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33,209 | 32,867 | 57098875200fba1400368157 | generic | However, there is significant disagreement within Orthodox Judaism, particularly between Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, about the extent and circumstances under which the proper application of Halakha should be re-examined as a result of changing realities. As a general rule, Haredi Jews believe that when ... | What do haredi Judaism and modern orthodox Judaism disagree about the application of? | {'text': 'Halakha', 'answer_start': 206} |
29,143 | 28,801 | 5705fed175f01819005e784e | generic | After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned the post upon completion of the change of ownership. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement. One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. In March–May 1982, follow... | In 1982, the allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times was reduced by how much? | {'text': 'half', 'answer_start': 590} |
62,511 | 62,169 | 572732bbdd62a815002e9970 | generic | India's cotton-processing sector gradually declined during British expansion in India and the establishment of colonial rule during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This was largely due to aggressive colonialist mercantile policies of the British East India Company, which made cotton processing and manufacturing... | How did British rule effect Indian cotton processing? | {'text': 'declined', 'answer_start': 43} |
43,565 | 43,223 | 5ad0d23a645df0001a2d051e | generic | According to recent estimates, 50% of the population adheres to Christianity, Islam 48%, while 2% of the population follows other religions including traditional African religion and animism. According to a study made by Pew Research Center, 63% adheres to Christianity and 36% adheres to Islam. Since May 2002, the gove... | What percentage of people attend the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church in recent years? | {'text': '36%', 'answer_start': 274} |
99,671 | 99,329 | 5a57dca7770dc0001aeefe39 | generic | In the extreme empiricism of the neopositivists—at least before the 1930s—any genuinely synthetic assertion must be reducible to an ultimate assertion (or set of ultimate assertions) that expresses direct observations or perceptions. In later years, Carnap and Neurath abandoned this sort of phenomenalism in favor of a ... | What war led to the abandonment of phenomenalism? | {'text': 'World War II', 'answer_start': 784} |
98,431 | 98,089 | 572a8568f75d5e190021fb43 | generic | Florida High Speed Rail was a proposed government backed high-speed rail system that would have connected Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. The first phase was planned to connect Orlando and Tampa and was offered federal funding, but it was turned down by Governor Rick Scott in 2011. The second phase of the line was envisione... | Who was the governor of Florida in 2011? | {'text': 'Rick Scott', 'answer_start': 258} |
1,747 | 1,405 | 56d3a9282ccc5a1400d82dca | generic | Polish composers of the following generation included virtuosi such as Moritz Moszkowski, but, in the opinion of J. Barrie Jones, his "one worthy successor" among his compatriots was Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937). Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Isaac Albéniz, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff, among other... | Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher? | {'text': 'Nikolai Zverev', 'answer_start': 584} |
27,456 | 27,114 | 56fa37baf34c681400b0c019 | generic | Structural material that resembles ordinary, "dicot" or conifer wood in its gross handling characteristics is produced by a number of monocot plants, and these also are colloquially called wood. Of these, bamboo, botanically a member of the grass family, has considerable economic importance, larger culms being widely u... | Along with bamboo, what's the other monocot that's a major source of so-called "wood"? | {'text': 'palms', 'answer_start': 544} |
92,291 | 91,949 | 5a7225260efcfe001a8afe54 | generic | By summer of 2003, Howard Dean had become the apparent front runner for the Democratic nomination, performing strongly in most polls and leading the pack with the largest campaign war chest. Dean's strength as a fund raiser was attributed mainly to his embrace of the Internet for campaigning. The majority of his donati... | What method did Senator Lieberman use that helped him successfully raise funds? | {'text': 'the Internet', 'answer_start': 264} |
47,809 | 47,467 | 571df6a455697319006390d8 | generic | Reacting to media criticism of Michelle Obama during the 2008 presidential election, Charles Kenzie Steele, Jr., CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said, "Why are they attacking Michelle Obama, and not really attacking, to that degree, her husband? Because he has no slave blood in him." He later claime... | Why did Steele say what he did? | {'text': 'to be "provocative"', 'answer_start': 347} |
42,746 | 42,404 | 570da18bdf2f5219002ed079 | generic | The passing of the Antarctic Conservation Act (1978) in the U.S. brought several restrictions to U.S. activity on Antarctica. The introduction of alien plants or animals can bring a criminal penalty, as can the extraction of any indigenous species. The overfishing of krill, which plays a large role in the Antarctic eco... | What type of penalty can importing plants and animals into Antarctica bring? | {'text': 'criminal', 'answer_start': 182} |
37,147 | 36,805 | 570b5532ec8fbc190045b993 | generic | After the costly U.S. involvement in World War I, isolationism grew within the nation. Congress refused membership in the League of Nations, and in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, the gradually more restrictive Neutrality Acts were passed, which were intended to prevent the U.S. from supporting eith... | Which US President sought to circumvent Neutrality acts to aid Britain? | {'text': 'Franklin D. Roosevelt', 'answer_start': 348} |
72,520 | 72,178 | 57277b4c708984140094ded4 | generic | Even at high latitudes, glacier formation is not inevitable. Areas of the Arctic, such as Banks Island, and the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are considered polar deserts where glaciers cannot form because they receive little snowfall despite the bitter cold. Cold air, unlike warm air, is unable to transport much w... | Why can't glaciers form in polar deserts? | {'text': 'they receive little snowfall', 'answer_start': 210} |
985 | 643 | 56bfda91a10cfb1400551338 | generic | Beyoncé has worked with Pepsi since 2002, and in 2004 appeared in a Gladiator-themed commercial with Britney Spears, Pink, and Enrique Iglesias. In 2012, Beyoncé signed a $50 million deal to endorse Pepsi. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPINET) wrote Beyoncé an open letter asking her to reconsider the ... | Who was in the commercial with Beyonce in 2004? | {'text': 'Britney Spears, Pink, and Enrique Iglesias', 'answer_start': 101} |
29,199 | 28,857 | 57060a7675f01819005e78df | generic | Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million. In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day. As of October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times' digital products. | As of October 2011, how many subscribers does The Times' digital product currently have? | {'text': '111,000', 'answer_start': 253} |
122,547 | 122,205 | 5731bd48e17f3d1400422366 | generic | In some countries, YouTube is completely blocked, either through a long term standing ban or for more limited periods of time such as during periods of unrest, the run-up to an election, or in response to upcoming political anniversaries. In other countries access to the website as a whole remains open, but access to s... | Why besides limited periods of time would youtube not be allowed in a country? | {'text': 'long term standing ban', 'answer_start': 67} |
107,953 | 107,611 | 573076f78ab72b1400f9c515 | generic | Albania has often been called the 51st state for its perceived strongly pro-American positions, mainly because of the United States' policies towards it. In reference to President George W. Bush's 2007 European tour, Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor and leader of the opposition Socialists, said: "Albania is for sure the most p... | Who said that Albania is the most pro-American country in Europe? | {'text': 'Edi Rama', 'answer_start': 217} |
124,493 | 124,151 | 5ad3c4be604f3c001a3fefc7 | generic | Jehovah's Witnesses believe their religion is a restoration of first-century Christianity. Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by the Governing Body, which assumes responsibility for interpreting and applying scripture. The Governing Body does not issue any single, comprehensive "statement of faith", but p... | What did first-century Christians call themselves? | {'text': "Jehovah's Witnesses", 'answer_start': 104} |
102,051 | 101,709 | 572e81e0dfa6aa1500f8d05b | generic | Gaddafi's earliest education was of a religious nature, imparted by a local Islamic teacher. Subsequently moving to nearby Sirte to attend elementary school, he progressed through six grades in four years. Education in Libya was not free, but his father thought it would greatly benefit his son despite the financial str... | Describe Gaddafi's first experience with education. | {'text': 'a religious nature, imparted by a local Islamic teacher', 'answer_start': 36} |
12,136 | 11,794 | 56df77c85ca0a614008f9ae8 | generic | Plymouth is home to Plymouth Argyle F.C., who play in the fourth tier of English football league known as Football League Two. The team's home ground is called Home Park and is located in Central Park. It links itself with the group of English non-conformists that left Plymouth for the New World in 1620: its nickname i... | What is the nickname of Plymouth Argyle F.C.? | {'text': 'The Pilgrims', 'answer_start': 323} |
77,317 | 76,975 | 5727903ddd62a815002ea087 | generic | Electrical recording preceded electrical home reproduction because of the initial high cost of the new system. In 1925, the Victor company introduced the Victor Orthophonic Victrola, an acoustical record player that was specifically designed to play electrically recorded discs, as part of a line that also included elec... | What was the typical weekly pay of a worker in 1925? | {'text': '$20', 'answer_start': 569} |
13,738 | 13,396 | 56df4ae18bc80c19004e4a22 | generic | UNFPA began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (the name was changed in 1987) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund. In 1971 it was placed under the authority of the United Nations General Assembly. | UNFPA was originally administered by what U.N. body? | {'text': 'United Nations Development Fund', 'answer_start': 147} |
9,887 | 9,545 | 5ad2e303d7d075001a42a63c | generic | In cities other than Rome, the name cardinal began to be applied to certain church men as a mark of honour. The earliest example of this occurs in a letter sent by Pope Zacharias in 747 to Pippin III (the Short), ruler of the Franks, in which Zacharias applied the title to the priests of Paris to distinguish them from ... | Who had a special class among clergy known as priests in the 9th century? | {'text': 'various episcopal cities', 'answer_start': 402} |
25,173 | 24,831 | 56f8b42a9b226e1400dd0e6e | generic | Many prokaryotic genes are organized into operons, with multiple protein-coding sequences that are transcribed as a unit. The products of operon genes typically have related functions and are involved in the same regulatory network.:7.3 | What type of network are the products of operon genes typically involved with? | {'text': 'the same regulatory network', 'answer_start': 204} |
57,168 | 56,826 | 57269bdadd62a815002e8aff | generic | The initial military maneuvers began in September 1806. In a notable letter to Marshal Soult detailing the plan for the campaign, Napoleon described the essential features of Napoleonic warfare and introduced the phrase le bataillon-carré ('square battalion'). In the bataillon-carré system, the various corps of the Gra... | What river did the French cross to engage the Prussian army? | {'text': 'the Saale', 'answer_start': 830} |
70,978 | 70,636 | 5726cbd25951b619008f7e55 | generic | In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles V combined the Seventeen Provinces (the current Benelux and the northern parts of France) as a personal union. This ended the prince-bishopric Utrecht, as the secular ru... | What year did the bishop lose power | {'text': 'In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor', 'answer_start': 0} |
3,855 | 3,513 | 56cfb502234ae51400d9beb1 | generic | At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the English gained New Amsterdam (New York) in North America in exchange for Dutch control of Run, an Indonesian island. Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and some epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizable population losses for the Lena... | In 1700, the Lenape Native American population had dwindled to how many? | {'text': '200', 'answer_start': 405} |
93,979 | 93,637 | 5ad1248d645df0001a2d0f21 | generic | By the end of 2011, total renewable power capacity worldwide exceeded 1,360 GW, up 8%. Renewables producing electricity accounted for almost half of the 208 GW of capacity added globally during 2011. Wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) accounted for almost 40% and 30% . Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contribute... | By the beginning of 2011, total renewable power capacity worldwide exceeded what number? | {'text': '1,360 GW', 'answer_start': 70} |
115,860 | 115,518 | 57302668947a6a140053d192 | generic | New features and functionality in Windows 8 include a faster startup through UEFI integration and the new "Hybrid Boot" mode (which hibernates the Windows kernel on shutdown to speed up the subsequent boot), a new lock screen with a clock and notifications, and the ability for enterprise users to create live USB versio... | What are the benefits of USB 3.0? | {'text': 'faster data transfers and improved power management', 'answer_start': 432} |
16,822 | 16,480 | 5acd4fd107355d001abf3ccd | generic | In 2015, the system began its transition towards global coverage with the first launch of a new-generation of satellites, and the 17th one within the new system. | The system began its transition towards national coverage during which year? | {'text': '2015', 'answer_start': 3} |
54,723 | 54,381 | 5726208f89a1e219009ac2be | generic | The end of the Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games. The Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational texts of Western literature, are believed to have been composed by Homer in the 8th or 7th centuries BC With the end of the Dark Ages, there emerged various kingdoms and city-state... | When did the Olympic Game begin? | {'text': '776 BC', 'answer_start': 51} |
114,697 | 114,355 | 5a13abdbc8eab200188dc9f5 | generic | Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was mostly used for palaces and churches, and had little representation in the British colonies, simpler Georgian styles were widely used by the upper and middle classes. Perhaps the best remaining house is the pristine Hammond-Harwood House (1774) in Annapolis, Maryland... | What style was widely represented in British colonies? | {'text': 'Baroque style', 'answer_start': 11} |
75,445 | 75,103 | 57276d2ff1498d1400e8f7d7 | generic | North Carolina averages fewer than 20 tornadoes per year, many of them produced by hurricanes or tropical storms along the coastal plain. Tornadoes from thunderstorms are a risk, especially in the eastern part of the state. The western Piedmont is often protected by the mountains, which tend to break up storms as they ... | Houuricanes and tropical stors can produce what across the coastal plain? | {'text': 'tornadoes', 'answer_start': 38} |
102,315 | 101,973 | 573183df05b4da19006bd21c | generic | The early and mid-1980s saw economic trouble for Libya; from 1982 to 1986, the country's annual oil revenues dropped from $21 billion to $5.4 billion. Focusing on irrigation projects, 1983 saw construction start on "Gaddafi's Pet Project", the Great Man-Made River; although designed to be finished by the end of the dec... | In what country did FROLINAT operate? | {'text': 'Chad', 'answer_start': 523} |
29,939 | 29,597 | 5706c2b22eaba6190074acf1 | generic | In July 2010, Governor Chris Christie announced that a state takeover of the city and local government "was imminent". Comparing regulations in Atlantic City to an "antique car", Atlantic City regulatory reform is a key piece of Gov. Chris Christie's plan, unveiled on July 22, to reinvigorate an industry mired in a fou... | According to a poll, what percentage of New Jersey voters opposed the takeover of Atlantic City by the state? | {'text': '43%', 'answer_start': 830} |
54,489 | 54,147 | 5726d65cdd62a815002e91e6 | generic | In some countries, the personal copying exemption explicitly requires that the content being copied was obtained legitimately – i.e., from authorized sources, not file-sharing networks. Other countries, such as the Netherlands, make no such distinction; the exemption there had been assumed, even by the government, to a... | What does the personal copying exemption explicitly need? | {'text': 'was obtained legitimately', 'answer_start': 100} |
14,854 | 14,512 | 56dfed637aa994140058e27a | generic | CAMRA maintains a "National Inventory" of historical notability and of architecturally and decoratively notable pubs. The National Trust owns thirty-six public houses of historic interest including the George Inn, Southwark, London and The Crown Liquor Saloon, Belfast, Northern Ireland. | What part of the United Kingdom is Belfast located in? | {'text': 'Northern Ireland', 'answer_start': 270} |
14,161 | 13,819 | 5ace063c32bba1001ae49997 | generic | On April 17, 1946, the Kaliningrad Oblast — the northern portion of the former German province of East Prussia—was annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Russian SFSR. | What state of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of? | {'text': 'East Prussia', 'answer_start': 98} |
44,410 | 44,068 | 5ad35b6b604f3c001a3fde75 | generic | In 1943, at the age of 16, Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed colonel the previous year. As she approached her 18th birthday, parliament changed the law so that she could act as one of five Counsellors of State in the event of her fat... | How old was Elizabeth in July 1944? | {'text': '16', 'answer_start': 23} |
7,752 | 7,410 | 56db7a68e7c41114004b5186 | generic | The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee sent out a team of 30 unarmed attendants selected from the People's Armed Police to escort the flame throughout its journey. According to Asian Times, sworn in as the "Beijing Olympic Games Sacred Flame Protection Unit" during a ceremony in August 2007, their main job is to keep... | What did these 30 attendants wear? | {'text': 'blue tracksuits', 'answer_start': 481} |
87,690 | 87,348 | 5a36906895360f001af1b291 | generic | Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September 1913, and spent three months in the Mediterranean. His fellow officers gave him the nickname "Mr. Johnson". One year after... | In what year did Albert leave the military? | {'text': '1917', 'answer_start': 735} |
36,401 | 36,059 | 570af9f26b8089140040f662 | generic | Philip II of Spain decreed the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which affected much of Roman Catholic Europe, as Philip was at the time ruler over Spain and Portugal as well as much of Italy. In these territories, as well as in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (ruled by Anna Jagiellon) and in the Pap... | What ruler decreed the change to the Gregorian calendar? | {'text': 'Philip II of Spain', 'answer_start': 0} |
69,349 | 69,007 | 5a7d395370df9f001a875025 | 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 has poetry been confirmed to pre-date? | {'text': 'literacy', 'answer_start': 856} |
28,344 | 28,002 | 56fc2e0800a8df19004037c6 | generic | The word phonology (as in the phonology of English) can also refer to the phonological system (sound system) of a given language. This is one of the fundamental systems which a language is considered to comprise, like its syntax and its vocabulary. | Aside from syntax and the phonological system, what else comprises a language? | {'text': 'vocabulary', 'answer_start': 237} |
39,589 | 39,247 | 570ce6fffed7b91900d45aac | generic | The views of the Church Fathers still play an important role in the shaping of Orthodox Marian perspective. However, the Orthodox views on Mary are mostly doxological, rather than academic: they are expressed in hymns, praise, liturgical poetry and the veneration of icons. One of the most loved Orthodox Akathists (i.e.... | How many of the Orthodox Great Feasts dedicated to Mary? | {'text': 'Five', 'answer_start': 405} |
114,535 | 114,193 | 5a79e18717ab25001a8a0141 | generic | A number of players may be replaced by substitutes during the course of the game. The maximum number of substitutions permitted in most competitive international and domestic league games is three, though the permitted number may vary in other competitions or in friendly matches. Common reasons for a substitution inclu... | What is the minimum number of substitutions during most professional games? | {'text': 'three', 'answer_start': 191} |
37,556 | 37,214 | 570b8145ec8fbc190045ba3c | generic | The rural Plains have lost a third of their population since 1920. Several hundred thousand square miles (several hundred thousand square kilometers) of the Great Plains have fewer than 6 inhabitants per square mile (2.3 inhabitants per square kilometer)—the density standard Frederick Jackson Turner used to declare the... | how much of the population have the rural plains lost since 1920? | {'text': 'a third', 'answer_start': 27} |
9,292 | 8,950 | 56ddda2d66d3e219004dad2b | generic | Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. For example, many lichens consist of fungal and photosynthetic symbionts that cannot live on their own. Others are facultative (optional): they can, but do not have to live with the other organism. | What is an example of an obligate relationship? | {'text': 'lichens', 'answer_start': 133} |
39,897 | 39,555 | 570e737a0dc6ce1900205099 | generic | The city is recognised for its mix of modern architecture which intersects with an extensive range of nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings. Some of the most architecturally noteworthy historic buildings include the World Heritage Site-listed Royal Exhibition Building, constructed over a two-year period for ... | What style of architecture is the A.C. Goode House? | {'text': 'Neo Gothic', 'answer_start': 388} |
119,104 | 118,762 | 57314737497a881900248d3b | generic | The fighter aircraft of the USAF are small, fast, and maneuverable military aircraft primarily used for air-to-air combat. Many of these fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are dual-roled as fighter-bombers (e.g., the F-16 Fighting Falcon); the term "fighter" is also sometimes used colloquially... | What is the primary function of the USAF fighter aircraft? | {'text': 'air-to-air combat', 'answer_start': 104} |
123,424 | 123,082 | 5a2ef101a83784001a7d25b3 | generic | After a visit to Brasília, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir complained that all of its superquadras exuded "the same air of elegant monotony," and other observers have equated the city's large open lawns, plazas, and fields to wastelands. As the city has matured, some of these have gained adornments, and many have ... | What did the citizens complain after visiting Brasilia? | {'text': 'its superquadras exuded "the same air of elegant monotony,"', 'answer_start': 87} |
103,879 | 103,537 | 572e88f303f9891900756745 | generic | In comparison to the principal alternative, the diesel engine, electric railways offer substantially better energy efficiency, lower emissions and lower operating costs. Electric locomotives are usually quieter, more powerful, and more responsive and reliable than diesels. They have no local emissions, an important adv... | What is the principal alternative to electric railways? | {'text': 'diesel engine', 'answer_start': 48} |
91,283 | 90,941 | 572996a1af94a219006aa546 | generic | Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro... | Insects can adopt how many gaits? | {'text': 'a variety', 'answer_start': 781} |
60,578 | 60,236 | 57269102708984140094ca50 | generic | In April 2013, Marvel and other Disney conglomerate components began announcing joint projects. With ABC, a Once Upon a Time graphic novel was announced for publication in September. With Disney, Marvel announced in October 2013 that in January 2014 it would release its first title under their joint "Disney Kingdoms" i... | What series on this network was given a Marvel graphic novel? | {'text': 'Once Upon a Time', 'answer_start': 108} |
58,731 | 58,389 | 57264dedf1498d1400e8db8c | generic | The German equivalent was used with the founding of the North German Confederation whose constitution granted legislative power over the protection of intellectual property (Schutz des geistigen Eigentums) to the confederation. When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Bern... | Which constitution gave legislative power to protect intellectual property? | {'text': 'the North German Confederation', 'answer_start': 52} |
50,002 | 49,660 | 5ad173d5645df0001a2d1c59 | generic | Russell's ministry, though Whig, was not favoured by the Queen. She found particularly offensive the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, who often acted without consulting the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, or the Queen. Victoria complained to Russell that Palmerston sent official dispatches to foreign leaders without he... | What year was Palmerston upheld in office? | {'text': '1851', 'answer_start': 466} |
117,180 | 116,838 | 5ad0185377cf76001a6869af | generic | To the southwest, the principality of Halych had developed trade relations with its Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian neighbours and emerged as the local successor to Kievan Rus'. In 1199, Prince Roman Mstislavich united the two previously separate principalities. In 1202 he conquered Kiev, and assumed the title of Gran... | Who did not unit the two principalities? | {'text': 'Prince Roman Mstislavich', 'answer_start': 188} |
104,148 | 103,806 | 5acd8f1007355d001abf4718 | generic | Central station electricity can often be generated with higher efficiency than a mobile engine/generator. While the efficiency of power plant generation and diesel locomotive generation are roughly the same in the nominal regime, diesel motors decrease in efficiency in non-nominal regimes at low power while if an elec... | The diesel train can save energy by regenerative what? | {'text': 'braking', 'answer_start': 522} |
64,991 | 64,649 | 5ad0cada645df0001a2d0396 | generic | By the 12th century, Romanesque architecture (termed Norman architecture in England because of its association with the Norman invasion), was established throughout Europe and provided the basic architectural forms and units that were to remain in evolution throughout the Medieval period. The important categories of bu... | What is Romanesque architecture no longer known as in England? | {'text': 'Norman architecture', 'answer_start': 53} |
107,387 | 107,045 | 572f104d03f9891900756b6d | generic | The campaigns of French Emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte characterized the Napoleonic Era. Born on Corsica as the French invaded, and dying suspiciously on the tiny British Island of St. Helena, this brilliant commander, controlled a French Empire that, at its height, ruled a large portion of Europe directly from... | Why were Europe's Empires and Kingdoms dispatched? | {'text': 'surge of Republicanism', 'answer_start': 615} |
90,589 | 90,247 | 57289dd54b864d1900164ac8 | generic | Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard (the top). Pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, which exert more press... | What did most of the development of the mandolin revolve around? | {'text': 'soundboard (the top)', 'answer_start': 49} |
71,673 | 71,331 | 57270c73f1498d1400e8f29f | generic | For maximum life, capacitors usually need to be able to handle the maximum amount of reversal that a system will experience. An AC circuit will experience 100% voltage reversal, while under-damped DC circuits will experience less than 100%. Reversal creates excess electric fields in the dielectric, causes excess heatin... | What does excess electric field present in the dielectric lead to? | {'text': 'heating of both the dielectric and the conductors', 'answer_start': 314} |
8,942 | 8,600 | 5a6b0974a9e0c9001a4e9e8a | generic | In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, and hosts a new data center in a Sun Modular Datacenter on Sun Microsystems' California campus. | Where does Internet archive run a sun storage center? | {'text': "Sun Microsystems' California campus", 'answer_start': 155} |
91,389 | 91,047 | 5728d9f14b864d1900164f90 | generic | The first post-Classical published classification of humans into distinct races seems to be François Bernier's Nouvelle division de la terre par les différents espèces ou races qui l'habitent ("New division of Earth by the different species or races which inhabit it"), published in 1684. In the 18th century the differe... | What attributes were bestowed on homo spaiens afer? | {'text': 'crafty, lazy, and careless', 'answer_start': 1103} |
40,976 | 40,634 | 570d9a31df2f5219002ed00f | generic | The solution was automation, in the form of a mechanical computer, the Kerrison Predictor. Operators kept it pointed at the target, and the Predictor then calculated the proper aim point automatically and displayed it as a pointer mounted on the gun. The gun operators simply followed the pointer and loaded the shells. ... | What did the Predictor calculate after it was pointed at a target? | {'text': 'the proper aim point automatically', 'answer_start': 166} |
18,664 | 18,322 | 56e74d4a37bdd419002c3e3e | generic | To make pulp from wood, a chemical pulping process separates lignin from cellulose fibres. This is accomplished by dissolving lignin in a cooking liquor, so that it may be washed from the cellulose; this preserves the length of the cellulose fibres. Paper made from chemical pulps are also known as wood-free papers–not ... | What type of paper is paper made from chemical pulps known as? | {'text': 'wood-free', 'answer_start': 299} |
93,984 | 93,642 | 5ad1274f645df0001a2d0f99 | generic | During the five-years from the end of 2004 through 2009, worldwide renewable energy capacity grew at rates of 10–60 percent annually for many technologies. In 2011, UN under-secretary general Achim Steiner said: "The continuing growth in this core segment of the green economy is not happening by chance. The combination... | Who was the UN under-secretary in 2012? | {'text': 'Achim Steiner', 'answer_start': 192} |
98,023 | 97,681 | 5ace845232bba1001ae4a93c | generic | The first Madressa established in North America, Al-Rashid Islamic Institute, was established in Cornwall, Ontario in 1983 and has graduates who are Hafiz (Quran) and Ulama. The seminary was established by Mazhar Alam under the direction of his teacher the leading Indian Tablighi scholar Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi and... | What organization did Shaykh Muhammad Alsahareef tear down? | {'text': 'AlMaghrib Institute', 'answer_start': 711} |
686 | 344 | 56d4d18d2ccc5a1400d83258 | generic | In August, the couple attended the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, at which Beyoncé performed "Love on Top" and started the performance saying "Tonight I want you to stand up on your feet, I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me". At the end of the performance, she dropped her microphone, unbuttoned her bl... | Where did Beyoncé announce her pregnancy? | {'text': '2011 MTV Video Music Awards', 'answer_start': 35} |
67,142 | 66,800 | 5726e0c2f1498d1400e8ee66 | generic | In 1965, Paul VI decided on the creation of a joint working group with the World Council of Churches to map all possible avenues of dialogue and cooperation. In the following three years, eight sessions were held which resulted in many joint proposals. It was proposed to work closely together in areas of social justice... | Whose backing did the World Council of Churches require Catholic theologians serving on joint committees to have? | {'text': 'Vatican', 'answer_start': 979} |
49,806 | 49,464 | 5726440789cfff1900a84044 | generic | In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight. In the next four years over a million Irish people died and another million emigrated in what became known as the Great Famine. In Ireland, Victoria was labelled "The Famine Queen". She personally donated £2,000 to famine relief, more than any other individual donor, and als... | When did the potato blight begin? | {'text': '1845', 'answer_start': 3} |
94,628 | 94,286 | 572a1ee7af94a219006aa808 | generic | Green can communicate safety to proceed, as in traffic lights. Green and red were standardized as the colors of international railroad signals in the 19th century. The first traffic light, using green and red gas lamps, was erected in 1868 in front of the Houses of Parliament in London. It exploded the following year, ... | When was the first traffic light erected? | {'text': '1868', 'answer_start': 235} |
48,858 | 48,516 | 5acfa7de77cf76001a685745 | generic | The second major event of the early reign of Abd al-Malik was the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Although the chronology remains somewhat uncertain, the building seems to have been completed in 692, which means that it was under construction during the conflict with Ibn al-Zubayr. This had led some ... | What year did construction of the Dome of the Rock begin? | {'text': '692', 'answer_start': 214} |
65,401 | 65,059 | 5acfcc6e77cf76001a68607b | generic | The Cubist contribution to the 1912 Salon d'Automne created scandal regarding the use of government owned buildings, such as the Grand Palais, to exhibit such artwork. The indignation of the politician Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué made the front page of Le Journal, 5 October 1912. The controversy spread to the Municipal... | Who defended the Cubists in the controversy of 1915? | {'text': 'Socialist deputy', 'answer_start': 484} |
89,149 | 88,807 | 57284ec24b864d190016491f | generic | Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morality, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. The notion of a "war" against "terrorism" has proven highly contentious, with critics charging that it has been exploited by ... | What has the 'war on terror' been used as an excuse for? | {'text': 'to pursue long-standing policy/military objectives, reduce civil liberties, and infringe upon human rights', 'answer_start': 346} |
53,041 | 52,699 | 5ad19a94645df0001a2d210a | generic | In manufacturing the glass bulb, a type of "ribbon machine" is used. A continuous ribbon of glass is passed along a conveyor belt, heated in a furnace, and then blown by precisely aligned air nozzles through holes in the conveyor belt into molds. Thus the glass bulbs are created. After the bulbs are blown, and cooled, ... | What type of machine is not used in manufacturing light bulbs? | {'text': '"ribbon machine', 'answer_start': 43} |
84,575 | 84,233 | 5727f0e92ca10214002d9a0f | generic | Pope Saint John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes XXIII; Italian: Giovanni XXIII) born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,[a] Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo dʒuˈzɛppe roŋˈkalli]; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fo... | When was Pope Saint John XXIII born? | {'text': '25 November 1881', 'answer_start': 159} |
109,001 | 108,659 | 57303a4904bcaa1900d773d8 | generic | Santa Monica is featured in the video games True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional district - Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! (2004), Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), L.A. Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (200... | In what year did Tony hawk's American Wasteland release? | {'text': '2005', 'answer_start': 264} |
66,218 | 65,876 | 5726bc4cdd62a815002e8ebd | generic | Norfolk Island was originally a colony acquired by settlement but was never within the British Settlements Act. It was accepted as a territory of Australia, separate from any state, by the Norfolk Island Act 1913 (Cth), passed under the territories power (Constitution section 122) and made effective in 1914. In 1976 th... | Who decided in 1976 that Norfolk Island is a part of the Commonwealth? | {'text': 'High Court of Australia', 'answer_start': 322} |
74,183 | 73,841 | 572a398baf94a219006aa8d2 | generic | The city is home to New Haven Promise, a scholarship funded by Yale University for students who meet the requirements. Students must be enrolled in a public high school (charters included) for four years, be a resident of the city during that time, carry a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average, have a 90-percent attendanc... | In terms of requirement what sort of service would one needs to fulfilled in order to apply? | {'text': '40 hours of service to the city.', 'answer_start': 339} |
15,292 | 14,950 | 56e032687aa994140058e356 | generic | Frustration with censorship and editorial interference led to a group of Pilote cartoonists to found the adults-only L'Écho des savanes in 1972. Adult-oriented and experimental comics flourished in the 1970s, such as in the experimental science fiction of Mœbius and others in Métal hurlant, even mainstream publishers t... | Métal hurlant was of what genre? | {'text': 'science fiction', 'answer_start': 237} |
73,856 | 73,514 | 5a8cc7d9fd22b3001a8d8e56 | generic | Seven clubs have won the FA Cup as part of a League and Cup double, namely Preston North End (1889), Aston Villa (1897), Tottenham Hotspur (1961), Arsenal (1971, 1998, 2002), Liverpool (1986), Manchester United (1994, 1996, 1999) and Chelsea (2010). In 1993, Arsenal became the first side to win both the FA Cup and the ... | What clubs weren't able to repeat Arsenal's feat? | {'text': 'Liverpool (in 2001) and Chelsea (in 2007)', 'answer_start': 405} |
34,137 | 33,795 | 5a8cf90cfd22b3001a8d90ac | generic | The decline in the value of the U.S. dollar corresponds to price inflation, which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. A consumer price index (CPI) is a measure estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The United ... | What does the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate? | {'text': 'average price of consumer goods and services in the United States', 'answer_start': 422} |
49,747 | 49,405 | 57263a9f89a1e219009ac59a | generic | Victoria was physically unprepossessing—she was stout, dowdy and no more than five feet tall—but she succeeded in projecting a grand image. She experienced unpopularity during the first years of her widowhood, but was well liked during the 1880s and 1890s, when she embodied the empire as a benevolent matriarchal figure... | Who were two good biographers of Queen Victoria? | {'text': 'Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith', 'answer_start': 641} |
41,766 | 41,424 | 570d3cf6fed7b91900d45d73 | generic | In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York. In 1999, the company agreed to pay... | What was the location of the pollution caused by GE in the Housatonic River? | {'text': 'Pittsfield, Massachusetts', 'answer_start': 407} |
49,100 | 48,758 | 571b0c1032177014007ea023 | generic | The word asphalt is derived from the late Middle English, in turn from French asphalte, based on Late Latin asphalton, asphaltum, which is the latinisation of the Greek ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, ásphalton), a word meaning "asphalt/bitumen/pitch", which perhaps derives from ἀ-, "without" and σφάλλω (sfallō), "make fall". Not... | What is the French term for natural asphalt? | {'text': 'asphalte', 'answer_start': 347} |
50,198 | 49,856 | 57240b550ba9f01400d97b4d | generic | In the 1874 general election, Disraeli was returned to power. He passed the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, which removed Catholic rituals from the Anglican liturgy and which Victoria strongly supported. She preferred short, simple services, and personally considered herself more aligned with the presbyterian Churc... | What Church did Victoria consider herself aligned with? | {'text': 'presbyterian Church of Scotland', 'answer_start': 302} |
47,015 | 46,673 | 5719f37810f8ca1400304eb8 | generic | Seattle typically receives some snowfall on an annual basis but heavy snow is rare. Average annual snowfall, as measured at Sea-Tac Airport, is 6.8 inches (17.3 cm). Single calendar-day snowfall of six inches or greater has occurred on only 15 days since 1948, and only once since February 17, 1990, when 6.8 in (17.3 cm... | When was there a moderate snowfall of over one foot that lasted on the ground two weeks? | {'text': 'December 12–25, 2008', 'answer_start': 755} |
37,016 | 36,674 | 5ad1753b645df0001a2d1cb0 | generic | The war started badly for the US and UN. North Korean forces struck massively in the summer of 1950 and nearly drove the outnumbered US and ROK defenders into the sea. However the United Nations intervened, naming Douglas MacArthur commander of its forces, and UN-US-ROK forces held a perimeter around Pusan, gaining tim... | What general was fired for defying President Trump's containment strategy? | {'text': 'MacArthur', 'answer_start': 937} |
94,728 | 94,386 | 572970803f37b319004783c5 | generic | Zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic metal, though most common commercial grades of the metal have a dull finish. It is somewhat less dense than iron and has a hexagonal crystal structure, with a distorted form of hexagonal close packing, in which each atom has six nearest neighbors (at 265.9 pm) in its own pl... | What color is zinc? | {'text': 'bluish-white', 'answer_start': 10} |
36,732 | 36,390 | 570b2aab6b8089140040f7c4 | generic | Launched worldwide across 2005–2006, the Xbox 360 was initially in short supply in many regions, including North America and Europe. The earliest versions of the console suffered from a high failure rate, indicated by the so-called "Red Ring of Death", necessitating an extension of the device's warranty period. Microso... | What were the designations of the two redesigned 360 models and when did they come out? | {'text': 'Xbox 360 S in 2010, and the Xbox 360 E in 2013', 'answer_start': 374} |
45,804 | 45,462 | 5ad3f4f3604f3c001a3ff96f | generic | In the decades since Furman, new questions have emerged about whether or not prosecutorial arbitrariness has replaced sentencing arbitrariness. A study by Pepperdine University School of Law published in Temple Law Review, "Unpredictable Doom and Lethal Injustice: An Argument for Greater Transparency in Death Penalty D... | What happened in 1997? | {'text': 'U.S. Department of Justice initiated with a 1995 protocol', 'answer_start': 1297} |
15,531 | 15,189 | 56e065a0231d4119001ac08d | generic | The UK government has spent £250 million in the construction of the island's airport. Expected to be fully operational early 2016, it is expected to help the island towards self-sufficiency and encourage economic development, reducing dependence on British government aid. The airport is also expected to kick start the ... | How much money was spent on construction of the island's airport? | {'text': '250 million', 'answer_start': 29} |
62,283 | 61,941 | 5727757edd62a815002e9d52 | generic | Jews are often identified as belonging to one of two major groups: the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim. Ashkenazim, or "Germanics" (Ashkenaz meaning "Germany" in Hebrew), are so named denoting their German Jewish cultural and geographical origins, while Sephardim, or "Hispanics" (Sefarad meaning "Spain/Hispania" or "Iberi... | What does Ashkenaz mean in Hebrew? | {'text': 'Germany', 'answer_start': 147} |
128,561 | 128,219 | 5ad2e931604f3c001a3fd9af | generic | Professional anthropological bodies often object to the use of anthropology for the benefit of the state. Their codes of ethics or statements may proscribe anthropologists from giving secret briefings. The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) has called certain scholarship ethically da... | What does the AAA's current Statment of Professional Responsibility no longer say? | {'text': 'no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given."', 'answer_start': 479} |
18,713 | 18,371 | 5ad4fd665b96ef001a10a8a3 | generic | Besides the fibres, pulps may contain fillers such as chalk or china clay, which improve its characteristics for printing or writing. Additives for sizing purposes may be mixed with it and/or applied to the paper web later in the manufacturing process; the purpose of such sizing is to establish the correct level of sur... | What purposes does sizing the filler serve? | {'text': 'correct level of surface absorbency to suit ink or paint.', 'answer_start': 300} |
105,394 | 105,052 | 572e937adfa6aa1500f8d17c | 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 two reptiles were particularly of interest for the inclusion of "reptiles" in the Endangered Species Conservation Act? | {'text': 'alligators and crocodiles', 'answer_start': 446} |
14,074 | 13,732 | 56e09b837aa994140058e640 | generic | Internationally, in 1920, the RSFSR was recognized as an independent state only by Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short-lived Irish Republic. | Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state recognized the RSFSR in 1920? | {'text': 'Irish Republic', 'answer_start': 168} |
8,160 | 7,818 | 56dc7e6714d3a41400c26921 | generic | Scotland has a very different educational system from England and Wales, though also based on comprehensive education. It has different ages of transfer, different examinations and a different philosophy of choice and provision. All publicly funded primary and secondary schools are comprehensive. The Scottish Governmen... | All public primary and secondary schools in Scotland are of what type? | {'text': 'comprehensive', 'answer_start': 94} |
124,928 | 124,586 | 57324da80fdd8d15006c6944 | generic | The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive, in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, which the Allies turned back in early 1945 after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage. German defenses continued to deteriorate on both the eastern front with the Soviets an... | What nation's military conquered Berlin? | {'text': 'Soviet', 'answer_start': 856} |
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