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82,077 | 81,735 | 5727c7a7ff5b5019007d9511 | generic | The functional interpretation of the term "rule of law", consistent with the traditional English meaning, contrasts the "rule of law" with the "rule of man." According to the functional view, a society in which government officers have a great deal of discretion has a low degree of "rule of law", whereas a society in w... | What happens to those that do not follow to the rule of law? | {'text': 'punishment', 'answer_start': 456} |
69,088 | 68,746 | 572774545951b619008f8a45 | generic | During 2009, the federal government enacted new legislation repealing the Canada Corporations Act, Part II - the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. This Act was last amended on 10 October 2011 and the act was current till 4 March 2013. It allows for incorporation as of right, by Articles of Incorporation; does awa... | When was the Canada Not-for-Profit corporations Act last ammended? | {'text': '10 October 2011', 'answer_start': 182} |
113,680 | 113,338 | 572ff927947a6a140053cec1 | generic | The emergence of Susa as a city, as determined by radiocarbon dating, dates back to early 4,395 BC. There are dozens of prehistoric sites across the Iranian plateau, pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements in the 4th millennium BC. During the Bronze Age, Iran was home to several civilization... | Which ancient civilization in Iran during the 4th Millenium was the most prominent? | {'text': 'Elam', 'answer_start': 365} |
93,963 | 93,621 | 5ad123aa645df0001a2d0eea | generic | Total investment in renewable energy (including small hydro-electric projects) was $244 billion in 2012, down 12% from 2011 mainly due to dramatically lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets. As a share of total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV grew from 14% in 2000 to over 60% in 2012. The top c... | Why did the total investment in renewable energy go down in 2002? | {'text': 'dramatically lower solar prices', 'answer_start': 138} |
63,515 | 63,173 | 5acf5d8c77cf76001a684c4b | generic | A number of decoy towns were constructed in Somerset in World War II to protect Bristol and other towns, at night. They were designed to mimic the geometry of "blacked out" streets, railway lines, and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, to encourage bombers away from these targets. One, on the radio beam flight path ... | Who laid out Chew Magna decoy town? | {'text': 'Shepperton Studios', 'answer_start': 384} |
60,024 | 59,682 | 57268bbfdd62a815002e88f9 | generic | The traditional energy supply of Thuringia is lignite, mined in the bordering Leipzig region. Since 2000, the importance of environmentally unfriendly lignite combustion has declined in favour of renewable energies, which reached an amount of 40% (in 2013), and more clean gas combustion, often carried out as Cogenerati... | Where does Thuringia get it's lignite? | {'text': 'mined in the bordering Leipzig region', 'answer_start': 55} |
92,142 | 91,800 | 5728d4442ca10214002da8d1 | generic | A non-Greek origin of Apollo has long been assumed in scholarship. The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor. The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest o... | What origin was Leto? | {'text': 'Lydian', 'answer_start': 104} |
39,699 | 39,357 | 5ad16c95645df0001a2d1ab1 | generic | Christian Marian perspectives include a great deal of diversity. While some Christians such as Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox have well established Marian traditions, Protestants at large pay scant attention to Mariological themes. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutherans vener... | Who wrote poems and songs for Mary? | {'text': 'her Son, Jesus Christ', 'answer_start': 415} |
102,169 | 101,827 | 573171d105b4da19006bd19c | generic | In May 1970, the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar was held to bring intellectuals in line with the revolution, while that year's Legislative Review and Amendment united secular and religious law codes, introducing sharia into the legal system. Ruling by decree, the RCC maintained the monarchy's ban on political part... | In what year did the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar occur? | {'text': '1970', 'answer_start': 7} |
108,980 | 108,638 | 5730370004bcaa1900d77385 | generic | In 1999, there was a double homicide in the Westside Clothing store on Lincoln Boulevard. During the incident, Culver City gang members David "Puppet" Robles and Jesse "Psycho" Garcia entered the store masked and began opening fire, killing Anthony and Michael Juarez. They then ran outside to a getaway vehicle driven b... | In what year was there a double homicide? | {'text': '1999', 'answer_start': 3} |
27,223 | 26,881 | 5ad3c7fb604f3c001a3ff05e | generic | HDTV can be recorded to D-VHS (Digital-VHS or Data-VHS), W-VHS (analog only), to an HDTV-capable digital video recorder (for example DirecTV's high-definition Digital video recorder, Sky HD's set-top box, Dish Network's VIP 622 or VIP 722 high-definition Digital video recorder receivers, or TiVo's Series 3 or HD record... | Some cable boxes can't be capable of doing what? | {'text': 'receiving or recording two or more broadcasts', 'answer_start': 381} |
2,262 | 1,920 | 56cc91b56d243a140015f033 | generic | Apple debuted the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on September 5, 2007, in its Media Event entitled "The Beat Goes On...". This service allows users to access the Music Store from either an iPhone or an iPod Touch and download songs directly to the device that can be synced to the user's iTunes Library over a WiFi connection,... | On what date was the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store launched? | {'text': 'September 5, 2007', 'answer_start': 46} |
112,182 | 111,840 | 572fcee4b2c2fd1400568499 | generic | After recovering surprisingly fast from the sack of Rome, the Romans immediately resumed their expansion within Italy. The First Samnite War from 343 BC to 341 BC was relatively short: the Romans beat the Samnites in two battles, but were forced to withdraw before they could pursue the conflict further due to the revol... | Who did Rome claim victory against in The Battle of Vesuvius? | {'text': 'Latins', 'answer_start': 387} |
468 | 126 | 56be90ee3aeaaa14008c90e5 | generic | Beyoncé's first solo recording was a feature on Jay Z's "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" that was released in October 2002, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her first solo album Dangerously in Love was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts. T... | Beyonce's first album by herself was called what? | {'text': 'Dangerously in Love', 'answer_start': 193} |
98,424 | 98,082 | 572a84c9be1ee31400cb8075 | generic | Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services, running two lines, the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star, both terminating in New York City. The Miami Amtrak Station is located in the suburb of Hialeah near the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Station on NW 79 St and NW 38 Ave. Current construction of the Miami C... | After the first delay, in what year was the Miami Central Station supposed to open? | {'text': '2014', 'answer_start': 708} |
98,674 | 98,332 | 572ac56b111d821400f38d50 | generic | Two airports serve Philadelphia: the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), straddling the southern boundary of the city, and the Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), a general aviation reliever airport in Northeast Philadelphia. Philadelphia International Airport provides scheduled domestic and international air s... | What airline uses this airport as its primary international hub? | {'text': 'American Airlines', 'answer_start': 618} |
49,315 | 48,973 | 571b5e2e9499d21900609c6f | generic | In British English, the word 'asphalt' is used to refer to a mixture of mineral aggregate and asphalt/bitumen (also called tarmac in common parlance). When bitumen is mixed with clay it is usually called asphaltum. The earlier word 'asphaltum' is now archaic and not commonly used.[citation needed] In American English, ... | When mixed wit clay, what is bitumen called? | {'text': 'asphaltum', 'answer_start': 204} |
38,142 | 37,800 | 570bd3ceec8fbc190045bb3e | generic | DEC operating systems (OS/8, RT-11, RSX-11, RSTS, TOPS-10, etc.) used both characters to mark the end of a line so that the console device (originally Teletype machines) would work. By the time so-called "glass TTYs" (later called CRTs or terminals) came along, the convention was so well established that backward compa... | When was the introduction of PC DOS? | {'text': '1981', 'answer_start': 491} |
5,447 | 5,105 | 56cf85ec234ae51400d9bdfd | generic | After the success of his song "Jesus Walks" from the album The College Dropout, West was questioned on his beliefs and said, "I will say that I'm spiritual. I have accepted Jesus as my Savior. And I will say that I fall short every day." More recently, in September 2014, West referred to himself as a Christian during o... | What are Kanye's religious beliefs? | {'text': 'Christian', 'answer_start': 302} |
72,450 | 72,108 | 5a359966788daf001a5f8630 | generic | Glaciers are broken into zones based on surface snowpack and melt conditions. The ablation zone is the region where there is a net loss in glacier mass. The equilibrium line separates the ablation zone and the accumulation zone; it is the altitude where the amount of new snow gained by accumulation is equal to the amou... | What lakes where formed from a mountain depression | {'text': 'Great Lakes', 'answer_start': 808} |
103,639 | 103,297 | 5acee0c332bba1001ae4b825 | generic | The mantle is equivalent to 10 to 15 Earth masses and is rich in water, ammonia and methane. As is customary in planetary science, this mixture is referred to as icy even though it is a hot, dense fluid. This fluid, which has a high electrical conductivity, is sometimes called a water–ammonia ocean. The mantle may cons... | What does Neptune's mantle lack? | {'text': 'water, ammonia and methane', 'answer_start': 65} |
33,740 | 33,398 | 570a77f96d058f1900182e84 | generic | Drinking chilled beer began with the development of artificial refrigeration and by the 1870s, was spread in those countries that concentrated on brewing pale lager. Chilling beer makes it more refreshing, though below 15.5 °C the chilling starts to reduce taste awareness and reduces it significantly below 10 °C (50 °F... | What technology support the drinking of chilled beer? | {'text': 'artificial refrigeration', 'answer_start': 52} |
114,350 | 114,008 | 57303e0704bcaa1900d773fd | generic | The laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886 after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association. FIFA, the international football b... | How many different British associations where part of the IFAB? | {'text': 'four', 'answer_start': 683} |
66,009 | 65,667 | 5a20ac1b8a6e4f001aa08e2b | generic | In 1906, precipitation hardening alloys were discovered by Alfred Wilm. Precipitation hardening alloys, such as certain alloys of aluminium, titanium, and copper, are heat-treatable alloys that soften when quenched (cooled quickly), and then harden over time. After quenching a ternary alloy of aluminium, copper, and ma... | What phenomenon was explained in 1906? | {'text': 'alloy increased in hardness when left to age at room temperature', 'answer_start': 354} |
76,233 | 75,891 | 572792e6dd62a815002ea0d4 | generic | In spring 1987, a protest movement arose against new phosphate mines in Estonia. Signatures were collected in Tartu, and students assembled in the university's main hall to express lack of confidence in the government. At a demonstration on May 1, 1987, young people showed up with banners and slogans despite an officia... | What was requested for Estonia in the proposal printed by the Edasi newspaper in 1987? | {'text': 'autonomy', 'answer_start': 658} |
113,330 | 112,988 | 57303032a23a5019007fcf2b | generic | The radio stations in San Diego include nationwide broadcaster, Clear Channel Communications; CBS Radio, Midwest Television, Lincoln Financial Media, Finest City Broadcasting, and many other smaller stations and networks. Stations include: KOGO AM 600, KFMB AM 760, KCEO AM 1000, KCBQ AM 1170, K-Praise, KLSD AM 1360 Air... | What is another name Free Radio San Diego is known by? | {'text': 'Pirate Radio San Diego', 'answer_start': 461} |
129,772 | 129,430 | 5ace69c232bba1001ae4a613 | generic | During the feudal and colonial times in British India, hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas and nawabs, as well as British officers, maintained a whole corps of shikaris (big-game hunters), who were native professional hunters. They would be headed by a master of the ... | Who did local tribes work with when taking down a Bengal tiger? | {'text': 'a whole corps of shikaris', 'answer_start': 196} |
41,982 | 41,640 | 5acecedc32bba1001ae4b4c0 | generic | The task of organizing the U.S. Army commenced in 1775. In the first one hundred years of its existence, the United States Army was maintained as a small peacetime force to man permanent forts and perform other non-wartime duties such as engineering and construction works. During times of war, the U.S. Army was augment... | What group combined with the U.S. Navy? | {'text': 'United States Volunteers', 'answer_start': 342} |
58,170 | 57,828 | 5aceaf7932bba1001ae4b04f | generic | In 1992, the university drafted a new Statement on Academic Freedom, specifying that limitations may be placed upon "expression with students or in public that: (1) contradicts or opposes, rather than analyzes or discusses, fundamental Church doctrine or policy; (2) deliberately attacks or derides the Church or its gen... | What did the university draft in 1929? | {'text': 'a new Statement on Academic Freedom,', 'answer_start': 32} |
47,840 | 47,498 | 5ad2cd3ed7d075001a42a2bb | generic | European colonists created treaties with Indigenous American tribes requesting the return of any runaway slaves. For example, in 1726, the British governor of New York exacted a promise from the Iroquois to return all runaway slaves who had joined them. This same promise was extracted from the Huron Nation in 1764, and... | When did the governor of South Carolina make the Iroquois promise to return runaway slaves? | {'text': '1726', 'answer_start': 129} |
27,826 | 27,484 | 56fae9bd8f12f319006302ba | generic | Married women tend to sport headscarves referred to as shaash. They also often cover their upper body with a shawl, which is known as garbasaar. Unmarried or young women, however, do not always cover their heads. Traditional Arabian garb, such as the jilbab and abaya, is also commonly worn. | What is the name of the shawl that married women wear on their upper bodies? | {'text': 'garbasaar', 'answer_start': 134} |
612 | 270 | 56bfa24ea10cfb14005511e7 | generic | In January 2013, Destiny's Child released Love Songs, a compilation album of the romance-themed songs from their previous albums and a newly recorded track, "Nuclear". Beyoncé performed the American national anthem singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. The ... | How many Tweets per minute did the half time show get? | {'text': '268,000 tweets per minute', 'answer_start': 523} |
90,305 | 89,963 | 5728aba2ff5b5019007da415 | generic | Logically, no number of positive outcomes at the level of experimental testing can confirm a scientific theory, but a single counterexample is logically decisive: it shows the theory, from which the implication is derived, to be false. To say that a given statement (e.g., the statement of a law of some scientific theor... | What does Popper say demarcates scientific theory from non-science? | {'text': 'falsifiability', 'answer_start': 678} |
38,641 | 38,299 | 5a613474e9e1cc001a33d006 | generic | Men's rhythmic gymnastics is related to both Men's artistic gymnastics and wushu martial arts. It emerged in Japan from stick gymnastics. Stick gymnastics has been taught and performed for many years with the aim of improving physical strength and health. Male athletes are judged on some of the same physical abilities ... | What is related to Women's artistic gymnastics and hop scotch? | {'text': "Men's rhythmic gymnastics", 'answer_start': 0} |
39,546 | 39,204 | 5ad19378645df0001a2d202a | generic | From the early stages of Christianity, belief in the virginity of Mary and the virgin conception of Jesus, as stated in the gospels, holy and supernatural, was used by detractors, both political and religious, as a topic for discussions, debates and writings, specifically aimed to challenge the divinity of Jesus and th... | Who suggested that Panthera was the illegitimate son Jesus? | {'text': 'Celsus', 'answer_start': 427} |
80,148 | 79,806 | 5727f2a54b864d190016407c | generic | USB 2.0 provides for a maximum cable length of 5 meters for devices running at Hi Speed (480 Mbit/s). The primary reason for this limit is the maximum allowed round-trip delay of about 1.5 μs. If USB host commands are unanswered by the USB device within the allowed time, the host considers the command lost. When adding... | How long is the maximum cable length the USB 2.0 provides? | {'text': '5 meters for devices running at Hi Speed', 'answer_start': 47} |
105,124 | 104,782 | 572fec6f947a6a140053ce07 | generic | The use of diversionary techniques such as fires had to be made carefully. The fake fires could only begin when the bombing started over an adjacent target and its effects were brought under control. Too early and the chances of success receded; too late and the real conflagration at the target would exceed the diversi... | Two tanks one of oil, one of water fed what kind of fire? | {'text': 'boiler', 'answer_start': 360} |
44,698 | 44,356 | 570fa35780d9841400ab35e8 | generic | No major mental health professional organization has sanctioned efforts to change sexual orientation and virtually all of them have adopted policy statements cautioning the profession and the public about treatments that purport to change sexual orientation. These include the American Psychiatric Association, American ... | What do these policy statements suggest? | {'text': 'cautioning the profession and the public about treatments that purport to change sexual orientation', 'answer_start': 158} |
60,437 | 60,095 | 5a5fa126eae51e001ab14b4c | generic | Lee and freelance artist and eventual co-plotter Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four originated in a Cold War culture that led their creators to revise the superhero conventions of previous eras to better reflect the psychological spirit of their age. Eschewing such comic-book tropes as secret identities and even costumes at f... | Choosing to follow comic book tradition and tropes was called what? | {'text': 'superheroes in the real world', 'answer_start': 439} |
89,517 | 89,175 | 5728ac583acd2414000dfcac | generic | On 6 August 1940, Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union as the Estonian SSR. The provisions in the Estonian constitution requiring a popular referendum to decide on joining a supra-national body were ignored. Instead the vote to join the Soviet Union was taken by those elected in the elections held the previous month... | Who annexed Estonia as the Estonian SSR? | {'text': 'the Soviet Union', 'answer_start': 41} |
85,952 | 85,610 | 5ad2a2f4d7d075001a429d29 | generic | The initial prototype shown in May 2005 featured two HDMI ports, three Ethernet ports and six USB ports; however, when the system was shown again a year later at E3 2006, these were reduced to one HDMI port, one Ethernet port and four USB ports, presumably to cut costs. Two hardware configurations were also announced f... | Sony increased the number of HDMI ports to presumably cut what? | {'text': 'costs', 'answer_start': 264} |
99,891 | 99,549 | 5a7c8ba9e8bc7e001a9e1eb5 | generic | Absolute idealism is G. W. F. Hegel's account of how existence is comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel called his philosophy "absolute" idealism in contrast to the "subjective idealism" of Berkeley and the "transcendental idealism" of Kant and Fichte, which were not based on a critique of the finite and a di... | How did Berkeley label his own idealism? | {'text': 'subjective', 'answer_start': 176} |
41,463 | 41,121 | 570d4ca0b3d812140066d65b | generic | A few centuries later, coinciding with the first waves of the invading Germanic peoples (Suevi, Vandals and Alans, and later the Visigoths) and the power vacuum left by the demise of the Roman imperial administration, the church assumed the reins of power in the city and replaced the old Roman temples with religious bu... | What archdiocese was Valencia under during the time of the Visigoths? | {'text': 'Toledo', 'answer_start': 917} |
77,584 | 77,242 | 5727f18cff5b5019007d98fc | generic | The lateral cut NAB curve was remarkably similar to the NBC Orthacoustic curve that evolved from practices within the National Broadcasting Company since the mid-1930s. Empirically, and not by any formula, it was learned that the bass end of the audio spectrum below 100 Hz could be boosted somewhat to override system h... | What was a benefit to broadcasters of recording standards? | {'text': 'programming sounded more lifelike.', 'answer_start': 743} |
2,311 | 1,969 | 56cd673a62d2951400fa6580 | generic | On August 24, 2006, Apple and Creative announced a broad settlement to end their legal disputes. Apple will pay Creative US$100 million for a paid-up license, to use Creative's awarded patent in all Apple products. As part of the agreement, Apple will recoup part of its payment, if Creative is successful in licensing t... | What program did Creative join in order to make iPod peripherals? | {'text': 'Made for iPod', 'answer_start': 412} |
39,431 | 39,089 | 570c4cf5fed7b91900d4586c | generic | Some titles have a Biblical basis, for instance the title Queen Mother has been given to Mary since she was the mother of Jesus, who was sometimes referred to as the "King of Kings" due to his lineage of King David. The biblical basis for the term Queen can be seen in the Gospel of Luke 1:32 and the Book of Isaiah 9:6,... | Which name is given to Mary because of her role as a protector of captives? | {'text': 'Our Lady of Ransom', 'answer_start': 539} |
69,340 | 68,998 | 5a7d062570df9f001a874eff | generic | Poetry is a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has traditionally been distinguished from prose by its being set in verse;[a] prose is cast in sentences, poetry in lines; the syntax of prose is ... | What is a type of lyric art that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities? | {'text': 'Poetry', 'answer_start': 0} |
27,647 | 27,305 | 56fa083af34c681400b0bf72 | generic | A referendum was held in neighboring Djibouti (then known as French Somaliland) in 1958, on the eve of Somalia's independence in 1960, to decide whether or not to join the Somali Republic or to remain with France. The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes ... | When did Djibouti achieve independence? | {'text': '1977', 'answer_start': 803} |
117,323 | 116,981 | 5730ac97069b53140083222b | generic | While other companies were moving on to 32-bit systems, Rare and Nintendo proved that the SNES was still a strong contender in the market. In November 1994, Rare released Donkey Kong Country, a platform game featuring 3D models and textures pre-rendered on SGI workstations. With its detailed graphics, fluid animation a... | How did Donkey Kong Country's quality compare to games on newer consoles? | {'text': 'detailed graphics, fluid animation and high-quality music', 'answer_start': 284} |
79,020 | 78,678 | 5ad26801d7d075001a429250 | generic | The first Dominican site in England was at Oxford, in the parishes of St. Edward and St. Adelaide. The friars built an oratory to the Blessed Virgin Mary and by 1265, the brethren, in keeping with their devotion to study, began erecting a school. Actually, the Dominican brothers likely began a school immediately after ... | Where was the first Benedictine site in England? | {'text': 'England', 'answer_start': 28} |
82,881 | 82,539 | 5ad2c6c1d7d075001a42a1c0 | generic | Northwestern is privately owned and is governed by an appointed Board of Trustees. The board, composed of 70 members and as of 2011[update] chaired by William A. Osborn '69, delegates its power to an elected president to serve as the chief executive officer of the university. Northwestern has had sixteen presidents in ... | Who doesn't have a staff of vice-presidents, directors, and other administrative assistants? | {'text': 'the president', 'answer_start': 698} |
100,736 | 100,394 | 572c97fbf182dd1900d7c7f0 | generic | Interstate 40 crosses the state in a west-east orientation. Its branch interstate highways include I-240 in Memphis; I-440 in Nashville; I-140 from Knoxville to Alcoa and I-640 in Knoxville. I-26, although technically an east-west interstate, runs from the North Carolina border below Johnson City to its terminus at Kin... | What Tennessee cities are connected by I-269? | {'text': 'Millington to Collierville', 'answer_start': 981} |
91,457 | 91,115 | 57290dc41d04691400778fd9 | generic | In a response to Livingstone, Theodore Dobzhansky argued that when talking about race one must be attentive to how the term is being used: "I agree with Dr. Livingstone that if races have to be 'discrete units,' then there are no races, and if 'race' is used as an 'explanation' of the human variability, rather than vic... | What is merely "a matter of judgement"? | {'text': '"the race concept."', 'answer_start': 466} |
58,107 | 57,765 | 5ace9ee632bba1001ae4ad6d | generic | BYU accepted 49 percent of the 11,423 people who applied for admission in the summer term and fall semester of 2013. The average GPA for these admitted students was 3.82. U.S. News and World Report describes BYU's selectivity as being "more selective" and compares it with such universities as the University of Texas at... | What is BYU ranked 88th in? | {'text': 'colleges with the most freshman Merit Scholars', 'answer_start': 394} |
121,794 | 121,452 | 5a77b0eeb73996001af5a506 | generic | By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context. Aristotle was no longer a force providing the epistemological and methodological focus for universities and a more mechanistic orientation was emerging. Th... | The change in universities towards the completion of the modern period is credited with the formation of what entity? | {'text': 'the modern state', 'answer_start': 593} |
68,986 | 68,644 | 57271ca2dd62a815002e9927 | generic | Dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war was growing with the public in the UK and in other countries, aggravated by reports of fiascos, especially the humiliating defeat of the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. On Sunday, 21 January 1855, a "snowball riot" occurred in Trafalgar Square near St.... | How did troops stop the riot? | {'text': 'with truncheons', 'answer_start': 579} |
27,295 | 26,953 | 56f9f63b8f12f31900630012 | generic | Knots do not necessarily influence the stiffness of structural timber, this will depend on the size and location. Stiffness and elastic strength are more dependent upon the sound wood than upon localized defects. The breaking strength is very susceptible to defects. Sound knots do not weaken wood when subject to compre... | Depending on the placement and size of a knot, what property of structural timber can be affected? | {'text': 'stiffness', 'answer_start': 39} |
74,578 | 74,236 | 5a6fdbdd8abb0b001a675fbf | generic | By 1790, the Jewish population of Alsace was approximately 22,500, about 3% of the provincial population. They were highly segregated and subject to long-standing anti-Jewish regulations. They maintained their own customs, Yiddish language, and historic traditions within the tightly-knit ghettos; they adhered to Talmud... | Who decreased antisemitism in 1806? | {'text': 'Napoleon', 'answer_start': 678} |
81,643 | 81,301 | 5727fdad2ca10214002d9ad5 | generic | Matthew Arnold contrasted "culture" with anarchy; other Europeans, following philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrasted "culture" with "the state of nature". According to Hobbes and Rousseau, the Native Americans who were being conquered by Europeans from the 16th centuries on were living in a sta... | "In a state of nature" was divided into two groups, what where they? | {'text': '"civilized" and "uncivilized."', 'answer_start': 393} |
127,144 | 126,802 | 5a68b5b58476ee001a58a78a | generic | Genocide has become an official term used in international relations. The word genocide was not in use before 1944. Before this, in 1941, Winston Churchill described the mass killing of Russian prisoners of war and civilians as "a crime without a name". In that year, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin, describ... | Who referred to acts of genocide in 1945? | {'text': 'Winston Churchill', 'answer_start': 138} |
27,008 | 26,666 | 56fa6fd3f34c681400b0c0c3 | generic | Initially the existing 5:3 aspect ratio had been the main candidate but, due to the influence of widescreen cinema, the aspect ratio 16:9 (1.78) eventually emerged as being a reasonable compromise between 5:3 (1.67) and the common 1.85 widescreen cinema format. An aspect ratio of 16:9 was duly agreed upon at the first ... | What was a leading factor in the 16:9 aspect ratio being chosen? | {'text': 'widescreen cinema', 'answer_start': 97} |
38,198 | 37,856 | 570bddefec8fbc190045bba6 | generic | Computers attached to the ARPANET included machines running operating systems such as TOPS-10 and TENEX using CR-LF line endings, machines running operating systems such as Multics using LF line endings, and machines running operating systems such as OS/360 that represented lines as a character count followed by the ch... | Why did Telnet define an ASCII as a Network Virtual Terminal? | {'text': 'so that connections between hosts with different line-ending conventions and character sets could be supported', 'answer_start': 452} |
66,823 | 66,481 | 5a627457f8d794001af1bfe3 | generic | The Samoan government has called for deregulation of the financial sector, encouragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline.[citation needed] Observers point to the flexibility of the labour market as a basic strength for future economic advances.[citation needed] The sector has been helped enormously by ma... | In what year did the Samoan government call for the financial sector to be deregulated? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 433} |
105,397 | 105,055 | 5a8454087cf838001a46a74b | generic | The Endangered Species Conservation Act (P. L. 91-135), passed in December, 1969, amended the original law to provide additional protection to species in danger of "worldwide extinction" by prohibiting their importation and subsequent sale in the United States. It expanded the Lacey Act's ban on interstate commerce to ... | What is the identification number for the Lacey Act? | {'text': 'P. L. 91-135', 'answer_start': 41} |
16,510 | 16,168 | 5a4d552d755ab9001a10f3c5 | generic | Most web browsers can display a list of web pages that the user has bookmarked so that the user can quickly return to them. Bookmarks are also called "Favorites" in Internet Explorer. In addition, all major web browsers have some form of built-in web feed aggregator. In Firefox, web feeds are formatted as "live bookmar... | What kind of web pages are included in IE? | {'text': 'a more traditional feed reader is included', 'answer_start': 417} |
125,725 | 125,383 | 573363724776f41900660995 | generic | Stock trader and financial risk engineer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the 2007 book The Black Swan, spent years warning against the breakdown of the banking system in particular and the economy in general owing to their use of bad risk models and reliance on forecasting, and their reliance on bad models, and framed... | Who wrote the 2007 book The Black Swan? | {'text': 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', 'answer_start': 41} |
90,129 | 89,787 | 57293f3e6aef051400154bd8 | generic | As reflected in the 2010 United States Census, Alaska has a total of 355 incorporated cities and census-designated places (CDPs). The tally of cities includes four unified municipalities, essentially the equivalent of a consolidated city–county. The majority of these communities are located in the rural expanse of Alas... | Are the majority of CDPs connected or disconnected from the North American road network? | {'text': 'unconnected', 'answer_start': 351} |
100,265 | 99,923 | 5a7a52ef21c2de001afe9b62 | generic | The infinitive form ends in t (archaically, ti). It is the form found in dictionaries and the form that follows auxiliary verbs (for example, můžu tě slyšet—"I can hear you"). Czech verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional. The imperative mood adds specific endings for each of three pe... | How many grammatical moods do English verbs have? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 193} |
124,737 | 124,395 | 5ad3eb39604f3c001a3ff70c | generic | On the other hand, in his study on nine of "the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world", Bible scholar Jason BeDuhn, Professor of Religious Studies at the Northern Arizona University, wrote: “The NW [New World Translation] emerges as the most accurate of the translations compared.” Although the general... | What is regarded as the least accurate translation of the Bible in the world among the nine main ones? | {'text': 'New World Translation', 'answer_start': 217} |
85,361 | 85,019 | 57281a83ff5b5019007d9d57 | generic | In contrast to the Fed, the ECB normally does not buy bonds outright. The normal procedure used by the ECB for manipulating the money supply has been via the so-called refinancing facilities. In these facilities, bonds are not purchased but used in reverse transactions: repurchase agreements, or collateralised loans. T... | Who buys the bonds instead of using them in reverse transactions? | {'text': 'the Fed', 'answer_start': 15} |
78,646 | 78,304 | 5a307be3f1f7c7001ab92d79 | generic | In addition to singing words, some a cappella singers also emulate instrumentation by reproducing instrumental sounds with their vocal cords and mouth. One of the earliest 20th century practitioners of this method were The Mills Brothers whose early recordings of the 1930s clearly stated on the label that all instrumen... | What early recordings emulate Latin rhythms in a cappella? | {'text': 'Vocal Sampling and Undivided', 'answer_start': 670} |
121,484 | 121,142 | 57318cad05b4da19006bd291 | generic | Some of the best examples of later Islamic mosaics were produced in Moorish Spain. The golden mosaics in the mihrab and the central dome of the Great Mosque in Corduba have a decidedly Byzantine character. They were made between 965 and 970 by local craftsmen, supervised by a master mosaicist from Constantinople, who w... | The mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba have what kind of style? | {'text': 'Byzantine', 'answer_start': 185} |
28,816 | 28,474 | 5706621052bb891400689a07 | generic | Alan Dershowitz described Sudan as an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid." Former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler echoed the accusation. | Where did Irwin Cotler live? | {'text': 'Canadian', 'answer_start': 125} |
76,451 | 76,109 | 572840c42ca10214002da19b | generic | In a nationally televised speech early in the morning of December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR – or, as he put it, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." He declared the office extinct, and all of its powers (such as control of ... | What was the Russian Federations previous legal name? | {'text': 'Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic', 'answer_start': 587} |
11,131 | 10,789 | 5ad0d2f5645df0001a2d0564 | generic | The Human Development Report for 2007/2008 was launched in Brasília, Brazil, on November 27, 2007. Its focus was on "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world." Most of the data used for the report are derived largely from 2005 or earlier, thus indicating an HDI for 2005. Not all UN member states cho... | Where was the 2008/2009 Human Development Report launched? | {'text': 'Brasília, Brazil', 'answer_start': 59} |
50,146 | 49,804 | 5725600a69ff041400e58c4a | generic | Napoleon III, since the Crimean War Britain's closest ally, visited London in April 1855, and from 17 to 28 August the same year Victoria and Albert returned the visit. Napoleon III met the couple at Dunkirk and accompanied them to Paris. They visited the Exposition Universelle (a successor to Albert's 1851 brainchild ... | When were Napoleon I remains returned to their resting place at Les Invalides? | {'text': '1840', 'answer_start': 429} |
14,511 | 14,169 | 56dfb4e37aa994140058e018 | generic | During his world tour of 1910–11, Bell and Baldwin met with Forlanini in France. They had rides in the Forlanini hydrofoil boat over Lake Maggiore. Baldwin described it as being as smooth as flying. On returning to Baddeck, a number of initial concepts were built as experimental models, including the Dhonnas Beag, the ... | What did Baldwin liken the hydrofoil boat to? | {'text': 'flying', 'answer_start': 191} |
32,362 | 32,020 | 5a360ab6788daf001a5f86c8 | generic | The economy of Himachal Pradesh is currently the third-fastest growing economy in India.[citation needed] Himachal Pradesh has been ranked fourth in the list of the highest per capita incomes of Indian states. This has made it one of the wealthiest places in the entire South Asia. Abundance of perennial rivers enables ... | What is the economy like in Rajasthan? | {'text': 'one of the wealthiest', 'answer_start': 227} |
51,366 | 51,024 | 57260d4aec44d21400f3d84f | generic | The worship of dynastic ruler cults was also a feature of this period, most notably in Egypt, where the Ptolemies adopted earlier Pharaonic practice, and established themselves as god-kings. These cults were usually associated with a specific temple in honor of the ruler such as the Ptolemaieia at Alexandria and had th... | What practice did the Ptolemies adopt in which they dubbed themselves god-kings? | {'text': 'Pharaonic', 'answer_start': 130} |
116,370 | 116,028 | 5a569abf6349e2001acdce80 | generic | The secondary and high school education system in Swaziland is a five-year programme divided into three years junior secondary and two years senior secondary. There is an external public examination (Junior Certificate) at the end of the junior secondary that learners have to pass to progress to the senior secondary le... | What education system is divided into 3 years? | {'text': 'The secondary and high school', 'answer_start': 0} |
103,082 | 102,740 | 5ad4d0495b96ef001a10a18e | generic | Spielberg was scheduled to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse, adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard. The film would follow a global human war against a robot uprising about 15–20 years in the future. Like Lincoln, it was to be released by Disney in the United States and Fox over... | In what year was the novel Robopocalypse released? | {'text': '2013', 'answer_start': 479} |
44,222 | 43,880 | 5a223728819328001af38a35 | generic | Early research into circadian rhythms suggested that most people preferred a day closer to 25 hours when isolated from external stimuli like daylight and timekeeping. However, this research was faulty because it failed to shield the participants from artificial light. Although subjects were shielded from time cues (lik... | Who prefers a 25 hour day when exposed to stimuli like daylight? | {'text': 'most people', 'answer_start': 53} |
12,233 | 11,891 | 5a5aa93c9c0277001abe7142 | generic | The term heresy is from Greek αἵρεσις originally meant "choice" or "thing chosen", but it came to mean the "party or school of a man's choice" and also referred to that process whereby a young person would examine various philosophies to determine how to live. The word "heresy" is usually used within a Christian, Jewis... | What three religions have the same meaning for heresy? | {'text': 'Christian, Jewish, or Islamic', 'answer_start': 304} |
40,341 | 39,999 | 570ce659fed7b91900d45aa5 | generic | The current Mac product family uses Intel x86-64 processors. Apple introduced an emulator during the transition from PowerPC chips (called Rosetta), much as it did during the transition from Motorola 68000 architecture a decade earlier. The Macintosh is the only mainstream computer platform to have successfully transit... | Which interface did Apple introduce that was capable of being operated by an Apple Remote or keyboard for accessing media stored on the computer? | {'text': 'Front Row', 'answer_start': 1513} |
129,575 | 129,233 | 5a831713e60761001a2eb3c9 | generic | A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p... | What is the only cause of poor socioeconomic factors? | {'text': 'high pathogen load preventing economic development', 'answer_start': 1495} |
60,364 | 60,022 | 57265f07dd62a815002e82f4 | generic | Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, such teams as the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans and the X-Men, and antagonists such as Doctor Doom, The Enchantress, Green Goblin, Ultron, Do... | Which two groups of Marvel crimefighters are based in a fictional version of New York City? | {'text': 'the Fantastic Four, the Avengers', 'answer_start': 532} |
90,387 | 90,045 | 5ad26358d7d075001a4290f8 | generic | Upon this basis, along with that of the logical content of assertions (where logical content is inversely proportional to probability), Popper went on to develop his important notion of verisimilitude or "truthlikeness". The intuitive idea behind verisimilitude is that the assertions or hypotheses of scientific theorie... | What can never be evaluated as more or less true than another on an quantitative basis? | {'text': 'theory', 'answer_start': 437} |
15,601 | 15,259 | 56e06f74231d4119001ac11e | generic | In recent years[when?], there have been reports of child abuse in St Helena. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been accused of lying to the United Nations about child abuse in St Helena to cover up allegations, including cases of a police officer having raped a four-year-old girl and of a police offic... | Who has been accused of lying about the child abuse issue of Saint Helena? | {'text': 'Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office', 'answer_start': 77} |
20,629 | 20,287 | 56e7a3f737bdd419002c42b6 | generic | Into the first half of the twentieth century after the establishment of ROC, Nanjing gradually shifted from being a production hub towards being a heavy consumption city, mainly because of the rapid expansion of its wealthy population after Nanjing once again regained the political spotlight of China. A number of huge ... | What is Zhongyang Shangchang? | {'text': 'huge department stores', 'answer_start': 315} |
84,372 | 84,030 | 57281f1a2ca10214002d9e4d | generic | A day after announcing the attempt on his life, Nasser established a new provisional constitution proclaiming a 600-member National Assembly (400 from Egypt and 200 from Syria) and the dissolution of all political parties. Nasser gave each of the provinces two vice-presidents: Boghdadi and Amer in Egypt, and Sabri al-A... | How many members of the National Assembly were from Egypt? | {'text': '400', 'answer_start': 142} |
16,252 | 15,910 | 56e0f4db7aa994140058e812 | generic | American Virgil "Gus" Grissom repeated Shepard's suborbital flight in Liberty Bell 7 on July 21, 1961. Almost a year after the Soviet Union put a human into orbit, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, on February 20, 1962. His Mercury-Atlas 6 mission completed three orbits in the Friendshi... | When did John Glenn orbit the Earth? | {'text': 'February 20, 1962', 'answer_start': 234} |
123,385 | 123,043 | 5a2eeb0aa83784001a7d2569 | generic | The Portuguese language is the official national language and the primary language taught in schools. English and Spanish are also part of the official curriculum. The city has six international schools: American School of Brasília, Brasília International School (BIS), Escola das Nações, Swiss International School (SIS... | Where is English the primary language taught in Brasilia? | {'text': 'in schools', 'answer_start': 90} |
123,946 | 123,604 | 57321d6de17f3d14004226a9 | generic | Another scholar contends that the minority leader position emerged even before 1883. On the Democratic side, "there were serious caucus fights for the minority speakership nomination in 1871 and 1873," indicating that the "nomination carried with it some vestige of leadership." Further, when Republicans were in the min... | Prior to 1883 there is evidence that serious caucus fights occured in what years? | {'text': '1871 and 1873', 'answer_start': 186} |
45,055 | 44,713 | 5ad35add604f3c001a3fde6b | generic | The slowing sales growth has been attributed to the maturing PC market, which constituted 66% of Dell's sales, and analysts suggested that Dell needed to make inroads into non-PC businesses segments such as storage, services and servers. Dell's price advantage was tied to its ultra-lean manufacturing for desktop PCs, b... | What operation did Hewlett Packard and Acer make more inefficient to compete with Dell? | {'text': 'manufacturing', 'answer_start': 484} |
1,632 | 1,290 | 56d38ba459d6e414001466eb | generic | The funeral, held at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, was delayed almost two weeks, until 30 October. Entrance was restricted to ticket holders as many people were expected to attend. Over 3,000 people arrived without invitations, from as far as London, Berlin and Vienna, and were excluded. | How many people arrived without an invitation? | {'text': 'Over 3,000', 'answer_start': 189} |
48,163 | 47,821 | 5ad355cd604f3c001a3fddad | generic | While highly effective, the requirement for injection limited the use of norepinephrine[clarification needed] and orally active derivatives were sought. A structurally similar compound, ephedrine, was identified by Japanese chemists in the Ma Huang plant and marketed by Eli Lilly as an oral treatment for asthma. Follow... | Who developed tricyclics? | {'text': 'Smith, Kline and French', 'answer_start': 628} |
50,602 | 50,260 | 5726596df1498d1400e8dcd5 | generic | The earliest known American lodges were in Pennsylvania. The Collector for the port of Pennsylvania, John Moore, wrote of attending lodges there in 1715, two years before the formation of the first Grand Lodge in London. The Premier Grand Lodge of England appointed a Provincial Grand Master for North America in 1731, b... | The Provincial Grand Master for North America was base where? | {'text': 'Pennsylvania', 'answer_start': 328} |
18,815 | 18,473 | 5ad507845b96ef001a10aa43 | generic | In Europe, and other regions using the ISO 216 paper sizing system, the weight is expressed in grammes per square metre (g/m2 or usually just g) of the paper. Printing paper is generally between 60 g and 120 g. Anything heavier than 160 g is considered card. The weight of a ream therefore depends on the dimensions of t... | Where is the thickness of paper expressed in grams per square meter? | {'text': 'Europe', 'answer_start': 3} |
118,777 | 118,435 | 5730f09fa5e9cc1400cdbb13 | generic | Among the first to study Russian dialects was Lomonosov in the 18th century. In the 19th, Vladimir Dal compiled the first dictionary that included dialectal vocabulary. Detailed mapping of Russian dialects began at the turn of the 20th century. In modern times, the monumental Dialectological Atlas of the Russian Langua... | Who made the first dialectal Russian dictionary? | {'text': 'Vladimir Dal', 'answer_start': 90} |
19,919 | 19,577 | 5a7ba69c21c2de001afea1fd | generic | In May 2008, the National Archives announced a five-year agreement to digitize selected records including the complete U.S. Federal Census Collection, 1790–1930, passenger lists from 1820–1960 and WWI and WWII draft registration cards. The partnership agreement allows for exclusive use of the digitized records by Ances... | How far back does Ancestry.com have records for genealogy? | {'text': '1790', 'answer_start': 151} |
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