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109,415 | 109,073 | 572f5c68a23a5019007fc5a3 | generic | The early track record of the CIA was poor, with the agency unable to provide sufficient intelligence about the Soviet takeovers of Romania and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet blockade of Berlin, and the Soviet atomic bomb project. In particular, the agency failed to predict the Chinese entry into the Korean War with 300,00... | Who was a Russian translator and Soviet Spy? | {'text': 'Bill Weisband', 'answer_start': 602} |
14,153 | 13,811 | 5ace05dc32bba1001ae4998d | generic | At the end of World War II Soviet troops occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, making them part of the RSFSR. The status of the southernmost Kurils remains in dispute with Japan. | What administrative division did Sakhalin Island not become a part of? | {'text': 'the RSFSR', 'answer_start': 118} |
126,205 | 125,863 | 57341dde4776f419006618bd | generic | Within the white inescutcheon, the five quinas (small blue shields) with their five white bezants representing the five wounds of Christ (Portuguese: Cinco Chagas) when crucified and are popularly associated with the "Miracle of Ourique". The story associated with this miracle tells that before the Battle of Ourique (2... | On what date did the Battle of Ourique take place? | {'text': '25 July 1139', 'answer_start': 319} |
77,834 | 77,492 | 57278bc7708984140094e069 | generic | "Funday Night at the Movies" was replaced in 2008 by "Essentials Jr.", a youth-oriented version of its weekly series The Essentials (originally hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O'Donnell, then by John Lithgow from 2009 to 2011, and then by Bill Hader starting with the 2011 season), which included such family-... | Who hosted Essentials Jr. between 2009 and 2011? | {'text': 'John Lithgow', 'answer_start': 206} |
71,315 | 70,973 | 5ad284bbd7d075001a429881 | generic | Finally, on 26 June, four days after France sued for an armistice with the Third Reich, the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum demanding Bessarabia and, unexpectedly, Northern Bukovina from Romania. Two days later, the Romanians caved to the Soviet demands and the Soviets occupied the territory. The Hertza region was ini... | How many days didn't it take for the Romanians give into the Soviets requests? | {'text': 'Two days', 'answer_start': 197} |
100,420 | 100,078 | 572b951ef75d5e190021fe5d | generic | In 2012, the modern use of electronic educational technology (also called e-learning) had grown at 14 times the rate of traditional learning.[clarification needed] Open education is fast growing to become the dominant form of education, for many reasons such as its efficiency and results compared to traditional methods... | Which form of education looks to be the dominant form i the coming years? | {'text': 'Open education', 'answer_start': 164} |
124,714 | 124,372 | 57325b9fe99e3014001e670d | generic | Former members Heather and Gary Botting compare the cultural paradigms of the religion to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, and Alan Rogerson describes the religion's leadership as totalitarian. Other critics charge that by disparaging individual decision-making, the religion's leaders cultivate a system of unquest... | What do critics of the Jehovah's Witnesses accuse the religion's leaders of exercising over members? | {'text': '"intellectual dominance"', 'answer_start': 479} |
99,097 | 98,755 | 572aaa0c34ae481900deac08 | generic | The main industries are mineral based, agriculture based, and textile based. Rajasthan is the second largest producer of polyester fibre in India. The Pali and Bhilwara District produces more cloth than Bhiwandi, Maharashtra and the bhilwara is the largest city in suitings production and export and Pali is largest city... | What type of deposits are found at Sambhar? | {'text': 'rich salt deposits', 'answer_start': 718} |
75,683 | 75,341 | 5727b52d2ca10214002d9475 | generic | Krispy Kreme, an international chain of doughnut stores, was started in North Carolina; the company's headquarters are in Winston-Salem. Pepsi-Cola was first produced in 1898 in New Bern. A regional soft drink, Cheerwine, was created and is still based in the city of Salisbury. Despite its name, the hot sauce Texas Pet... | Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters? | {'text': 'Winston-Salem', 'answer_start': 122} |
39,666 | 39,324 | 5ad17748645df0001a2d1d34 | generic | The Protoevangelium of James, an extra-canonical book, has been the source of many Orthodox beliefs on Mary. The account of Mary's life presented includes her consecration as a virgin at the temple at age three. The High Priest Zachariah blessed Mary and informed her that God had magnified her name among many generatio... | Who blessed The High Priest Zachariah? | {'text': 'Mary', 'answer_start': 246} |
100,978 | 100,636 | 572f6326947a6a140053c916 | generic | The innovative production techniques devised by post-punk producers such as Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music, with studio experimentation taking a central role. A variety of groups that predated punk, such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Grist... | What was one of the most important ways that post-punk artists created their new sound? | {'text': 'studio experimentation', 'answer_start': 190} |
16,478 | 16,136 | 5a4d4d807a6c4c001a2bbcae | generic | Information resources may contain hyperlinks to other information resources. Each link contains the URI of a resource to go to. When a link is clicked, the browser navigates to the resource indicated by the link's target URI, and the process of bringing content to the user begins again. | What happens when a hyperlink is created? | {'text': "the browser navigates to the resource indicated by the link's target URI", 'answer_start': 152} |
114,074 | 113,732 | 5acd8e2b07355d001abf4700 | generic | Many larger animals, such as wolf, bear and the European elk are today extinct. However, some species such as red deer are protected. Other small mammals, such as rabbits, foxes, badgers, hares, hedgehogs, and stoats, are very common and the European beaver has been reintroduced in parts of Scotland. Wild boar have als... | Small animals like wolves or bears are what today? | {'text': 'extinct', 'answer_start': 71} |
20,609 | 20,267 | 56e7a01d37bdd419002c4284 | generic | At present, the full name of the government of Nanjing is "People's Government of Nanjing City" and the city is under the one-party rule of the CPC, with the CPC Nanjing Committee Secretary as the de facto governor of the city and the mayor as the executive head of the government working under the secretary. | What party rules Nanjing? | {'text': 'the CPC', 'answer_start': 140} |
3,756 | 3,414 | 56d650911c8504140094709f | generic | The AP reported that "The state-controlled media has largely ignored the issue, apparently under the propaganda bureau's instructions. Parents and volunteers who have questioned authorities have been detained and threatened." | Who has ignored the school issue? | {'text': 'state-controlled media', 'answer_start': 26} |
101,195 | 100,853 | 5a0f41b7decec90018475531 | generic | The first attempt to establish a proper governing body and adopted the current set of Rugby rules was the Foot Ball Association of Canada, organized on March 24, 1873 followed by the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU) founded June 12, 1880, which included teams from Ontario and Quebec. Later both the Ontario and Queb... | When did the Football Association of Canada reorganize to form CRU? | {'text': '1891', 'answer_start': 584} |
84,291 | 83,949 | 572802a93acd2414000df217 | generic | Following Bandung, Nasser officially adopted the "positive neutralism" of Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as a principal theme of Egyptian foreign policy regarding the Cold War. Nasser was welcomed by large crowds of people lining the streets of Cairo on his return to Eg... | What political philosophy did Nasser adopt? | {'text': 'positive neutralism', 'answer_start': 50} |
14,382 | 14,040 | 56df8ce34a1a83140091eb26 | generic | With financial support from Sanders and Hubbard, Bell hired Thomas Watson as his assistant,[N 15] and the two of them experimented with acoustic telegraphy. On June 2, 1875, Watson accidentally plucked one of the reeds and Bell, at the receiving end of the wire, heard the overtones of the reed; overtones that would be ... | How many reeds did Bell conclude he needed? | {'text': '1', 'answer_start': 94} |
126,108 | 125,766 | 5734061fd058e614000b67f1 | generic | Industry is diversified, ranging from automotive (Volkswagen Autoeuropa and Peugeot Citroen), aerospace (Embraer and OGMA), electronics and textiles, to food, chemicals, cement and wood pulp. Volkswagen Group's AutoEuropa motor vehicle assembly plant in Palmela is among the largest foreign direct investment projects in... | Where are the main centers of the biotech and IT industries located? | {'text': 'Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Coimbra and Aveiro', 'answer_start': 856} |
64,772 | 64,430 | 5ace39e332bba1001ae49f4b | generic | Borders Books, started in Ann Arbor, was opened by brothers Tom and Louis Borders in 1971 with a stock of used books. The Borders chain was based in the city, as was its flagship store until it closed in September 2011. Domino's Pizza's headquarters is near Ann Arbor on Domino's Farms, a 271-acre (110 ha) Frank Lloyd W... | What bookstore was started by Tom and Lois Borders? | {'text': 'Borders Books', 'answer_start': 0} |
20,103 | 19,761 | 5ad3dac7604f3c001a3ff3be | generic | Healthcare is funded by the government, undertaken by one resident doctor from South Africa and five nurses. Surgery or facilities for complex childbirth are therefore limited, and emergencies can necessitate communicating with passing fishing vessels so the injured person can be ferried to Cape Town. As of late 2007, ... | What makes it impossible to send EKG pictures to other countries? | {'text': 'access to long distance tele-medical help', 'answer_start': 510} |
101,532 | 101,190 | 572ec79bcb0c0d14000f1550 | generic | In early 1758, Frederick launched an invasion of Moravia, and laid siege to Olmütz (now Olomouc, Czech Republic). Following an Austrian victory at the Battle of Domstadtl that wiped out a supply convoy destined for Olmütz, Frederick broke off the siege and withdrew from Moravia. It marked the end of his final attempt t... | Where did Frederick invade in 1758 | {'text': 'Frederick launched an invasion of Moravia', 'answer_start': 15} |
129,038 | 128,696 | 57342891d058e614000b6a5a | generic | In addition to Virginia and Confederate government offices and hospitals, a railroad hub, and one of the South's largest slave markets, Richmond had the largest factory in the Confederacy, the Tredegar Iron Works, which turned out artillery and other munitions, including the 723 tons of armor plating that covered the C... | What was the name of the biggest factory in the Confederate States of America? | {'text': 'Tredegar Iron Works', 'answer_start': 193} |
40,631 | 40,289 | 570d2bfafed7b91900d45c9e | generic | The sales breakdown of the Macintosh have seen sales of desktop Macs stayed mostly constant while being surpassed by that of Mac notebooks whose sales rate has grown considerably; seven out of ten Macs sold were laptops in 2009, a ratio projected to rise to three out of four by 2010. The change in sales of form factors... | What has helped Macs more directly compete with Windows on price and performance? | {'text': 'The use of Intel microprocessors', 'answer_start': 878} |
64,435 | 64,093 | 57274264708984140094db80 | generic | The marriage of Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia established contacts between the two nations and brought Lollard ideas to her homeland. The teachings of the Czech priest Jan Hus were based on those of John Wycliffe, yet his followers, the Hussites, were to have a much greater political impact than the Lollards... | Who did Richard II of England marry? | {'text': 'Anne of Bohemia', 'answer_start': 41} |
71,895 | 71,553 | 5726f3eef1498d1400e8f0c9 | generic | From their beginnings in Sumer (now Iraq) around 3500 BC, the Mesopotamian people began to attempt to record some observations of the world with numerical data. But their observations and measurements were seemingly taken for purposes other than for elucidating scientific laws. A concrete instance of Pythagoras' law wa... | What was the earliest recording of Pythagoras' law? | {'text': '18th century BC', 'answer_start': 348} |
128,876 | 128,534 | 5a68f5fc8476ee001a58a915 | generic | Punjab witnessed major battles between the armies of India and Pakistan in the wars of 1965 and 1971. Since the 1990s Punjab hosted several key sites of Pakistan's nuclear program such as Kahuta. It also hosts major military bases such as at Sargodha and Rawalpindi. The peace process between India and Pakistan, which b... | When was Sargodha built? | {'text': '1990s', 'answer_start': 112} |
71,907 | 71,565 | 5726f75ddd62a815002e9672 | generic | The earliest Greek philosophers, known as the pre-Socratics, provided competing answers to the question found in the myths of their neighbors: "How did the ordered cosmos in which we live come to be?" The pre-Socratic philosopher Thales (640-546 BC), dubbed the "father of science", was the first to postulate non-supern... | What are early Greek philosophers known as? | {'text': 'pre-Socratics', 'answer_start': 46} |
29,486 | 29,144 | 5706ac5452bb891400689b60 | generic | New Delhi is the largest commercial city in northern India. It has an estimated net State Domestic Product (FY 2010) of ₹1595 billion (US$23 billion) in nominal terms and ~₹6800 billion (US$100 billion) in PPP terms. As of 2013, the per capita income of Delhi was Rs. 230000, second highest in India after Goa. GSDP in D... | What is the per capita income of Delhi as of 2013? | {'text': 'Rs. 230000', 'answer_start': 264} |
23,710 | 23,368 | 56f72af5711bf01900a44a20 | generic | In the final days of World War II in Yugoslavia, units of the Partisans were responsible for atrocities after the repatriations of Bleiburg, and accusations of culpability were later raised at the Yugoslav leadership under Tito. At the time, Josip Broz Tito repeatedly issued calls for surrender to the retreating column... | Where were possible suspects transferred to? | {'text': 'military court.', 'answer_start': 603} |
55,180 | 54,838 | 572624ed38643c19005ad0b6 | generic | Shell's primary business is the management of a vertically integrated oil company. The development of technical and commercial expertise in all stages of this vertical integration, from the initial search for oil (exploration) through its harvesting (production), transportation, refining and finally trading and marketi... | The development of what two types of exptertise established the core competencies on which the company was founded? | {'text': 'technical and commercial', 'answer_start': 102} |
125,733 | 125,391 | 573365f4d058e614000b5a14 | generic | One of the first victims was Northern Rock, a medium-sized British bank. The highly leveraged nature of its business led the bank to request security from the Bank of England. This in turn led to investor panic and a bank run in mid-September 2007. Calls by Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman Vince Cable to nationalise... | Which medium sized British bank was the first victim of the financial crisis? | {'text': 'Northern Rock', 'answer_start': 29} |
46,197 | 45,855 | 571115a5a58dae1900cd6bf3 | generic | As the Nintendo Entertainment System grew in popularity and entered millions of American homes, some small video rental shops began buying their own copies of NES games, and renting them out to customers for around the same price as a video cassette rental for a few days. Nintendo received no profit from the practice b... | What did Blockbuster do instead of use copyrighted instruction booklets? | {'text': 'produced their own short instructions', 'answer_start': 973} |
43,872 | 43,530 | 570e4a0e0dc6ce1900204f21 | generic | Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because, besides being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. Uranium is also a reproductive toxicant. Radiological effects are generally local because alpha radiation, the primary form of 238U decay, ha... | At what temperature will grains of uranium metal spontaneously ignite in air? | {'text': 'room', 'answer_start': 1403} |
116,553 | 116,211 | 573070bb396df91900096101 | generic | When a historic document survives only in translation, the original having been lost, researchers sometimes undertake back-translation in an effort to reconstruct the original text. An example involves the novel The Saragossa Manuscript by the Polish aristocrat Jan Potocki (1761–1815), who wrote the novel in French and... | Who was Jan Potocki? | {'text': 'Polish aristocrat', 'answer_start': 244} |
112,250 | 111,908 | 572ff287a23a5019007fcb8e | generic | Between 135 BC and 71 BC there were three "Servile Wars" involving slave uprisings against the Roman state. The third and final uprising was the most serious, involving ultimately between 120,000 and 150,000 slaves under the command of the gladiator Spartacus. In 91 BC the Social War broke out between Rome and its form... | How many slave uprisings were there between the years of 135 BC and 71 BC? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 36} |
102,916 | 102,574 | 5ad4c1195b96ef001a109f50 | generic | Spielberg's next film, Schindler's List, was based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a man who risked his life to save 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust. Schindler's List earned Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director (it also won Best Picture). With the film a huge success at the box office, Spielberg used... | What was the first Spielberg movie to win the Best Picture award? | {'text': "Schindler's List", 'answer_start': 23} |
32,265 | 31,923 | 5a149412a54d420018529262 | generic | Many people gain a sense of positive self-esteem from their identity groups, which furthers a sense of community and belonging. Another issue that researchers have attempted to address is the question of why people engage in discrimination, i.e., why they tend to favor those they consider a part of their "in-group" ove... | What issue regarding discrimination have researchers explained? | {'text': 'why people engage in discrimination', 'answer_start': 204} |
59,201 | 58,859 | 572684325951b619008f7537 | generic | Some sections of the state feature architectural styles including Spanish revival, Florida vernacular, and Mediterranean Revival Style. It has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world, most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area, esp... | What architectural styles are in Florida | {'text': 'architectural styles including Spanish revival, Florida vernacular, and Mediterranean Revival Style', 'answer_start': 35} |
19,029 | 18,687 | 56e6c9fc6fe0821900b8eb76 | generic | On April 7, 1979, the Easy Listening chart officially became known as Adult Contemporary, and those two words have remained consistent in the name of the chart ever since. Adult contemporary music became one of the most popular radio formats of the 1980s. The growth of AC was a natural result of the generation that fir... | When did the Adult Contemporary chart receive its current name? | {'text': 'April 7, 1979', 'answer_start': 3} |
67,779 | 67,437 | 5727a452ff5b5019007d91c1 | generic | There are 12 universities in Switzerland, ten of which are maintained at cantonal level and usually offer a range of non-technical subjects. The first university in Switzerland was founded in 1460 in Basel (with a faculty of medicine) and has a tradition of chemical and medical research in Switzerland. The biggest univ... | How many of the 12 Swiss universities are maintained at the cantonal level? | {'text': 'ten', 'answer_start': 42} |
103,677 | 103,335 | 572e9eb603f9891900756842 | generic | For reasons that remain obscure, the planet's thermosphere is at an anomalously high temperature of about 750 K. The planet is too far from the Sun for this heat to be generated by ultraviolet radiation. One candidate for a heating mechanism is atmospheric interaction with ions in the planet's magnetic field. Other can... | What does Neptune's thermosphere containers traces of? | {'text': 'carbon dioxide and water', 'answer_start': 434} |
2,336 | 1,994 | 56cd742662d2951400fa65d7 | generic | On October 22, 2007, Apple reported quarterly revenue of US$6.22 billion, of which 30.69% came from Apple notebook sales, 19.22% from desktop sales and 26% from iPod sales. Apple's 2007 year revenue increased to US$24.01 billion with US$3.5 billion in profits. Apple ended the fiscal year 2007 with US$15.4 billion in ca... | What was the value of Apple's cash assets at the end of 2007? | {'text': '$15.4 billion', 'answer_start': 301} |
82,870 | 82,528 | 5ad2c5dbd7d075001a42a1ab | generic | Northwestern requires that all new buildings be LEED-certified. Silverman Hall on the Evanston campus was awarded Gold LEED Certification in 2010; Wieboldt Hall on the Chicago campus was awarded Gold LEED Certification in 2007, and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center on the Evanston campus was awarded Silv... | How many gallons of waste are recycled at Northwestern yearly? | {'text': '1,500', 'answer_start': 940} |
32,154 | 31,812 | 5a837151e60761001a2eb714 | generic | Copper is an essential trace element in plants and animals, but not some microorganisms. The human body contains copper at a level of about 1.4 to 2.1 mg per kg of body mass. Stated differently, the RDA for copper in normal healthy adults is quoted as 0.97 mg/day and as 3.0 mg/day. Copper is absorbed in the gut, then t... | What hero carries the majority of copper in blood? | {'text': 'Ceruloplasmin', 'answer_start': 556} |
64,484 | 64,142 | 57274fac5951b619008f8815 | generic | The predominant school of thought in the 13th century was the Thomistic reconciliation of the teachings of Aristotle with Christian theology. The Condemnation of 1277, enacted at the University of Paris, placed restrictions on ideas that could be interpreted as heretical; restrictions that had implication for Aristotel... | Which philosopher believed that reason and faith were to be kept separate? | {'text': 'William of Ockham', 'answer_start': 365} |
44,028 | 43,686 | 570e718c0dc6ce1900205079 | generic | The Order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross, 845 Knights and Dames Commander, and 8,960 Commanders. There are no limits applied to the total number of members of the fourth and fifth classes, but no more than 858 Officers and 1,464 Members may be appointed per year. Foreign recipients, as honorary members... | Who has the highest numbers of the British Orders of Chivalry? | {'text': 'Order of the British Empire', 'answer_start': 412} |
66,656 | 66,314 | 5ad0e7c3645df0001a2d080e | generic | In the nineteenth century Burke was praised by both liberals and conservatives. Burke's friend Philip Francis wrote that Burke "was a man who truly & prophetically foresaw all the consequences which would rise from the adoption of the French principles" but because Burke wrote with so much passion, people were doubtful... | When did Benjamin Disraeli say he was deeply affected by Burke? | {'text': '1823', 'answer_start': 2230} |
97,720 | 97,378 | 5a0e45e0d7c850001886457f | generic | While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. There are concerns that antibiotics may increase the risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome in people infected with Escherichia coli O157:H7. In resource-poor countries, treatment with antibiotics ma... | What resource-poor country is developing antibiotic resistance? | {'text': 'Shigella', 'answer_start': 411} |
10,789 | 10,447 | 5acfa19577cf76001a685602 | generic | Building first evolved out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, worship, etc.) and means (available building materials and attendant skills). As human cultures developed and knowledge began to be formalized through oral traditions and practices, building became a craft, and "architecture" is the name given... | What dynamic needs were the reason for building to be demolished? | {'text': 'shelter, security, worship', 'answer_start': 58} |
51,356 | 51,014 | 5726097838643c19005acf6a | generic | Despite their initial reluctance, the Successors seem to have later deliberately naturalized themselves to their different regions, presumably in order to help maintain control of the population. In the Ptolemaic kingdom, we find some Egyptianized Greeks by the 2nd century onwards. The Indo-Greek kingdom, we find kings... | Egyptianized Greeks in the Ptolemaic kingdom started to exist by which century? | {'text': '2nd', 'answer_start': 262} |
98,723 | 98,381 | 572a992f111d821400f38c28 | generic | John Forbes Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 in Aurora, Colorado, at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. He was the second oldest of four children born to Richard John Kerry, a Foreign Service officer and lawyer, and Rosemary Isabel Forbes, a nurse and social activist. His father was raised Catholic (John's paternal grandpare... | What is Kerry's middle name? | {'text': 'Forbes', 'answer_start': 5} |
922 | 580 | 56bfd14ba10cfb1400551309 | generic | In The New Yorker music critic Jody Rosen described Beyoncé as "the most important and compelling popular musician of the twenty-first century..... the result, the logical end point, of a century-plus of pop." When The Guardian named her Artist of the Decade, Llewyn-Smith wrote, "Why Beyoncé? [...] Because she made not... | Who said that she is the reigning national voice? | {'text': 'Baz Luhrmann', 'answer_start': 738} |
9,446 | 9,104 | 56de49434396321400ee2776 | generic | Symbiosis played a major role in the co-evolution of flowering plants and the animals that pollinate them. Many plants that are pollinated by insects, bats, or birds have highly specialized flowers modified to promote pollination by a specific pollinator that is also correspondingly adapted. The first flowering plants ... | What is the word for the kind of relationship in which a plant depend on a single type of insect? | {'text': 'dependent', 'answer_start': 753} |
25,053 | 24,711 | 56f8d3179b226e1400dd1096 | generic | During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in F... | When were several new villages built in France almost exclusively for skiing? | {'text': 'the 1970s', 'answer_start': 274} |
59,379 | 59,037 | 5726bdbd5951b619008f7cbc | generic | In 1997, Queen returned to the studio to record "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)", a song dedicated to Mercury and all those that die too soon. It was released as a bonus track on the Queen Rocks compilation album later that year. In January 1997, Queen performed "The Show Must Go On" live with Elton John and ... | Who was No-One but You dedicated to? | {'text': 'Mercury', 'answer_start': 112} |
5,408 | 5,066 | 56cf8368234ae51400d9bddf | generic | Adams sent condolences to Donda West's family but declined to publicly discuss the procedure, citing confidentiality. West’s family, through celebrity attorney Ed McPherson, filed complaints with the Medical Board against Adams and Aboolian for violating patient confidentiality following her death. Adams had previously... | What talk show did the doctor who performed Donda West's plastic surgery appear on? | {'text': 'Larry King Live', 'answer_start': 378} |
71,324 | 70,982 | 5ad28515d7d075001a42988c | generic | Elimination of Polish elites and intelligentia was part of Generalplan Ost. The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's 'leadership class', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940. As the result of this operation in 10 regiona... | How many intelligentia were killed during operation BA-Akiton? | {'text': '16,000 members', 'answer_start': 509} |
120,430 | 120,088 | 573181eee6313a140071cfdc | generic | Although not without conflict, European/Canadian early interactions with First Nations and Inuit populations were relatively peaceful compared to the experience of native peoples in the United States. Combined with a late economic development in many regions, this relatively peaceful history has allowed Canadian Indige... | How long have European Canadians been encouraging Aboriginals to assimilate into their culture? | {'text': 'late 18th century', 'answer_start': 443} |
80,910 | 80,568 | 5727bd0e2ca10214002d9516 | generic | Detroit, like many places in the United States, developed racial conflict and discrimination in the 20th century following rapid demographic changes as hundreds of thousands of new workers were attracted to the industrial city; in a short period it became the 4th-largest city in the nation. The Great Migration brought ... | By which decade had the KKK become very active in Detroit? | {'text': '1920s', 'answer_start': 732} |
56,819 | 56,477 | 572692035951b619008f76f7 | generic | In addition, the city has about 160 museums—the world's greatest single metropolitan concentration —over 100 art galleries, and some 30 concert halls, all of which maintain a constant cultural activity during the whole year. It has either the third or fourth-highest number of theatres in the world after New York, Londo... | How many concert halls are in Mexico City? | {'text': '30', 'answer_start': 133} |
87,487 | 87,145 | 57280c4bff5b5019007d9bb4 | generic | Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, the VHS and Betamax videocassette systems, LaserDisc never managed to gain widespread use in North America, largely due to high costs for the players and video titles themselves and the inability to record TV programmin... | With whom was LaserDisk a popular choice for it's picture and sound quality? | {'text': 'videophiles and film enthusiasts', 'answer_start': 693} |
96,809 | 96,467 | 572a5371d562191400bc8663 | generic | Economic and political migrations made an impact across the empire. For example, the Russian and Austria-Habsburg annexation of the Crimean and Balkan regions respectively saw large influxes of Muslim refugees – 200,000 Crimean Tartars fleeing to Dobruja. Between 1783 and 1913, approximately 5–7 million refugees floode... | In what year did the Ottoman Empire end? | {'text': '1922', 'answer_start': 925} |
24,519 | 24,177 | 56f7fb3ea6d7ea1400e17355 | generic | Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on... | Which of Virgil's works is considered the national epic of ancient Rome? | {'text': 'Aeneid', 'answer_start': 68} |
83,122 | 82,780 | 572812233acd2414000df3b4 | generic | Northwestern has roughly 225,000 alumni in all branches of business, government, law, science, education, medicine, media, and the performing arts. Among Northwestern's more notable alumni are U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern, Nobel Prize–winning economist George J. Stigler, Nobel Prize–winning n... | Which of Northwestern's alumni is notable for becoming The Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey? | {'text': 'Ali Babacan', 'answer_start': 471} |
96,646 | 96,304 | 572a28cdaf94a219006aa840 | generic | During his brief majority reign, Murad IV (1612–1640) reasserted central authority and recaptured Iraq (1639) from the Safavids. The resulting Treaty of Zuhab of that same year decisively parted the Caucasus and adjacent regions between the two neighbouring empires as it had already been defined in the 1555 Peace of Am... | What years define the Köprülü Era? | {'text': '1656–1703', 'answer_start': 636} |
92,738 | 92,396 | 5728ec9d2ca10214002daaa3 | generic | After the Genpei war of the late 12th century, a clan leader Minamoto no Yoritomo obtained the right to appoint shugo and jito, and was allowed to organize soldiers and police, and to collect a certain amount of tax. Initially, their responsibility was restricted to arresting rebels and collecting needed army provision... | Who opened the Kamakura Bakufu Shogunate? | {'text': 'Minamoto no Yoritomo', 'answer_start': 508} |
54,917 | 54,575 | 57266080f1498d1400e8ddac | generic | The vast majority of visitors in Greece in 2007 came from the European continent, numbering 12.7 million, while the most visitors from a single nationality were those from the United Kingdom, (2.6 million), followed closely by those from Germany (2.3 million). In 2010, the most visited region of Greece was that of Cent... | Where does most of Greece's visitors come from? | {'text': 'the European continent', 'answer_start': 58} |
41,157 | 40,815 | 5a2adee65b078a001a2f0729 | generic | Brahmi evolved into a multiplicity of Brahmic scripts, many of which were used to write Sanskrit. Roughly contemporary with the Brahmi, Kharosthi was used in the northwest of the subcontinent. Sometime between the fourth and eighth centuries, the Gupta script, derived from Brahmi, became prevalent. Around the eighth ce... | What alphabet was mainly used in West India? | {'text': 'the Bengali alphabet', 'answer_start': 526} |
67,506 | 67,164 | 5726cc10f1498d1400e8eb80 | generic | Stepper motors can be rotated to a specific angle in discrete steps with ease, and hence stepper motors are used for read/write head positioning in computer floppy diskette drives. They were used for the same purpose in pre-gigabyte era computer disk drives, where the precision and speed they offered was adequate for t... | Why were stepper motors abandoned in computer drive designs? | {'text': 'precision and speed limitations', 'answer_start': 420} |
11,302 | 10,960 | 5a63296468151a001a922249 | 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. | Aside from the activities of colonies what other even fostered the transition from manufacturing to agriculture? | {'text': 'the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain', 'answer_start': 158} |
4,018 | 3,676 | 56cf1aa6aab44d1400b88d89 | generic | The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setbacks in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building (1930) and Empire State Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel spires, reflected the zoning requirem... | What is the full name of the organization known by the acronym AIA? | {'text': 'American Institute of Architects', 'answer_start': 855} |
92,263 | 91,921 | 5728d6633acd2414000dffdf | generic | The Bush administration then turned its attention to Iraq, and argued the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq had become urgent. Among the stated reasons were that Saddam's regime had tried to acquire nuclear material and had not properly accounted for biological and chemical material it was known to have ... | Who did Bush feel was important to remove from power, after removing the Taliban from Kabul? | {'text': 'Saddam Hussein', 'answer_start': 89} |
36,455 | 36,113 | 5a36fcf095360f001af1b3a9 | generic | Lilius's proposals had two components. Firstly, he proposed a correction to the length of the year. The mean tropical year is 365.24219 days long. As the average length of a Julian year is 365.25 days, the Julian year is almost 11 minutes longer than the mean tropical year. The discrepancy results in a drift of about t... | What causes an extra three days every 400 years in the Gregorian calendar? | {'text': 'The mean tropical year is 365.24219 days long', 'answer_start': 100} |
127,796 | 127,454 | 5aced84b32bba1001ae4b713 | generic | In 2010, there were concerns among Tajik officials that Islamic militarism in the east of the country was on the rise following the escape of 25 militants from a Tajik prison in August, an ambush that killed 28 Tajik soldiers in the Rasht Valley in September, and another ambush in the valley in October that killed 30 s... | In 1910, there were concerns among the Tajik officials that what? | {'text': 'Islamic militarism in the east of the country was on the rise', 'answer_start': 56} |
18,381 | 18,039 | 56e3bca239bdeb14003478e5 | generic | The oldest written records of the Finnic languages of Estonia date from the 13th century. Originates Livoniae in Chronicle of Henry of Livonia contains Estonian place names, words and fragments of sentences. | Aside from place names what else from the Estonian language can be found in the Originates Livoniae in Chronicle of Henry of Livonia? | {'text': 'words and fragments of sentences.', 'answer_start': 174} |
118,721 | 118,379 | 5a8632c8b4e223001a8e74d0 | generic | In Kazakhstan Russian is not a state language, but according to article 7 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan its usage enjoys equal status to that of the Kazakh language in state and local administration. According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 4,200,000 native speakers of Russian in the country,... | How many people in Kazakhstan were able to read the World Factbook in 2004? | {'text': '25.6%', 'answer_start': 671} |
45,558 | 45,216 | 5ad3f096604f3c001a3ff849 | generic | Several states have never had capital punishment, the first being Michigan, which abolished it shortly after entering the Union. (However, the United States government executed Tony Chebatoris at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan in 1938.) Article 4, Section 46 of Michigan's fourth Constitution (r... | In what city was Tony Chebatoris born? | {'text': 'Milan', 'answer_start': 236} |
11,246 | 10,904 | 5a631f1268151a001a922202 | generic | The Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin in a vast empire based on Roman law and Roman legions. It promoted trade, tolerance, and Greek culture. By 300 AD the Roman Empire was divided into the Western Roman Empire based in Rome, and the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople. The attacks o... | Where were the headquarters of the Germanic Roman Empire? | {'text': 'Constantinople', 'answer_start': 291} |
34,016 | 33,674 | 5a8cd3b0fd22b3001a8d8eff | generic | The dollar was first based on the value and look of the Spanish dollar, used widely in Spanish America from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The first dollar coins issued by the United States Mint (founded 1792) were similar in size and composition to the Spanish dollar, minted in Mexico and Peru. The Spanish, U.S. silv... | Outside of the Netherlands, where else was the Dutch dollar minted? | {'text': 'Peru', 'answer_start': 292} |
67,728 | 67,386 | 57279a165951b619008f8e61 | generic | A large number of international institutions have their seats in Switzerland, in part because of its policy of neutrality. Geneva is the birthplace of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the Geneva Conventions and, since 2006, hosts the United Nations Human Rights Council. Even though Switzerland is one of the ... | How long has Switzerland hosted the United Nations Human Rights Council? | {'text': 'since 2006', 'answer_start': 223} |
19,096 | 18,754 | 56e6d988de9d371400068084 | generic | The consolidation of the "hot AC" format contrasted with the near-demise of most other AC formats: Beginning with the 2005-2007 economic downturn and eventual recession most stations went for the more chart-based CHR, along with the top 40, urban and even Latino formats. Diminishing physical record sales also proved a ... | Along with the recession, what broad economic trend marked the decline of adult contemporary radio stations? | {'text': 'the 2005-2007 economic downturn', 'answer_start': 114} |
9,184 | 8,842 | 5a1cc2cd4ea40d0018b06f08 | generic | Between 1590–1712 the Dutch also possessed one of the strongest and fastest navies in the world, allowing for their varied conquests including breaking the Portuguese sphere of influence on the Indian Ocean and in the Orient, as well as a lucrative slave trade from Africa and the Pacific. | When did the Portugese have a strong and fast navy? | {'text': 'Between 1590–1712', 'answer_start': 0} |
18,574 | 18,232 | 5acd469e07355d001abf3bb8 | generic | Estonian language planners such as Ado Grenzstein (a journalist active in Estonia in the 1870s–90s) tried to use formation ex nihilo, Urschöpfung; i.e. they created new words out of nothing. | Who was the journalist refused to be a language planner? | {'text': 'Ado Grenzstein', 'answer_start': 35} |
102,974 | 102,632 | 5ad4c77c5b96ef001a10a057 | generic | In early 2009, Spielberg shot the first film in a planned trilogy of motion capture films based on The Adventures of Tintin, written by Belgian artist Hergé, with Peter Jackson. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, was not released until October 2011, due to the complexity of the computer animation invo... | When was it announced that Peter Jackson would direct the next The Adventures of Tintin movie? | {'text': '2011', 'answer_start': 463} |
87,062 | 86,720 | 57280b994b864d19001642ff | generic | In 1920 French Equatorial Africa was established and Ubangi-Shari was administered from Brazzaville. During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, a network of roads was built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness and Protestant missions were established to spread ... | What important infrastructure was built in the 1920s. | {'text': 'a network of roads', 'answer_start': 192} |
71,520 | 71,178 | 5acf573d77cf76001a684bb4 | generic | When there is a potential difference across the conductors (e.g., when a capacitor is attached across a battery), an electric field develops across the dielectric, causing positive charge +Q to collect on one plate and negative charge −Q to collect on the other plate. If a battery has been attached to a capacitor for a... | When does an electric field not develop across the dielectric? | {'text': 'When there is a potential difference across the conductors', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,101 | 71,759 | 57282cbb2ca10214002d9fe7 | generic | The discipline of ecology typically traces its origin to the synthesis of Darwinian evolution and Humboldtian biogeography, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Equally important in the rise of ecology, however, were microbiology and soil science—particularly the cycle of life concept, prominent in the work Louis... | What did the work of Louis Pasteur and Ferdinand Cohn focus on? | {'text': 'the cycle of life concept', 'answer_start': 266} |
73,340 | 72,998 | 57273da15951b619008f8734 | generic | Following the end of World War II the educational gap between White and Black Americans was widened by Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill. This piece of legislation paved the way for white GIs to attend college. Despite their veteran status returning black servicemen were not afforded loans at the same rate as whites. Furt... | What was considered to be a major cause of the increase in educational gap? | {'text': "Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill", 'answer_start': 103} |
11,954 | 11,612 | 56df5a628bc80c19004e4aff | generic | The City of Plymouth is divided into 20 wards, 17 of which elect three councillors and the other three electing two councillors, making up a total council of 57. Each year a third of the council is up for election for three consecutive years – there are no elections on the following "fourth" year, which is when County ... | What fraction of the Plymouth council is elected each year? | {'text': 'a third', 'answer_start': 172} |
39,711 | 39,369 | 570d0642fed7b91900d45bd5 | generic | The main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport (also called Tullamarine Airport), which is the second busiest in Australia, and the Port of Melbourne is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo. Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropoli... | Who has the most extensive freeway network? | {'text': 'Australia', 'answer_start': 467} |
93,709 | 93,367 | 5a3aad423ff257001ab841e1 | generic | Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of h (but does not define its value). Eventually, following upon Planck's discovery, it was recognized that physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value. Instead, it must be some multiple of a very small quantity, the "quantum of action", now called the Planck... | What does modern statistics mechanics not define the value of? | {'text': 'h', 'answer_start': 58} |
29,287 | 28,945 | 5705e5c275f01819005e7718 | generic | Soon Lutyens started considering other places. Indeed, the Delhi Town Planning Committee, set up to plan the new imperial capital, with George Swinton as chairman and John A. Brodie and Lutyens as members, submitted reports for both North and South sites. However, it was rejected by the Viceroy when the cost of acquiri... | Raisina Hill lay directly opposite what religious site? | {'text': 'Dinapanah citadel', 'answer_start': 1025} |
75,046 | 74,704 | 5727dbdf3acd2414000dee39 | generic | A minority view is that early seventeenth-century Baptists were influenced by (but not directly connected to) continental Anabaptists. According to this view, the General Baptists shared similarities with Dutch Waterlander Mennonites (one of many Anabaptist groups) including believer's baptism only, religious liberty, ... | Who was thought to be influenced by continental Anabaptists? | {'text': 'early seventeenth-century Baptists', 'answer_start': 24} |
59,207 | 58,865 | 5acda52007355d001abf48ae | generic | Some sections of the state feature architectural styles including Spanish revival, Florida vernacular, and Mediterranean Revival Style. It has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world, most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area, esp... | When did the art deco area of Miami die? | {'text': 'as the city was becoming a resort destination', 'answer_start': 373} |
43,303 | 42,961 | 5ad0c41d645df0001a2d025a | generic | Lions are said to inhabit the mountains of the Gash-Barka Region. There is also a small population of elephants that roam in some parts of the country. Dik-diks can also be found in many areas. The endangered African wild ass can be seen in Denakalia Region. Other local wildlife include bushbucks, duikers, greater kudu... | Where are bushbucks mostly found? | {'text': 'the vicinity of the Gash River', 'answer_start': 652} |
125,329 | 124,987 | 57325a8ce99e3014001e66f9 | generic | As of 2010, 46.29% (584,463) of Bronx residents aged five and older spoke Spanish at home, while 44.02% (555,767) spoke English, 2.48% (31,361) African languages, 0.91% (11,455) French, 0.90% (11,355) Italian, 0.87% (10,946) various Indic languages, 0.70% (8,836) other Indo-European languages, and Chinese was spoken at... | How much of the Bronx speaks French at home? | {'text': '0.91%', 'answer_start': 163} |
84,056 | 83,714 | 5728b2a2ff5b5019007da4b6 | generic | The Punjabi kingdom, ruled by members of the Sikh religion, was a political entity that governed the region of modern-day Punjab. The empire, based around the Punjab region, existed from 1799 to 1849. It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) from an arra... | Followers what religion were the rulers of the Punjabi Kingdom? | {'text': 'Sikh religion', 'answer_start': 45} |
82,985 | 82,643 | 5ad2ca02d7d075001a42a256 | generic | There are traditions long associated with football games. Students growl like wildcats when the opposing team controls the ball, while simulating a paw with their hands. They will also jingle keys at the beginning of each kickoff. In the past, before the tradition was discontinued, students would throw marshmallows dur... | What color does the Clock Tower glow after a winning soccer game? | {'text': 'purple', 'answer_start': 381} |
14,060 | 13,718 | 5acdf51b32bba1001ae498d9 | generic | On December 25, 1991, the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation. On December 26, 1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its memb... | What body was responsible for the solution of the USSR? | {'text': 'Soviet of Nationalities', 'answer_start': 132} |
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