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109,603 | 109,261 | 572f8f2eb2c2fd14005681fd | generic | A person's self-report is the most reliable measure of pain, with health care professionals tending to underestimate severity. A definition of pain widely employed in nursing, emphasizing its subjective nature and the importance of believing patient reports, was introduced by Margo McCaffery in 1968: "Pain is whatever ... | What is the most reliable measure of pain? | {'text': "person's self-report", 'answer_start': 2} |
68,268 | 67,926 | 5acd57aa07355d001abf3df9 | generic | North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes. The area generally falls North of Millbrook Road. It is primarily suburban with large shopping areas. Primary... | What area does Route 40 run through? | {'text': 'North Raleigh', 'answer_start': 0} |
114,168 | 113,826 | 5acd9d2807355d001abf482a | generic | Scotland, meanwhile had remained an independent Kingdom. In 1603, that changed when the King of Scotland inherited the Crown of England, and consequently the Crown of Ireland also. The subsequent 17th century was one of political upheaval, religious division and war. English colonialism in Ireland of the 16th century w... | In what year did the Queen of Scotland inherit the Crown of England? | {'text': '1603', 'answer_start': 60} |
32,538 | 32,196 | 5a361e42788daf001a5f872b | generic | Though the state is deficient in food grains, it has gained a lot in other spheres of agricultural production such as seed potato, ginger, vegetables, vegetable seeds, mushrooms, chicory seeds, hops, olives and fig. Seed potato is mostly grown in the Shimla, Kullu and Lahaul areas. Special efforts are being made to pro... | What is the Kullu district also famous for producing? | {'text': 'flowers', 'answer_start': 587} |
83,579 | 83,237 | 5727d4703acd2414000ded88 | generic | The English language has been official in the state of Oklahoma since 2010. The variety of North American English spoken is called Oklahoma English, and this dialect is quite diverse with its uneven blending of features of North Midland, South Midland, and Southern dialects. In 2000, 2,977,187 Oklahomans—92.6% of the r... | What is the second-most-prevalent language in Oklahoma? | {'text': 'Spanish', 'answer_start': 560} |
69,666 | 69,324 | 5ace2be032bba1001ae49c8e | generic | Avicenna was born c. 980 in Afšana, a village near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), the capital of the Samanids, a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan. His mother, named Setareh, was from Bukhara; his father, Abdullah, was a respected Ismaili scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Emp... | What did Avicenna begin to study when he was 10 years old? | {'text': 'the Quran and literature', 'answer_start': 603} |
117,782 | 117,440 | 5730c1ae396df91900096329 | generic | Christianity came to Tuvalu in 1861 when Elekana, a deacon of a Congregational church in Manihiki, Cook Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at Nukulaelae on 10 May 1861. Elekana began proselytising Christianity. He was trained at Malua Theological College, a London Missionary Society... | What church deacon was washed ashore on Nukulaelae? | {'text': 'Elekana', 'answer_start': 41} |
10,028 | 9,686 | 5ad31741604f3c001a3fdb59 | generic | In previous times, at the consistory at which the pope named a new cardinal, he would bestow upon him a distinctive wide-brimmed hat called a galero. This custom was discontinued in 1969 and the investiture now takes place with the scarlet biretta. In ecclesiastical heraldry, however, the scarlet galero is still displa... | What is officially part of a cardinals apparel? | {'text': 'galero', 'answer_start': 536} |
67,335 | 66,993 | 5726b0355951b619008f7a7f | generic | A PM motor does not have a field winding on the stator frame, instead relying on PMs to provide the magnetic field against which the rotor field interacts to produce torque. Compensating windings in series with the armature may be used on large motors to improve commutation under load. Because this field is fixed, it c... | What can a PM motor not be adjusted for? | {'text': 'speed control', 'answer_start': 342} |
118,968 | 118,626 | 5730e35df6cb411900e24518 | generic | Humanitarian Assistance Operations are "programs conducted to relieve or reduce the results of natural or manmade disasters or other endemic conditions such as human pain, disease, hunger, or privation that might present a serious threat to life or that can result in great damage to or loss of property. Humanitarian as... | What kind of Humanitarian assistance is supplied by the US Forces? | {'text': 'limited', 'answer_start': 354} |
2,964 | 2,622 | 5ad22b6bd7d075001a4285f9 | generic | Christoph Waltz was cast in the role of Franz Oberhauser, though he refused to comment on the nature of the part. It was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Dave Bautista was cast as Mr. Hinx after producers sought an actor with a background in contact sports. After casting Bérénice ... | Who was the youngest actress to be a Bond girl? | {'text': 'Monica Bellucci', 'answer_start': 510} |
90,274 | 89,932 | 5ad23ae5d7d075001a42885f | generic | The failure of democratic parties to prevent fascism from taking over Austrian politics in the 1920s and 1930s traumatised Popper. He suffered from the direct consequences of this failure, since events after the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in 1938, forced him into permanent exile. His most ... | In what years was fascism prevented from taking over? | {'text': '1920s and 1930s', 'answer_start': 95} |
87,775 | 87,433 | 5a36a34395360f001af1b2eb | generic | George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation. In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony in a show of support for her son. There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to t... | On what date did George VI begin his visit to France? | {'text': '2 May 1937', 'answer_start': 38} |
81,743 | 81,401 | 5a4bf32fbfc0e3001a15d3ce | generic | The Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى, aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ al-kubrā , 'the Greatest Desert') is the largest hot desert in the world. It is the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)[citation needed]—including the Libyan Desert—is comparable to the res... | What is the largest desert in the world? | {'text': 'The Sahara', 'answer_start': 0} |
84,071 | 83,729 | 5728b8862ca10214002da658 | generic | The Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah, the de facto ruler of the Bengal province, opposed British attempts to use these permits. This led to the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757, in which the Bengal Army of the East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French-supported Nawab's forces. This was the first real... | What ruler opposed the British use of permits and ended up at war? | {'text': 'Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah', 'answer_start': 4} |
111,507 | 111,165 | 5730969b396df919000961ce | generic | Notable modern Greek artists include Renaissance painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), Panagiotis Doxaras, Nikolaos Gyzis, Nikiphoros Lytras, Yannis Tsarouchis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, sculptors such as Leonidas Drosis, Georgios Bonanos, Yannoulis Chalepas and Joannis Avramidis... | Who sang in a voice that is in the high octave range from the Modern Greek Era ? | {'text': 'soprano Maria Callas', 'answer_start': 353} |
60,991 | 60,649 | 5726c55ef1498d1400e8eabb | generic | Phytochemistry is a branch of plant biochemistry primarily concerned with the chemical substances produced by plants during secondary metabolism. Some of these compounds are toxins such as the alkaloid coniine from hemlock. Others, such as the essential oils peppermint oil and lemon oil are useful for their aroma, as f... | Hemlock is what kind of chemical produced from a plant? | {'text': 'toxins', 'answer_start': 174} |
43,670 | 43,328 | 5ad14b6e645df0001a2d160a | generic | The interactions of carbonate anions with uranium(VI) cause the Pourbaix diagram to change greatly when the medium is changed from water to a carbonate containing solution. While the vast majority of carbonates are insoluble in water (students are often taught that all carbonates other than those of alkali metals are i... | What does a uranium(VII) cation form when it binds to two terminal oxides and three or more carbonates? | {'text': 'anionic complexes', 'answer_start': 491} |
36,400 | 36,058 | 5a36f47295360f001af1b37d | generic | The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar instituted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by papal bull Inter gravissimas dated 24 February 1582. The motivation for the adjustment was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of year in which it was celebra... | Who suggested that all Christians celebrate Easter on the same day during the third century? | {'text': 'the First Council of Nicaea', 'answer_start': 397} |
127,500 | 127,158 | 5a3997b52f14dd001ac7244b | generic | Residents of Saint-Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemoise people) are French citizens and work at establishments on the island. Most of them are descendants of the first settlers, of Breton, Norman, Poitevin, Saintongeais and Angevin lineage. French is the native tongue of the population. English is understood in hotels and r... | On what side of the island do the Anglophone community live? | {'text': 'windward', 'answer_start': 607} |
115,330 | 114,988 | 5ad3d6cd604f3c001a3ff319 | generic | However, while Whitehead saw religion as beginning in solitariness, he also saw religion as necessarily expanding beyond the individual. In keeping with his process metaphysics in which relations are primary, he wrote that religion necessitates the realization of "the value of the objective world which is a community d... | What did Whitehead believe was not necessary for an entity to have meaning and value? | {'text': 'meaning and value do not exist for the individual alone', 'answer_start': 524} |
103,180 | 102,838 | 5731cf3d0fdd8d15006c6568 | generic | A collector of film memorabilia, Spielberg purchased a balsa Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) in 1982. He bought Orson Welles's own directorial copy of the script for the radio broadcast The War of the Worlds (1938) in 1994. Spielberg has purchased Academy Award statuettes being sold on the open market and donated... | When did Spielberg buy Orson Welles' personal script copy from 'The War of the Worlds'? | {'text': '1994', 'answer_start': 224} |
119,787 | 119,445 | 5731236de6313a140071cc6e | generic | The avian circulatory system is driven by a four-chambered, myogenic heart contained in a fibrous pericardial sac. This pericardial sac is filled with a serous fluid for lubrication. The heart itself is divided into a right and left half, each with an atrium and ventricle. The atrium and ventricles of each side are sep... | What lubricates the pericardial sac? | {'text': 'serous fluid', 'answer_start': 153} |
123,755 | 123,413 | 57321b1ae17f3d1400422697 | generic | Between 1975 and 2009, Olympic Airways (known after 2003 as Olympic Airlines) was the country’s state-owned flag carrier, but financial problems led to its privatization and relaunch as Olympic Air in 2009. Both Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air have won awards for their services; in 2009 and 2011, Aegean Airlines was aw... | What airlines was award the "Best regional airline in Europe" award by Skytrax? | {'text': 'Aegean Airlines', 'answer_start': 298} |
60,836 | 60,494 | 572689dbdd62a815002e889d | generic | The pro-decolonisation Labour government, elected at the 1945 general election and led by Clement Attlee, moved quickly to tackle the most pressing issue facing the empire: that of Indian independence. India's two major political parties—the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League—had been campaigning for indepe... | When India was split into Hindu and Muslim areas, what country did the Muslim area become? | {'text': 'Pakistan', 'answer_start': 1112} |
117,849 | 117,507 | 5730e152aca1c71400fe5b35 | generic | Tuvalu participates in the operations of the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). The Tuvaluan government, the US government, and the governments of other Pacific islands, are parties to the South Pacific Tuna Treaty (SPTT), which entered into for... | What is the focus of the Nauru Agreement? | {'text': 'tuna purse seine fishing', 'answer_start': 413} |
24,098 | 23,756 | 56f95bb59b226e1400dd13a4 | generic | In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kwajalein Atoll was the administrative center of the Japanese 6th Fleet Forces Service, whose task was the defense of the Marshall Islands. | What was the mission of the 6th Fleet Forces Service? | {'text': 'defense of the Marshall Islands', 'answer_start': 156} |
31,214 | 30,872 | 57096b77ed30961900e840d9 | generic | The relative pitches of individual notes in a scale may be determined by one of a number of tuning systems. In the west, the twelve-note chromatic scale is the most common method of organization, with equal temperament now the most widely used method of tuning that scale. In it, the pitch ratio between any two successi... | The pitch ratio between any two successive notes is? | {'text': 'the twelfth root of two', 'answer_start': 353} |
92,989 | 92,647 | 5a7b75f521c2de001afea03d | generic | A fundamental problem with software testing is that testing under all combinations of inputs and preconditions (initial state) is not feasible, even with a simple product.:17-18 This means that the number of defects in a software product can be very large and defects that occur infrequently are difficult to find in tes... | What is the issue with the functional dimensions of quality? | {'text': 'can be highly subjective', 'answer_start': 507} |
112,496 | 112,154 | 5730519a8ab72b1400f9c454 | generic | The staple foods were generally consumed around 11 o'clock, and consisted of bread, lettuce, cheese, fruits, nuts, and cold meat left over from the dinner the night before.[citation needed] The Roman poet Horace mentions another Roman favorite, the olive, in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple:... | What did Romans sit on when they had a meal at home? | {'text': 'stools', 'answer_start': 426} |
61,887 | 61,545 | 5726a579dd62a815002e8bec | generic | Following World War II, Aung San negotiated the Panglong Agreement with ethnic leaders that guaranteed the independence of Myanmar as a unified state. Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Bo Hmu Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Dr. Sein Mya Maung, Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference negotiated with... | Who negotiated the agreement that Burma would be free from forgien rule ? | {'text': 'Aung San', 'answer_start': 24} |
93,745 | 93,403 | 572925caaf94a219006aa107 | generic | The assumption that black-body radiation is thermal leads to an accurate prediction: the total amount of emitted energy goes up with the temperature according to a definite rule, the Stefan–Boltzmann law (1879–84). But it was also known that the colour of the light given off by a hot object changes with the temperature... | What did Wilhelm Wien discover? | {'text': 'the mathematical relationship between the peaks of the curves at different temperatures', 'answer_start': 406} |
14,522 | 14,180 | 56dfb726231d4119001abcd3 | generic | The AEA's work progressed to heavier-than-air machines, applying their knowledge of kites to gliders. Moving to Hammondsport, the group then designed and built the Red Wing, framed in bamboo and covered in red silk and powered by a small air-cooled engine. On March 12, 1908, over Keuka Lake, the biplane lifted off on t... | What did the AEA work on after kites? | {'text': 'gliders', 'answer_start': 93} |
90,252 | 89,910 | 5728a2bfff5b5019007da37c | generic | Other awards and recognition for Popper included the City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities (1965), Karl Renner Prize (1978), Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1980), Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (1981), Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna (1983) and the Premio Internazionale of the Italian Federico Nietzsche Socie... | What award given by a Japanese foundation did Popper win in 1992? | {'text': 'Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy', 'answer_start': 359} |
105,142 | 104,800 | 572ff89f04bcaa1900d76f73 | generic | On 15 September the Luftwaffe made two large daylight attacks on London along the Thames Estuary, targeting the docks and rail communications in the city. Its hope was to destroy its targets and draw the RAF into defending them, allowing the Luftwaffe to destroy their fighters in large numbers, thereby achieving an air... | The Luftwaffe lost what percentage of its bombers sent that day? | {'text': '18', 'answer_start': 581} |
45,030 | 44,688 | 570fca635ab6b81900390ff7 | generic | On August 17, 2007, Dell Inc. announced that after an internal investigation into its accounting practices it would restate and reduce earnings from 2003 through to the first quarter of 2007 by a total amount of between $50 million and $150 million, or 2 cents to 7 cents per share. The investigation, begun in November ... | What year did Dell's internal investigation begin? | {'text': '2006', 'answer_start': 320} |
65,240 | 64,898 | 5ad0fc8f645df0001a2d0976 | generic | In 1663 at the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence, Lambeth Palace, a Gothic hammerbeam roof was built to replace that destroyed when the building was sacked during the English Civil War. Also in the late 17th century, some discrete Gothic details appeared on new construction at Oxford University and Cambridge Univers... | What is the location of the Archbishop of Canterbury's dentist? | {'text': 'Lambeth Palace', 'answer_start': 53} |
53,501 | 53,159 | 5acd191807355d001abf34b0 | generic | Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a non-quoted public limited company, whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs. Only 62,217 shares in Arsenal have been issued, and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the FTSE or AIM; instead, they are traded rel... | How much does a single share of Arsenal cost as of 1-1-2018? | {'text': '£15,670', 'answer_start': 474} |
109,931 | 109,589 | 572fb248947a6a140053cba5 | generic | Database access control deals with controlling who (a person or a certain computer program) is allowed to access what information in the database. The information may comprise specific database objects (e.g., record types, specific records, data structures), certain computations over certain objects (e.g., query types,... | What are examples of database objects? | {'text': 'record types, specific records, data structures', 'answer_start': 209} |
104,962 | 104,620 | 572f5d5eb2c2fd1400568082 | generic | Adolf Hitler failed to pay as much attention to bombing the enemy as he did to protection from enemy bombing, although he had promoted the development of a bomber force in the 1930s and understood that it was possible to use bombers for major strategic purposes. He told the OKL in 1939 that ruthless employment of the L... | Who had skepticism towards strategic bombing? | {'text': 'Adolf Hitler', 'answer_start': 0} |
13,367 | 13,025 | 56df805c56340a1900b29c62 | generic | Private career and technology education schools in Oklahoma City include Oklahoma Technology Institute, Platt College, Vatterott College, and Heritage College. The Dale Rogers Training Center in Oklahoma City is a nonprofit vocational training center for individuals with disabilities. | What center is a nonprofit training center for disabled people? | {'text': 'The Dale Rogers Training Center', 'answer_start': 160} |
70,216 | 69,874 | 5726ec1cf1498d1400e8efed | generic | Although Chinese characters in Vietnam are now limited to ceremonial uses, they were once in widespread use. Until the early 20th century, Literary Chinese was used in Vietnam for all official and scholarly writing. Around the 13th century the Nôm script was developed to record folk literature in the Vietnamese languag... | What were once in widespread use? | {'text': 'Chinese characters in Vietnam', 'answer_start': 9} |
56,829 | 56,487 | 572694255951b619008f7743 | generic | The city's first bus rapid transit line, the Metrobús, began operation in June 2005, along Avenida Insurgentes. Line 2 opened in December 2008, serving Eje 4 Sur, line 3 opened in February 2011, serving Eje 1 Poniente, and line 4 opened in April 2012 connecting the airport with San Lázaro and Buenavista Station at Insu... | When did the second line of Metrobus open? | {'text': 'December 2008', 'answer_start': 129} |
9,579 | 9,237 | 5ad3834d604f3c001a3fe4e2 | generic | Since 1947, Canadian military units have participated in more than 200 operations worldwide, and completed 72 international operations. Canadian soldiers, sailors, and aviators came to be considered world-class professionals through conspicuous service during these conflicts and the country's integral participation in ... | When did the Cold War take place? | {'text': 'from 1957 to 1970', 'answer_start': 548} |
85,880 | 85,538 | 572847273acd2414000df85e | generic | Von Neumann was a founding figure in computing. Donald Knuth cites von Neumann as the inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort algorithm, in which the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged. Von Neumann wrote the sorting program for the EDVAC in ink, being 23 pages long; traces can ... | With whom did von Neumann work on the philosophy of artificial intelligence? | {'text': 'Alan Turing', 'answer_start': 491} |
101,176 | 100,834 | 5a0dd57ed7c850001886447c | generic | The first written account of a game played was on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals, 2 rouges to nothing.[citation needed] In 1864, at Trinity College, T... | What team was formed on April 8, 1827? | {'text': 'Montreal', 'answer_start': 617} |
47,026 | 46,684 | 5719f73f10f8ca1400304ec3 | generic | Seattle experiences its heaviest rainfall during the months of November, December and January, receiving roughly half of its annual rainfall (by volume) during this period. In late fall and early winter, atmospheric rivers (also known as "Pineapple Express" systems), strong frontal systems, and Pacific low pressure sys... | How many deaths occurred during the 2007 heavy rains? | {'text': 'five deaths', 'answer_start': 1188} |
7,479 | 7,137 | 56d8e922dc89441400fdb3ce | generic | Argentina: The torch relay leg in Buenos Aires, Argentina, held on April 11, began with an artistic show at the Lola Mora amphitheatre in Costanera Sur. In the end of the show the mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri gave the torch to the first torchbearer, Carlos Espínola. The leg finished at the Buenos Aires Riding ... | When did the Olympic torch relay begin in Buenos Aires? | {'text': 'April 11', 'answer_start': 68} |
84,479 | 84,137 | 572830693acd2414000df69f | generic | At the 29 August Arab League summit in Khartoum, Nasser's usual commanding position had receded as the attending heads of state expected Saudi King Faisal to lead. A ceasefire in the Yemen War was declared and the summit concluded with the Khartoum Resolution. The Soviet Union soon resupplied the Egyptian military with... | What agreement ended the Yemeni civil war? | {'text': 'Khartoum Resolution', 'answer_start': 240} |
36,083 | 35,741 | 570acf964103511400d59a24 | generic | The Early Cretaceous spans from 145 million to 100 million years ago. The Early Cretaceous saw the expansion of seaways, and as a result, the decline and extinction of sauropods (except in South America). Many coastal shallows were created, and that caused Ichthyosaurs to die out. Mosasaurs evolved to replace them as h... | What is the span of the Early Cretaceous? | {'text': '145 million to 100 million years', 'answer_start': 32} |
48,173 | 47,831 | 571cf17ddd7acb1400e4c1b4 | generic | A series of experiments performed from the late 1800s to the early 1900s revealed that diabetes is caused by the absence of a substance normally produced by the pancreas. In 1869, Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering found that diabetes could be induced in dogs by surgical removal of the pancreas. In 1921, Canadian pr... | Diabetes is caused by the removal of what organ? | {'text': 'pancreas', 'answer_start': 161} |
40,543 | 40,201 | 570d1dc0b3d812140066d432 | generic | Furthermore, Apple had created too many similar models that confused potential buyers. At one point, its product lineup was subdivided into Classic, LC, II, Quadra, Performa, and Centris models, with essentially the same computer being sold under a number of different names. These models competed against Macintosh clon... | What did Macintosh clones succeed in increasing for Macintosh? | {'text': 'market share', 'answer_start': 435} |
27,402 | 27,060 | 56fa2008f34c681400b0bfc7 | generic | In diffuse-porous woods the pores are evenly sized so that the water conducting capability is scattered throughout the growth ring instead of being collected in a band or row. Examples of this kind of wood are alder, basswood,[citation needed] birch, buckeye, maple, willow,and the Populus species such as aspen, cottonw... | What kind of woods have pores that are uniformly sized? | {'text': 'diffuse-porous', 'answer_start': 3} |
49,863 | 49,521 | 5726559d5951b619008f6ffa | generic | On 17 March 1883, she fell down some stairs at Windsor, which left her lame until July; she never fully recovered and was plagued with rheumatism thereafter. Brown died 10 days after her accident, and to the consternation of her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, Victoria began work on a eulogistic biography of Bro... | Who died 10 days after Victoria's accident? | {'text': 'Brown', 'answer_start': 317} |
8,188 | 7,846 | 5acff47177cf76001a68660d | generic | The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo), also known as Congo, Congo Republic, West Congo[citation needed], or Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by five countries: Gabon to the west; Cameroon to the northwest; the Central African Republic to the northeast; the Demo... | What is the French name for Gabon? | {'text': 'République du Congo', 'answer_start': 35} |
28,996 | 28,654 | 57070d4b9e06ca38007e9330 | generic | Due to the often political and cultural contours of blackness in the United States, the notion of blackness can also be extended to non-black people. Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black President of the United States, because, as she put it, he displayed "almost every trope of blackness". Chris... | Why were people offended by this comment? | {'text': 'Clinton used his knowledge of black culture to exploit black people for political gain', 'answer_start': 1009} |
94,773 | 94,431 | 572b5405be1ee31400cb832c | generic | Zinc(I) compounds are rare, and require bulky ligands to stabilize the low oxidation state. Most zinc(I) compounds contain formally the [Zn2]2+ core, which is analogous to the [Hg2]2+ dimeric cation present in mercury(I) compounds. The diamagnetic nature of the ion confirms its dimeric structure. The first zinc(I) comp... | What core do most zinc(l) compounds contain? | {'text': '[Zn2]2+', 'answer_start': 136} |
114,523 | 114,181 | 57305b3f8ab72b1400f9c49a | generic | The governing bodies in each country operate league systems in a domestic season, normally comprising several divisions, in which the teams gain points throughout the season depending on results. Teams are placed into tables, placing them in order according to points accrued. Most commonly, each team plays every other ... | What could happen to the top few teams at the end of the season? | {'text': 'promoted to a higher division', 'answer_start': 489} |
29,909 | 29,567 | 5706ba0c2eaba6190074ac8f | generic | The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $30,237 (with a margin of error of +/- $2,354) and the median family income was $35,488 (+/- $2,607). Males had a median income of $32,207 (+/- $1,641) versus $29,298 (+/- $1,380) for fem... | How much was the median family income according to the American Community Survey? | {'text': '$35,488', 'answer_start': 213} |
96,641 | 96,299 | 572a27803f37b31900478754 | generic | By contrast, the Habsburg frontier had settled somewhat, a stalemate caused by a stiffening of the Habsburg defences. The Long War against Habsburg Austria (1593–1606) created the need for greater numbers of Ottoman infantry equipped with firearms, resulting in a relaxation of recruitment policy. This contributed to pr... | What was the population of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the 17th century? | {'text': '30 million people', 'answer_start': 681} |
31,659 | 31,317 | 570a8adb6d058f1900182f7f | generic | Located in the American South, Houston is a diverse city with a large and growing international community. The metropolitan area is home to an estimated 1.1 million (21.4 percent) residents who were born outside the United States, with nearly two-thirds of the area's foreign-born population from south of the United Sta... | What part of the Houston population is growing? | {'text': 'international community', 'answer_start': 82} |
81,465 | 81,123 | 5728bca93acd2414000dfd72 | generic | London is home to five major medical schools – Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (part of Queen Mary), King's College London School of Medicine (the largest medical school in Europe), Imperial College School of Medicine, UCL Medical School and St George's, University of London – and has a large numb... | How many of the United Kingdom's five health academic science centers are located in London? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 412} |
16,332 | 15,990 | 56e1108ce3433e1400422b7c | generic | The United States launched the orbital workstation Skylab 1 on May 14, 1973. It weighed 169,950 pounds (77,090 kg), was 58 feet (18 m) long by 21.7 feet (6.6 m) in diameter, with a habitable volume of 10,000 cubic feet (280 m3). Skylab was damaged during the ascent to orbit, losing one of its solar panels and a meteoro... | The Skylab 1 was launched on which date? | {'text': 'May 14, 1973', 'answer_start': 63} |
99,150 | 98,808 | 5a46faed5fd40d001a27dd1c | generic | Spirit possession has been documented in modern Rajasthan. Some of the spirits possessing Rajasthanis are seen as good and beneficial while others are seen as malevolent. The good spirits include murdered royalty, the underworld god Bhaironji, and Muslim saints. Bad spirits include perpetual debtors who die in debt, st... | What is a benign spirit referred to as? | {'text': 'ghorala', 'answer_start': 421} |
68,647 | 68,305 | 57270755708984140094d8b9 | generic | In the US, nutritional standards and recommendations are established jointly by the US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Health and Human Services. Dietary and physical activity guidelines from the USDA are presented in the concept of MyPlate, which superseded the food pyramid, which replaced the Four Food... | On which channel are committee meetings often shown? | {'text': 'C-SPAN', 'answer_start': 494} |
39,317 | 38,975 | 570c3527ec8fbc190045bdab | generic | During the period from 1993 to 2011, FBI agents fired their weapons on 289 occasions; FBI internal reviews found the shots justified in all but 5 cases, in none of the 5 cases were people wounded. Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha said the number of shots found to be unj... | How many times were FBI shots not justified? | {'text': '5 cases', 'answer_start': 144} |
74,803 | 74,461 | 57277bf6f1498d1400e8f96d | generic | The "Rheinische" Carnival is held in the west of Germany, mainly in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia or Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rhineland Palatinate or Rheinland-Pfalz, but also in Hessen [including Oberhessen], Bavaria and other states. Some cities are more famous for celebrations such as parades and costume balls. K... | Cologne Carnival is one of the largest Carnivals and also is the most what? | {'text': 'famous', 'answer_start': 402} |
91,899 | 91,557 | 5728f26aaf94a219006a9e27 | generic | Paris was in its artistic prime in the 19th century and early 20th century, when it had a colony of artists established in the city and in art schools associated with some of the finest painters of the times: Manet, Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gauguin, Renoir and others. The French Revolution and political and social change... | What type of art did Paris help develop with painters like Gericault? | {'text': 'Romanticism', 'answer_start': 419} |
19,031 | 18,689 | 56e6c9fc6fe0821900b8eb78 | generic | On April 7, 1979, the Easy Listening chart officially became known as Adult Contemporary, and those two words have remained consistent in the name of the chart ever since. Adult contemporary music became one of the most popular radio formats of the 1980s. The growth of AC was a natural result of the generation that fir... | Along with rap/hip-hop, what genre of music were aging listeners not as interested in? | {'text': 'heavy metal', 'answer_start': 432} |
1,220 | 878 | 56cf61d3aab44d1400b891a4 | generic | In 1817 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaw's Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace (today the rectorate of Warsaw University). Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace. During this period, F... | The Warsaw Lyceum was moved to where? | {'text': 'Kazimierz Palace', 'answer_start': 137} |
106,090 | 105,748 | 572f7de2947a6a140053c9c8 | generic | It was believed that immortality could be achieved if one reached the lands of the Queen Mother of the West or Mount Penglai. Han-era Daoists assembled into small groups of hermits who attempted to achieve immortality through breathing exercises, sexual techniques and use of medical elixirs. By the 2nd century AD, Daoi... | What was the purpose of breathing exercises to a Daoist? | {'text': 'achieve immortality', 'answer_start': 198} |
78,464 | 78,122 | 57279bfadd62a815002ea1e9 | generic | Those who subscribe to this interpretation believe that since the Christian scriptures never counter instrumental language with any negative judgment on instruments, opposition to instruments instead comes from an interpretation of history. There is no written opposition to musical instruments in any setting in the fir... | For what reason do modern Christians continue to oppose the use of instruments? | {'text': "Church Fathers had a better understanding of God's desire for the church", 'answer_start': 608} |
94,077 | 93,735 | 5ad12a5e645df0001a2d103d | generic | As of 2014, the wind industry in the USA is able to produce more power at lower cost by using taller wind turbines with longer blades, capturing the faster winds at higher elevations. This has opened up new opportunities and in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, the price of power from wind turbines built 300 feet to 400 fee... | Prices have grown as high as what price? | {'text': '4 cents per kilowatt-hour', 'answer_start': 425} |
106,495 | 106,153 | 5ad2309dd7d075001a4286d0 | generic | One of the notable authors of esoteric interpretation prior to the 12th century is Sulami (d. 1021) without whose work the majority of very early Sufi commentaries would not have been preserved. Sulami's major commentary is a book named haqaiq al-tafsir ("Truths of Exegesis") which is a compilation of commentaries of e... | Who was an important esoteric interpreter of the Quran in the 10th century? | {'text': 'Sulami', 'answer_start': 83} |
52,857 | 52,515 | 5725cafc89a1e219009abec1 | generic | Incandescent bulbs have been replaced in many applications by other types of electric light, such as fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL), high-intensity discharge lamps, and light-emitting diode lamps (LED). Some jurisdictions, such as the European Union, China, Can... | What does the acronym CFL refer to? | {'text': 'compact fluorescent lamps', 'answer_start': 120} |
14,183 | 13,841 | 56e0a534231d4119001ac319 | generic | In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev. Under his rule, the Russian SFSR and the rest of the Soviet Union went through an era of stagnation. Even after he died in 1982, the era didn’t end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power and introduced liberal reforms in So... | Who lost power in 1964? | {'text': 'Nikita Khrushchev', 'answer_start': 9} |
4,401 | 4,059 | 56d10e8f17492d1400aab84e | generic | The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and the New York Jets, although both teams play their home games at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. | In what year did a Super Bowl occur at MetLife Stadium? | {'text': '2014', 'answer_start': 236} |
59,071 | 58,729 | 5acd91c807355d001abf4765 | generic | Florida is among the three states with the most severe felony disenfranchisement laws. Florida requires felons to have completed sentencing, parole and/or probation, and then seven years later, to apply individually for restoration of voting privileges. As in other aspects of the criminal justice system, this law has d... | What type of conviction still allows people to vote? | {'text': 'felony', 'answer_start': 620} |
101,981 | 101,639 | 572e7b4fcb0c0d14000f119d | generic | Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic: معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي Arabic pronunciation: [muʕamar al.qaðaːfiː]; /ˈmoʊ.əmɑːr ɡəˈdɑːfi/; audio (help·info); c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi,[b] was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revo... | What was Gaddifi's original political viewpoint? | {'text': 'Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism', 'answer_start': 494} |
55,882 | 55,540 | 5a13199f6614be00188f255c | generic | The term Hokkien (福建; hɔk˥˥kɪɛn˨˩) is itself a term not used in Chinese to refer to the dialect, as it simply means Fujian province. In Chinese linguistics, these dialects are known by their classification under the Quanzhang Division (Chinese: 泉漳片; pinyin: Quánzhāng piàn) of Min Nan, which comes from the first charact... | What term is used in central assia to fefer to Min-nan dialects? | {'text': 'Hokkien', 'answer_start': 718} |
10,373 | 10,031 | 56df865956340a1900b29cee | generic | Lighting design as it applies to the built environment is known as 'architectural lighting design'. Lighting of structures considers aesthetic elements as well as practical considerations of quantity of light required, occupants of the structure, energy efficiency and cost. Artificial lighting takes into account the am... | What type of factor calculation can be used to find out how much daylight is received in a internal space. | {'text': 'Daylight factor calculation.', 'answer_start': 376} |
55,199 | 54,857 | 572627a5ec44d21400f3da68 | generic | Downstream operations, which now also includes the chemicals business, generates a third of Shell's profits worldwide and is known for its global network of more than 40,000 petrol stations and its 47 oil refineries. The downstream business, which in some countries also included oil refining, generally included a retai... | Downstream operations produces what percent of Shell's profits worldwide? | {'text': 'a third', 'answer_start': 81} |
76,792 | 76,450 | 5a7f79a448f7d9001a06378e | generic | However, not all highest courts are named as such. Civil law states do not tend to have singular highest courts. Additionally, the highest court in some jurisdictions is not named the "Supreme Court", for example, the High Court of Australia; this is because decisions by the High Court could formerly be appealed to the... | What is the Courts of Appeal superseded by in England? | {'text': 'Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales', 'answer_start': 561} |
48,345 | 48,003 | 571ac0904faf5e1900b8ac4a | generic | In March 2001, 40 multi-national pharmaceutical companies brought litigation against South Africa for its Medicines Act, which allowed the generic production of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for treating HIV, despite the fact that these drugs were on-patent. HIV was and is an epidemic in South Africa, and ARVs at the tim... | How many signatures were collected by MSF? | {'text': '250,000 signatures', 'answer_start': 790} |
48,170 | 47,828 | 571a7d3f4faf5e1900b8a9e2 | generic | A series of experiments performed from the late 1800s to the early 1900s revealed that diabetes is caused by the absence of a substance normally produced by the pancreas. In 1869, Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering found that diabetes could be induced in dogs by surgical removal of the pancreas. In 1921, Canadian pr... | How can diabetes be induced in dogs? | {'text': 'surgical removal of the pancreas', 'answer_start': 266} |
114,501 | 114,159 | 5a79eb9a17ab25001a8a01d1 | generic | Along with the general administration of the sport, football associations and competition organisers also enforce good conduct in wider aspects of the game, dealing with issues such as comments to the press, clubs' financial management, doping, age fraud and match fixing. Most competitions enforce mandatory suspensions... | What is never allowed as recourse for player suspensions? | {'text': 'appeals', 'answer_start': 592} |
57,106 | 56,764 | 57267da5708984140094c7ed | generic | Napoleon's triumph at Marengo secured his political authority and boosted his popularity back home, but it did not lead to an immediate peace. Bonaparte's brother, Joseph, led the complex negotiations in Lunéville and reported that Austria, emboldened by British support, would not acknowledge the new territory that Fra... | Where did Moreau achieve his major victory against Austria in December 1800? | {'text': 'Hohenlinden', 'answer_start': 540} |
7,178 | 6,836 | 56d630a31c85041400946fc7 | generic | Dog meat is consumed in some East Asian countries, including Korea, China, and Vietnam, a practice that dates back to antiquity. It is estimated that 13–16 million dogs are killed and consumed in Asia every year. Other cultures, such as Polynesia and pre-Columbian Mexico, also consumed dog meat in their history. Howeve... | In rural Poland areas, what is considered medicinal for lungs? | {'text': 'dog fat', 'answer_start': 495} |
20,023 | 19,681 | 5ad3cdcd604f3c001a3ff1a8 | generic | The 1961 eruption of Queen Mary's Peak forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to England. The following year a Royal Society expedition went to the islands to assess the damage, and reported that the settlement of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas had been only marginally affected. Most families returne... | By when had most families left the islands? | {'text': '1963', 'answer_start': 325} |
40,781 | 40,439 | 570d3e82fed7b91900d45d85 | generic | World War I demonstrated that aircraft could be an important part of the battlefield, but in some nations it was the prospect of strategic air attack that was the main issue, presenting both a threat and an opportunity. The experience of four years of air attacks on London by Zeppelins and Gotha G.V bombers had particu... | The four year air attack was instrumental in Britain forming what? | {'text': 'an independent air force', 'answer_start': 399} |
97,764 | 97,422 | 5ace399032bba1001ae49f35 | generic | The term "Islamic education" means education in the light of Islam itself, which is rooted in the teachings of the Quran - holy book of Muslims. Islamic education and Muslim education are not the same. Because Islamic education has epistemological integration which is founded on Tawhid - Oneness or monotheism. For deta... | What is the meaning of non-Islamic education? | {'text': 'education in the light of Islam itself', 'answer_start': 35} |
72,148 | 71,806 | 572832faff5b5019007d9ee6 | generic | Ibn Khaldun can be regarded as the earliest scientific systematic sociologist. The modern sociology, emerged in the early 19th century as the academic response to the modernization of the world. Among many early sociologists (e.g., Émile Durkheim), the aim of sociology was in structuralism, understanding the cohesion o... | What was Ibn Khaldun's profession? | {'text': 'scientific systematic sociologist', 'answer_start': 44} |
90,211 | 89,869 | 572891182ca10214002da479 | generic | In 1928, he earned a doctorate in psychology, under the supervision of Karl Bühler. His dissertation was entitled "Die Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie" (The question of method in cognitive psychology). In 1929, he obtained the authorisation to teach mathematics and physics in secondary school, which he started doing.... | What is an English translation of the title of Popper's doctoral thesis? | {'text': 'The question of method in cognitive psychology', 'answer_start': 155} |
15,006 | 14,664 | 56dfbe7c231d4119001abd71 | generic | For customers with more demanding requirements (such as medium-to-large businesses, or other ISPs) can use higher-speed DSL (such as single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line), Ethernet, metropolitan Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN Primary Rate Interface, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and synchron... | what does atm stand for in relation to internet providers? | {'text': 'Asynchronous Transfer Mode', 'answer_start': 280} |
31,873 | 31,531 | 570ab7096d058f19001830ad | generic | The primary city airport is George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), the tenth-busiest in the United States for total passengers, and twenty eighth-busiest worldwide. Bush Intercontinental currently ranks fourth in the United States for non-stop domestic and international service with 182 destinations. In 2006, the ... | How many destinations does George Bush Intercontinental Airport serve? | {'text': '182', 'answer_start': 289} |
30,095 | 29,753 | 57061d0c75f01819005e79a6 | generic | The MP3 lossy audio data compression algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called auditory masking. In 1894, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer reported that a tone could be rendered inaudible by another tone of lower frequency. In 1959, Richard Ehmer described a complete set of audi... | The initial work was aimed at determining critical ratios and what else? | {'text': 'critical bandwidths', 'answer_start': 590} |
30,959 | 30,617 | 5707171c9e06ca38007e93fc | generic | The state united behind the Plan of Ayutla and ratified the new constitution in 1855. The state was able to survive through the Reform War with minimal damage due to the large number of liberal political figures. The 1858 conservative movement did not succeed in the state even after the successful military campaign of ... | The state was able to survive through which war? | {'text': 'Reform War', 'answer_start': 128} |
96,087 | 95,745 | 5729e3feaf94a219006aa6aa | generic | For "closed systems" with no external source or sink of energy, the first law of thermodynamics states that a system's energy is constant unless energy is transferred in or out by mechanical work or heat, and that no energy is lost in transfer. This means that it is impossible to create or destroy energy. While heat ca... | What states that the system doing work always loses some energy as waste heat? | {'text': 'second law of thermodynamics', 'answer_start': 475} |
107,984 | 107,642 | 5a8a4c4d3b2508001a72aa0b | generic | The Party of Reconstruction in Sicily, which claimed 40,000 members in 1944, campaigned for Sicily to be admitted as a U.S. state. This party was one of several Sicilian separatist movements active after the downfall of Italian Fascism. Sicilians felt neglected or underrepresented by the Italian government after the an... | When did the Sicilian invasion of the Allies occur? | {'text': 'July–August 1943', 'answer_start': 504} |
95,788 | 95,446 | 5ace3b7d32bba1001ae49faf | generic | Of great importance are the many species of salamanders and, in particular, the lungless species (Family Plethodontidae) that live in great abundance concealed by leaves and debris, on the forest floor. Most frequently seen, however, is the eastern or red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), whose terrestrial eft ... | What is the name of the most commonly seen salamander? | {'text': 'eastern or red-spotted newt', 'answer_start': 241} |
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