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86,817 | 86,475 | 5a81bdcf31013a001a334e26 | generic | The convergence of these various sources into a uniform theory of groups started with Camille Jordan's Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriques (1870). Walther von Dyck (1882) introduced the idea of specifying a group by means of generators and relations, and was also the first to give an axiomatic definit... | What was Issai Schur's theory on? | {'text': 'modular representation', 'answer_start': 580} |
10,340 | 9,998 | 56df510996943c1400a5d3a6 | generic | Color temperature for white light sources also affects their use for certain applications. The color temperature of a white light source is the temperature in Kelvin of a theoretical black body emitter that most closely matches the spectral characteristics of the lamp. An incandescent bulb has a color temperature aroun... | A lamp with more energy in the yellow and red spectrum are known to be? | {'text': 'Lower color temperature', 'answer_start': 375} |
90,686 | 90,344 | 5ad20e2bd7d075001a42829e | generic | Like any plucked instrument, mandolin notes decay to silence rather than sound out continuously as with a bowed note on a violin, and mandolin notes decay faster than larger stringed instruments like the guitar. This encourages the use of tremolo (rapid picking of one or more pairs of strings) to create sustained notes... | What is a slectrum? | {'text': 'pick', 'answer_start': 403} |
116,535 | 116,193 | 57306cfb2461fd1900a9ce04 | generic | Comparison of a back-translation with the original text is sometimes used as a check on the accuracy of the original translation, much as the accuracy of a mathematical operation is sometimes checked by reversing the operation. But the results of such reverse-translation operations, while useful as approximate checks, ... | What symbol set has a defining property of ambiguity? | {'text': 'linguistic', 'answer_start': 435} |
18,053 | 17,711 | 5ad139b1645df0001a2d128c | generic | Universal owned the rights to the "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" character, although Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks had created Oswald, and their films had enjoyed a successful theatrical run. After Charles Mintz had unsuccessfully demanded that Disney accept a lower fee for producing the property, Mintz produced the films with ... | What was Walt Disney a minor player in? | {'text': 'film animation', 'answer_start': 580} |
87,188 | 86,846 | 5a32eeb4bd0d7f001aef9518 | generic | There are many missionary groups operating in the country, including Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, Grace Brethren, and Jehovah's Witnesses. While these missionaries are predominantly from the United States, France, Italy, and Spain, many are also from Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other African c... | What have rebel forces done after the fighting in 2002-3? | {'text': 'returned to continue their work', 'answer_start': 474} |
123,506 | 123,164 | 5731e50f0fdd8d15006c6619 | generic | In 2014, the airport received 15 new boarding bridges, totalling 28 in all. This was the main requirement made by the federal government, which transferred the operation of the terminal to the Inframerica Group after an auction. The group invested R$750 million in the project. In the same year, the number of parking sp... | How many boarding bridges does Brasilia's airport have? | {'text': '28', 'answer_start': 65} |
9,419 | 9,077 | 5a8012f38f0597001ac00179 | generic | Amensalism is an interaction where an organism inflicts harm to another organism without any costs or benefits received by the other. A clear case of amensalism is where sheep or cattle trample grass. Whilst the presence of the grass causes negligible detrimental effects to the animal's hoof, the grass suffers from bei... | What ethnicity are the ibex and the weevils? | {'text': 'Spanish', 'answer_start': 455} |
123,757 | 123,415 | 57321b1ae17f3d1400422699 | 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 year did Olympic Air receive an award as Top Domestic Airline? | {'text': '2011', 'answer_start': 544} |
81,819 | 81,477 | 5a4c3f987a6c4c001a2bbbc2 | generic | The rainfall inhibition and the dissipation of cloud cover are most accentuated over the eastern section of the Sahara rather than the western. The prevailing air mass lying above the Sahara is the continental tropical (cT) air mass which is hot and dry. Hot, dry air masses primarily form over the North-African desert ... | whattype of air masses form over Africa? | {'text': 'Hot, dry air', 'answer_start': 255} |
73,807 | 73,465 | 5a8ca9bffd22b3001a8d8cf1 | generic | After being rendered obsolete by the redesign, the 1895 replica was presented in 1910 to the FA's long-serving president Lord Kinnaird. Kinnaird died in 1923, and his family kept it in their possession, out of view, until putting it up for auction in 2005. It was duly sold at Christie's auction house on 19 May 2005 for... | Where was the Jules Rimet World Cup Trophy publicly displayed? | {'text': 'the National Football Museum', 'answer_start': 832} |
49,779 | 49,437 | 5723e7b30dadf01500fa1f97 | generic | At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne, who at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice. Charles Greville supposed that the widowed and childless Melbourne was "passionately fond of her as he might be of... | How many visitors came to London for Victorias coronation? | {'text': 'Over 400,000', 'answer_start': 464} |
65,571 | 65,229 | 572696dff1498d1400e8e491 | generic | Chinese political philosophy dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period, specifically with Confucius in the 6th century BC. Chinese political philosophy was developed as a response to the social and political breakdown of the country characteristic of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period. The majo... | What advocated a communal, decentralized government centered on frugality and ascetism? | {'text': 'Mohism', 'answer_start': 835} |
81,208 | 80,866 | 5727baf12ca10214002d94ed | generic | London has a diverse range of peoples and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within Greater London. The Office for National Statistics estimated its mid-2014 population to be 8,538,689, the largest of any municipality in the European Union, and accounting for 12.5 percent of the UK population. London's ur... | As of mid-2014, London's population forms what percentage of the entire United Kingdom population? | {'text': '12.5', 'answer_start': 274} |
116,816 | 116,474 | 57309157069b531400832196 | generic | Ground Control is responsible for directing all ground traffic in designated "movement areas", except the traffic on runways. This includes planes, baggage trains, snowplows, grass cutters, fuel trucks, stair trucks, airline food trucks, conveyor belt vehicles and other vehicles. Ground Control will instruct these vehi... | Who instructs vehicles on which taxiways to use? | {'text': 'Ground Control', 'answer_start': 281} |
55,385 | 55,043 | 5a39e3502f14dd001ac72631 | generic | In an influential 1988 paper, Timothy Rowe defined Mammalia phylogenetically as the crown group mammals, the clade consisting of the most recent common ancestor of living monotremes (echidnas and platypuses) and therian mammals (marsupials and placentals) and all descendants of that ancestor. Since this ancestor lived ... | In what period did mammals live? | {'text': 'the Jurassic period', 'answer_start': 323} |
124,406 | 124,064 | 57323ec2b9d445190005e90f | generic | Rutherford centralized organizational control of the Watch Tower Society. In 1919, he instituted the appointment of a director in each congregation, and a year later all members were instructed to report their weekly preaching activity to the Brooklyn headquarters. At an international convention held at Cedar Point, Oh... | Where as an international convention held in September of 1922? | {'text': 'Cedar Point, Ohio', 'answer_start': 305} |
16,187 | 15,845 | 56e07bc7231d4119001ac1c3 | generic | The American professor Robert H. Goddard had worked on developing solid-fuel rockets since 1914, and demonstrated a light battlefield rocket to the US Army Signal Corps only five days before the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. He also started developing liquid-fueled rockets in 1921; yet he had not bee... | What professor began working on solid-fuel rockets since 1914? | {'text': 'Robert H. Goddard', 'answer_start': 23} |
127,816 | 127,474 | 5aced97e32bba1001ae4b758 | generic | The parliamentary elections of 2005 aroused many accusations from opposition parties and international observers that President Emomalii Rahmon corruptly manipulates the election process and unemployment. The most recent elections, in February 2010, saw the ruling PDPT lose four seats in Parliament, yet still maintain ... | Which polling met many key OSCE commitments? | {'text': 'the 2010 polling', 'answer_start': 425} |
120,037 | 119,695 | 5731388f497a881900248c7b | generic | Faced with the stripping of their powers, Wu Sangui, later joined by Geng Zhongming and by Shang Kexi's son Shang Zhixin, felt they had no choice but to revolt. The ensuing Revolt of the Three Feudatories lasted for eight years. Wu attempted, ultimately in vain, to fire the embers of south China Ming loyalty by restori... | How long did the Revolt of the Three Feudatories last? | {'text': 'eight years', 'answer_start': 216} |
7,545 | 7,203 | 56db3241e7c41114004b4f29 | generic | India rejected Chinese demands that the torch route be clear of India's 150,000-strong Tibetan exile community, by which they required a ban on congregation near the curtailed 3 km route. In response Indian officials said India was a democracy, and "a wholesale ban on protests was out of the question". Contradicting so... | What Olympic group was denied by India? | {'text': 'Olympic Holy Flame Protection Unit', 'answer_start': 387} |
57,462 | 57,120 | 5a63a4b47f3c80001a150afb | generic | The Germanic peoples during the Migrations Period came into contact with other peoples; in the case of the populations settling in the territory of modern Germany, they encountered Celts to the south, and Balts and Slavs towards the east. The Limes Germanicus was breached in AD 260. Migrating Germanic tribes commingled... | What happened to the Huns after the Roman Empire collapsed? | {'text': 'Huns disappearing as a people in Europe', 'answer_start': 1127} |
21,978 | 21,636 | 5ad401b0604f3c001a3ffd23 | generic | In June 2009 the first major building work at the abbey for 250 years was proposed. A corona—a crown-like architectural feature—was intended to be built around the lantern over the central crossing, replacing an existing pyramidal structure dating from the 1950s. This was part of a wider £23m development of the abbey e... | What was proposed for the abbey in June 2008? | {'text': 'major building work', 'answer_start': 23} |
52,244 | 51,902 | 572644b91125e71900ae1933 | generic | The Germanic languages are traditionally divided into three groups: West, East and North Germanic. They remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration Period. Dutch is together with English and German part of the West Germanic group, that is characterized by a number of phonological and morphological innovatio... | What's the West Germanic dialect spoken in the North Sea region called? | {'text': 'Ingvaeonic', 'answer_start': 448} |
9,826 | 9,484 | 56df0a103277331400b4d8fb | generic | Only service dress is suitable for CAF members to wear on any occasion, barring "dirty work" or combat. With gloves, swords, and medals (No. 1 or 1A), it is suitable for ceremonial occasions and "dressed down" (No. 3 or lower), it is suitable for daily wear. Generally, after the elimination of base dress (although stil... | What is only worn for very specific occasions? | {'text': 'a ceremonial/regimental full dress', 'answer_start': 730} |
86,964 | 86,622 | 5a81f51431013a001a334fdd | generic | Exchanging "+" and "−" in the expression, i.e. permuting the two solutions of the equation can be viewed as a (very simple) group operation. Similar formulae are known for cubic and quartic equations, but do not exist in general for degree 5 and higher. Abstract properties of Galois groups associated with polynomials (... | What do cubic and quartic equations not have? | {'text': '(very simple) group operation', 'answer_start': 110} |
126,527 | 126,185 | 5a82191531013a001a3351ef | generic | In his book, Humanism (1997), Tony Davies calls these critics "humanist anti-humanists". Critics of antihumanism, most notably Jürgen Habermas, counter that while antihumanists may highlight humanism's failure to fulfil its emancipatory ideal, they do not offer an alternative emancipatory project of their own. Others, ... | What year was the book humanism forgotten? | {'text': '1997', 'answer_start': 23} |
110,773 | 110,431 | 572fdfbda23a5019007fcab3 | generic | Some species of bacteria kill and then consume other microorganisms, these species are called predatory bacteria. These include organisms such as Myxococcus xanthus, which forms swarms of cells that kill and digest any bacteria they encounter. Other bacterial predators either attach to their prey in order to digest the... | What technique do Daptobacter use in order to kill other microorganism? | {'text': 'invade another cell and multiply inside the cytosol', 'answer_start': 385} |
10,902 | 10,560 | 5acfa27f77cf76001a685660 | generic | Texts on architecture have been written since ancient time. These texts provided both general advice and specific formal prescriptions or canons. Some examples of canons are found in the writings of the 1st-century BCE Roman Architect Vitruvius. Some of the most important early examples of canonic architecture are reli... | What is an insignificant early architectural canonical type? | {'text': 'religious', 'answer_start': 316} |
59,177 | 58,835 | 57267746f1498d1400e8e09d | generic | The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Florida in 2010 was $748 billion. Its GDP is the fourth largest economy in the United States. In 2010, it became the fourth largest exporter of trade goods. The major contributors to the state's gross output in 2007 were general services, financial services, trade, transportation and... | What was Florida named in 2011 | {'text': 'Chief Executive Magazine name Florida the third "Best State for Business" in 2011', 'answer_start': 483} |
65,159 | 64,817 | 5726c713708984140094d140 | generic | The distinctive characteristic of English cathedrals is their extreme length, and their internal emphasis upon the horizontal, which may be emphasised visually as much or more than the vertical lines. Each English cathedral (with the exception of Salisbury) has an extraordinary degree of stylistic diversity, when compa... | What type of transepts do English cathedrals often feature? | {'text': 'double transepts', 'answer_start': 614} |
17,715 | 17,373 | 56e13daccd28a01900c676e3 | generic | In the city, the population was spread out with 21.9% at age 19 and under, 14.3% from 20 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.9 males... | What percentage of the City of Bostons population is 19 and under? | {'text': '21.9%', 'answer_start': 48} |
93,390 | 93,048 | 5a516c74ce860b001aa3fda0 | generic | The governments in Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg are designated by the term Senate. In the three free states of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia the government is referred to as the State Government (Staatsregierung), and in the other ten states the term Land Government (Landesregierung) is used. Before January 1, 2000, Bav... | What state has an appointed Landtag? | {'text': 'Bavaria', 'answer_start': 317} |
55,767 | 55,425 | 5a84765d7cf838001a46a823 | generic | Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it quickly became apparent that the boundaries between government control and the company's powers were nebulous and highly subjective. The government felt obliged to respond to humanitarian calls for better treatment of local peoples in British-occupied territories. Edmund Burke... | What kind of calls did the government ignore? | {'text': 'humanitarian calls for better treatment of local peoples in British-occupied territories', 'answer_start': 218} |
90,065 | 89,723 | 572904aeaf94a219006a9f57 | generic | Many communities have small air taxi services. These operations originated from the demand for customized transport to remote areas. Perhaps the most quintessentially Alaskan plane is the bush seaplane. The world's busiest seaplane base is Lake Hood, located next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, where fl... | Which plane is considered quintessentially Alaskan? | {'text': 'bush seaplane', 'answer_start': 188} |
18,052 | 17,710 | 5ad139b1645df0001a2d128b | generic | Universal owned the rights to the "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" character, although Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks had created Oswald, and their films had enjoyed a successful theatrical run. After Charles Mintz had unsuccessfully demanded that Disney accept a lower fee for producing the property, Mintz produced the films with ... | What was the first 1982 animated short? | {'text': 'Steamboat Willie', 'answer_start': 457} |
3,716 | 3,374 | 56d65a4b1c850414009470af | generic | The New York Times reported that "government officials in Beijing and Sichuan have said they are investigating the collapses. In an acknowledgment of the weakness of building codes in the countryside, the National Development and Reform Commission said on May 27 that it had drafted an amendment to improve construction ... | Who did the New York Times report was investigating the school collapses? | {'text': 'government officials', 'answer_start': 34} |
19,561 | 19,219 | 5a78bbafb73996001af5af89 | generic | RIBA Visiting Boards continue to assess courses for exemption from the RIBA's examinations in architecture. Under arrangements made in 2011 the validation criteria are jointly held by the RIBA and the Architects Registration Board, but unlike the ARB, the RIBA also validates courses outside the UK. | What is a key similarity between the ARB and Royal Institute? | {'text': 'RIBA also validates courses outside the UK', 'answer_start': 256} |
85,428 | 85,086 | 572831873acd2414000df6b2 | generic | Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council have also argued that European legislators have pushed somewhat dogmatically for the adoption of the Basel II recommendations, adopted in 2005, transposed in European Union law through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), effective since 2008. In essence, they forced ... | When was Basel II adopted? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 185} |
12,599 | 12,257 | 5acd0dfc07355d001abf3289 | generic | During the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a materialist conception of history centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity (practice, including labor) and the institutions created, reproduced, or destroyed by that activity (see materialist conc... | Who was Karl Marx's enemy? | {'text': 'Friedrich Engels', 'answer_start': 39} |
90,857 | 90,515 | 5ad22e93d7d075001a42866a | generic | The expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs. New orchestras were founded and new orchestral compositions composed. Japanese mandolin orchestras today ... | What country doesn't maintain strong classic music tradition with mandolin? | {'text': 'Japan', 'answer_start': 87} |
18,846 | 18,504 | 5ad69091191832001aa7b219 | generic | The ISO 216 system used in most other countries is based on the surface area of a sheet of paper, not on a sheet's width and length. It was first adopted in Germany in 1922 and generally spread as nations adopted the metric system. The largest standard size paper is A0 (A zero), measuring one square meter (approx. 1189... | What is the lowest numbered A paper that is uncommonly used at home? | {'text': 'A3', 'answer_start': 556} |
103,020 | 102,678 | 5731c52de17f3d14004223bf | generic | Spielberg served as an uncredited executive producer on The Haunting, The Prince of Egypt, Just Like Heaven, Shrek, Road to Perdition, and Evolution. He served as an executive producer for the 1997 film Men in Black, and its sequels, Men in Black II and Men in Black III. In 2005, he served as a producer of Memoirs of a... | Which studio produced 'Super 8'? | {'text': 'Paramount Pictures', 'answer_start': 1343} |
43,279 | 42,937 | 570db4b716d0071400510d12 | generic | Following the adoption of UN Resolution 390A(V) in December 1950, Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia under the prompting of the United States. The resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked through a loose federal structure under the sovereignty of the Emperor. Eritrea was to have its own administrative a... | Which UN Resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked via a loose federal structure under sovereignty of the Emperor? | {'text': '390A(V)', 'answer_start': 40} |
82,127 | 81,785 | 5727d6363acd2414000dedc1 | generic | East Asian cultures are influenced by two schools of thought, Confucianism, which advocated good governance as rule by leaders who are benevolent and virtuous, and Legalism, which advocated strict adherence to law. The influence of one school of thought over the other has varied throughout the centuries. One study indi... | What East Asian philosophy emphasized virtuous leadership? | {'text': 'Confucianism', 'answer_start': 62} |
74,103 | 73,761 | 572785725951b619008f8c3f | generic | New Haven is a predominantly Roman Catholic city, as the city's Dominican, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Puerto Rican populations are overwhelmingly Catholic. The city is part of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Jews also make up a considerable portion of the population, as do Black Baptists. There is a growing ... | In addition to Jews, what other religious community comprises a large share of the non-Catholic population of New Haven? | {'text': 'Black Baptists', 'answer_start': 285} |
121,157 | 120,815 | 5731d666e17f3d1400422485 | generic | Partly because of low sanitation coverage about 17,000 children die each year because of diarrhoea. Another challenge is low cost recovery due to water tariffs that are among the lowest in the world. This in turn requires government subsidies even for operating costs, a situation that has been aggravated by salary incr... | Because of low sanitation coverage 17,000 Egyptian children to die each year from what condition? | {'text': 'diarrhoea', 'answer_start': 89} |
125,525 | 125,183 | 5732add9cc179a14009dabf4 | generic | The majority report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, written by the six Democratic appointees, the minority report, written by 3 of the 4 Republican appointees, studies by Federal Reserve economists, and the work of several independent scholars generally contend that government affordable housing policy was ... | According to reports, which loans performed better than some loans securitized by private investment banks? | {'text': 'GSE loans', 'answer_start': 471} |
70,145 | 69,803 | 5726e058f1498d1400e8ee4e | generic | Modified radicals and new variants are two common reasons for the ever-increasing number of characters. There are about 300 radicals and 100 are in common use. Creating a new character by modifying the radical is an easy way to disambiguate homographs among xíngshēngzì pictophonetic compounds. This practice began long ... | What combines "grain radical" with the "mouth radical"? | {'text': '"harmony, peace"', 'answer_start': 958} |
91,588 | 91,246 | 5729315c3f37b319004780d4 | generic | Kaszycka et al. (2009) in 2002–2003 surveyed European anthropologists' opinions toward the biological race concept. Three factors, country of academic education, discipline, and age, were found to be significant in differentiating the replies. Those educated in Western Europe, physical anthropologists, and middle-aged ... | How are views on race influenced? | {'text': 'ideologically', 'answer_start': 548} |
6,724 | 6,382 | 56d3867b59d6e4140014663e | generic | Season six premiered with the series' highest-rated debut episode and a few of its succeeding episodes rank among the most watched episodes of American Idol. During this time, many television executives begun to regard the show as a programming force unlike any seen before, as its consistent dominance of up to two hour... | During which season to American Idols rating begin to fall? | {'text': 'Season six', 'answer_start': 720} |
8,093 | 7,751 | 5ad5fd485b96ef001a10afc2 | generic | Comprehensive schools were introduced into Ireland in 1966 by an initiative by Patrick Hillery, Minister for Education, to give a broader range of education compared to that of the vocational school system, which was then the only system of schools completely controlled by the state. Until then, education in Ireland wa... | What type of school has surpassed uncomprehensive schools in Ireland? | {'text': 'community school', 'answer_start': 556} |
8,115 | 7,773 | 5ad5fea45b96ef001a10afde | generic | The first comprehensives were set up after the Second World War. In 1946, for example, Walworth School was one of five 'experimental' comprehensive schools set up by the London County Council Another early comprehensive school was Holyhead County School in Anglesey in 1949. Other early examples of comprehensive schools... | What uncomprehensive school was established in Anglesey? | {'text': 'Holyhead County School', 'answer_start': 231} |
88,834 | 88,492 | 5a85a812b4e223001a8e7160 | generic | U.S. President Barack Obama has rarely used the term, but in his inaugural address on 20 January 2009, he stated "Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." In March 2009 the Defense Department officially changed the name of operations from "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Continge... | What did the Defense Department change its name to? | {'text': 'U.S. Office of Management and Budget', 'answer_start': 1172} |
38,813 | 38,471 | 570c75c9fed7b91900d459d4 | generic | FC Barcelona's all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions (including friendlies) is Lionel Messi with 474 goals. Messi is also the all-time highest goalscorer for Barcelona in all official competitions, excluding friendlies, with 445 goals. He is the record goalscorer for Barcelona in European (82 goals) and inter... | How many goals has Messi scored in La Liga competitions? | {'text': '305', 'answer_start': 393} |
102,307 | 101,965 | 573182e9e6313a140071cff2 | generic | The Jamahiriya's radical direction earned the government many enemies. In February 1978, Gaddafi discovered that his head of military intelligence was plotting to kill him, and began to increasingly entrust security to his Qaddadfa tribe. Many who had seen their wealth and property confiscated turned against the admini... | What group notably murdered Libyan diplomats? | {'text': 'al-Borkan,', 'answer_start': 593} |
106,281 | 105,939 | 5ad214c7d7d075001a42839c | generic | Islamic tradition relates that Muhammad received his first revelation in the Cave of Hira during one of his isolated retreats to the mountains. Thereafter, he received revelations over a period of 23 years. According to hadith and Muslim history, after Muhammad immigrated to Medina and formed an independent Muslim comm... | In which mountain cave did Mohammad experience his last revelation? | {'text': 'Cave of Hira', 'answer_start': 77} |
129,609 | 129,267 | 5735d9b66c16ec1900b9285d | generic | Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica... | What along with multiple environmental factors led to the extinction of the holocene megafauna? | {'text': 'hunting', 'answer_start': 34} |
63,963 | 63,621 | 5ad3de2f604f3c001a3ff460 | generic | A decade into co-education, rampant student assault and harassment by faculty became the impetus for the trailblazing lawsuit Alexander v. Yale. While unsuccessful in the courts, the legal reasoning behind the case changed the landscape of sex discrimination law and resulted in the establishment of Yale's Grievance Boa... | What was the complaint of the writers of Broad Recognition? | {'text': 'the university had a hostile sexual climate', 'answer_start': 523} |
25,855 | 25,513 | 56f8c6939e9bad19000a048f | generic | All vertebrate brains share a common underlying form, which appears most clearly during early stages of embryonic development. In its earliest form, the brain appears as three swellings at the front end of the neural tube; these swellings eventually become the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain (the prosencephalon, mes... | Which group of animals does the forebrain grow the largest? | {'text': 'mammals', 'answer_start': 577} |
90,070 | 89,728 | 5ad4123d604f3c001a40022c | generic | Many communities have small air taxi services. These operations originated from the demand for customized transport to remote areas. Perhaps the most quintessentially Alaskan plane is the bush seaplane. The world's busiest seaplane base is Lake Hood, located next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, where fl... | Where is the least busiest seaplane base in the world? | {'text': 'Lake Hood', 'answer_start': 240} |
107,047 | 106,705 | 5a7b4e5d21c2de001afe9e99 | generic | A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current through anoth... | How many transistors are embedded in most integrated circuits? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 161} |
21,165 | 20,823 | 5ad269dfd7d075001a4292f4 | generic | The status of "language" is not solely determined by linguistic criteria, but it is also the result of a historical and political development. Romansh came to be a written language, and therefore it is recognized as a language, even though it is very close to the Lombardic alpine dialects. An opposite example is the ca... | What types of development help to determine the status of Mandarin? | {'text': 'historical and political', 'answer_start': 105} |
41,117 | 40,775 | 570e25080dc6ce1900204df4 | generic | Over 90 weeklies, fortnightlies and quarterlies are published in Sanskrit. Sudharma, a daily newspaper in Sanskrit, has been published out of Mysore, India, since 1970, while Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam started in Gujarat during the last five years. Since 1974, there has been a short daily news bro... | Since what year has there been a daily broadcast on All India Radio? | {'text': '1974', 'answer_start': 277} |
113,675 | 113,333 | 572ff7df947a6a140053cea4 | generic | The earliest archaeological artifacts in Iran, like those excavated at the Kashafrud and Ganj Par sites, attest to a human presence in Iran since the Lower Paleolithic era, c. 800,000–200,000 BC. Iran's Neanderthal artifacts from the Middle Paleolithic period, c. 200,000–40,000 BC, have been found mainly in the Zagros ... | When did early agricultural communities in Iran begin to appear and prosper? | {'text': '10th to 8th millennium BC', 'answer_start': 390} |
21,372 | 21,030 | 56e8379037bdd419002c44ab | generic | Unlike most languages that use alphabets to indicate the pronunciation, Chinese characters have developed from logograms that do not always give hints to its pronunciation. Although the written characters remained relatively consistent for the last two thousand years, the pronunciation and grammar in different regions ... | From the time of the Ming dynasty, what city was the capital of China? | {'text': 'Beijing', 'answer_start': 663} |
97,341 | 96,999 | 572a3e323f37b31900478814 | generic | Hayek displayed an intellectual and academic bent from a very young age. He read fluently and frequently before going to school. At his father's suggestion, Hayek, as a teenager, read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach. In school Hayek was much taken by o... | Who told Hayek he should begin reading Hugo de Vries works? | {'text': 'his father', 'answer_start': 132} |
626 | 284 | 56d4c75a2ccc5a1400d8322c | generic | Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates that ran through to March 2014. It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most-successful tours of all time. In May, Beyoncé's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" with André 3000 o... | What was the name of Beyoncé's tour that she started on April 15? | {'text': 'The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour', 'answer_start': 20} |
49,324 | 48,982 | 571b5ffb32177014007ea083 | generic | Bitumen was the nemesis of many artists during the 19th century. Although widely used for a time, it ultimately proved unstable for use in oil painting, especially when mixed with the most common diluents, such as linseed oil, varnish and turpentine. Unless thoroughly diluted, bitumen never fully solidifies and will in... | What did bitumen when used as a paint not do correctly? | {'text': 'solidifies', 'answer_start': 298} |
72,937 | 72,595 | 5a870c111d3cee001a6a108a | generic | The primary site of infection in the lungs, known as the "Ghon focus", is generally located in either the upper part of the lower lobe, or the lower part of the upper lobe. Tuberculosis of the lungs may also occur via infection from the blood stream. This is known as a Simon focus and is typically found in the top of t... | What is the section of lung not affected by TB called? | {'text': 'Ghon focus', 'answer_start': 58} |
117,162 | 116,820 | 5ad0161a77cf76001a68694e | generic | In the north, the Republic of Novgorod prospered because it controlled trade routes from the River Volga to the Baltic Sea. As Kievan Rus' declined, Novgorod became more independent. A local oligarchy ruled Novgorod; major government decisions were made by a town assembly, which also elected a prince as the city's mili... | What prospered in the south? | {'text': 'Republic of Novgorod', 'answer_start': 18} |
49,677 | 49,335 | 5723e05c0dadf01500fa1f66 | generic | Palmerston died in 1865, and after a brief ministry led by Russell, Derby returned to power. In 1866, Victoria attended the State Opening of Parliament for the first time since Albert's death. The following year she supported the passing of the Reform Act 1867 which doubled the electorate by extending the franchise to ... | Following Alberts death, what was the first year that Victoria attended the State opening of Parliment? | {'text': '1866', 'answer_start': 96} |
40,203 | 39,861 | 570c62e8fed7b91900d45977 | generic | Within a few months of John's return, rebel barons in the north and east of England were organising resistance to his rule. John held a council in London in January 1215 to discuss potential reforms and sponsored discussions in Oxford between his agents and the rebels during the spring. John appears to have been playin... | John announced his intent to become what? | {'text': 'a crusader', 'answer_start': 785} |
87,341 | 86,999 | 5a4feb92af0d07001ae8cc90 | generic | There is currently no precise test with the diagnosis typically based on the pattern of symptoms and response to therapy over time. A diagnosis of asthma should be suspected if there is a history of: recurrent wheezing, coughing or difficulty breathing and these symptoms occur or worsen due to exercise, viral infection... | Is there a test to diagnose Spirometry? | {'text': 'There is currently no precise test', 'answer_start': 0} |
115,927 | 115,585 | 5ad498b4ba00c4001a268cfc | generic | Windows 8 also incorporates improved support for mobile broadband; the operating system can now detect the insertion of a SIM card and automatically configure connection settings (including APNs and carrier branding), and reduce its internet usage in order to conserve bandwidth on metered networks. Windows 8 also adds ... | What doesn't airplane mode do? | {'text': 'disable all wireless connectivity', 'answer_start': 368} |
98,890 | 98,548 | 572ac557f75d5e190021fcb8 | generic | Kerry established a separate political action committee, Keeping America's Promise, which declared as its mandate "A Democratic Congress will restore accountability to Washington and help change a disastrous course in Iraq", and raised money and channeled contributions to Democratic candidates in state and federal race... | What was Kerry's PAC? | {'text': "Keeping America's Promise", 'answer_start': 57} |
9,124 | 8,782 | 5a1cb8fe4ea40d0018b06ecc | generic | In 1579 a number of the northern provinces of the Low Countries signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they promised to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army. This was followed in 1581 by the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II. | What was the name of the declaration of independence from the Low Countries? | {'text': 'the Act of Abjuration', 'answer_start': 210} |
15,934 | 15,592 | 5acd2c2e07355d001abf37c0 | generic | Some of the Dravidian languages, such as Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada, have a distinction between voiced and voiceless, aspirated and unaspirated only in loanwords from Indo-Aryan languages. In native Dravidian words, there is no distinction between these categories and stops are underspecified for voicing and... | All of the Dravidian languages have a distinction between what? | {'text': 'voiced and voiceless, aspirated and unaspirated', 'answer_start': 107} |
79,719 | 79,377 | 5a7e77b148f7d9001a063720 | generic | Public bus services within the city are provided by the national bus operator Bus Éireann. City routes are numbered from 201 through to 219 and connect the city centre to the principal suburbs, colleges, shopping centres and places of interest. Two of these bus routes provide orbital services across the Northern and So... | What do shuttles provide to Glanmire? | {'text': 'orbital services', 'answer_start': 277} |
107,503 | 107,161 | 572f427604bcaa1900d767f3 | generic | Northern leaders agreed that victory would require more than the end of fighting. Secession and Confederate nationalism had to be totally repudiated and all forms of slavery or quasi-slavery had to be eliminated. Lincoln proved effective in mobilizing support for the war goals, raising large armies and supplying them, ... | Why couldn't the confederacy defend their ports? | {'text': 'The Confederacy had a larger area than it could defend', 'answer_start': 393} |
115,350 | 115,008 | 57337479d058e614000b5b40 | generic | Early followers of Whitehead were found primarily at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, where Henry Nelson Wieman initiated an interest in Whitehead's work that would last for about thirty years. Professors such as Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, Bernard Loomer, Bernard Meland, and Daniel Day Williams made Whiteh... | Who began the interest in Whitehead at Chicago's Divinity School? | {'text': 'Henry Nelson Wieman', 'answer_start': 104} |
50,084 | 49,742 | 5724041d0ba9f01400d97b1c | generic | In 1870, republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, was boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. A republican rally in Trafalgar Square demanded Victoria's removal, and Radical MPs spoke against her. In August and September 1871, she was seriously ill with an abscess in her arm,... | In 1871, Victoria became seriously ill with an abscess on what part of her body? | {'text': 'arm', 'answer_start': 316} |
68,940 | 68,598 | 57270ca95951b619008f8537 | generic | 1853: There were four main events. 1. In the north the Turks captured the border fort of Saint Nicholas in a surprise night attack (27/28 October). They then pushed about 20000 troops across the Cholok River border. Being outnumbered the Russians abandoned Poti and Redut Kale and drew back to Marani. Both sides remaine... | After giving up their position at Poti and Redut Kale, where did the Russians retreat to? | {'text': 'Marani', 'answer_start': 294} |
117,623 | 117,281 | 5730b4be8ab72b1400f9c6cc | generic | The Sumerian language is generally regarded as a language isolate in linguistics because it belongs to no known language family; Akkadian, by contrast, belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. There have been many failed attempts to connect Sumerian to other language groups. It is an agglutinative la... | In Sumerian, what are morphemes added together to create? | {'text': 'words', 'answer_start': 404} |
102,642 | 102,300 | 572e9f67c246551400ce4416 | generic | According to the 2006 census carried out by Northern Cyprus, there were 256,644 (de jure) people living in Northern Cyprus. 178,031 were citizens of Northern Cyprus, of whom 147,405 were born in Cyprus (112,534 from the north; 32,538 from the south; 371 did not indicate what part of Cyprus they were from); 27,333 born ... | How many of the citizens in Northern Cyprus was born in Cyprus? | {'text': '147,405', 'answer_start': 174} |
113,352 | 113,010 | 5ad4da4a5b96ef001a10a3d2 | generic | Major state highways include SR 94, which connects downtown with I-805, I-15 and East County; SR 163, which connects downtown with the northeast part of the city, intersects I-805 and merges with I-15 at Miramar; SR 52, which connects La Jolla with East County through Santee and SR 125; SR 56, which connects I-5 with I... | What highway connects the I-905 with the downtown area? | {'text': 'SR 94', 'answer_start': 29} |
29,952 | 29,610 | 5706d4f80eeca41400aa0e60 | generic | Atlantic City is considered as the "Gambling Capital of the East Coast," and currently has eight large casinos and several smaller ones. In 2011, New Jersey's casinos employed approximately 33,000 employees, had 28.5 million visitors, made $3.3 billion in gaming revenue, and paid $278 million in taxes. They are regulat... | How many large casinos are located in Atlantic City? | {'text': 'eight', 'answer_start': 91} |
127,798 | 127,456 | 5aced84b32bba1001ae4b715 | generic | In 2010, there were concerns among Tajik officials that Islamic militarism in the east of the country was on the rise following the escape of 25 militants from a Tajik prison in August, an ambush that killed 28 Tajik soldiers in the Rasht Valley in September, and another ambush in the valley in October that killed 30 s... | In 2015 Romania will send more what to Tajikistan? | {'text': 'troops', 'answer_start': 671} |
42,037 | 41,695 | 570d965afed7b91900d4624e | generic | On September 11, 2001, 53 Army civilians (47 employees and six contractors) and 22 soldiers were among the 125 victims killed in the Pentagon in a terrorist attack when American Airlines Flight 77 commandeered by five Al-Qaeda hijackers slammed into the western side of the building, as part of the September 11 attacks.... | What aircraft was hijacked? | {'text': 'American Airlines Flight 77', 'answer_start': 169} |
45,296 | 44,954 | 5ad36189604f3c001a3fdf69 | generic | After several weeks of rumors, which started around January 11, 2013, Dell announced on February 5, 2013 that it had struck a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal, that would have delisted its shares from the NASDAQ and Hong Kong Stock Exchange and taken it private. Reuters reported that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Par... | What year did IBM announce its buyout deal? | {'text': '2013', 'answer_start': 64} |
98,624 | 98,282 | 572ab70bbe1ee31400cb81cd | generic | The Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (First Judicial District) is the trial court of general jurisdiction for Philadelphia, hearing felony-level criminal cases and civil suits above the minimum jurisdictional limit of $7000 (excepting small claims cases valued between $7000 and $12000 and landlord-tenant issue... | What is the main trial court called? | {'text': 'The Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (First Judicial District)', 'answer_start': 0} |
94,248 | 93,906 | 5729478f6aef051400154c56 | generic | The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz ('flower'). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to ... | In what year was Palermo founded? | {'text': '734 BC', 'answer_start': 24} |
63,473 | 63,131 | 572688a6f1498d1400e8e316 | generic | The people of Somerset are mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845, in the inflected form "Sumursætum", and the county is recorded in the entry for 1015 using the same name. The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878. Although "Somersetshire" was in common use as an ... | What are the people of somerset mentioned in | {'text': "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845", 'answer_start': 44} |
111,414 | 111,072 | 5730704c396df919000960f8 | generic | Greeks from Cyprus have a similar history of emigration, usually to the English-speaking world because of the island's colonization by the British Empire. Waves of emigration followed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, while the population decreased between mid-1974 and 1977 as a result of emigration, war losses, ... | Which colonial enterprise for land was the Greek Isles a part of | {'text': 'British Empire', 'answer_start': 139} |
113,588 | 113,246 | 573007b9a23a5019007fcc6b | generic | Encompasses both secular and religious styles, the design and style made by Muslims and their construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture included the architectural types: the Mosque, the Tomb, the Palace and the Fort. Perhaps the most important expression of Islamic art is architecture, particularly th... | What is the definition of haram? | {'text': 'forbidden', 'answer_start': 624} |
55,993 | 55,651 | 5a1e0d603de3f40018b2647c | generic | Hokkien dialects are analytic; in a sentence, the arrangement of words is important to its meaning. A basic sentence follows the subject–verb–object pattern (i.e. a subject is followed by a verb then by an object), though this order is often violated because Hokkien dialects are topic-prominent. Unlike synthetic langua... | How do grammatical particles violate the usual pattern? | {'text': 'Hokkien dialects are topic-prominent', 'answer_start': 259} |
59,974 | 59,632 | 5a7ccb9fe8bc7e001a9e2045 | generic | Agriculture and forestry have declined in importance over the decades. Nevertheless, they are more important than in the most other areas of Germany, especially within rural regions. 54% of Thuringia's territory is in agricultural use. The fertile basins such as the large Thuringian Basin or the smaller Goldene Aue, Or... | Which regions don't value agriculture? | {'text': 'rural regions', 'answer_start': 168} |
43,458 | 43,116 | 5ad0bc02645df0001a2d018d | generic | In 1922, Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy brought profound changes to the colonial government in Italian Eritrea. After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just conquered Ethiopia i... | What was chosen to be the governmental center of Italian East Africa? | {'text': 'Eritrea', 'answer_start': 501} |
56,664 | 56,322 | 572672d9708984140094c671 | generic | On Thursday, September 19, 1985, at 7:19 am local time, Mexico City was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 on the Richter scale. Although this earthquake was not as deadly or destructive as many similar events in Asia and other parts of Latin America, it proved to be a disaster politically for the one-party gover... | Who led the rescue effort after the earthquake of 1985? | {'text': 'ordinary citizens', 'answer_start': 403} |
95,062 | 94,720 | 572981b3af94a219006aa4de | generic | Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum. These had begun in the late 1740s, but only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s, with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolano (The Antiq... | What were William Kent's interior designs based from? | {'text': 'basilica and temple exterior architecture turned outside in', 'answer_start': 496} |
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