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9,860 | 9,518 | 5ad2de57d7d075001a42a587 | generic | The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo (hinge), meaning "principal" or "chief". The term was applied in this sense as early as the ninth century to the priests of the titu... | What is the term applied to any priest temporarily assigned or incardinated to a church? | {'text': 'cardinal', 'answer_start': 9} |
98,142 | 97,800 | 572a74697a1753140016af9c | generic | The southern side of Miami includes Coral Way, The Roads and Coconut Grove. Coral Way is a historic residential neighborhood built in 1922 connecting Downtown with Coral Gables, and is home to many old homes and tree-lined streets. Coconut Grove was established in 1825 and is the location of Miami's City Hall in Dinner... | What does Coral Way connect to Coral Gables? | {'text': 'Downtown', 'answer_start': 150} |
60,100 | 59,758 | 5a6b9734a9e0c9001a4e9f88 | generic | Classification of predators by the extent to which they feed on and interact with their prey is one way ecologists may wish to categorize the different types of predation. Instead of focusing on what they eat, this system classifies predators by the way in which they eat, and the general nature of the interaction betwe... | What is one way prey is classified? | {'text': 'the way in which they eat', 'answer_start': 246} |
18,384 | 18,042 | 5acd2dff07355d001abf380a | 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. | What was the last century fo Estonia's Finnic language? | {'text': '13th century', 'answer_start': 76} |
12,763 | 12,421 | 5acd1ab607355d001abf353a | generic | Kant argued against all three forms of materialism, subjective idealism (which he contrasts with his "transcendental idealism") and dualism. However, Kant also argues that change and time require an enduring substrate, and does so in connection with his Refutation of Idealism. Postmodern/poststructuralist thinkers also... | Postmodern/poststructuralist agree with what? | {'text': 'any all-encompassing metaphysical scheme', 'answer_start': 348} |
29,189 | 28,847 | 5706095a75f01819005e78c9 | 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 ... | What is the URL of online website for The Times? | {'text': 'timesonline.co.uk', 'answer_start': 144} |
47,926 | 47,584 | 571e05005569731900639113 | generic | For African Americans, the one-drop rule was a significant factor in ethnic solidarity. African Americans generally shared a common cause in society regardless of their multiracial admixture, or social/economic stratification. Additionally, African Americans found it, near, impossible to learn about their Indigenous Am... | Who made it next to impossible to learn about their heritage for African Americans? | {'text': 'family elders', 'answer_start': 344} |
40,943 | 40,601 | 570d9275fed7b91900d46234 | generic | However, the problem of deflection settings — 'aim-off' — required knowing the rate of change in the target's position. Both France and UK introduced tachymetric devices to track targets and produce vertical and horizontal deflection angles. The French Brocq system was electrical, the operator entered the target range ... | Which system used a pair of trackers? | {'text': 'British Wilson-Dalby gun director', 'answer_start': 380} |
404 | 62 | 56d443ef2ccc5a1400d830df | generic | Beyoncé attended St. Mary's Elementary School in Fredericksburg, Texas, where she enrolled in dance classes. Her singing talent was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and she finished it, able to hit the high-pitched notes. Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after w... | What choir did Beyoncé sing in for two years? | {'text': "St. John's United Methodist Church", 'answer_start': 711} |
384 | 42 | 56be892d3aeaaa14008c908e | generic | Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, to Celestine Ann "Tina" Knowles (née Beyincé), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager. Beyoncé's name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name. Beyoncé's younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former member of Destiny's Child. ... | Beyonce's childhood home believed in what religion? | {'text': 'Methodist', 'answer_start': 578} |
8,702 | 8,360 | 56dd398c66d3e219004dac80 | generic | In the UK, where devolved government is in place, the leaders of the Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh Governments are styled First Minister. In India, The Prime Minister is referred to as "Pradhan Mantri", meaning "prime minister". In Pakistan, the prime minister is referred to as "Wazir-e-Azam", meaning "Grand Vizie... | What are the heads of government in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland called? | {'text': 'First Minister', 'answer_start': 127} |
105,570 | 105,228 | 572ec623dfa6aa1500f8d386 | generic | As of September 2012, fifty-six species have been delisted; twenty-eight due to recovery, ten due to extinction (seven of which are believed to have been extinct prior to being listed), ten due to changes in taxonomic classification practices, six due to discovery of new populations, one due to an error in the listing ... | How many species were delisted due to discoveries of new populations? | {'text': 'six', 'answer_start': 244} |
75,880 | 75,538 | 572781abf1498d1400e8fa27 | generic | The lyrics of the modern Japanese national anthem, Kimi ga Yo, were written in the Heian period, as was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, one of the first novels ever written. Murasaki Shikibu's contemporary and rival Sei Shōnagon's revealing observations and musings as an attendant in the Empress' court were reco... | What famous poem with an unknown author was written during the Heian period? | {'text': 'Iroha', 'answer_start': 623} |
18,017 | 17,675 | 5ad12e9a645df0001a2d10c8 | generic | In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers; Bluebird, more ambitious productions; and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, one of the few women direc... | What was Jewel Bird a brand for? | {'text': 'prestige motion pictures', 'answer_start': 162} |
20,384 | 20,042 | 56e79c8637bdd419002c4221 | generic | Sheahon Zenger was introduced as KU's new athletic director in January 2011. Under former athletic director Lew Perkins, the department's budget increased from $27.2 million in 2003 (10th in the conference) to currently over $50 million thanks in large part to money raised from a new priority seating policy at Allen Fi... | Who is in charge of all sports teams at KU? | {'text': 'Sheahon Zenger', 'answer_start': 0} |
46,540 | 46,198 | 571a862710f8ca14003050d6 | 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... | What name is Saint Athanasius also known as? | {'text': 'Athanasius the Great', 'answer_start': 139} |
86,704 | 86,362 | 5acfc4f777cf76001a685e15 | generic | In Belgium, the sanction royale has the same legal effect as royal assent; the Belgian constitution requires a theoretically possible refusal of royal sanction to be countersigned—as any other act of the monarch—by a minister responsible before the House of Representatives. The monarch promulgates the law, meaning that... | King Baudouin signed a bill criminalizing abortion in what year? | {'text': '1990', 'answer_start': 401} |
72,474 | 72,132 | 572702ec708984140094d874 | generic | Mean speeds vary greatly, but is typically around 1 m (3 ft) per day. There may be no motion in stagnant areas; for example, in parts of Alaska, trees can establish themselves on surface sediment deposits. In other cases, glaciers can move as fast as 20–30 m (70–100 ft) per day, such as in Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ ... | Why are some glaciers stagnant in Alaska? | {'text': 'trees can establish themselves on surface sediment deposits', 'answer_start': 145} |
6,970 | 6,628 | 56d5c9061c85041400946dcd | generic | Some breeds of dogs are prone to certain genetic ailments such as elbow and hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, pulmonic stenosis, cleft palate, and trick knees. Two serious medical conditions particularly affecting dogs are pyometra, affecting unspayed females of all types and ages, and bloat, which affects the larger... | Pyometra usually affects what type of female dog? | {'text': 'unspayed', 'answer_start': 245} |
20,309 | 19,967 | 56e7943837bdd419002c4193 | generic | KU's Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas. Established in 1993, its goal is to provide adults with the opportunity to complete college degrees. About 2,100 students attend the Edwards Campus, with an average age of 32. Programs available at the Edwards Campus include developmental psychology, public administratio... | In what city is the Edwards Campus located? | {'text': 'Overland Park', 'answer_start': 26} |
62,680 | 62,338 | 5a819e6831013a001a334cef | generic | The cottonseed which remains after the cotton is ginned is used to produce cottonseed oil, which, after refining, can be consumed by humans like any other vegetable oil. The cottonseed meal that is left generally is fed to ruminant livestock; the gossypol remaining in the meal is toxic to monogastric animals. Cottonsee... | What inhibits the development of root bark? | {'text': 'Gossypol', 'answer_start': 513} |
4,158 | 3,816 | 56cfedcd234ae51400d9c0e5 | generic | The New York metropolitan area is home to a self-identifying gay and bisexual community estimated at 568,903 individuals, the largest in the United States and one of the world's largest. Same-sex marriages in New York were legalized on June 24, 2011 and were authorized to take place beginning 30 days thereafter. | How many people identify as gay or bisexual in NYC? | {'text': '568,903', 'answer_start': 101} |
23,833 | 23,491 | 56f81d9ba6d7ea1400e173c6 | generic | Tito's visits to the United States avoided most of the Northeast due to large minorities of Yugoslav emigrants bitter about communism in Yugoslavia. Security for the state visits was usually high to keep him away from protesters, who would frequently burn the Yugoslav flag. During a visit to the United Nations in the l... | What American state did Tito visit when he saw the U.N.? | {'text': 'New York', 'answer_start': 376} |
62,292 | 61,950 | 5727762a708984140094de48 | generic | The divisions between all these groups are approximate and their boundaries are not always clear. The Mizrahim for example, are a heterogeneous collection of North African, Central Asian, Caucasian, and Middle Eastern Jewish communities that are no closer related to each other than they are to any of the earlier mentio... | When did the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal occur? | {'text': 'the 1490s', 'answer_start': 1060} |
128,778 | 128,436 | 5733f8154776f419006615f0 | generic | Punjab is Pakistan's second largest province in terms of land area at 205,344 km2 (79,284 sq mi), after Balochistan, and is located at the north western edge of the geologic Indian plate in South Asia. The province is bordered by Kashmir (Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, India) to the northeast, the Indian... | What Indian states are on the east side of Punjab, Pakistan? | {'text': 'Punjab and Rajasthan', 'answer_start': 331} |
112,816 | 112,474 | 57323785b9d445190005e8dc | generic | Nishimura's force consisted of two battleships, one cruiser and four destroyers. Because they were observing radio silence, Nishimura was unable to synchronize with Shima and Kurita. Nishimura and Shima had failed to even coordinate their plans before the attacks – they were long-time rivals and neither wished to have ... | Which Japanese admiral was a rival of Nishimura? | {'text': 'Shima', 'answer_start': 197} |
111,854 | 111,512 | 572fd9cd04bcaa1900d76dc7 | generic | The Premier League has the highest revenue of any football league in the world, with total club revenues of €2.48 billion in 2009–10. In 2013–14, due to improved television revenues and cost controls, the Premier League had net profits in excess of £78 million, exceeding all other football leagues. In 2010 the Premier ... | Which award did the Premier League win in 2010? | {'text': "In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category", 'answer_start': 300} |
8,415 | 8,073 | 5ad01ce177cf76001a686a6d | generic | The economy is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, an industrial sector based largely on petroleum, support services, and a government characterized by budget problems and overstaffing. Petroleum extraction has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy. In 2008, oil sector accounted for 65% of th... | What percent of the GDP did forestry account for in 2008? | {'text': '65', 'answer_start': 311} |
100,497 | 100,155 | 5acd82cd07355d001abf44ea | generic | Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat... | where are the departments of educational psychology never held? | {'text': 'faculties of education', 'answer_start': 668} |
27,712 | 27,370 | 56fad9608f12f31900630200 | generic | In 1975, the most prominent government reforms regarding family law in a Muslim country were set in motion in the Somali Democratic Republic, which put women and men, including husbands and wives, on complete equal footing. The 1975 Somali Family Law gave men and women equal division of property between the husband and... | What was the official name of the country in which the 1975 Somali Family Law was passed? | {'text': 'the Somali Democratic Republic', 'answer_start': 110} |
61,813 | 61,471 | 5a7a0c7c17ab25001a8a0266 | generic | Contract law covers obligations established by agreement (express or implied) between private parties. Generally, contract law in transactions involving the sale of goods has become highly standardized nationwide as a result of the widespread adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code. However, there is still significant ... | What types of agreements does the Restatement of Contracts cover? | {'text': 'express or implied', 'answer_start': 58} |
124,704 | 124,362 | 573259a4e99e3014001e66ee | generic | Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by the Governing Body. The religion does not tolerate dissent over doctrines and practices; members who openly disagree with the religion's teachings are expelled and shunned. Witness publications strongly discourage followers from questioning doctrine and counsel receiv... | What happens to members who disagree with the religion's teachings? | {'text': 'expelled and shunned', 'answer_start': 203} |
1,015 | 673 | 56bed22d3aeaaa14008c94c1 | generic | In October 2014, it was announced that Beyoncé with her management company Parkwood Entertainment would be partnering with London-based fashion retailer Topshop, in a new 50/50 split subsidiary business named Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd. The new division was created for Topshop to break into the activewear market, wi... | Who did Bayonce's management go into business with in 2014? | {'text': 'fashion retailer Topshop', 'answer_start': 136} |
37,892 | 37,550 | 570bceb66b8089140040fa4f | generic | Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do... | How many species currently live on earth? | {'text': "Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million,", 'answer_start': 220} |
95,084 | 94,742 | 5a2c2d54bfd06b001a5aea22 | generic | A new phase in neoclassical design was inaugurated by Robert and James Adam, who travelled in Italy and Dalmatia in the 1750s, observing the ruins of the classical world. On their return to Britain, they published a book entitled The Works in Architecture in installments between 1773 and 1779. This book of engraved des... | What book outlines the trends of the baroque style? | {'text': 'The Works in Architecture', 'answer_start': 230} |
56,570 | 56,228 | 5a67d77bf038b7001ab0c483 | generic | where is the maximum possible exposure that does not lead to a clipped or bloomed camera output. Typically, the lower limit of the saturation speed is determined by the sensor itself, but with the gain of the amplifier between the sensor and the analog-to-digital converter, the saturation speed can be increased. The f... | A grey level of 12.7 results in what saturation? | {'text': '18%', 'answer_start': 481} |
23,793 | 23,451 | 56f7f1d0aef2371900625ca9 | generic | Tito also developed warm relations with Burma under U Nu, travelling to the country in 1955 and again in 1959, though he didn't receive the same treatment in 1959 from the new leader, Ne Win. | Ne Win led what country? | {'text': 'Burma', 'answer_start': 40} |
58,141 | 57,799 | 57288f642ca10214002da471 | generic | Over three quarters of the student body has some proficiency in a second language (numbering 107 languages in total). This is partially due to the fact that 45 percent of the student body at BYU has been missionaries for LDS Church, and many of them learned a foreign language as part of their mission assignment. During... | What designation does BYU's Russian language program hold? | {'text': 'largest of their kind in the nation', 'answer_start': 619} |
84,791 | 84,449 | 572808403acd2414000df2ce | generic | He was known affectionately as "Good Pope John". His cause for canonization was opened under Pope Paul VI during the final session of the Second Vatican Council on 18 November 1965, along with the cause of Pope Pius XII. On 3 September 2000, John XXIII was declared "Blessed" alongside Pope Pius IX by Pope John Paul II,... | Who declared him "blessed?" | {'text': 'Pope John Paul II', 'answer_start': 302} |
65,545 | 65,203 | 5727bdf52ca10214002d953d | generic | The leading Cubist architects were Pavel Janák, Josef Gočár, Vlastislav Hofman, Emil Králíček and Josef Chochol. They worked mostly in Prague but also in other Bohemian towns. The best-known Cubist building is the House of the Black Madonna in the Old Town of Prague built in 1912 by Josef Gočár with the only Cubist caf... | Where is the House of the Black Madonna located? | {'text': 'Old Town of Prague', 'answer_start': 248} |
129,473 | 129,131 | 5734284ad058e614000b6a4b | generic | Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d... | PCR can't detect the presence of any bacteria when what doesn't occur? | {'text': 'significant proliferation of the infectious agent', 'answer_start': 563} |
75,672 | 75,330 | 5727b3883acd2414000dea1f | generic | North Carolina has a variety of shopping choices. SouthPark Mall in Charlotte is currently the largest in the Carolinas, with almost 2.0 million square feet. Other major malls in Charlotte include Northlake Mall and Carolina Place Mall in nearby suburb Pineville. Other major malls throughout the state include Hanes Mal... | Where is SouthPark Mall located? | {'text': 'Charlotte', 'answer_start': 68} |
50,990 | 50,648 | 5725d1ecec44d21400f3d62f | generic | Israeli music contains musical influences from all over the world; Sephardic music, Hasidic melodies, Belly dancing music, Greek music, jazz, and pop rock are all part of the music scene. Among Israel's world-renowned orchestras is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been in operation for over seventy years an... | Who hosts its own international music festival every summer? | {'text': 'Eilat', 'answer_start': 739} |
70,340 | 69,998 | 572935a41d04691400779178 | generic | The island experienced large-scale immigration over the 20th century, especially after the Second World War. Bermuda has a diverse population including both those with relatively deep roots in Bermuda extending back for centuries, and newer communities whose ancestry results from recent immigration, especially from Bri... | Where are the largest group of non-native people in Bermuda from? | {'text': 'Britain', 'answer_start': 696} |
49,407 | 49,065 | 572431470ba9f01400d97b74 | generic | Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided... | What was the name of Victoria's husband? | {'text': 'Prince Albert', 'answer_start': 35} |
56,178 | 55,836 | 57265ff85951b619008f70fa | generic | A wrestler may voluntarily submit by verbally informing the referee (usually used in moves such as the Mexican Surfboard, where all four limbs are incapacitated, making tapping impossible). Also, since Ken Shamrock (a legitimate UFC competitor in its early days) popularized it in 1997, a wrestler can indicate a volunta... | What is the move called where all limbs are incapicitated? | {'text': 'Mexican Surfboard', 'answer_start': 103} |
5,713 | 5,371 | 56d1d5e8e7d4791d00902280 | generic | While he searched for enlightenment, Gautama combined the yoga practice of his teacher Kalama with what later became known as "the immeasurables".[dubious – discuss] Gautama thus invented a new kind of human, one without egotism.[dubious – discuss] What Thich Nhat Hanh calls the "Four Immeasurable Minds" of love, compa... | Gautama invented a new kind of human without what? | {'text': 'egotism', 'answer_start': 221} |
45,445 | 45,103 | 5ad3f298604f3c001a3ff8b9 | generic | Puerto Rico's constitution expressly forbids capital punishment, stating "The death penalty shall not exist", setting it apart from all U.S. states and territories other than Michigan, which also has a constitutional prohibition (eleven other states and the District of Columbia have abolished capital punishment through... | What territory's constitution says "The death penalty shall definitely exist"? | {'text': "Puerto Rico's", 'answer_start': 0} |
118,012 | 117,670 | 57313831497a881900248c71 | generic | Because of the low elevation, the islands that make up this nation are vulnerable to the effects of tropical cyclones and by the threat of current and future sea level rise. The highest elevation is 4.6 metres (15 ft) above sea level on Niulakita, which gives Tuvalu the second-lowest maximum elevation of any country (a... | What geological situation makes Tuvalu prone to storm damage? | {'text': 'low elevation', 'answer_start': 15} |
122,402 | 122,060 | 5ace294e32bba1001ae49c25 | generic | YouTube Red is YouTube's premium subscription service. It offers advertising-free streaming, access to exclusive content, background and offline video playback on mobile devices, and access to the Google Play Music "All Access" service. YouTube Red was originally announced on November 12, 2014, as "Music Key", a subscr... | What was relaunched on October 12, 2015? | {'text': 'Music Key', 'answer_start': 300} |
34,349 | 34,007 | 570a5e0e6d058f1900182dbe | generic | In 2003, it was reported that one third of female academics "believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers". It was said then that "A spokesman for Imperial said the college was acting on the recommendations and had already made changes". Nevertheless, allegations of bullying have cont... | Who is the new President for Imperial College? | {'text': 'Alice Gast', 'answer_start': 474} |
27,532 | 27,190 | 56fa5330f34c681400b0c07b | generic | Wood unsuitable for construction in its native form may be broken down mechanically (into fibers or chips) or chemically (into cellulose) and used as a raw material for other building materials, such as engineered wood, as well as chipboard, hardboard, and medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Such wood derivatives are wide... | What material results from chemically breaking down wood? | {'text': 'cellulose', 'answer_start': 127} |
82,844 | 82,502 | 5727e7f83acd2414000def77 | generic | In Fall 2008, Northwestern opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar, joining five other American universities: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication, NU-... | Who provided the funding for the construction and administrative costs for NU-Q? | {'text': 'The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development', 'answer_start': 394} |
97,007 | 96,665 | 572a211b3f37b31900478717 | generic | In classical physics, an inertial reference frame is one in which an object that experiences no forces does not accelerate. In general relativity, an inertial frame of reference is one that is following a geodesic of space-time. An object that moves against a geodesic experiences a force. An object in free fall does no... | In classical physics, an inertial reference frame is one in which an object without force does what? | {'text': 'does not accelerate', 'answer_start': 103} |
35,547 | 35,205 | 5acd878b07355d001abf45dd | generic | India started the construction of a 40,000-tonne, 260-metre-long (850 ft) Vikrant-class aircraft carrier in 2009. The new carrier will operate MiG-29K and naval HAL Tejas aircraft along with the Indian-made helicopter HAL Dhruv. The ship will be powered by four gas-turbine engines and will have a range of 8,000 nautica... | What will not power the Indian-made ship? | {'text': 'four gas-turbine engines', 'answer_start': 257} |
125,388 | 125,046 | 57326341e99e3014001e6751 | generic | Many public high schools are located in the borough including the elite Bronx High School of Science, Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, DeWitt Clinton High School, High School for Violin and Dance, Bronx Leadership Academy 2, Bronx International High School, the School for Excellence, the Morris Academy for Collab... | Where is the School for Excellence? | {'text': 'The Bronx', 'answer_start': 614} |
57,043 | 56,701 | 57265f7e5951b619008f70e6 | generic | He was moved to the Bureau of Topography of the Committee of Public Safety and sought unsuccessfully to be transferred to Constantinople in order to offer his services to the Sultan. During this period, he wrote the romantic novella Clisson et Eugénie, about a soldier and his lover, in a clear parallel to Bonaparte's o... | Inspired by his own relationship, what romantic tale did Napoleon author? | {'text': 'Clisson et Eugénie', 'answer_start': 233} |
55,284 | 54,942 | 5a628873f8d794001af1c0be | generic | As the Kulluk oil rig was being towed to the American state of Washington to be serviced in preparation for the 2013 drilling season, a winter storm on 27 December 2012 caused the towing crews, as well as the rescue service, to lose control of the situation. As of 1 January 2013, the Kulluk was grounded off the coast S... | Who was the executive director of the Fortune magazine? | {'text': 'Larry McKinney', 'answer_start': 430} |
78,752 | 78,410 | 5727bded4b864d1900163c34 | generic | Dominic's education at Palencia gave him the knowledge he needed to overcome the Manicheans. With charity, the other concept that most defines the work and spirituality of the order, study became the method most used by the Dominicans in working to defend the Church against the perils that hounded it, and also of enlar... | What helps define the work of the Dominican Order? | {'text': 'charity', 'answer_start': 98} |
38,088 | 37,746 | 570be0da6b8089140040fac0 | generic | Biodiversity provides critical support for drug discovery and the availability of medicinal resources. A significant proportion of drugs are derived, directly or indirectly, from biological sources: at least 50% of the pharmaceutical compounds on the US market are derived from plants, animals, and micro-organisms, whil... | What percentage of worldwide drugs are derived from nature? | {'text': 'about 80%', 'answer_start': 322} |
105,616 | 105,274 | 5a84a7cf7cf838001a46aa15 | generic | A reward will be paid to any person who furnishes information which leads to an arrest, conviction, or revocation of a license, so long as they are not a local, state, or federal employee in the performance of official duties. The Secretary may also provide reasonable and necessary costs incurred for the care of fish, ... | What three types of employees are allowed to accept a reward? | {'text': 'local, state, or federal', 'answer_start': 154} |
121,790 | 121,448 | 5731a0a1b9d445190005e415 | generic | By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context. Aristotle was no longer a force providing the epistemological and methodological focus for universities and a more mechanistic orientation was emerging. Th... | The study of the humanities at the end of the early modern period replaced the study of the work of what individual? | {'text': 'Aristotle', 'answer_start': 165} |
47,605 | 47,263 | 571dd9035569731900639061 | generic | Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of "two or more races". The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2010 US census, approximately 9 million individuals, or 2.9% of the population, sel... | How many multiracial people in the US were there in 2010? | {'text': 'approximately 9 million individuals', 'answer_start': 253} |
104,346 | 104,004 | 572eb8ccc246551400ce4564 | generic | In the 2000s, more Venezuelans opposing the economic and political policies of president Hugo Chávez migrated to the United States (mostly to Florida, but New York City and Houston are other destinations). The largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States is in South Florida, especially the suburbs of Doral... | How did Chavez affect the Venezuelans? | {'text': 'In the 2000s, more Venezuelans opposing the economic and political policies of president Hugo Chávez migrated to the United States', 'answer_start': 0} |
20,159 | 19,817 | 56e782a500c9c71400d771f5 | generic | On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund and a site for the university, in or near the town, of not less than forty acres (16 ha) of land. If Lawrence failed to meet... | How much money did Lawrence have to contribute to the University as terms of its charter? | {'text': '$15,000', 'answer_start': 173} |
4,835 | 4,493 | 56cfb9bf234ae51400d9bf07 | generic | The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year. In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year. Photosynthesis captures approximately 3,000 EJ per year in biomass. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface... | What is the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth? | {'text': 'approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year', 'answer_start': 81} |
127,016 | 126,674 | 5acecb0a32bba1001ae4b42c | 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. ... | What national police agency was created before WW2? | {'text': 'Interpol', 'answer_start': 671} |
103,268 | 102,926 | 572ea29b03f9891900756877 | generic | Gearless traction machines are low-speed (low-RPM), high-torque electric motors powered either by AC or DC. In this case, the drive sheave is directly attached to the end of the motor. Gearless traction elevators can reach speeds of up to 20 m/s (4,000 ft/min), A brake is mounted between the motor and gearbox or betwee... | In a gearless traction engine, what is the drive sheave attached to? | {'text': 'directly attached to the end of the motor', 'answer_start': 142} |
27,355 | 27,013 | 56fa0bfa8f12f319006300b6 | generic | Some experiments on very resinous Longleaf Pine specimens indicate an increase in strength, due to the resin which increases the strength when dry. Such resin-saturated heartwood is called "fat lighter". Structures built of fat lighter are almost impervious to rot and termites; however they are very flammable. Stumps o... | If spruce is shot full of crude resin and dried, which of its properties is increased? | {'text': 'strength', 'answer_start': 558} |
33,307 | 32,965 | 57098fc7ed30961900e84322 | generic | Orthodox Judaism collectively considers itself the only true heir to the Jewish tradition. The Orthodox Jewish movements consider all non-Orthodox Jewish movements to be unacceptable deviations from authentic Judaism; both because of other denominations' doubt concerning the verbal revelation of Written and Oral Torah,... | What do Orthodox jewish groups characterize non-orthodox form of Judiasm as? | {'text': 'heretical', 'answer_start': 464} |
31,921 | 31,579 | 57095defed30961900e84004 | generic | Copper is biostatic, meaning bacteria will not grow on it. For this reason it has long been used to line parts of ships to protect against barnacles and mussels. It was originally used pure, but has since been superseded by Muntz metal. Similarly, as discussed in copper alloys in aquaculture, copper alloys have become ... | What word means that bacteria won't grow on a substrate? | {'text': 'biostatic', 'answer_start': 10} |
105,787 | 105,445 | 5a87ad601d3cee001a6a12d1 | generic | Ion gauges are used in ultrahigh vacuum. They come in two types: hot cathode and cold cathode. In the hot cathode version an electrically heated filament produces an electron beam. The electrons travel through the gauge and ionize gas molecules around them. The resulting ions are collected at a negative electrode. The ... | What is the accuracy of a mass spectrometer? | {'text': 'from 10−2 torr to 10−9 torr', 'answer_start': 651} |
84,665 | 84,323 | 572801a52ca10214002d9b43 | generic | Following the death of Pope Pius XII on 9 October 1958, Roncalli watched the live funeral on his last full day in Venice on 11 October. His journal was specifically concerned with the funeral and the abused state of the late pontiff's corpse. Roncalli left Venice for the conclave in Rome well aware that he was papabile... | He was elected pope after how many ballots? | {'text': 'eleven ballots', 'answer_start': 335} |
102,023 | 101,681 | 572e7f49cb0c0d14000f11c6 | generic | Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya. His family came from a small, relatively un-influential tribal group called the Qadhadhfa, who were Arabized Berber in heritage. His father, Mohammad Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammad, was kno... | How did his upbringing impact his later life preferences? | {'text': 'He repeatedly expressed a preference for the desert over the city and retreated to the desert to meditate.', 'answer_start': 884} |
61,529 | 61,187 | 5727c8644b864d1900163d06 | generic | Notably, a statute does not disappear automatically merely because it has been found unconstitutional; it must be deleted by a subsequent statute. Many federal and state statutes have remained on the books for decades after they were ruled to be unconstitutional. However, under the principle of stare decisis, no sensib... | Any court that enforces an unconstitutional statute will be overturned by what court? | {'text': 'the Supreme Court', 'answer_start': 424} |
121,507 | 121,165 | 57319138a5e9cc1400cdc0b7 | generic | The double indirect method can be used when it is important to see the work during the creation process as it will appear when completed. The tesserae are placed face-up on a medium (often adhesive-backed paper, sticky plastic or soft lime or putty) as it will appear when installed. When the mosaic is complete, a simil... | When is the double indirect method of mosaic useful? | {'text': 'when it is important to see the work', 'answer_start': 39} |
46,427 | 46,085 | 5711264da58dae1900cd6ca8 | generic | In December 1993, the Famicom received a similar redesign. It also loads cartridges through a covered slot on the top of the unit and uses non-hardwired controllers. Because HVC-101 used composite video output instead of being RF only like the HVC-001, Nintendo marketed the newer model as the AV Famicom (AV仕様ファミコン, Eib... | What month and year did the Famicom receive a redesign? | {'text': 'December 1993', 'answer_start': 3} |
9,337 | 8,995 | 56de22b84396321400ee25d9 | generic | An example of mutual symbiosis is the relationship between the ocellaris clownfish that dwell among the tentacles of Ritteri sea anemones. The territorial fish protects the anemone from anemone-eating fish, and in turn the stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from its predators. A special mucus on th... | What lives with Ritteri sea anemones? | {'text': 'ocellaris clownfish', 'answer_start': 63} |
29,703 | 29,361 | 5706bbd02eaba6190074acb6 | generic | Migrating birds can lose their way and appear outside their normal ranges. This can be due to flying past their destinations as in the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended. Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as wat... | What location has become famous for bird overshooters? | {'text': 'Point Pelee National Park', 'answer_start': 362} |
119,156 | 118,814 | 5730c3e8f6cb411900e24478 | generic | In 1957, Braunstein further demonstrated that the rudimentary devices could be used for non-radio communication across a short distance. As noted by Kroemer Braunstein".. had set up a simple optical communications link: Music emerging from a record player was used via suitable electronics to modulate the forward curren... | What final device was needed to hear the signal from the initial GaAs diode? | {'text': 'audio amplifier', 'answer_start': 433} |
66,203 | 65,861 | 5a81c28831013a001a334e69 | generic | It was announced on 19 March 2015 that self-governance for the island would be revoked by the Commonwealth and replaced by a local council with the state of New South Wales providing services to the island. A reason given was that the island had never gained self-sufficiency and was being heavily subsidised by the Comm... | What state did the proposed council dismiss? | {'text': 'New South Wales', 'answer_start': 157} |
23,959 | 23,617 | 56f9519a9e9bad19000a0827 | generic | The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ),[note 1] is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country... | How many people lived in the Marshall Islands in 2011? | {'text': '53,158', 'answer_start': 337} |
125,899 | 125,557 | 57333f25d058e614000b57c0 | generic | After defeating the Visigoths in only a few months, the Umayyad Caliphate started expanding rapidly in the peninsula. Beginning in 711, the land that is now Portugal became part of the vast Umayyad Caliphate's empire of Damascus, which stretched from the Indus river in the Indian sub-continent (now Pakistan) up to the ... | In which year did Umayyad Caliphate's empire collapse? | {'text': '750', 'answer_start': 359} |
90,469 | 90,127 | 5ad26ed8d7d075001a429407 | generic | While there is some dispute as to the matter of influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist Friedrich Hayek, who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna. Each found support and similarities in the other's work, citing each other often, though not without qualificatio... | Who did Alfred Tarski say he had learned more from than any other living thinker? | {'text': 'Hayek', 'answer_start': 338} |
21,447 | 21,105 | 56e8668737bdd419002c44ff | generic | Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories. It regained control of the Bernese Oberland in 1802, and following the Congress of Vienna of 1814, it newly acquired the Bernese Jura. At this time, it once again became the largest canton ... | Why were French troops in Bern? | {'text': 'French Revolutionary Wars', 'answer_start': 54} |
11,023 | 10,681 | 5acfb2be77cf76001a68595f | generic | Concurrently, the recent movements of New Urbanism, Metaphoric architecture and New Classical Architecture promote a sustainable approach towards construction, that appreciates and develops smart growth, architectural tradition and classical design. This in contrast to modernist and globally uniform architecture, as we... | What older architectural movements do the older movements not go along with? | {'text': 'modernist and globally uniform architecture', 'answer_start': 270} |
10,975 | 10,633 | 56e4c3f339bdeb14003479c8 | generic | Many architects resisted modernism, finding it devoid of the decorative richness of historical styles. As the first generation of modernists began to die after WWII, a second generation of architects including Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, and Eero Saarinen tried to expand the aesthetics of modernism with Brutalism, bui... | What material was used in Brutalist structures? | {'text': 'unfinished concrete', 'answer_start': 370} |
99,657 | 99,315 | 572b41aabe1ee31400cb82c2 | generic | The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc... | What did Wittgenstein say about logic? | {'text': 'all logical truths are mere linguistic tautologies', 'answer_start': 650} |
78,859 | 78,517 | 5727d3462ca10214002d976c | generic | Dominic's search for a close relationship with God was determined and unceasing. He rarely spoke, so little of his interior life is known. What is known about it comes from accounts written by people near to him. St. Cecilia remembered him as cheerful, charitable and full of unceasing vigor. From a number of accounts, ... | What did Dominic refuse to do? | {'text': 'carry money', 'answer_start': 533} |
7,114 | 6,772 | 56d629291c85041400946f49 | generic | Emigrants from Siberia that walked across the Bering land bridge into North America may have had dogs in their company, and one writer suggests that the use of sled dogs may have been critical to the success of the waves that entered North America roughly 12,000 years ago, although the earliest archaeological evidence ... | What did ancient people walk across from Siberia into North America? | {'text': 'Bering land bridge', 'answer_start': 46} |
24,504 | 24,162 | 56f7fa54aef2371900625d18 | generic | Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics... | During which period was Vigil a poet? | {'text': 'Augustan', 'answer_start': 208} |
41,430 | 41,088 | 570d3fa3b3d812140066d5e1 | generic | A fervent follower of the absolutist cause, Elío had played an important role in the repression of the supporters of the Constitution of 1812. For this, he was arrested in 1820 and executed in 1822 by garroting. Conflict between absolutists and liberals continued, and in the period of conservative rule called the Omino... | How was Elio executed? | {'text': 'by garroting', 'answer_start': 198} |
19,087 | 18,745 | 56e6d8036fe0821900b8ebcf | generic | A popular trend in this era was remixing dance music hits into adult contemporary ballads, especially in the US, (for example, the "Candlelight Mix" versions of "Heaven" by DJ Sammy, "Listen To Your Heart" by D.H.T., and "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada). Adult contemporary has long characterized itself as family-friend... | What artist performed the song "Forget You"? | {'text': 'Cee Lo Green', 'answer_start': 385} |
68,866 | 68,524 | 5726f1425951b619008f8303 | generic | During this period, the Russian Black Sea Fleet was operating against Ottoman coastal traffic between Constantinople (currently named Istanbul) and the Caucasus ports, while the Ottoman fleet sought to protect this supply line. The clash came on 30 November 1853 when a Russian fleet attacked an Ottoman force in the har... | Who attacked the port after the attack outside of Odessa harbor? | {'text': 'an Anglo-French fleet', 'answer_start': 599} |
106,357 | 106,015 | 5ad21c6ad7d075001a428453 | generic | In addition to and independent of the division into suras, there are various ways of dividing the Quran into parts of approximately equal length for convenience in reading. The 30 juz' (plural ajzāʼ) can be used to read through the entire Quran in a month. Some of these parts are known by names—which are the first few ... | How many ajzā cover the partial Quran? | {'text': '30', 'answer_start': 177} |
110,133 | 109,791 | 5730187d947a6a140053d0d2 | generic | Also on the north side is the suburban community of Catalina Foothills, located in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of the city limits. This community includes among the area's most expensive homes, sometimes multimillion-dollar estates. The Foothills area is generally defined as north of River ... | What is the Foothills west of? | {'text': 'Sabino Creek', 'answer_start': 359} |
107,892 | 107,550 | 5730740e396df9190009611d | generic | In the late 1940s, during the last days of the Dominion of Newfoundland (at the time a dominion-dependency in the Commonwealth and independent of Canada), there was mainstream support, although not majority, for Newfoundland to form an economic union with the United States, thanks to the efforts of the Economic Union P... | What was the result of the 1948 referendum? | {'text': 'The movement ultimately failed', 'answer_start': 430} |
52,736 | 52,394 | 5a7a48f817ab25001a8a046b | generic | Investitures, which include the conferring of knighthoods by dubbing with a sword, and other awards take place in the palace's Ballroom, built in 1854. At 36.6 m (120 ft) long, 18 m (59 ft) wide and 13.5 m (44 ft) high, it is the largest room in the palace. It has replaced the throne room in importance and use. During ... | What is the smallest room in the palace? | {'text': "the palace's Ballroom", 'answer_start': 114} |
52,638 | 52,296 | 572617b838643c19005acfdc | generic | Between 1847 and 1850, when Blore was building the new east wing, the Brighton Pavilion was once again plundered of its fittings. As a result, many of the rooms in the new wing have a distinctly oriental atmosphere. The red and blue Chinese Luncheon Room is made up from parts of the Brighton Banqueting and Music Rooms ... | Parts of the Brighton Banqueting and Music Rooms from Brighton Pavilion make up which Buckingham Room? | {'text': 'The red and blue Chinese Luncheon Room', 'answer_start': 216} |
128,142 | 127,800 | 5733b5df4776f41900661108 | generic | In 2014 the Notre Dame student body consisted of 12,179 students, with 8,448 undergraduates, 2,138 graduate and professional and 1,593 professional (Law, M.Div., Business, M.Ed.) students. Around 21–24% of students are children of alumni, and although 37% of students come from the Midwestern United States, the student ... | For what cause is money raised at the Bengal Bouts tournament at Notre Dame? | {'text': 'the Holy Cross Missions in Bangladesh', 'answer_start': 1588} |
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