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16,282 | 15,940 | 56e0fbf67aa994140058e873 | generic | The US and USSR began discussions on the peaceful uses of space as early as 1958, presenting issues for debate to the United Nations, which created a Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in 1959. | The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was established in what year? | {'text': '1959', 'answer_start': 199} |
100,481 | 100,139 | 5acd81be07355d001abf44cf | generic | Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve. Where there is a will, ... | The internet cannot supplement what resources in school? | {'text': 'teachers and textbooks', 'answer_start': 738} |
2,121 | 1,779 | 56ce75d4aab44d1400b887bf | generic | Though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales to be relatively slow until 2004. The iPod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category, when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had we... | What other popular music player did Apple compare their new product to? | {'text': 'the Walkman', 'answer_start': 1203} |
30,065 | 29,723 | 5706fbf590286e26004fc7a9 | generic | Most graduate immunology schools follow the AAI courses immunology which are offered throughout numerous schools in the United States. For example, in New York State, there are several universities that offer the AAI courses immunology: Albany Medical College, Cornell University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai... | The Langone Medical Center is part of what college? | {'text': 'New York University', 'answer_start': 322} |
73,636 | 73,294 | 5a8c81c9fd22b3001a8d898f | generic | The competition is open to any club down to Level 10 of the English football league system which meets the eligibility criteria. All clubs in the top four levels (the Premier League and the three divisions of the Football League) are automatically eligible. Clubs in the next six levels (non-league football) are also el... | Who is not automatically eligible? | {'text': 'All clubs in the top four levels', 'answer_start': 129} |
33,507 | 33,165 | 5acd177707355d001abf3456 | generic | Beer is sold in bottles and cans; it may also be available on draught, particularly in pubs and bars. The brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. The strength of beer is usually aro... | What is the strength of beer in pubs? | {'text': '4% to 6%', 'answer_start': 324} |
101,497 | 101,155 | 572eb9e9cb0c0d14000f14ce | generic | The Saxon and Austrian armies were unprepared, and their forces were scattered. Frederick occupied Dresden with little or no opposition from the Saxons. At the Battle of Lobositz on 1 October 1756, Frederick prevented the isolated Saxon army from being reinforced by an Austrian army under General Browne. The Prussians ... | What was the result of the fury of Europe? | {'text': 'led to the strengthening of the anti-Prussian coalition', 'answer_start': 528} |
965 | 623 | 56d4eb762ccc5a1400d83351 | generic | Beyoncé has received numerous awards. As a solo artist she has sold over 15 million albums in the US, and over 118 million records worldwide (a further 60 million additionally with Destiny's Child), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) listed... | How many certifications did RIAA give Beyoncé? | {'text': '64', 'answer_start': 387} |
104,739 | 104,397 | 57303fb704bcaa1900d77403 | generic | Charleston's oldest community theater group, the Footlight Players, has provided theatrical productions since 1931. A variety of performing arts venues includes the historic Dock Street Theatre. The annual Charleston Fashion Week held each spring in Marion Square brings in designers, journalists, and clients from acros... | What is Charleston's oldest community theater group? | {'text': 'the Footlight Players', 'answer_start': 45} |
39,485 | 39,143 | 5ad18acc645df0001a2d1edb | generic | The Qur'an relates detailed narrative accounts of Maryam (Mary) in two places, Qur'an 3:35–47 and 19:16–34. These state beliefs in both the Immaculate Conception of Mary and the Virgin birth of Jesus. The account given in Sura 19 is nearly identical with that in the Gospel according to Luke, and both of these (Luke, Su... | Who told Jesus that Mary would be the mother of Jesus? | {'text': 'an angel', 'answer_start': 531} |
122,898 | 122,556 | 5731dc7ae99e3014001e635f | generic | Jeffries and Ryan (2001) argue that the modern concept of separation of church and state dates from the mid-twentieth century rulings of the Supreme Court. The central point, they argue, was a constitutional ban against aid to religious schools, followed by a later ban on religious observance in public education. Jeffr... | How many propositions make up the separationist position on the Establishment Clause? | {'text': 'two', 'answer_start': 350} |
51,729 | 51,387 | 5725c950271a42140099d1b6 | generic | The architecture of Montevideo ranges from Neoclassical buildings such as the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral to the Postmodern style of the World Trade Center Montevideo or the 158-metre (518 ft) ANTEL Telecommunication Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the country. The Along with the Telecommunications Tower, the Pa... | What style of building is the World Trade Center Montevideo? | {'text': 'Postmodern', 'answer_start': 119} |
31,215 | 30,873 | 57096b77ed30961900e840da | 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... | All these different methods have what in common? | {'text': 'the octave', 'answer_start': 587} |
30,522 | 30,180 | 5706aab252bb891400689b3b | generic | Juan Atkins, an originator of Detroit techno music, claims the term "house" reflected the exclusive association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs; those records helped differentiate the clubs and DJs, and thus were considered to be their "house" records. In an effort to maintain such exclusives, the DJ... | What did Atkins claim the term house reflected? | {'text': 'the exclusive association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs', 'answer_start': 86} |
125,053 | 124,711 | 573271ece17f3d140042297f | generic | In late 1952 Eisenhower went to Korea and discovered a military and political stalemate. Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice was not concluded. His earlier military reputation in Europe was effective with the Chinese. The National... | Where did the Chinese begin to increase forces after Eisenhower entered the White House? | {'text': 'Kaesong sanctuary', 'answer_start': 145} |
1,579 | 1,237 | 56d3711659d6e414001463d1 | generic | In April, during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and at numerous receptions in great houses. This tour was suggested to him by his Scottish pupil Jane Stirling and her elder sister. Stirling also made all the logistical arrangements and provided much of the ne... | What was happening in April 1848 in Paris? | {'text': 'Revolution', 'answer_start': 21} |
18,367 | 18,025 | 5acd2d3c07355d001abf37ee | generic | The two different historical Estonian languages (sometimes considered dialects), the North and South Estonian languages, are based on the ancestors of modern Estonians' migration into the territory of Estonia in at least two different waves, both groups speaking considerably different Finnic vernaculars. Modern standar... | The two waves of migration into Estonian spoke the exact same type of what language? | {'text': 'Finnic vernaculars', 'answer_start': 286} |
78,934 | 78,592 | 5727e1d64b864d1900163f2f | generic | As the image of God grows within man, he learns to rely less on an intellectual pursuit of virtue and more on an affective pursuit of charity and meekness. Meekness and charity guide Christians to acknowledge that they are nothing without the One (God/Christ) who created them, sustains them, and guides them. Thus, man ... | What should man's nature be centered on? | {'text': 'the One', 'answer_start': 435} |
88,292 | 87,950 | 5ace7f8d32bba1001ae4a859 | generic | Nearly all polychaetes have parapodia that function as limbs, while other major annelid groups lack them. Parapodia are unjointed paired extensions of the body wall, and their muscles are derived from the circular muscles of the body. They are often supported internally by one or more large, thick chetae. The parapodia... | Where are cirri never found? | {'text': 'fused bundles of cilia', 'answer_start': 615} |
79,931 | 79,589 | 5727c45a2ca10214002d95cd | generic | Galicia was spared the worst of the fighting in that war: it was one of the areas where the initial coup attempt at the outset of the war was successful, and it remained in Nationalist (Franco's army's) hands throughout the war. While there were no pitched battles, there was repression and death: all political parties ... | Which admiral who hadn't joined the rebellion was also a victim? | {'text': 'Antonio Azarola', 'answer_start': 1316} |
60,798 | 60,456 | 57268034708984140094c81c | generic | The changing world order that the war had brought about, in particular the growth of the United States and Japan as naval powers, and the rise of independence movements in India and Ireland, caused a major reassessment of British imperial policy. Forced to choose between alignment with the United States or Japan, Brita... | British imperialism was being reconsidered in light of which territories' independence movements? | {'text': 'India and Ireland', 'answer_start': 172} |
114,160 | 113,818 | 5acd9c8407355d001abf4818 | generic | By the Late Middle Ages, Great Britain was separated into the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. Power in Ireland fluxed between Gaelic kingdoms, Hiberno-Norman lords and the English-dominated Lordship of Ireland. A similar situation existed in the Principality of Wales, which was slowly being annexed into the Kingdom o... | During the late Middle Ages, Ireland was separated into Scotland and what other country? | {'text': 'England', 'answer_start': 74} |
61,393 | 61,051 | 5726f43ff1498d1400e8f0d0 | generic | Madonna experimented with more folk and acoustic music in Music (2000) and American Life (2003). A change was noted in the content of the songs in Music, with most of them being simple love songs, but with an underlying tone of melancholy. According to Q magazine, American Life was characterized by "a thumping techno r... | What type of music did Madonna experimented with in Music? | {'text': 'folk and acoustic', 'answer_start': 31} |
126,186 | 125,844 | 573417154776f41900661847 | generic | The Statistics Portugal (Portuguese: INE - Instituto Nacional de Estatística) estimates that, according to the 2011 census, the population was 10,562,178 (of which 52% was female, 48% was male). This population has been relatively homogeneous for most of its history: a single religion (Catholicism) and a single languag... | What percentage of the Portuguese population in 2011 was male? | {'text': '48%', 'answer_start': 180} |
38,499 | 38,157 | 570ce23eb3d812140066d2ef | generic | The technical rules for the Japanese version of men's rhythmic gymnastics came around the 1970s. For individuals, only four types of apparatus are used: the double rings, the stick, the rope, and the clubs. Groups do not use any apparatus. The Japanese version includes tumbling performed on a spring floor. Points are a... | When did Japan hold the first of the Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics World Champtionship? | {'text': 'November 27–29, 2003', 'answer_start': 431} |
52,928 | 52,586 | 5ad18d4e645df0001a2d1f08 | generic | Luminous efficacy of a light source may be defined in two ways. The radiant luminous efficacy (LER) is the ratio of the visible light flux emitted (the luminous flux) to the total power radiated over all wavelengths. The source luminous efficacy (LES) is the ratio of the visible light flux emitted (the luminous flux) t... | What may be defined in three ways? | {'text': 'Luminous efficacy', 'answer_start': 0} |
109,327 | 108,985 | 5ace37ff32bba1001ae49eee | generic | Another group of residences, known as the Village, is located in the northwest corner of Danforth Campus. Only open to upperclassmen and January Scholars, the North Side consists of Millbrook Apartments, The Village, Village East on-campus apartments, and all fraternity houses except the Zeta Beta Tau house, which is o... | What is to the northeast of Washington University? | {'text': 'The Village', 'answer_start': 204} |
52,332 | 51,990 | 57266b04f1498d1400e8df2a | generic | Despite the Dutch presence in Indonesia for almost 350 years, as the Asian bulk of the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch language has no official status there and the small minority that can speak the language fluently are either educated members of the oldest generation, or employed in the legal profession, as some legal c... | What institution in Jakarta still teaches Dutch? | {'text': 'Erasmus Language Centre', 'answer_start': 456} |
112,420 | 112,078 | 573035d7b2c2fd1400568a87 | generic | The extraordinary demands of the Punic Wars, in addition to a shortage of manpower, exposed the tactical weaknesses of the manipular legion, at least in the short term. In 217 BC, near the beginning of the Second Punic War, Rome was forced to effectively ignore its long-standing principle that its soldiers must be both... | What were soldiers expected to own prior to the year 217 BC? | {'text': 'property', 'answer_start': 334} |
112,140 | 111,798 | 5ad0eaf1645df0001a2d0854 | generic | Its main body is solid sterling silver and silver gilt, while its plinth is made of malachite, a semi-precious stone. The plinth has a silver band around its circumference, upon which the names of the title-winning clubs are listed. Malachite's green colour is also representative of the green field of play. The design ... | What is made of solid gold and silver gilt? | {'text': 'main body', 'answer_start': 4} |
49,400 | 49,058 | 5723aae60dadf01500fa1f2b | generic | Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided... | What was the nickname given to Queen Victoria because all of her children married into noble families? | {'text': 'first cousin', 'answer_start': 21} |
23,269 | 22,927 | 56f8cd169e9bad19000a0530 | generic | The University of Southampton, which was founded in 1862 and received its Royal Charter as a university in 1952, has over 22,000 students. The university is ranked in the top 100 research universities in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010. In 2010, the THES - QS World University Rankings posit... | The University of Southampton has more than what number of students attending? | {'text': '22,000', 'answer_start': 122} |
128,203 | 127,861 | 5733ca05d058e614000b6263 | generic | Football gameday traditions During home games, activities occur all around campus and different dorms decorate their halls with a traditional item (e.g. Zahm House's two-story banner). Traditional activities begin at the stroke of midnight with the Drummers' Circle. This tradition involves the drum line of the Band of ... | What is displayed at Zahm House for football home games at Notre Dame? | {'text': 'two-story banner', 'answer_start': 166} |
76,793 | 76,451 | 5727737f708984140094dddb | generic | Some countries have multiple "supreme courts" whose respective jurisdictions have different geographical extents, or which are restricted to particular areas of law. In particular, countries with a federal system of government typically[citation needed] have both a federal supreme court (such as the Supreme Court of th... | Countries with more than one supreme court may divide their primacy by what factors? | {'text': 'different geographical extents, or which are restricted to particular areas of law', 'answer_start': 82} |
83,781 | 83,439 | 572801472ca10214002d9b3a | generic | From the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, large areas of India were annexed by the British East India Company of British Empire. Dissatisfaction with Company rule led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, after which the British provinces of India were directly administered by the British Crown and witnessed a per... | What party was the leader in the Indian independence movement of the 20th century? | {'text': 'Indian National Congress', 'answer_start': 530} |
20,596 | 20,254 | 56e79d0e37bdd419002c4237 | generic | Nanjing is endowed with rich natural resources, which include more than 40 kinds of minerals. Among them, iron and sulfur reserves make up 40 percent of those of Jiangsu province. Its reserves of strontium rank first in East Asia and the South East Asia region. Nanjing also possesses abundant water resources, both from... | For what mineral reserve does Nanjing rank first in both East Asia and the South East Asia areas? | {'text': 'strontium', 'answer_start': 196} |
4,543 | 4,201 | 56d1170417492d1400aab8ff | 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 does the acronym PATH stand for? | {'text': 'Port Authority Trans-Hudson', 'answer_start': 106} |
28,422 | 28,080 | 56fc3b342603e7140040a039 | generic | In 1976 John Goldsmith introduced autosegmental phonology. Phonological phenomena are no longer seen as operating on one linear sequence of segments, called phonemes or feature combinations, but rather as involving some parallel sequences of features which reside on multiple tiers. Autosegmental phonology later evolved... | What did Autosegmental phonology morph into? | {'text': 'feature geometry', 'answer_start': 326} |
91,073 | 90,731 | 572923666aef051400154a94 | generic | Late Carboniferous and Early Permian insect orders include both extant groups, their stem groups, and a number of Paleozoic groups, now extinct. During this era, some giant dragonfly-like forms reached wingspans of 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in), making them far larger than any living insect. This gigantism may have been du... | The insect orders include a number of what kind of groups? | {'text': 'Paleozoic groups', 'answer_start': 114} |
93,534 | 93,192 | 5a670250f038b7001ab0c16f | generic | Glass remained a luxury material, and the disasters that overtook Late Bronze Age civilizations seem to have brought glass-making to a halt. Indigenous development of glass technology in South Asia may have begun in 1730 BCE. In ancient China, though, glassmaking seems to have a late start, compared to ceramics and met... | What city was a center of metal work for the Romans? | {'text': 'Trier', 'answer_start': 422} |
11,887 | 11,545 | 56de6bdacffd8e1900b4b89b | generic | During the English Civil War Plymouth sided with the Parliamentarians and was besieged for almost four years by the Royalists. The last major attack by the Royalist was by Sir Richard Grenville leading thousands of soldiers towards Plymouth, but they were defeated by the Plymothians at Freedom Fields Park. The civil wa... | In what year did Charles II ascend to the throne? | {'text': '1660', 'answer_start': 400} |
124,228 | 123,886 | 573234a9e17f3d1400422722 | generic | Armenia established a Church that still exists independently of both the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches, having become so in 451 AD as a result of its stance regarding the Council of Chalcedon. Today this church is known as the Armenian Apostolic Church, which is a part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, n... | What is Armenia's church called? | {'text': 'Armenian Apostolic Church', 'answer_start': 240} |
88,363 | 88,021 | 5ace874132bba1001ae4a981 | generic | Feeding structures in the mouth region vary widely, and have little correlation with the animals' diets. Many polychaetes have a muscular pharynx that can be everted (turned inside out to extend it). In these animals the foremost few segments often lack septa so that, when the muscles in these segments contract, the sh... | What do annelids use robots for? | {'text': 'seizing prey, biting off pieces of vegetation, or grasping dead and decaying matter', 'answer_start': 496} |
74,998 | 74,656 | 5a3165aee4dcb1001abb22be | generic | Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations. This view of Baptist origins has the most historical support and is the most widely accepted. Adherents to this position consider the influence of Anabaptists upon early... | Who was never willing to give up their theological roots? | {'text': 'churches', 'answer_start': 429} |
48,551 | 48,209 | 5ad39294604f3c001a3fe6af | generic | Drug discovery and development is very expensive; of all compounds investigated for use in humans only a small fraction are eventually approved in most nations by government appointed medical institutions or boards, who have to approve new drugs before they can be marketed in those countries. In 2010 18 NMEs (New Molec... | Who reported the stable average rate in 2007? | {'text': 'Professors Light and Lexchin', 'answer_start': 1095} |
23,256 | 22,914 | 56f8c9c59e9bad19000a04ea | generic | Southampton's fire cover is provided by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. There are three fire stations within the city boundaries at St Mary's, Hightown and Redbridge. | Who handles fires in Southampton? | {'text': 'Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service', 'answer_start': 40} |
66,977 | 66,635 | 5726abd7f1498d1400e8e6b9 | generic | As Secretary of State Montini coordinated the activities of assistance to the persecuted hidden in convents, parishes, seminaries, and in ecclesiastical schools. At the request of the pope, together with Pascalina Lehnert, Ferdinando Baldelli and Otto Faller, he created the Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza, which a... | What organization did Montini form with other fellow officials to help refugees? | {'text': 'Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza', 'answer_start': 275} |
14,967 | 14,625 | 5a10c96506e79900185c33f6 | generic | In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989. | What did the world do in 1999? | {'text': 'Its first customer was served', 'answer_start': 159} |
3,493 | 3,151 | 56cebf6aaab44d1400b889a3 | generic | General Secretary and President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Soon afterward, the Ministry of Health said that it had sent te... | What did Jiabao oversee in the region? | {'text': 'the rescue work', 'answer_start': 240} |
108 | 108 | 138435 | pubqa | In the winter and spring of 2011 a large outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in Skellefte municipality, Sweden. This study summarizes the outbreak investigation in terms of outbreak size, duration, clinical characteristics, possible source(s) and the potential for earlier detection using calls to a health advice lin... | What is the event?
| {'answer_id': 265072, 'document_id': 394251, 'question_id': 138435, 'text': ' outbreak of cryptosporidiosis', 'answer_start': 40, 'answer_category': 'LONG'} |
41,056 | 40,714 | 570da9dadf2f5219002ed0da | generic | In 1925 the British adopted a new instrument developed by Vickers. It was a mechanical analogue computer Predictor AA No 1. Given the target height its operators tracked the target and the predictor produced bearing, quadrant elevation and fuse setting. These were passed electrically to the guns where they were display... | What was the designation name of the Sperry device in the US? | {'text': 'M3A3', 'answer_start': 714} |
31,141 | 30,799 | 5707feb09e06ca38007e94d9 | generic | Shias believe that Imamah is of the Principles of Faith (Usul al-Din).As the verse 4:165 of quran expresses the necessity to the appointment of the prophets; so after the demise of the prophet who will play the role of the prophet; till the people have not any plea against Allah.So the same logic that necessitated the ... | Who believe that Imamah is of the Principles of Faith? | {'text': 'Shias', 'answer_start': 0} |
129,232 | 128,890 | 57345641acc1501500babe07 | generic | Richmond is not home to any major league professional sports teams, but since 2013, the Washington Redskins of the National Football League have held their summer training camp in the city. There are also several minor league sports in the city, including the Richmond Kickers of the USL Professional Division (third tie... | Where did the Richmond Braves move to? | {'text': 'Georgia', 'answer_start': 796} |
25,754 | 25,412 | 56f96cf39b226e1400dd142f | generic | 40°48′52″N 73°56′53″W / 40.814583°N 73.947944°W / 40.814583; -73.947944 132nd Street runs east-west above Central Park and is located in Harlem just south of Hamilton Heights. The main portion of 132nd Street runs eastbound from Frederick Douglass Boulevard to northern end of Park Avenue where there is a southbound ... | West 132nd Street is interrupted by St. Nicholas Park and which college? | {'text': 'City College', 'answer_start': 415} |
24,521 | 24,179 | 56f7fb3ea6d7ea1400e17357 | generic | Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on... | Who is the main character in the Aeneid? | {'text': 'Aeneas', 'answer_start': 261} |
94,777 | 94,435 | 5acfba9e77cf76001a685ad7 | 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 all zinc(l) compounds contain? | {'text': '[Zn2]2+', 'answer_start': 136} |
110,720 | 110,378 | 572fcaa9947a6a140053ccc0 | generic | Bacterial growth follows four phases. When a population of bacteria first enter a high-nutrient environment that allows growth, the cells need to adapt to their new environment. The first phase of growth is the lag phase, a period of slow growth when the cells are adapting to the high-nutrient environment and preparing... | How many phase are in the growth of bacteria? | {'text': 'four phases', 'answer_start': 25} |
3,046 | 2,704 | 56ced14baab44d1400b88ace | generic | A brief shoot at London's City Hall was filmed on 18 April 2015, while Mendes was on location. On 17 May 2015 filming took place on the Thames in London. Stunt scenes involving Craig and Seydoux on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night, with filming temporarily closin... | Which organization provided water for weather effects? | {'text': 'London Fire Brigade', 'answer_start': 545} |
77,448 | 77,106 | 5727c39d2ca10214002d95b1 | generic | The term "high fidelity" was coined in the 1920s by some manufacturers of radio receivers and phonographs to differentiate their better-sounding products claimed as providing "perfect" sound reproduction. The term began to be used by some audio engineers and consumers through the 1930s and 1940s. After 1949 a variety o... | What magazines provided reviews for audio equipment? | {'text': 'High Fidelity and Audio', 'answer_start': 620} |
98,121 | 97,779 | 572a7388fed8de19000d5c1f | generic | Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer, a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay, with its highest point peaking around the cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah. Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from this aquifer. As a resu... | Along with Miami Springs, where is the highest point of the Biscayne Aquifer? | {'text': 'Hialeah', 'answer_start': 220} |
59,096 | 58,754 | 5acd969f07355d001abf47b2 | generic | As of 2010, those of Hispanic or Latino ancestry ancestry accounted for 22.5% (4,223,806) of Florida's population. Out of the 22.5%, the largest groups were 6.5% (1,213,438) Cuban, 4.5% (847,550) Puerto Rican, 3.3% (629,718) Mexican, and 1.6% (300,414) Colombian. Florida's Hispanic population includes large communities... | What percentage of the Florida population in 2001 was Colombian? | {'text': '1.6%', 'answer_start': 238} |
11,644 | 11,302 | 56de6f77cffd8e1900b4b8bb | generic | As a boy, Schwarzenegger played several sports, heavily influenced by his father. He picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his soccer coach took his team to a local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over soccer as a career. Schwarzenegger has responded to a question asking if he was 13 when he started we... | Who starred in the first movie Schwarzenegger remembers seeing? | {'text': 'John Wayne', 'answer_start': 2155} |
29,095 | 28,753 | 5705f30452bb891400689708 | generic | During the 19th century, it was not infrequent for the Foreign Office to approach The Times and ask for continental intelligence, which was often superior to that conveyed by official sources.[citation needed] | Which agency often used The Times for continental intelligence? | {'text': 'the Foreign Office', 'answer_start': 51} |
46,368 | 46,026 | 5ad2ad23d7d075001a429ec9 | generic | The Famicom contained no lockout hardware and, as a result, unlicensed cartridges (both legitimate and bootleg) were extremely common throughout Japan and the Far East. The original NES (but not the top-loading NES-101) contained the 10NES lockout chip, which significantly increased the challenges faced by unlicensed d... | What was the lockout chip number for the UK and Canada? | {'text': '3193', 'answer_start': 821} |
129,254 | 128,912 | 57345902acc1501500babe22 | generic | In 1990 religion and politics intersected to impact the outcome of the Eighth District election in South Richmond. With the endorsements of black power brokers, black clergy and the Richmond Crusade for Voters, South Richmond residents made history, electing Reverend A. Carl Prince to the Richmond City Council. As the ... | What is the current mayor of Richmond? | {'text': 'Dwight C. Jones', 'answer_start': 892} |
129,110 | 128,768 | 57343e3a4776f41900661aef | generic | As of the census of 2000, there were 197,790 people, 84,549 households, and 43,627 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,292.6 people per square mile (1,271.3/km²). There were 92,282 housing units at an average density of 1,536.2 per square mile (593.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 38.3%... | What percentage of the Richmond population of 2000 was Pacific Islander? | {'text': '0.1', 'answer_start': 386} |
97,523 | 97,181 | 572aba88111d821400f38d00 | generic | Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n... | What ideology did Hayek not agree with in an essay appended to The Constitution of Liberty? | {'text': 'conservatism', 'answer_start': 133} |
64,138 | 63,796 | 5ad3e94f604f3c001a3ff683 | generic | Rare books are found in several Yale collections. The Beinecke Rare Book Library has a large collection of rare books and manuscripts. The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library includes important historical medical texts, including an impressive collection of rare books, as well as historical medical instrume... | What library has a tiny assortment of rare books and manuscripts? | {'text': 'The Beinecke Rare Book Library', 'answer_start': 50} |
3,029 | 2,687 | 56cdf49362d2951400fa69c4 | generic | With filming completed in Rome, production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence, with scenes to include the Day of the Dead festival filmed in and around the Zócalo and the Centro Histórico district. The planned scenes required the city square to be closed for filming a sequence invol... | Where were the scenes featuring planes shot? | {'text': 'Palenque', 'answer_start': 681} |
53,637 | 53,295 | 5a0cf49bf5590b0018dab6a1 | generic | In Western societies, skirts, dresses and high-heeled shoes are usually seen as women's clothing, while neckties are usually seen as men's clothing. Trousers were once seen as exclusively male clothing, but are nowadays worn by both genders. Male clothes are often more practical (that is, they can function well under a... | Female clothing is often more what? | {'text': 'practical', 'answer_start': 270} |
21,679 | 21,337 | 56e8dca40b45c0140094cd24 | generic | In 1535, the abbey's annual income of £2400–2800[citation needed] (£1,310,000 to £1,530,000 as of 2016), during the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it second in wealth only to Glastonbury Abbey. | During what was the abbey made second in wealth? | {'text': 'the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries', 'answer_start': 112} |
92,426 | 92,084 | 57295eafaf94a219006aa335 | generic | One elector in Minnesota cast a ballot for president with the name of "John Ewards" [sic] written on it. The Electoral College officials certified this ballot as a vote for John Edwards for president. The remaining nine electors cast ballots for John Kerry. All ten electors in the state cast ballots for John Edwards f... | In the 1800 election, why did Thomas Jefferson get the second vote? | {'text': 'it violated Electoral College rules', 'answer_start': 878} |
85,235 | 84,893 | 5a7a677f21c2de001afe9bda | generic | The first President of the Bank was Wim Duisenberg, the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary Institute. While Duisenberg had been the head of the EMI (taking over from Alexandre Lamfalussy of Belgium) just before the ECB came into existence, the French government wanted Jean-Claude Trich... | Who was the first president to be lost from the ECB? | {'text': 'Wim Duisenberg', 'answer_start': 36} |
43,672 | 43,330 | 570e35d20b85d914000d7d6e | generic | Uranium is more plentiful than antimony, tin, cadmium, mercury, or silver, and it is about as abundant as arsenic or molybdenum. Uranium is found in hundreds of minerals, including uraninite (the most common uranium ore), carnotite, autunite, uranophane, torbernite, and coffinite. Significant concentrations of uranium ... | Along with silver, mercury, tin and cadmium, what metal is uranium more plentiful than? | {'text': 'antimony', 'answer_start': 31} |
27,893 | 27,551 | 56fb2c94f34c681400b0c1ec | generic | During the High Middle Ages, which began after 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and the Medieval Warm Period climate change allowed crop yields to increase. Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and ... | What event led to larger crop yields in the High Middle Ages? | {'text': 'the Medieval Warm Period', 'answer_start': 172} |
88,963 | 88,621 | 5728464e3acd2414000df855 | generic | The conflict in northern Mali began in January 2012 with radical Islamists (affiliated to al-Qaeda) advancing into northern Mali. The Malian government had a hard time maintaining full control over their country. The fledgling government requested support from the international community on combating the Islamic milita... | When did France provide troops in Mali? | {'text': 'January 2013', 'answer_start': 328} |
85,686 | 85,344 | 57282d193acd2414000df653 | generic | St. John's is served by the Eastern School District, the largest school district in Newfoundland and Labrador by student population. There are currently 36 primary, elementary and secondary schools in the city of St. John's, including three private schools. St. John's also includes one school that is part of the provin... | What is the tuition per academic year at Memorial University of Newfoundland? | {'text': '$2,644', 'answer_start': 1100} |
70,789 | 70,447 | 5726e30ddd62a815002e93f9 | generic | Everything in between the far south and the far north is savannah (insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees). Rainfall is more limited, to between 500 and 1,500 millimetres (20 and 60 in) per year. The savannah zone's three categories are Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, Sudan savannah, an... | How many inches of rain does central Nigeria get each year? | {'text': 'between 500 and 1,500 millimetres (20 and 60 in)', 'answer_start': 171} |
110,174 | 109,832 | 57301e40a23a5019007fcdbe | generic | Near the intersection of Craycroft and Ft. Lowell Roads are the remnants of the Historic Fort Lowell. This area has become one of Tucson's iconic neighborhoods. In 1891, the Fort was abandoned and much of the interior was stripped of their useful components and it quickly fell into ruin. In 1900, three of the officer b... | Alan Harrington is considered part of what generation? | {'text': 'beat generation', 'answer_start': 1074} |
63,053 | 62,711 | 57268c78708984140094c9be | generic | According to Max Clifford: Read All About It, written by Clifford and Angela Levin, La Salle invented the story out of frustration with Starr who had been working on a book with McCaffrey. She contacted an acquaintance who worked for The Sun in Manchester. The story reportedly delighted MacKenzie, who was keen to run i... | How did attention from the story impact Starr's career? | {'text': 'the attention helped to revive his career', 'answer_start': 463} |
128,288 | 127,946 | 5733abaed058e614000b5fde | generic | Waitz was influential among the British ethnologists. In 1863 the explorer Richard Francis Burton and the speech therapist James Hunt broke away from the Ethnological Society of London to form the Anthropological Society of London, which henceforward would follow the path of the new anthropology rather than just ethnol... | Whose work did Hunt stress in the first volume of The Anthropological Review? | {'text': 'Waitz', 'answer_start': 598} |
18,634 | 18,292 | 56e74a8e00c9c71400d76f5b | generic | Its knowledge and uses spread from China through the Middle East to medieval Europe in the 13th century, where the first water powered paper mills were built. Because of paper's introduction to the West through the city of Baghdad, it was first called bagdatikos. In the 19th century, industrial manufacture greatly lowe... | In what century did the papermaking process spread from China to Europe? | {'text': '13th', 'answer_start': 91} |
118,421 | 118,079 | 5acfac4677cf76001a6857f0 | generic | Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution. Article 95 states, "The State shall actively promote and maintain the welfare of the people by adopting international policies aimed at the following: maintenance of ecosystems, ess... | What is the biggest country in the world to address conservation in its constitution? | {'text': 'Namibia', 'answer_start': 0} |
29,726 | 29,384 | 5706d7150eeca41400aa0e69 | generic | Theoretical analyses show that detours that increase flight distance by up to 20% will often be adaptive on aerodynamic grounds - a bird that loads itself with food to cross a long barrier flies less efficiently. However some species show circuitous migratory routes that reflect historical range expansions and are far ... | What percentage increase in flight distance will often be adaptive? | {'text': '20%', 'answer_start': 78} |
9,599 | 9,257 | 5ad38945604f3c001a3fe584 | generic | At the end of the Second World War, Canada possessed the fourth-largest air force and fifth-largest naval surface fleet in the world, as well as the largest volunteer army ever fielded. Conscription for overseas service was introduced only near the end of the war, and only 2,400 conscripts actually made it into battle.... | When did Canada possess the fourth-largest naval surface fleet? | {'text': 'At the end of the Second World War', 'answer_start': 0} |
18,497 | 18,155 | 5acd3eba07355d001abf3a15 | generic | Like Finnish, Estonian employs the Latin script as the basis for its alphabet, which adds the letters ä, ö, ü, and õ, plus the later additions š and ž. The letters c, q, w, x and y are limited to proper names of foreign origin, and f, z, š, and ž appear in loanwords and foreign names only. Ö and ü are pronounced simila... | What letters are not limited to proper names of foreign origin? | {'text': 'c, q, w, x and y', 'answer_start': 164} |
8,842 | 8,500 | 56de52a24396321400ee2804 | generic | There are two former institutes of technology, which already changed their name to "University of Technology": Rajamangala University of Technology (formerly Institute of Technology and Vocational Education) and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thonburi Technology Institute). | What was the previous name of Rajamangala University of Technology? | {'text': 'Institute of Technology and Vocational Education', 'answer_start': 158} |
106,677 | 106,335 | 5a0f25d8d7c85000188645c0 | generic | The Great Plains come to an abrupt end at the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains form a large portion of the Western U.S., entering from Canada and stretching nearly to Mexico. The Rocky Mountain region is the highest region of the United States by average elevation. The Rocky Mountains generally contain fairly mild ... | The Lowes peak of the Rockies is found in what state? | {'text': 'Mount Elbert', 'answer_start': 573} |
43,918 | 43,576 | 570e4fe50b85d914000d7e04 | generic | Uranium was also used in photographic chemicals (especially uranium nitrate as a toner), in lamp filaments for stage lighting bulbs, to improve the appearance of dentures, and in the leather and wood industries for stains and dyes. Uranium salts are mordants of silk or wool. Uranyl acetate and uranyl formate are used a... | Along with uranyl formate, what product of uranium is used in transmission electron microscopy? | {'text': 'Uranyl acetate', 'answer_start': 276} |
95,238 | 94,896 | 5a2c51d5bfd06b001a5aeb29 | generic | Throughout the history of the South Slavs, the vernacular, literary, and written languages (e.g. Chakavian, Kajkavian, Shtokavian) of the various regions and ethnicities developed and diverged independently. Prior to the 19th century, they were collectively called "Illyric", "Slavic", "Slavonian", "Bosnian", "Dalmatian... | What was the language unofficialy known as according to the Ottoman emprire? | {'text': '"Serbian" or "Croatian"', 'answer_start': 871} |
38,068 | 37,726 | 570bdf846b8089140040faad | generic | The number and variety of plants, animals and other organisms that exist is known as biodiversity. It is an essential component of nature and it ensures the survival of human species by providing food, fuel, shelter, medicines and other resources to mankind. The richness of biodiversity depends on the climatic conditio... | What ensures the survival of human species by providing food, shelter, other resources to mankind? | {'text': 'biodiversity', 'answer_start': 85} |
109,081 | 108,739 | 572f986a947a6a140053cab8 | generic | After working for many years at the University of Chicago, Arthur Holly Compton returned to St. Louis in 1946 to serve as Washington University's ninth chancellor. Compton reestablished the Washington University football team, making the declaration that athletics were to be henceforth played on a "strictly amateur" ba... | What helped lead to the increase of enrollment at Washington University during Arthur Holly Compton's term as chancellor? | {'text': "World War II veterans' use of their GI Bill benefits", 'answer_start': 451} |
128,312 | 127,970 | 5733addf4776f4190066100a | generic | This meagre statistic expanded in the 20th century to comprise anthropology departments in the majority of the world's higher educational institutions, many thousands in number. Anthropology has diversified from a few major subdivisions to dozens more. Practical anthropology, the use of anthropological knowledge and te... | What was anthropology diversified into dozens of? | {'text': 'subdivisions', 'answer_start': 224} |
50,482 | 50,140 | 5acf850e77cf76001a6850a1 | generic | There is no clear mechanism by which these local trade organisations became today's Masonic Lodges, but the earliest rituals and passwords known, from operative lodges around the turn of the 17th–18th centuries, show continuity with the rituals developed in the later 18th century by accepted or speculative Masons, as t... | When was the Lodge of Edinburgh abandoned? | {'text': '1598', 'answer_start': 508} |
119,817 | 119,475 | 57314ee9497a881900248d91 | generic | Most birds can fly, which distinguishes them from almost all other vertebrate classes. Flight is the primary means of locomotion for most bird species and is used for breeding, feeding, and predator avoidance and escape. Birds have various adaptations for flight, including a lightweight skeleton, two large flight muscl... | What distinguishes birds from almost all other vertebrate classes? | {'text': 'Most birds can fly,', 'answer_start': 0} |
56,120 | 55,778 | 5726320889a1e219009ac544 | generic | Due to its persistent cultural presence and to its novelty within the performing arts, wrestling constitutes a recurring topic in both academia and the media. Several documentaries have been produced looking at professional wrestling, most notably, Beyond the Mat directed by Barry W. Blaustein, and Wrestling with Shado... | What are the names of a couple wrestling documentaries? | {'text': 'Beyond the Mat directed by Barry W. Blaustein, and Wrestling with Shadows', 'answer_start': 249} |
90,144 | 89,802 | 572943f4af94a219006aa213 | generic | The Alaska State Troopers are Alaska's statewide police force. They have a long and storied history, but were not an official organization until 1941. Before the force was officially organized, law enforcement in Alaska was handled by various federal agencies. Larger towns usually have their own local police and some v... | In what year did Alaskan State Troopers become an official organization? | {'text': '1941', 'answer_start': 145} |
29,188 | 28,846 | 5706095a75f01819005e78c8 | generic | The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are ... | Since what year has The Times and The Sunday Times had an online presense? | {'text': '1999', 'answer_start': 71} |
93,163 | 92,821 | 5a7b9f0621c2de001afea1e3 | generic | Several certification programs exist to support the professional aspirations of software testers and quality assurance specialists. No certification now offered actually requires the applicant to show their ability to test software. No certification is based on a widely accepted body of knowledge. This has led some to ... | Certification is a measure of what? | {'text': 'productivity, their skill, or practical knowledge,', 'answer_start': 435} |
103,267 | 102,925 | 572e9584dfa6aa1500f8d199 | generic | Historically, AC motors were used for single or double speed elevator machines on the grounds of cost and lower usage applications where car speed and passenger comfort were less of an issue, but for higher speed, larger capacity elevators, the need for infinitely variable speed control over the traction machine become... | What is a known advantage of the MG set? | {'text': "electrically isolating the elevators from the rest of a building's electrical system", 'answer_start': 525} |
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