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124,282 | 123,940 | 5a53e745bdaabd001a3867d1 | generic | From the 9th to 11th century, Armenian architecture underwent a revival under the patronage of the Bagratid Dynasty with a great deal of building done in the area of Lake Van, this included both traditional styles and new innovations. Ornately carved Armenian Khachkars were developed during this time. Many new cities a... | Where was a new monastery built after the Seljuk invasion? | {'text': 'Akdamar Island', 'answer_start': 420} |
40,661 | 40,319 | 570d307eb3d812140066d51e | generic | Jobs stated during the Macintosh's introduction "we expect Macintosh to become the third industry standard", after the Apple II and IBM PC. Although outselling every other computer, it did not meet expectations during the first year, especially among business customers. Only about ten applications including MacWrite an... | How many applications were widely available during Macintosh's introduction? | {'text': 'Only about ten', 'answer_start': 271} |
4,541 | 4,199 | 56d1170417492d1400aab8fd | generic | The Staten Island Railway rapid transit system solely serves Staten Island, operating 24 hours a day. The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH train) links Midtown and Lower Manhattan to northeastern New Jersey, primarily Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark. Like the New York City Subway, the PATH operates 24 hours a day; me... | What 24-hour rapid transit system is in Philadelphia? | {'text': 'PATCO Speedline', 'answer_start': 496} |
103,251 | 102,909 | 572e8c9003f989190075676d | generic | The first electric elevator was built by Werner von Siemens in 1880 in Germany. The inventor Anton Freissler developed the ideas of von Siemens and built up a successful enterprise in Austria-Hungary. The safety and speed of electric elevators were significantly enhanced by Frank Sprague who added floor control, automa... | Who ultilized von Siemens ideas to build a succesful business? | {'text': 'Anton Freissler', 'answer_start': 93} |
120,339 | 119,997 | 57316d92a5e9cc1400cdbf50 | generic | The Spanish Empire and other Europeans brought horses to the Americas. Some of these animals escaped and began to breed and increase their numbers in the wild. The re-introduction of the horse, extinct in the Americas for over 7500 years, had a profound impact on Native American culture in the Great Plains of North Ame... | How long had horses been extinct in the Americas prior to their re-introduction? | {'text': '7500 years', 'answer_start': 227} |
97,541 | 97,199 | 572a3fbf3f37b3190047881c | generic | Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour. This can progres... | What is one of the effects of diarrhea? | {'text': 'can result in dehydration due to fluid loss', 'answer_start': 152} |
94,820 | 94,478 | 5acfc06677cf76001a685c85 | generic | Zinc metal is produced using extractive metallurgy. After grinding the ore, froth flotation, which selectively separates minerals from gangue by taking advantage of differences in their hydrophobicity, is used to get an ore concentrate. This concentrate consists of about 50% zinc with the rest being sulfur (32%), iron ... | What is froth flotation no longer used for? | {'text': 'get an ore concentrate', 'answer_start': 213} |
115,018 | 114,676 | 5ad3c9a9604f3c001a3ff0a9 | generic | In addition to numerous articles on mathematics, Whitehead wrote three major books on the subject: A Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898), Principia Mathematica (co-written with Bertrand Russell and published in three volumes between 1910 and 1913), and An Introduction to Mathematics (1911). The former two books were a... | What was Whitehead's first unpublished book on mathematics? | {'text': 'A Treatise on Universal Algebra', 'answer_start': 99} |
5,124 | 4,782 | 56d101c417492d1400aab719 | generic | Despite his success as a producer, West's true aspiration was to be a rapper. Though he had developed his rapping long before he began producing, it was often a challenge for West to be accepted as a rapper, and he struggled to attain a record deal. Multiple record companies ignored him because he did not portray the g... | What did Kanye West not have that made record companies turn him down? | {'text': 'gangsta image', 'answer_start': 319} |
33,151 | 32,809 | 570981cd200fba14003680d7 | generic | Orthodox Judaism holds that the words of the Torah, including both the Written Law (Pentateuch) and those parts of the Oral Law which are "halacha leMoshe m'Sinai", were dictated by God to Moses essentially as they exist today. The laws contained in the Written Torah were given along with detailed explanations as how t... | What are the detailed explanations of how to apply and interpret the laws of the written Torah called? | {'text': 'Oral Law', 'answer_start': 352} |
79,047 | 78,705 | 5727fc3cff5b5019007d9a24 | generic | The center of all mystical experience is, of course, Christ. English Dominicans sought to gain a full knowledge of Christ through an imitation of His life. English mystics of all types tended to focus on the moral values that the events in Christ's life exemplified. This led to a "progressive understanding of the meani... | What type of understanding of scripture did the English Order subscribe to? | {'text': 'progressive', 'answer_start': 282} |
68,441 | 68,099 | 5726bbc15951b619008f7c59 | generic | Public schools in Raleigh are operated by the Wake County Public School System. Observers have praised the Wake County Public School System for its innovative efforts to maintain a socially, economically and racial balanced system by using income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools. Raleigh is home to th... | Does Raleigh have alternate high schools? | {'text': 'Raleigh also has two alternative high schools.', 'answer_start': 471} |
70,848 | 70,506 | 5726ebfc708984140094d61c | generic | Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their own languages, English as the official language is widely used for education, business transactions and for official purposes. English as a first language is used only by a small minority of the country's urban elite, and it is not spoken at all in some rura... | What are the top 3 languages in Nigeria? | {'text': 'Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba', 'answer_start': 411} |
29,385 | 29,043 | 57068e4552bb891400689a57 | generic | New Delhi has one of India's largest bus transport systems. Buses are operated by the state-owned Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which owns largest fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled buses in the world. Personal vehicles especially cars also form a major chunk of vehicles plying on New Delhi roads. New De... | Delhi Transport Company owns the world's largest fleet of buses powered by what type of fuel? | {'text': 'compressed natural gas', 'answer_start': 161} |
44,000 | 43,658 | 570e68670dc6ce1900205031 | generic | The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is the "order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy", rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations and public service outside the Civil Service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, and comprises f... | Who was the most excellent Order of the British Empire? | {'text': 'order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy', 'answer_start': 55} |
119,441 | 119,099 | 57314138497a881900248d01 | generic | While LEDs have the advantage over fluorescent lamps that they do not contain mercury, they may contain other hazardous metals such as lead and arsenic. Regarding the toxicity of LEDs when treated as waste, a study published in 2011 stated: "According to federal standards, LEDs are not hazardous except for low-intensit... | Which LEDs are considered dangerous by a 2011 study? | {'text': 'low-intensity red', 'answer_start': 308} |
124,706 | 124,364 | 573259a4e99e3014001e66f0 | generic | Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by the Governing Body. The religion does not tolerate dissent over doctrines and practices; members who openly disagree with the religion's teachings are expelled and shunned. Witness publications strongly discourage followers from questioning doctrine and counsel receiv... | Who do Jehovah's Witnesses believe introduced independent thinking? | {'text': 'Satan the Devil', 'answer_start': 513} |
96,712 | 96,370 | 572a3c5c3f37b31900478801 | generic | Before the reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries, the state organisation of the Ottoman Empire was a simple system that had two main dimensions, which were the military administration and the civil administration. The Sultan was the highest position in the system. The civil system was based on local administrative uni... | What was the highest ranked person in the Ottoman Empire until the 19th century? | {'text': 'Sultan was the highest position', 'answer_start': 219} |
36,215 | 35,873 | 570af6876b8089140040f644 | generic | Technological developments by videoconferencing developers in the 2010s have extended the capabilities of video conferencing systems beyond the boardroom for use with hand-held mobile devices that combine the use of video, audio and on-screen drawing capabilities broadcasting in real-time over secure networks, independ... | In what decade did developers extend the capabilities of videoconferencing to more devices? | {'text': 'the 2010s', 'answer_start': 62} |
1,974 | 1,632 | 56cd8d2762d2951400fa66e1 | generic | Van Praag states that the Ming court established diplomatic delegations with Tibet merely to secure urgently needed horses. Wang and Nyima argue that these were not diplomatic delegations at all, that Tibetan areas were ruled by the Ming since Tibetan leaders were granted positions as Ming officials, that horses were c... | who were the Tibetan areas were ruled by? | {'text': 'the Ming', 'answer_start': 22} |
35,746 | 35,404 | 570aa9564103511400d598dd | generic | On the eve of America's entry into World War II, CAA began to extend its ATC responsibilities to takeoff and landing operations at airports. This expanded role eventually became permanent after the war. The application of radar to ATC helped controllers in their drive to keep abreast of the postwar boom in commercial a... | What helped ATC controllers in their drive ot keep ahead of the postwar boom in commercial air transportation? | {'text': 'radar', 'answer_start': 222} |
60,629 | 60,287 | 5726627bf1498d1400e8ddd2 | generic | The foundations of the British Empire were laid when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms. In 1496 King Henry VII of England, following the successes of Spain and Portugal in overseas exploration, commissioned John Cabot to lead a voyage to discover a route to Asia via the North Atlantic. Cabot sailed in 1497, f... | Where was Cabot trying to find a route to via the North Atlantic? | {'text': 'Asia', 'answer_start': 268} |
88,515 | 88,173 | 5ace8f0132bba1001ae4aa40 | generic | The "Lophotrochozoa" hypothesis is also supported by the fact that many phyla within this group, including annelids, molluscs, nemerteans and flatworms, follow a similar pattern in the fertilized egg's development. When their cells divide after the 4-cell stage, descendants of these 4 cells form a spiral pattern. In th... | What animal contains no cells? | {'text': 'annelids', 'answer_start': 107} |
8,844 | 8,502 | 56de55694396321400ee2816 | generic | Institutes of technology with different origins are Asian Institute of Technology, which developed from SEATO Graduate School of Engineering, and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, an engineering school of Thammasat University. Suranaree University of Technology is the only government-owned technological... | What is Thailand's only government-established and owned institute of technology? | {'text': 'Suranaree University of Technology', 'answer_start': 243} |
93,154 | 92,812 | 5a7b9e5821c2de001afea1cf | generic | It has been proved that each class is strictly included into the next. For instance, testing when we assume that the behavior of the implementation under test can be denoted by a deterministic finite-state machine for some known finite sets of inputs and outputs and with some known number of states belongs to Class I (... | If there are infinite sets of inputs and outputs, the states belong to what class? | {'text': 'Class I', 'answer_start': 311} |
74,214 | 73,872 | 5727b27d4b864d1900163aa8 | generic | During weekday lunchtime, over 150 lunch carts and food trucks from neighborhood restaurants cater to different student populations throughout Yale's campus. The carts cluster at three main points: by Yale – New Haven Hospital in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's Trumbull College (Elm... | What school of Yale is located nearest the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets? | {'text': 'Yale School of Management', 'answer_start': 402} |
121,444 | 121,102 | 57318320497a881900248fa5 | generic | The craft has also been popular in early medieval Rus, inherited as part of the Byzantine tradition. Yaroslav, the Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus' built a large cathedral in his capital, Kiev. The model of the church was the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and it was also called Saint Sophia Cathedral. It was built mai... | Who sent the Byzantine craftsmen that built Yaroslav's cathedral? | {'text': 'Constantine Monomachos', 'answer_start': 363} |
89,539 | 89,197 | 5728b383ff5b5019007da4de | generic | Half the deported perished, and the other half were not allowed to return until the early 1960s (years after Stalin's death).[citation needed] The activities of Soviet forces in 1940–41 and after reoccupation sparked a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities in Estonia by the Forest Brothers, who consisted mostly of E... | What percentage of Estonians died after deporation? | {'text': 'Half the deported perished', 'answer_start': 0} |
78,087 | 77,745 | 5727ba9f4b864d1900163ba4 | generic | Dvaitādvaita was proposed by Nimbarka, a 13th-century Vaishnava Philosopher from the Andhra region. According to this philosophy there are three categories of existence: Brahman, soul, and matter. Soul and matter are different from Brahman in that they have attributes and capacities different from Brahman. Brahman exis... | How many categories of existence are there in Dvaitadvaita? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 139} |
88,443 | 88,101 | 5ace8b2f32bba1001ae4a9ef | generic | Earthworms make a significant contribution to soil fertility. The rear end of the Palolo worm, a marine polychaete that tunnels through coral, detaches in order to spawn at the surface, and the people of Samoa regard these spawning modules as a delicacy. Anglers sometimes find that worms are more effective bait than ar... | What type of worm have there been proposals to kill? | {'text': 'Ragworms', 'answer_start': 406} |
39,458 | 39,116 | 5ad15cff645df0001a2d18ba | generic | Differences in feasts may also originate from doctrinal issues—the Feast of the Assumption is such an example. Given that there is no agreement among all Christians on the circumstances of the death, Dormition or Assumption of Mary, the feast of assumption is celebrated among some denominations and not others. While t... | Who did Mary not get to go to Feast with? | {'text': 'Protestants', 'answer_start': 627} |
67,189 | 66,847 | 5726ef98708984140094d671 | generic | Some critiqued Paul VI's decision; the newly created Synod of Bishops had an advisory role only and could not make decisions on their own, although the Council decided exactly that. During the pontificate of Paul VI, five such synods took place, and he is on record of implementing all their decisions. Related questions... | How many of his bishop's decisions did Paul VI end up enacting? | {'text': 'all', 'answer_start': 282} |
65,778 | 65,436 | 5a21d12e8a6e4f001aa08f0f | generic | Communism remained an important focus especially during the 1950s and 1960s. Colonialism and racism were important issues that arose. In general, there was a marked trend towards a pragmatic approach to political issues, rather than a philosophical one. Much academic debate regarded one or both of two pragmatic topics:... | What did the Communism mention about who was excluded in society? | {'text': 'the social contract excluded persons of colour and women', 'answer_start': 934} |
27,998 | 27,656 | 56fb66c9b28b3419009f1d2e | generic | Christianity was a major unifying factor between Eastern and Western Europe before the Arab conquests, but the conquest of North Africa sundered maritime connections between those areas. Increasingly the Byzantine Church differed in language, practices, and liturgy from the western Church. The eastern church used Greek... | When did the eastern and western churches split? | {'text': '1054', 'answer_start': 647} |
50,610 | 50,268 | 57251e0e0ba9f01400d97c69 | generic | Masonic lodges existed in Iraq as early as 1917, when the first lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) was opened. Nine lodges under UGLE existed by the 1950s, and a Scottish lodge was formed in 1923. However, the position changed following the revolution, and all lodges were forced to close in 1965. This... | What is the greatest penalty that a Freemason in Iraq could face now? | {'text': 'the death penalty', 'answer_start': 373} |
879 | 537 | 56d4e5922ccc5a1400d83304 | generic | In September 2010, Beyoncé made her runway modelling debut at Tom Ford's Spring/Summer 2011 fashion show. She was named "World's Most Beautiful Woman" by People and the "Hottest Female Singer of All Time" by Complex in 2012. In January 2013, GQ placed her on its cover, featuring her atop its "100 Sexiest Women of the 2... | What title did Complex award Beyoncé? | {'text': 'Hottest Female Singer of All Time', 'answer_start': 170} |
11,342 | 11,000 | 56de50ed4396321400ee27e4 | generic | The most widely spoken family of languages in southern Europe are the Romance languages, the heirs of Latin, which have spread from the Italian peninsula, and are emblematic of Southwestern Europe. (See the Latin Arch.) By far the most common romance languages in Southern Europe are: Italian, which is spoken by over 50... | What are the three main areas of southern Europe where Italian speakers can be found? | {'text': 'Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican', 'answer_start': 339} |
35,604 | 35,262 | 570ad8714103511400d59a8a | generic | In August 2013, a launching ceremony for Japan's largest military ship since World War II was held in Yokohama. The 820-foot-long (250 m), 19,500-ton flattop Izumo was deployed in March 2015. The ship is able to carry up to 14 helicopters; however, only seven ASW helicopters and two SAR helicopters were planned for the... | How much does Japan's largest military ship weigh? | {'text': '19,500-ton', 'answer_start': 139} |
5,718 | 5,376 | 56d1d643e7d4791d00902289 | generic | An important guiding principle of Buddhist practice is the Middle Way (or Middle Path), which is said to have been discovered by Gautama Buddha prior to his enlightenment. The Middle Way has several definitions: | An important guiding priciple of Buddhist practice is what? | {'text': 'the Middle Way', 'answer_start': 55} |
23,573 | 23,231 | 56f7f1d8a6d7ea1400e172f5 | generic | The Brazilian federal constitution states that the power to enter into treaties is vested in the president and that such treaties must be approved by Congress (articles 84, clause VIII, and 49, clause I). In practice, this has been interpreted as meaning that the executive branch is free to negotiate and sign a treaty,... | What part of the Brazilian federal consitution states that the power to enter into treaties is vested in the president and that such treaties must be approved by Congress? | {'text': 'articles 84, clause VIII, and 49, clause I', 'answer_start': 160} |
28,938 | 28,596 | 5706cee50eeca41400aa0e4e | generic | The second half of the 20th century to the present has seen a gradual shift towards improved human rights for Aboriginal people. In a 1967 referendum over 90% of the Australian population voted to end constitutional discrimination and to include Aborigines in the national census. During this period many Aboriginal acti... | What term was embraced during this period? | {'text': '"black"', 'answer_start': 352} |
54,904 | 54,562 | 57265c22708984140094c387 | generic | With an economy larger than all the Balkan economies combined, Greece is the largest economy in the Balkans, and an important regional investor. Greece is the number-two foreign investor of capital in Albania, the number-three foreign investor in Bulgaria, at the top-three of foreign investors in Romania and Serbia and... | OTE is known as what? | {'text': 'Greek telecommunications company', 'answer_start': 501} |
38,647 | 38,305 | 570c05b56b8089140040fb09 | generic | Domestically, Barcelona has won 23 La Liga, 27 Copa del Rey, 11 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In international club football, Barcelona has won five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners'... | How many UEFA Cup Winners' Cup wins does Barcelona have? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 298} |
64,039 | 63,697 | 5ad3e20e604f3c001a3ff522 | 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 are The New Jersey Times' views on Yale's labor tension? | {'text': 'the worst record of labor tension of any university in the U.S.', 'answer_start': 213} |
59,329 | 58,987 | 5726a117f1498d1400e8e557 | generic | That year, Queen began The Works Tour, the first tour to feature keyboardist Spike Edney as an extra live musician. The tour featured nine sold-out dates in October in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, at the arena in Sun City. Upon returning to England, they were the subject of outrage, having played in South Africa durin... | Where did Queen play during the height of Apartheid? | {'text': 'South Africa', 'answer_start': 520} |
74,591 | 74,249 | 57279d0aff5b5019007d9106 | generic | During the First World War, to avoid ground fights between brothers, many Alsatians served as sailors in the Kaiserliche Marine and took part in the Naval mutinies that led to the abdication of the Kaiser in November 1918, which left Alsace-Lorraine without a nominal head of state. The sailors returned home and tried t... | What did Aslations do to avoid conflict amongst themselves during the first World War? | {'text': 'served as sailors', 'answer_start': 84} |
91,347 | 91,005 | 5729a5f51d046914007795a5 | generic | Scarab beetles held religious and cultural symbolism in Old Egypt, Greece and some shamanistic Old World cultures. The ancient Chinese regarded cicadas as symbols of rebirth or immortality. In Mesopotamian literature, the epic poem of Gilgamesh has allusions to Odonata which signify the impossibility of immortality. Am... | What kind of ants are symbolic among the Australian Aborigines? | {'text': 'honey ants', 'answer_start': 387} |
9,502 | 9,160 | 5ad37630604f3c001a3fe33a | generic | However, since the end of the Cold War, as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has moved much of its defence focus "out of area", the Canadian military has also become more deeply engaged in international security operations in various other parts of the world – most notably in Afghanistan since 2002. | What year did the Cold War end? | {'text': '2002', 'answer_start': 307} |
22,776 | 22,434 | 56f7488caef2371900625aae | generic | ^9 Sub-groups of Croats include Bunjevci (in Bačka), Šokci (in Slavonia and Vojvodina), Janjevci (in Kosovo), Burgenland Croats (in Austria), Bosniaks (in Hungary), Molise Croats (in Italy), Krashovans (in Romania), Moravian Croats (in the Czech Republic) | Where are Šokci located? | {'text': 'Slavonia and Vojvodina', 'answer_start': 63} |
130,501 | 130,159 | 5a6bba8a4eec6b001a80a555 | generic | Some risk factors for death include age, hemodynamic parameters (such as heart failure, cardiac arrest on admission, systolic blood pressure, or Killip class of two or greater), ST-segment deviation, diabetes, serum creatinine, peripheral vascular disease, and elevation of cardiac markers. Assessment of left ventricula... | Prognosis improves after what complication? | {'text': 'papillary muscle or myocardial free wall rupture', 'answer_start': 431} |
119,316 | 118,974 | 5ad192e6645df0001a2d2011 | generic | This method involves coating LEDs of one color (mostly blue LEDs made of InGaN) with phosphors of different colors to form white light; the resultant LEDs are called phosphor-based or phosphor-converted white LEDs (pcLEDs). A fraction of the blue light undergoes the Stokes shift being transformed from shorter wavelengt... | In pcLEDs method, a fraction of what light is never used? | {'text': 'blue', 'answer_start': 242} |
108,403 | 108,061 | 5a3ae0193ff257001ab842d2 | generic | The exact relationship between these eight groups is not yet clear, although there is agreement that the first three groups to diverge from the ancestral angiosperm were Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales. The term basal angiosperms refers to these three groups. Among the rest, the relationship between the... | What do Amborellales tend to group with instead of monocots? | {'text': 'the eudicots', 'answer_start': 517} |
126,732 | 126,390 | 5732a59d1d5d2e14009ff871 | generic | In many ways, the Paleocene continued processes that had begun during the late Cretaceous Period. During the Paleocene, the continents continued to drift toward their present positions. Supercontinent Laurasia had not yet separated into three continents. Europe and Greenland were still connected. North America and Asia... | How many continents did Laurasia break into? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 237} |
65,492 | 65,150 | 5727af0cff5b5019007d927b | generic | The reemergence of Cubism coincided with the appearance from about 1917–24 of a coherent body of theoretical writing by Pierre Reverdy, Maurice Raynal and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and, among the artists, by Gris, Léger and Gleizes. The occasional return to classicism—figurative work either exclusively or alongside Cubis... | Name the three writers who were in part resonsible for the reemergence of Cubism between 1917 and 1924. | {'text': 'Pierre Reverdy, Maurice Raynal and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler', 'answer_start': 120} |
106,901 | 106,559 | 5a568fd86349e2001acdce35 | generic | Replicated CDs are mass-produced initially using a hydraulic press. Small granules of heated raw polycarbonate plastic are fed into the press. A screw forces the liquefied plastic into the mold cavity. The mold closes with a metal stamper in contact with the disc surface. The plastic is allowed to cool and harden. Once... | How long does it take the plastic to cool? | {'text': 'two to three seconds', 'answer_start': 508} |
64,976 | 64,634 | 5ad0c9d5645df0001a2d035e | generic | From the 10th to the 13th century, Romanesque architecture had become a pan-European style and manner of construction, affecting buildings in countries as far apart as Ireland, Croatia, Sweden and Sicily. The same wide geographic area was then affected by the development of Gothic architecture, but the acceptance of th... | What other country aside from England showed identical architectural style frequently observed everywhere else? | {'text': 'Spain', 'answer_start': 583} |
17,566 | 17,224 | 56e1d007e3433e14004231ba | generic | Catalan has few suppletive couplets, like Italian and Spanish, and unlike French. Thus, Catalan has noi/noia ("boy"/"girl") and gall/gallina ("cock"/"hen"), whereas French has garçon/fille and coq/poule. | What languages are similar to Catalan in numbers of couplets? | {'text': 'Italian and Spanish', 'answer_start': 42} |
6,104 | 5,762 | 56d3661659d6e414001462d7 | generic | American Idol is an American singing competition series created by Simon Fuller and produced by 19 Entertainment, and is distributed by FremantleMedia North America. It began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002, as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol and has since become one of the most succ... | What company produces American Idol? | {'text': '19 Entertainment', 'answer_start': 96} |
2,851 | 2,509 | 56cdd05a62d2951400fa688a | generic | Bond travels to Austria to find White, who is dying of thallium poisoning. He admits to growing disenchanted with Quantum and tells Bond to find and protect his daughter, Dr. Madeline Swann, who will take him to L'Américain; this will in turn lead him to Spectre. White then commits suicide. Bond locates Swann at the Ho... | What is White suffering from when Bond finds him? | {'text': 'thallium poisoning', 'answer_start': 55} |
102,904 | 102,562 | 5ad4c0485b96ef001a109f30 | generic | After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Once again teaming up with Lucas and Ford, Spielberg also cast actor Sean Connery in a supporting role as Indy's father. The film earned generally positive reviews and was ... | When did the second Indiana Jones movie come out? | {'text': '1989', 'answer_start': 105} |
86,260 | 85,918 | 572833d64b864d190016470d | generic | PlayStation Home is a virtual 3D social networking service for the PlayStation Network. Home allows users to create a custom avatar, which can be groomed realistically. Users can edit and decorate their personal apartments, avatars or club houses with free, premium or won content. Users can shop for new items or win pr... | What is the customizable representation of a user in PS Home called? | {'text': 'avatar', 'answer_start': 125} |
27,084 | 26,742 | 5ad3bee3604f3c001a3fef4b | generic | In December 2009 the United Kingdom became the first European country to deploy high definition content using the new DVB-T2 transmission standard, as specified in the Digital TV Group (DTG) D-book, on digital terrestrial television. | Which European country first deployed SD content using the new DVB-T2 standard? | {'text': 'United Kingdom', 'answer_start': 21} |
53,704 | 53,362 | 5a0cfd4df5590b0018dab6f4 | generic | The world of clothing is always changing, as new cultural influences meet technological innovations. Researchers in scientific labs have been developing prototypes for fabrics that can serve functional purposes well beyond their traditional roles, for example, clothes that can automatically adjust their temperature, re... | Some less practical | {'text': 'bullet-resistant garments made with kevlar and stain-resistant fabrics', 'answer_start': 434} |
59,118 | 58,776 | 5acd9b0007355d001abf47e8 | generic | From the 1930s through much of the 1960s, Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats, who together with other Democrats of the Solid South, exercised considerable control in Congress. They gained federal money from national programs; like other southern states, Florida residents... | What party dominated Florida before 1930? | {'text': 'conservative Democrats', 'answer_start': 103} |
42,860 | 42,518 | 5ad2b042d7d075001a429f36 | generic | During the Cambrian period, Gondwana had a mild climate. West Antarctica was partially in the Northern Hemisphere, and during this period large amounts of sandstones, limestones and shales were deposited. East Antarctica was at the equator, where sea floor invertebrates and trilobites flourished in the tropical seas. B... | What type of plants dominated the Devonian period? | {'text': 'seed plants', 'answer_start': 792} |
16,349 | 16,007 | 5a4d2cb47a6c4c001a2bbc0e | generic | A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks p... | What are examples of the WWW? | {'text': 'a web page, image, video or other piece of content', 'answer_start': 256} |
63,990 | 63,648 | 5ad3dfe8604f3c001a3ff4a2 | generic | Several explanations have been offered for Yale’s representation in national elections since the end of the Vietnam War. Various sources note the spirit of campus activism that has existed at Yale since the 1960s, and the intellectual influence of Reverend William Sloane Coffin on many of the future candidates. Yale Pr... | Why did Richard Brodhead believe there were so few Yale alumni presidential candidates? | {'text': 'very strong tradition of volunteerism', 'answer_start': 744} |
125,247 | 124,905 | 573251c0b9d445190005ea3d | generic | The consolidation of the Bronx into New York City proceeded in two stages. In 1873, the state legislature annexed Kingsbridge, West Farms and Morrisania to New York, effective in 1874; the three towns were abolished in the process. In 1895, three years before New York's consolidation with Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Is... | When did New York City annex part of Eastchester? | {'text': '1895', 'answer_start': 235} |
75,833 | 75,491 | 5a3bfef3cc5d22001a521ce0 | generic | The In-no-cho filled the void left by the decline of Fujiwara power. Rather than being banished, the Fujiwara were mostly retained in their old positions of civil dictator and minister of the center while being bypassed in decision making. In time, many of the Fujiwara were replaced, mostly by members of the rising Min... | Who was sought out in decision making? | {'text': 'Fujiwara', 'answer_start': 101} |
58,281 | 57,939 | 5728a7b83acd2414000dfc04 | generic | All students and faculty, regardless of religion, are required to agree to adhere to an honor code. Early forms of the Church Educational System Honor Code are found as far back as the days of the Brigham Young Academy and early school President Karl G. Maeser. Maeser created the "Domestic Organization", which was a gr... | When was the BYU Honor Code actually created? | {'text': 'about 1940', 'answer_start': 544} |
80,302 | 79,960 | 5a512d7dce860b001aa3fbee | generic | Sichuan came under the firm control of a Chinese central government during the Sui dynasty, but it was during the subsequent Tang dynasty where Sichuan regained its previous political and cultural prominence for which it was known during the Han. Chengdu became nationally known as a supplier of armies and the home of D... | Who came under tight control during the Tang dynasty? | {'text': 'Sichuan', 'answer_start': 0} |
37,523 | 37,181 | 59d2a07b2763a6001828412d | generic | Much of the Great Plains became open range, or rangeland where cattle roamed free, hosting ranching operations where anyone was theoretically free to run cattle. In the spring and fall, ranchers held roundups where their cowboys branded new calves, treated animals and sorted the cattle for sale. Such ranching began in ... | In what year were cattle first left free to roam the Great Plains? | {'text': '1866', 'answer_start': 360} |
99,910 | 99,568 | 5a7c8d1fe8bc7e001a9e1ed2 | generic | Hegel certainly intends to preserve what he takes to be true of German idealism, in particular Kant's insistence that ethical reason can and does go beyond finite inclinations. For Hegel there must be some identity of thought and being for the "subject" (any human observer)) to be able to know any observed "object" (an... | An Absolute Spirit graduates to what status? | {'text': 'Spirit', 'answer_start': 672} |
9,724 | 9,382 | 56deeb2a3277331400b4d817 | generic | The Canadian Army is headed by the Commander of the Canadian Army and administered through four divisions—the 2nd Canadian Division, the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Division and the 5th Canadian Division—the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training System and the Canadian Army Headquarters. | The Canadian Army Headquarters are located in what division? | {'text': 'the 5th Canadian Division', 'answer_start': 190} |
75,610 | 75,268 | 5727a3f62ca10214002d9293 | generic | North Carolina's party loyalties have undergone a series of important shifts in the last few years: While the 2010 midterms saw Tar Heel voters elect a bicameral Republican majority legislature for the first time in over a century, North Carolina has also become a Southern swing state in presidential races. Since South... | What year did Bill Clinton lose North Carolina? | {'text': '1996', 'answer_start': 647} |
26,846 | 26,504 | 56f991b19b226e1400dd15b8 | generic | In 2013 it was found that the Ministry of Defence had overspent on its equipment budget by £6.5bn on orders that could take up to 39 years to fulfil. The Ministry of Defence has been criticised in the past for poor management and financial control, investing in projects that have taken up to 10 and even as much as 15 y... | What are some of the criticisms that have been directed at the MoD? | {'text': 'poor management and financial control', 'answer_start': 210} |
95,817 | 95,475 | 5a68d7368476ee001a58a7e2 | generic | The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) through the consolidation of The Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, the Computing Scale Company and the Bundy Manufacturing Company. CTR was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924, a name whi... | Why did Thomas J. Watson first use the name Bundy Maufacturing Company? | {'text': 'for a CTR Canadian subsidiary', 'answer_start': 351} |
24,998 | 24,656 | 56f8c72c9b226e1400dd0fac | generic | Austrian-born Adolf Hitler had a lifelong romantic fascination with the Alps and by the 1930s established a home in the Obersalzberg region outside of Berchtesgaden. His first visit to the area was in 1923 and he maintained a strong tie there until the end of his life. At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Ob... | What did Adolf Hitler have a lifelong romantic fascination with? | {'text': 'the Alps', 'answer_start': 68} |
83,124 | 82,782 | 572812233acd2414000df3b6 | generic | Northwestern has roughly 225,000 alumni in all branches of business, government, law, science, education, medicine, media, and the performing arts. Among Northwestern's more notable alumni are U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern, Nobel Prize–winning economist George J. Stigler, Nobel Prize–winning n... | Which of Northwestern's alumni is notable for becoming the Governor of Illinois and a presidential candidate? | {'text': 'Adlai Stevenson', 'answer_start': 798} |
61,460 | 61,118 | 5726fe765951b619008f843c | generic | According to Tony Sclafani from MSNBC, "It's worth noting that before Madonna, most music mega-stars were guy rockers; after her, almost all would be female singers ... When The Beatles hit America, they changed the paradigm of performer from solo act to band. Madonna changed it back—with an emphasis on the female." Ho... | Who is the director of the curator of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum? | {'text': 'Howard Kramer', 'answer_start': 318} |
31,938 | 31,596 | 5a833f39e60761001a2eb4b6 | generic | Copper, silver and gold are in group 11 of the periodic table, and they share certain attributes: they have one s-orbital electron on top of a filled d-electron shell and are characterized by high ductility and electrical conductivity. The filled d-shells in these elements do not contribute much to the interatomic inte... | What is copper normally missing? | {'text': 'fine-grained polycrystalline form', 'answer_start': 838} |
23,469 | 23,127 | 56f7451fa6d7ea1400e17122 | generic | Treaties are not necessarily permanently binding upon the signatory parties. As obligations in international law are traditionally viewed as arising only from the consent of states, many treaties expressly allow a state to withdraw as long as it follows certain procedures of notification. For example, the Single Conven... | Traditionally, what must a state do in order for an obligation to arise in international law? | {'text': 'consent', 'answer_start': 163} |
65,170 | 64,828 | 5726c8de708984140094d155 | generic | Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Lands and Austria is characterised by its massive and modular nature. This is expressed in the Gothic architecture of Central Europe in the huge size of the towers and spires, often projected, but not always completed. The west front generally follows the French for... | What does the eastern end of German Romanesque cathedrals typically emulate? | {'text': 'follows the French form', 'answer_start': 576} |
120,564 | 120,222 | 57312968a5e9cc1400cdbcb9 | generic | Kermes is also mentioned in the Bible. In the Book of Exodus, God instructs Moses to have the Israelites bring him an offering including cloth "of blue, and purple, and scarlet." The term used for scarlet in the 4th century Latin Vulgate version of the Bible passage is coccumque bis tinctum, meaning "colored twice with... | In ancient greek, what is coccus referred to as? | {'text': 'Kokkos', 'answer_start': 361} |
74,388 | 74,046 | 572bb136f75d5e190021fea7 | generic | New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast—which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the western coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the eastern Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts—and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interio... | What river crosses path with I-95? | {'text': 'Quinnipiac River', 'answer_start': 503} |
116,269 | 115,927 | 5a56727b6349e2001acdcd60 | generic | In 2005, the constitution was put into effect. There is still much debate in the country about the constitutional reforms. From the early seventies, there was active resistance to the royal hegemony. Despite complaints from progressive formations, support for the monarchy and the current political system remains strong... | What was reformed in 2005? | {'text': 'the constitution', 'answer_start': 9} |
94,720 | 94,378 | 572b4ce0f75d5e190021fd7d | generic | Zinc is an essential mineral perceived by the public today as being of "exceptional biologic and public health importance", especially regarding prenatal and postnatal development. Zinc deficiency affects about two billion people in the developing world and is associated with many diseases. In children it causes growth... | What can cause symptoms in children ranging from diarrhea to retarded growth? | {'text': 'Zinc deficiency', 'answer_start': 181} |
74,002 | 73,660 | 572760715951b619008f88f7 | generic | In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit over reverse discrimination brought by 18 white firefighters against the city. The suit involved the 2003 promotion test for the New Haven Fire Department. After the tests were scored, no black firefighters scored high enough to qualify for considerat... | How many of the 18 white firefighters received promotions via district court order to the city of New Haven following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of the petitioning firefighters? | {'text': '14', 'answer_start': 634} |
44,376 | 44,034 | 570fa9745ab6b81900390f8c | generic | In the 1950s, as a young woman at the start of her reign, Elizabeth was depicted as a glamorous "fairytale Queen". After the trauma of the Second World War, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age". Lord Altrincham's accusation in 1957 that her speeches sounded like ... | What investiture featuring Prince Charles was televised in the late 1960s? | {'text': 'Prince of Wales', 'answer_start': 564} |
16,016 | 15,674 | 56e0758e7aa994140058e503 | generic | H2 reacts with every oxidizing element. Hydrogen can react spontaneously and violently at room temperature with chlorine and fluorine to form the corresponding hydrogen halides, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride, which are also potentially dangerous acids. | What are two other dangerous acids? | {'text': 'hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride', 'answer_start': 178} |
100,939 | 100,597 | 572f8332a23a5019007fc6b8 | generic | As the initial punk movement dwindled, vibrant new scenes began to coalesce out of a variety of bands pursuing experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory in their work. Many of these artists drew on backgrounds in art and viewed their music as invested in particular political or aesthetic agendas. British music... | What were popular post-punk culture media sources? | {'text': 'NME and Sounds', 'answer_start': 346} |
15,143 | 14,801 | 5acf6dbd77cf76001a684e0e | generic | Outside of these genealogies, comics theorists and historians have seen precedents for comics in the Lascaux cave paintings in France (some of which appear to be chronological sequences of images), Egyptian hieroglyphs, Trajan's Column in Rome, the 11th-century Norman Bayeux Tapestry, the 1370 bois Protat woodcut, the ... | What Donatello work do historians consider to be a precedent for comics? | {'text': 'The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel', 'answer_start': 378} |
57,252 | 56,910 | 5726b7c9dd62a815002e8df4 | generic | The Russians eventually offered battle outside Moscow on 7 September: the Battle of Borodino resulted in approximately 44,000 Russian and 35,000 French dead, wounded or captured, and may have been the bloodiest day of battle in history up to that point in time. Although the French had won, the Russian army had accepted... | Approximately how many Russians were hurt, killed, or captured in the Battle of Borodino? | {'text': '44,000', 'answer_start': 119} |
73,494 | 73,152 | 5ad41984604f3c001a40046b | generic | In the US, a prominent form of racial preferences relates to access to education, particularly admission to universities and other forms of higher education. Race, ethnicity, native language, social class, geographical origin, parental attendance of the university in question (legacy admissions), and/or gender are some... | Which case that went to the Supreme Court resulted in a decision regarding private universities and affirmative action? | {'text': 'Bakke v. Regents', 'answer_start': 552} |
41,551 | 41,209 | 570d67b0fed7b91900d46001 | generic | Valencia stands on the banks of the Turia River, located on the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, fronting the Gulf of Valencia. At its founding by the Romans, it stood on a river island in the Turia, 6.4 km (4 mi) from the sea. The Albufera, a freshwater lagoon and e... | How far from Valencia is the Albufera? | {'text': '11 km', 'answer_start': 333} |
41,998 | 41,656 | 570d8c85fed7b91900d46206 | generic | Following their basic and advanced training at the individual-level, soldiers may choose to continue their training and apply for an "additional skill identifier" (ASI). The ASI allows the army to take a wide ranging MOS and focus it into a more specific MOS. For example, a combat medic, whose duties are to provide pre... | If the officers want to advance their careers even further, where is that available? | {'text': 'Army Correspondence Course Program', 'answer_start': 863} |
110,691 | 110,349 | 572fbb81947a6a140053cbf9 | generic | Carbon metabolism in bacteria is either heterotrophic, where organic carbon compounds are used as carbon sources, or autotrophic, meaning that cellular carbon is obtained by fixing carbon dioxide. Heterotrophic bacteria include parasitic types. Typical autotrophic bacteria are phototrophic cyanobacteria, green sulfur-b... | Green sulfur-bacteria is typical representative of what type of bacteria? | {'text': 'autotrophic bacteria', 'answer_start': 253} |
36,334 | 35,992 | 570b1f6b6b8089140040f747 | generic | Videoconferencing is a highly useful technology for real-time telemedicine and telenursing applications, such as diagnosis, consulting, transmission of medical images, etc... With videoconferencing, patients may contact nurses and physicians in emergency or routine situations; physicians and other paramedical professio... | What areas benefit especially from videoconferencing? | {'text': 'Rural', 'answer_start': 367} |
70,661 | 70,319 | 57295c05af94a219006aa31a | generic | Bermuda has developed a proud Rugby Union community. The Bermuda Rugby Union team won the 2011 Caribbean championships, defeating Guyana in the final. They previously beat The Bahamas and Mexico to take the crown. Rugby 7's is also played, with four rounds scheduled to take place in the 2011–2012 season. The Bermuda 7'... | How many clubs are on the island? | {'text': 'There are four clubs on the island', 'answer_start': 391} |
5,619 | 5,277 | 56d09f06234ae51400d9c3cd | generic | In Buddhism, Karma (from Sanskrit: "action, work") is the force that drives saṃsāra—the cycle of suffering and rebirth for each being. Good, skillful deeds (Pali: "kusala") and bad, unskillful (Pāli: "akusala") actions produce "seeds" in the mind that come to fruition either in this life or in a subsequent rebirth. The... | What actions does karma refer to in Buddhism? | {'text': 'actions of body, speech or mind that spring from mental intent', 'answer_start': 445} |
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