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9,137 | 8,795 | 5a11c35a06e79900185c355f | generic | In 1582 the United Provinces invited Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them; but after a failed attempt to take Antwerp in 1583, the duke left the Netherlands again. After the assassination of William of Orange (10 July 1584), both Henry III of France and Elizabeth I of England declined the offer of sovereignty. However, ... | In what year did the Spanish Empire stopped recognizing the Republic of the Seven United Provinces? | {'text': '1648', 'answer_start': 725} |
74,623 | 74,281 | 5a6fe0cc8abb0b001a675ff5 | generic | Most of the Alsatian population is Roman Catholic, but, largely because of the region's German heritage, a significant Protestant community also exists: today, the EPCAAL (a Lutheran church) is France's second largest Protestant church, also forming an administrative union (UEPAL) with the much smaller Calvinist EPRAL.... | What did Germany enact in 1905? | {'text': 'law separating the French church and state', 'answer_start': 779} |
3,300 | 2,958 | 56d504539d1b871400ae05eb | generic | Japanese seismologist Yuji Yagi at the University of Tsukuba said that the earthquake occurred in two stages: "The 155-mile Longmenshan Fault tore in two sections, the first one ripping about seven yards, followed by a second one that sheared four yards." His data also showed that the earthquake lasted about two minute... | How did Yuji Yagi say the quake happened? | {'text': 'in two stages', 'answer_start': 95} |
13,661 | 13,319 | 5acd5f6f07355d001abf3f74 | generic | Lee and Guenther have rejected most of the arguments put forward by Wilmsen. Doron Shultziner and others have argued that we can learn a lot about the life-styles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from studies of contemporary hunter-gatherers—especially their impressive levels of egalitarianism. | Which group does Shultziner believe we can't learn anything from? | {'text': 'contemporary hunter-gatherers', 'answer_start': 211} |
127,080 | 126,738 | 5732bf5c328d981900602042 | generic | Unmarked vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. Some police forces use unmarked or minimally marked cars for traffic law enforcement, since drivers slow down at the sight of marked police vehicles and unmarked vehicles make it easier for offic... | Why did New York State ban unmarked cars for traffic cops? | {'text': 'it endangered motorists who might be pulled over by people impersonating police officers', 'answer_start': 480} |
45,656 | 45,314 | 5ad3f442604f3c001a3ff935 | generic | Executions resumed on January 17, 1977, when Gary Gilmore went before a firing squad in Utah. But the pace was quite slow due to the use of litigation tactics which involved filing repeated writs of habeas corpus, which succeeded for many in delaying their actual execution for many years. Although hundreds of individua... | Who was pardoned on January 17, 1977? | {'text': 'Gary Gilmore', 'answer_start': 45} |
80,319 | 79,977 | 5a513213ce860b001aa3fc0f | generic | In the middle of the 17th century, the peasant rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong (1606–1646) from Yan'an, Shanxi Province, nicknamed Yellow Tiger, led his peasant troop from north China to the south, and conquered Sichuan. Upon capturing it, he declared himself emperor of the Daxi Dynasty (大西王朝). In response to the resistan... | During what dynasty did the population of Schuan rise sharply? | {'text': 'Daxi Dynasty', 'answer_start': 272} |
82,717 | 82,375 | 5727c73cff5b5019007d94fe | generic | High school football teams frequently participate in controlled scrimmages with other teams during preseason practice, but exhibition games are rare because of league rules and concerns about finances, travel and player injuries, along with enrollments not being registered until the early part of August in most school ... | What do high school all-star players hope to be seen by? | {'text': 'colleges', 'answer_start': 751} |
96,197 | 95,855 | 5acd299b07355d001abf3761 | generic | Any living organism relies on an external source of energy—radiation from the Sun in the case of green plants, chemical energy in some form in the case of animals—to be able to grow and reproduce. The daily 1500–2000 Calories (6–8 MJ) recommended for a human adult are taken as a combination of oxygen and food molecules... | what relies on an internal source of energy | {'text': 'Any living organism', 'answer_start': 0} |
53,293 | 52,951 | 5acd028907355d001abf319c | generic | The return of former player George Graham as manager in 1986 brought a third period of glory. Arsenal won the League Cup in 1987, Graham's first season in charge. This was followed by a League title win in 1988–89, won with a last-minute goal in the final game of the season against fellow title challengers Liverpool. G... | What was one of the player Rune Hauge gave money to George Graham to sign? | {'text': 'Bruce Rioch', 'answer_start': 679} |
8,866 | 8,524 | 56de5fbccffd8e1900b4b834 | generic | Most of these institutes award diplomas after three or three and a half years of education. The Institute of technology implementation (IUT from Instituto universitario de tecnologia on Spanish) began with the creation of the first IUT at Caracas, capital city of Venezuela, called IUT. Dr. Federico Rivero Palacio adopt... | What city in Venezuela had the first IUT? | {'text': 'Caracas', 'answer_start': 239} |
39,641 | 39,299 | 5ad154fd645df0001a2d17c9 | generic | Although the Catholics and the Orthodox may honor and venerate Mary, they do not view her as divine, nor do they worship her. Roman Catholics view Mary as subordinate to Christ, but uniquely so, in that she is seen as above all other creatures. Similarly Theologian Sergei Bulgakov wrote that the Orthodox view Mary as "... | What is the Ortodox term reserved for Marian veneration? | {'text': 'hyperdulia', 'answer_start': 681} |
43,811 | 43,469 | 570e45630b85d914000d7dd5 | generic | In 2005, seventeen countries produced concentrated uranium oxides, with Canada (27.9% of world production) and Australia (22.8%) being the largest producers and Kazakhstan (10.5%), Russia (8.0%), Namibia (7.5%), Niger (7.4%), Uzbekistan (5.5%), the United States (2.5%), Argentina (2.1%), Ukraine (1.9%) and China (1.7%)... | How many countries produced concentrated uranium oxides in 2005? | {'text': 'seventeen', 'answer_start': 9} |
76,370 | 76,028 | 572826324b864d19001645ad | generic | In mid-November The Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society was officially registered. On November 19, 1989, a public gathering in Kiev attracted thousands of mourners, friends and family to the reburial in Ukraine of three inmates of the infamous Gulag Camp No. 36 in Perm in the Ural Mountains: human-rights activists Va... | Where were the activists reburied? | {'text': 'Baikove Cemetery.', 'answer_start': 396} |
103,793 | 103,451 | 572eab33cb0c0d14000f143c | generic | Neptune has a number of known trojan objects occupying both the Sun–Neptune L4 and L5 Lagrangian points—gravitationally stable regions leading and trailing Neptune in its orbit, respectively. Neptune trojans can be viewed as being in a 1:1 resonance with Neptune. Some Neptune trojans are remarkably stable in their orbi... | How long has Neptune's quasi-satellite been with Neptune? | {'text': '12,500 years', 'answer_start': 641} |
122,842 | 122,500 | 5ad14755645df0001a2d1522 | generic | In what will be the case is Town of Greece v. Galloway, 12-696, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case regarding whether prayers at town meetings, which are allowed, must allow various faiths to lead prayer, or whether the prayers can be predominately Christian. On May 5, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favo... | What case is in regards to whether prayers at town meetings must not allow various faiths? | {'text': 'Town of Greece v. Galloway', 'answer_start': 28} |
62,139 | 61,797 | 57290c141d04691400778fc7 | generic | British colonial rule introduced Western elements of culture to Burma. Burma's education system is modelled after that of the United Kingdom. Colonial architectural influences are most evident in major cities such as Yangon. Many ethnic minorities, particularly the Karen in the southeast and the Kachin and Chin who pop... | What evidence of previous rule is evident in the buildings in Burma ? | {'text': 'Colonial architectural influences are most evident in major cities', 'answer_start': 142} |
107,881 | 107,539 | 5a8a39133b2508001a72a865 | generic | The phrase is usually used in local political debates, in polemic writing or in private conversations. It is rarely used by politicians themselves in a public context, although at certain times in Canadian history political parties have used other similarly loaded imagery. In the 1988 federal election, the Liberals ass... | Who asserted that the proposed Canada-US border amounted to an American permanent marker? | {'text': 'Liberals', 'answer_start': 308} |
9,520 | 9,178 | 56dde48b9a695914005b9670 | generic | Consistent with the missions and priorities outlined above, the Canadian Armed Forces also contribute to the conduct of Canadian defence diplomacy through a range of activities, including the deployment of Canadian Defence Attachés, participation in bilateral and multilateral military forums (e.g. the System of Coopera... | What diplomatic effort does the CAF perform as part of it's duties? | {'text': 'relationship-building efforts', 'answer_start': 446} |
3,913 | 3,571 | 56cee5a1aab44d1400b88c26 | generic | The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants. Over 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, upwards of a quarter of the city's population. There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's popul... | In 1860, what percentage of the city population was composed of German immigrants? | {'text': '25%', 'answer_start': 297} |
122,252 | 121,910 | 5acd66ae07355d001abf40bc | generic | According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that i... | What wasn't the original reason for creating the website? | {'text': 'sharing videos', 'answer_start': 182} |
117,096 | 116,754 | 57312d4da5e9cc1400cdbccb | generic | Vladimir had been prince of Novgorod when his father Sviatoslav I died in 972. He was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his half-brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and taken control of Rus. In Scandinavia, with the help of his relative Earl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, Vladimir assemble... | What territory was Vladimar Prince of before his father died? | {'text': 'Novgorod', 'answer_start': 28} |
113,434 | 113,092 | 5a54183abdaabd001a386835 | 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... | What language was One Thousand and One Nights translated to in the 1800's? | {'text': 'English', 'answer_start': 689} |
82,957 | 82,615 | 5ad2c950d7d075001a42a229 | generic | Northwestern was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1917 and remains a research university with "very high" research activity. Northwestern's schools of management, engineering, and communication are among the most academically productive in the nation. Northwestern received $550 million in research... | Who discovered the drug that was never marketed as Lyrica? | {'text': 'Richard Silverman', 'answer_start': 847} |
71,065 | 70,723 | 5726e1ce708984140094d4a4 | generic | The main local and regional bus station of Utrecht is located adjacent to Utrecht Centraal railway station, at the East and West entrances. Due to large scale renovation and construction works at the railway station, the station's bus stops are changing frequently. As a general rule, westbound buses depart from the bus... | What is one of Europes cleanest | {'text': "The local bus fleet is one of Europe's cleanest, using only buses compliant with the Euro-VI standard as well as electric buses for inner city transport", 'answer_start': 519} |
936 | 594 | 56d4e9d12ccc5a1400d8333b | generic | Beyoncé's work has influenced numerous artists including Adele, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Bridgit Mendler, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, Sam Smith, Meghan Trainor, Nicole Scherzinger, Rita Ora, Zendaya, Cheryl Cole, JoJo, Alexis Jordan, Jessica Sanchez, and Azealia Banks. American indie rock band White Rabbits also cited her... | What was the name of the White Rabbits' album? | {'text': 'Milk Famous', 'answer_start': 358} |
48,233 | 47,891 | 571cf74cdd7acb1400e4c1d3 | generic | Ehrlich’s approach of systematically varying the chemical structure of synthetic compounds and measuring the effects of these changes on biological activity was pursued broadly by industrial scientists, including Bayer scientists Josef Klarer, Fritz Mietzsch, and Gerhard Domagk. This work, also based in the testing of ... | What award did Domagk receive in 1939? | {'text': 'Nobel Prize in Medicine', 'answer_start': 684} |
94,597 | 94,255 | 572a1bcf3f37b319004786dd | generic | The Romans had a greater appreciation for the color green; it was the color of Venus, the goddess of gardens, vegetables and vineyards.The Romans made a fine green earth pigment, which was widely used in the wall paintings of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Lyon, Vaison-la-Romaine, and other Roman cities. They also used the pigm... | How many different words for the varieties of green exist in Latin? | {'text': 'ten', 'answer_start': 487} |
10,187 | 9,845 | 5a18c4619aa02b0018605eba | generic | The term Iranian is applied to any language which descends from the ancestral Proto-Iranian language. Iranian derives from the Persian and Sanskrit origin word Arya. | Arya is derived from what ancestral language? | {'text': 'Proto-Iranian language', 'answer_start': 78} |
105,960 | 105,618 | 572ecdaac246551400ce46b8 | generic | To pay for his military campaigns and colonial expansion, Emperor Wu nationalized several private industries. He created central government monopolies administered largely by former merchants. These monopolies included salt, iron, and liquor production, as well as bronze-coin currency. The liquor monopoly lasted only f... | Who made up the bulk of the administrators of the new government monopolies? | {'text': 'former merchants', 'answer_start': 175} |
95,304 | 94,962 | 5a2c7bebbfd06b001a5aeba1 | generic | Enisa Kafadar argues that there is only one Serbo-Croatian language with several varieties. This has made possible to include all four varieties into a new grammar book. Daniel Bunčić concludes that it is a pluricentric language, with four standard variants spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovi... | How many varieties does Enisa Kafadar aruge there are in Hindi-Urdu? | {'text': 'several', 'answer_start': 73} |
27,759 | 27,417 | 56fae3818f12f31900630249 | generic | A number of writing systems have been used over the years for transcribing the language. Of these, the Somali alphabet is the most widely used, and has been the official writing script in Somalia since the government of former President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre formally introduced it in October 1972. The script wa... | In what month and year was the Somali alphabet introduced? | {'text': 'October 1972', 'answer_start': 293} |
8,509 | 8,167 | 56dd1ff566d3e219004dabe9 | generic | Public expenditure of the GDP was less in 2002–05 than in 1991. Public education is theoretically free and mandatory for under-16-year-olds, but in practice, expenses exist. Net primary enrollment rate was 44% in 2005, much less than the 79% in 1991. The country has universities. Education between ages six and sixteen ... | Public schooling is required for people under what age? | {'text': '16', 'answer_start': 127} |
107,517 | 107,175 | 572f47a7a23a5019007fc4f8 | generic | Replacing the classical physics in use since the end of the scientific revolution, modern physics arose in the early 20th century with the advent of quantum physics, substituting mathematical studies for experimental studies and examining equations to build a theoretical structure.[citation needed] The old quantum theo... | What is the old Quantum theory? | {'text': 'a collection of results which predate modern quantum mechanics, but were never complete or self-consistent.', 'answer_start': 327} |
54,665 | 54,323 | 5ad018ce77cf76001a6869cc | generic | In its 2011 report, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs, the BSA stated: "Over half of the world's personal computer users – 57 percent – admit to pirating software." The ninth annual "BSA Global Software Piracy Study" claims that the "commercial value of this shadow market of pirated software" w... | What was the U.N.'s piracy rate? | {'text': '19%', 'answer_start': 620} |
90,803 | 90,461 | 5728aeb92ca10214002da5b0 | generic | On the island of Crete, along with the lyra and the laouto (lute), the mandolin is one of the main instruments used in Cretan Music. It appeared on Crete around the time of the Venetian rule of the island. Different variants of the mandolin, such as the "mantola," were used to accompany the lyra, the violin, and the la... | What Island is the mandolin a main instrument in Cretan Music? | {'text': 'island of Crete', 'answer_start': 7} |
105,014 | 104,672 | 572f9082a23a5019007fc760 | generic | In an operational capacity, limitations in weapons technology and quick British reactions were making it more difficult to achieve strategic effect. Attacking ports, shipping and imports as well as disrupting rail traffic in the surrounding areas, especially the distribution of coal, an important fuel in all industrial... | What did Britain do that helped make the new strategy less effective? | {'text': 'dispersed its production facilities', 'answer_start': 594} |
41,563 | 41,221 | 570d6ae3b3d812140066d8af | generic | About two thousand Roman colonists were settled there in 138 BC during the rule of consul Decimus Junius Brutus Galaico. The Roman historian Florus says that Brutus transferred the soldiers who had fought under him to that province. This was a typical Roman city in its conception, as it was located in a strategic locat... | What road crossed Valencia's island in Roman times? | {'text': 'Via Augusta', 'answer_start': 370} |
14,195 | 13,853 | 56e0a5b6231d4119001ac325 | generic | On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics. | What was the name of the period inaugurated by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR? | {'text': 'the "War of Laws"', 'answer_start': 161} |
31,216 | 30,874 | 57096efd200fba1400367fdd | generic | According to the American National Standards Institute, pitch is the auditory attribute of sound according to which sounds can be ordered on a scale from low to high. Since pitch is such a close proxy for frequency, it is almost entirely determined by how quickly the sound wave is making the air vibrate and has almost ... | Pitch is the auditory attribute to what? | {'text': 'sound', 'answer_start': 91} |
64,040 | 63,698 | 5ad3e20e604f3c001a3ff523 | generic | Yale has a history of difficult and prolonged labor negotiations, often culminating in strikes. There have been at least eight strikes since 1968, and The New York Times wrote that Yale has a reputation as having the worst record of labor tension of any university in the U.S. Yale's unusually large endowment exacerbate... | What professor was retired in a 2013 labor strike? | {'text': 'Professor David Graeber', 'answer_start': 524} |
62,199 | 61,857 | 572679f9dd62a815002e8670 | generic | Although the Israelites were divided into Twelve Tribes, the Jews (being one offshoot of the Israelites, another being the Samaritans) are traditionally said to descend mostly from the Israelite tribes of Judah (from where the Jews derive their ethnonym) and Benjamin, and partially from the tribe of Levi, who had toget... | What group was divided into Twelve Tribes? | {'text': 'Israelites', 'answer_start': 13} |
120,119 | 119,777 | 573149cf05b4da19006bcfc7 | generic | Historians have judged the Qing dynasty's vulnerability and weakness to foreign imperialism in the 19th century to be based mainly on its maritime naval weakness while it achieved military success against westerners on land, the historian Edward L. Dreyer said that "China’s nineteenth-century humiliations were strongly... | Which historian blamed naval weakness for European imperialism in China? | {'text': 'Edward L. Dreyer', 'answer_start': 239} |
73,383 | 73,041 | 57274387f1498d1400e8f560 | generic | There are a multitude of supporters as well as opponents to the policy of affirmative action. Many presidents throughout the last century have failed to take a very firm stance on the policy, and the public has had to discern the president's opinion for themselves. Bill Clinton, however, made his stance on affirmative ... | Which President made their stance on affirmative action clear in 1995? | {'text': 'Bill Clinton', 'answer_start': 266} |
19,165 | 18,823 | 56e6f4fdde9d3714000680e5 | generic | Adult contemporary R&B may be played on both soft AC stations and urban AC. It is a form of neo soul R&B that places emphasis on songcraft and sophistication. As the use of drum machines, synthesizers, and sequencers dominates R&B-rooted music, adult contemporary R&B tends to take most of its cues from the more refined... | During what decade was smooth soul popular? | {'text': '1970s', 'answer_start': 332} |
107,034 | 106,692 | 5a56b1046349e2001acdcee4 | generic | The Red Book audio specification, except for a simple "anti-copy" statement in the subcode, does not include any copy protection mechanism. Known at least as early as 2001, attempts were made by record companies to market "copy-protected" non-standard compact discs, which cannot be ripped, or copied, to hard drives or ... | When was the "anti-copy" subcode written in the Red Book? | {'text': '2001', 'answer_start': 167} |
74,463 | 74,121 | 572bcc46111d821400f38f84 | generic | Several recent movies have been filmed in New Haven, including Mona Lisa Smile (2003), with Julia Roberts, The Life Before Her Eyes (2007), with Uma Thurman, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf. The filmin... | Union Station was as a part of a set on a film, what was the name of the movie? | {'text': "Everybody's Fine (2009)", 'answer_start': 584} |
117,001 | 116,659 | 5acfffd077cf76001a686734 | generic | The new Kievan state prospered due to its abundant supply of furs, beeswax, honey, and slaves for export, and because it controlled three main trade routes of Eastern Europe. In the north, Novgorod served as a commercial link between the Baltic Sea and the Volga trade route to the lands of the Volga Bulgars, the Khazar... | What made the Kievan state deteriorate? | {'text': 'abundant supply of furs, beeswax, honey, and slaves for export', 'answer_start': 42} |
112,858 | 112,516 | 573240a4b9d445190005e91f | generic | Starting in mid-June 1944, Iwo Jima came under sustained aerial bombardment and naval artillery fire. However, Kuribayashi's hidden guns and defenses survived the constant bombardment virtually unscathed. On 19 February 1945, some 30,000 men of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions landed on the southeast coast of Iwo... | When did Iwo Jima come under bombardment? | {'text': 'mid-June 1944', 'answer_start': 12} |
67,051 | 66,709 | 5726bfb3708984140094d05a | generic | Paul VI revolutionized papal elections by ordering that only cardinals below the age of eighty might participate in future conclaves. In Ecclesiae Sanctae, his motu proprio of 6 August 1966, he further invited all bishops to offer their retirement to the pontiff no later than the completion of their 75th year of age. T... | What did Paul VI over hall with age and retirement restrictions? | {'text': 'papal elections', 'answer_start': 23} |
112,283 | 111,941 | 572fffb8a23a5019007fcc2a | generic | However, civil war flared again when the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Lepidus and Mark Antony failed. The ambitious Octavian built a power base of patronage and then launched a campaign against Mark Antony. At the naval Battle of Actium off the coast of Greece, Octavian decisively defeated Antony and Cleopatra. Octa... | Who defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium? | {'text': 'Octavian', 'answer_start': 265} |
72,749 | 72,407 | 57271305f1498d1400e8f330 | generic | Media outlets began reporting in late September 2009 that Comcast was in talks to buy NBCUniversal. Comcast denied the rumors at first, while NBC would not comment on them. However, CNBC itself reported on October 1 that General Electric was considering spinning NBCUniversal off into a separate company that would merge... | What ownership stake did Ccomcast get in this deal? | {'text': '51%', 'answer_start': 510} |
12,557 | 12,215 | 5ad574b85b96ef001a10af2c | generic | In November 2005, the Polish government opened its Warsaw Treaty archives to the Institute of National Remembrance, who published some 1,300 declassified documents in January 2006. Yet the Polish government reserved publication of 100 documents, pending their military declassification. Eventually, 30 of the reserved 10... | What originated as a 1989 field training exercise war game? | {'text': 'Warsaw Treaty battle doctrine', 'answer_start': 754} |
118,554 | 118,212 | 57310c82a5e9cc1400cdbbde | generic | The first newspaper in Namibia was the German-language Windhoeker Anzeiger, founded 1898. Radio was introduced in 1969, TV in 1981. During German rule, the newspapers mainly reflected the living reality and the view of the white German-speaking minority. The black majority was ignored or depicted as a threat. During So... | What was the language in which the first Namibian newspaper was printed in? | {'text': 'German', 'answer_start': 39} |
44,850 | 44,508 | 57101794b654c5140001f7cb | generic | The Kinsey scale has been praised for dismissing the dichotomous classification of sexual orientation and allowing for a new perspective on human sexuality. However, the scale has been criticized because it is still not a true continuum. Despite seven categories being able to provide a more accurate description of sexu... | How many categories are used in the KInsey scale? | {'text': 'seven', 'answer_start': 246} |
31,867 | 31,525 | 570ab5396d058f19001830a6 | generic | Houston's highway system has a hub-and-spoke freeway structure serviced by multiple loops. The innermost loop is Interstate 610, which encircles downtown, the medical center, and many core neighborhoods with around a 8-mile (13 km) diameter. Beltway 8 and its freeway core, the Sam Houston Tollway, form the middle loop ... | What is the diameter of the center of Beltway 8? | {'text': '23 miles', 'answer_start': 345} |
30,114 | 29,772 | 5706202975f01819005e79cd | generic | The song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega was the first song used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the MP3. Brandenburg adopted the song for testing purposes, listening to it again and again each time refining the scheme, making sure it did not adversely affect the subtlety of Vega's voice. | The song was listened to multiple times to try and refine what? | {'text': 'scheme', 'answer_start': 214} |
26,220 | 25,878 | 56f901629e9bad19000a07b9 | generic | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a quasi-independent agency of the United States Government. It appears to have multiple leadership. On the one hand its director is appointed by the president. It plays a significant role in providing the president with intelligence. On the other hand, Congress oversees its oper... | Who appoints the director of the CIA? | {'text': 'the president', 'answer_start': 186} |
57,112 | 56,770 | 57268141f1498d1400e8e20c | generic | The brief peace in Europe allowed Napoleon to focus on the French colonies abroad. Saint-Domingue had managed to acquire a high level of political autonomy during the Revolutionary Wars, with Toussaint Louverture installing himself as de facto dictator by 1801. Napoleon saw his chance to recuperate the formerly wealthy... | During the short peace in Europe, where did Napoleon turn his focus? | {'text': 'the French colonies abroad', 'answer_start': 55} |
105,963 | 105,621 | 572ecdaac246551400ce46bb | generic | To pay for his military campaigns and colonial expansion, Emperor Wu nationalized several private industries. He created central government monopolies administered largely by former merchants. These monopolies included salt, iron, and liquor production, as well as bronze-coin currency. The liquor monopoly lasted only f... | Which political faction favored budgetary reform? | {'text': 'The Reformists', 'answer_start': 972} |
70,706 | 70,364 | 5726d26fdd62a815002e915a | generic | The slave trade was engaged in by European state and non-state actors such as Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal and private companies, as well as various African states and non-state actors. With rising anti-slavery sentiment at home and changing economic realities, Great Britain outlawed the international slave... | Where did Britain take slaves it seized from traders? | {'text': 'Freetown', 'answer_start': 592} |
108,726 | 108,384 | 572fab7da23a5019007fc85b | generic | Although not a centre for handicrafts itself, the patronage of the arts by the Mughals and Nizams attracted artisans from the region to Hyderabad. Such crafts include: Bidriware, a metalwork handicraft from neighbouring Karnataka, which was popularised during the 18th century and has since been granted a Geographical I... | What is Zardozi an example of? | {'text': 'embroidery works on textile', 'answer_start': 396} |
50,746 | 50,404 | 5725b4ef38643c19005acb94 | generic | With successive Persian rule, the region, divided between Syria-Coele province and later the autonomous Yehud Medinata, was gradually developing back into urban society, largely dominated by Judeans. The Greek conquests largely skipped the region without any resistance or interest. Incorporated into Ptolemaic and final... | What was established in the Maccabean Revolt? | {'text': 'Hasmonean Kingdom', 'answer_start': 541} |
63,017 | 62,675 | 57268173708984140094c855 | generic | The Daily Star had been launched in 1978 by Express Newspaper, and by 1981 had begun to affect sales of The Sun. Bingo was introduced as a marketing tool and a 2p drop in cover price removed the Daily Star's competitive advantage opening a new circulation battle which resulted in The Sun neutralising the threat of the ... | What helped the Sun overcome the Daily Star's challenge? | {'text': 'Bingo was introduced as a marketing tool and a 2p drop in cover price', 'answer_start': 113} |
16,577 | 16,235 | 5acd331d07355d001abf3922 | generic | According to China daily. Fifteen years after the satellite system was launched, it is now generating $31.5 billion for major companies such as China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp. | What are some companies that experience losses from the BDS system? | {'text': 'China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp.', 'answer_start': 144} |
34,751 | 34,409 | 570a68cf6d058f1900182e27 | generic | There are some theories on emotions arguing that cognitive activity in the form of judgments, evaluations, or thoughts are necessary in order for an emotion to occur. A prominent philosophical exponent is Robert C. Solomon (for example, The Passions, Emotions and the Meaning of Life, 1993). Solomon claims that emotions... | In what year was The Passions, Emotions and the Meaning of Life published? | {'text': '1993', 'answer_start': 285} |
15,799 | 15,457 | 5acd1c7207355d001abf3576 | generic | Voiceless consonants are produced with the vocal folds open (spread) and not vibrating, and voiced consonants are produced when the vocal folds are fractionally closed and vibrating (modal voice). Voiceless aspiration occurs when the vocal cords remain open after a consonant is released. An easy way to measure this is ... | When the vocal folds are vibrating, what is produced? | {'text': 'Voiceless consonants', 'answer_start': 0} |
4,663 | 4,321 | 56d12cb517492d1400aabb55 | 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... | Who's death was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement? | {'text': 'Emmett Till', 'answer_start': 870} |
124,095 | 123,753 | 57324d51b9d445190005e9f6 | generic | The Chief Deputy Whip is the primary assistant to the whip, who is the chief vote counter for his or her party. The current chief deputy majority whip is Republican Patrick McHenry. Within the House Republican Conference, the chief deputy whip is the highest appointed position and often a launching pad for future posit... | Who holds the highest appointed Republican position in House? | {'text': 'Patrick McHenry.', 'answer_start': 165} |
26,116 | 25,774 | 56f8ef1c9e9bad19000a072b | generic | The change is evident in the reports of influential British travellers to the Balkans. In 1894, Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet, a journalist, travelled to the Far East, afterwards writing a book called The Peoples and Politics of the Far East, which came out in 1895. By "Far East" he meant Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, ... | Where did Sir Henry Norman travel in 1894 | {'text': 'the Far East', 'answer_start': 154} |
23,443 | 23,101 | 56f733273d8e2e1400e3744f | generic | The language of treaties, like that of any law or contract, must be interpreted when the wording does not seem clear or it is not immediately apparent how it should be applied in a perhaps unforeseen circumstance. The Vienna Convention states that treaties are to be interpreted "in good faith" according to the "ordinar... | What property of treaties must often be interpreted when it's not clear? | {'text': 'The language', 'answer_start': 0} |
26,509 | 26,167 | 56f98ddc9e9bad19000a0ab5 | generic | Han Chinese make up the vast majority of the population, and the largest Han subgroup are the speakers of Wu varieties of Chinese. There are also 400,000 members of ethnic minorities, including approximately 200,000 She people and approximately 20,000 Hui Chinese[citation needed]. Jingning She Autonomous County in Lish... | What kind of Chinese make up the vast majority of the population? | {'text': 'Han', 'answer_start': 0} |
102,216 | 101,874 | 5731782a497a881900248f31 | generic | Moving to reduce Italian influence, in October 1970 all Italian-owned assets were expropriated and the 12,000-strong Italian community expelled from Libya alongside a smaller number of Jews. The day became a national holiday. Aiming to reduce NATO power in the Mediterranean, in 1971 Libya requested that Malta cease to ... | Who did the RCC buy military equipment from? | {'text': 'France and the Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 646} |
85,321 | 84,979 | 5a7a6eb521c2de001afe9c3c | generic | The independence of the ECB is instrumental in maintaining price stability. Not only must the bank not seek influence, but EU institutions and national governments are bound by the treaties to respect the ECB's independence. To offer some accountability, the ECB is bound to publish reports on its activities and has to ... | Why do EU institutions and national governments never respect the dependence of the ECB? | {'text': 'bound by the treaties', 'answer_start': 168} |
85,071 | 84,729 | 5a7e153670df9f001a875491 | 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 is the future perceived as by the crew? | {'text': 'slowed down and flattened', 'answer_start': 82} |
72,713 | 72,371 | 5a73576653a187001ae631aa | generic | On February 11, 2004, Comcast announced a $54 billion bid for The Walt Disney Company, as well as taking on $12 billion of Disney's debt. The deal would have made Comcast the largest media conglomerate in the world. However, after rejection by Disney and uncertain response from investors, the bid was abandoned in April... | What percent of ESPN does Comcast own? | {'text': '80 percent', 'answer_start': 404} |
3,270 | 2,928 | 56d4fca52ccc5a1400d833e2 | generic | Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people live... | How high could the homeless number possibly go? | {'text': '11 million', 'answer_start': 272} |
90,437 | 90,095 | 5ad26b60d7d075001a42934e | generic | About the creation-evolution controversy, Popper wrote that he considered it "a somewhat sensational clash between a brilliant scientific hypothesis concerning the history of the various species of animals and plants on earth, and an older metaphysical theory which, incidentally, happened to be part of an established r... | Who wrote that the creation-evolution controversy was "not sensational" ? | {'text': 'Popper', 'answer_start': 42} |
85,397 | 85,055 | 5a7a7fdf21c2de001afe9c9b | generic | Rescue operations involving sovereign debt have included temporarily moving bad or weak assets off the balance sheets of the weak member banks into the balance sheets of the European Central Bank. Such action is viewed as monetisation and can be seen as an inflationary threat, whereby the strong member countries of the... | Where do bad and weak assets become restricted in times of sovereign debt crisis? | {'text': 'the balance sheets of the European Central Bank', 'answer_start': 148} |
120,153 | 119,811 | 57314fae05b4da19006bd032 | generic | With Zaifeng gone, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang commanders effectively dominated Qing politics. He reasoned that going to war would be unreasonable and costly, especially when noting that the Qing government had a goal for constitutional monarchy. Similarly, Sun Yat-sen's government wanted a republican constitutional re... | Who led the Republic of China? | {'text': 'Sun Yat-sen,', 'answer_start': 467} |
110,453 | 110,111 | 572fb43c947a6a140053cbb7 | generic | During the Gorbachev era of the 1980s, with the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika, Armenians began to demand better environmental care for their country, opposing the pollution that Soviet-built factories brought. Tensions also developed between Soviet Azerbaijan and its autonomous district of Nagorno-Karabakh, a maj... | Who partitioned Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia? | {'text': 'Stalin', 'answer_start': 355} |
123,389 | 123,047 | 5a2eeb0aa83784001a7d256d | generic | The Portuguese language is the official national language and the primary language taught in schools. English and Spanish are also part of the official curriculum. The city has six international schools: American School of Brasília, Brasília International School (BIS), Escola das Nações, Swiss International School (SIS... | What is the Maple Bear Canadian School's official language? | {'text': 'Portuguese', 'answer_start': 4} |
29,926 | 29,584 | 5706bd3e0eeca41400aa0dd7 | generic | In the city the population was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males. | What percentage of the population of Atlantic City was 65 years of age or older? | {'text': '14.2%', 'answer_start': 140} |
89,448 | 89,106 | 5728418cff5b5019007da016 | generic | Estonia (i/ɛˈstoʊniə/; Estonian: Eesti [ˈeːsti]), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Ru... | What borders the north of Estonia? | {'text': 'the Gulf of Finland', 'answer_start': 198} |
15,562 | 15,220 | 56e06a027aa994140058e46f | generic | In 1840, St Helena became a provisioning station for the British West Africa Squadron, preventing slavery to Brazil (mainly), and many thousands of slaves were freed on the island. These were all African, and about 500 stayed while the rest were sent on to the West Indies and Cape Town, and eventually to Sierra Leone. | In 1840 what did Saint Helena become? | {'text': 'a provisioning station', 'answer_start': 26} |
100,390 | 100,048 | 5acd793507355d001abf43cf | generic | Informal learning is one of three forms of learning defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Informal learning occurs in a variety of places, such as at home, work, and through daily interactions and shared relationships among members of society. For many learners this includes lang... | Where does formal learning occur? | {'text': 'home, work, and through daily interactions and shared relationships', 'answer_start': 190} |
1,479 | 1,137 | 56cfe09e234ae51400d9bfd9 | generic | From 1842 onwards, Chopin showed signs of serious illness. After a solo recital in Paris on 21 February 1842, he wrote to Grzymała: "I have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." He was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from Alkan to participate in a repeat performance of ... | Starting in what year did Chopin start showing evidence of very bad health? | {'text': '1842', 'answer_start': 5} |
96,893 | 96,551 | 572a6560b8ce0319002e2b1d | generic | Over the course of Ottoman history, the Ottomans managed to build a large collection of libraries complete with translations of books from other cultures, as well as original manuscripts. A great part of this desire for local and foreign manuscripts arose in the 15th Century. Sultan Mehmet II ordered Georgios Amiroutze... | In what century did the Ottoman's start to desire foreign manuscripts? | {'text': '15th Century', 'answer_start': 263} |
109,468 | 109,126 | 5acd04a907355d001abf31b7 | generic | Nociceptive pain may also be divided into "visceral", "deep somatic" and "superficial somatic" pain. Visceral structures are highly sensitive to stretch, ischemia and inflammation, but relatively insensitive to other stimuli that normally evoke pain in other structures, such as burning and cutting. Visceral pain is dif... | What is superficial somatic pain initiated by? | {'text': 'activation of nociceptors in the skin or other superficial tissue,', 'answer_start': 765} |
120,880 | 120,538 | 5ad4f6815b96ef001a10a7cc | generic | In association football, teams such as Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Arsenal, Toronto FC, and S.L. Benfica primarily wear red jerseys. Other teams that prominently feature red on their kits include A.C. Milan (nicknamed i rossoneri for their red and black shirts), AFC Ajax, Olympiacos, River Plate, Atlét... | What association football teams wear all red jerseys? | {'text': 'Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Arsenal, Toronto FC, and S.L. Benfica', 'answer_start': 39} |
72,640 | 72,298 | 572707a75951b619008f84e8 | generic | Despite these criticisms, Comcast has appeared on multiple "top places to work" lists. In 2009, it was included on CableFAX magazine's "Top 10 Places to Work in Cable", which cited its "scale, savvy and vision". Similarly, the Philadelphia Business Journal awarded Comcast the silver medal among extra-large companies in... | In what year did this newspaper confer this honor on Comcast? | {'text': '2009', 'answer_start': 475} |
13,148 | 12,806 | 5ace35e132bba1001ae49e75 | generic | In 1989, CBS Records re-entered the music publishing business by acquiring Nashville music publisher Tree International Publishing for more than $30 million. | In 1999, CBS Records re-entered what? | {'text': 'the music publishing business', 'answer_start': 32} |
82,545 | 82,203 | 5727ba9f2ca10214002d94e2 | generic | An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, or to raise money for charities. Several sports leagues hold all-star games to showcase their best players against each other, while other exhibitions games may pit participants from two different lea... | What type of exhibition game showcases the best players? | {'text': 'all-star games', 'answer_start': 181} |
75,014 | 74,672 | 5a3168b7e4dcb1001abb22cc | generic | Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Three years earlier, while a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, he had broken his ties with the Church of England. Reared in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separa... | Who was the pastor of the earliest Christian church? | {'text': 'John Smyth', 'answer_start': 77} |
92,952 | 92,610 | 57290d3a6aef0514001549f7 | generic | As the number of possible tests for even simple software components is practically infinite, all software testing uses some strategy to select tests that are feasible for the available time and resources. As a result, software testing typically (but not exclusively) attempts to execute a program or application with the... | Why is it so difficult to locate bugs in software? | {'text': 'tests for even simple software components is practically infinite', 'answer_start': 26} |
25,584 | 25,242 | 56f8f4f49b226e1400dd11fa | generic | Flora Gomes is an internationally renowned film director; his most famous film is Nha Fala (English: My Voice). Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) At FESPACO... | What year was the first feature film made in Guinea-Bissau? | {'text': '1987', 'answer_start': 303} |
16,153 | 15,811 | 56e1a498e3433e1400423078 | generic | Hydrogen is not an energy resource, except in the hypothetical context of commercial nuclear fusion power plants using deuterium or tritium, a technology presently far from development. The Sun's energy comes from nuclear fusion of hydrogen, but this process is difficult to achieve controllably on Earth. Elemental hydr... | How does hydrogen function when it s burned? | {'text': 'energy carrier', 'answer_start': 477} |
58,025 | 57,683 | 5ace95ac32bba1001ae4ab0c | generic | Brigham Young University's origin can be traced back to 1862 when a man named Warren Dusenberry started a Provo school in a prominent adobe building called Cluff Hall, which was located in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North. On October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, then president of the LDS Church, personally pu... | What is October 16, 1857 known as? | {'text': "BYU's founding date", 'answer_start': 470} |
126,956 | 126,614 | 5732aa731d5d2e14009ff891 | generic | In the American Old West, policing was often of very poor quality.[citation needed] The Army often provided some policing alongside poorly resourced sheriffs and temporarily organized posses.[citation needed] Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the Pinkerton National Detective Agency,... | Which private contractor acted as police for businesses? | {'text': 'Pinkerton National Detective Agency', 'answer_start': 284} |
22,402 | 22,060 | 56f74dc0a6d7ea1400e1717f | generic | The family of instruments used, especially in orchestras, grew. A wider array of percussion instruments began to appear. Brass instruments took on larger roles, as the introduction of rotary valves made it possible for them to play a wider range of notes. The size of the orchestra (typically around 40 in the Classical ... | What allowed Brass instruments to play a wider range of notes? | {'text': 'rotary valves', 'answer_start': 184} |
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