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13,284 | 12,942 | 56df58d38bc80c19004e4aea | generic | In the 2000 Census Oklahoma City's age composition was 25.5% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.7 m... | Which gender was prominent in that time? | {'text': 'females', 'answer_start': 233} |
69,042 | 68,700 | 5a4556fd19a820001a1eda20 | generic | The nonprofit landscape is highly varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations. Although charities do comprise an often high profile or visible aspect of the sector, there are many other types of nonprofits. Overall, they tend to be either member-serving or community-serving. M... | What have people come to associate the broader community with? | {'text': 'charitable organizations', 'answer_start': 96} |
67,215 | 66,873 | 5726a114708984140094cc49 | generic | Perhaps the first electric motors were simple electrostatic devices created by the Scottish monk Andrew Gordon in the 1740s. The theoretical principle behind production of mechanical force by the interactions of an electric current and a magnetic field, Ampère's force law, was discovered later by André-Marie Ampère in ... | Who created the first electrostatic device? | {'text': 'Andrew Gordon', 'answer_start': 97} |
118,937 | 118,595 | 5730db0aaca1c71400fe5b18 | generic | This is the passive, active, and dynamic employment of capabilities to respond to imminent or on-going actions against Air Force or Air Force-protected networks, the Air Force's portion of the Global Information Grid, or expeditionary communications assigned to the Air Force. Cyberspace defense incorporates CNE, comput... | What is one of the things that Cyberspace defense highly dependent on? | {'text': 'fused all-source intelligence', 'answer_start': 448} |
85,067 | 84,725 | 57280c162ca10214002d9ca0 | generic | On the other hand, the crew on board the spaceship also perceives the observer as slowed down and flattened along the spaceship's direction of travel, because both are moving at very nearly the speed of light relative to each other. Because the outside universe appears flattened to the spaceship, the crew perceives the... | How does the crew on board the spaceship perceive the stationary observer? | {'text': "slowed down and flattened along the spaceship's direction of travel", 'answer_start': 82} |
73,666 | 73,324 | 5a8c92eafd22b3001a8d8b6b | generic | The number of entrants has increased greatly in recent years. In the 2004–05 season, 660 clubs entered the competition, beating the long-standing record of 656 from the 1921–22 season. In 2005–06 this increased to 674 entrants, in 2006–07 to 687, in 2007–08 to 731 clubs, and for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 competitions it ... | How has the number of entrants changed in the League Cup? | {'text': 'The number of entrants has increased greatly in recent years', 'answer_start': 0} |
59,638 | 59,296 | 57267878dd62a815002e862c | generic | John Knox (1505–1572), a Scot who had spent time studying under Calvin in Geneva, returned to Scotland and urged his countrymen to reform the Church in line with Calvinist doctrines. After a period of religious convulsion and political conflict culminating in a victory for the Protestant party at the Siege of Leith the... | What year did John Knox past away? | {'text': '1572', 'answer_start': 16} |
121,692 | 121,350 | 5731954b497a88190024908b | generic | Although the initial focus of the humanist scholars in the university was the discovery, exposition and insertion of ancient texts and languages into the university, and the ideas of those texts into society generally, their influence was ultimately quite progressive. The emergence of classical texts brought new ideas ... | What work did Vesalius push the study of? | {'text': 'Galen', 'answer_start': 827} |
113,429 | 113,087 | 572feebca23a5019007fcb70 | generic | The best known work of fiction from the Islamic world is One Thousand and One Nights (In Persian: hezār-o-yek šab > Arabic: ʔalf-layl-at-wa-l’-layla= One thousand Night and (one) Night) or *Arabian Nights, a name invented by early Western translators, which is a compilation of folk tales from Sanskrit, Persian, and lat... | When did One Thousand and One Nights first get translated in the West? | {'text': '18th century', 'answer_start': 862} |
16,964 | 16,622 | 56e1040ecd28a01900c6743d | generic | The first Code of Canon Law, 1917, was mostly for the Roman Rite, with limited application to the Eastern Churches. After the Second Vatican Council, (1962 - 1965), another edition was published specifically for the Roman Rite in 1983. Most recently, 1990, the Vatican produced the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches... | When was the original Code of Canon Law published? | {'text': '1917', 'answer_start': 29} |
9,662 | 9,320 | 5ad3e7dd604f3c001a3ff61a | generic | In the 1950s, the recruitment of women was open to roles in medicine, communication, logistics, and administration. The roles of women in the CAF began to expand in 1971, after the Department reviewed the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, at which time it lifted the ceiling of 1,500 women ... | Why were men eventually allowed to serve at sea in the CAF? | {'text': 'Department changed its policies', 'answer_start': 727} |
29,375 | 29,033 | 5706899e75f01819005e7be9 | generic | The Delhi Flying Club, established in 1928 with two de Havilland Moth aircraft named Delhi and Roshanara, was based at Safdarjung Airport which started operations in 1929, when it was the Delhi's only airport and the second in India. The airport functioned until 2001, however in January 2002 the government closed the a... | When established in 1928, which airport served as the base of the Delhi Flying Club? | {'text': 'Safdarjung Airport', 'answer_start': 119} |
53,222 | 52,880 | 57264f1c5951b619008f6f83 | generic | In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of three factors: an effective incandes... | How did Edison achieve a higher vacuum than other inventors? | {'text': 'by use of the Sprengel pump', 'answer_start': 385} |
13,500 | 13,158 | 56df8cfc4a1a83140091eb2f | generic | As a result of the now near-universal human reliance upon agriculture, the few contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures usually live in areas unsuitable for agricultural use. | How many modern hunter-gatherer cultures are there? | {'text': 'few', 'answer_start': 75} |
3,343 | 3,001 | 56d5185a9d1b871400ae061f | generic | Office buildings in Shanghai's financial district, including the Jin Mao Tower and the Hong Kong New World Tower, were evacuated. A receptionist at the Tibet Hotel in Chengdu said things were "calm" after the hotel evacuated its guests. Meanwhile, workers at a Ford plant in Sichuan were evacuated for about 10 minutes. ... | What were they using the airport to stage for? | {'text': 'relief operations', 'answer_start': 778} |
111,488 | 111,146 | 573092c08ab72b1400f9c5a6 | generic | Most Greeks are Christians, belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. During the first centuries after Jesus Christ, the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, which remains the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox Church, and most of the early Christians and Church Fathers were Greek-speaking. There a... | What language was the second half of the Bible originally written in ? | {'text': 'the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek', 'answer_start': 115} |
114,548 | 114,206 | 57300eeb04bcaa1900d770cc | generic | The style of Georgian buildings is very variable, but marked by a taste for symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture. Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically rather restrained, and sometimes almost completely absen... | What type of architecture did Georgian replace? | {'text': 'English vernacular architecture', 'answer_start': 477} |
56,556 | 56,214 | 5726668a708984140094c4ce | generic | The CIPA DC-004 standard requires that Japanese manufacturers of digital still cameras use either the REI or SOS techniques, and DC-008 updates the Exif specification to differentiate between these values. Consequently, the three EI techniques carried over from ISO 12232:1998 are not widely used in recent camera models... | What nation's cameras does the CIPA DC-004 apply to? | {'text': 'Japanese', 'answer_start': 39} |
45,543 | 45,201 | 57100286a58dae1900cd67d8 | generic | The United States Supreme Court in Penry v. Lynaugh and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Bigby v. Dretke have been clear in their decisions that jury instructions in death penalty cases that do not ask about mitigating factors regarding the defendant's mental health violate the defendant's Ei... | In what court was Bigby v. Dretke decided? | {'text': 'United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit', 'answer_start': 60} |
20,056 | 19,714 | 56e7ca0937bdd419002c4400 | generic | On November 2011, the sailing boat Puma's Mar Mostro participant in Volvo Ocean Race arrived to the island after her mast broke in the first leg from Alicante and Cape Town. This event made the island, its inhabitants and lifestyle known worldwide thanks to the media reports. | When did a boat arrive at the island with damage during a race? | {'text': 'November 2011', 'answer_start': 3} |
115,247 | 114,905 | 5730a11b2461fd1900a9cf13 | generic | Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the su... | What is it called if you mistake a reflection in a mirror for the real thing? | {'text': 'Presentational immediacy', 'answer_start': 369} |
5,237 | 4,895 | 56d1109717492d1400aab88e | generic | Having initially announced a new album entitled So Help Me God slated for a 2014 release, in March 2015 West announced that the album would instead be tentatively called SWISH. Later that month, West was awarded an honorary doctorate by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for his contributions to music, fashion,... | What was the original name of Kanye's album "SWISH"? | {'text': 'So Help Me God', 'answer_start': 48} |
7,805 | 7,463 | 5a5923c33e1742001a15cfbc | generic | Some organisms have multiple copies of chromosomes: diploid, triploid, tetraploid and so on. In classical genetics, in a sexually reproducing organism (typically eukarya) the gamete has half the number of chromosomes of the somatic cell and the genome is a full set of chromosomes in a diploid cell. The halving of the g... | What three non-chromosomal genetic elements can bacteria comprise? | {'text': 'viruses, plasmids, and transposable elements', 'answer_start': 1058} |
46,175 | 45,833 | 5ad2a4f3d7d075001a429da8 | generic | In June 1989, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing Peter Main, said that the Famicom was present in 37% of Japan's households. By 1990, 30% of American households owned the NES, compared to 23% for all personal computers. By 1990, the NES had outsold all previously released consoles worldwide.[better sourc... | What wasn't the slogan for the Nintendo brand? | {'text': "It can't be beaten", 'answer_start': 360} |
125,729 | 125,387 | 5733651b4776f419006609bf | generic | Market strategist Phil Dow believes distinctions exist "between the current market malaise" and the Great Depression. He says the Dow Jones average's fall of more than 50% over a period of 17 months is similar to a 54.7% fall in the Great Depression, followed by a total drop of 89% over the following 16 months. "It's v... | Who is the market strategist that believes distinctions exist between the current crisis and the Great Depression? | {'text': 'Phil Dow', 'answer_start': 18} |
16,896 | 16,554 | 56e0f735231d4119001ac4f8 | generic | The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. What began with rules ("canons") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first cent... | What is the term for laws produced at the Council of Jerusalem? | {'text': 'canons', 'answer_start': 242} |
94,841 | 94,499 | 572b5c93111d821400f38e7c | generic | The relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation to itself makes it an efficient sacrificial anode in cathodic protection (CP). For example, cathodic protection of a buried pipeline can be achieved by connecting anodes made from zinc to the pipe. Zinc acts as the anode (negative terminus) by slowly ... | What does attaching a zinc disc to a ships iron rudder do? | {'text': 'protect metals that are exposed to sea water from corrosion', 'answer_start': 430} |
66,617 | 66,275 | 5726b44edd62a815002e8d70 | generic | In November 1795, there was a debate in Parliament on the high price of corn and Burke wrote a memorandum to Pitt on the subject. In December Samuel Whitbread MP introduced a bill giving magistrates the power to fix minimum wages and Fox said he would vote for it. This debate probably led Burke to editing his memorandu... | Who did Burke write to about the price of corn? | {'text': 'Pitt', 'answer_start': 109} |
116,352 | 116,010 | 5730487aa23a5019007fd074 | generic | In 2004, the Swaziland government acknowledged for the first time that it suffered an AIDS crisis, with 38.8% of tested pregnant women infected with HIV (see AIDS in Africa). The then Prime Minister Themba Dlamini declared a humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of drought, land degradation, increased poverty,... | What percentage of HIV/AIDS infected in Swaziland are believed to be treated? | {'text': '70% to 80%', 'answer_start': 523} |
74,740 | 74,398 | 57276074f1498d1400e8f71b | generic | While christian festivals such as corpus christi were church-sanctioned celebrations, Carnival was also a manifestation of European folk culture. In the Christian tradition the fasting is to commemorate the 40 days that Jesus fasted in the desert according to the New Testament and also to reflect on Christian values. A... | What pagan midwinter festival did the church find easier to subvert than eliminate? | {'text': 'Christmas', 'answer_start': 366} |
100,235 | 99,893 | 5a7a316817ab25001a8a0390 | generic | Nouns are also inflected for number, distinguishing between singular and plural. Typical of a Slavic language, Czech cardinal numbers one through four allow the nouns and adjectives they modify to take any case, but numbers over five place these nouns and adjectives in the genitive case when the entire expression is in... | What are adjectives inflected for in Czech? | {'text': 'number', 'answer_start': 29} |
89,480 | 89,138 | 572846ce2ca10214002da224 | generic | The capital of Danish Estonia (Danish: Hertugdømmet Estland) was Reval (Tallinn), founded at the place of Lyndanisse after the invasion of 1219. The Danes built the fortress of Castrum Danorum at Toompea Hill. Estonians still call their capital "Tallinn", which according to legend derives from Taani linna (meaning Dani... | What was the capital of Danish Estonia? | {'text': 'Reval', 'answer_start': 65} |
1,150 | 808 | 56cbd8c66d243a140015ed87 | generic | In his native Poland, in France, where he composed most of his works, and beyond, Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him, in the public consciousness, a leading symbol of the Romant... | In which era was Frédéric leave a legacy of as a leading symbol? | {'text': 'Romantic era', 'answer_start': 314} |
51,990 | 51,648 | 5a85ddf3b4e223001a8e723c | generic | Ducks are medium-sized aquatic birds with broad bills, eyes on the side of the head, fairly long necks, short legs set far back on the body, and webbed feet. Males, known as drakes, are often larger than females (simply known as ducks) and are differently coloured in some breeds. Domestic ducks are omnivores, eating a ... | What can you never call a male duck? | {'text': 'drakes', 'answer_start': 174} |
5,949 | 5,607 | 56d2641d59d6e41400145f52 | generic | According to both Bronkhorst and Anderson, the four truths became a substitution for prajna, or "liberating insight", in the suttas in those texts where "liberating insight" was preceded by the four jhanas. According to Bronkhorst, the four truths may not have been formulated in earliest Buddhism, and did not serve in ... | Authors Bronkhorst and Anderson claim the four truths bacame a substitution for what? | {'text': 'prajna', 'answer_start': 85} |
8,308 | 7,966 | 56dcf81e66d3e219004dab6d | generic | In the controversial elections in 2002, Sassou won with almost 90% of the vote cast. His two main rivals, Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas, were prevented from competing and the only remaining credible rival, Andre Milongo, advised his supporters to boycott the elections and then withdrew from the race. A new constitution,... | How long did the presidential term become under the new constitution? | {'text': 'seven years', 'answer_start': 419} |
32,217 | 31,875 | 5a14a2b9a54d4200185292c8 | generic | Anthropologists have contributed to the debate by shifting the focus of research: One of the first challenges for the researcher wishing to carry out empirical research in this area is to identify an appropriate analytical tool. The concept of boundaries is useful here for demonstrating how identity works. In the same ... | What did Barth shift the focus of? | {'text': 'analytical study', 'answer_start': 596} |
90,852 | 90,510 | 5728b201ff5b5019007da4a2 | generic | The expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs. New orchestras were founded and new orchestral compositions composed. Japanese mandolin orchestras today ... | What country still maintains strong classic music tradition with mandolin? | {'text': 'Japan', 'answer_start': 87} |
25,945 | 25,603 | 56f981a79b226e1400dd14d6 | generic | In addition to all of the above, the brain and spinal cord contain extensive circuitry to control the autonomic nervous system, which works by secreting hormones and by modulating the "smooth" muscles of the gut. The autonomic nervous system affects heart rate, digestion, respiration rate, salivation, perspiration, uri... | What system in the body controls heart rate? | {'text': 'autonomic nervous system', 'answer_start': 102} |
112,566 | 112,224 | 5731b7dce17f3d1400422308 | generic | The Axis states which assisted Japan included the authoritarian government of Thailand in World War II, which quickly formed a temporary alliance with the Japanese in 1941, as the Japanese forces were already invading the peninsula of southern Thailand. The Phayap Army sent troops to invade and occupy northeastern Burm... | What year did Thailand form an alliance with Japan? | {'text': '1941', 'answer_start': 167} |
103,481 | 103,139 | 5ace88f832bba1001ae4a9ab | generic | Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was su... | What is the only planet in the solar system found by empirical observation? | {'text': 'Neptune', 'answer_start': 0} |
28,251 | 27,909 | 56fb896db28b3419009f1e1a | generic | Strong, royalty-based nation states rose throughout Europe in the Late Middle Ages, particularly in England, France, and the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula: Aragon, Castile, and Portugal. The long conflicts of the period strengthened royal control over their kingdoms and were extremely hard on the peasantr... | What social class was harmed by the lengthy wars of this era? | {'text': 'the peasantry', 'answer_start': 308} |
79,634 | 79,292 | 5a5d5e9e5e8782001a9d5edc | generic | Many of the city's buildings are in the Georgian style, although there are a number of examples of modern landmark structures, such as County Hall tower, which was, at one time the tallest building in Ireland until being superseded by another Cork City building: The Elysian. Across the river from County Hall is Ireland... | Who was the architect of Atkins Hall? | {'text': 'William Atkins', 'answer_start': 511} |
82,750 | 82,408 | 5ad2b649d7d075001a429ffc | generic | The foundation of Northwestern University is traceable to a meeting on May 31, 1850 of nine prominent Chicago businessmen, Methodist leaders and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had once been known as the Northwest Territory. On January 28, 1851, the Illinois General Assembly... | How many sellers did Northwestern University have? | {'text': 'nine', 'answer_start': 87} |
73,847 | 73,505 | 5a8cc5d5fd22b3001a8d8e42 | generic | Chasetown, whilst playing at Level 8 of English football during the 2007–08 competition, are the lowest-ranked team to play in the Third Round Proper (final 64, of 731 teams entered that season). Chasetown was then a member of the Southern League Division One Midlands (a lower level within the Southern Football League)... | How much prize money did Cardiff City win? | {'text': 'over £60,000', 'answer_start': 484} |
86,672 | 86,330 | 5acfc28a77cf76001a685d53 | generic | Independently of the method used to signify royal assent, it is the responsibility of the Clerk of the Parliaments, once the assent has been duly notified to both houses, not only to endorse the act in the name of the monarch with the formal Norman French formula, but to certify that assent has been granted. The clerk ... | The German French formula is used to endorse what? | {'text': 'the act', 'answer_start': 191} |
91,794 | 91,452 | 5728d0683acd2414000dff30 | generic | Paris and its region host the headquarters of several international organisations including UNESCO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Paris Club, the European Space Agency, the International Energy Agency, the Organisation internationale de la Francop... | Where is the head quarters for the International Federation for Human Rights? | {'text': 'Paris', 'answer_start': 0} |
83,613 | 83,271 | 5727d77c4b864d1900163e40 | generic | In Sand Springs, an outdoor amphitheater called "Discoveryland!" is the official performance headquarters for the musical Oklahoma! Ridge Bond, native of McAlester, Oklahoma, starred in the Broadway and International touring productions of Oklahoma!, playing the role of "Curly McClain" in more than 2,600 performances. ... | Where is Ridge Bond from? | {'text': 'McAlester, Oklahoma', 'answer_start': 154} |
111,721 | 111,379 | 572fc1dd947a6a140053cc5e | generic | The league held its first season in 1992–93 and was originally composed of 22 clubs. The first ever Premier League goal was scored by Brian Deane of Sheffield United in a 2–1 win against Manchester United. The 22 inaugural members of the new Premier League were Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Coventry ... | Who scored the first ever goal for the Premier League | {'text': 'The first ever Premier League goal was scored by Brian Deane of Sheffield United in a 2–1 win against Manchester United.', 'answer_start': 85} |
17,019 | 16,677 | 56e11801e3433e1400422bca | generic | Roman canon law had been criticized by the Presbyterians as early as 1572 in the Admonition to Parliament. The protest centered on the standard defense that canon law could be retained so long as it did not contradict the civil law. According to Polly Ha, the Reformed Church Government refuted this claiming that the bi... | What group took issue with the Roman canons? | {'text': 'the Presbyterians', 'answer_start': 39} |
102,769 | 102,427 | 572e85c9cb0c0d14000f124a | generic | In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the photography merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to a magazine interviewer, "My dad's still-camera was broken, so I asked the scoutmaster if I could tell a story with my father's movie... | How much money did Spielberg spend to film Close Encounters? | {'text': '$500', 'answer_start': 874} |
94,476 | 94,134 | 5729658d1d0469140077939f | generic | "Green" in modern European languages corresponds to about 520–570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e.g. using a term for the range of ca. 450–530 nm ("blue/green") and another for ca. 530–590 nm ("green/yellow").[citation needed] In the comparative study of color terms in the world... | In which language does the word for "green" also mean "rank" and "smelly"? | {'text': 'Thai', 'answer_start': 879} |
105,103 | 104,761 | 572fdbf3947a6a140053cd6b | generic | While Knickebein was used by German crews en masse, X-Gerät use was limited to specially trained pathfinder crews. Special receivers were mounted in He 111s, with a radio mast on the bomber's fuselage. The system worked on a higher frequency (66–77 MHz, compared to Knickebein's 30–33 MHz). Transmitters on the ground se... | When the bomber crossed the first beam the bomber-aimer did what? | {'text': 'start the bombing-clock', 'answer_start': 588} |
73,523 | 73,181 | 57276815dd62a815002e9c59 | generic | UCLA professor Richard H. Sander published an article in the November 2004 issue of the Stanford Law Review that questioned the effectiveness of racial preferences in law schools. He noted that, prior to his article, there had been no comprehensive study on the effects of affirmative action. The article presents a stud... | In which publication did Sander publish an article questioning racial preferences in law schools? | {'text': 'Stanford Law Review', 'answer_start': 88} |
72,615 | 72,273 | 5a732f0b53a187001ae63148 | generic | Comcast is sometimes described as a family business. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman, President, and CEO of Comcast, is son of co-founder Ralph Roberts. Roberts owns or controls just over 1% of all Comcast shares but all of the Class B supervoting shares, which gives him an "undilutable 33% voting power over the company". L... | When did Roberts become the CEO of Comcast? | {'text': '2010', 'answer_start': 430} |
39,734 | 39,392 | 570c46e9fed7b91900d4581b | generic | Melbourne (/ˈmɛlbərn/, AU i/ˈmɛlbən/) is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name "Melbourne" refers to the area of urban agglomeration (as well as a census statistical division) spanning 9,900 km2 (3,800 sq mi) which co... | What is the most populas city in the Australian state of Victoria? | {'text': 'Melbourne', 'answer_start': 0} |
80,738 | 80,396 | 5acd236507355d001abf3677 | generic | The CJK ideographs currently have codes only for their precomposed form. Still, most of those ideographs comprise simpler elements (often called radicals in English), so in principle, Unicode could have decomposed them, as it did with Hangul. This would have greatly reduced the number of required code points, while all... | What did Unicode do to CJK ideographs? | {'text': 'decomposed them', 'answer_start': 203} |
69,678 | 69,336 | 5ace3c2732bba1001ae49fb9 | generic | A number of theories have been proposed regarding Avicenna's madhab (school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence). Medieval historian Ẓahīr al-dīn al-Bayhaqī (d. 1169) considered Avicenna to be a follower of the Brethren of Purity. On the other hand, Dimitri Gutas along with Aisha Khan and Jules J. Janssens demonstr... | What type of Islamic school did Avicenna invent? | {'text': 'madhab', 'answer_start': 61} |
32,093 | 31,751 | 5a8371c6e60761001a2eb71d | generic | Gram quantities of various copper salts have been taken in suicide attempts and produced acute copper toxicity in humans, possibly due to redox cycling and the generation of reactive oxygen species that damage DNA. Corresponding amounts of copper salts (30 mg/kg) are toxic in animals. A minimum dietary value for health... | What is the minimum amount of copper dragons should have in their diet? | {'text': '3 ppm', 'answer_start': 373} |
56,179 | 55,837 | 57265ff85951b619008f70fb | 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 can a wrestler do to show a willing submission? | {'text': 'tapping out', 'answer_start': 338} |
58,335 | 57,993 | 5728ad6a3acd2414000dfcbf | generic | In literature and journalism, BYU has produced several best-selling authors, including Orson Scott Card '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, Ben English '98, and Stephenie Meyer '95. BYU also graduated American activist and contributor for ABC News Elizabeth Smart-Gilmour. Other media personalities include former CBS News... | Which former co-host of CBS's The Early Show graduated from BYU? | {'text': 'Jane Clayson Johnson', 'answer_start': 472} |
66,412 | 66,070 | 5ad0c060645df0001a2d01c7 | generic | The administration of Lord North (1770–1782) tried to defeat the colonist rebellion by military force. British and American forces clashed in 1775 and, in 1776, came the American Declaration of Independence. Burke was appalled by celebrations in Britain of the defeat of the Americans at New York and Pennsylvania. He cl... | How did Lord North feel about the British celebrations? | {'text': 'appalled', 'answer_start': 218} |
54,021 | 53,679 | 57262af9ec44d21400f3db84 | generic | Citing the inability of the Joint Commission to make progress, the U.S. government decided to hold an election under United Nations auspices with the aim of creating an independent Korea. The Soviet authorities and the Korean Communists refused to co-operate on the grounds it would not be fair, and many South Korean po... | What problems did the elections face? | {'text': 'terrorism and sabotage', 'answer_start': 423} |
87,235 | 86,893 | 5a32fc4cbd0d7f001aef9547 | generic | Presently, the Central African Republic has active television services, radio stations, internet service providers, and mobile phone carriers; Socatel is the leading provider for both internet and mobile phone access throughout the country. The primary governmental regulating bodies of telecommunications are the Minist... | What is a major radio station provider in CAR? | {'text': 'Socatel', 'answer_start': 143} |
87,142 | 86,800 | 572817492ca10214002d9da9 | generic | In 2004 the Central African Republic Bush War began as forces opposed to Bozizé took up arms against his government. In May 2005 Bozizé won a presidential election that excluded Patassé and in 2006 fighting continued between the government and the rebels. In November 2006, Bozizé's government requested French military ... | How did the French assist against the rebels? | {'text': 'strikes by Mirage jets', 'answer_start': 556} |
114,692 | 114,350 | 57301f78b2c2fd14005688d1 | generic | Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was mostly used for palaces and churches, and had little representation in the British colonies, simpler Georgian styles were widely used by the upper and middle classes. Perhaps the best remaining house is the pristine Hammond-Harwood House (1774) in Annapolis, Maryland... | What style did was little represented in British colonies? | {'text': 'Baroque', 'answer_start': 11} |
48,747 | 48,405 | 571a9fa84faf5e1900b8ab49 | generic | The Umayyad Caliphate (Arabic: الخلافة الأموية, trans. Al-Khilāfat al-ʾumawiyya) was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. This caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty (Arabic: الأمويون, al-ʾUmawiyyūn, or بنو أمية, Banū ʾUmayya, "Sons of Umayya"), hailing from ... | Who was the third caliph? | {'text': 'Uthman ibn Affan', 'answer_start': 394} |
3,051 | 2,709 | 56cf4b67aab44d1400b88f6c | generic | A brief shoot at London's City Hall was filmed on 18 April 2015, while Mendes was on location. On 17 May 2015 filming took place on the Thames in London. Stunt scenes involving Craig and Seydoux on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night, with filming temporarily closin... | Where were the scenes of Ralph Fiennes in a restaurant shot? | {'text': 'Covent Garden.', 'answer_start': 787} |
120,379 | 120,037 | 573174bc05b4da19006bd1c1 | generic | Spanish mendicants in the sixteenth century taught indigenous scribes in their communities to write their languages in Latin letters and there is a large number of local-level documents in Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Yucatec Maya from the colonial era, many of which were part of lawsuits and other legal matters. Alth... | When were indigenous scribes taught to use Latin letters? | {'text': 'the sixteenth century', 'answer_start': 22} |
19,508 | 19,166 | 56e70fe037bdd419002c3d0c | generic | The design of the Institute's Mycenean lions medal and the motto ‘Usui civium, decori urbium' has been attributed to Thomas Leverton Donaldson, who had been honorary secretary until 1839. The RIBA Guide to its Archive and History (Angela Mace,1986) records that the first official version of this badge was used as a boo... | Who is responsible for the use of 'usui civium decori urbium'? | {'text': 'Thomas Leverton Donaldson', 'answer_start': 117} |
80,135 | 79,793 | 5727e97bff5b5019007d983c | generic | The cellular phone carrier group Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) in 2007 endorsed micro-USB as the standard connector for data and power on mobile devices In addition, on 22 October 2009 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has also announced that it had embraced micro-USB as the Universal Charging Solu... | What has energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution? | {'text': 'micro-USB', 'answer_start': 280} |
113,632 | 113,290 | 57300b6404bcaa1900d7706e | generic | In a small minority of Muslim countries, the law requires women to cover either just legs, shoulders and head or the whole body apart from the face. In strictest forms, the face as well must be covered leaving just a mesh to see through. These rules for dressing cause tensions, concerning particularly Muslims living in... | What are the restrictions on the dress of Muslim women considered in the West? | {'text': 'sexist and oppressive', 'answer_start': 379} |
92,772 | 92,430 | 5728efe24b864d19001650d5 | generic | It should be noted that many samurai forces that were active throughout this period were not deployed to Korea; most importantly, the daimyo Tokugawa Ieyasu carefully kept forces under his command out of the Korean campaigns, and other samurai commanders who were opposed to Hideyoshi's domination of Japan either mulled... | Where did the Eastern and Western armies battle? | {'text': 'Battle of Sekigahara', 'answer_start': 859} |
68,027 | 67,685 | 5a283a59d1a287001a6d0b09 | generic | Mali lies in the torrid zone and is among the hottest countries in the world. The thermal equator, which matches the hottest spots year-round on the planet based on the mean daily annual temperature, crosses the country. Most of Mali receives negligible rainfall and droughts are very frequent. Late June to early Decemb... | Where is rainfall very frequent? | {'text': 'Mali', 'answer_start': 229} |
15,338 | 14,996 | 56e0388a231d4119001abfdf | generic | Some consider storyboards and wordless novels to be comics. Film studios, especially in animation, often use sequences of images as guides for film sequences. These storyboards are not intended as an end product and are rarely seen by the public. Wordless novels are books which use sequences of captionless images to de... | Storyboards are not considered what? | {'text': 'an end product', 'answer_start': 197} |
95,285 | 94,943 | 5a2c7345bfd06b001a5aeb81 | generic | South Slavic historically formed a dialect continuum, i.e. each dialect has some similarities with the neighboring one, and differences grow with distance. However, migrations from the 16th to 18th centuries resulting from the spread of Ottoman Empire on the Balkans have caused large-scale population displacement that ... | What did the spread of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century contribute to? | {'text': 'the reduction of dialectal differences', 'answer_start': 475} |
53,006 | 52,664 | 5ad19767645df0001a2d20c9 | generic | Incandescent light bulbs consist of an air-tight glass enclosure (the envelope, or bulb) with a filament of tungsten wire inside the bulb, through which an electric current is passed. Contact wires and a base with two (or more) conductors provide electrical connections to the filament. Incandescent light bulbs usually ... | What does not support the filament and its lead wires? | {'text': 'Small wires embedded in the stem', 'answer_start': 468} |
127,813 | 127,471 | 5aced97e32bba1001ae4b755 | generic | The parliamentary elections of 2005 aroused many accusations from opposition parties and international observers that President Emomalii Rahmon corruptly manipulates the election process and unemployment. The most recent elections, in February 2010, saw the ruling PDPT lose four seats in Parliament, yet still maintain ... | The parliamentary election of 2015 aroused many what? | {'text': 'accusations', 'answer_start': 49} |
70,313 | 69,971 | 5726c6f1dd62a815002e8ff7 | generic | Bermuda's pink sand beaches and clear, cerulean blue ocean waters are popular with tourists. Many of Bermuda's hotels are located along the south shore of the island. In addition to its beaches, there are a number of sightseeing attractions. Historic St George's is a designated World Heritage Site. Scuba divers can exp... | Bermuda's coral reefs, shipwrecks, and shallow waters are great for what activity in particular? | {'text': 'Scuba', 'answer_start': 300} |
108,211 | 107,869 | 573031aa04bcaa1900d77335 | generic | In some cases this is done in a more extreme manner, not simply to cancel a small amount of residual reactance, but to resonate an antenna whose resonance frequency is quite different from the intended frequency of operation. For instance, a "whip antenna" can be made significantly shorter than 1/4 wavelength long, for... | What is at the base of the antenna? | {'text': 'loading coil', 'answer_start': 377} |
31,024 | 30,682 | 57071cb49e06ca38007e9448 | generic | The state has a great diversity due to the large number of microclimates found and dramatic varying terrain. The flora throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range varies with elevation. Pine (Pinus) and oak (Quercus) species are usually found at an elevation of 2,000 m (6,560 ft) above sea level. The most com... | Several species of which type dot the steppe and transition zone? | {'text': 'Juniperus', 'answer_start': 712} |
56,661 | 56,319 | 572672d9708984140094c66e | generic | On Thursday, September 19, 1985, at 7:19 am local time, Mexico City was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 on the Richter scale. Although this earthquake was not as deadly or destructive as many similar events in Asia and other parts of Latin America, it proved to be a disaster politically for the one-party gover... | How strong was the powerful earthquake that hit Mexico City in 1985? | {'text': '8.1 on the Richter scale', 'answer_start': 109} |
96,825 | 96,483 | 572a5776d562191400bc8683 | generic | Muslim sects regarded as heretical, such as the Druze, Ismailis, Alevis, and Alawites, ranked below Jews and Christians. In 1514, Sultan Selim I, nicknamed "the Grim" because of his cruelty, ordered the massacre of 40,000 Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash), whom he considered heretics, reportedly proclaiming that "the killin... | The Muslim sect known as the Druze is considered what? | {'text': 'heretical', 'answer_start': 25} |
55,609 | 55,267 | 5726572af1498d1400e8dc7c | generic | In 1634, the Mughal emperor extended his hospitality to the English traders to the region of Bengal, and in 1717 completely waived customs duties for the trade. The company's mainstay businesses were by then cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, and tea. The Dutch were aggressive competitors and had meanwhile expanded t... | what region was made available to english traders by the Mughal emperor? | {'text': 'Bengal', 'answer_start': 93} |
22,677 | 22,335 | 5ad4b4fb5b96ef001a109e18 | generic | The word "Slavs" was used in the national anthem of the Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Yugoslavia (1943–1992) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), later Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). | What country stopped using the word slavs in 1943? | {'text': 'Yugoslavia', 'answer_start': 85} |
50,300 | 49,958 | 5acf846477cf76001a685083 | generic | Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century. Alluding to the membership of a lodge of operative masons, they relate a mythologise... | How long have historians been hiding information about the Masonic movement? | {'text': 'middle of the 19th century', 'answer_start': 10} |
126,141 | 125,799 | 57340cf1d058e614000b689f | generic | Tourist hotspots in Portugal are Lisbon, Algarve, Madeira, Porto and the city of Coimbra, also, between 4-5 million religious pilgrims visit Fátima each year, where apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children reportedly took place in 1917. The Sanctuary of Fátima is one of the largest Roman Cathol... | What apparitions reportedly took place in 1917? | {'text': 'Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children', 'answer_start': 184} |
49,726 | 49,384 | 5724e9730a492a1900435661 | generic | Victoria visited mainland Europe regularly for holidays. In 1889, during a stay in Biarritz, she became the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a brief visit. By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvi... | Which of Queen Victoria's children died in July of that year? | {'text': 'her second son Alfred', 'answer_start': 487} |
52,921 | 52,579 | 5ad18cbd645df0001a2d1ef9 | generic | On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in 1904. This type is often c... | What type of gas does not fill a tungsten filament bulb? | {'text': 'argon or nitrogen', 'answer_start': 410} |
93,848 | 93,506 | 5a3abd893ff257001ab84244 | generic | Bohr also introduced the quantity , now known as the reduced Planck constant, as the quantum of angular momentum. At first, Bohr thought that this was the angular momentum of each electron in an atom: this proved incorrect and, despite developments by Sommerfeld and others, an accurate description of the electron angul... | Who helped to give the incorrect quantization rules for electrons in 1946? | {'text': 'Schrödinger', 'answer_start': 559} |
118,834 | 118,492 | 5a865754b4e223001a8e7547 | generic | The language possesses five vowels (or six, under the St. Petersburg Phonological School), which are written with different letters depending on whether or not the preceding consonant is palatalized. The consonants typically come in plain vs. palatalized pairs, which are traditionally called hard and soft. (The hard co... | What pairs do vowels come in, in Irish? | {'text': 'plain vs. palatalized pairs', 'answer_start': 233} |
99,157 | 98,815 | 572ab067be1ee31400cb8182 | generic | In recent decades, the literacy rate of Rajasthan has increased significantly. In 1991, the state's literacy rate was only 38.55% (54.99% male and 20.44% female). In 2001, the literacy rate increased to 60.41% (75.70% male and 43.85% female). This was the highest leap in the percentage of literacy recorded in India (th... | What is the national average for literacy in India? | {'text': '74.04%', 'answer_start': 519} |
124,862 | 124,520 | 5732481fb9d445190005e9a2 | generic | Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall, and General Montgomery during World War II. Eisenhower later emphasized that too much had been made of the disagreements with MacArthur, and th... | What license did Eisenhower receive in 1939? | {'text': "pilot's", 'answer_start': 620} |
10,966 | 10,624 | 56e4c33039bdeb14003479bf | generic | Architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building materials and modern construction techniques, trading traditional historic forms for simplified geometric forms, celebrating the new means and methods made possible by the Industria... | What is an example of International Style? | {'text': 'Twin Towers', 'answer_start': 529} |
120,607 | 120,265 | 57312dde05b4da19006bce54 | generic | Red clothing was a sign of status and wealth. It was worn not only by cardinals and princes, but also by merchants, artisans and townpeople, particularly on holidays or special occasions. Red dye for the clothing of ordinary people was made from the roots of the rubia tinctorum, the madder plant. This color leaned towa... | What status did the wearing of red in medieval times represent? | {'text': 'wealth', 'answer_start': 38} |
78,657 | 78,315 | 5a308bcaf1f7c7001ab92dc0 | generic | The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments. Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube. Beatboxing, more accurately known as vocal percussion, is a technique used in a cappella music popularized... | What was used by Journey to make an a cappella recording of The Who Sells Out? | {'text': 'a four-track recorder', 'answer_start': 540} |
32,097 | 31,755 | 5709828fed30961900e84245 | generic | Britain's first use of brass occurred around the 3rd–2nd century BC. In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600. Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South Ameri... | Who were the first copper miners in North America? | {'text': 'Native Americans', 'answer_start': 133} |
13,403 | 13,061 | 56df8b7d38dc42170015202f | generic | The Midwest Regional Medical Center located in the suburb of Midwest City; other major hospitals in the city include the Oklahoma Heart Hospital and the Mercy Health Center. There are 347 physicians for every 100,000 people in the city. | How many doctors are there per 100,000 people? | {'text': '347', 'answer_start': 184} |
124,046 | 123,704 | 573243720fdd8d15006c68a2 | generic | Minority leaders may engage in numerous activities to publicize their party's priorities and to criticize the opposition's. For instance, to keep their party colleagues "on message," they insure that partisan colleagues are sent packets of suggested press releases or "talking points" for constituent meetings in their d... | What items are discussed at party retreats? | {'text': 'issues and assess the party\'s public image; they create "theme teams" to craft party messages', 'answer_start': 540} |
55,766 | 55,424 | 5a84765d7cf838001a46a822 | generic | Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it quickly became apparent that the boundaries between government control and the company's powers were nebulous and highly subjective. The government felt obliged to respond to humanitarian calls for better treatment of local peoples in British-occupied territories. Edmund Burke... | Who was the only East India Company shareholder? | {'text': 'Edmund Burke', 'answer_start': 308} |
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