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84,082 | 83,740 | 5728bc02ff5b5019007da5a3 | generic | The Indian rebellion of 1857 was a large-scale rebellion by soldiers employed by the British East India in northern and central India against the Company's rule. The rebels were disorganized, had differing goals, and were poorly equipped, led, and trained, and had no outside support or funding. They were brutally suppr... | What happened to the rebels of the Rebellion? | {'text': 'brutally suppressed', 'answer_start': 306} |
2,396 | 2,054 | 56d13443e7d4791d00901fec | generic | On June 11, 2006, the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday reported that iPods are mainly manufactured by workers who earn no more than US$50 per month and work 15-hour shifts. Apple investigated the case with independent auditors and found that, while some of the plant's labour practices met Apple's Code of Conduct, oth... | What percentage of Apple's manufacturing employees worked over 60 hour weeks? | {'text': '35%', 'answer_start': 375} |
115,005 | 114,663 | 5ad3c964604f3c001a3ff097 | generic | The two volume biography of Whitehead by Victor Lowe is the most definitive presentation of the life of Whitehead. However, many details of Whitehead's life remain obscure because he left no Nachlass; his family carried out his instructions that all of his papers be destroyed after his death. Additionally, Whitehead wa... | What was Whitehead's opinion on public matters? | {'text': 'almost fanatical belief in the right to privacy', 'answer_start': 337} |
112,863 | 112,521 | 573241c5e17f3d1400422796 | generic | On 23 February, the 28th Marine Regiment reached the summit of Suribachi, prompting the now famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima picture. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, upon seeing the flag, remarked "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years." The flag raising is often cited as the most reproduced photograph... | When was the summit of Mount Suribachi reached by U.S. marines? | {'text': '23 February', 'answer_start': 3} |
9,516 | 9,174 | 56dde48b9a695914005b966c | generic | Consistent with the missions and priorities outlined above, the Canadian Armed Forces also contribute to the conduct of Canadian defence diplomacy through a range of activities, including the deployment of Canadian Defence Attachés, participation in bilateral and multilateral military forums (e.g. the System of Coopera... | What other priority do the Canadian Armed Forces also contribute too? | {'text': 'conduct of Canadian defence diplomacy', 'answer_start': 109} |
125,991 | 125,649 | 5733b5944776f419006610f5 | generic | On 1 February 1908, the king Dom Carlos I of Portugal and his heir apparent, Prince Royal Dom Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, were murdered in Lisbon. Under his rule, Portugal had twice been declared bankrupt – on 14 June 1892, and again on 10 May 1902 – causing social turmoil, economic disturbances, protests, revolts a... | During the Portuguese First Republic, what creating a fertile ground for chaos and unrest? | {'text': 'Political instability and economic weaknesses', 'answer_start': 524} |
103,537 | 103,195 | 572e8e6bc246551400ce4347 | 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 ... | Who gave John Couch Adams extra data? | {'text': 'Sir George Airy', 'answer_start': 445} |
128,836 | 128,494 | 5733fcd74776f41900661660 | generic | The Punjabis followed a diverse plethora of faiths, mainly comprising Hinduism[citation needed] , when the Muslim Umayyad army led by Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Southern Punjab in 712, by defeating Raja Dahir. The Umayyad Caliphate was the second Islamic caliphate established after the death of Muhammad. It... | What did missionary Muslims build in Punjab? | {'text': 'dargahs', 'answer_start': 1091} |
86,988 | 86,646 | 5a81fbf231013a001a335043 | generic | Some topological spaces may be endowed with a group law. In order for the group law and the topology to interweave well, the group operations must be continuous functions, that is, g • h, and g−1 must not vary wildly if g and h vary only little. Such groups are called topological groups, and they are the group objects ... | What are harmonic analyses studied using? | {'text': 'Haar measures', 'answer_start': 577} |
85,956 | 85,614 | 5ad33cdf604f3c001a3fdb86 | generic | The initial prototype shown in May 2005 featured two HDMI ports, three Ethernet ports and six USB ports; however, when the system was shown again a year later at E3 2006, these were reduced to one HDMI port, one Ethernet port and four USB ports, presumably to cut costs. Two hardware configurations were also announced f... | By the time the system appeared at E3 2005, how many Ethernet ports was it down to? | {'text': 'one', 'answer_start': 208} |
41,755 | 41,413 | 570d3a4ab3d812140066d589 | generic | GE is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Its main offices are located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center in New York City, known now as the Comcast Building. It was formerly known as the GE Building for the prominent GE logo on the roof; NBC's headquarters and main studios ... | In what year did GE move its headquarters to Fairfield? | {'text': '1974', 'answer_start': 551} |
3,020 | 2,678 | 56cf4925aab44d1400b88f3c | generic | Filming temporarily returned to England to shoot scenes at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, which stood in for a location in Rome, before moving on to the city itself for a five-week shoot across the city, with locations including the Ponte Sisto bridge and the Roman Forum. The production faced opposition from a variety... | What company did the Williams Formula One team originally build the C-X75 prototype for? | {'text': 'Jaguar.', 'answer_start': 1166} |
9,903 | 9,561 | 56ddea8366d3e219004dae07 | generic | In early modern times, cardinals often had important roles in secular affairs. In some cases, they took on powerful positions in government. In Henry VIII's England, his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Richelieu's power was so great that he was for many years effectively the ruler of France. Richelieu succ... | What Caridinal had powers so great that he basically ran France? | {'text': 'Cardinal Richelieu', 'answer_start': 206} |
126,267 | 125,925 | 57342a56d058e614000b6a81 | generic | Portuguese wines have enjoyed international recognition since the times of the Romans, who associated Portugal with their god Bacchus. Today, the country is known by wine lovers and its wines have won several international prizes. Some of the best Portuguese wines are: Vinho Verde, Vinho Alvarinho, Vinho do Douro, Vinh... | With which Roman God was Portugal associated with? | {'text': 'Bacchus', 'answer_start': 126} |
106,532 | 106,190 | 572eccf7cb0c0d14000f1593 | generic | The proper recitation of the Quran is the subject of a separate discipline named tajwid which determines in detail how the Quran should be recited, how each individual syllable is to be pronounced, the need to pay attention to the places where there should be a pause, to elisions, where the pronunciation should be long... | Rhythm is an example of which features of Quranic recitation covered by tajwid? | {'text': 'musical and melodious', 'answer_start': 717} |
94,661 | 94,319 | 572a23651d046914007797d2 | generic | Roman Catholic and more traditional Protestant clergy wear green vestments at liturgical celebrations during Ordinary Time. In the Eastern Catholic Church, green is the color of Pentecost. Green is one of the Christmas colors as well, possibly dating back to pre-Christian times, when evergreens were worshiped for their... | What is green the color of in the Eastern Catholic Church? | {'text': 'Pentecost', 'answer_start': 178} |
41,873 | 41,531 | 5acecba032bba1001ae4b450 | generic | The Total Force Policy was adopted by Chief of Staff of the Army General Creighton Abrams in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and involves treating the three components of the army – the Regular Army, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve as a single force. Believing that no U.S. president should be able to take... | What three components of the Navy are a single force? | {'text': 'the Regular Army, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve', 'answer_start': 183} |
112,217 | 111,875 | 572fe7abb2c2fd1400568599 | generic | With Egypt and Macedonia weakened, the Seleucid Empire made increasingly aggressive and successful attempts to conquer the entire Greek world. Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. The situation was made worse by the fact that Hannibal was now... | Which former enemy wanted an alliance with the Romans? | {'text': 'Philip', 'answer_start': 195} |
70,831 | 70,489 | 5726e9d2dd62a815002e94f7 | generic | NigComSat-1, a Nigerian satellite built in 2004, was Nigeria's third satellite and Africa's first communication satellite. It was launched on 13 May 2007, aboard a Chinese Long March 3B carrier rocket, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. The spacecraft was operated by NigComSat and the Nigerian Space Age... | When was Nigeria's third satellite built? | {'text': '2004', 'answer_start': 43} |
3,972 | 3,630 | 56cef532aab44d1400b88d1b | generic | When one Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election ridiculed the liberalism of "New York values" in January 2016, Donald Trump, leading in the polls, vigorously defended his city. The National Review, a conservative magazine published in the city since its founding by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, comm... | What public figure defended New York in January 2016? | {'text': 'Donald Trump', 'answer_start': 128} |
21,754 | 21,412 | 5ad3f788604f3c001a3ffa20 | generic | In the 1990s two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey. On 6 September 1997 the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at the Abbey. On 17 September 2010 Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to set foot in the abbey. | What was held at the abbey on 6 September 1996? | {'text': 'funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales', 'answer_start': 115} |
80,199 | 79,857 | 572801e6ff5b5019007d9ad8 | generic | USB data is transmitted by toggling the data lines between the J state and the opposite K state. USB encodes data using the NRZI line coding; a 0 bit is transmitted by toggling the data lines from J to K or vice versa, while a 1 bit is transmitted by leaving the data lines as-is. To ensure a minimum density of signal t... | To ensure a minimum density of signal transitions remains in the bitsream, what does USB use? | {'text': 'bit stuffing', 'answer_start': 366} |
69,669 | 69,327 | 5ace988432bba1001ae4abd0 | generic | Avicenna was born c. 980 in Afšana, a village near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), the capital of the Samanids, a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan. His mother, named Setareh, was from Bukhara; his father, Abdullah, was a respected Ismaili scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Emp... | What Samanid dynasty capital was Avicenna born far away from? | {'text': 'Bukhara', 'answer_start': 51} |
33,742 | 33,400 | 570a77f96d058f1900182e86 | generic | Drinking chilled beer began with the development of artificial refrigeration and by the 1870s, was spread in those countries that concentrated on brewing pale lager. Chilling beer makes it more refreshing, though below 15.5 °C the chilling starts to reduce taste awareness and reduces it significantly below 10 °C (50 °F... | When is a beer at its most flavorful? | {'text': 'unchilled', 'answer_start': 335} |
105,595 | 105,253 | 572ec878dfa6aa1500f8d3af | generic | Green and the CPI further noted another exploit of the ESA in their discussion of the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Not only had they found documentation that 151 of these primates had inadvertently made their way from the Harvard-affiliated New England Regional Primate Research Center in... | The Center for Public Integrity found that 151 of what primate were moved from the New England Primate Research Center into exotic pet trade? | {'text': 'cotton-top tamarin', 'answer_start': 108} |
25,559 | 25,217 | 56f8efcd9e9bad19000a0734 | generic | The music of Guinea-Bissau is usually associated with the polyrhythmic gumbe genre, the country's primary musical export. However, civil unrest and other factors have combined over the years to keep gumbe, and other genres, out of mainstream audiences, even in generally syncretist African countries. | What is considered the country's primary musical export? | {'text': 'the polyrhythmic gumbe genre', 'answer_start': 54} |
81,121 | 80,779 | 5728d37b4b864d1900164eee | generic | In the years following the mid-1930s, Detroit was referred to as the "City of Champions" after the Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings captured all three major professional sports championships in a seven-month period of time (the Tigers won the World Series in October 1935; the Lions won the NFL championship in December 1935... | Who won the World Series in 1935? | {'text': 'Tigers', 'answer_start': 224} |
50,106 | 49,764 | 57255dc469ff041400e58c40 | generic | During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. Oxford fired twice, but either both bullets missed or, as he later claimed, the guns had no sho... | Who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria while she was pregnant with her first child? | {'text': 'Edward Oxford', 'answer_start': 96} |
58,762 | 58,420 | 57264ffb708984140094c212 | generic | A patent is a form of right granted by the government to an inventor, giving the owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. An invention is a solution to a specific tech... | An invention is a solution to what type of problem? | {'text': 'technological', 'answer_start': 316} |
129,119 | 128,777 | 57344025d058e614000b6b90 | generic | Richmond has several historic churches. Because of its early English colonial history from the early 17th century to 1776, Richmond has a number of prominent Anglican/Episcopal churches including Monumental Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and St. John's Episcopal Church. Methodists and Baptists made up another sect... | What architectural style was Second Presbyterian Church built in? | {'text': 'Gothic', 'answer_start': 724} |
42,520 | 42,178 | 570dc39016d0071400510d59 | generic | Drinking habits and the motives behind them often reflect certain aspects of an individual's personality; in fact, four dimensions of the Five-Factor Model of personality demonstrate associations with drinking motives (all but 'Openness'). Greater enhancement motives for alcohol consumption tend to reflect high levels ... | Which of the Five-Factor Model dimensions does not demonstrate an association with drinking motives? | {'text': 'Openness', 'answer_start': 228} |
127,015 | 126,673 | 5acecb0a32bba1001ae4b42b | generic | Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years (Deflem, 2002). For example, in the 19th century a number of European policing agencies undertook cross-border surveillance because of concerns about anarchist agitators and other political radicals. ... | Which police force ignored Karl Marx? | {'text': 'Prussian', 'answer_start': 381} |
46,542 | 46,200 | 571a862710f8ca14003050d8 | generic | Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (/ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/; Greek: Ἀθανάσιος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Athanásios Alexandrías; c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church, Athanasius the Apostolic, was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His e... | How long did his episcopate last? | {'text': '45 years', 'answer_start': 337} |
29,192 | 28,850 | 5706095a75f01819005e78cc | generic | The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are ... | How much does a non-subscriber of The Times need to pay to read the online versions? | {'text': '£2 per week', 'answer_start': 466} |
94,377 | 94,035 | 5729684b6aef051400154e33 | generic | Palermo experiences a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa). Winters are cool and wet, while summers are hot and dry. Temperatures in autumn and spring are usually mild. Palermo is one of the warmest cities in Europe (mainly due to its warm nights), with an average annual air temperature... | How do Palermo's temperatures compare to the rest of Europe? | {'text': 'one of the warmest cities in Europe', 'answer_start': 213} |
25,931 | 25,589 | 56f97eb89e9bad19000a09c4 | generic | One of the primary functions of a brain is to extract biologically relevant information from sensory inputs. The human brain is provided with information about light, sound, the chemical composition of the atmosphere, temperature, head orientation, limb position, the chemical composition of the bloodstream, and more. I... | What type of animal uses infrared heat to sense? | {'text': 'snakes', 'answer_start': 405} |
88,801 | 88,459 | 572c101b2babe914003c298a | generic | The last centuries of philosophy have seen vigorous questions regarding the arguments for God's existence raised by such philosophers as Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew, although Kant held that the argument from morality was valid. The theist response has been either to contend, as does Alvin Plantinga, that ... | How does Alvin Plantinga describe faith? | {'text': '"properly basic"', 'answer_start': 329} |
103,320 | 102,978 | 572ec373c246551400ce4632 | generic | Independent service is a special service mode found on most elevators. It is activated by a key switch either inside the elevator itself or on a centralized control panel in the lobby. When an elevator is placed on independent service, it will no longer respond to hall calls. (In a bank of elevators, traffic is reroute... | How is the special sercice mode enabled? | {'text': 'by a key switch either inside the elevator itself or on a centralized control panel in the lobby', 'answer_start': 87} |
17,602 | 17,260 | 56e1ec35cd28a01900c67c00 | generic | Catalan verbs are traditionally divided into three conjugations, with vowel themes -a-, -e-, -i-, the last two being split into two subtypes. However, this division is mostly theoretical. Only the first conjugation is nowadays productive (with about 3500 common verbs), whereas the third (the subtype of servir, with abo... | How are Catalan verbs grouped? | {'text': 'into three conjugations', 'answer_start': 40} |
65,160 | 64,818 | 5726c713708984140094d141 | generic | The distinctive characteristic of English cathedrals is their extreme length, and their internal emphasis upon the horizontal, which may be emphasised visually as much or more than the vertical lines. Each English cathedral (with the exception of Salisbury) has an extraordinary degree of stylistic diversity, when compa... | What size of window is typically featured on the west end of English cathedrals? | {'text': 'very large', 'answer_start': 872} |
97,820 | 97,478 | 5ace3fff32bba1001ae4a083 | generic | During its formative period, the term madrasah referred to a higher education institution, whose curriculum initially included only the "religious sciences", whilst philosophy and the secular sciences were often excluded. The curriculum slowly began to diversify, with many later madaris teaching both the religious and ... | What discipline was rejected in traditional madrasah? | {'text': 'religious sciences', 'answer_start': 137} |
123,867 | 123,525 | 5a8483e27cf838001a46a8c4 | generic | Like the Speaker of the House, the Minority Leaders are typically experienced lawmakers when they win election to this position. When Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, became Minority Leader in the 108th Congress, she had served in the House nearly 20 years and had served as minority whip in the 107th Congress. When her predecessor,... | How long had Pelosi served as majority leader? | {'text': 'from June 1989 until Republicans captured control of the House in the November 1994 elections', 'answer_start': 567} |
43,642 | 43,300 | 5ad11dd6645df0001a2d0e08 | generic | In nature, uranium(VI) forms highly soluble carbonate complexes at alkaline pH. This leads to an increase in mobility and availability of uranium to groundwater and soil from nuclear wastes which leads to health hazards. However, it is difficult to precipitate uranium as phosphate in the presence of excess carbonate at... | What is BSAR-1 not a strain of? | {'text': 'Sphingomonas sp.', 'answer_start': 336} |
23,874 | 23,532 | 56f8275aaef2371900625e46 | generic | Tito carried on numerous affairs and was married several times. In 1918 he was brought to Omsk, Russia, as a prisoner of war. There he met Pelagija Belousova who was then thirteen; he married her a year later, and she moved with him to Yugoslavia. Pelagija bore him five children but only their son Žarko Leon (born 4 Fe... | When was Tito brought to Russia as a prisoner of war? | {'text': '1918', 'answer_start': 67} |
111,543 | 111,201 | 5ad29f83d7d075001a429c7b | generic | Greek surnames were widely in use by the 9th century supplanting the ancient tradition of using the father’s name, however Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics. Commonly, Greek male surnames end in -s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case. Exceptionally, some end in... | What letter of the alphabet do most of the last names the men of France end with? | {'text': '-s', 'answer_start': 206} |
83,560 | 83,218 | 5727d307ff5b5019007d9626 | generic | Evidence exists that native peoples traveled through Oklahoma as early as the last ice age. Ancestors of the Wichita and Caddo lived in what is now Oklahoma. The Panhandle culture peoples were precontact residents of the panhandle region. The westernmost center of the Mississippian culture was Spiro Mounds, in what is ... | When did France sell Oklahoma's land to the US? | {'text': '1803', 'answer_start': 549} |
17,674 | 17,332 | 56e12f74e3433e1400422ca4 | generic | Boston is an intellectual, technological, and political center but has lost some important regional institutions, including the acquisition of The Boston Globe by The New York Times, and the loss to mergers and acquisitions of local financial institutions such as FleetBoston Financial, which was acquired by Charlotte-b... | What department stores merged to form Macy's? | {'text': "Jordan Marsh and Filene's", 'answer_start': 381} |
110,177 | 109,835 | 57342e41d058e614000b6aa5 | generic | Near the intersection of Craycroft and Ft. Lowell Roads are the remnants of the Historic Fort Lowell. This area has become one of Tucson's iconic neighborhoods. In 1891, the Fort was abandoned and much of the interior was stripped of their useful components and it quickly fell into ruin. In 1900, three of the officer b... | What were some buildings of Fort Lowell bought to be used for in 1900? | {'text': 'a sanitarium', 'answer_start': 355} |
83,300 | 82,958 | 5acd62c407355d001abf4039 | generic | Following the defeat of the German empire in World War I and the abdication of the German Emperor, some revolutionary insurgents declared Alsace-Lorraine as an independent Republic, without preliminary referendum or vote. On 11 November 1918 (Armistice Day), communist insurgents proclaimed a "soviet government" in Stra... | What nationality was under Soviet rule in 1918? | {'text': 'German', 'answer_start': 28} |
34,701 | 34,359 | 570a64106d058f1900182dfd | generic | Emotions are thought to be related to certain activities in brain areas that direct our attention, motivate our behavior, and determine the significance of what is going on around us. Pioneering work by Broca (1878), Papez (1937), and MacLean (1952) suggested that emotion is related to a group of structures in the cent... | Who published a work in 1937 on the relationship between emotion and the limbic system? | {'text': 'Papez', 'answer_start': 217} |
102,979 | 102,637 | 57319608497a881900249094 | generic | Spielberg followed with War Horse, shot in England in the summer of 2010. It was released just four days after The Adventures of Tintin, on December 25, 2011. The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse ... | When did the 'War Horse' book come out? | {'text': '1982', 'answer_start': 250} |
59,720 | 59,378 | 5acfd9a577cf76001a6862d8 | generic | In Canada, the largest Presbyterian denomination – and indeed the largest Protestant denomination – was the Presbyterian Church in Canada, formed in 1875 with the merger of four regional groups. In 1925, the United Church of Canada was formed by the majority of Presbyterians combining with the Methodist Church, Canada,... | In what year did they discontinue use of the original name? | {'text': '1939', 'answer_start': 607} |
60,504 | 60,162 | 5a5fd25eeae51e001ab14c96 | generic | Marvel held its own comic book convention, Marvelcon '75, in spring 1975, and promised a Marvelcon '76. At the 1975 event, Stan Lee used a Fantastic Four panel discussion to announce that Jack Kirby, the artist co-creator of most of Marvel's signature characters, was returning to Marvel after having left in 1970 to wor... | What marvel character was announced at the first Marvelcon? | {'text': 'Captain Britain', 'answer_start': 499} |
75,758 | 75,416 | 5a3bda68cc5d22001a521bcb | generic | Following Kammu's death in 806 and a succession struggle among his sons, two new offices were established in an effort to adjust the Taika-Taihō administrative structure. Through the new Emperor's Private Office, the emperor could issue administrative edicts more directly and with more self-assurance than before. The n... | Who did the imperial guard replace | {'text': 'Metropolitan Police Board', 'answer_start': 323} |
33,660 | 33,318 | 570a681e4103511400d596df | generic | The brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. More than 133 billion litres (35 billion gallons) are sold per year—producing total global revenues of $294.5 billion (£147.7 billion) in... | What company acquired the Anheuser-Busch brewing Company in 2008? | {'text': 'InBev', 'answer_start': 924} |
7,287 | 6,945 | 56daf2b6e7c41114004b4b6c | generic | The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream". Plans for the relay were announced on April 26, 2007, in Beijing, China. The relay, also called by the organizers as the "Journey of Harmony", lasted 129 days and... | What was the torch relay referred to as by organizers? | {'text': '"Journey of Harmony"', 'answer_start': 279} |
54,028 | 53,686 | 57262d6838643c19005ad2a7 | generic | With the end of the war with Japan, the Chinese Civil War resumed between the Chinese Communists and the Chinese Nationalists. While the Communists were struggling for supremacy in Manchuria, they were supported by the North Korean government with matériel and manpower. According to Chinese sources, the North Koreans d... | Who supported the Chinese Communists during the civil war in Manchuria? | {'text': 'North Korean government', 'answer_start': 219} |
61,413 | 61,071 | 5726f6ce708984140094d72c | generic | As they grew older Madonna and her sisters would feel deep sadness as the vivid memory of their mother began drifting farther from them. They would study pictures of her and come to think that she resembled poet Anne Sexton and Hollywood actresses. This would later raise Madonna's interest in poetry, with Sylvia Plath ... | Who felt that her mother death was the driving force behind her success? | {'text': 'Madonna', 'answer_start': 19} |
7,906 | 7,564 | 5a5952543e1742001a15d070 | generic | Since genomes are very complex, one research strategy is to reduce the number of genes in a genome to the bare minimum and still have the organism in question survive. There is experimental work being done on minimal genomes for single cell organisms as well as minimal genomes for multi-cellular organisms (see Developm... | What are scientists studying to understand how they survive a reduction in silico? | {'text': 'genomes', 'answer_start': 217} |
28,831 | 28,489 | 57069fe575f01819005e7c68 | generic | During the apartheid era, those classed as "Coloured" were oppressed and discriminated against. But, they had limited rights and overall had slightly better socioeconomic conditions than those classed as "Black". The government required that Blacks and Coloureds live in areas separate from Whites, creating large townsh... | Who was oppressed and discriminated against? | {'text': 'those classed as "Coloured"', 'answer_start': 26} |
24,578 | 24,236 | 5a7e41ae70df9f001a875655 | generic | Sometime after the publication of the Eclogues (probably before 37 BC), Virgil became part of the circle of Maecenas, Octavian's capable agent d'affaires who sought to counter sympathy for Antony among the leading families by rallying Roman literary figures to Octavian's side. Virgil came to know many of the other lead... | What was Octavian's favorite hobby? | {'text': 'poetry', 'answer_start': 381} |
112,855 | 112,513 | 57323fc60fdd8d15006c687c | generic | From early 1944 until the days leading up to the invasion, Kuribayashi transformed the island into a massive network of bunkers, hidden guns, and 11 mi (18 km) of underground tunnels. The heavy American naval and air bombardment did little but drive the Japanese further underground, making their positions impervious to... | Who transformed the island into a fortress? | {'text': 'Kuribayashi', 'answer_start': 59} |
122,000 | 121,658 | 5731d079e99e3014001e62dd | generic | The Vestals were a public priesthood of six women devoted to the cultivation of Vesta, goddess of the hearth of the Roman state and its vital flame. A girl chosen to be a Vestal achieved unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence. Upon entering her of... | What was the benefit of being a Vestal? | {'text': 'political influence', 'answer_start': 279} |
26,685 | 26,343 | 56f970f49e9bad19000a0924 | generic | There are also three Deputy Chiefs of the Defence Staff with particular remits, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Capability), Deputy CDS (Personnel and Training) and Deputy CDS (Operations). The Surgeon General, represents the Defence Medical Services on the Defence Staff, and is the clinical head of that service. | What are the three Deputy Chiefs of the Defence Staff? | {'text': 'Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Capability), Deputy CDS (Personnel and Training) and Deputy CDS (Operations)', 'answer_start': 80} |
25,425 | 25,083 | 56f8ceed9b226e1400dd1048 | 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 was assassinated on 1 March 2009? | {'text': 'General Batista Tagme Na Wai', 'answer_start': 171} |
125,617 | 125,275 | 573342a9d058e614000b57f1 | generic | Prior to the crisis, financial institutions became highly leveraged, increasing their appetite for risky investments and reducing their resilience in case of losses. Much of this leverage was achieved using complex financial instruments such as off-balance sheet securitization and derivatives, which made it difficult f... | What type financial instruments are off-balance sheet securitization and derivatives? | {'text': 'complex', 'answer_start': 207} |
84,386 | 84,044 | 572821723acd2414000df527 | generic | In the fall of 1958, Nasser formed a tripartite committee consisting of Zakaria Mohieddin, al-Hawrani, and Salah Bitar to oversee developments in Syria. By moving the latter two, who were Ba'athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run. He put Syria... | Who did Nasser appoint to run Syria? | {'text': 'Sarraj', 'answer_start': 327} |
7,657 | 7,315 | 56db6b68e7c41114004b50c9 | generic | Prior to the rally, seven anti-China protestors were arrested in Hanoi after unfurling a banner and shouting "Boycott the Beijing Olympics" through a loudhailer at a market. A Vietnamese American was deported for planning protests against the torch, while a prominent blogger, Điếu Cày (real name Nguyễn Văn Hải), who bl... | Though he urged for demonstrations in Vietnam, Nguyễn Văn Hải was charged with what crime? | {'text': 'tax evasion.', 'answer_start': 431} |
42,874 | 42,532 | 5ad28f30d7d075001a429a67 | generic | Antarctica (US English i/æntˈɑːrktɪkə/, UK English /ænˈtɑːktɪkə/ or /ænˈtɑːtɪkə/ or /ænˈɑːtɪkə/)[Note 1] is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Sou... | What averages 1.9 mi in thickness? | {'text': 'ice', 'answer_start': 591} |
26,172 | 25,830 | 56f8f9f49e9bad19000a079d | generic | The basis of Simpson's unity is color and colonial subjection. His color chart recognizes a spectrum of black, brown and yellow, which at the time had been traditional since the late 19th century. Apart from these was "the great white race", which the moderate Simpson tones down to simply the white race. The great whit... | In whose works were the great whites appearing? | {'text': 'James Henry Breasted', 'answer_start': 368} |
30,448 | 30,106 | 57069bdd52bb891400689ad2 | generic | Starting in 1984, some of these DJs, inspired by Jesse Saunders' success with "On and On", tried their hand at producing and releasing original compositions. These compositions used newly affordable electronic instruments to emulate not just Saunders' song, but the edited, enhanced styles of disco and other dance music... | what year was house music first used as a genre? | {'text': '1985', 'answer_start': 489} |
18,297 | 17,955 | 5ad1629f645df0001a2d194c | generic | In late 2005, Viacom's Paramount Pictures acquired DreamWorks SKG after acquisition talks between GE and DreamWorks stalled. Universal's long time chairperson, Stacey Snider, left the company in early 2006 to head up DreamWorks. Snider was replaced by then-Vice Chairman Marc Shmuger and Focus Features head David Linde.... | What company did Viacom acquire in 2005? | {'text': 'DreamWorks SKG', 'answer_start': 51} |
62,483 | 62,141 | 5726785bf1498d1400e8e0d4 | generic | In Iran (Persia), the history of cotton dates back to the Achaemenid era (5th century BC); however, there are few sources about the planting of cotton in pre-Islamic Iran. The planting of cotton was common in Merv, Ray and Pars of Iran. In Persian poets' poems, especially Ferdowsi's Shahname, there are references to co... | In what source can references to cotton be found in Iran? | {'text': "Persian poets' poems", 'answer_start': 240} |
76,898 | 76,556 | 57278cb9f1498d1400e8fbb2 | generic | In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (Supremo Tribunal Federal) is the highest court. It is both the constitutional court and the court of last resort in Brazilian law. It only reviews cases that may be unconstitutional or final habeas corpus pleads for criminal cases. It also judges, in original jurisdiction, cases... | What is the highest court in Brazil? | {'text': 'Supreme Federal Tribunal (Supremo Tribunal Federal)', 'answer_start': 15} |
46,600 | 46,258 | 5acec39532bba1001ae4b331 | generic | The accession of Valens gave a fresh lease of life to the Arian party. He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees. The news created the greatest consternation in the city of Alexandria itself, and the prefect, in order to pr... | What party didn't benefit from the accession of Valens? | {'text': 'Arian', 'answer_start': 58} |
117,424 | 117,082 | 5a42ea2c4a4859001aac73a0 | generic | While Nintendo never released an adapter for playing NES games on the SNES (though the instructions included a way to connect both consoles to the same TV by either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems), the Super Game Boy adapter cartridge allows games designed for Nintendo's port... | What allows Game Boy games to be played in Japan? | {'text': 'adapter cartridge', 'answer_start': 261} |
66,262 | 65,920 | 5a81c7aa31013a001a334ea3 | generic | Norfolk Island Hospital is the only medical centre on the island. Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme do not cover Norfolk Island. All visitors to Norfolk Island, including Australians, are recommended to purchase travel insurance. Although the hospital can perform minor surgery, serious medical conditions ... | Who broke the one ambulance available on Norfolk Island? | {'text': 'St John Ambulance Australia volunteers', 'answer_start': 607} |
72,750 | 72,408 | 57271305f1498d1400e8f331 | generic | Media outlets began reporting in late September 2009 that Comcast was in talks to buy NBCUniversal. Comcast denied the rumors at first, while NBC would not comment on them. However, CNBC itself reported on October 1 that General Electric was considering spinning NBCUniversal off into a separate company that would merge... | What company was forced to sell its interest in NBCUniversal as part of the purchase deal? | {'text': 'Vivendi', 'answer_start': 515} |
73,781 | 73,439 | 57278c17708984140094e073 | generic | The tradition of presenting the trophy immediately after the game did not start until the 1882 final; after the first final in 1872 the trophy was not presented to the winners, Wanderers, until a reception held four weeks later in the Pall Mall Restaurant in London. Under the original rules, the trophy was to be perman... | Where was the first trophy presented? | {'text': 'the Pall Mall Restaurant in London', 'answer_start': 231} |
50,948 | 50,606 | 5725cdb989a1e219009abefe | generic | Despite limited natural resources, intensive development of the agricultural and industrial sectors over the past decades has made Israel largely self-sufficient in food production, apart from grains and beef. Imports to Israel, totaling $77.59 billion in 2012, include raw materials, military equipment, investment good... | What are the leading exports in Israel? | {'text': 'electronics, software, computerized systems', 'answer_start': 393} |
81,412 | 81,070 | 57287d434b864d1900164a32 | generic | Stansted Airport, north east of London in Essex, is a local UK hub and Luton Airport to the north of London in Bedfordshire, caters mostly for cheap short-haul flights. London City Airport, the smallest and most central airport, in Newham, East London, is focused on business travellers, with a mixture of full service s... | What is the smallest airport in the London area? | {'text': 'London City Airport', 'answer_start': 169} |
118,533 | 118,191 | 57310bf4a5e9cc1400cdbbd3 | generic | Up to 1990, English, German and Afrikaans were official languages. Long before Namibia's independence from South Africa, SWAPO was of the opinion that the country should become officially monolingual, choosing this approach in contrast to that of its neighbour South Africa (which granted all 11 of its major languages o... | German, English, and Afrikaans were the official languages until when in Namibia? | {'text': '1990', 'answer_start': 6} |
14,199 | 13,857 | 5ace07c332bba1001ae499bf | generic | On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics. | What was the name of the period ended by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR? | {'text': 'War of Laws', 'answer_start': 166} |
55,554 | 55,212 | 57261fdfec44d21400f3d936 | generic | Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to th... | Who did the London merchants petition to get permission to sail the Indian Ocean? | {'text': 'Queen Elizabeth I', 'answer_start': 94} |
109,049 | 108,707 | 5ace129b32bba1001ae49a51 | generic | Although chartered as a university, for many years Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Owing to limited financial resources, Washington University initially used public buildings. Classes began on October 22, 1854,... | In what year did Washington University become a day school? | {'text': '1854', 'answer_start': 315} |
27,376 | 27,034 | 56fa160f8f12f319006300c4 | generic | Drying produces a decided increase in the strength of wood, particularly in small specimens. An extreme example is the case of a completely dry spruce block 5 cm in section, which will sustain a permanent load four times as great as a green (undried) block of the same size will. | What color is also used interchangeably with "undried" for wood? | {'text': 'green', 'answer_start': 235} |
82,856 | 82,514 | 5727e9803acd2414000defad | generic | In January 2009, the Green Power Partnership (GPP, sponsored by the EPA) listed Northwestern as one of the top 10 universities in the country in purchasing energy from renewable sources. The university matches 74 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of its annual energy use with Green-e Certified Renewable Energy Certificates ... | Who sponsored the Green Power Partnership? | {'text': 'the EPA', 'answer_start': 64} |
116,953 | 116,611 | 5acff92a77cf76001a6866b4 | generic | Controversy persists over whether the Rus’ were Varangians (Vikings) or Slavs. This uncertainty is due largely to a paucity of contemporary sources. Attempts to address this question instead rely on archaeological evidence, the accounts of foreign observers, legends and literature from centuries later. To some extent t... | What did the Russian believe the Rus were not? | {'text': 'Slavs', 'answer_start': 563} |
115,512 | 115,170 | 57301bfca23a5019007fcd84 | generic | Exposure to antibiotics early in life is associated with increased body mass in humans and mouse models. Early life is a critical period for the establishment of the intestinal microbiota and for metabolic development. Mice exposed to subtherapeutic antibiotic treatment (STAT)– with either penicillin, vancomycin, penic... | Do antibiotics cause obesity in humans? | {'text': 'unclear', 'answer_start': 858} |
61,665 | 61,323 | 572cad7e750c471900ed4cc9 | generic | Congress often enacts statutes that grant broad rulemaking authority to federal agencies. Often, Congress is simply too gridlocked to draft detailed statutes that explain how the agency should react to every possible situation, or Congress believes the agency's technical specialists are best equipped to deal with parti... | What does the Principle of Chevron provide for? | {'text': 'regulations normally carry the force of law as long as they are based on a reasonable interpretation of the relevant statutes', 'answer_start': 469} |
40,042 | 39,700 | 570c50afb3d812140066d0c6 | generic | When war with France broke out again in 1202, John achieved early victories, but shortages of military resources and his treatment of Norman, Breton and Anjou nobles resulted in the collapse of his empire in northern France in 1204. John spent much of the next decade attempting to regain these lands, raising huge reven... | When was John excommunicated? | {'text': '1209', 'answer_start': 591} |
77,129 | 76,787 | 5a8c8067fd22b3001a8d8961 | generic | The critic Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) launched a particularly withering attack on stemmatics in 1928. He surveyed editions of medieval French texts that were produced with the stemmatic method, and found that textual critics tended overwhelmingly to produce trees divided into just two branches. He concluded that this ou... | When witnesses agree, what did the third branch do? | {'text': 'break the tie', 'answer_start': 660} |
34,157 | 33,815 | 570a4d256d058f1900182d3e | generic | City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers. The two main objectives were to create a Central Institution in London... | Which college was founded in 1876? | {'text': 'City and Guilds College', 'answer_start': 0} |
101,868 | 101,526 | 572e8c7dcb0c0d14000f128a | generic | In 1974, Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science, which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" on the part of the scientist. He ... | What is cargo cult science? | {'text': 'pseudoscience', 'answer_start': 144} |
64,754 | 64,412 | 5ace376832bba1001ae49ec8 | generic | Websites and online media companies in or near the city include All Media Guide, the Weather Underground, and Zattoo. Ann Arbor is the home to Internet2 and the Merit Network, a not-for-profit research and education computer network. Both are located in the South State Commons 2 building on South State Street, which on... | What year was the flex vacancy rate at 16.05%? | {'text': '2012', 'answer_start': 851} |
41,844 | 41,502 | 570d3df1b3d812140066d5d0 | generic | For the first two years Confederate forces did well in set battles but lost control of the border states. The Confederates had the advantage of defending a very large country in an area where disease caused twice as many deaths as combat. The Union pursued a strategy of seizing the coastline, blockading the ports, and ... | Where did Lee surrender his army? | {'text': 'Appomattox Court House', 'answer_start': 1007} |
38,197 | 37,855 | 570bddefec8fbc190045bba5 | generic | Computers attached to the ARPANET included machines running operating systems such as TOPS-10 and TENEX using CR-LF line endings, machines running operating systems such as Multics using LF line endings, and machines running operating systems such as OS/360 that represented lines as a character count followed by the ch... | What do computers using operating systems use for line endings? | {'text': 'LF', 'answer_start': 187} |
81,470 | 81,128 | 5728bfe9ff5b5019007da5f1 | generic | The majority of primary and secondary schools and further-education colleges in London are controlled by the London boroughs or otherwise state-funded; leading examples include City and Islington College, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, Leyton Sixth Form College, Tower Hamlets College and Bethnal Green Aca... | What private boys' school shares in London shares its name with a famous cathedral? | {'text': "St Paul's School,", 'answer_start': 453} |
114,524 | 114,182 | 57305b3f8ab72b1400f9c49b | generic | The governing bodies in each country operate league systems in a domestic season, normally comprising several divisions, in which the teams gain points throughout the season depending on results. Teams are placed into tables, placing them in order according to points accrued. Most commonly, each team plays every other ... | What happens to the teams at the bottom of the ranks at the end of the season? | {'text': 'relegated to a lower division', 'answer_start': 577} |
56,979 | 56,637 | 5727435f5951b619008f878f | generic | During Andrés López Obrador's administration a political slogan was introduced: la Ciudad de la Esperanza ("The City of Hope"). This motto was quickly adopted as a city nickname, but has faded since the new motto Capital en Movimiento ("Capital in Movement") was adopted by the administration headed by Marcelo Ebrard, t... | How is the city commonly abbreviated? | {'text': 'CDMX', 'answer_start': 485} |
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