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117,779 | 117,437 | 5730c03d069b5314008322fe | generic | For less than a year between 1862–63, Peruvian ships, engaged in what became to be called the "blackbirding" trade, combed the smaller islands of Polynesia from Easter Island in the eastern Pacific to Tuvalu and the southern atolls of the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati), seeking recruits to fill the extreme labour short... | Who was the earliest missionary to Tuvalu? | {'text': 'Rev. A. W. Murray', 'answer_start': 559} |
4,658 | 4,316 | 56ce6aabaab44d1400b88775 | generic | The origin of Tom Robinson is less clear, although many have speculated that his character was inspired by several models. When Lee was 10 years old, a white woman near Monroeville accused a black man named Walter Lett of raping her. The story and the trial were covered by her father's newspaper which reported that Let... | At what age was Lee when a white woman accused a black guy of rape? | {'text': '10', 'answer_start': 136} |
94,174 | 93,832 | 5ad136b6645df0001a2d11b2 | generic | The driving force behind voluntary green electricity within the EU are the liberalized electricity markets and the RES Directive. According to the directive the EU Member States must ensure that the origin of electricity produced from renewables can be guaranteed and therefore a "guarantee of origin" must be issued (ar... | What is the driving force behind voluntary green electricity outside of the EU? | {'text': 'liberalized electricity markets', 'answer_start': 75} |
92,929 | 92,587 | 5728fe6d3f37b31900477f41 | generic | Jidaigeki (literally historical drama) has always been a staple program on Japanese movies and television. The programs typically feature a samurai. Samurai films and westerns share a number of similarities and the two have influenced each other over the years. One of Japan’s most renowned directors, Akira Kurosawa, gr... | What is Jidaigeki? | {'text': 'historical drama', 'answer_start': 21} |
60,953 | 60,611 | 5726ad27f1498d1400e8e6e0 | generic | 20th century developments in plant biochemistry have been driven by modern techniques of organic chemical analysis, such as spectroscopy, chromatography and electrophoresis. With the rise of the related molecular-scale biological approaches of molecular biology, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, the relationship b... | Who introduced the idea that cells could be grown in vitro? | {'text': 'Gottlieb Haberlandt', 'answer_start': 514} |
103,758 | 103,416 | 5acee37032bba1001ae4b89c | generic | Neptune's more varied weather when compared to Uranus is due in part to its higher internal heating. Although Neptune lies over 50% further from the Sun than Uranus, and receives only 40% its amount of sunlight, the two planets' surface temperatures are roughly equal. The upper regions of Neptune's troposphere reach a ... | How much farther is Neptune from the Moon than Uranus? | {'text': '50%', 'answer_start': 128} |
93,711 | 93,369 | 5a3aad423ff257001ab841e3 | generic | Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of h (but does not define its value). Eventually, following upon Planck's discovery, it was recognized that physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value. Instead, it must be some multiple of a very small quantity, the "quantum of action", now called the Planck... | What does the Planck Constant negate? | {'text': 'quantum of action', 'answer_start': 279} |
35,336 | 34,994 | 570a9a216d058f1900182fed | generic | With the unification of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (outside the Danelaw) by Alfred the Great in the later 9th century, the language of government and literature became standardised around the West Saxon dialect (Early West Saxon). Alfred advocated education in English alongside Latin, and had many works translated into t... | In what century did Alfred unify Anglo-Saxon England? | {'text': '9th', 'answer_start': 104} |
16,278 | 15,936 | 56e0fa807aa994140058e861 | generic | Most of the novice pilots on the early missions would command the later missions. In this way, Project Gemini built up spaceflight experience for the pool of astronauts who would be chosen to fly the Apollo lunar missions. | Project Gemini helped recruit experienced people for which upcoming lunar missions? | {'text': 'Apollo', 'answer_start': 200} |
113,173 | 112,831 | 57301733947a6a140053d0c0 | generic | The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in 2000, 24.0% of San Diego residents were under 18, and 10.5% were 65 and over. As of 2011[update] the median age was 35.6; more than a quarter of residents were under age 20 and 11% were over age 65. Millennials (ages 18 through 34) constitute 27.1% of San Diego's population, the ... | Which age group accounted for 10.5% of the population in 2000? | {'text': '65 and over', 'answer_start': 105} |
84,334 | 83,992 | 57280c6eff5b5019007d9bbd | generic | Despite the commanded withdrawal of Egyptian troops, about 2,000 Egyptian soldiers were killed during engagement with Israeli forces, and some 5,000 Egyptian soldiers were captured by the Israeli Army. Amer and Salah Salem proposed requesting a ceasefire, with Salem further recommending that Nasser surrender himself to... | Who recommended Nasser surrender himself to the British? | {'text': 'Salah Salem', 'answer_start': 211} |
90,029 | 89,687 | 5ad410d5604f3c001a4001d0 | generic | The Alaska Railroad was one of the last railroads in North America to use cabooses in regular service and still uses them on some gravel trains. It continues to offer one of the last flag stop routes in the country. A stretch of about 60 miles (100 km) of track along an area north of Talkeetna remains inaccessible by r... | The ARR was one of the first railroads in the US to use what? | {'text': 'cabooses', 'answer_start': 74} |
9,403 | 9,061 | 5a800d438f0597001ac00166 | generic | A parasitic relationship is one in which one member of the association benefits while the other is harmed. This is also known as antagonistic or antipathetic symbiosis. Parasitic symbioses take many forms, from endoparasites that live within the host's body to ectoparasites that live on its surface. In addition, parasi... | What is an extremely unsuccessful mode of life? | {'text': 'Biotrophic parasitism', 'answer_start': 443} |
98,785 | 98,443 | 572aafa3111d821400f38cb8 | generic | On April 22, 1971, Kerry appeared before a U.S. Senate committee hearing on proposals relating to ending the war. The day after this testimony, Kerry participated in a demonstration with thousands of other veterans in which he and other Vietnam War veterans threw their medals and service ribbons over a fence erected at... | What did Kerry do on Apr 22, 1971? | {'text': 'appeared before a U.S. Senate committee hearing', 'answer_start': 25} |
34,887 | 34,545 | 570a7c016d058f1900182e90 | generic | Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instr... | What emotional component did behaviorists identify emotion with? | {'text': 'instrumental behavior', 'answer_start': 315} |
88,507 | 88,165 | 5ace8e3432bba1001ae4aa37 | generic | Annelids are members of the protostomes, one of the two major superphyla of bilaterian animals – the other is the deuterostomes, which includes vertebrates. Within the protostomes, annelids used to be grouped with arthropods under the super-group Articulata ("jointed animals"), as segmentation is obvious in most member... | What superpower are vertebrates in? | {'text': 'deuterostomes', 'answer_start': 114} |
3,738 | 3,396 | 56d6622d1c850414009470db | generic | By May 14, the Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that 10.7 billion yuan (approximately US$1.5 billion) had been donated by the Chinese public. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, one of the country's most popular sports icons, gave $214,000 and $71,000 to the Red Cross Society of China. The association has also collected a... | How much money had been donated by May 14? | {'text': '10.7 billion yuan', 'answer_start': 53} |
31,646 | 31,304 | 5ad42096604f3c001a400703 | generic | The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area, $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H. Syste... | How many student graduate from the University of Texas per year? | {'text': '12,500', 'answer_start': 285} |
92,286 | 91,944 | 5728e578ff5b5019007da8f9 | generic | By summer of 2003, Howard Dean had become the apparent front runner for the Democratic nomination, performing strongly in most polls and leading the pack with the largest campaign war chest. Dean's strength as a fund raiser was attributed mainly to his embrace of the Internet for campaigning. The majority of his donati... | What government position has Howard Dean previously held? | {'text': 'governor', 'answer_start': 478} |
80,426 | 80,084 | 5727b7804b864d1900163b2e | generic | Sichuan is one of the major industrial centers of China. In addition to heavy industries such as coal, energy, iron and steel, the province has also established a light industrial sector comprising building materials, wood processing, food and silk processing. Chengdu and Mianyang are the production centers for textile... | Which city in Sichuan is known for its metallurgical industries? | {'text': 'Panzhihua', 'answer_start': 356} |
125,509 | 125,167 | 5732a8641d5d2e14009ff888 | generic | These institutions, as well as certain regulated banks, had also assumed significant debt burdens while providing the loans described above and did not have a financial cushion sufficient to absorb large loan defaults or MBS losses. These losses impacted the ability of financial institutions to lend, slowing economic a... | Who bailed out key financial institutions and implemented economic stimulus programs as an answer to the financial crisis of 2007? | {'text': 'Governments', 'answer_start': 552} |
38,132 | 37,790 | 570bd2ec6b8089140040fa69 | generic | When a Teletype 33 ASR equipped with the automatic paper tape reader received a Control-S (XOFF, an abbreviation for transmit off), it caused the tape reader to stop; receiving Control-Q (XON, "transmit on") caused the tape reader to resume. This technique became adopted by several early computer operating systems as a... | What caused the automatic paper tape reader to start again? | {'text': 'Control-Q', 'answer_start': 177} |
75,094 | 74,752 | 5727df9eff5b5019007d973a | generic | Baptists, like other Christians, are defined by doctrine—some of it common to all orthodox and evangelical groups and a portion of it distinctive to Baptists. Through the years, different Baptist groups have issued confessions of faith—without considering them to be creeds—to express their particular doctrinal distinct... | Most Baptists are what in doctrine? | {'text': 'evangelical', 'answer_start': 421} |
122,773 | 122,431 | 5ad1457e645df0001a2d14ba | generic | In 1962, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of officially-sponsored prayer or religious recitations in public schools. In Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Court, by a vote of 6-1, determined it unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public sch... | When did the Supreme Court address the issue of unofficially sponsored prayer in public schools? | {'text': '1962', 'answer_start': 3} |
17,992 | 17,650 | 5ad12b14645df0001a2d106f | generic | Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures. In June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. That company quickly evolved into the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), with studios in Fort Lee... | What was Lawrence Florence known as? | {'text': 'The Biograph Girl', 'answer_start': 727} |
112,571 | 112,229 | 572fc3d204bcaa1900d76cac | generic | The official policy of the U.S. Government is that Thailand was not an ally of the Axis, and that the United States was not at war with Thailand. The policy of the U.S. Government ever since 1945 has been to treat Thailand not as a former enemy, but rather as a country which had been forced into certain actions by Japa... | What does the U.S. believe caused Thailand to help Japan? | {'text': 'blackmail', 'answer_start': 325} |
124,909 | 124,567 | 57324c04e17f3d1400422809 | generic | Eisenhower, as well as the officers and troops under him, had learned valuable lessons in their previous operations, and their skills had all strengthened in preparation for the next most difficult campaign against the Germans—a beach landing assault. His first struggles, however, were with Allied leaders and officers ... | Who was the leader of French forces in this period? | {'text': 'de Gaulle', 'answer_start': 1018} |
90,668 | 90,326 | 5ad1742c645df0001a2d1c76 | generic | The second decline was not as complete as the first. Thousands of people had learned to play the instrument. Even as the second wave of mandolin popularity declined in the early 20th century, new versions of the mandolin began to be used in new forms of music. Luthiers created the resonator mandolin, the flatback mando... | What old forms of music was the mandolin used in during the 20th century? | {'text': 'Celtic, Bluegrass, Jazz and Rock-n-Roll styles — and Classical too.', 'answer_start': 440} |
39,155 | 38,813 | 5ad365c7604f3c001a3fe049 | generic | J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, and FBI. He was chiefly responsible for creating the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, or the FBI Laboratory, which officially opened in 1932, as part of his work to professionalize investigations by the government. Hoover... | What laboratory was Hoover responsible for destroying? | {'text': 'Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory', 'answer_start': 146} |
79,212 | 78,870 | 5ad217acd7d075001a4283e1 | generic | The long-standing claim that the present uniform was first worn as mourning for the death of George III is unfounded. "Eton dress" has undergone significant changes since its standardisation in the 19th century. Originally (along with a top-hat and walking-cane), Etonian dress was reserved for formal occasions, but boy... | What number of king of Britain was George III? | {'text': '19th', 'answer_start': 198} |
31,527 | 31,185 | 5ad41ccd604f3c001a40059a | generic | By 1860, Houston had emerged as a commercial and railroad hub for the export of cotton. Railroad spurs from the Texas inland converged in Houston, where they met rail lines to the ports of Galveston and Beaumont. During the American Civil War, Houston served as a headquarters for General John Bankhead Magruder, who use... | What type of roads didn't converge in Houston? | {'text': 'rail lines', 'answer_start': 162} |
23,338 | 22,996 | 56f8e1e79e9bad19000a067c | generic | Buses now provide the majority of local public transport. The main bus operators are First Southampton and Bluestar. Other operators include Brijan Tours, Stagecoach and Xelabus. The other large service provider is the Uni-link bus service (running from early in the morning to midnight), which was commissioned by the U... | What bus service did the University of Southampton commission to carry people between the city and the university? | {'text': 'Uni-link', 'answer_start': 219} |
98,230 | 97,888 | 572a797834ae481900deab28 | generic | During the mid-2000s, the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s. During this period, the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects in which 50 were actually built. In 2007, however, the housing market crashed causing lots of foreclosures on hous... | Along with its political corruption, why did Forbes call Miami the country's second most miserable city in 2011? | {'text': 'high foreclosure rate', 'answer_start': 704} |
114,490 | 114,148 | 5a79eb0117ab25001a8a01c4 | generic | The referee may punish a player's or substitute's misconduct by a caution (yellow card) or dismissal (red card). A second yellow card at the same game leads to a red card, and therefore to a dismissal. A player given a yellow card is said to have been "booked", the referee writing the player's name in his official note... | Which card does a referee avoid to signal a caution to a player? | {'text': 'yellow card', 'answer_start': 75} |
126,176 | 125,834 | 573415824776f41900661824 | generic | Portugal has considerable resources of wind and river power, the two most cost-effective renewable sources. Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a trend towards the development of a renewable resource industry and reduction of both consumption and use of fossil fuel resources. In 2006, the world's largest... | Where was Moura Photovoltaic Power Station located? | {'text': 'Moura, in the south', 'answer_start': 412} |
4,452 | 4,110 | 56d118e717492d1400aab92d | generic | The Staten Island Ferry is the world's busiest ferry route, carrying approximately 20 million passengers on the 5.2-mile (8.4 km) route between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and running 24 hours a day. Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan are... | Staring in State Island, in what borough does the Staten Island Ferry's route terminate? | {'text': 'Manhattan', 'answer_start': 168} |
72,744 | 72,402 | 5a7371a353a187001ae631c9 | generic | In April 2005, Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to buy the assets of bankrupted Adelphia Cable. The two companies paid a total of $17.6 billion in the deal that was finalized in the second quarter of 2006—after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) completed a seven-month investigation without r... | How much did the FCC charge Comcast and Time Warner for the investigation? | {'text': '$17.6 billion', 'answer_start': 143} |
25,803 | 25,461 | 56f8b80e9e9bad19000a03a0 | generic | The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. Only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain; diffuse or localised nerve nets are present instead. The brain is located in the head, usually c... | Neurons in the brain interact with each other by fibers called what? | {'text': 'axons', 'answer_start': 733} |
98,794 | 98,452 | 572ab1b4f75d5e190021fc46 | generic | Kerry was arrested on May 30, 1971, during a VVAW march to honor American POWs held captive by North Vietnam. The march was planned as a multi-day event from Concord to Boston, and while in Lexington, participants tried to camp on the village green. At 2:30 a.m., local and state police arrested 441 demonstrators, inclu... | Why were the protesters arrested? | {'text': 'tried to camp on the village green', 'answer_start': 214} |
74,246 | 73,904 | 572a48affed8de19000d5b70 | generic | Artspace on Orange Street is one of several contemporary art galleries around the city, showcasing the work of local, national, and international artists. Others include City Gallery and A. Leaf Gallery in the downtown area. Westville galleries include Kehler Liddell, Jennifer Jane Gallery, and The Hungry Eye. The Erec... | During which month is the complex particularly active? | {'text': 'October', 'answer_start': 536} |
124,247 | 123,905 | 57323937e17f3d140042273f | generic | While the Armenian Apostolic Church remains the most prominent church in the Armenian community throughout the world, Armenians (especially in the diaspora) subscribe to any number of other Christian denominations. These include the Armenian Catholic Church (which follows its own liturgy but recognizes the Roman Cathol... | Which Armenian church recognizes the Pope? | {'text': 'Armenian Catholic Church', 'answer_start': 233} |
69,736 | 69,394 | 5ace470832bba1001ae4a171 | generic | Ibn Sina's first appointment was that of physician to the emir, Nuh II, who owed him his recovery from a dangerous illness (997). Ibn Sina's chief reward for this service was access to the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars. When the library was destroyed by fire not long afte... | What library did Ibn Sina found? | {'text': 'the royal library of the Samanids', 'answer_start': 185} |
93,958 | 93,616 | 57293b691d0469140077918d | generic | Total investment in renewable energy (including small hydro-electric projects) was $244 billion in 2012, down 12% from 2011 mainly due to dramatically lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets. As a share of total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV grew from 14% in 2000 to over 60% in 2012. The top c... | How much was the total investment in renewable energy in 2012? | {'text': '$244 billion', 'answer_start': 83} |
69,510 | 69,168 | 5a7e4a4d70df9f001a8756a5 | generic | In the Age of Reason philosophical tracts and speculations on history and human nature integrated literature with social and political developments. The inevitable reaction was the explosion of Romanticism in the later 18th century which reclaimed the imaginative and fantastical bias of old romances and folk-literature... | What was the reaction to the Age of Reason in the later 19th century? | {'text': 'the explosion of Romanticism', 'answer_start': 177} |
77,651 | 77,309 | 5727ff933acd2414000df1be | generic | Where old disc recordings are considered to be of artistic or historic interest, from before the era of tape or where no tape master exists, archivists play back the disc on suitable equipment and record the result, typically onto a digital format, which can be copied and manipulated to remove analog flaws without any ... | What would offer the highest quality transfers of historic interest? | {'text': 'professional archivists', 'answer_start': 617} |
110,739 | 110,397 | 572fd132947a6a140053ccf1 | generic | Transformation, unlike transduction or conjugation, depends on numerous bacterial gene products that specifically interact to perform this complex process, and thus transformation is clearly a bacterial adaptation for DNA transfer. In order for a bacterium to bind, take up and recombine donor DNA into its own chromosom... | How big can be the transformation level? | {'text': 'between a third of a chromosome up to the whole chromosome', 'answer_start': 573} |
103,507 | 103,165 | 572e8793c246551400ce42dd | generic | In contrast to the hazy, relatively featureless atmosphere of Uranus, Neptune's atmosphere has active and visible weather patterns. For example, at the time of the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989, the planet's southern hemisphere had a Great Dark Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. These weather patterns are driv... | What is the cloud tops on Neptune temperature? | {'text': '55 K (−218 °C).', 'answer_start': 645} |
22,056 | 21,714 | 56ea9f495a205f1900d6d395 | generic | In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let... | Beyond getting money, bribes are also used to cause what to others? | {'text': 'harm', 'answer_start': 850} |
105,560 | 105,218 | 572ec5aedfa6aa1500f8d37e | generic | Two examples of animal species recently delisted are: the Virginia northern flying squirrel (subspecies) on August, 2008, which had been listed since 1985, and the gray wolf (Northern Rocky Mountain DPS). On April 15, 2011, President Obama signed the Department of Defense and Full-Year Appropriations Act of 2011. A sec... | How long had the squirrel been listed as endangered? | {'text': 'listed since 1985', 'answer_start': 137} |
86,043 | 85,701 | 5ad33f45604f3c001a3fdbc2 | generic | At E3 2007, Sony was able to show a number of their upcoming video games for PlayStation 3, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Warhawk and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune; all of which were released in the third and fourth quarters of 2007. They also showed off a number of titles t... | What year was Jayhawk released for the PlayStation 3? | {'text': '2007', 'answer_start': 273} |
128,700 | 128,358 | 5734215f4776f419006618fd | generic | As white settlers began populating Montana from the 1850s through the 1870s, disputes with Native Americans ensued, primarily over land ownership and control. In 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens negotiated the Hellgate treaty between the United States Government and the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and th... | What year was the treaty ratified? | {'text': '1859', 'answer_start': 438} |
40,414 | 40,072 | 570cfb78b3d812140066d378 | generic | In response, Apple introduced a range of relatively inexpensive Macs in October 1990. The Macintosh Classic, essentially a less expensive version of the Macintosh SE, was the least expensive Mac offered until early 2001. The 68020-powered Macintosh LC, in its distinctive "pizza box" case, offered color graphics and was... | How many expansion slots did the Macintosh IIsi have? | {'text': 'only one', 'answer_start': 429} |
88,950 | 88,608 | 572845f7ff5b5019007da0a1 | generic | On 14 September 2009, U.S. Special Forces killed two men and wounded and captured two others near the Somali village of Baarawe. Witnesses claim that helicopters used for the operation launched from French-flagged warships, but that could not be confirmed. A Somali-based al-Qaida affiliated group, the Al-Shabaab, has c... | What Somali group is affiliated with al-Qaeda? | {'text': 'Al-Shabaab', 'answer_start': 303} |
23,591 | 23,249 | 56f7f5e9aef2371900625cec | generic | In the United States, the term "treaty" has a different, more restricted legal sense than exists in international law. United States law distinguishes what it calls treaties from executive agreement, congressional-executive agreements, and sole executive agreements. All four classes are equally treaties under internati... | What type of agreement requires majority approval by both the House and the Senate before or after a treaty is signed by the United States president? | {'text': 'congressional-executive agreements', 'answer_start': 778} |
22,276 | 21,934 | 56f72650711bf01900a449ea | generic | The Wagner tuba, a modified member of the horn family, appears in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and several other works by Strauss, Béla Bartók, and others; it has a prominent role in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major. Cornets appear in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, Claude Debus... | What is the name of the modified member of the horn family appearing in several works by Strauss? | {'text': 'The Wagner tuba', 'answer_start': 0} |
34,441 | 34,099 | 5709fb5e4103511400d594d1 | generic | After 1937 the Lord Mayor and the state commissioners of Hanover were members of the NSDAP (Nazi party). A large Jewish population then existed in Hanover. In October 1938, 484 Hanoverian Jews of Polish origin were expelled to Poland, including the Grynszpan family. However, Poland refused to accept them, leaving them ... | Who assassinated the German diplomat Eduard Ernst vom Rath? | {'text': 'Herschel Grynszpan', 'answer_start': 493} |
63,606 | 63,264 | 5acf76ad77cf76001a684e78 | generic | Agriculture and food and drink production continue to be major industries in the county, employing over 15,000 people. Apple orchards were once plentiful, and Somerset is still a major producer of cider. The towns of Taunton and Shepton Mallet are involved with the production of cider, especially Blackthorn Cider, whic... | How many people work in the Apple Orchards? | {'text': '15,000', 'answer_start': 104} |
48,050 | 47,708 | 571a87714faf5e1900b8aa16 | generic | The history of Jews in Greece goes back to at least the Archaic Era of Greece, when the classical culture of Greece was undergoing a process of formalization after the Greek Dark Age. The Greek historian Herodotus knew of the Jews, whom he called "Palestinian Syrians", and listed them among the levied naval forces in s... | What did the Greek historian Herodotus refer to the Jews as? | {'text': '"Palestinian Syrians"', 'answer_start': 247} |
112,426 | 112,084 | 5730382aa23a5019007fcfad | generic | In process known as the Marian reforms, Roman consul Gaius Marius carried out a programme of reform of the Roman military. In 107 BC, all citizens, regardless of their wealth or social class, were made eligible for entry into the Roman army. This move formalised and concluded a gradual process that had been growing for... | What was the process that removed the property requirement for the Roman military called? | {'text': 'Marian reforms', 'answer_start': 24} |
48,851 | 48,509 | 5acf9de577cf76001a68553a | generic | In the year 712, Muhammad bin Qasim, an Umayyad general, sailed from the Persian Gulf into Sindh in Pakistan and conquered both the Sindh and the Punjab regions along the Indus river. The conquest of Sindh and Punjab, in modern-day Pakistan, although costly, were major gains for the Umayyad Caliphate. However, further ... | What conquests were easy for Umayyad Caliphate? | {'text': 'Sindh and Punjab', 'answer_start': 200} |
56,619 | 56,277 | 57265a65708984140094c370 | generic | After years of demanding greater political autonomy, residents were given the right to directly elect a Head of Government and the representatives of the unicameral Legislative Assembly by popular vote in 1997. Ever since, the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has controlled both of them. In recent yea... | What was Mexico City's old affiliation with the nation of Mexico? | {'text': 'Federal District', 'answer_start': 532} |
62,889 | 62,547 | 5726869df1498d1400e8e2c4 | generic | In contrast to the speed of compression, which is proportional to the number of operations required by the algorithm, here latency refers to the number of samples that must be analysed before a block of audio is processed. In the minimum case, latency is zero samples (e.g., if the coder/decoder simply reduces the numbe... | What often has low latencies? | {'text': 'LPC', 'answer_start': 391} |
82,275 | 81,933 | 5acfdaa877cf76001a6862f9 | generic | Other pre-modern Chinese names for Tibet include Wusiguo (Chinese: 烏斯國; pinyin: Wūsīguó; cf. Tibetan dbus, Ü, [wyʔ˨˧˨]), Wusizang (Chinese: 烏斯藏; pinyin: wūsīzàng, cf. Tibetan dbus-gtsang, Ü-Tsang), Tubote (Chinese: 圖伯特; pinyin: Túbótè), and Tanggute (Chinese: 唐古忒; pinyin: Tánggǔtè, cf. Tangut). American Tibetologist El... | Who fought to revive the term Xizang? | {'text': 'some authors writing in Chinese', 'answer_start': 378} |
95,861 | 95,519 | 5729b9ce3f37b3190047854c | generic | On June 16, 1911, their four companies were consolidated in New York State by Charles Ranlett Flint to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). CTR's business office was in Endicott. The individual companies owned by CTR continued to operate using their established names until the businesses were integrat... | Where was the CTR Business office? | {'text': 'Endicott', 'answer_start': 187} |
89,476 | 89,134 | 572846033acd2414000df844 | generic | The superior god of Oeselians as described by Henry of Latvia was called Tharapita. According to the legend in the chronicle Tharapita was born on a forested mountain in Virumaa (Latin: Vironia), mainland Estonia from where he flew to Oesel, Saaremaa The name Taarapita has been interpreted as "Taara, help!"/"Thor, help... | Who described Tharapita? | {'text': 'Henry of Latvia', 'answer_start': 46} |
93,990 | 93,648 | 5ad12795645df0001a2d0fa0 | generic | According to a 2011 projection by the International Energy Agency, solar power plants may produce most of the world's electricity within 50 years, significantly reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that harm the environment. The IEA has said: "Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet most of the world's dem... | Which group projected that solar plant may produce most of the world's electricity within 40 years? | {'text': 'International Energy Agency', 'answer_start': 38} |
111,627 | 111,285 | 5733e19dd058e614000b64ab | generic | The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people. In the 2014–15 season, the average Premier League match attendance exceeded 36,000, second highest of any professional football league behind the Bund... | Which league has the highest average attendance in professional football? | {'text': 'Bundesliga', 'answer_start': 316} |
124,431 | 124,089 | 573240390fdd8d15006c6885 | generic | Nathan Knorr was appointed as third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1942. Knorr commissioned a new translation of the Bible, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the full version of which was released in 1961. He organized large international assemblies, instituted new training prog... | When was the full version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures released? | {'text': 'in 1961', 'answer_start': 238} |
40,298 | 39,956 | 570ce035fed7b91900d45a54 | generic | With the new Motorola 68030 processor came the Macintosh IIx in 1988, which had benefited from internal improvements, including an on-board MMU. It was followed in 1989 by the Macintosh IIcx, a more compact version with fewer slots and a version of the Mac SE powered by the 16 MHz 68030, the Macintosh SE/30. Later tha... | What was the first Mac to be "32-bit clean"? | {'text': 'the Macintosh IIci', 'answer_start': 328} |
47,270 | 46,928 | 5a8cdf5bfd22b3001a8d8f89 | generic | Hebb distinguished between short-term and long-term memory. He postulated that any memory that stayed in short-term storage for a long enough time would be consolidated into a long-term memory. Later research showed this to be false. Research has shown that direct injections of cortisol or epinephrine help the storage ... | Which drugs seemed to help someone forget earlier events? | {'text': 'cortisol or epinephrine', 'answer_start': 279} |
71,470 | 71,128 | 5ad28e3cd7d075001a429a41 | generic | In response to the publication of the secret protocols and other secret German–Soviet relations documents in the State Department edition Nazi–Soviet Relations (1948), Stalin published Falsifiers of History, which included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's claim to share in a divisio... | How long didn't Stalins version of what happened between the Germans and the Soviets last? | {'text': "until the Soviet Union's dissolution", 'answer_start': 527} |
78,044 | 77,702 | 5a5e5ad15bc9f4001a75af27 | generic | The emergence of Vedanta school represented a period when a more knowledge-centered understanding began to emerge. These focussed on jnana (knowledge) driven aspects of the Vedic religion and the Upanishads. This included metaphysical concepts such as ātman and Brahman, and emphasized meditation, self-discipline, self-... | What represented the lack of knowledge-centered study? | {'text': 'The emergence of Vedanta school', 'answer_start': 0} |
85,204 | 84,862 | 5728164b2ca10214002d9da1 | generic | Uses of a sequence of events include stories, historical events (chronology), directions and steps in procedures, and timetables for scheduling activities. A sequence of events may also be used to help describe processes in science, technology, and medicine. A sequence of events may be focused on past events (e.g., sto... | What is a specific example of a sequence of events? | {'text': 'the timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster', 'answer_start': 882} |
122,575 | 122,233 | 5731b3b7b9d445190005e479 | generic | Many early immigrant groups traveled to America to worship freely, particularly after the English Civil War and religious conflict in France and Germany. They included nonconformists like the Puritans, who were Protestant Christians fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican King of England. Despite a common backg... | What did the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony both establish? | {'text': 'churches', 'answer_start': 611} |
103,807 | 103,465 | 572eae2203f989190075692b | generic | An alternative concept is that they formed closer to the Sun, where the matter density was higher, and then subsequently migrated to their current orbits after the removal of the gaseous protoplanetary disc. This hypothesis of migration after formation is favoured, due to its ability to better explain the occupancy of ... | What is the most widely accepted explanation of Neptune's formation called? | {'text': 'the Nice model', 'answer_start': 484} |
86,744 | 86,402 | 572ab71734ae481900deac7b | generic | No provision within the constitution grants the monarch an ability to veto legislation directly; however, no provision prohibits the sovereign from withholding royal assent, which effectively constitutes a veto. When the Spanish media asked King Juan Carlos if he would endorse the bill legalising same-sex marriages, he... | When did same-sex marriages become legal in Spain? | {'text': '3 July 2005', 'answer_start': 674} |
8,113 | 7,771 | 5ad5fea45b96ef001a10afdc | generic | The first comprehensives were set up after the Second World War. In 1946, for example, Walworth School was one of five 'experimental' comprehensive schools set up by the London County Council Another early comprehensive school was Holyhead County School in Anglesey in 1949. Other early examples of comprehensive schools... | In what year was the Walworth School closed? | {'text': '1946', 'answer_start': 68} |
127,129 | 126,787 | 5732c66fcc179a14009dac50 | generic | In contrast, the police are entitled to protect private rights in some jurisdictions. To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and whe... | Why do some police acts limit when police can interfere without court orders? | {'text': 'To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law', 'answer_start': 86} |
7,343 | 7,001 | 56d8d8d0dc89441400fdb330 | generic | Greece: On March 24, 2008, the Olympic Flame was ignited at Olympia, Greece, site of the ancient Olympic Games. The actress Maria Nafpliotou, in the role of a High Priestess, ignited the torch of the first torchbearer, a silver medalist of the 2004 Summer Olympics in taekwondo Alexandros Nikolaidis from Greece, who ha... | On what date did the Olympic Flame get lit? | {'text': 'March 24, 2008', 'answer_start': 12} |
91,394 | 91,052 | 5728daea3acd2414000e0057 | generic | The 1775 treatise "The Natural Varieties of Mankind", by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach proposed five major divisions: the Caucasoid race, Mongoloid race, Ethiopian race (later termed Negroid, and not to be confused with the narrower Ethiopid race), American Indian race, and Malayan race, but he did not propose any hierar... | What can one not mark between the variety of mankind? | {'text': 'limits', 'answer_start': 544} |
97,916 | 97,574 | 572a7f2034ae481900deab4d | generic | Prior to the 12th century, women accounted for less than one percent of the world’s Islamic scholars. However, al-Sakhawi and Mohammad Akram Nadwi have since found evidence of over 8,000 female scholars since the 15th century. al-Sakhawi devotes an entire volume of his 12-volume biographical dictionary al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʻ... | What percentage of Islamic women were educated before the 1200s? | {'text': 'less than one percent', 'answer_start': 47} |
107,698 | 107,356 | 572faf0e04bcaa1900d76be7 | generic | The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events. The Space Age began with the development of several technologies that culminated with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. This was the ... | What is the space age? | {'text': 'a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.', 'answer_start': 17} |
35,355 | 35,013 | 570a9b464103511400d5987e | generic | Another source of loanwords was Old Norse, which came into contact with Old English via the Scandinavian rulers and settlers in the Danelaw from the late 9th century, and during the rule of Cnut and other Danish kings in the early 11th century. Many place-names in eastern and northern England are of Scandinavian origin... | Along with eastern England, what part of England contains many place names of Scandinavian origin? | {'text': 'northern', 'answer_start': 277} |
422 | 80 | 56bf7cb63aeaaa14008c9678 | generic | The group changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, based upon a passage in the Book of Isaiah. In 1997, Destiny's Child released their major label debut song "Killing Time" on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Men in Black. The following year, the group released their self-titled debut album, scoring their first m... | The name Destiny's Child was based on a quote in which book of the Bible? | {'text': 'Book of Isaiah', 'answer_start': 85} |
86,578 | 86,236 | 5acfbd6a77cf76001a685bb5 | generic | In Australia, a technical issue arose with the royal assent in both 1976 and 2001. In 1976, a bill originating in the House of Representatives was mistakenly submitted to the Governor-General and assented to. However, it was later discovered that it had not been passed by each house. The error arose because two bills o... | Who revoked the second assent? | {'text': 'The Governor-General', 'answer_start': 368} |
103,079 | 102,737 | 5731c9b6e17f3d14004223ef | generic | Spielberg was scheduled to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse, adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard. The film would follow a global human war against a robot uprising about 15–20 years in the future. Like Lincoln, it was to be released by Disney in the United States and Fox over... | What was the budget for 'Robopocalypse'? | {'text': '$200 million', 'answer_start': 35} |
98,274 | 97,932 | 5ad39274604f3c001a3fe6a3 | generic | In addition to such annual festivals like Calle Ocho Festival and Carnaval Miami, Miami is home to many entertainment venues, theaters, museums, parks and performing arts centers. The newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the second-largest performing arts center ... | What is the smallest venue in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts? | {'text': 'Ziff Ballet Opera House', 'answer_start': 446} |
17,303 | 16,961 | 56e11684cd28a01900c67584 | generic | The word Catalan derives from the territory of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests that Catalunya (Latin Gathia Launia) derives from the name Gothia or Gauthia ("Land of the Goths"), since the origins of the Catalan counts, lords and people were found in the March of Gothia, whence Gothlan... | What is the Latin for Calalunya? | {'text': 'Gathia Launia', 'answer_start': 135} |
89,830 | 89,488 | 5ad4094f604f3c001a3fff22 | generic | The climate of Western Alaska is determined in large part by the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. It is a subarctic oceanic climate in the southwest and a continental subarctic climate farther north. The temperature is somewhat moderate considering how far north the area is. This region has a tremendous amount of var... | What two bodies of water influene the climate in Eastern Alaska? | {'text': 'Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska', 'answer_start': 65} |
40,762 | 40,420 | 570d3941fed7b91900d45d4a | generic | Initially sensors were optical and acoustic devices developed during the First World War and continued into the 1930s, but were quickly superseded by radar, which in turn was supplemented by optronics in the 1980s. Command and control remained primitive until the late 1930s, when Britain created an integrated system fo... | What did the integrated system for ADGB link? | {'text': "the ground-based air defence of the army's AA Command", 'answer_start': 339} |
12,445 | 12,103 | 5ad552845b96ef001a10aca1 | generic | The Warsaw Treaty's organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Tr... | Who was also a Second Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR? | {'text': 'the Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization', 'answer_start': 475} |
11,995 | 11,653 | 56df623596943c1400a5d495 | generic | Along with the rest of South West England, Plymouth has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of England. This means a wide range of exotic plants can be grown. The annual mean temperature is approximately 11 °C (52 °F). Due to the modifying effect of the sea the se... | Along with August, what is typically the hottest month in Plymouth? | {'text': 'July', 'answer_start': 1122} |
52,825 | 52,483 | 5726245b89a1e219009ac2ee | generic | On 15 September 1940, known as the Battle of Britain Day, an RAF pilot, Ray Holmes of No. 504 Squadron RAF rammed a German bomber he believed was going to bomb the Palace. Holmes had run out of ammunition and made the quick decision to ram it. Holmes bailed out. Both aircraft crashed. In fact the Dornier Do 17 bomber w... | What is September 15, 1940 known as? | {'text': 'the Battle of Britain Day', 'answer_start': 31} |
8,296 | 7,954 | 5ad0076377cf76001a686794 | generic | Pascal Lissouba, who became Congo's first elected president (1992–1997) during the period of multi-party democracy, attempted to implement economic reforms with IMF backing to liberalise the economy. In June 1996 the IMF approved a three-year SDR69.5m (US$100m) enhanced structural adjustment facility (ESAF) and was on ... | When did civil war end in Congo? | {'text': 'mid-1997', 'answer_start': 408} |
107,858 | 107,516 | 5730722b069b5314008320df | generic | The Philippines has had small grassroots movements for U.S. statehood. Originally part of the platform of the Progressive Party, then known as the Federalista Party, the party dropped it in 1907, which coincided with the name change. As recently as 2004, the concept of the Philippines becoming a U.S. state has been par... | What was the most recent year of the Phillipines pushing for statehood? | {'text': '2004', 'answer_start': 249} |
31,640 | 31,298 | 570a88724103511400d59819 | generic | The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area, $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H. Syste... | How many local jobs are produced by the University of Houston? | {'text': '24,000', 'answer_start': 229} |
116,102 | 115,760 | 5ad49f51ba00c4001a268e1c | generic | Several notable video game developers criticized Microsoft for making its Windows Store a closed platform subject to its own regulations, as it conflicted with their view of the PC as an open platform. Markus "Notch" Persson (creator of the indie game Minecraft), Gabe Newell (co-founder of Valve Corporation and develop... | Who developed Dream? | {'text': 'Gabe Newell', 'answer_start': 264} |
7,418 | 7,076 | 56db1b38e7c41114004b4d29 | generic | Chinese officials canceled the torch relay ceremony amidst disruptions, including a Tibetan flag flown from a window in the City Hall by Green Party officials. The third torchbearer in the Paris leg, Jin Jing, who was disabled and carried the torch on a wheelchair, was assaulted several times by unidentified protestors... | What was stopped due to protest interruptions? | {'text': 'torch relay ceremony', 'answer_start': 31} |
127,134 | 126,792 | 5aced2db32bba1001ae4b5eb | generic | In contrast, the police are entitled to protect private rights in some jurisdictions. To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and whe... | What could be unimpeded without police interference? | {'text': 'the realization of the private right', 'answer_start': 360} |
1,175 | 833 | 56cbdbf36d243a140015ed99 | generic | Fryderyk's father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen. Nicolas tutored children of the Polish aristocracy, and in 1806 married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Fryderyk was baptized on East... | Who did Frédéric's father marry in 1806? | {'text': 'Justyna Krzyżanowska', 'answer_start': 196} |
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