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63,888 | 63,546 | 5726a0605951b619008f7828 | generic | Yale expanded gradually, establishing the Yale School of Medicine (1810), Yale Divinity School (1822), Yale Law School (1843), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the Sheffield Scientific School (1847), and the Yale School of Fine Arts (1869). In 1887, as the college continued to grow under the presidency... | When was Yale Graduate Schools and Arts and Sciences established? | {'text': '(1847', 'answer_start': 169} |
123,797 | 123,455 | 57321d900fdd8d15006c67bd | generic | Energy production in Greece is dominated by the Public Power Corporation (known mostly by its acronym ΔΕΗ, or in English DEI). In 2009 DEI supplied for 85.6% of all energy demand in Greece, while the number fell to 77.3% in 2010. Almost half (48%) of DEI's power output is generated using lignite, a drop from the 51.6% ... | What percentage did independent companies' energy production increase between 2009 and 2010? | {'text': '56%', 'answer_start': 490} |
80,395 | 80,053 | 5727b5b5ff5b5019007d9317 | generic | Due to great differences in terrain, the climate of the province is highly variable. In general it has strong monsoonal influences, with rainfall heavily concentrated in the summer. Under the Köppen climate classification, the Sichuan Basin (including Chengdu) in the eastern half of the province experiences a humid sub... | What area of China has the least amount of sunlight? | {'text': 'the Sichuan Basin', 'answer_start': 223} |
50,192 | 49,850 | 5ad17e54645df0001a2d1e2f | generic | Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Rheumatism in her legs had rendered her lame, and her eyesight was clouded by cataracts. Through early January, she felt "weak and unwell", and by mid-January she was "drowsy ... dazed... | Where was osborne House that Victoria spent christmas at not located? | {'text': 'Isle of Wight', 'answer_start': 121} |
112,831 | 112,489 | 57323af4b9d445190005e8fa | generic | The battle secured the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against attack from the sea, broke the back of Japanese naval power and opened the way for an advance to the Ryukyu Islands in 1945. The only significant Japanese naval operation afterwards was the disastrous Operation Ten-Go in April 1945. Kurita's forc... | When did Operation Ten-Go occur? | {'text': 'April 1945', 'answer_start': 295} |
127,706 | 127,364 | 573366944776f419006609f5 | generic | It was temporarily under the control of the Tibetan empire and Chinese from 650–680 and then under the control of the Umayyads in 710. The Samanid Empire, 819 to 999, restored Persian control of the region and enlarged the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara (both cities are today part of Uzbekistan) which became the cultu... | When was the region under Tibetan empire and the CHinese? | {'text': '650–680', 'answer_start': 76} |
7,491 | 7,149 | 56db2941e7c41114004b4e6c | generic | Argentine activists told a news conference that they would not try to snuff out the torch's flame as demonstrators had in Paris and London. "I want to announce that we will not put out the Olympic torch," said pro-Tibet activist Jorge Carcavallo. "We'll be carrying out surprise actions throughout the city of Buenos Air... | Where did the other march travel form and to? | {'text': 'Obelisk to the city hall', 'answer_start': 445} |
115,953 | 115,611 | 57303379b2c2fd1400568a5d | generic | Retail versions of Windows 8 are only able to install these apps through Windows Store—a namesake distribution platform which offers both apps, and listings for desktop programs certified for comparability with Windows 8. A method to sideload apps from outside Windows Store is available to devices running Windows 8 Ent... | What other devices can sideload apps? | {'text': 'Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT devices', 'answer_start': 352} |
45,539 | 45,197 | 5ad3f1c6604f3c001a3ff88a | generic | In New Jersey and Illinois, all death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life in prison without parole when the death penalty repeal bills were signed into law. In Maryland, Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the state's four remaining death sentences to life in prison without parole in January 2015. While the ... | The governor of what state commuted four death sentences in March 2015? | {'text': 'Maryland', 'answer_start': 173} |
129,474 | 129,132 | 5a830a2ae60761001a2eb327 | generic | Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d... | What supernatural ability with regards to detection is currently available? | {'text': 'ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically', 'answer_start': 24} |
72,595 | 72,253 | 5a732ca953a187001ae63134 | 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... | How many entertainment venues does Time Warner have? | {'text': '200', 'answer_start': 294} |
13,507 | 13,165 | 5acd4e5007355d001abf3ca5 | generic | As a result of the now near-universal human reliance upon agriculture, the few contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures usually live in areas unsuitable for agricultural use. | Ancient hunter-gatherer cultures lived where? | {'text': 'in areas unsuitable for agricultural use', 'answer_start': 130} |
82,197 | 81,855 | 5727e339ff5b5019007d97a2 | generic | The Rule of Law is especially important as an influence on the economic development in developing and transitional countries. To date, the term “rule of law” has been used primarily in the English-speaking countries, and it is not yet fully clarified even with regard to such well-established democracies as, for instanc... | What language is spoken in most rule of law countries? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 189} |
5,084 | 4,742 | 56d0fb0317492d1400aab6cb | generic | Kanye Omari West was born on June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three and he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. His father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ray West was later a Christian coun... | What was the name of the business that Kanye West helped fund in 2006? | {'text': 'Good Water Store and Café', 'answer_start': 351} |
26,660 | 26,318 | 56f95c639e9bad19000a0886 | generic | From 1946 to 1964 five Departments of State did the work of the modern Ministry of Defence: the Admiralty, the War Office, the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Aviation, and an earlier form of the Ministry of Defence. These departments merged in 1964; the defence functions of the Ministry of Aviation Supply merged into th... | All former Departments of State (except the Ministry of Aviation Supply) merged in what year? | {'text': '1964', 'answer_start': 243} |
91,357 | 91,015 | 5728c94a2ca10214002da7c8 | generic | There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined. Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain gen... | What do some people contend racial categories are obviously correlated with? | {'text': 'biological traits', 'answer_start': 249} |
100,686 | 100,344 | 572c807e750c471900ed4ca1 | generic | After the formal end of Reconstruction, the struggle over power in Southern society continued. Through violence and intimidation against freedmen and their allies, White Democrats regained political power in Tennessee and other states across the South in the late 1870s and 1880s. Over the next decade, the state legisla... | In which year did the Tennessee General Assembly pass electoral reform laws that disenfranchised most African Americans in the state? | {'text': '1889', 'answer_start': 395} |
98,875 | 98,533 | 572ac345111d821400f38d37 | generic | In the lead up to the Iraq War, Kerry said on October 9, 2002; "I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." ... | When did Kerry speak at Georgetown University? | {'text': 'January 23, 2003', 'answer_start': 408} |
1,435 | 1,093 | 56cc08eb6d243a140015ee6f | generic | On 3 December, Chopin complained about his bad health and the incompetence of the doctors in Majorca: "Three doctors have visited me ... The first said I was dead; the second said I was dying; and the third said I was about to die." He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him. It finally arrived from Paris... | What did Frédéric have trouble playing as a result of his growing illness? | {'text': 'piano', 'answer_start': 272} |
61,246 | 60,904 | 5726d16c708984140094d225 | generic | In Evita (1996), Madonna played the title role of Eva Perón. For a long time, Madonna had desired to play Perón and wrote to director Alan Parker to explain why she would be perfect for the part. She said later, "This is the role I was born to play. I put everything of me into this because it was much more than a role ... | In the film Evita, who did Madonna play? | {'text': 'Eva Perón', 'answer_start': 50} |
13,281 | 12,939 | 56df582c96943c1400a5d3e4 | generic | There were 230,233 households, 29.4% of which had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.4% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families. One person households account for 30.5% of all households and 8.7% of all households had someo... | What is the average size for families? | {'text': '3.11', 'answer_start': 437} |
42,207 | 41,865 | 570d63cdfed7b91900d45fa3 | generic | On the French side, planning after the disaster at Wissembourg had become essential. General Le Bœuf, flushed with anger, was intent upon going on the offensive over the Saar and countering their loss. However, planning for the next encounter was more based upon the reality of unfolding events rather than emotion or pr... | Which disaster made French planning supremely essential? | {'text': 'the disaster at Wissembourg', 'answer_start': 35} |
87,272 | 86,930 | 57280b532ca10214002d9c7e | generic | Asthma is characterized by recurrent episodes of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Sputum may be produced from the lung by coughing but is often hard to bring up. During recovery from an attack, it may appear pus-like due to high levels of white blood cells called eosinophils. Symptoms are u... | Does everyone have horrible episodes of asthma? | {'text': 'Some people with asthma rarely experience symptoms, u', 'answer_start': 407} |
29,257 | 28,915 | 5706158575f01819005e7962 | generic | In The Wombles, Uncle Bulgaria read The Times and asked for the other Wombles to bring him any copies that they found amongst the litter. The newspaper played a central role in the episode Very Behind the Times (Series 2, Episode 12). | In the children's TV show, The Wombles, what character asks others to bring him any copies of The Times that they find amongst the litter? | {'text': 'Uncle Bulgaria', 'answer_start': 16} |
110,022 | 109,680 | 572ff1ada23a5019007fcb84 | generic | From 1877 to 1878, the area suffered a rash of stagecoach robberies. Most notable, however, were the two holdups committed by masked road-agent William Whitney Brazelton. Brazelton held up two stages in the summer of 1878 near Point of Mountain Station approximately 17 mi (27 km) northwest of Tucson. John Clum, of Tomb... | What was Wyatt Earp's job title? | {'text': 'Deputy U.S. Marshal', 'answer_start': 1318} |
47,517 | 47,175 | 5ad2b2c0d7d075001a429f88 | generic | Americans with Sub-Saharan African ancestry for historical reasons: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation, have frequently been classified as black (historically) or African American, even if they have significant European American or Native American ancestry. A... | What kind of people assimilated into black society? | {'text': 'majority European ancestry', 'answer_start': 512} |
76,242 | 75,900 | 57279587708984140094e190 | generic | On July 1, 1988, the fourth and last day of a bruising 19th Party Conference, Gorbachev won the backing of the tired delegates for his last-minute proposal to create a new supreme legislative body called the Congress of People's Deputies. Frustrated by the old guard's resistance, Gorbachev embarked on a set of constitu... | What was the proposed legislative body called? | {'text': "Congress of People's Deputies", 'answer_start': 456} |
70,981 | 70,639 | 5726cbd25951b619008f7e58 | generic | In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles V combined the Seventeen Provinces (the current Benelux and the northern parts of France) as a personal union. This ended the prince-bishopric Utrecht, as the secular ru... | What was the bishop of Utrecht raised to | {'text': 'In 1559 the bishopric of Utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious center of the Northern ecclesiastical province in the Seventeen provinces', 'answer_start': 472} |
1,007 | 665 | 56bfdd3fa10cfb140055134b | generic | The release of a video-game Starpower: Beyoncé was cancelled after Beyoncé pulled out of a $100 million with GateFive who alleged the cancellation meant the sacking of 70 staff and millions of pounds lost in development. It was settled out of court by her lawyers in June 2013 who said that they had cancelled because Ga... | When did Beyonce begin her deals with name brands? | {'text': 'since the age of 18', 'answer_start': 433} |
127,650 | 127,308 | 57338b11d058e614000b5d02 | generic | St. Barthélemy has a small airport known as Gustaf III Airport on the north coast of the island that is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters. The nearest airport with a runway length sufficient to land a typical commercial jet airliner is on the neighboring island of Sint Maarten: Princess Juliana ... | What Island is the nearest major airport located on? | {'text': 'Sint Maarten', 'answer_start': 289} |
63,852 | 63,510 | 5ad3d344604f3c001a3ff281 | generic | The Yale Report of 1828 was a dogmatic defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum against critics who wanted more courses in modern languages, mathematics, and science. Unlike higher education in Europe, there was no national curriculum for colleges and universities in the United States. In the competition for students ... | Why was The Yale Report closed? | {'text': 'the classics would not be abandoned', 'answer_start': 568} |
31,575 | 31,233 | 570a0ae36d058f1900182c8a | generic | The Theater District is a 17-block area in the center of downtown Houston that is home to the Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas, and parks. Bayou Place is a large multilevel building containing full-service restaurants, bars, live music, billiards, and Sundance Cinema. The Bayou Music Cente... | What is the Galleria the largest of in Texas? | {'text': 'shopping mall', 'answer_start': 703} |
37,311 | 36,969 | 570b638b6b8089140040f910 | generic | The roots of hard rock can be traced back to the 1950s, particularly electric blues, which laid the foundations for key elements such as a rough declamatory vocal style, heavy guitar riffs, string-bending blues-scale guitar solos, strong beat, thick riff-laden texture, and posturing performances. Electric blues guitari... | What genre laid the roots for hard rock? | {'text': 'electric blues', 'answer_start': 69} |
12,987 | 12,645 | 56df11de3277331400b4d936 | generic | Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (sometimes known as Sony Music or by the initials, SME) is an American music corporation managed and operated by Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in... | In what year did it land the name, Sony Music Entertainment? | {'text': '1987', 'answer_start': 470} |
72,545 | 72,203 | 57277eb7dd62a815002e9ebf | generic | Before glaciation, mountain valleys have a characteristic "V" shape, produced by eroding water. During glaciation, these valleys are widened, deepened, and smoothed, forming a "U"-shaped glacial valley. The erosion that creates glacial valleys eliminates the spurs of earth that extend across mountain valleys, creating ... | What gives mountain vallys their characteristic "V" shape before glacation? | {'text': 'eroding water', 'answer_start': 81} |
31,966 | 31,624 | 5a836556e60761001a2eb662 | generic | Compounds that contain a carbon-copper bond are known as organocopper compounds. They are very reactive towards oxygen to form copper(I) oxide and have many uses in chemistry. They are synthesized by treating copper(I) compounds with Grignard reagents, terminal alkynes or organolithium reagents; in particular, the last... | What does organocopper compounds reactions toward water form? | {'text': 'copper(I) oxide', 'answer_start': 127} |
127,335 | 126,993 | 573402a3d058e614000b679a | generic | All signatories to the CPPCG are required to prevent and punish acts of genocide, both in peace and wartime, though some barriers make this enforcement difficult. In particular, some of the signatories—namely, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, Vietnam, Yemen, and forme... | What major western power is exempt from charges or claims of genocide against itself? | {'text': 'the United States', 'answer_start': 276} |
34,832 | 34,490 | 570a71dd6d058f1900182e73 | generic | In the 1990s, sociologists focused on different aspects of specific emotions and how these emotions were socially relevant. For Cooley (1992), pride and shame were the most important emotions that drive people to take various social actions. During every encounter, he proposed that we monitor ourselves through the "loo... | Who developed the social bond theory? | {'text': 'Scheff', 'answer_start': 645} |
128,232 | 127,890 | 5733a866d058e614000b5f95 | generic | Anthropology is the study of humans and their societies in the past and present. Its main subdivisions are social anthropology and cultural anthropology, which describes the workings of societies around the world, linguistic anthropology, which investigates the influence of language in social life, and biological or ph... | Where is Archaeology considered a branch of anthropology? | {'text': 'United States', 'answer_start': 541} |
66,672 | 66,330 | 5ad11348645df0001a2d0c59 | generic | The historian Piers Brendon asserts that Burke laid the moral foundations for the British Empire, epitomised in the trial of Warren Hastings, that was ultimately to be its undoing: when Burke stated that "The British Empire must be governed on a plan of freedom, for it will be governed by no other", this was "...an ide... | What did Burke say the plan of freedom must be governed by? | {'text': 'The British Empire', 'answer_start': 205} |
75,418 | 75,076 | 5727634f5951b619008f8936 | generic | The western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Balsam Mountains, and Black Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mo... | What is the name of the highest point east of the Mississippi river? | {'text': 'Mount Mitchell', 'answer_start': 318} |
60,461 | 60,119 | 57267d455951b619008f747c | generic | In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted. Late that year he sold Marvel Comics and his other pub... | What wholly-owned affiliate of this company did Marvel operate within? | {'text': 'Magazine Management Company', 'answer_start': 433} |
95,756 | 95,414 | 5ace315b32bba1001ae49d6d | generic | Eastern or Canada hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is another important evergreen needle-leaf conifer that grows along the Appalachian chain from north to south, but is confined to lower elevations than red spruce and the firs. It generally occupies richer and less acidic soils than the spruce and firs and is characteristic ... | What kinds of trees are at a lower elevation than Canada hemlocks? | {'text': 'red spruce and the firs', 'answer_start': 197} |
87,263 | 86,921 | 5a4fd6f0af0d07001ae8cc40 | generic | There is no cure for asthma. Symptoms can be prevented by avoiding triggers, such as allergens and irritants, and by the use of inhaled corticosteroids. Long-acting beta agonists (LABA) or antileukotriene agents may be used in addition to inhaled corticosteroids if asthma symptoms remain uncontrolled. Treatment of rapi... | Is there a cure for long acting beta agonists? | {'text': 'There is no cure', 'answer_start': 0} |
75,713 | 75,371 | 57276c565951b619008f89a8 | generic | The Heian period was preceded by the Nara period and began in 794 A.D after the movement of the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (present day Kyōto京都), by the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu. Kanmu first tried to move the capital to Nagaoka-kyō, but a series of disasters befell the city, prompting the emperor to relocate the ... | The Heian period began in what year? | {'text': '794 A.D', 'answer_start': 62} |
33,062 | 32,720 | 5a5cbc6f5e8782001a9d5d99 | generic | Clickjacking, also known as "UI redress attack or User Interface redress attack", is a malicious technique in which an attacker tricks a user into clicking on a button or link on another webpage while the user intended to click on the top level page. This is done using multiple transparent or opaque layers. The attacke... | What is another name for hijacking keystrokes? | {'text': 'UI redress attack', 'answer_start': 29} |
91,659 | 91,317 | 5729458baf94a219006aa231 | generic | Similarly, forensic anthropologists draw on highly heritable morphological features of human remains (e.g. cranial measurements) to aid in the identification of the body, including in terms of race. In a 1992 article, anthropologist Norman Sauer noted that anthropologists had generally abandoned the concept of race as ... | What are forensic anthropologists very good at identifying? | {'text': 'races', 'answer_start': 425} |
92,124 | 91,782 | 5728c4eaff5b5019007da655 | generic | The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai[clarification needed] is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word "pella" (Pella), stone. Stones played an important part in th... | What represents Apollo as a Northern intruder? | {'text': 'Homeric hymn', 'answer_start': 400} |
57,932 | 57,590 | 5a51ca4ab308da001a5a23a6 | generic | The culture in Southeast Asia is very diverse: on mainland Southeast Asia, the culture is a mix of Indochinese (Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand) and Chinese (Singapore and Vietnam). While in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia the culture is a mix of indigenous Austronesian, Indian, Islamic, Western, and Chinese... | Where is the culture predominatly Chinese? | {'text': 'Singapore and Vietnam', 'answer_start': 161} |
48,845 | 48,503 | 571aa29f10f8ca140030520e | generic | In the year 712, Muhammad bin Qasim, an Umayyad general, sailed from the Persian Gulf into Sindh in Pakistan and conquered both the Sindh and the Punjab regions along the Indus river. The conquest of Sindh and Punjab, in modern-day Pakistan, although costly, were major gains for the Umayyad Caliphate. However, further ... | Along with the Punjab, what did Muhammad bin Wasim conquer? | {'text': 'Sindh', 'answer_start': 132} |
126,209 | 125,867 | 57341fcf4776f419006618cc | generic | Portuguese is the official language of Portugal. Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Northern Portugal, originating from Galician-Portuguese, which was the common language of the Galician and Portuguese people until the independence of Portugal. Particularly in the North of Portu... | What type of language is Portuguese? | {'text': 'Romance', 'answer_start': 65} |
18,787 | 18,445 | 56e75f4b37bdd419002c3f09 | generic | The thickness of paper is often measured by caliper, which is typically given in thousandths of an inch in the United States and in thousandths of a mm in the rest of the world. Paper may be between 0.07 and 0.18 millimetres (0.0028 and 0.0071 in) thick. | What tool is often used in measuring the thickness of paper? | {'text': 'caliper', 'answer_start': 44} |
92,241 | 91,899 | 5728ee8dff5b5019007da998 | generic | Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara (as Apollo Citharoedus) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree (the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types). The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century; for centuries it epitomized the idea... | Who made the Apollo Belvedere? | {'text': 'Leochares', 'answer_start': 493} |
102,302 | 101,960 | 5731826ca5e9cc1400cdbffd | generic | In 1979, the committees began the redistribution of land in the Jefara plain, continuing through 1981. In May 1980, measures to redistribute and equalize wealth were implemented; anyone with over 1000 dinar in his bank account saw that extra money expropriated. The following year, the GPC announced that the government ... | What took the place of private businesses in 1981? | {'text': 'state supermarkets', 'answer_start': 394} |
42,534 | 42,192 | 570dcc300b85d914000d7b65 | generic | Until mid-to-late adolescence, boys and girls show relatively little difference in drinking motives. Distinctions between the reasons for alcohol consumption of males and females begin to emerge around ages 14–15; overall, boys tend to view drinking in a more social light than girls, who report on average a more freque... | Which gender reports most frequently using alcohol as a coping mechanism? | {'text': 'girls', 'answer_start': 278} |
36,509 | 36,167 | 570b2260ec8fbc190045b854 | generic | In addition to the change in the mean length of the calendar year from 365.25 days (365 days 6 hours) to 365.2425 days (365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds), a reduction of 10 minutes 48 seconds per year, the Gregorian calendar reform also dealt with the accumulated difference between these lengths. The canonical Ea... | What is the difference in time between the calendars? | {'text': '10 minutes 48 seconds', 'answer_start': 176} |
77,236 | 76,894 | 5727a65f4b864d190016396b | generic | In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied t... | Who took over after the preliminary phase? | {'text': 'Professor Skousen', 'answer_start': 63} |
22,890 | 22,548 | 56f761b0a6d7ea1400e17236 | generic | Polabian Slavs (Wends) settled in parts of England (Danelaw), apparently as Danish allies. Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known to have even settled on Norse age Iceland. Saqaliba refers to the Slavic mercenaries and slaves in the medieval Arab world in North Africa, Sicily and Al-Andalus. Saqaliba served as caliph... | Saqaliba served as what? | {'text': "caliph's guards", 'answer_start': 314} |
2,719 | 2,377 | 56cda64a62d2951400fa67c0 | generic | A CD containing 20 musical selections from the game was available as a GameStop preorder bonus in the United States; it is included in all bundles in Japan, Europe, and Australia.[citation needed] | In what areas is the content of the GameStop bonus CD provided for all versions of the game? | {'text': 'Japan, Europe, and Australia', 'answer_start': 150} |
105,865 | 105,523 | 5a87bcd31d3cee001a6a1332 | generic | Evaporation and sublimation into a vacuum is called outgassing. All materials, solid or liquid, have a small vapour pressure, and their outgassing becomes important when the vacuum pressure falls below this vapour pressure. In man-made systems, outgassing has the same effect as a leak and can limit the achievable vacuu... | What does liquid have the same effect as in a telescope? | {'text': 'a leak', 'answer_start': 279} |
78,249 | 77,907 | 5a73b10442eae6001a389976 | generic | In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties. In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits. In nonpartisan legislatures, there are no typically formal party alignments within the legislature. The ad... | What does the Northwest Territories warn against? | {'text': 'Nonpartisan elections and modes of governance', 'answer_start': 842} |
47,638 | 47,296 | 5ad299e9d7d075001a429b8c | generic | In the colonial years, while conditions were more fluid, white women, indentured servant or free, and African men, servant, slave or free, made unions. Because the women were free, their mixed-race children were born free; they and their descendants formed most of the families of free people of color during the colonia... | What can eighty percent of enslaved people of color in North Carolina be traced to? | {'text': 'Virginia in colonial years', 'answer_start': 502} |
54,302 | 53,960 | 5726f540f1498d1400e8f0f6 | generic | The initial assault by North Korean KPA forces were aided by the use of Soviet T-34-85 tanks. A North Korean tank corps equipped with about 120 T-34s spearheaded the invasion. These drove against a ROK Army with few anti-tank weapons adequate to deal with the Soviet T-34s. Additional Soviet armor was added as the offen... | What form of attack was an effective measure of slowing Korean armor? | {'text': 'ground attack aircraft', 'answer_start': 559} |
49,138 | 48,796 | 571b1b449499d21900609c0b | generic | Bitumen was used in early photographic technology. In 1826 or 1827, it was used by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to make the oldest surviving photograph from nature. The bitumen was thinly coated onto a pewter plate which was then exposed in a camera. Exposure to light hardened the bitumen and made it insolu... | What feature of bitumen use in photography made it impractical? | {'text': 'hours of exposure', 'answer_start': 436} |
68,344 | 68,002 | 5acd5f9907355d001abf3f7b | generic | Raleigh is home to a wide variety of religious practitioners. As of 2013, 46.41% of people in Raleigh are affiliated with a religion. The predominant religion in Raleigh is Christianity, with the largest numbers of adherents being Roman Catholic (11.3%), Baptist (10.85%), and Methodist (7.08%). Others include Presbyter... | What religion is not present in Raleigh | {'text': 'Christianity', 'answer_start': 173} |
74,553 | 74,211 | 5a6fd6dd8abb0b001a675fa1 | generic | The year 1789 brought the French Revolution and with it the first division of Alsace into the départements of Haut- and Bas-Rhin. Alsatians played an active role in the French Revolution. On 21 July 1789, after receiving news of the Storming of the Bastille in Paris, a crowd of people stormed the Strasbourg city hall, ... | What department was Rouget de Lisle part of? | {'text': 'Haut', 'answer_start': 110} |
49,708 | 49,366 | 572635ccec44d21400f3dc3f | generic | In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. The following day, she participated in a procession and attended a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey. By this time, Vi... | When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee? | {'text': '1887', 'answer_start': 3} |
48,874 | 48,532 | 571aa35110f8ca140030521a | generic | Yazid died while the siege was still in progress, and the Umayyad army returned to Damascus, leaving Ibn al-Zubayr in control of Mecca. Yazid's son Muawiya II (683–84) initially succeeded him but seems to have never been recognized as caliph outside of Syria. Two factions developed within Syria: the Confederation of Qa... | From whom was Marwan descended? | {'text': "Umayya via Wa'il ibn Umayyah", 'answer_start': 407} |
63,620 | 63,278 | 5726a5eef1498d1400e8e612 | generic | Towns such as Castle Cary and Frome grew around the medieval weaving industry. Street developed as a centre for the production of woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes, with C. & J. Clark establishing its headquarters in the town. C&J Clark's shoes are no longer manufactured there as the work was transferred to ... | What towns grew around the weaving Industry | {'text': 'Castle Cary and Frome grew around the medieval weaving industry', 'answer_start': 14} |
22,534 | 22,192 | 56f71b0b711bf01900a4496d | generic | Alternative proposals for the etymology of *Slověninъ propounded by some scholars have much less support. Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning "practicer of a common Slavic religion," and from that evolved into an ethnonym. S.B. Bernstein speculates that it de... | Who speculates that *slava derives from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos? | {'text': 'S.B. Bernstein', 'answer_start': 284} |
53,947 | 53,605 | 57268becf1498d1400e8e362 | generic | The official Cubs team mascot is a young bear cub, named Clark, described by the team's press release as a young and friendly Cub. Clark made his debut at Advocate Health Care on January 13, 2014, the same day as the press release announcing his installation as the club's first ever official physical mascot. The bear c... | When did Clark make his debut? | {'text': 'January 13, 2014', 'answer_start': 179} |
2,469 | 2,127 | 56cd8dbf62d2951400fa66f2 | generic | The GameCube and Wii versions feature several minor differences in their controls. The Wii version of the game makes use of the motion sensors and built-in speaker of the Wii Remote. The speaker emits the sounds of a bowstring when shooting an arrow, Midna's laugh when she gives advice to Link, and the series' trademar... | Where is the speaker located on the Wii console? | {'text': 'Wii Remote', 'answer_start': 171} |
69,274 | 68,932 | 5a7d1ea870df9f001a874fb3 | generic | Literature consists of written productions, often restricted to those deemed to have artistic or intellectual value. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera, letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, but intertwined with the roman concept of cultura: learning or cultiv... | What is literature as written productions always restricted to? | {'text': 'those deemed to have artistic or intellectual value', 'answer_start': 64} |
86,206 | 85,864 | 5ad344ed604f3c001a3fdc43 | generic | PlayStation Portable can connect with PlayStation 3 in many ways, including in-game connectivity. For example, Formula One Championship Edition, a racing game, was shown at E3 2006 using a PSP as a real-time rear-view mirror. In addition, users are able to download original PlayStation format games from the PlayStation... | What PS2 game can integrate a PlayStation Portable to use as a rear-view mirror? | {'text': 'Formula One Championship Edition', 'answer_start': 111} |
127,331 | 126,989 | 5a69adac5ce1a5001a96967a | generic | Highlighting the potential for state and non-state actors to commit genocide in the 21st century, for example, in failed states or as non-state actors acquire weapons of mass destruction, Adrian Gallagher defined genocide as 'When a source of collective power (usually a state) intentionally uses its power base to imple... | A major part of a group has to be what in order for the centrality of intent classification to happen? | {'text': 'destroyed', 'answer_start': 710} |
111,785 | 111,443 | 5ad0ccde645df0001a2d03b9 | generic | The Football Association Premier League Ltd (FAPL) is operated as a corporation and is owned by the 20 member clubs. Each club is a shareholder, with one vote each on issues such as rule changes and contracts. The clubs elect a chairman, chief executive, and board of directors to oversee the daily operations of the lea... | Having two votes, what is each club considered? | {'text': 'a shareholder', 'answer_start': 130} |
26,292 | 25,950 | 56f97c189b226e1400dd149c | generic | Kuaiji Commandery was the initial power base for Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's rebellion against the Qin Empire which initially succeeded in restoring the kingdom of Chu but eventually fell to the Han. Under the Later Han, control of the area returned to the settlement below Mount Kuaiji but authority over the Minyue hint... | Who did the kingdom of Chu eventually fall to? | {'text': 'the Han', 'answer_start': 190} |
97,624 | 97,282 | 5a0e0525d7c85000188644e9 | generic | Poverty is a good indicator of the rate of infectious diarrhea in a population. This association does not stem from poverty itself, but rather from the conditions under which impoverished people live. The absence of certain resources compromises the ability of the poor to defend themselves against infectious diarrhea. ... | What prevents poor people from defending against human pathogens? | {'text': 'The absence of certain resources', 'answer_start': 201} |
51,756 | 51,414 | 5725cf21ec44d21400f3d5f9 | generic | Parque Batlle (formerly: Parque de los Aliados, translation: "Park of the Allies") is a major public central park, located south of Avenida Italia and north of Avenue Rivera. Along with Parque Prado and Parque Rodó it is one of three large parks that dominate Montevideo. The park and surrounding area constitute one of ... | What sub district of Parque Batlle took its name from the original villa of Don Alejo Rossell Y Rius? | {'text': 'Villa Dolores', 'answer_start': 812} |
33,130 | 32,788 | 5709806e200fba14003680a6 | generic | Modern Orthodoxy comprises a fairly broad spectrum of movements, each drawing on several distinct though related philosophies, which in some combination have provided the basis for all variations of the movement today. In general, Modern Orthodoxy holds that Jewish law is normative and binding, while simultaneously att... | What integrity is orthodox judaism trying to preserve? | {'text': 'halakha', 'answer_start': 675} |
105,228 | 104,886 | 573040dd947a6a140053d33a | generic | In 1941, the Luftwaffe shifted strategy again. Erich Raeder—commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine—had long argued the Luftwaffe should support the German submarine force (U-Bootwaffe) in the Battle of the Atlantic by attacking shipping in the Atlantic Ocean and attacking British ports. Eventually, he convinced Hitler ... | What did Erich Raeder believe the Luftwaffe needed to do? | {'text': 'support the German submarine force', 'answer_start': 136} |
83,624 | 83,282 | 5727d8792ca10214002d97e7 | generic | Oklahoma is in the nation's middle percentile in per capita spending on the arts, ranking 17th, and contains more than 300 museums. The Philbrook Museum of Tulsa is considered one of the top 50 fine art museums in the United States, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, one of the largest univ... | What kind of museum is the Philbrook? | {'text': 'fine art', 'answer_start': 194} |
65,082 | 64,740 | 5726afd2dd62a815002e8cfa | generic | The eastern arm shows considerable diversity. In England it is generally long and may have two distinct sections, both choir and presbytery. It is often square ended or has a projecting Lady Chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In France the eastern end is often polygonal and surrounded by a walkway called an ambulato... | In Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept often contains what? | {'text': 'the sanctuary', 'answer_start': 539} |
96,826 | 96,484 | 572a5776d562191400bc8684 | generic | Muslim sects regarded as heretical, such as the Druze, Ismailis, Alevis, and Alawites, ranked below Jews and Christians. In 1514, Sultan Selim I, nicknamed "the Grim" because of his cruelty, ordered the massacre of 40,000 Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash), whom he considered heretics, reportedly proclaiming that "the killin... | What was Sultan Selim I's nickname? | {'text': 'the Grim', 'answer_start': 157} |
112,992 | 112,650 | 572fe604a23a5019007fcafd | generic | The state of California was admitted to the United States in 1850. That same year San Diego was designated the seat of the newly established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city. Joshua H. Bean, the last alcalde of San Diego, was elected the first mayor. Two years later the city was bankrupt; the California ... | In what year did San Diego officially become a city? | {'text': '1850', 'answer_start': 61} |
67,675 | 67,333 | 572789bff1498d1400e8fb42 | generic | Switzerland lies between latitudes 45° and 48° N, and longitudes 5° and 11° E. It contains three basic topographical areas: the Swiss Alps to the south, the Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau, and the Jura mountains on the west. The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central-south of the country, comprisin... | What is the largest lake in Switzerland? | {'text': 'Lake Geneva', 'answer_start': 1318} |
19,623 | 19,281 | 56e75e2d00c9c71400d77022 | generic | The library is based at two public sites: the Reading Room at the RIBA's headquarters, 66 Portland Place, London; and the RIBA Architecture Study Rooms in the Henry Cole Wing of the V&A. The Reading Room, designed by the building's architect George Grey Wornum and his wife Miriam, retains its original 1934 Art Deco int... | Where is the Royal Institute Library's Reading Room located? | {'text': '66 Portland Place', 'answer_start': 87} |
117,071 | 116,729 | 5ad00bca77cf76001a6867fe | generic | In 941, Igor led another major Rus' attack on Constantinople, probably over trading rights again. A navy of 10,000 vessels, including Pecheneg allies, landed on the Bithynian coast and devastated the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. The attack was well-timed, perhaps due to intelligence, as the Byzantine fleet was occup... | What year was the Rus fleet defeated? | {'text': '911', 'answer_start': 1436} |
7,314 | 6,972 | 56daf993e7c41114004b4bef | generic | Prompted by the chaotic torch relays in Western Europe and North America, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge described the situation as a "crisis" for the organization and stated that any athletes displaying Tibetan flags at Olympic venues could be expelled from the games. though he sto... | Who asked that the torch relay be ended? | {'text': 'IOC members.', 'answer_start': 397} |
86,231 | 85,889 | 57282ec84b864d1900164681 | generic | The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. Available content includes full games, add-on cont... | What do you click on in the PS3 interface to get to the PlayStation Store? | {'text': 'an icon', 'answer_start': 411} |
124,165 | 123,823 | 5a53d231bdaabd001a386759 | generic | In 885 AD the Armenians reestablished themselves as a sovereign kingdom under the leadership of Ashot I of the Bagratid Dynasty. A considerable portion of the Armenian nobility and peasantry fled the Byzantine occupation of Bagratid Armenia in 1045, and the subsequent invasion of the region by Seljuk Turks in 1064. The... | What group fled the invasion of the Mamluk in 885 AD? | {'text': 'A considerable portion of the Armenian nobility and peasantry', 'answer_start': 129} |
99,616 | 99,274 | 572b3ab4111d821400f38de4 | generic | Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco... | What conclusion do most of Hume's followers disagree with? | {'text': 'that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable', 'answer_start': 60} |
92,108 | 91,766 | 5728c1a84b864d1900164d6d | generic | As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor (/əˈfiːtər/ ə-FEE-tər; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ἀφίημι, "to let loose") or Aphetorus (/əˈfɛtərəs/ ə-FET-ər-əs; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin), Argyrotoxus (/ˌɑːrdʒᵻrəˈtɒksəs/ AR-ji-rə-TOK-səs; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argyrotoxos, literally "with silver bow"), Hecaërgus (/ˌhɛ... | Who struck his parents with an arrow? | {'text': 'Ismenius', 'answer_start': 595} |
118,618 | 118,276 | 5a860b6db4e223001a8e73f0 | generic | Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstre... | What are uncommon words or names considered to be and not usually indicated? | {'text': 'unpredictable', 'answer_start': 350} |
71,719 | 71,377 | 5acf67fb77cf76001a684d98 | generic | Several solid dielectrics are available, including paper, plastic, glass, mica and ceramic materials. Paper was used extensively in older devices and offers relatively high voltage performance. However, it is susceptible to water absorption, and has been largely replaced by plastic film capacitors. Plastics offer bette... | What is another type of reliable capacitor that is not resistant to temperature and voltage changes? | {'text': 'mica capacitors', 'answer_start': 831} |
30,561 | 30,219 | 5706ae9775f01819005e7d26 | generic | Kevin Saunderson's company KMS Records contributed many releases that were as much house music as they were techno. These tracks were well received in Chicago and played on Chicago radio and in clubs.[citation needed] Blake Baxter's 1986 recording, "When we Used to Play / Work your Body", 1987's "Bounce Your Body to th... | what was the name of Blake Baxter's 1987 hit recording? | {'text': '"Bounce Your Body to the Box"', 'answer_start': 297} |
11,303 | 10,961 | 5a63296468151a001a92224a | generic | European overseas expansion led to the rise of colonial empires, producing the Columbian Exchange. The combination of resource inflows from the New World and the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain, allowed a new economy based on manufacturing instead of subsistence agriculture. | What allowed a new economy based on subsistence agriculture? | {'text': 'resource inflows from the New World and the Industrial Revolution', 'answer_start': 118} |
1,591 | 1,249 | 56cfe792234ae51400d9c05b | generic | In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could n... | Where did Jane Stirling invite Chopin? | {'text': 'Scotland', 'answer_start': 56} |
128,322 | 127,980 | 5733ae95d058e614000b6035 | generic | Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social anthropology in Great Britain and cultural anthropology in the US have been distinguished from other social sciences by its emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons, long-term in-depth examination of context, and the i... | What has cultural anthropology specifically emphasized? | {'text': 'cultural relativism, holism, and the use of findings to frame cultural critiques', 'answer_start': 469} |
19,129 | 18,787 | 56e6df336fe0821900b8ec11 | generic | This format often includes dance-pop (such as upbeat songs by Madonna, Cher, Gloria Estefan and Kylie Minogue), power pops (mainly by boybands such as Backstreet Boys and Westlife), and adult-oriented soft rock music that are ballad-driven (typically by Aerosmith[citation needed], The Eagles, Sting, Toto and The Moody ... | What type of band are Backstreet Boys and Westlife? | {'text': 'boybands', 'answer_start': 134} |
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