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3,673 | 3,331 | 56d624261c85041400946f2f | generic | As a result of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake and the many strong aftershocks, many rivers became blocked by large landslides, which resulted in the formation of "quake lakes" behind the blockages; these massive amounts of water were pooling up at a very high rate behind the natural landslide dams and it was feared that ... | By May 27, how many earthquake lakes had formed up behind landslide debris? | {'text': '34', 'answer_start': 506} |
80,996 | 80,654 | 5727d2c1ff5b5019007d961b | generic | Public funding and private investment have also been made with promises to rehabilitate neighborhoods. In April 2008, the city announced a $300-million stimulus plan to create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods, financed by city bonds and paid for by earmarking about 15% of the wagering tax. The city's working plans for... | How many acres of land does the Far Eastside Plan seek to clear? | {'text': '1,200', 'answer_start': 565} |
79,537 | 79,195 | 5a7e4e0b70df9f001a8756db | generic | Cork is home to the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, and to many musical acts, including John Spillane, The Frank And Walters, Sultans of Ping, Simple Kid, Microdisney, Fred, Mick Flannery and the late Rory Gallagher. Singer songwriter Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas also hail from Cork. The opera singers Cara... | What does the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet support? | {'text': "Cork's underground scene", 'answer_start': 608} |
11,040 | 10,698 | 56de2e934396321400ee2646 | generic | The origins of the HDI are found in the annual Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These were devised and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people-centered... | In what year did Mahbub ul Haq devise and launch the HDI? | {'text': '1990', 'answer_start': 191} |
41,856 | 41,514 | 5acec7dd32bba1001ae4b3cd | generic | The end of World War II set the stage for the East–West confrontation known as the Cold War. With the outbreak of the Korean War, concerns over the defense of Western Europe rose. Two corps, V and VII, were reactivated under Seventh United States Army in 1950 and American strength in Europe rose from one division to fo... | With the outbreak of which war did concerns for the defense of Western Europe decrease? | {'text': 'Korean War', 'answer_start': 118} |
103,776 | 103,434 | 5acee3d632bba1001ae4b8ad | generic | Neptune's orbit has a profound impact on the region directly beyond it, known as the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt is a ring of small icy worlds, similar to the asteroid belt but far larger, extending from Neptune's orbit at 30 AU out to about 55 AU from the Sun. Much in the same way that Jupiter's gravity dominates the... | Where is the Kuiper belt relative to Mars? | {'text': '30 AU out to about 55 AU', 'answer_start': 224} |
62,158 | 61,816 | 5ace7a4132bba1001ae4a78f | generic | Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, in the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. T... | What national and religious group originated in the first millennium BCE? | {'text': 'Jews', 'answer_start': 0} |
39,045 | 38,703 | 5ad38518604f3c001a3fe543 | generic | During the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, FBI agent Leonard W. Hatton Jr. was killed during the rescue effort while helping the rescue personnel evacuate the occupants of the South Tower and stayed when it collapsed. Within months after the attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller, who had been sworn... | What did Mueller not try to protect? | {'text': 'civil rights', 'answer_start': 620} |
94,850 | 94,508 | 572b5d6634ae481900deadd0 | generic | Other widely used alloys that contain zinc include nickel silver, typewriter metal, soft and aluminium solder, and commercial bronze. Zinc is also used in contemporary pipe organs as a substitute for the traditional lead/tin alloy in pipes. Alloys of 85–88% zinc, 4–10% copper, and 2–8% aluminium find limited use in cer... | What is zinc coated with to influence the look of pennies? | {'text': 'thin layer of copper', 'answer_start': 460} |
16,853 | 16,511 | 56e0f150231d4119001ac483 | generic | Greek kanon / Ancient Greek: κανών, Arabic Qanun / قانون, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, "straight"; a rule, code, standard, or measure; the root meaning in all these languages is "reed" (cf. the Romance-language ancestors of the English word "cane"). | What is the common definition of the word canon as it appears in Greek, Arabic and Hebrew? | {'text': 'reed', 'answer_start': 170} |
29,262 | 28,920 | 5705e37175f01819005e76e2 | generic | New Delhi (i/ˌnjuː ˈdɛli/) is a municipality and district in Delhi which serves as the capital and seat of government of India. In addition, it also serves as the seat of Government of Delhi. | What municipality serves as the seat of government of Delhi? | {'text': 'New Delhi', 'answer_start': 0} |
35,741 | 35,399 | 5a2e0b8cf28ef0001a526735 | generic | The FAA gradually assumed additional functions. The hijacking epidemic of the 1960s had already brought the agency into the field of civil aviation security. In response to the hijackings on September 11, 2001, this responsibility is now primarily taken by the Department of Homeland Security. The FAA became more involv... | When did the FAA start to regulate low altitude kite and balloon flying? | {'text': '1960s and 1970s,', 'answer_start': 576} |
14,670 | 14,328 | 56dfc0887aa994140058e11f | generic | There was already regulation on public drinking spaces in the 17th and 18th centuries,[citation needed] and the income earned from licences was beneficial to the crown. Tavern owners were required to possess a licence to sell ale, and a separate licence for distilled spirits. | What party received income from the sale of public drinking house licenses? | {'text': 'the crown', 'answer_start': 158} |
42,496 | 42,154 | 570db44716d0071400510d09 | generic | There are certain characteristics of adolescent development that are more rooted in culture than in human biology or cognitive structures. Culture has been defined as the "symbolic and behavioral inheritance received from the past that provides a community framework for what is valued". Culture is learned and socially ... | How is culture defined? | {'text': 'symbolic and behavioral inheritance received from the past that provides a community framework for what is valued', 'answer_start': 172} |
50,186 | 49,844 | 57267966708984140094c749 | generic | Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Rheumatism in her legs had rendered her lame, and her eyesight was clouded by cataracts. Through early January, she felt "weak and unwell", and by mid-January she was "drowsy ... dazed... | Where did Victoria usually spend Christmases? | {'text': 'Osborne House on the Isle of Wight', 'answer_start': 100} |
123,673 | 123,331 | 5a7b496721c2de001afe9e69 | generic | As a consequence, there was a crisis in international confidence in Greece's ability to repay its sovereign debt, as reflected by the rise of the country's borrowing rates (although their slow rise – the 10-year government bond yield only exceeded 7% in April 2010 – coinciding with a large number of negative articles, ... | What was the total amount of the rescue package taken from Greece? | {'text': '€110 billion', 'answer_start': 710} |
46,112 | 45,770 | 5710fd27b654c5140001fa7a | generic | The Republic of Letters was the sum of a number of Enlightenment ideals: an egalitarian realm governed by knowledge that could act across political boundaries and rival state power. It was a forum that supported "free public examination of questions regarding religion or legislation". Immanuel Kant considered written c... | Once everyone was a part of what group did Kant believe all of society would be enlightened? | {'text': 'the "reading public"', 'answer_start': 411} |
32,030 | 31,688 | 57097382ed30961900e84180 | generic | The cultural role of copper has been important, particularly in currency. Romans in the 6th through 3rd centuries BC used copper lumps as money. At first, the copper itself was valued, but gradually the shape and look of the copper became more important. Julius Caesar had his own coins made from brass, while Octavianus... | During the 6th through 3rd centuries BC how much copper was mined in Rome? | {'text': '15,000 t', 'answer_start': 419} |
12,143 | 11,801 | 56df785856340a1900b29bee | generic | Plymouth is an important centre for watersports, especially scuba diving and sailing. The Port of Plymouth Regatta is one of the oldest regattas in the world, and has been held regularly since 1823. In September 2011, Plymouth hosted the America's Cup World Series for nine days. | When was the first Port of Plymouth Regatta? | {'text': '1823', 'answer_start': 193} |
64,611 | 64,269 | 57277421708984140094ddf8 | generic | Hunyadi succeeded during the Siege of Belgrade in 1456 against the Ottomans, the biggest victory against that empire in decades. This battle became a real Crusade against the Muslims, as the peasants were motivated by the Franciscan monk Saint John of Capistrano, who came from Italy predicating Holy War. The effect tha... | In what year was the Siege of Belgrade fought? | {'text': '1456', 'answer_start': 50} |
47,086 | 46,744 | 571a16d64faf5e1900b8a898 | generic | Seattle annually sends a team of spoken word slammers to the National Poetry Slam and considers itself home to such performance poets as Buddy Wakefield, two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champ; Anis Mojgani, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ; and Danny Sherrard, 2007 National Poetry Slam Champ and 2008 Individua... | What poetry festival was first held in 1997? | {'text': 'Poetry Circus', 'answer_start': 495} |
91,498 | 91,156 | 57291d851d0469140077906e | generic | In his 2003 paper, "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy", A. W. F. Edwards argued that rather than using a locus-by-locus analysis of variation to derive taxonomy, it is possible to construct a human classification system based on characteristic genetic patterns, or clusters inferred from multilocus genetic dat... | Risch feels any category someone comes up with will be what? | {'text': 'imperfect', 'answer_start': 1061} |
30,430 | 30,088 | 57069b2452bb891400689ac0 | generic | In the early 1980s, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5, and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played various styles of dance music, including older disco records (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, newer Italo disco, B-Boy hip hop music by Man Parrish,... | how did producers sometimes make edits of house music? | {'text': 'reel-to-reel tape', 'answer_start': 500} |
21,814 | 21,472 | 56e8f03d0b45c0140094cd80 | generic | Subsequently, it became one of Britain's most significant honours to be buried or commemorated in the abbey. The practice of burying national figures in the abbey began under Oliver Cromwell with the burial of Admiral Robert Blake in 1657. The practice spread to include generals, admirals, politicians, doctors and scie... | Who was buried in the abbey on 4 April 1727? | {'text': 'Isaac Newton', 'answer_start': 335} |
24,037 | 23,695 | 56f956539b226e1400dd1359 | generic | The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in an expedition commanded by Miguel López de Legazpi discovered an island on January 9, 1530, possibly Mejit, at 10°N, which they named "Los Barbudos". The Spaniards went ashore and traded with the local inhabitants. On January 10, the Spaniards sighted another island t... | On what day did the Spanish see the island they named Corrales? | {'text': 'January 12', 'answer_start': 454} |
91,127 | 90,785 | 572938fe3f37b31900478121 | generic | The thorax is a tagma composed of three sections, the prothorax, mesothorax and the metathorax. The anterior segment, closest to the head, is the prothorax, with the major features being the first pair of legs and the pronotum. The middle segment is the mesothorax, with the major features being the second pair of legs ... | The anterior section is closest to the what? | {'text': 'head', 'answer_start': 133} |
88,570 | 88,228 | 5a3c5cd1cc5d22001a521d8b | generic | The earliest written form of the Germanic word God (always, in this usage, capitalized) comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan. The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form * ǵhu-tó-m was likely based on the root * ǵhau(ə)-, which meant eit... | What does Argenteus mean? | {'text': '"to call" or "to invoke"', 'answer_start': 324} |
97,762 | 97,420 | 572a637c7a1753140016af06 | generic | The term "Islamic education" means education in the light of Islam itself, which is rooted in the teachings of the Quran - holy book of Muslims. Islamic education and Muslim education are not the same. Because Islamic education has epistemological integration which is founded on Tawhid - Oneness or monotheism. For deta... | What types of education greatly differs from Islamic education? | {'text': 'Muslim education', 'answer_start': 167} |
98,139 | 97,797 | 5ad38355604f3c001a3fe4eb | generic | Miami is partitioned into many different sections, roughly into North, South, West and Downtown. The heart of the city is Downtown Miami and is technically on the eastern side of the city. This area includes Brickell, Virginia Key, Watson Island, and PortMiami. Downtown is South Florida's central business district, and... | Where is South Beach in relation to Uptown? | {'text': 'East', 'answer_start': 644} |
49,716 | 49,374 | 5ad17cf2645df0001a2d1e15 | generic | In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. The following day, she participated in a procession and attended a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey. By this time, Vi... | What wasn't Munshi lying about? | {'text': 'his parentage', 'answer_start': 783} |
7,117 | 6,775 | 56d9c708dc89441400fdb7fb | generic | Emigrants from Siberia that walked across the Bering land bridge into North America may have had dogs in their company, and one writer suggests that the use of sled dogs may have been critical to the success of the waves that entered North America roughly 12,000 years ago, although the earliest archaeological evidence ... | Dogs were the only domesticated animals for what North American population? | {'text': 'Athabascan', 'answer_start': 438} |
56,391 | 56,049 | 5a6786f4f038b7001ab0c272 | generic | The DIN system, officially DIN standard 4512 by Deutsches Institut für Normung (but still named Deutscher Normenausschuß (DNA) at this time), was published in January 1934. It grew out of drafts for a standardized method of sensitometry put forward by Deutscher Normenausschuß für Phototechnik as proposed by the committ... | When was Deutsche Gesellschaft für photographische Forschung founded? | {'text': '1930', 'answer_start': 405} |
54,136 | 53,794 | 5726bbb5f1498d1400e8e95b | generic | In the resulting Battle of Pusan Perimeter (August–September 1950), the U.S. Army withstood KPA attacks meant to capture the city at the Naktong Bulge, P'ohang-dong, and Taegu. The United States Air Force (USAF) interrupted KPA logistics with 40 daily ground support sorties that destroyed 32 bridges, halting most dayti... | Along with India, what other nation was to determine the how much the US would have to compensate China? | {'text': 'Sweden', 'answer_start': 905} |
80,545 | 80,203 | 5a690ae78476ee001a58aa22 | generic | The majority of the province's population is Han Chinese, who are found scattered throughout the region with the exception of the far western areas. Thus, significant minorities of Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and Nakhi people reside in the western portion that are impacted by inclement weather and natural disasters, environment... | What race is the majority of Tibet? | {'text': 'Han Chinese', 'answer_start': 45} |
67,241 | 66,899 | 5ad14e44645df0001a2d16d7 | generic | After many other more or less successful attempts with relatively weak rotating and reciprocating apparatus the Prussian Moritz von Jacobi created the first real rotating electric motor in May 1834 that actually developed a remarkable mechanical output power. His motor set a world record which was improved only four ye... | Who broke the world record set by Jacobi's second motor? | {'text': 'Jacobi', 'answer_start': 132} |
100,575 | 100,233 | 572bd5c1dfb02c14005c6ad6 | generic | Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis... | Which national park in Tennessee sees more visitors that any other in the United States? | {'text': 'Great Smoky Mountains National Park', 'answer_start': 262} |
28,579 | 28,237 | 56fdcadf761e401900d28c01 | generic | The differential analyser, a mechanical analog computer designed to solve differential equations by integration, used wheel-and-disc mechanisms to perform the integration. In 1876 Lord Kelvin had already discussed the possible construction of such calculators, but he had been stymied by the limited output torque of the... | What type of mechanisms did the differential analyzer use? | {'text': 'wheel-and-disc', 'answer_start': 118} |
42,572 | 42,230 | 570de4770b85d914000d7b92 | generic | An adolescent's environment plays a huge role in their identity development. While most adolescent studies are conducted on white, middle class children, studies show that the more privileged upbringing people have, the more successfully they develop their identity. The forming of an adolescent's identity is a crucial ... | What social class of adolescents is most often studied? | {'text': 'middle class', 'answer_start': 131} |
15,085 | 14,743 | 56dfc4e0231d4119001abdd8 | generic | Network hardware, software and specifications, as well as the expertise of network management personnel are important in ensuring that data follows the most efficient route, and upstream connections work reliably. A tradeoff between cost and efficiency is possible.[citation needed] | Is a tradeoff between efficiency and cost possible? | {'text': 'A tradeoff between cost and efficiency is possible', 'answer_start': 214} |
63,531 | 63,189 | 57269193f1498d1400e8e414 | generic | Somerton took over from Ilchester as the county town in the late thirteenth century, but it declined in importance and the status of county town transferred to Taunton about 1366. The county has two cities, Bath and Wells, and 30 towns (including the county town of Taunton, which has no town council but instead is the ... | Most Southernly town of somerset | {'text': 'Chard is the most southerly town in Somerset, and at an altitude of 121 m (397 ft) it is also the highest', 'answer_start': 929} |
96,295 | 95,953 | 5729ff176aef051400155192 | generic | As the universe evolves in time, more and more of its energy becomes trapped in irreversible states (i.e., as heat or other kinds of increases in disorder). This has been referred to as the inevitable thermodynamic heat death of the universe. In this heat death the energy of the universe does not change, but the fracti... | As the universe evolves in time, more and more of its energy becomes trapped in what? | {'text': 'irreversible states', 'answer_start': 80} |
22,100 | 21,758 | 56eaab375a205f1900d6d3e5 | generic | Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lowe... | Who discovered the correlation that congressman who have less local press coverage work less for the people who elected them? | {'text': 'Snyder and Strömberg', 'answer_start': 0} |
72,958 | 72,616 | 5a870d941d3cee001a6a10a0 | generic | In many people, the infection waxes and wanes. Tissue destruction and necrosis are often balanced by healing and fibrosis. Affected tissue is replaced by scarring and cavities filled with caseous necrotic material. During active disease, some of these cavities are joined to the air passages bronchi and this material ca... | What do cavities join with in the waning period? | {'text': 'air passages bronchi', 'answer_start': 279} |
100,844 | 100,502 | 572e6570dfa6aa1500f8cff9 | generic | Nicholas Lezard described post-punk as "a fusion of art and music". The era saw the robust appropriation of ideas from literature, art, cinema, philosophy, politics and critical theory into musical and pop cultural contexts. Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to th... | What was Nicholas Lezard's description of post-punk? | {'text': '"a fusion of art and music"', 'answer_start': 39} |
112,411 | 112,069 | 57302da5b2c2fd1400568a0c | generic | The heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry and cavalry troops, typically 300 horsemen per manipular legion. The cavalry was drawn primarily from the richest class of equestrians. There was an additional class of troops who followed the army without specific martial roles and were de... | Small shields could be found in what section of the infantry? | {'text': 'light infantry', 'answer_start': 470} |
101,705 | 101,363 | 5a8dc838df8bba001a0f9c09 | generic | Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City, the son of Lucille (née Phillips), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman, a sales manager. His family originated from Russia and Poland; both of his parents were Ashkenazi Jews. They were not religious, and by his youth Feynman described hi... | What book did Feynman not encounter in a Seminary? | {'text': 'the Talmud', 'answer_start': 779} |
50,923 | 50,581 | 5725cb6c271a42140099d1e6 | generic | Israeli foreign aid ranks very low among OECD nations, spending less than 0.1% of its GNI on foreign aid, as opposed to the recommended 0.7%. Individual international charitable donations are also very low, with only 0.1% of charitable donations being sent to foreign causes. However, Israel has a history of providing e... | When was MASHAV established? | {'text': '1958', 'answer_start': 446} |
33,656 | 33,314 | 5acd6d7607355d001abf41ab | generic | The starch source in a beer provides the fermentable material and is a key determinant of the strength and flavour of the beer. The most common starch source used in beer is malted grain. Grain is malted by soaking it in water, allowing it to begin germination, and then drying the partially germinated grain in a kiln. ... | What do different roasting sugars produce? | {'text': 'different colours of malt from the same grain', 'answer_start': 473} |
64,238 | 63,896 | 5726f9485951b619008f83dc | generic | Yale University, one of the oldest universities in the United States, is a cultural referent as an institution that produces some of the most elite members of society and its grounds, alumni, and students have been prominently portrayed in fiction and U.S. popular culture. For example, Owen Johnson's novel, Stover at Y... | What F. Scott Fitzgerald novel is Yale a part of? | {'text': 'The Great Gatsby', 'answer_start': 597} |
71,426 | 71,084 | 5ad28ba5d7d075001a4299ec | generic | After Germany entered a Tripartite Pact with Japan and Italy, Ribbentrop wrote to Stalin, inviting Molotov to Berlin for negotiations aimed to create a 'continental bloc' of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR that would oppose Britain and the USA. Stalin sent Molotov to Berlin to negotiate the terms for the Soviet Unio... | Who would the axis powers approve in the new agreement? | {'text': 'Britain and the USA', 'answer_start': 227} |
99,380 | 99,038 | 572b5bd7be1ee31400cb8344 | generic | Lying in the western Pacific, Guam is a popular destination for Japanese tourists. Its tourist hub, Tumon, features over 20 large hotels, a Duty Free Shoppers Galleria, Pleasure Island district, indoor aquarium, Sandcastle Las Vegas–styled shows and other shopping and entertainment venues. It is a relatively short flig... | About how many tourist visit Guam yearly? | {'text': 'a million', 'answer_start': 427} |
9,981 | 9,639 | 5ad2f313604f3c001a3fda3d | generic | In early times, the privilege of papal election was not reserved to the cardinals, and for centuries the person elected was customarily a Roman priest and never a bishop from elsewhere. To preserve apostolic succession the rite of consecrating him a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop. The ru... | What is the rule if the person elected is a bishop? | {'text': 'he is consecrated by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia.', 'answer_start': 385} |
57,976 | 57,634 | 572823673acd2414000df574 | generic | Brigham Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the... | What percentage of BYU students are members of the LDS Church? | {'text': 'Approximately 99 percent', 'answer_start': 408} |
4,262 | 3,920 | 56cfacff234ae51400d9be57 | generic | New York City is additionally a center for the advertising, music, newspaper, digital media, and publishing industries and is also the largest media market in North America. Some of the city's media conglomerates and institutions include Time Warner, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the Associated Press, Bloomberg L.P.... | Along with Warner Music Group, what top three record label is based in New York City? | {'text': 'Sony Music Entertainment', 'answer_start': 596} |
105,522 | 105,180 | 5a848ddc7cf838001a46a927 | generic | The US Congress was urged to create the exemption by proponents of a conservation plan on San Bruno Mountain, California that was drafted in the early 1980s and is the first HCP in the nation. In the conference report on the 1982 amendments, Congress specified that it intended the San Bruno plan to act "as a model" for... | When was the last permit given out? | {'text': 'the early 1980s', 'answer_start': 141} |
3,613 | 3,271 | 56ceccc7aab44d1400b88a7d | generic | The Internet was extensively used for passing information to aid rescue and recovery efforts. For example, the official news agency Xinhua set up an online rescue request center in order to find the blind spots of disaster recovery. After knowing that rescue helicopters had trouble landing into the epicenter area in We... | What was extensively used to pass information to aid rescue and recovery efforts? | {'text': 'The Internet', 'answer_start': 0} |
64,999 | 64,657 | 5726a317dd62a815002e8bac | generic | It was principally the widespread introduction of a single feature, the pointed arch, which was to bring about the change that separates Gothic from Romanesque. The technological change permitted a stylistic change which broke the tradition of massive masonry and solid walls penetrated by small openings, replacing it w... | What is the name of the cathedral in Sicily that first displayed the use of the pointed arch? | {'text': 'Cathedral of Cefalù', 'answer_start': 965} |
72,347 | 72,005 | 572a303f3f37b31900478798 | generic | The series is set three years after the events of Digimon Adventure 02, when Digimon who turn rogue by a mysterious infection appear to wreak havoc in the Human World. Tai and the other DigiDestined from the original series reunite with their partners and start fighting back with support from the Japanese government, w... | Whats the name of the group that defeats Cody and Ken? | {'text': 'Alphamon', 'answer_start': 392} |
108,605 | 108,263 | 572f8015a23a5019007fc699 | generic | The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) oversees the civic infrastructure of the city's 18 "circles", which together encompass 150 municipal wards. Each ward is represented by a corporator, elected by popular vote. The corporators elect the Mayor, who is the titular head of GHMC; executive powers rest with t... | What is the entity that controls the infrastructure of Hyderabad? | {'text': 'The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)', 'answer_start': 0} |
93,289 | 92,947 | 5a4745ff5fd40d001a27dd9d | generic | Upon its founding in 1949, West Germany had eleven states. These were reduced to nine in 1952 when three south-western states (South Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern, and Württemberg-Baden) merged to form Baden-Württemberg. From 1957, when the French-occupied Saar Protectorate was returned and formed into the Saarland, ... | When South Baden was formed in 1952, how many states were there? | {'text': 'eleven', 'answer_start': 44} |
13,062 | 12,720 | 5ace2f7232bba1001ae49d28 | generic | Also in late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived. This label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Date's biggest success was "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, peaking at #2 in 1969. The label was discontinued in 1970. | In 1970, which label was revived? | {'text': 'the Date subsidiary label', 'answer_start': 19} |
9,919 | 9,577 | 5ad2e95d604f3c001a3fd9b6 | generic | Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons. Starting in the pontificate of Pope John XXIII, that limit has been exceeded. At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set the number of cardinal electors at a maximum of 120, but set no limit o... | What did the composition of popes consist of? | {'text': 'six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons', 'answer_start': 64} |
126,767 | 126,425 | 5a4ebc82af0d07001ae8cc15 | generic | Antarctica continued to become more isolated and finally developed a permanent ice cap. Mountain building in western North America continued, and the Alps started to rise in Europe as the African plate continued to push north into the Eurasian plate, isolating the remnants of Tethys Sea. A brief marine incursion marks ... | Where did mountain building stop? | {'text': 'North America', 'answer_start': 117} |
102,069 | 101,727 | 572e8441cb0c0d14000f1229 | generic | Gaddafi organized demonstrations and distributed posters criticizing the monarchy. In October 1961, he led a demonstration protesting Syria's secession from the United Arab Republic. During this they broke windows of a local hotel accused of serving alcohol. Catching the authorities' attention, they expelled his family... | While he was in secondary school, what sort of activism did Gaddafi support? | {'text': 'Arab nationalist activism', 'answer_start': 429} |
71,199 | 70,857 | 5ad27de2d7d075001a4296db | generic | By the end of May, drafts were formally presented. In mid-June, the main Tripartite negotiations started. The discussion was focused on potential guarantees to central and east European countries should a German aggression arise. The USSR proposed to consider that a political turn towards Germany by the Baltic states w... | What month did the Tripartite discussions end between Britain, USSR and France? | {'text': 'mid-June', 'answer_start': 54} |
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Japan: The event was held in Nagano, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics, on April 26. Japanese Buddhist temple Zenkō-ji, which was originally scheduled to be the starting point for the Olympic torch relay in Nagano, refused to host the torch and pulled out of the relay plans, amid speculation that monks there symp... | Where was the torch relay held in Japan? | {'text': 'Nagano', 'answer_start': 31} |
40,990 | 40,648 | 570d9ca3df2f5219002ed038 | generic | The introduction of the guided missile resulted in a significant shift in anti-aircraft strategy. Although Germany had been desperate to introduce anti-aircraft missile systems, none became operational during World War II. Following several years of post-war development, however, these systems began to mature into viab... | What missile did the United States upgrade their defences with? | {'text': 'the Nike Ajax missile', 'answer_start': 390} |
32,318 | 31,976 | 5a14558cc8eab200188dca29 | generic | Gender identity forms an important part of identity in psychology, as it dictates to a significant degree how one views oneself both as a person and in relation to other people, ideas and nature. Other aspects of identity, such as racial, religious, ethnic, occupational… etc. may also be more or less significant – or s... | What other aspects of identity are more important than gender? | {'text': 'racial, religious, ethnic, occupational', 'answer_start': 231} |
61,278 | 60,936 | 5726d6ef708984140094d301 | generic | She met director Guy Ritchie, who would become her second husband, in November 1998 and gave birth to their son Rocco John Ritchie on August 11, 2000 in Los Angeles. Rocco and Madonna suffered complications from the birth due to her experiencing placenta praevia. He was christened at Dornoch Cathedral in Dornoch, Scotl... | When did Madonna's Drowned World Tour start? | {'text': 'June 2001', 'answer_start': 475} |
120,974 | 120,632 | 5731385505b4da19006bcee1 | generic | With over 90 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa and the Arab World, the third-most populous in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia), and the fifteenth-most populous in the world. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square ki... | What is the rank of Egypt popultaion among African nations? | {'text': 'third-most populous in Africa', 'answer_start': 109} |
36,103 | 35,761 | 570ad7b26d058f190018311a | generic | The Early Jurassic spans from 200 million years to 175 million years ago. The climate was much more humid than the Triassic, and as a result, the world was very tropical. In the oceans, Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs and Ammonites fill waters as the dominant races of the seas. On land, dinosaurs and other reptiles stake the... | What is the span of years for the Early Jurassic? | {'text': '200 million years to 175 million', 'answer_start': 30} |
93,852 | 93,510 | 5729317d6aef051400154b60 | generic | where the uncertainty is given as the standard deviation of the measured value from its expected value. There are a number of other such pairs of physically measurable values which obey a similar rule. One example is time vs. energy. The either-or nature of uncertainty forces measurement attempts to choose between trad... | What form do measurement attempt trade-offs for quanta take the form of? | {'text': 'either-or (as in Fourier analysis)', 'answer_start': 398} |
15,482 | 15,140 | 56e036337aa994140058e393 | generic | In 1815, the British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was taken to the island in October 1815. Napoleon stayed at the Briars pavilion on the grounds of the Balcombe family's home until his permanent residence, Longwood House, was completed in December 1815. Napoleon d... | What year did Napoleon Bonaparte pass away? | {'text': '1821', 'answer_start': 339} |
50,318 | 49,976 | 5724b70a0ba9f01400d97b7d | generic | At the dawn of the Grand Lodge era, during the 1720s, James Anderson composed the first printed constitutions for Freemasons, the basis for most subsequent constitutions, which specifically excluded women from Freemasonry. As Freemasonry spread, continental masons began to include their ladies in Lodges of Adoption, wh... | When were the first constitutions for Freemasonry printed? | {'text': 'during the 1720s', 'answer_start': 36} |
93,573 | 93,231 | 5a671251f038b7001ab0c1bf | generic | Addition of lead(II) oxide lowers melting point, lowers viscosity of the melt, and increases refractive index. Lead oxide also facilitates solubility of other metal oxides and is used in colored glasses. The viscosity decrease of lead glass melt is very significant (roughly 100 times in comparison with soda glasses); t... | Lead oxide makes it easier to decrease viscosity in what? | {'text': 'other metal oxides', 'answer_start': 153} |
32,226 | 31,884 | 5a146b51c8eab200188dca32 | generic | The inclusiveness of Weinreich's definition (above) directs attention to the totality of one's identity at a given phase in time, and assists in elucidating component aspects of one's total identity, such as one's gender identity, ethnic identity, occupational identity and so on. The definition readily applies to the y... | The phases of what our gender identity, ethnic identity and occupational identity? | {'text': 'life cycle', 'answer_start': 419} |
129,755 | 129,413 | 5ace687532bba1001ae4a5db | generic | New Zealand has a strong hunting culture. The islands making up New Zealand originally had no land mammals apart from bats. However, once Europeans arrived, game animals were introduced by acclimatisation societies to provide New Zealanders with sport and a hunting resource. Deer, pigs, goats, rabbits, hare, tahr and c... | What kind of culture does Europe have? | {'text': 'hunting', 'answer_start': 25} |
88,396 | 88,054 | 5ace891a32bba1001ae4a9b5 | generic | However, the lifecycles of most living polychaetes, which are almost all marine animals, are unknown, and only about 25% of the 300+ species whose lifecycles are known follow this pattern. About 14% use a similar external fertilization but produce yolk-rich eggs, which reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the... | How many species of polychaetes have impossible lifecycles? | {'text': 'about 25%', 'answer_start': 111} |
79,119 | 78,777 | 57278ba7dd62a815002e9fe8 | generic | As the school suffered reduced income while still under construction, the completion and further development of the school has since depended to some extent on wealthy benefactors. Building resumed when Roger Lupton was Provost, around 1517. His name is borne by the big gate-house in the west range of the cloisters, fr... | Around what year did construction continue after a period of financial struggle? | {'text': '1517', 'answer_start': 236} |
15,062 | 14,720 | 56dfc3487aa994140058e16b | generic | Free ISPs are Internet service providers that provide service free of charge. Many free ISPs display advertisements while the user is connected; like commercial television, in a sense they are selling the user's attention to the advertiser. Other free ISPs, sometimes called freenets, are run on a nonprofit basis, usual... | How are freenets run? | {'text': 'on a nonprofit basis', 'answer_start': 293} |
122,973 | 122,631 | 5731b919e17f3d140042232f | generic | Protestantism spread in Europe during the 16th century. Lutheranism spread from Germany into its surrounding areas,[c] Denmark,[d] Norway,[e] Sweden,[f] Finland,[g] Prussia,[h] Latvia,[i], Estonia,[j] and Iceland,[k] as well as other smaller territories. Reformed churches were founded primarily in Germany and its adjac... | Where did Lutheranism begin? | {'text': 'Germany', 'answer_start': 80} |
114,325 | 113,983 | 5a79dc6717ab25001a8a010c | generic | At a professional level, most matches produce only a few goals. For example, the 2005–06 season of the English Premier League produced an average of 2.48 goals per match. The Laws of the Game do not specify any player positions other than goalkeeper, but a number of specialised roles have evolved. Broadly, these includ... | Who is the least responsible for the teams tactics? | {'text': "team's manager", 'answer_start': 1475} |
92,274 | 91,932 | 5728d9e23acd2414000e0030 | generic | On March 10, 2004, Bush officially clinched the number of delegates needed to be nominated at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. Bush accepted the nomination on September 2, 2004, and selected Vice President Dick Cheney as his running mate. (In New York, the ticket was also on the ballot as candi... | When did Bush accept the Republican nomination? | {'text': 'September 2, 2004', 'answer_start': 184} |
86,646 | 86,304 | 572aa9e7be1ee31400cb812c | generic | During the 1960s, the ceremony of assenting by commission was discontinued and is now only employed once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session. In 1960, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod arrived to summon the House of Commons during a heated debate and several members protested against the disruptio... | When does assention by commission occur today? | {'text': 'once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session', 'answer_start': 100} |
111,202 | 110,860 | 5ad26fb8d7d075001a429436 | generic | The Greeks of classical antiquity idealized their Mycenaean ancestors and the Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth. The Homeric Epics (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past and it was not until the 19th century that sc... | How did the Greeks not look upon their forebears ? | {'text': 'idealized their Mycenaean ancestors', 'answer_start': 34} |
76,781 | 76,439 | 5a8cbd6dfd22b3001a8d8dc9 | generic | The presence of the Virgin Mary under the cross[Jn. 19:26-27] has in itself been the subject of Marian art, and well known Catholic symbolism such as the Miraculous Medal and Pope John Paul II's Coat of Arms bearing a Marian Cross. And a number of Marian devotions also involve the presence of the Virgin Mary in Calvary... | What pope did Caravaggio crate a portrait of? | {'text': 'Pope John Paul II', 'answer_start': 175} |
119,035 | 118,693 | 5731005e497a881900248ae9 | generic | USAF rank is divided between enlisted airmen, non-commissioned officers, and commissioned officers, and ranges from the enlisted Airman Basic (E-1) to the commissioned officer rank of General (O-10). Enlisted promotions are granted based on a combination of test scores, years of experience, and selection board approval... | How are Officer promotions within the USAF decided? | {'text': 'based on time-in-grade and a promotion selection board', 'answer_start': 350} |
57,185 | 56,843 | 57269fa7708984140094cc0c | generic | The settlements at Tilsit gave Napoleon time to organize his empire. One of his major objectives became enforcing the Continental System against the British. He decided to focus his attention on the Kingdom of Portugal, which consistently violated his trade prohibitions. After defeat in the War of the Oranges in 1801, ... | In what year did Portugal experience defeat in the War of the Oranges? | {'text': '1801', 'answer_start': 314} |
4,580 | 4,238 | 56d1218c17492d1400aaba20 | generic | New York is the most important source of political fundraising in the United States, as four of the top five ZIP codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP code, 10021 on the Upper East Side, generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry... | How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives? | {'text': '$11 billion', 'answer_start': 593} |
65,465 | 65,123 | 5acfcfaf77cf76001a686146 | generic | Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to Chicago and Boston. In the Armory show Pablo Picasso exhibited La Femme au pot de moutarde (1910), the sculpture Head of a Woman (Fernande) (1909–10), Les Arbres (1907) amo... | Which 1907 piece did Picasso present in the show that introduced Cubism to China? | {'text': 'Les Arbres', 'answer_start': 299} |
41,169 | 40,827 | 5a2af14b5b078a001a2f0758 | generic | Many Sanskrit loanwords are also found in Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, particularly the older form in which nearly half the vocabulary is borrowed. Other Austronesian languages, such as traditional Malay and modern Indonesian, also derive much of their vocabulary from Sanskrit, albeit to a lesser extent, w... | Which language from Indonesia is not derived from Sanskrit? | {'text': 'Malay', 'answer_start': 211} |
98,126 | 97,784 | 5ad382fe604f3c001a3fe4cc | generic | Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer, a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay, with its highest point peaking around the cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah. Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from this aquifer. As a resu... | The Biscayne Aquifer stretches from Palm Beach County to when? | {'text': 'Florida Bay', 'answer_start': 137} |
17,440 | 17,098 | 56e17976e3433e1400422f70 | generic | Catalan has inherited the typical vowel system of Vulgar Latin, with seven stressed phonemes: /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/, a common feature in Western Romance, except Spanish. Balearic has also instances of stressed /ə/. Dialects differ in the different degrees of vowel reduction, and the incidence of the pair /ɛ e/. | Where is this a common feature? | {'text': 'Western Romance', 'answer_start': 131} |
61,736 | 61,394 | 5a79f01017ab25001a8a01f7 | generic | The fifty American states are separate sovereigns, with their own state constitutions, state governments, and state courts. All states have a legislative branch which enacts state statutes, an executive branch that promulgates state regulations pursuant to statutory authorization, and a judicial branch that applies, in... | How are decisions appealed to the state supreme courts? | {'text': 'a petition for writ of certiorari', 'answer_start': 833} |
17,746 | 17,404 | 56e145b6e3433e1400422d29 | generic | According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 57% of the population of the city identified themselves as Christians, with 25% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 29% professing Roman Catholic beliefs. while 33% claim no religious affiliation. The same study sa... | In 2014, what percentage of the city identified as Protestant? | {'text': '25%', 'answer_start': 130} |
32,561 | 32,219 | 57096d7eed30961900e840fa | generic | Doordarshan is the state-owned television broadcaster. Doordarshan Shimla also provides programs in Pahari language.Multi system operators provide a mix of Nepali, Hindi, English, and international channels via cable. All India Radio is a public radio station. Private FM stations are also available in few cities like S... | What is available in few cities? | {'text': 'Private FM stations', 'answer_start': 261} |
9,119 | 8,777 | 5a11c1fe06e79900185c3552 | 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. | Who promised to help each other attack the Spanish army? | {'text': 'northern provinces of the Low Countries', 'answer_start': 24} |
44,145 | 43,803 | 570f46f55ab6b81900390ecb | generic | It is now known that the molecular circadian clock can function within a single cell; i.e., it is cell-autonomous. This was shown by Gene Block in isolated mollusk BRNs.[clarification needed] At the same time, different cells may communicate with each other resulting in a synchronised output of electrical signaling. Th... | What do body hormone receptors do with the body's organs? | {'text': 'synchronise', 'answer_start': 488} |
123,454 | 123,112 | 5a2ef61ca83784001a7d25ea | generic | The city's planned design included specific areas for almost everything, including accommodation, Hotels Sectors North and South. New hotel facilities are being developed elsewhere, such as the hotels and tourism Sector North, located on the shores of Lake Paranoá. Brasília has a range of tourist accommodation from inn... | Near what lake is the Sector South located? | {'text': 'Lake Paranoá', 'answer_start': 252} |
56,970 | 56,628 | 5727420d5951b619008f8780 | generic | Street vendors play their trade from stalls in the tianguis as well as at non-officially controlled concentrations around metro stations and hospitals; at plazas comerciales, where vendors of a certain "theme" (e.g. stationery) are housed; originally these were organized to accommodate vendors formerly selling on the s... | What is the most basic way a street vendor might sell their goods? | {'text': 'tarp or cloth laid on the ground', 'answer_start': 521} |
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