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80,028 | 79,686 | 5727b2612ca10214002d9426 | generic | The original USB 1.0 specification, which was introduced in January 1996, defined data transfer rates of 1.5 Mbit/s "Low Speed" and 12 Mbit/s "Full Speed". Microsoft Windows 95, OSR 2.1 provided OEM support for the devices. The first widely used version of USB was 1.1, which was released in September 1998. The 12 Mbit/... | What was the fastest data transfer rate of the USB 1.0? | {'text': '12 Mbit/s "Full Speed"', 'answer_start': 132} |
47,212 | 46,870 | 571a2b6310f8ca1400304f35 | generic | The model also shows all the memory stores as being a single unit whereas research into this shows differently. For example, short-term memory can be broken up into different units such as visual information and acoustic information. In a study by Zlonoga and Gerber (1986), patient 'KF' demonstrated certain deviations ... | What did KF disprove during this study? | {'text': 'Atkinson–Shiffrin model.', 'answer_start': 329} |
52,612 | 52,270 | 5a7a3bd517ab25001a8a03dd | generic | The palace measures 108 metres (354 ft) by 120 metres (390 ft), is 24 metres (79 ft) high and contains over 77,000 m2 (830,000 sq ft) of floorspace. The floor area is smaller than the Royal Palace of Madrid, the Papal Palace in Rome, the Louvre in Paris, the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, or the Forbidden City. There are 77... | How many bathrooms are made from gold there? | {'text': '78', 'answer_start': 414} |
85,601 | 85,259 | 5a627caef8d794001af1c035 | generic | St. John's economy is connected to both its role as the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador and to the ocean. The civil service which is supported by the federal, provincial and municipal governments has been the key to the expansion of the city's labour force and to the stability of its economy, which supp... | Who is the largest employer in the province? | {'text': 'The provincial government', 'answer_start': 372} |
1,389 | 1,047 | 56cbff116d243a140015ee48 | generic | The two became friends, and for many years lived in close proximity in Paris, Chopin at 38 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, and Liszt at the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte, a few blocks away. They performed together on seven occasions between 1833 and 1841. The first, on 2 April 1833, was at a benefit concert organized ... | How many times did Frédéric and Liszt collaborate in performances during the years of 1833 to 1841? | {'text': 'seven', 'answer_start': 218} |
12,722 | 12,380 | 5acd1a5a07355d001abf3513 | generic | In contrast, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, taught: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter." This spirit e... | Who said: "All spirit is not matter" | {'text': 'Joseph Smith', 'answer_start': 13} |
99,403 | 99,061 | 5ace5fb432bba1001ae4a469 | generic | In 1899, the local postage stamps were overprinted "Guam" as was done for the other former Spanish colonies, but this was discontinued shortly thereafter and regular U.S. postage stamps have been used ever since. Because Guam is also part of the U.S. Postal System (postal abbreviation: GU, ZIP code range: 96910–96932),... | In what year did UPS first start shipping packages to Guam? | {'text': '1899', 'answer_start': 3} |
61,044 | 60,702 | 5727521edd62a815002e9b04 | generic | Epigenetics is the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in the underlying DNA sequence but cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently. One example of epigenetic change is the marking of the genes by DNA methylation... | What does epigenetics study? | {'text': 'changes in gene function', 'answer_start': 69} |
58,572 | 58,230 | 5ad0b2f8645df0001a2d00b9 | generic | Ireland developed a strong middle class, especially in the major cities, by the mid-nineteenth century. They were active patrons of department stores. Delany's New Mart was opened in 1853 in Dublin, Ireland. Unlike others, Delany's had not evolved gradually from a smaller shop on site. Thus it could claim to be the fir... | What wasn't Delany's originally called? | {'text': 'Monster House', 'answer_start': 457} |
109,703 | 109,361 | 572faad8b2c2fd14005682ea | generic | The presence of pain in an animal cannot be known for certain, but it can be inferred through physical and behavioral reactions. Specialists currently believe that all vertebrates can feel pain, and that certain invertebrates, like the octopus, might too. As for other animals, plants, or other entities, their ability t... | No mechanism is known by which what organisms would be able to have a feeling such as pain? | {'text': 'plants', 'answer_start': 278} |
43,873 | 43,531 | 5ad154ad645df0001a2d17b2 | generic | Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because, besides being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. Uranium is also a reproductive toxicant. Radiological effects are generally local because alpha radiation, the primary form of 238U decay, ha... | Along with the heart, brain and liver, what system is notably unaffected by exposure to uranium? | {'text': 'kidney', 'answer_start': 26} |
46,704 | 46,362 | 5acec0d732bba1001ae4b2c3 | generic | Constantius, renewing his previous policies favoring the Arians, banished Athanasius from Alexandria once again. This was followed, in 356, by an attempt to arrest Athanasius during a vigil service. Athanasius fled to Upper Egypt, where he stayed in several monasteries and other houses. During this period, Athanasius c... | Who had a policy of agreeing with Athanasius? | {'text': 'Arians', 'answer_start': 57} |
84,869 | 84,527 | 5a7df04370df9f001a875338 | generic | Temporal measurement, chronometry, takes two distinct period forms: the calendar, a mathematical tool for organizing intervals of time, and the clock, a physical mechanism that counts the passage of time. In day-to-day life, the clock is consulted for periods less than a day whereas the calendar is consulted for period... | What do fiducial epochs display at the same time? | {'text': 'both calendars and clocks', 'answer_start': 391} |
5,882 | 5,540 | 56d240dbb329da140004ec76 | generic | In the language of the Noble Eightfold Path, samyaksamādhi is "right concentration". The primary means of cultivating samādhi is meditation. Upon development of samādhi, one's mind becomes purified of defilement, calm, tranquil, and luminous. | What does the word samyaksamadhi mean? | {'text': 'right concentration', 'answer_start': 63} |
53,877 | 53,535 | 57267c335951b619008f7457 | generic | On November 2, 2014, the Cubs announced that Joe Maddon had signed a five-year contract to be the 54th manager in team history. On December 10, 2014, Maddon announced that the team had signed free agent Jon Lester to a 6-year, $155 million contract. Many other trades and acquisitions occurred during the off season. The... | When did the Cubs announce that Joe Maddon had signed a five-year contract to be the 54th manager? | {'text': 'November 2, 2014', 'answer_start': 3} |
122,259 | 121,917 | 573198280fdd8d15006c63cb | generic | YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site launched officially on December 15, 2005, by which time the site was ... | How much did Sequoia Capital invest in youtube in November of 2005? | {'text': '$3.5 million', 'answer_start': 184} |
6,692 | 6,350 | 56db3f2ce7c41114004b4f9f | generic | For five consecutive seasons, starting in season seven, the title was given to a white male who plays the guitar – a trend that Idol pundits call the "White guy with guitar" or "WGWG" factor. Just hours before the season eleven finale, where Phillip Phillips was named the winner, Richard Rushfield, author of the book A... | Who wrote American Idol: The Untold Story? | {'text': 'Richard Rushfield', 'answer_start': 281} |
103,735 | 103,393 | 572ea63ac246551400ce446f | generic | The Scooter is another storm, a white cloud group farther south than the Great Dark Spot. This nickname first arose during the months leading up to the Voyager 2 encounter in 1989, when they were observed moving at speeds faster than the Great Dark Spot (and images acquired later would subsequently reveal the presence ... | What detected the storms on Neptune? | {'text': 'Voyager 2)', 'answer_start': 396} |
57,001 | 56,659 | 572644761125e71900ae1922 | generic | Napoleon was born in Corsica to a relatively modest family of noble Tuscan ancestry. Napoleon supported the French Revolution from the outset in 1789 while serving in the French army, and he tried to spread its ideals to Corsica but was banished from the island in 1793. Two years later, he saved the French government f... | When did Napoleon command his military expedition to Egypt? | {'text': '1798', 'answer_start': 728} |
26,845 | 26,503 | 56f991b19b226e1400dd15b7 | generic | In 2013 it was found that the Ministry of Defence had overspent on its equipment budget by £6.5bn on orders that could take up to 39 years to fulfil. The Ministry of Defence has been criticised in the past for poor management and financial control, investing in projects that have taken up to 10 and even as much as 15 y... | When was the overbudget amount discovered? | {'text': '2013', 'answer_start': 3} |
5,284 | 4,942 | 56d118a217492d1400aab91d | generic | In September 2005, West announced that he would release his Pastelle Clothing line in spring 2006, claiming "Now that I have a Grammy under my belt and Late Registration is finished, I am ready to launch my clothing line next spring." The line was developed over the following four years – with multiple pieces teased by... | What company worked with Kanye in 2009 to create his own shoe line? | {'text': 'Nike', 'answer_start': 418} |
41,265 | 40,923 | 570e63780dc6ce1900204ff9 | generic | Sanskrit has greatly influenced the languages of India that grew from its vocabulary and grammatical base; for instance, Hindi is a "Sanskritised register" of the Khariboli dialect. All modern Indo-Aryan languages, as well as Munda and Dravidian languages, have borrowed many words either directly from Sanskrit (tatsama... | What language has influenced the languages of India? | {'text': 'Sanskrit', 'answer_start': 0} |
31,502 | 31,160 | 5ad423a0604f3c001a400842 | generic | The Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area is served by one public television station and two public radio stations. KUHT (HoustonPBS) is a PBS member station and is the first public television station in the United States. Houston Public Radio is listener-funded and comprises two NPR member stations: KUHF ... | How is Houston Private Radio funded? | {'text': 'listener-funded', 'answer_start': 260} |
4,549 | 4,207 | 56d1196917492d1400aab941 | generic | Despite New York's heavy reliance on its vast public transit system, streets are a defining feature of the city. Manhattan's street grid plan greatly influenced the city's physical development. Several of the city's streets and avenues, like Broadway, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Seventh Avenue are also used as met... | What industry is Madison Avenue associated with? | {'text': 'advertising', 'answer_start': 379} |
69,132 | 68,790 | 5a457e6419a820001a1eda87 | generic | After a nonprofit organization has been formed at the state level, the organization may seek recognition of tax exempt status with respect to U.S. federal income tax. That is done typically by applying to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), although statutory exemptions exist for limited types of nonprofit organization... | What conditions must an authorization letter meet to show income? | {'text': 'the purpose, limitations on spending, and internal safeguards', 'answer_start': 467} |
86,966 | 86,624 | 5728396e2ca10214002da111 | generic | A group is called finite if it has a finite number of elements. The number of elements is called the order of the group. An important class is the symmetric groups SN, the groups of permutations of N letters. For example, the symmetric group on 3 letters S3 is the group consisting of all possible orderings of the three... | What is the number of elements in a group named? | {'text': 'the order of the group', 'answer_start': 97} |
68,516 | 68,174 | 5726b763708984140094ced5 | generic | In 1913, Elmer McCollum discovered the first vitamins, fat-soluble vitamin A, and water-soluble vitamin B (in 1915; now known to be a complex of several water-soluble vitamins) and named vitamin C as the then-unknown substance preventing scurvy. Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Osborne also performed pioneering work on vita... | Which disease was vitamin C claimed to help prevent? | {'text': 'scurvy', 'answer_start': 238} |
51,708 | 51,366 | 5725c44089a1e219009abe34 | generic | According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, Montevideo had a population of 1,325,968 persons, compared to Uruguay's total population of 3,241,003. The female population was 707,697 (53.4%) while the male population accounted for 618,271 (46.6%). The population had declined since the pre... | According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's female population? | {'text': '707,697', 'answer_start': 206} |
27,540 | 27,198 | 56fa5493f34c681400b0c088 | generic | Wood has always been used extensively for furniture, such as chairs and beds. It is also used for tool handles and cutlery, such as chopsticks, toothpicks, and other utensils, like the wooden spoon. | What pieces of furniture that most people use every night can be made out of wood? | {'text': 'beds', 'answer_start': 72} |
18,294 | 17,952 | 56e16a5ecd28a01900c678bf | generic | In late 2005, Viacom's Paramount Pictures acquired DreamWorks SKG after acquisition talks between GE and DreamWorks stalled. Universal's long time chairperson, Stacey Snider, left the company in early 2006 to head up DreamWorks. Snider was replaced by then-Vice Chairman Marc Shmuger and Focus Features head David Linde.... | Who became the chairperson in late 2009? | {'text': 'Adam Fogelson', 'answer_start': 488} |
106,795 | 106,453 | 5a0f3f22decec90018475513 | generic | Occasional severe flooding is experienced. There was the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the Great Flood of 1993, and widespread flooding and mudslides caused by the 1982-1983 El Niño event in the western United States. Localized flooding can, however, occur anywhere, and mudslides from heavy rain can cause problems i... | What is the name of the major event that caused flooding in the eastern United States? | {'text': 'El Niño', 'answer_start': 177} |
96,879 | 96,537 | 572a6269b8ce0319002e2b02 | generic | The instruments used are a mixture of Anatolian and Central Asian instruments (the saz, the bağlama, the kemence), other Middle Eastern instruments (the ud, the tanbur, the kanun, the ney), and—later in the tradition—Western instruments (the violin and the piano). Because of a geographic and cultural divide between the... | Which Middle Eastern instruments can be heard in Ottoman classical music? | {'text': 'the ud, the tanbur, the kanun, the ney', 'answer_start': 149} |
83,473 | 83,131 | 572821e5ff5b5019007d9dbd | generic | At present the A35 autoroute, which parallels the Rhine between Karlsruhe and Basel, and the A4 autoroute, which links Paris with Strasbourg, penetrate close to the centre of the city. The Grand contournement ouest (GCO) project, programmed since 1999, plans to construct a 24 km (15 mi) long highway connection between ... | What year did the Grand contournement ouest project open? | {'text': '1999', 'answer_start': 247} |
86,583 | 86,241 | 572a9cebf75d5e190021fb9a | generic | Special procedures apply to legislation passed by Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man. Before the lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765 (the Revestment), the assent of the Lord of Mann to a bill was signified by letter to the governor. After 1765, royal assent was at first signified ... | Previous to the Order in Council method, how was royal assent passed previously within the Isle of Man? | {'text': 'by letter from the Secretary of State to the governor', 'answer_start': 320} |
124,644 | 124,302 | 573254dab9d445190005ea43 | generic | The official published membership statistics, such as those mentioned above, include only those who submit reports for their personal ministry; official statistics do not include inactive and disfellowshipped individuals or others who might attend their meetings. As a result, only about half of those who self-identifie... | Where do the officially published membership statistics come from? | {'text': 'those who submit reports for their personal ministry', 'answer_start': 90} |
92,027 | 91,685 | 57290440af94a219006a9f45 | generic | Orly Airport, located in the southern suburbs of Paris, replaced Le Bourget as the principal airport of Paris from the 1950s to the 1980s. Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris, opened to commercial traffic in 1974 and became the busiest Parisian airport in 1993. Today it is th... | What airport does Ryanair use? | {'text': 'Beauvais-Tillé Airport', 'answer_start': 439} |
104,761 | 104,419 | 57304279947a6a140053d374 | generic | Charleston annually hosts Spoleto Festival USA founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, a 17-day art festival featuring over 100 performances by individual artists in a variety of disciplines. The Spoleto Festival is internationally recognized as America's premier performing arts festival. The annual Piccolo Spoleto festival tak... | The Holiday Festival of Lights are held where? | {'text': 'James Island County Park', 'answer_start': 844} |
108,270 | 107,928 | 57304a52069b531400831ff2 | generic | For horizontal propagation between transmitting and receiving antennas situated near the ground reasonably far from each other, the distances traveled by tne direct and reflected rays are nearly the same. There is almost no relative phase shift. If the emission is polarized vertically, the two fields (direct and reflec... | What is also increased along with the antenna's height? | {'text': 'lobes', 'answer_start': 962} |
92,624 | 92,282 | 5a6a6750a9e0c9001a4e9dec | generic | During McMahon's period in office, Neville Bonner joined the Senate and became the first Indigenous Australian in the Australian Parliament. Bonner was chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971 and celebrated his maiden parliamentary speech with a boomerang throwing display on the lawns of Parliament... | Where did McMahon give a boomerang throwing display? | {'text': 'the lawns of Parliament', 'answer_start': 297} |
81,670 | 81,328 | 5a39a5cc2f14dd001ac72520 | generic | The sociology of culture concerns culture—usually understood as the ensemble of symbolic codes used by a society—as manifested in society. For Georg Simmel (1858–1918), culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Culture... | The term material culture is not relevant to what? | {'text': 'archeological and anthropological studies', 'answer_start': 902} |
77,545 | 77,203 | 5727e6212ca10214002d9909 | generic | Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrinkwrap on the album cover. A small degree of warp was common, and allowing for it was part of the art of turntable and tonearm design. "wow" (once-per-revolution pitch variation) c... | What were often found with a paper outter cover and no inner cover? | {'text': 'Singles', 'answer_start': 646} |
51,601 | 51,259 | 5a0ce7f5f5590b0018dab649 | generic | A key aspect of the Gates Foundation's U.S. efforts involves an overhaul of the country's education policies at both the K-12 and college levels, including support for teacher evaluations and charter schools and opposition to seniority-based layoffs and other aspects of the education system that are typically backed by... | What is a key aspect of the Common Core State Standards U.S. efforts? | {'text': "an overhaul of the country's education policies at both the K-12 and college levels", 'answer_start': 61} |
105,139 | 104,797 | 572ff89f04bcaa1900d76f70 | generic | On 15 September the Luftwaffe made two large daylight attacks on London along the Thames Estuary, targeting the docks and rail communications in the city. Its hope was to destroy its targets and draw the RAF into defending them, allowing the Luftwaffe to destroy their fighters in large numbers, thereby achieving an air... | What two targets were the Luftwaffe trying to destroy? | {'text': 'docks and rail communications', 'answer_start': 112} |
51,398 | 51,056 | 5726166d89a1e219009ac22c | generic | Hellenistic culture produced seats of learning throughout the Mediterranean. Hellenistic science differed from Greek science in at least two ways: first, it benefited from the cross-fertilization of Greek ideas with those that had developed in the larger Hellenistic world; secondly, to some extent, it was supported by ... | The Royal patrons of Alexander's successors supported what type of science? | {'text': 'Hellenistic', 'answer_start': 77} |
119,201 | 118,859 | 5ad18fe7645df0001a2d1f78 | generic | The first high-brightness blue LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation in 1994 and was based on InGaN. In parallel, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in Nagoya were working on developing the important GaN nucleation on sapphire substrates and the demonstration of p-type doping of GaN. Nakamura, Akasa... | What substance did Barbieri use in his work with low-brightness LED? | {'text': 'indium tin oxide', 'answer_start': 581} |
9,084 | 8,742 | 5a1c84fbb4fb5d0018714641 | generic | The Dutch Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), Republic of the United Netherlands or Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën), was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands s... | What republics did the Spanish kingdom come before? | {'text': 'Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands.', 'answer_start': 376} |
122,421 | 122,079 | 5731a8f7e17f3d14004222ce | generic | YouTube has enabled people to more directly engage with government, such as in the CNN/YouTube presidential debates (2007) in which ordinary people submitted questions to U.S. presidential candidates via YouTube video, with a techPresident co-founder saying that Internet video was changing the political landscape. Desc... | An activist in the Arab spring said they were using Twitter to do what? | {'text': 'coordinate', 'answer_start': 523} |
21,612 | 21,270 | 56e8d4b899e8941900975ebd | generic | The first reports of the abbey are based on a late tradition claiming that a young fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site. This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the abbey received in later years. In the present era, the Fishmong... | When was the monk community installed? | {'text': '960s or early 970s', 'answer_start': 401} |
89,555 | 89,213 | 5728b5ba3acd2414000dfd29 | generic | Estonia's land border with Latvia runs 267 kilometers; the Russian border runs 290 kilometers. From 1920 to 1945, Estonia's border with Russia, set by the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty, extended beyond the Narva River in the northeast and beyond the town of Pechory (Petseri) in the southeast. This territory, amounting to som... | What is the length of the border that Estonia shares with Lativa? | {'text': '267 kilometers', 'answer_start': 39} |
33,286 | 32,944 | 57098e54ed30961900e84304 | generic | Politically, Orthodox Jews, given their variety of movements and affiliations, tend not to conform easily to the standard left-right political spectrum, with one of the key differences between the movements stemming from the groups' attitudes to Zionism. Generally speaking, of the three key strands of Orthodox Judaism,... | What do orthodox Jews express ambivalence towards? | {'text': 'Zionism', 'answer_start': 410} |
56,592 | 56,250 | 572676395951b619008f734f | generic | Despite these detailed standard definitions, cameras typically do not clearly indicate whether the user "ISO" setting refers to the noise-based speed, saturation-based speed, or the specified output sensitivity, or even some made-up number for marketing purposes. Because the 1998 version of ISO 12232 did not permit mea... | What measures might the user "ISO" setting correspond to? | {'text': 'the noise-based speed, saturation-based speed, or the specified output sensitivity, or even some made-up number for marketing purposes', 'answer_start': 128} |
4,733 | 4,391 | 56cf550faab44d1400b8901e | generic | One of the first incidents of the book being challenged was in Hanover, Virginia, in 1966: a parent protested that the use of rape as a plot device was immoral. Johnson cites examples of letters to local newspapers, which ranged from amusement to fury; those letters expressing the most outrage, however, complained abou... | When was the first major controversy that surfaced from the book? | {'text': '1966', 'answer_start': 85} |
9,763 | 9,421 | 5ad3ebd0604f3c001a3ff73a | generic | The RCAF and Joint Task Force (North) (JTFN) also maintain at various points throughout Canada's northern region a chain of forward operating locations, each capable of supporting fighter operations. Elements of CF-18 squadrons periodically deploy to these airports for short training exercises or Arctic sovereignty pat... | What can't each forwarding operation location provide? | {'text': 'fighter operations', 'answer_start': 180} |
59,408 | 59,066 | 5726cb6e708984140094d186 | generic | On 20 May 2009, May and Taylor performed "We Are the Champions" live on the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert providing a vocal duet. In mid-2009, after the split of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the Queen online website announced a new greatest hits compilation named Absolute Gre... | What day in 2009 was Queen's Absolute Greatest released? | {'text': '16 November', 'answer_start': 353} |
9,732 | 9,390 | 56deebdc3277331400b4d821 | generic | Currently, the Regular Force component of the Army consists of three field-ready brigade groups: 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Edmonton and CFB Shilo; 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Petawawa and CFB Gagetown; and 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, at CFB Valcartier and Quebec City. Each con... | What medical group is present at all Brigades but not part of it? | {'text': 'a field ambulance', 'answer_start': 598} |
86,847 | 86,505 | 5a81c12031013a001a334e4b | generic | In the example above, the identity and the rotations constitute a subgroup R = {id, r1, r2, r3}, highlighted in red in the group table above: any two rotations composed are still a rotation, and a rotation can be undone by (i.e. is inverse to) the complementary rotations 270° for 90°, 180° for 180°, and 90° for 270° (n... | What is defined when moving in the opposite direction? | {'text': 'rotation', 'answer_start': 329} |
3,502 | 3,160 | 56d54bc82593cc1400307b2d | generic | The National Disaster Relief Commission initiated a "Level II emergency contingency plan", which covers the most serious class of natural disasters. The plan rose to Level I at 22:15 CST, May 12. | What level alert was instated for the quake? | {'text': 'Level II emergency', 'answer_start': 53} |
125,640 | 125,298 | 573349f34776f41900660804 | generic | The term financial innovation refers to the ongoing development of financial products designed to achieve particular client objectives, such as offsetting a particular risk exposure (such as the default of a borrower) or to assist with obtaining financing. Examples pertinent to this crisis included: the adjustable-rate... | What happened to the usage of financial innovation products in the years leading up the financial crisis? | {'text': 'expanded dramatically', 'answer_start': 588} |
37,514 | 37,172 | 570b61516b8089140040f901 | generic | The term "Great Plains", for the region west of about the 96th or 98th meridian and east of the Rocky Mountains, was not generally used before the early 20th century. Nevin Fenneman's 1916 study, Physiographic Subdivision of the United States, brought the term Great Plains into more widespread usage. Before that the re... | what was theregion called before "the great plans"? | {'text': 'the High Plains', 'answer_start': 354} |
128,512 | 128,170 | 5ad2f4e9604f3c001a3fda51 | generic | Environmental anthropology is a sub-specialty within the field of anthropology that takes an active role in examining the relationships between humans and their environment across space and time. The contemporary perspective of environmental anthropology, and arguably at least the backdrop, if not the focus of most of ... | What field examines the environment and its affect of life? | {'text': 'Environmental anthropology', 'answer_start': 0} |
83,730 | 83,388 | 5727e6c44b864d1900163f99 | generic | After the 1948 election, the state turned firmly Republican. Although registered Republicans were a minority in the state until 2015, starting in 1952, Oklahoma has been carried by Republican presidential candidates in all but one election (1964). This is not to say that every election has been a landslide for Republic... | When did registered Republicans become a majority in Oklahoma? | {'text': '2015', 'answer_start': 128} |
41,685 | 41,343 | 570d2d61b3d812140066d4ef | generic | GE (General Electric) Energy's renewable energy business has expanded greatly, to keep up with growing U.S. and global demand for clean energy. Since entering the renewable energy industry in 2002, GE has invested more than $850 million in renewable energy commercialization. In August 2008 it acquired Kelman Ltd, a Nor... | In what year did GE acquire Kelman Ltd.? | {'text': '2008', 'answer_start': 286} |
609 | 267 | 56bfa24ea10cfb14005511e3 | generic | In January 2013, Destiny's Child released Love Songs, a compilation album of the romance-themed songs from their previous albums and a newly recorded track, "Nuclear". Beyoncé performed the American national anthem singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. The ... | When did Destiny's Child release its album "Love Songs"? | {'text': 'January 2013', 'answer_start': 3} |
50,987 | 50,645 | 5725d19938643c19005acd93 | generic | In 1966, Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with German Jewish author Nelly Sachs. Leading Israeli poets have been Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Alterman and Rachel Bluwstein. Internationally famous contemporary Israeli novelists include Amos Oz, Etgar Keret and David Grossman. The Israeli-Arab satirist S... | Who wrote the novel The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist? | {'text': 'Emile Habibi', 'answer_start': 479} |
76,249 | 75,907 | 572798b8708984140094e1cb | generic | In February 20, 1988, after a week of growing demonstrations in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (the Armenian majority area within Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic), the Regional Soviet voted to secede and join with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia. This local vote in a small,... | Who killed the two Azerbaijanis? | {'text': 'Karabakh police.', 'answer_start': 556} |
12,826 | 12,484 | 5ad2d589d7d075001a42a3f2 | generic | The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] commonly c... | What term refers to the tribe of Trajan and so it is named from him? | {'text': 'Josephus', 'answer_start': 73} |
28,642 | 28,300 | 56fde89119033b140034cdb1 | generic | The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. It was designed as a testbed for the Williams tube the ... | Where was the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine built? | {'text': 'Victoria University of Manchester', 'answer_start': 132} |
71,141 | 70,799 | 5ad27a11d7d075001a4295d6 | generic | The stated clauses of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact were a guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other, and a written commitment that neither party would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that... | Who invaded Poland before the Nazi’s? | {'text': 'Soviet', 'answer_start': 1078} |
126,137 | 125,795 | 57340c13d058e614000b688d | generic | After years of high increase, the unemployment in Portugal has been in a continuous falling trend since the third quarter of 2014, decreasing from a peak of 17.7% achieved in the early 2013 to a rate of 11.9% in the second quarter of 2015. However, it is high still high compared with what was the normal average Portugu... | In the second quarter of 2008, what was the Portuguese unemployment rate? | {'text': '7.3%', 'answer_start': 411} |
98,808 | 98,466 | 572ab5f7be1ee31400cb81be | generic | In the general election, Kerry was initially favored to defeat the Republican candidate, former State Representative Paul W. Cronin, and conservative Democrat Roger P. Durkin, who ran as an Independent. A week after the primary, one poll put Kerry 26-points ahead of Cronin. His campaign called for a national health ins... | Who did Kerry say tried to stop his campaign? | {'text': 'President Nixon', 'answer_start': 921} |
71,584 | 71,242 | 5acf59a177cf76001a684bfe | generic | A capacitor consists of two conductors separated by a non-conductive region. The non-conductive region is called the dielectric. In simpler terms, the dielectric is just an electrical insulator. Examples of dielectric media are glass, air, paper, vacuum, and even a semiconductor depletion region chemically identical to... | What region outside of a capacitor develops an electric field? | {'text': 'dielectric', 'answer_start': 207} |
37,042 | 36,700 | 5ad1766e645df0001a2d1d0c | generic | In 1983 fighting between Palestinian refugees and Lebanese factions reignited that nation's long-running civil war. A UN agreement brought an international force of peacekeepers to occupy Beirut and guarantee security. US Marines landed in August 1982 along with Italian and French forces. On October 23, 1983, a suicide... | When did fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese stop? | {'text': '1983', 'answer_start': 3} |
117,420 | 117,078 | 5730b2e62461fd1900a9cfbf | generic | While Nintendo never released an adapter for playing NES games on the SNES (though the instructions included a way to connect both consoles to the same TV by either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems), the Super Game Boy adapter cartridge allows games designed for Nintendo's port... | What did the Super Game Boy 2 add? | {'text': 'a communication port to enable a second Game Boy to connect for multiplayer games', 'answer_start': 623} |
4,593 | 4,251 | 56d10cda17492d1400aab823 | generic | As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in th... | Which region of America was the novel set in? | {'text': 'Deep South', 'answer_start': 266} |
56,380 | 56,038 | 5a67848df038b7001ab0c267 | generic | The system was later extended to cover larger ranges and some of its practical shortcomings were addressed by the Austrian scientist Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944) and Flemish-born botanist Walter Hecht (de) (1896–1960), (who, in 1919/1920, jointly developed their Eder–Hecht neutral wedge sensitometer measuring emulsion ... | What device allowed manufacturers to reliably determine speed? | {'text': 'Eder–Hecht neutral wedge sensitometer', 'answer_start': 263} |
104,474 | 104,132 | 5ad4179a604f3c001a40039e | generic | According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 127.5 square miles (330.2 km2), of which 109.0 square miles (282.2 km2) is land and 18.5 square miles (47.9 km2) is covered by water. The old city is located on a peninsula at the point where, as Charlestonians say, "The Ashley and the Cooper Ri... | Which city blocks Charleston for expanding down the peninsula? | {'text': 'North Charleston', 'answer_start': 794} |
94,206 | 93,864 | 5ad13790645df0001a2d11e9 | generic | United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that "renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity". In October 2011, he "announced the creation of a high-level group to drum up support for energy access, energy efficiency and greater use of renewable energy. The group... | Who is US's Secretary-General? | {'text': 'Ban Ki-moon', 'answer_start': 34} |
14,536 | 14,194 | 56dfb9b87aa994140058e08d | generic | A large number of Bell's writings, personal correspondence, notebooks, papers and other documents reside at both the United States Library of Congress Manuscript Division (as the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers), and at the Alexander Graham Bell Institute, Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia; major portions of whic... | What are Bell's personal papers known as? | {'text': 'Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers', 'answer_start': 179} |
32,017 | 31,675 | 5a83705de60761001a2eb701 | generic | Copper compounds in liquid form are used as a wood preservative, particularly in treating original portion of structures during restoration of damage due to dry rot. Together with zinc, copper wires may be placed over non-conductive roofing materials to discourage the growth of moss.[citation needed] Textile fibers use... | What is used to implode structures for dry rot? | {'text': 'Copper compounds', 'answer_start': 0} |
69,540 | 69,198 | 5a7e522f70df9f001a875727 | generic | As advances and specialization have made new scientific research inaccessible to most audiences, the "literary" nature of science writing has become less pronounced over the last two centuries. Now, science appears mostly in journals. Scientific works of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Newton still exhibit great value, but ... | What do students rarely study outside programmes of literary study? | {'text': 'science writing', 'answer_start': 122} |
102,871 | 102,529 | 5731919ba5e9cc1400cdc0c1 | generic | His next directorial feature was the Raiders prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Teaming up once again with Lucas and Ford, the film was plagued with uncertainty for the material and script. This film and the Spielberg-produced Gremlins led to the creation of the PG-13 rating due to the high level of violence... | What rating did 'Temple of Doom' receive? | {'text': 'PG', 'answer_start': 403} |
38,863 | 38,521 | 570c943eb3d812140066d234 | generic | In 1978, Josep Lluís Núñez became the first elected president of FC Barcelona, and, since then, the members of Barcelona have elected the club president. The process of electing a president of FC Barcelona was closely tied to Spain's transition to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco's dictatorship. The new presiden... | How long was Nunez president of Barcelona? | {'text': '22 years', 'answer_start': 469} |
36,878 | 36,536 | 570b3b4dec8fbc190045b8fc | generic | The United States originally wished to remain neutral when World War I broke out in August 1914. However, it insisted on its right as a neutral party to immunity from German submarine attack, even though its ships carried food and raw materials to Britain. In 1917 the Germans resumed submarine attacks, knowing that it ... | When World War I started, what was the official US position? | {'text': 'neutral', 'answer_start': 46} |
37,730 | 37,388 | 570ba1b2ec8fbc190045ba8e | generic | Heat is energy in transit that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is characterized by a particular spectrum of many wavelengths that is associated with emission from an object, due ... | What is the term for transit energy flowing as a result of differences in temperature? | {'text': 'Heat', 'answer_start': 0} |
75,099 | 74,757 | 5a31766ae4dcb1001abb2333 | generic | Baptists, like other Christians, are defined by doctrine—some of it common to all orthodox and evangelical groups and a portion of it distinctive to Baptists. Through the years, different Baptist groups have issued confessions of faith—without considering them to be creeds—to express their particular doctrinal distinct... | Baptists have played a small role in what? | {'text': 'encouraging religious freedom and separation of church and state', 'answer_start': 626} |
61,380 | 61,038 | 5726f21ddd62a815002e95ec | generic | Throughout her career Madonna has been involved in writing and producing most of her own music. Madonna's early songwriting skill was developed during her time with the Breakfast Club in 1979. According to author Carol Gnojewski, her first attempts at songwriting are perceived as an important self-revelation, as Madonn... | Who writes and creates most of her own music? | {'text': 'Madonna', 'answer_start': 22} |
52,475 | 52,133 | 5725c1f2271a42140099d144 | generic | In the Middle Ages, the site of the future palace formed part of the Manor of Ebury (also called Eia). The marshy ground was watered by the river Tyburn, which still flows below the courtyard and south wing of the palace. Where the river was fordable (at Cow Ford), the village of Eye Cross grew. Ownership of the site c... | The site of the palace was once owned by which queen consort in the late Saxon times? | {'text': 'Edith of Wessex', 'answer_start': 404} |
113,714 | 113,372 | 5730048aa23a5019007fcc50 | generic | The blossoming literature, philosophy, medicine, and art of Iran became major elements in the formation of a new age for the Iranian civilization, during the period known as the Islamic Golden Age. The Islamic Golden Age reached its peak by the 10th and 11th centuries, during which Iran was the main theater of the scie... | Prominent Iranian writers during this time of the Islamic Golden Age contributed to what area of writing? | {'text': 'scientific writing', 'answer_start': 610} |
10,012 | 9,670 | 5ad31a2e604f3c001a3fdb6b | generic | Cardinals have in canon law a "privilege of forum" (i.e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction (cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to ... | What does the pope either decide or delegates the decision to the the College of Cardinals? | {'text': 'the case', 'answer_start': 511} |
116,412 | 116,070 | 5a56a1a56349e2001acdcec0 | generic | Swaziland's most well-known cultural event is the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance. In the eight-day ceremony, girls cut reeds and present them to the queen mother and then dance. (There is no formal competition.) It is done in late August or early September. Only childless, unmarried girls can take part. The aims of the cer... | What is Swazilands oldest cultural event? | {'text': 'Umhlanga Reed Dance', 'answer_start': 57} |
77,698 | 77,356 | 5a82338e31013a001a3352cd | generic | The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the base form of programming for TCM upon the network's launch. Before the creation of Turner Classic Movies, films from Turner's library of movies aired on the Turner Broadcasting System's advertiser-supported cable network TNT – along with colorized versions of ... | On what network did Turner Entertainment's film library air prior to the creation of MGM/UA? | {'text': 'TNT', 'answer_start': 281} |
50,371 | 50,029 | 5acfa86377cf76001a685763 | generic | In some countries anti-Masonry is often related to antisemitism and anti-Zionism. For example, In 1980, the Iraqi legal and penal code was changed by Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'ath Party, making it a felony to "promote or acclaim Zionist principles, including Freemasonry, or who associate [themselves] with Zionist orga... | What year did the Ba'ath Party make Freemasonry a holiday? | {'text': '1980', 'answer_start': 98} |
68,263 | 67,921 | 5726b246708984140094ce1b | generic | North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes. The area generally falls North of Millbrook Road. It is primarily suburban with large shopping areas. Primary... | What are the means of transportation in the area? | {'text': 'U.S. Route 70, Interstate 540,', 'answer_start': 876} |
104,590 | 104,248 | 5ad41acf604f3c001a4004e3 | generic | By the mid-18th century, Charles Town had become a bustling trade center, the hub of the Atlantic trade for the southern colonies. Charles Towne was also the wealthiest and largest city south of Philadelphia, in part because of the lucrative slave trade. By 1770, it was the fourth-largest port in the colonies, after Bo... | When didn't the Great Migration occur? | {'text': 'the early 20th century', 'answer_start': 590} |
55,302 | 54,960 | 5a629334f8d794001af1c104 | generic | In the 1990s, protesters criticised the company's environmental record, particularly the possible pollution caused by the proposed disposal of the Brent Spar platform into the North Sea. Despite support from the UK government, Shell reversed the decision under public pressure but maintained that sinking the platform wo... | What did Shell admit was a poor environmental decision? | {'text': 'sinking the platform', 'answer_start': 297} |
42,921 | 42,579 | 5ad2bd17d7d075001a42a0ba | generic | Several governments maintain permanent manned research stations on the continent. The number of people conducting and supporting scientific research and other work on the continent and its nearby islands varies from about 1,000 in winter to about 5,000 in the summer, giving it a population density between 70 and 350 in... | What is the population density of the surrounding islands? | {'text': 'between 70 and 350 inhabitants per million square kilometres', 'answer_start': 299} |
5,038 | 4,696 | 56cfbc7f234ae51400d9bf34 | generic | Geography effects solar energy potential because areas that are closer to the equator have a greater amount of solar radiation. However, the use of photovoltaics that can follow the position of the sun can significantly increase the solar energy potential in areas that are farther from the equator. Time variation effec... | What is the process called that can increase solar energy in areas further away from the earth's equator? | {'text': 'photovoltaics', 'answer_start': 148} |
109,710 | 109,368 | 572f59fc947a6a140053c8a6 | generic | A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose DBMS is designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include ... | How are DBMSs classified? | {'text': 'according to the database model that they support', 'answer_start': 657} |
28,751 | 28,409 | 56fe0329761e401900d28c9b | generic | There is active research to make computers out of many promising new types of technology, such as optical computers, DNA computers, neural computers, and quantum computers. Most computers are universal, and are able to calculate any computable function, and are limited only by their memory capacity and operating speed.... | What type of computer can break encryption algorithms quickly? | {'text': 'quantum computers', 'answer_start': 433} |
31,638 | 31,296 | 5ad41eaf604f3c001a400661 | generic | Houston has mild winters in contrast to most areas of the United States. In January, the normal mean temperature at Intercontinental Airport is 53.1 °F (11.7 °C), while that station has an average of 13 days with a low at or below freezing. Snowfall is rare. Recent snow events in Houston include a storm on December 24,... | How many tornadoes does Houston usually get per year? | {'text': '49.', 'answer_start': 756} |
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