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43,528 | 43,186 | 5ad0b422645df0001a2d00ea | generic | At the end of the 16th century, the Aussa Sultanate was established in the Denkel lowlands of Eritrea. The polity had come into existence in 1577, when Muhammed Jasa moved his capital from Harar to Aussa (Asaita) with the split of the Adal Sultanate into Aussa and the Sultanate of Harar. At some point after 1672, Aussa... | In what year did Imam Umar Din bin Adam ascend to the throne? | {'text': '1672', 'answer_start': 309} |
68,984 | 68,642 | 57271ad5708984140094d9cf | generic | Greece played a peripheral role in the war. When Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire in 1853, King Otto of Greece saw an opportunity to expand North and South into Ottoman areas that had large Greek Christian majorities. However, Greece did not coordinate its plans with Russia, did not declare war, and received no outsi... | Who stirred up the Epirus Revolt of 1854? | {'text': 'Greeks', 'answer_start': 806} |
21,096 | 20,754 | 5ad25c9dd7d075001a428eb6 | generic | A nonstandard dialect, like a standard dialect, has a complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, but is usually not the beneficiary of institutional support. Examples of a nonstandard English dialect are Southern American English, Western Australian English, Scouse and Tyke. The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wrigh... | Unlike a standard dialect, what does a nonstandard dialect have? | {'text': 'complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax', 'answer_start': 54} |
89,378 | 89,036 | 5ad13a0b645df0001a2d12a7 | generic | After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as Leader. Heath's government soon ran into trouble over Northern Ireland and a dispute with miners in 1973 which led to the "three-day week". The 1970s proved a difficult time to be in government for both the Conservative... | Who won the 1970 general election? | {'text': 'Labour', 'answer_start': 40} |
91,866 | 91,524 | 5728e5624b864d190016504a | generic | The majority of Paris' salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements. Paris' financial service companies are concentrated in the central-western 8th and 9th arrondissement banking and insurance district. Paris' department store district in... | How many peole work in the La Defense district? | {'text': '144,600', 'answer_start': 984} |
83,738 | 83,396 | 5727e7144b864d1900163fa6 | generic | Following the 2000 census, the Oklahoma delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives was reduced from six to five representatives, each serving one congressional district. For the 112th Congress (2011–2013), there were no changes in party strength, and the delegation included four Republicans and one Democrat. In th... | What political party are Oklahoma's US Senators? | {'text': 'Republicans', 'answer_start': 368} |
33,781 | 33,439 | 5709a0c3ed30961900e84393 | generic | The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country." OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the U.S. Census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes i... | What do the race categories in the US Census include in addition to race? | {'text': 'national-origin', 'answer_start': 541} |
107,652 | 107,310 | 572f91c704bcaa1900d76a8e | generic | On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing it too into the war on the Allied side. China also joined the Allies, as eventually did most of the rest of the world. China was in turmoil at the time, and attacked Japanese armies through guerilla-type warfare. By the beginning of 1942, t... | When did the attack on Pearl Harbor occur? | {'text': 'December 7, 1941', 'answer_start': 3} |
129,526 | 129,184 | 5a8310fde60761001a2eb363 | generic | Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th... | What is knowledge of protective antigens forbidden for? | {'text': 'primary pathogens', 'answer_start': 300} |
33,582 | 33,240 | 5acd78c507355d001abf43b7 | generic | Stout and porter are dark beers made using roasted malts or roast barley, and typically brewed with slow fermenting yeast. There are a number of variations including Baltic porter, dry stout, and Imperial stout. The name Porter was first used in 1721 to describe a dark brown beer popular with the street and river porte... | What is Imperial porter a type of? | {'text': 'dark beers', 'answer_start': 21} |
58,716 | 58,374 | 57267d63708984140094c7e4 | generic | George Dayton had founded his Dayton's Dry Goods store in Minneapolis in 1902 and the AMC cooperative in 1912. His descendants built Southdale Center in 1956, opened the Target discount store chain in 1962 and the B. Dalton Bookseller chain in 1966. Dayton's grew to 19 stores under the Dayton's name plus five other reg... | What store did the Dayton-Hudson Corporation purchase in 1978? | {'text': "Mervyn's", 'answer_start': 522} |
2,535 | 2,193 | 56d1298217492d1400aabafb | generic | Twilight Princess takes place several centuries after Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and begins with a youth named Link who is working as a ranch hand in Ordon Village. One day, the village is attacked by Bulblins, who carry off the village's children with Link in pursuit before he encounters a wall of Twilight. A ... | What must Link collect? | {'text': 'Tears of Light', 'answer_start': 940} |
30,168 | 29,826 | 57062c9b52bb891400689932 | generic | As sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, "An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it "thank you Fraunhofer"". | What was Jonathan Sterne's profession? | {'text': 'sound scholar', 'answer_start': 3} |
35,100 | 34,758 | 570a88d14103511400d59823 | generic | Everton regularly take large numbers away from home both domestically and in European fixtures. The club implements a loyalty points scheme offering the first opportunity to purchase away tickets to season ticket holders who have attended the most away matches. Everton often sell out the full allocation in away grounds... | How does the Everton FC promote fans to purchase away tickets? | {'text': 'loyalty points', 'answer_start': 118} |
114,075 | 113,733 | 5acd8e2b07355d001abf4701 | generic | Many larger animals, such as wolf, bear and the European elk are today extinct. However, some species such as red deer are protected. Other small mammals, such as rabbits, foxes, badgers, hares, hedgehogs, and stoats, are very common and the European beaver has been reintroduced in parts of Scotland. Wild boar have als... | What status does the brown deer have? | {'text': 'protected', 'answer_start': 123} |
105,954 | 105,612 | 572ec73cc246551400ce4646 | generic | Even before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat Zhang Qian's travels from 139 to 125 BC had established Chinese contacts with many surrounding civilizations. Zhang encountered Dayuan (Fergana), Kangju (Sogdiana), and Daxia (Bactria, formerly the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom); he also gathered information on Shendu (I... | What empire had established an embassy in Anxi? | {'text': 'Han', 'answer_start': 429} |
90,801 | 90,459 | 5ad21412d7d075001a428371 | generic | Prior to the Golden Age of Mandolins, France had a history with the mandolin, with mandolinists playing in Paris until the Napoleonic Wars. The players, teachers and composers included Giovanni Fouchetti, Eduardo Mezzacapo, Gabriele Leon, and Gervasio. During the Golden age itself (1880s-1920s), the mandolin had a stro... | Who weren't the players and composers during this time? | {'text': 'Giovanni Fouchetti, Eduardo Mezzacapo, Gabriele Leon, and Gervasio', 'answer_start': 185} |
6,545 | 6,203 | 56d37d7f59d6e4140014651a | generic | One of the more prominent contestants this year was Chris Medina, whose story of caring for his brain-damaged fiancée received widespread coverage. Medina was cut in the Top 40 round. Casey Abrams, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, was hospitalized twice and missed the Top 13 result show. The judges used their one s... | In which round was Chris Medina eliminated n season ten of American Idol? | {'text': 'Top 40', 'answer_start': 170} |
125,106 | 124,764 | 57327d1a0fdd8d15006c6b15 | generic | The 1960 Four Power Paris Summit between President Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle collapsed because of the incident. Eisenhower refused to accede to Khrushchev's demands that he apologize. Therefore, Khrushchev would not take part in the summit. Up until this event, Eisenho... | In what year was the Four Power Paris Summit intended to take place? | {'text': '1960', 'answer_start': 4} |
116,403 | 116,061 | 5a56a0936349e2001acdceae | generic | The Sangoma is a traditional diviner chosen by the ancestors of that particular family. The training of the Sangoma is called "kwetfwasa". At the end of the training, a graduation ceremony takes place where all the local sangoma come together for feasting and dancing. The diviner is consulted for various reasons, such ... | Who is chosen by their chiefdom? | {'text': 'The Sangoma', 'answer_start': 0} |
127,152 | 126,810 | 573344334776f419006607d2 | generic | The word genocide was later included as a descriptive term to the process of indictment, but not yet as a formal legal term According to Lemming, genocide was defined as "a coordinated strategy to destroy a group of people, a process that could be accomplished through total annihilation as well as strategies that elimi... | Prior to being a formal legal term, how was the word "genocide" used in an indictment scenario? | {'text': 'as a descriptive term', 'answer_start': 37} |
120,255 | 119,913 | 57316532a5e9cc1400cdbf1b | generic | Literature grew to new heights in the Qing period. Poetry continued as a mark of the cultivated gentleman, but women wrote in larger and larger numbers and poets came from all walks of life. The poetry of the Qing dynasty is a lively field of research, being studied (along with the poetry of the Ming dynasty) for its a... | Who wrote the novel Dream of the Red Chamber? | {'text': 'Cao Xueqin', 'answer_start': 1088} |
90,550 | 90,208 | 5ad25596d7d075001a428d40 | generic | Such a theory would be true with higher probability, because it cannot be attacked so easily: to falsify the first one, it is sufficient to find that the sun has stopped rising; to falsify the second one, one additionally needs the assumption that the given day has not yet been reached. Popper held that it is the least... | What is less important than detecting the falsity of a theory? | {'text': 'to ensure a theory to be true', 'answer_start': 663} |
118,025 | 117,683 | 57313b9a497a881900248ca6 | generic | In March 2015, the winds and storm surge created by Cyclone Pam resulted in waves of 3 metres (9.8 ft) to 5 metres (16 ft) breaking over the reef of the outer islands caused damage to houses, crops and infrastructure. On Nui the sources of fresh water were destroyed or contaminated. The flooding in Nui and Nukufetau ca... | What percentage of Tuvalu crops were destroyed during Cyclone Pam? | {'text': '90%', 'answer_start': 534} |
119,309 | 118,967 | 5ad192a3645df0001a2d2004 | generic | Multi-color LEDs offer not merely another means to form white light but a new means to form light of different colors. Most perceivable colors can be formed by mixing different amounts of three primary colors. This allows precise dynamic color control. As more effort is devoted to investigating this method, multi-color... | What problem results when lowering temperatures decays power? | {'text': 'substantial change in color stability', 'answer_start': 652} |
129,563 | 129,221 | 5a83153fe60761001a2eb39f | generic | The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne... | Who tends to initially ignore an infection? | {'text': 'primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists', 'answer_start': 227} |
112,497 | 112,155 | 57305311396df9190009606c | generic | Wine was considered the basic drink, consumed at all meals and occasions by all classes and was quite inexpensive. Cato the Elder once advised cutting his rations in half to conserve wine for the workforce. Many types of drinks involving grapes and honey were consumed as well. Drinking on an empty stomach was regarded ... | What beverage was consumed by all the classes in the Roman Republic? | {'text': 'Wine', 'answer_start': 0} |
111,966 | 111,624 | 5733f46dd058e614000b666d | generic | The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. In Australia, Fox Sports broadcasts almost all of the season's 380 matches live, and Foxtel gives subscribers the option of selecting which Saturday 3pm match to watch. In India, the matches are broadcast live ... | Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch? | {'text': 'Foxtel', 'answer_start': 195} |
30,304 | 29,962 | 5706520375f01819005e7b3f | generic | The basic MP3 decoding and encoding technology is patent-free in the European Union, all patents having expired there. In the United States, the technology will be substantially patent-free on 31 December 2017 (see below). The majority of MP3 patents expired in the US between 2007 and 2015. | What happened to the patents that caused them to be patent-free? | {'text': 'expired', 'answer_start': 104} |
800 | 458 | 56bfbc17a10cfb140055128d | generic | Beyoncé names Michael Jackson as her major musical influence. Aged five, Beyoncé attended her first ever concert where Jackson performed and she claims to have realised her purpose. When she presented him with a tribute award at the World Music Awards in 2006, Beyoncé said, "if it wasn't for Michael Jackson, I would ne... | Who influenced Beyonce? | {'text': 'Michael Jackson', 'answer_start': 14} |
15,000 | 14,658 | 56dfbdc9231d4119001abd62 | generic | For users and small businesses, traditional options include copper wires to provide dial-up, DSL, typically asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), cable modem or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (typically basic rate interface). Using fiber-optics to end users is called Fiber To The Home or similar names. | what is it called when fiber-optics are used for end users? | {'text': 'Fiber To The Home', 'answer_start': 285} |
6,569 | 6,227 | 56db2a39e7c41114004b4e88 | generic | Season 11 premiered on January 18, 2012. On February 23, it was announced that one more finalist would join the Top 24 making it the Top 25, and that was Jermaine Jones. However, on March 14, Jones was disqualified in 12th place for concealing arrests and outstanding warrants. Jones denied the accusation that he concea... | Why was Jones disqualified? | {'text': 'concealing arrests and outstanding warrants', 'answer_start': 233} |
93,380 | 93,038 | 5a5166c4ce860b001aa3fd8c | generic | The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, the federal constitution, stipulates that the structure of each Federal State's government must "conform to the principles of republican, democratic, and social government, based on the rule of law" (Article 28). Most of the states are governed by a cabinet led by a Min... | Who is the federal government in Germany governed by? | {'text': 'Ministerpräsident', 'answer_start': 317} |
19,355 | 19,013 | 56e7713c37bdd419002c3fb2 | generic | DST has mixed effects on health. In societies with fixed work schedules it provides more afternoon sunlight for outdoor exercise. It alters sunlight exposure; whether this is beneficial depends on one's location and daily schedule, as sunlight triggers vitamin D synthesis in the skin, but overexposure can lead to skin ... | What vitamin does sunlight help the human body absorb? | {'text': 'vitamin D', 'answer_start': 253} |
73,219 | 72,877 | 57272e44f1498d1400e8f448 | generic | On July 26, Truman mandated the end of hiring and employment discrimination in the federal government, reaffirming FDR's order of 1941.:40 He issued two executive orders on July 26, 1948: Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 9981. Executive Order 9980, named Regulations Governing for Employment Practices within the... | What name was given to Executive Order 9981? | {'text': "Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services", 'answer_start': 632} |
106,489 | 106,147 | 5ad22e94d7d075001a428678 | generic | Moses, in 7:143, comes the way of those who are in love, he asks for a vision but his desire is denied, he is made to suffer by being commanded to look at other than the Beloved while the mountain is able to see God. The mountain crumbles and Moses faints at the sight of God's manifestation upon the mountain. In Qushay... | Who wrote that Moses had found the Moses in himself along the way to his encounter with God? | {'text': 'Qushayri', 'answer_start': 314} |
76,109 | 75,767 | 5727c9733acd2414000dec65 | generic | The book aroused international interest and a widespread debate, with no sharp line between scientific issues and ideological, social and religious implications. Much of the initial reaction was hostile, but Darwin had to be taken seriously as a prominent and respected name in science. There was much less controversy t... | What was the term used to not only describe Darwin's theories, but the whole spectrum of evolution-ism after his book met with success? | {'text': 'Darwinism', 'answer_start': 962} |
83,327 | 82,985 | 5728016b4b864d19001641e8 | generic | After the ceasefire following the Fall of France in June 1940, Alsace was annexed to Germany and a rigorous policy of Germanisation was imposed upon it by the Gauleiter Robert Heinrich Wagner. When, in July 1940, the first evacuees were allowed to return, only residents of Alsatian origin were admitted. The last Jews w... | How high was the dome at the Romanesque revival building? | {'text': '54-metre', 'answer_start': 462} |
13,694 | 13,352 | 5acd642b07355d001abf4061 | generic | Evidence suggests big-game hunter gatherers crossed the Bering Strait from Asia (Eurasia) into North America over a land bridge (Beringia), that existed between 47,000–14,000 years ago. Around 18,500-15,500 years ago, these hunter-gatherers are believed to have followed herds of now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ... | Hunter-gatherers traveled along iced corridors how many years ago? | {'text': 'Around 18,500-15,500 years ago', 'answer_start': 186} |
42,282 | 41,940 | 570d73eeb3d812140066d976 | generic | In addition, the Prussian military education system was superior to the French model; Prussian staff officers were trained to exhibit initiative and independent thinking. Indeed, this was Moltke's expectation. The French, meanwhile, suffered from an education and promotion system that stifled intellectual development. ... | Prussian military officers were trained to exude what type thinking? | {'text': 'independent thinking', 'answer_start': 149} |
65,072 | 64,730 | 5726adf0dd62a815002e8cc7 | generic | While many secular buildings exist from the Late Middle Ages, it is in the buildings of cathedrals and great churches that Gothic architecture displays its pertinent structures and characteristics to the fullest advantage. A Gothic cathedral or abbey was, prior to the 20th century, generally the landmark building in it... | What is an example of architectural technology that is seen in Gothic construction? | {'text': 'the ribbed vault', 'answer_start': 797} |
120,907 | 120,565 | 5ad4fa335b96ef001a10a848 | generic | Red, white, and black were the colors of the German Empire from 1870 to 1918, and as such they came to be associated with German nationalism. In the 1920s they were adopted as the colors of the Nazi flag. In Mein Kampf, Hitler explained that they were "revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past." The ... | What were the colors of the German Empire from 1818 to 1970? | {'text': 'Red, white, and black', 'answer_start': 0} |
127,886 | 127,544 | 5aceea9632bba1001ae4b915 | generic | In 2009 Tajikistan had 26 airports, 18 of which had paved runways, of which two had runways longer than 3,000 meters. The country's main airport is Dushanbe International Airport which as of April 2015, had regularly scheduled flights to major cities in Russia, Central Asia, as well as Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul... | In 2019, how many airports in Tajikistan had paved runways? | {'text': '18', 'answer_start': 36} |
113,138 | 112,796 | 5ad4d2705b96ef001a10a1d2 | generic | San Diego and its backcountry are subject to periodic wildfires. In October 2003, San Diego was the site of the Cedar Fire, which has been called the largest wildfire in California over the past century. The fire burned 280,000 acres (1,100 km2), killed 15 people, and destroyed more than 2,200 homes. In addition to dam... | Why did San Francisco schools close during the Cedar Fire? | {'text': 'poor air quality', 'answer_start': 489} |
126,338 | 125,996 | 5a81e0d731013a001a334f4b | generic | But in the mid-18th century, during the French Enlightenment, a more ideological use of the term had come into use. In 1765, the author of an anonymous article in a French Enlightenment periodical spoke of "The general love of humanity ... a virtue hitherto quite nameless among us, and which we will venture to call 'hu... | What idea was never attacked? | {'text': 'the idea that human virtue could be created by human reason alone independently from traditional religious institutions', 'answer_start': 668} |
35,161 | 34,819 | 5a397ef02f14dd001ac723e3 | generic | Everton also have links with Chilean team Everton de Viña del Mar who were named after the English club. On 4 August 2010, the two Evertons played each other in a friendly named the Copa Hermandad at Goodison Park to mark the centenary of the Chilean team, an occasion organised by The Ruleteros Society, a society found... | On what date was Everton's California team established? | {'text': '4 August 2010', 'answer_start': 108} |
14,712 | 14,370 | 56dfdc887aa994140058e1d2 | generic | By the end of the 18th century a new room in the pub was established: the saloon.[citation needed] Beer establishments had always provided entertainment of some sort—singing, gaming or sport.[citation needed] Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear... | On what street was the Grecian Saloon located? | {'text': 'City Road', 'answer_start': 836} |
43,767 | 43,425 | 570e432f0dc6ce1900204ee1 | generic | The major application of uranium in the military sector is in high-density penetrators. This ammunition consists of depleted uranium (DU) alloyed with 1–2% other elements, such as titanium or molybdenum. At high impact speed, the density, hardness, and pyrophoricity of the projectile enable the destruction of heavily a... | What is uranium used for most often in the military? | {'text': 'high-density penetrators', 'answer_start': 62} |
27,861 | 27,519 | 56faeccbf34c681400b0c1ab | generic | The Xeer legal system also requires a certain amount of specialization of different functions within the legal framework. Thus, one can find odayal (judges), xeer boggeyaal (jurists), guurtiyaal (detectives), garxajiyaal (attorneys), murkhaatiyal (witnesses) and waranle (police officers) to enforce the law. | What does the Xeer system call attorneys? | {'text': 'garxajiyaal', 'answer_start': 209} |
68,254 | 67,912 | 5726b1c6f1498d1400e8e7ad | generic | West Raleigh lies along Hillsborough Street and Western Boulevard. The area is bordered to the west by suburban Cary. It is home to North Carolina State University, Meredith College, Pullen Park, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Cameron Village, Lake Johnson, the North Carolina Museum of Art and historic Saint Mary's Sc... | What is the name of the hospital in West Raleigh? | {'text': 'Rex Hospital.', 'answer_start': 598} |
112,703 | 112,361 | 5732034c0fdd8d15006c66e7 | generic | A Japanese force was sent north to attack the Aleutian Islands. The next stage of the plan called for the capture of Midway, which would give him an opportunity to destroy Nimitz's remaining carriers. In May, Allied codebreakers discovered his intentions. Nagumo was again in tactical command but was focused on the inva... | How many U.S. planes were land-based? | {'text': '115', 'answer_start': 735} |
122,667 | 122,325 | 5ad14105645df0001a2d13e7 | generic | Jefferson and Madison's approach was not the only one taken in the eighteenth century. Jefferson's Statute of Religious Freedom was drafted in opposition to a bill, chiefly supported by Patrick Henry, which would permit any Virginian to belong to any denomination, but which would require him to belong to some denominat... | What did Patrick Henry not want to require Virginians to pay taxes to support? | {'text': 'some denomination', 'answer_start': 306} |
16,307 | 15,965 | 56e1069ce3433e1400422aed | generic | The American Lunar Module was finally ready for a successful piloted test flight in low Earth orbit on Apollo 9 in March 1969. The next mission, Apollo 10, conducted a "dress rehearsal" for the first landing in May 1969, flying the LM in lunar orbit as close as 47,400 feet (14.4 km) above the surface, the point where t... | The Lunar Module completed its first low Earth orbit on what date? | {'text': 'March 1969', 'answer_start': 115} |
100,075 | 99,733 | 5a7a118017ab25001a8a02c8 | generic | While Old Czech had a basic alphabet from which a general set of orthographical correspondences was drawn, it did not have a standard orthography. It also contained a number of sound clusters which no longer exist; allowing ě (/jɛ/) after soft consonants, which has since shifted to e (/ɛ/), and allowing complex consona... | What did Proto-Slavic have that no longer exists? | {'text': 'a number of sound clusters', 'answer_start': 165} |
64,539 | 64,197 | 5ad02a8077cf76001a686c57 | generic | Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, written in the early 14th century, merged a medieval world view with classical ideals. Another promoter of the Italian language was Boccaccio with his Decameron. The application of the vernacular did not entail a rejection of Latin, and both Dante and Boccaccio wrote prolifically in Lat... | What is one of Boccaccio's works that helped demote the Italian language? | {'text': 'Decameron', 'answer_start': 184} |
12,603 | 12,261 | 5acd0e5407355d001abf329a | generic | Materialism developed, possibly independently, in several geographically separated regions of Eurasia during what Karl Jaspers termed the Axial Age (approximately 800 to 200 BC). | Who coined the non-Axial Age? | {'text': 'Karl Jaspers', 'answer_start': 114} |
54,432 | 54,090 | 5726d3d3f1498d1400e8ec79 | generic | In the U.S., copyright infringement is sometimes confronted via lawsuits in civil court, against alleged infringers directly, or against providers of services and software that support unauthorized copying. For example, major motion-picture corporation MGM Studios filed suit against P2P file-sharing services Grokster a... | Who did MGM studios file a lawsuit against? | {'text': 'Grokster and Streamcast', 'answer_start': 310} |
13,688 | 13,346 | 5acd629407355d001abf4031 | generic | There are nevertheless a number of contemporary hunter-gatherer peoples who, after contact with other societies, continue their ways of life with very little external influence. One such group is the Pila Nguru (Spinifex people) of Western Australia, whose habitat in the Great Victoria Desert has proved unsuitable for ... | Which group has not maintained their independent existence? | {'text': 'the Sentinelese', 'answer_start': 394} |
86,421 | 86,079 | 5ad35435604f3c001a3fdd6c | generic | Technology magazine T3 gave the Super Slim model a positive review, stating the console is almost "nostalgic" in the design similarities to the original "fat" model, "While we don’t know whether it will play PS3 games or Blu-ray discs any differently yet, the look and feel of the new PS3 Slim is an obvious homage to th... | What PlayStation 2 model did T3 feel the Super Slim's design was paying homage to? | {'text': 'the original PS3', 'answer_start': 318} |
22,524 | 22,182 | 56f71a1c711bf01900a44964 | generic | The English word Slav could be derived from the Middle English word sclave, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus, itself a borrowing and Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of their own langua... | The word Slav could be derived from what Middle English word? | {'text': 'sclave', 'answer_start': 68} |
98,690 | 98,348 | 572ac94d111d821400f38d70 | generic | Since the early days of rail transport in the United States, Philadelphia has served as hub for several major rail companies, particularly the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad first operated Broad Street Station, then 30th Street Station and Suburban Station, and the Reading Rai... | Where did the Reading operate out of? | {'text': 'Reading Terminal', 'answer_start': 342} |
5,995 | 5,653 | 56d2733d59d6e41400146000 | generic | Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who was a public supporter of the religion. The support of Aśoka and his descendants led to the construction of more stūpas (Buddhist religious memorials) and to efforts to spread Buddhism throughout the enlarged Maurya empire a... | Buddhism may have spread quickly because of what Mauryan emperor? | {'text': 'Ashoka', 'answer_start': 84} |
28,843 | 28,501 | 5706a58a75f01819005e7cb9 | generic | In 2008, the High Court in South Africa ruled that Chinese South Africans who were residents during the apartheid era (and their descendants) are to be reclassified as "Black people," solely for the purposes of accessing affirmative action benefits, because they were also "disadvantaged" by racial discrimination. Chine... | What Chinese people did not qualify for benefits? | {'text': 'Chinese people who arrived in the country after the end of apartheid', 'answer_start': 315} |
59,929 | 59,587 | 572664f8f1498d1400e8de26 | generic | In July 2013, there were 41,000 non-Germans by citizenship living in Thuringia (1.9% of the population − among the smallest proportions of any state in Germany). Nevertheless, the number rose from 33,000 in July 2011, an increase of 24% in only two years. About 4% of the population are migrants (including persons that ... | How many non-Germans lived in Thuringia in 2013? | {'text': '41,000', 'answer_start': 25} |
35,473 | 35,131 | 570ab8c54103511400d59965 | generic | The Royal Australian Navy is in the process of procuring two Canberra-class LHD's, the first of which was commissioned in November 2015, while the second is expected to enter service in 2016. The ships will be the largest in Australian naval history. Their primary roles are to embark, transport and deploy an embarked f... | How large will the two Canbera-class LDH's be? | {'text': 'the largest in Australian naval history', 'answer_start': 210} |
117,325 | 116,983 | 5a42af184a4859001aac729e | generic | While other companies were moving on to 32-bit systems, Rare and Nintendo proved that the SNES was still a strong contender in the market. In November 1994, Rare released Donkey Kong Country, a platform game featuring 3D models and textures pre-rendered on SGI workstations. With its detailed graphics, fluid animation a... | When did Nintendo release Donkey Kong Country? | {'text': 'In November 1994', 'answer_start': 139} |
96,466 | 96,124 | 5a3bf96acc5d22001a521c80 | generic | Erich Koch headed the East Prussian Nazi party from 1928. He led the district from 1932. This period was characterized by efforts to collectivize the local agriculture and ruthlessness in dealing with his critics inside and outside the Party. He also had long-term plans for mass-scale industrialization of the largely a... | Who was the local Reichsbanner Chairman of Konigsberg? | {'text': 'Max von Bahrfeldt', 'answer_start': 808} |
109,351 | 109,009 | 572f4a7a947a6a140053c866 | generic | Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection. Though it is not the only U.S. government agency specializing in HUMINT, CIA serves as the national... | What is the CIA's main focus? | {'text': 'overseas intelligence gathering', 'answer_start': 149} |
50,866 | 50,524 | 5725c491ec44d21400f3d51c | generic | Making up 16% of the population, Muslims constitute Israel's largest religious minority. About 2% of the population is Christian and 1.5% is Druze. The Christian population primarily comprises Arab Christians, but also includes post-Soviet immigrants, the foreign laborers of multinational origins, and followers of Mess... | 2% of the population in Israel are what? | {'text': 'Christian', 'answer_start': 119} |
89,409 | 89,067 | 5ad15a34645df0001a2d186c | generic | The Labour Party is considered to be left of centre. It was initially formed as a means for the trade union movement to establish political representation for itself at Westminster. It only gained a 'socialist' commitment with the original party constitution of 1918. That 'socialist' element, the original Clause IV, wa... | What year did the Conservative Party gain a socialist commitment? | {'text': '1918', 'answer_start': 262} |
33,442 | 33,100 | 57099360ed30961900e8434b | generic | After boiling, the hopped wort is now cooled, ready for the yeast. In some breweries, the hopped wort may pass through a hopback, which is a small vat filled with hops, to add aromatic hop flavouring and to act as a filter; but usually the hopped wort is simply cooled for the fermenter, where the yeast is added. During... | In what phase of brewing does hopped wort become beer? | {'text': 'fermentation', 'answer_start': 321} |
7,013 | 6,671 | 56d9a7b5dc89441400fdb6b3 | generic | Neutering refers to the sterilization of animals, usually by removal of the male's testicles or the female's ovaries and uterus, in order to eliminate the ability to procreate and reduce sex drive. Because of the overpopulation of dogs in some countries, many animal control agencies, such as the American Society for th... | In neutering, what is removed in female dogs? | {'text': 'ovaries and uterus', 'answer_start': 109} |
57,763 | 57,421 | 572645e3dd62a815002e802a | generic | The Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India are geographically considered part of Southeast Asia. Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States of India are culturally part of Southeast Asia and sometimes considered both South Asian and Southeast Asian. The Seven Sister States of India are also geographically part of Sou... | Which islands were a part of the Spanish East Indies? | {'text': 'Papua New Guinea, is sometimes included so are Palau, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands', 'answer_start': 427} |
101,706 | 101,364 | 572e7d44dfa6aa1500f8d029 | generic | The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach Feynman something new. From his mother he gained the sense of humor that he had throughout his life. As a child, he had a talent for engineering, maintained an ex... | What personality trait did Feynman acquire from his mother? | {'text': 'humor', 'answer_start': 220} |
72,276 | 71,934 | 5a1100a806e79900185c34c7 | generic | As of 2011, there have been six series — Digimon Adventure, the follow-up sequel Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon Data Squad and Digimon Fusion. The first two series take place in the same fictional universe, but the third, fourth, fifth and sixth each occupy their own unique world. Each ... | Which series began in 2011 | {'text': 'A sixth television series, Digimon Xros Wars', 'answer_start': 1333} |
28,109 | 27,767 | 56fb7c988ddada1400cd6461 | generic | The High Middle Ages was the formative period in the history of the modern Western state. Kings in France, England, and Spain consolidated their power, and set up lasting governing institutions. New kingdoms such as Hungary and Poland, after their conversion to Christianity, became Central European powers. The Magyars ... | Along with Poland, what Central European kingdom was formed during the High Middle Ages? | {'text': 'Hungary', 'answer_start': 216} |
104,881 | 104,539 | 573051b9069b531400832040 | generic | Charleston has one official sister city, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. The relationship between the two cities began when Pulitzer Prize-winning Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti selected Charleston as the city to host the American version of Spoleto's annual Festival of Two Worlds. "Looking for a city that would provide t... | In what country is Spoleto located? | {'text': 'Italy', 'answer_start': 58} |
52,531 | 52,189 | 5725c87eec44d21400f3d563 | generic | Remodelling of the structure began in 1762. After his accession to the throne in 1820, King George IV continued the renovation with the idea in mind of a small, comfortable home. While the work was in progress, in 1826, the King decided to modify the house into a palace with the help of his architect John Nash. Some fu... | What did King George IV originally want the structure to be? | {'text': 'a small, comfortable home', 'answer_start': 152} |
55,707 | 55,365 | 57266d4d5951b619008f7262 | generic | In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards. The great expansion came after 1750, when it had 3000 regular troops. By 1763, it had 26,000; by 1778, it had 67,000. It recruited largely Indian troops, and trained them along European lines. The company, fresh from a colossal victory, and w... | In 1750 how many regular troops did the EIC have? | {'text': '3000', 'answer_start': 127} |
3,629 | 3,287 | 56cecdf0aab44d1400b88a93 | generic | Following the earthquake, donations were made by people from all over mainland China, with booths set up in schools, at banks, and around gas stations. People also donated blood, resulting in according to Xinhua long line-ups in most major Chinese cities. Many donated through text messaging on mobile phones to accounts... | What was also donated? | {'text': 'blood', 'answer_start': 172} |
85,795 | 85,453 | 572827144b864d19001645db | generic | Additionally, "[I]n the general case, von Neumann proved the following basic representation theorem. Any complemented modular lattice L having a "basis" of n≥4 pairwise perspective elements, is isomorphic with the lattice ℛ(R) of all principal right-ideals of a suitable regular ring R. This conclusion is the culminatio... | How long was von Neumann's lattice theory paper? | {'text': '140 pages', 'answer_start': 325} |
104,187 | 103,845 | 5a75097097ca42001a521e01 | generic | The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States. There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States, as well as six million Spanish language students. Together, this makes the United States of America the second largest Hispanophone count... | Spanish has the largest number of native speakers in which branch of language? | {'text': 'Indo-European language', 'answer_start': 507} |
62,304 | 61,962 | 5acea6ec32bba1001ae4af02 | generic | Ashkenazi Jews represent the bulk of modern Jewry, with at least 70% of Jews worldwide (and up to 90% prior to World War II and the Holocaust). As a result of their emigration from Europe, Ashkenazim also represent the overwhelming majority of Jews in the New World continents, in countries such as the United States, Ca... | Which group represents less than 70% of Jews worldwide? | {'text': 'Ashkenazi Jews', 'answer_start': 0} |
119,131 | 118,789 | 573158b9e6313a140071ce59 | generic | The United States Air Force has had numerous recruiting slogans including "No One Comes Close" and Uno Ab Alto ("One From On High"). For many years, the U.S. Air Force used "Aim High" as its recruiting slogan; more recently, they have used "Cross into the Blue", "We've been waiting for you" and "Do Something Amazing", ... | Where can individual each USAF wing, group or squadrons individual motto be found? | {'text': 'wing, group, or squadron websites', 'answer_start': 573} |
123,840 | 123,498 | 5a7b5ae321c2de001afe9f54 | generic | IMF's forecast said that Greece's unemployment rate would hit the highest 14.8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14.1 in 2014. But in fact, the Greek economy suffered a prolonged high unemployemnt. The unemployment figure was between 9 per cent and 11 per cent in 2009, and it soared to 28 per cent in 2013. In 2015, Gree... | What did Greece's unemployment rate crash to in 2013? | {'text': '28 per cent', 'answer_start': 286} |
91,677 | 91,335 | 5728b2912ca10214002da5fc | generic | Since the 19th century, the built-up area of Paris has grown far beyond its administrative borders; together with its suburbs, the whole agglomeration has a population of 10,550,350 (Jan. 2012 census). Paris' metropolitan area spans most of the Paris region and has a population of 12,341,418 (Jan. 2012 census), or one-... | What is the population of Paris' metropolitan area? | {'text': '12,341,418', 'answer_start': 282} |
47,504 | 47,162 | 571a2ee410f8ca1400304f3f | generic | Americans with Sub-Saharan African ancestry for historical reasons: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation, have frequently been classified as black (historically) or African American, even if they have significant European American or Native American ancestry. A... | Melungeons are generally classified as white but what are they genetically what other races? | {'text': 'European and sub-Saharan African ancestry', 'answer_start': 775} |
38,347 | 38,005 | 570be36dec8fbc190045bbc9 | generic | Other animals, such as rabbits and rodents, practise coprophagia behaviours - eating specialised faeces in order to re-digest food, especially in the case of roughage. Capybara, rabbits, hamsters and other related species do not have a complex digestive system as do, for example, ruminants. Instead they extract more nu... | Why do some animals pass food through their gut twice? | {'text': 'extract more nutrition', 'answer_start': 305} |
128,681 | 128,339 | 57341c46d058e614000b6956 | generic | Average annual precipitation is 15 inches (380 mm), but great variations are seen. The mountain ranges block the moist Pacific air, holding moisture in the western valleys, and creating rain shadows to the east. Heron, in the west, receives the most precipitation, 34.70 inches (881 mm). On the eastern (leeward) side of... | How much precipitation does the Grinnell Glacier recieve? | {'text': '105 inches', 'answer_start': 591} |
40,895 | 40,553 | 570d7708b3d812140066d9b2 | generic | Smaller boats and ships typically have machine-guns or fast cannons, which can often be deadly to low-flying aircraft if linked to a radar-directed fire-control system radar-controlled cannon for point defence. Some vessels like Aegis cruisers are as much a threat to aircraft as any land-based air defence system. In ge... | Carrier battle groups can launch what to intercept incoming threats? | {'text': 'fighter jets', 'answer_start': 593} |
92,269 | 91,927 | 5a7222ad0efcfe001a8afe3e | generic | The Bush administration then turned its attention to Iraq, and argued the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq had become urgent. Among the stated reasons were that Saddam's regime had tried to acquire nuclear material and had not properly accounted for biological and chemical material it was known to have ... | What had Russia not properly accounted for in 2002? | {'text': 'biological and chemical material', 'answer_start': 266} |
42,349 | 42,007 | 570d7d86b3d812140066d9f5 | generic | The events of the Franco-Prussian War had great influence on military thinking over the next forty years. Lessons drawn from the war included the need for a general staff system, the scale and duration of future wars and the tactical use of artillery and cavalry. The bold use of artillery by the Prussians, to silence F... | Evidence from what war suggested the increased benefits of smokeless poweder rifles? | {'text': 'Russo-Japanese War', 'answer_start': 707} |
71,480 | 71,138 | 5726dfa9708984140094d44b | generic | Regarding the timing of German rapprochement, many historians agree that the dismissal of Maxim Litvinov, whose Jewish ethnicity was viewed unfavorably by Nazi Germany, removed an obstacle to negotiations with Germany. Stalin immediately directed Molotov to "purge the ministry of Jews." Given Litvinov's prior attempts ... | Who was ordered to remove the Jews from the Ministry? | {'text': 'Molotov', 'answer_start': 247} |
61,998 | 61,656 | 5726fff9708984140094d816 | generic | Child soldiers have and continue to play a major part in the Burmese Army as well as Burmese rebel movements. The Independent reported in June 2012 that "Children are being sold as conscripts into the Burmese military for as little as $40 and a bag of rice or a can of petrol." The UN's Special Representative of the Sec... | How are children obtained for use as solders in Burma ? | {'text': 'Children are being sold as conscripts into the Burmese military for as little as $40 and a bag of rice or a can of petrol', 'answer_start': 154} |
28,789 | 28,447 | 57064d0675f01819005e7b26 | generic | According to Dr. Carlos Moore, resident scholar at Brazil's University of the State of Bahia, in the 21st century Afro-multiracials in the Arab world, including Arabs in North Africa, self-identify in ways that resemble multi-racials in Latin America. He claims that black-looking Arabs, much like black-looking Latin Am... | How do Afro-multiracials identify in the 21st century? | {'text': 'in ways that resemble multi-racials', 'answer_start': 198} |
104,632 | 104,290 | 57302769947a6a140053d1ae | generic | Although the city lost the status of state capital to Columbia in 1786, Charleston became even more prosperous in the plantation-dominated economy of the post-Revolutionary years. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 revolutionized the processing of this crop, making short-staple cotton profitable. It was more easil... | In what year was the cotton gin invented? | {'text': '1793', 'answer_start': 215} |
3,272 | 2,930 | 56cdcc5562d2951400fa6847 | generic | The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw. The epicenter was in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, 80 km west/northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu, with its main tremor occurring at 14:28:01.42 China Standard Time (06:28:01.42 UTC), on May 12, 2008 lasting for around 2 m... | How long did the earthquake last? | {'text': '2 minutes', 'answer_start': 317} |
24,282 | 23,940 | 56f7d89aa6d7ea1400e172a0 | generic | Another theory describes its derivation from a non-Slavic warrior class,:42, 64–66 forming a distinct element known as the Lechici/Lekhi (Lechitów):430 :482 within the ancient Polonic tribal groupings (Indo-European caste systems). This hypothesis states this upper class was not of Slavonic extraction:482 and was of a ... | WHat caste system does the hindu society have? | {'text': 'military caste', 'answer_start': 1284} |
81,127 | 80,785 | 5728d4d3ff5b5019007da7bb | generic | Detroit's courts are state-administered and elections are nonpartisan. The Probate Court for Wayne County is located in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit. The Circuit Court is located across Gratiot Ave. in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, in downtown Detroit. The city is home to the Thirty-Six... | Where is the Circuit Court located? | {'text': 'Frank Murphy Hall of Justice', 'answer_start': 235} |
31,044 | 30,702 | 57071e999e06ca38007e946f | generic | The Díaz administration made political decisions and took legal measures that allowed the elite throughout Mexico to concentrate the nation's wealth by favoring monopolies. During this time, two-fifths of the state's territory was divided among 17 rich families which owned practically all of the arable land in Chihuahu... | Asian immigrants became integral to the state economy by opening what businesses? | {'text': 'restaurants, small grocery stores, and hotels.', 'answer_start': 1295} |
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