many philosophers and theologians at Illinois Divinity School view Whitehead's work? | {'text': 'perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications', 'answer_start': 185} |
107,317 | 106,975 | 572efb66c246551400ce481a | generic | The Qing dynasty (1644–1911) was founded after the fall of the Ming, the last Han Chinese dynasty, by the Manchus. The Manchus were formerly known as the Jurchens. When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. The Manchus then allied w... | Who did the Manchus make an Ally with to seize control of Beijing? | {'text': 'former Ming general Wu Sangui', 'answer_start': 324} |
106,493 | 106,151 | 572ec65ccb0c0d14000f1541 | generic | One of the notable authors of esoteric interpretation prior to the 12th century is Sulami (d. 1021) without whose work the majority of very early Sufi commentaries would not have been preserved. Sulami's major commentary is a book named haqaiq al-tafsir ("Truths of Exegesis") which is a compilation of commentaries of e... | In which year did the poet Rumi die? | {'text': '1273', 'answer_start': 713} |
1,367 | 1,025 | 56d31dcb59d6e4140014625c | generic | Chopin seldom performed publicly in Paris. In later years he generally gave a single annual concert at the Salle Pleyel, a venue that seated three hundred. He played more frequently at salons, but preferred playing at his own Paris apartment for small groups of friends. The musicologist Arthur Hedley has observed that ... | Who did Chopin contract with for publishing his music? | {'text': 'Maurice Schlesinger', 'answer_start': 1234} |
3,712 | 3,370 | 56d658061c850414009470a9 | generic | However, Reuters reported in June that, to date, Chinese prosecutors have joined an official inquiry into ten collapsed schools during May's devastating earthquake to gain first-hand material of construction quality at the collapsed schools, launch preliminary inquiries and prepare for possible investigations into prof... | Where are the Chinese going to perform safety checks? | {'text': 'schools across China', 'answer_start': 402} |
103,754 | 103,412 | 572ea842dfa6aa1500f8d271 | generic | Neptune's more varied weather when compared to Uranus is due in part to its higher internal heating. Although Neptune lies over 50% further from the Sun than Uranus, and receives only 40% its amount of sunlight, the two planets' surface temperatures are roughly equal. The upper regions of Neptune's troposphere reach a ... | How much percentage of the sun does Neptune get compared to Uranus? | {'text': '40%', 'answer_start': 184} |
17,772 | 17,430 | 56e14e04cd28a01900c67779 | generic | Other important industries are financial services, especially mutual funds and insurance. Boston-based Fidelity Investments helped popularize the mutual fund in the 1980s and has made Boston one of the top financial cities in the United States. The city is home to the headquarters of Santander Bank, and Boston is a cen... | Mutual funds and insurance are what type of industry? | {'text': 'financial services', 'answer_start': 31} |
25,426 | 25,084 | 56f8ceed9b226e1400dd1049 | generic | On 2 March 2009, however, Vieira was assassinated by what preliminary reports indicated to be a group of soldiers avenging the death of the head of joint chiefs of staff, General Batista Tagme Na Wai. Tagme died in an explosion on Sunday, 1 March 2009, target of an assassination. Military leaders in the country pledged... | Who pledged to respect the constitutional order of succession? | {'text': 'Military leaders', 'answer_start': 281} |
113,942 | 113,600 | 5acd1a1a07355d001abf34fd | generic | The oldest rocks in the group are in the north west of Scotland, Ireland and North Wales and are 2,700 million years old. During the Silurian period the north-western regions collided with the south-east, which had been part of a separate continental landmass. The topography of the islands is modest in scale by global ... | How far below sea level is Ben Nevis? | {'text': '1,344 metres', 'answer_start': 371} |
99,304 | 98,962 | 5ace4e3932bba1001ae4a237 | generic | Guam lies between 13.2°N and 13.7°N and between 144.6°E and 145.0°E, and has an area of 212 square miles (549 km2), making it the 32nd largest island of the United States. It is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana island chain and is also the largest island in Micronesia. This island chain was created by... | What is the lowest point in Guam? | {'text': 'Mount Lamlam', 'answer_start': 649} |
96,652 | 96,310 | 572a29f63f37b3190047875f | generic | This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end in May 1683 when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683–1687. The final assault being fatally delayed, the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Pol... | What treaty was signed 26 January 1699? | {'text': 'Treaty of Karlowitz', 'answer_start': 507} |
73,297 | 72,955 | 5ad41396604f3c001a400271 | generic | The strides that the Johnson presidency made in ensuring equal opportunity in the workforce were further picked up by his successor Nixon. In 1969 the Nixon administration initiated the "Philadelphia Order". It was regarded as the most forceful plan thus far to guarantee fair hiring practices in construction jobs. Phil... | Which industry of jobs did the legislation not target? | {'text': 'construction', 'answer_start': 297} |
36,321 | 35,979 | 5a1f508a54a786001a36b264 | generic | The core technology used in a videoconferencing system is digital compression of audio and video streams in real time. The hardware or software that performs compression is called a codec (coder/decoder). Compression rates of up to 1:500 can be achieved. The resulting digital stream of 1s and 0s is subdivided into labe... | What is the low speed application that performs compression? | {'text': 'a codec (coder/decoder)', 'answer_start': 180} |
64,965 | 64,623 | 5ad0c6de645df0001a2d02db | generic | The Catholic Church prevailed across Europe at this time, influencing not only faith but also wealth and power. Bishops were appointed by the feudal lords (kings, dukes and other landowners) and they often ruled as virtual princes over large estates. The early Medieval periods had seen a rapid growth in monasticism, wi... | What types of church were the Benedictines unknown for? | {'text': 'great abbey churches', 'answer_start': 439} |
4,114 | 3,772 | 56cf3442aab44d1400b88e36 | generic | The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian. Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non-His... | What percentage of the city's population is African-American? | {'text': '25.5%', 'answer_start': 72} |
91,749 | 91,407 | 5728c8284b864d1900164e0d | generic | Paris is located in northern central France. By road it is 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of London, 287 kilometres (178 mi) south of Calais, 305 kilometres (190 mi) south-west of Brussels, 774 kilometres (481 mi) north of Marseille, 385 kilometres (239 mi) north-east of Nantes, and 135 kilometres (84 mi) south-eas... | How many kilometers is it away from London? | {'text': '450', 'answer_start': 59} |
67,203 | 66,861 | 5726f6ecf1498d1400e8f125 | generic | Paul VI did renounce many traditional symbols of the papacy and the Catholic Church; some of his changes to the papal dress were reversed by Pope Benedict XVI in the early 21st century. Refusing a Vatican army of colourful military uniforms from centuries, he got rid of them. He became the first pope to visit five cont... | What group of clergy did Paul VI include in Vatican decision making that had previously been denied influence in this realm? | {'text': 'bishops', 'answer_start': 487} |
29,165 | 28,823 | 5706049c52bb8914006897b4 | generic | In May 2008 printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Broxbourne on the outskirts of London, and Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time. | In May 2008, The Times switched to new plants which allowed for what kind of feature to be printed on every page for the first time? | {'text': 'full colour', 'answer_start': 179} |
101,477 | 101,135 | 572eb0c2c246551400ce4524 | generic | William Pitt, who entered the cabinet in 1756, had a grand vision for the war that made it entirely different from previous wars with France. As prime minister Pitt committed Britain to a grand strategy of seizing the entire French Empire, especially its possessions in North America and India. Britain's main weapon was... | How did Pitt's strategy affect Britain's future plans? | {'text': 'even after that the British continued his strategy', 'answer_start': 684} |
114,044 | 113,702 | 573019f0b2c2fd1400568867 | generic | The islands are at relatively low altitudes, with central Ireland and southern Great Britain particularly low lying: the lowest point in the islands is Holme, Cambridgeshire at −2.75 m (−9.02 ft). The Scottish Highlands in the northern part of Great Britain are mountainous, with Ben Nevis being the highest point on the... | What is the weather like in the summer time in the British Isles? | {'text': 'mild and also wet', 'answer_start': 1389} |
126,561 | 126,219 | 5732897457eb1f1400fd2d8a | generic | Earth was initially molten due to extreme volcanism and frequent collisions with other bodies. Eventually, the outer layer of the planet cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon formed soon afterwards, possibly as the result of a Mars-sized object with about 10% of the Eart... | What size of object may have created the moon? | {'text': 'Mars', 'answer_start': 276} |
25,923 | 25,581 | 56f976429b226e1400dd1470 | generic | The invention of electronic computers in the 1940s, along with the development of mathematical information theory, led to a realization that brains can potentially be understood as information processing systems. This concept formed the basis of the field of cybernetics, and eventually gave rise to the field now known ... | Computers were invented in what decade in history? | {'text': '1940s', 'answer_start': 45} |
39,882 | 39,540 | 570e70c30b85d914000d7f01 | generic | Melbourne is often referred to as Australia's garden city, and the state of Victoria was once known as the garden state. There is an abundance of parks and gardens in Melbourne, many close to the CBD with a variety of common and rare plant species amid landscaped vistas, pedestrian pathways and tree-lined avenues. Melb... | Why is urban Melbourne divided into hundreds of suburbs? | {'text': 'addressing and postal purposes', 'answer_start': 696} |
66,024 | 65,682 | 57269af1f1498d1400e8e4b9 | generic | Norfolk Island was colonised by East Polynesians but was long unpeopled when it was settled by Great Britain as part of its settlement of Australia from 1788. The island served as a convict penal settlement from 6 March 1788 until 5 May 1855, except for an 11-year hiatus between 15 February 1814 and 6 June 1825, when i... | Where did the first permanent civilians of Norfolk Island settle from in 1856? | {'text': 'Pitcairn Island', 'answer_start': 427} |
85,150 | 84,808 | 5a81342a31013a001a334bdf | generic | Time travel is the concept of moving backwards or forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space, and different from the normal "flow" of time to an earthbound observer. In this view, all points in time (including future times) "persist" in some way. Time travel has been a plot devi... | A theoretic problem is known as any technological devise that is used for what purpose? | {'text': 'to achieve time travel', 'answer_start': 548} |
118,516 | 118,174 | 57310aaae6313a140071cb97 | generic | Whites (mainly of Afrikaner, German, British and Portuguese origin) make up between 4.0 and 7.0% of the population. Although their percentage of population is decreasing due to emigration and lower birth rates they still form the second-largest population of European ancestry, both in terms of percentage and actual num... | What is the language of Namibia? | {'text': 'Afrikaans', 'answer_start': 448} |
27,208 | 26,866 | 5ad3c75e604f3c001a3ff050 | generic | High-definition image sources include terrestrial broadcast, direct broadcast satellite, digital cable, IPTV (including GoogleTV Roku boxes and AppleTV or built into "Smart Televisions"), Blu-ray video disc (BD), and internet downloads. | Internet downloads, Blu-ray videos, and Apple TV aren't examples of what? | {'text': 'High-definition image sources', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,460 | 72,118 | 5a359abb788daf001a5f863a | generic | The top 50 m (160 ft) of a glacier are rigid because they are under low pressure. This upper section is known as the fracture zone and moves mostly as a single unit over the plastically flowing lower section. When a glacier moves through irregular terrain, cracks called crevasses develop in the fracture zone. Crevasses... | What point do sercas form above? | {'text': '46 m (150 ft) deep but in some cases can be 300 m (1,000 ft)', 'answer_start': 533} |
111,279 | 110,937 | 572fba31947a6a140053cbee | generic | Of the new eastern religions introduced into the Greek world, the most successful was Christianity. From the early centuries of the Common Era, the Greeks identified as Romaioi ("Romans"), by that time the name ‘Hellenes’ denoted pagans. While ethnic distinctions still existed in the Roman Empire, they became secondary... | What alternative name were the Greeks known by ? | {'text': 'the Greeks identified as Romaioi ("Romans")', 'answer_start': 144} |
87,128 | 86,786 | 5a32e30bbd0d7f001aef94dc | generic | Patassé purged many of the Kolingba elements from the government and Kolingba supporters accused Patassé's government of conducting a "witch hunt" against the Yakoma. A new constitution was approved on 28 December 1994 but had little impact on the country's politics. In 1996–1997, reflecting steadily decreasing public ... | What was the Yakoma later replaced with? | {'text': 'a U.N. peacekeeping force', 'answer_start': 937} |
73,384 | 73,042 | 57274387f1498d1400e8f561 | generic | There are a multitude of supporters as well as opponents to the policy of affirmative action. Many presidents throughout the last century have failed to take a very firm stance on the policy, and the public has had to discern the president's opinion for themselves. Bill Clinton, however, made his stance on affirmative ... | How long after his inauguration was Bill Clinton's speech? | {'text': 'two and a half years', 'answer_start': 375} |
60,576 | 60,234 | 5a5fe26ceae51e001ab14cde | generic | Marvel discontinued its Marvel Adventures imprint in March 2012, and replaced them with a line of two titles connected to the Marvel Universe TV block. Also in March, Marvel announced its Marvel ReEvolution initiative that included Infinite Comics, a line of digital comics, Marvel AR, an application software that provi... | When was Marvel NOW! canceled? | {'text': 'March 2012', 'answer_start': 53} |
5,704 | 5,362 | 56d0a895234ae51400d9c401 | generic | Ajahn Sucitto describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factors that support and moderate each other." The eight factors of the path are not to be understood as stages, in which each stage is completed before moving on to the next. Rather, they are understood as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour—... | How are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path to be understood? | {'text': "as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour", 'answer_start': 269} |
115,262 | 114,920 | 57335f23d058e614000b595e | generic | In higher organisms (like people), these two modes of perception combine into what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it. By way of illustration, Whitehead uses the example of a person... | How might an artist view a chair differently than a typical person? | {'text': '"might have stopped at the mere contemplation of a beautiful color and a beautiful shape."', 'answer_start': 543} |
106,437 | 106,095 | 572ebc97dfa6aa1500f8d335 | generic | The Quranic text seems to have no beginning, middle, or end, its nonlinear structure being akin to a web or net. The textual arrangement is sometimes considered to exhibit lack of continuity, absence of any chronological or thematic order and repetitiousness. Michael Sells, citing the work of the critic Norman O. Brown... | How does Sells describe the Quran's repetitiveness? | {'text': 'a literary device', 'answer_start': 774} |
17,087 | 16,745 | 56e1b8adcd28a01900c67ac6 | generic | On March 22, 2012, the Somali Cabinet unanimously approved the National Communications Act, which paves the way for the establishment of a National Communications regulator in the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors. The bill was passed following consultations between government representatives and communicatio... | What year was the national Communications act enacted? | {'text': '2012', 'answer_start': 13} |
103,409 | 103,067 | 572eff4bcb0c0d14000f16ef | generic | In addition to the call buttons, elevators usually have floor indicators (often illuminated by LED) and direction lanterns. The former are almost universal in cab interiors with more than two stops and may be found outside the elevators as well on one or more of the floors. Floor indicators can consist of a dial with a... | What type of lanterns are used outside elevators as well as inside most cabs? | {'text': 'direction lanterns', 'answer_start': 104} |
69,569 | 69,227 | 5726e7725951b619008f81ef | generic | Hogan also explains that the temporal and emotional amount which a person devotes to understanding a character’s situation in literature allows literature to be considered “ecological[ly] valid in the study of emotion”. This can be understood in the sense that literature unites a large community by provoking universal ... | What determines what literary structure a literary author uses for expression of ideas? | {'text': 'what psychological emotion he or she is attempting to describe', 'answer_start': 495} |
36,059 | 35,717 | 5a2f4c6fa83784001a7d26e4 | generic | The Late Cretaceous spans from 100 million to 65 million years ago. The Late Cretaceous featured a cooling trend that would continue on in the Cenozoic period. Eventually, tropics were restricted to the equator and areas beyond the tropic lines featured extreme seasonal changes in weather. Dinosaurs still thrived as ne... | Which dinosaur species saw its demise during the Late Cretaceous? | {'text': 'Tyrannosaurus', 'answer_start': 338} |
8,125 | 7,783 | 5ad5feed5b96ef001a10afea | generic | The largest expansion of comprehensive schools in 1965 resulted from a policy decision taken in 1965 by Anthony Crosland, Secretary of State for Education in the 1964–1970 Labour government. The policy decision was implemented by Circular 10/65, an instruction to local education authorities to plan for conversion. Stud... | Which type of school was in widespread usage? | {'text': 'Secondary technical schools', 'answer_start': 509} |
110,169 | 109,827 | 57342ca74776f41900661a06 | generic | East Tucson is relatively new compared to other parts of the city, developed between the 1950s and the 1970s,[citation needed] with developments such as Desert Palms Park. It is generally classified as the area of the city east of Swan Road, with above-average real estate values relative to the rest of the city. The ar... | What is the biggest office building in Tucson? | {'text': '5151 East Broadway', 'answer_start': 894} |
26,984 | 26,642 | 56f9ebe18f12f3190062fffa | generic | Since 1972, International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector (ITU-R) had been working on creating a global recommendation for Analog HDTV. These recommendations, however, did not fit in the broadcasting bands which could reach home users. The standardization of MPEG-1 in 1993 also led to the acce... | What does DVB stand for? | {'text': 'Digital Video Broadcasting', 'answer_start': 399} |
78,916 | 78,574 | 5ad25bd3d7d075001a428e8a | generic | Albertus Magnus championed the idea, drawn from Dionysus, that positive knowledge of God is possible, but obscure. Thus, it is easier to state what God is not, than to state what God is: "... we affirm things of God only relatively, that is, casually, whereas we deny things of God absolutely, that is, with reference to... | Who did not champion the idea drawn from Dionysus? | {'text': 'Albertus Magnus', 'answer_start': 0} |
42,287 | 41,945 | 570d74e0fed7b91900d46150 | generic | The French breech-loading rifle, the Chassepot, had a far longer range than the German needle gun; 1,500 yards (1,400 m) compared to 600 yd (550 m). The French also had an early machine-gun type weapon, the mitrailleuse, which could fire its thirty-seven barrels at a range of around 1,200 yd (1,100 m). It was developed... | What French weapon was considered a rough prototype of the first machine gun? | {'text': 'the mitrailleuse', 'answer_start': 203} |
130,069 | 129,727 | 5acea55e32bba1001ae4aecb | generic | Since 1934, the sale of Federal Duck Stamps has generated $670 million, and helped to purchase or lease 5,200,000 acres (8,100 sq mi; 21,000 km2) of habitat. The stamps serve as a license to hunt migratory birds, an entrance pass for all National Wildlife Refuge areas, and are also considered collectors items often pur... | What does the MBCC buy a significant number of? | {'text': 'Duck Stamps', 'answer_start': 446} |
112,269 | 111,927 | 572ffa3da23a5019007fcbe1 | generic | By 59 BC an unofficial political alliance known as the First Triumvirate was formed between Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great") to share power and influence. In 53 BC, Crassus launched a Roman invasion of the Parthian Empire (modern Iraq and Iran). After initial... | In what battle did Marcus Licinius Crassus die? | {'text': 'the Battle of Carrhae', 'answer_start': 459} |
47,055 | 46,713 | 571a076110f8ca1400304ee0 | generic | Seattle's economy is driven by a mix of older industrial companies, and "new economy" Internet and technology companies, service, design and clean technology companies. The city's gross metropolitan product was $231 billion in 2010, making it the 11th largest metropolitan economy in the United States. The Port of Seatt... | When does Seattle want to be rated as a climate neutral city? | {'text': '2030', 'answer_start': 1010} |
79,134 | 78,792 | 5ad20969d7d075001a428225 | generic | The Duke of Wellington is often incorrectly quoted as saying that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton". Wellington was at Eton from 1781 to 1784 and was to send his sons there. According to Nevill (citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket mat... | In what year was Charles de Montalembert made a Duke? | {'text': '1784', 'answer_start': 166} |
128,042 | 127,700 | 573398ebd058e614000b5e69 | generic | A Science Hall was built in 1883 under the direction of Fr. Zahm, but in 1950 it was converted to a student union building and named LaFortune Center, after Joseph LaFortune, an oil executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Commonly known as "LaFortune" or "LaFun," it is a 4-story building of 83,000 square feet that provides the... | How large in square feet is the LaFortune Center at Notre Dame? | {'text': '83,000 square feet', 'answer_start': 284} |
129,044 | 128,702 | 573429574776f419006619de | generic | Three years later, as March 1865 ended, the Confederate capitol became indefensible. On March 25, Confederate General John B. Gordon's desperate attack on Fort Stedman east of Petersburg failed. On April 1, General Philip Sheridan, assigned to interdict the Southside Railroad, met brigades commanded by George Pickett a... | 5000 men represented what fraction of General Lee's army? | {'text': 'tenth', 'answer_start': 602} |
30,659 | 30,317 | 5706b5912eaba6190074ac5b | generic | In the late 1980s, Nu Groove Records prolonged, if not launched the careers of Rheji Burrell & Rhano Burrell, collectively known as Burrell (after a brief stay on Virgin America via Timmy Regisford and Frank Mendez), along with basically every relevant DJ and Producer in the NY underground scene. The Burrell's are resp... | what label were the burrell's briefly with before their success? | {'text': 'Virgin America', 'answer_start': 163} |
54,061 | 53,719 | 572686d25951b619008f75b3 | generic | While these preparations were underway in the North, there were frequent clashes along the 38th parallel, especially at Kaesong and Ongjin, many initiated by the South. The Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army) was being trained by the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG). On the eve of war, KMAG's commander General ... | Who primarily initiated the clashes along the 38th parallel? | {'text': 'the South', 'answer_start': 158} |
37,208 | 36,866 | 5ad1731b645df0001a2d1c1e | generic | Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske was at the vanguard of new technology in naval guns and gunnery, thanks to his innovations in fire control 1890–1910. He immediately grasped the potential for air power, and called for the development of a torpedo plane. Fiske, as aide for operations in 1913–15 to Assistant Secretary Frank... | What naval officer developed old doctrines for gunnery at the turn of the 21st Century? | {'text': 'Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske', 'answer_start': 0} |
42,823 | 42,481 | 570dce860b85d914000d7b7f | generic | European maps continued to show this hypothesized land until Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, crossed the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, in December 1773 and again in January 1774. Cook came within about 120 km (75 mi) of the Antarctic coast before retreating in the face of field ice in J... | How many men sighted Antarctica in 1820? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 606} |
50,138 | 49,796 | 5ad17ae9645df0001a2d1de8 | 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 1808? | {'text': 'Gladstone', 'answer_start': 854} |
94,795 | 94,453 | 5acfbe9077cf76001a685c09 | generic | The Charaka Samhita, thought to have been written between 300 and 500 AD, mentions a metal which, when oxidized, produces pushpanjan, thought to be zinc oxide. Zinc mines at Zawar, near Udaipur in India, have been active since the Mauryan period. The smelting of metallic zinc here, however, appears to have begun around... | When was the Rasaratna Samuccaya destroyed? | {'text': '13th century AD', 'answer_start': 627} |
129,859 | 129,517 | 5ace724732bba1001ae4a6f7 | generic | Gun usage in hunting is typically regulated by game category, area within the state, and time period. Regulations for big-game hunting often specify a minimum caliber or muzzle energy for firearms. The use of rifles is often banned for safety reasons in areas with high population densities or limited topographic relief... | Why is firearm muzzle energy often limited? | {'text': 'because of environmental concerns', 'answer_start': 386} |
128,741 | 128,399 | 57342802d058e614000b6a40 | generic | In the early 1900s, James J. Hill of the Great Northern began promoting settlement in the Montana prairie to fill his trains with settlers and goods. Other railroads followed suit. In 1902, the Reclamation Act was passed, allowing irrigation projects to be built in Montana's eastern river valleys. In 1909, Congress pas... | Who promoted settlement in Montana in the early 1900s | {'text': 'James J. Hill', 'answer_start': 20} |
65,838 | 65,496 | 5a20554354a786001a36b30e | generic | When the alloy cools and solidifies (crystallizes), its mechanical properties will often be quite different from those of its individual constituents. A metal that is normally very soft and malleable, such as aluminium, can be altered by alloying it with another soft metal, like copper. Although both metals are very so... | The characteristics of what stay the same as it cools? | {'text': 'alloy', 'answer_start': 9} |
36,487 | 36,145 | 570b0e40ec8fbc190045b816 | generic | The Gregorian reform contained two parts: a reform of the Julian calendar as used prior to Pope Gregory XIII's time and a reform of the lunar cycle used by the Church, with the Julian calendar, to calculate the date of Easter. The reform was a modification of a proposal made by Aloysius Lilius. His proposal included re... | What did Lilius's calendar plan to reduce in every 400 years? | {'text': 'number of leap years', 'answer_start': 331} |
24,089 | 23,747 | 56f95b049e9bad19000a0873 | 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... | What was the primary nature of Japan's interest in the Marshall Islands? | {'text': 'land', 'answer_start': 97} |
81,040 | 80,698 | 5728c4943acd2414000dfdeb | generic | Despite the city's recent financial issues, many developers remain unfazed by Detroit's problems. Midtown is one of the most successful areas within Detroit to have a residential occupancy rate of 96%. Numerous developments have been recently completely or are in various stages of construction. These include the $82 mi... | Which Downtown tower was converted to residential use? | {'text': 'David Broderick Tower', 'answer_start': 506} |
28,625 | 28,283 | 56fde3d4761e401900d28c41 | generic | Colossus was the world's first electronic digital programmable computer. It used a large number of valves (vacuum tubes). It had paper-tape input and was capable of being configured to perform a variety of boolean logical operations on its data, but it was not Turing-complete. Nine Mk II Colossi were built (The Mk I wa... | What was the first electronic digital programmable computer in the world? | {'text': 'Colossus', 'answer_start': 0} |
55,409 | 55,067 | 5a39ecb72f14dd001ac7264e | generic | In 1997, the mammals were comprehensively revised by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell, which has resulted in the McKenna/Bell classification. Their 1997 book, Classification of Mammals above the Species Level, is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal ta... | What happened to molecular genetic data in 1997? | {'text': 'comprehensively revised', 'answer_start': 26} |
126,365 | 126,023 | 5a81f99f31013a001a335023 | generic | In the 6th century BCE, Taoist teacher Lao Tzu espoused a series of naturalistic concepts with some elements of humanistic philosophy. The Silver Rule of Confucianism from Analects XV.24, is an example of ethical philosophy based on human values rather than the supernatural. Humanistic thought is also contained in othe... | When were humanism beliefs separated from another philosophy by a Taoist thinker? | {'text': '6th century BCE', 'answer_start': 7} |
88,009 | 87,667 | 5acfc75077cf76001a685efc | generic | Federalism, and other forms of territorially autonomy, is generally seen as a useful way to structure political systems in order prevent violence among different groups with countries because it allows certain groups to legislate at the subnational level. Some scholars have suggested, however, that federalism can divid... | What isn't federalism seen as? | {'text': 'a useful way to structure political systems in order prevent violence among different groups with countries', 'answer_start': 76} |
125,354 | 125,012 | 57325cf7e17f3d14004228f2 | generic | The office of Borough President was created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with local authority. Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and pro... | When was the Board of Estimate found unconstitutional? | {'text': '1989', 'answer_start': 344} |
15,577 | 15,235 | 56e06be17aa994140058e48c | generic | Most residents belong to the Anglican Communion and are members of the Diocese of St Helena, which has its own bishop and includes Ascension Island. The 150th anniversary of the diocese was celebrated in June 2009. | When was the 150th anniversary of the diocese celebrated? | {'text': 'June 2009', 'answer_start': 204} |
103,542 | 103,200 | 5aceb91632bba1001ae4b1ba | 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 did Sir George Airy produce with the extra data? | {'text': 'several different estimates of a new planet.', 'answer_start': 566} |
47,414 | 47,072 | 5a8ce73afd22b3001a8d8fed | generic | Much of the current knowledge of memory has come from studying memory disorders, particularly amnesia. Loss of memory is known as amnesia. Amnesia can result from extensive damage to: (a) the regions of the medial temporal lobe, such as the hippocampus, dentate gyrus, subiculum, amygdala, the parahippocampal, entorhina... | What diseases does not have a major impact on memory? | {'text': "Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease", 'answer_start': 771} |
48,320 | 47,978 | 571d40405efbb31900334ef6 | generic | In the US, starting in 2013, under the Physician Financial Transparency Reports (part of the Sunshine Act), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has to collect information from applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations in order to report information about their financial relationships with phy... | The Physician Financial Transparency Reports was part of what other act? | {'text': 'Sunshine Act', 'answer_start': 93} |
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