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40,796 | 40,454 | 570d410afed7b91900d45db5 | generic | During the 1930s solid fuel rockets were under development in the Soviet Union and Britain. In Britain the interest was for anti-aircraft fire, it quickly became clear that guidance would be required for precision. However, rockets, or 'unrotated projectiles' as they were called could the used for anti-aircraft barrage... | What were rockets called at this time? | {'text': 'unrotated projectiles', 'answer_start': 237} |
112,914 | 112,572 | 57325111e17f3d1400422852 | generic | A widely publicised example of institutionalised sexual slavery are "comfort women", a euphemism for the 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and China, who served in the Japanese army's camps during World War II. Some 35 Dutch comfort women brought a successful case before the Batavia Military Tribunal in 1948. In 1993, C... | In 1948, how many Dutch women brought a case to the Batavia Military Tribunal? | {'text': '35', 'answer_start': 215} |
59,283 | 58,941 | 572685c3f1498d1400e8e295 | generic | The album also featured the hit single "Bohemian Rhapsody", which was number one in the UK for nine weeks. Mercury's close friend and advisor, Capital London radio DJ Kenny Everett, played a pivotal role in giving the single exposure. It is the third-best-selling single of all time in the UK, surpassed only by Band Aid... | What is the third best selling single of all time in the UK? | {'text': 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'answer_start': 40} |
70,121 | 69,779 | 5726db92708984140094d3d1 | generic | It was not until the Northern and Southern dynasties that regular script rose to dominant status. During that period, regular script continued evolving stylistically, reaching full maturity in the early Tang dynasty. Some call the writing of the early Tang calligrapher Ouyang Xun (557–641) the first mature regular scri... | What script saw no more stages of evolution? | {'text': 'mainstream', 'answer_start': 492} |
28,762 | 28,420 | 5705ca3352bb89140068962e | generic | Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations. As such, the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies, and depends si... | Do some countries have negative feelings towards the word "black"? | {'text': 'communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory,', 'answer_start': 372} |
75,776 | 75,434 | 5727738edd62a815002e9d2e | generic | Despite their usurpation of imperial authority, the Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy. There was great interest in graceful poetry and vernacular literature. Two types of phonetic Japanese script: katakana, a simplified script that was dev... | What script was developed with parts of Chinese characters? | {'text': 'katakana', 'answer_start': 278} |
99,326 | 98,984 | 5ace550132bba1001ae4a2d7 | generic | Post-European-contact Chamorro culture is a combination of American, Spanish, Filipino, other Micronesian Islander and Mexican traditions, with few remaining indigenous pre-Hispanic customs. These influences are manifested in the local language, music, dance, sea navigation, cuisine, fishing, games (such as batu, chonk... | What was pre-contact Chamorro cuisine based on? | {'text': 'corn', 'answer_start': 596} |
91,674 | 91,332 | 572947f33f37b31900478207 | generic | One problem with these assignments is admixture. Many people have a highly varied ancestry. For example, in the United States, colonial and early federal history were periods of numerous interracial relationships, both outside and inside slavery. This has resulted in a majority of people who identify as African America... | What percentage of African ancestry were 30% of college students identifying as white estimated to have? | {'text': '10%', 'answer_start': 560} |
127,250 | 126,908 | 5a696d455ce1a5001a969608 | generic | The judges continue in paragraph 12, "The determination of when the targeted part is substantial enough to meet this requirement may involve a number of considerations. The numeric size of the targeted part of the group is the necessary and important starting point, though not in all cases the ending point of the inqui... | What should the number of people targeted in Article 4 not be solely evaluated by? | {'text': 'absolute terms', 'answer_start': 391} |
103,799 | 103,457 | 572ead7cc246551400ce44d8 | generic | The formation of the ice giants, Neptune and Uranus, has proven difficult to model precisely. Current models suggest that the matter density in the outer regions of the Solar System was too low to account for the formation of such large bodies from the traditionally accepted method of core accretion, and various hypoth... | What could have blasted Neptune and Uranus's atmosphere with radiation, aiding in creation? | {'text': 'nearby massive OB star', 'answer_start': 561} |
45,822 | 45,480 | 57104598b654c5140001f8c1 | generic | Both Rousseau and Locke's social contract theories rest on the presupposition of natural rights, which are not a result of law or custom, but are things that all men have in pre-political societies, and are therefore universal and inalienable. The most famous natural right formulation comes from John Locke in his Secon... | How does John Locke define mutual security? | {'text': "the idea that one cannot infringe on another's natural rights", 'answer_start': 435} |
101,399 | 101,057 | 572e83d3c246551400ce429e | generic | Realizing that war was imminent, Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it. The result caused uproar across Europe. Because of Prussia's alliance with Britain, Austria formed an alliance with France, seeing an opportunity to recapture Silesia, which had been lost in a previous war. Reluctantly, by follo... | What was Sweden's motivation to join the war? | {'text': "Sweden, fearing Prussia's expansionist tendencies, went to war in 1757 to protect its Baltic dominions,", 'answer_start': 487} |
94,653 | 94,311 | 572a2278af94a219006aa838 | generic | In the 1980s green became the color of a number of new European political parties organized around an agenda of environmentalism. Green was chosen for its association with nature, health, and growth. The largest green party in Europe is Alliance '90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) in Germany, which was forme... | Why was green chosen for a number of new European political parties in the 1980s? | {'text': 'environmentalism', 'answer_start': 112} |
15,918 | 15,576 | 5acd2a8c07355d001abf378f | generic | Wu Chinese has a three-way distinction in stops and affricates: /p pʰ b/. In addition to aspirated and unaspirated consonants, there is a series of muddy consonants, like /b/. These are pronounced with slack or breathy voice: that is, they are weakly voiced. Muddy consonants as initial cause a syllable to be pronounced... | What is an example of a breathy consonant? | {'text': '/b/', 'answer_start': 171} |
123,970 | 123,628 | 573228afe99e3014001e656a | generic | In the instance when the Presidency and both Houses of Congress are controlled by one party, the Speaker normally assumes a lower profile and defers to the President. For that situation the House Minority Leader can play the role of a de facto "leader of the opposition", often more so than the Senate Minority Leader, d... | What is the leadership structure when party controls house and presidency? | {'text': 'Speaker normally assumes a lower profile and defers to the President', 'answer_start': 97} |
3,452 | 3,110 | 56d5372f2593cc1400307ae4 | generic | The earthquake left at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million. Millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million total. Catastr... | How many people might actually be homeless? | {'text': '11 million', 'answer_start': 103} |
101,687 | 101,345 | 572e7c00c246551400ce4241 | generic | Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiograp... | What was the name of Feynman's lectures he made as an undergraduate? | {'text': 'The Feynman Lectures on Physics', 'answer_start': 233} |
116,849 | 116,507 | 5a4e9ad0755ab9001a10f531 | generic | Generally, this pattern is a circuit consisting of five "legs" that form a rectangle (two legs and the runway form one side, with the remaining legs forming three more sides). Each leg is named (see diagram), and ATC directs pilots on how to join and leave the circuit. Traffic patterns are flown at one specific altitud... | What does usually using a right-handed pattern as standard help pilots do? | {'text': 'know what to expect', 'answer_start': 829} |
40,481 | 40,139 | 570d0f33fed7b91900d45bee | generic | From 2001 to 2008, Mac sales increased continuously on an annual basis. Apple reported worldwide sales of 3.36 million Macs during the 2009 holiday season. As of Mid-2011, the Macintosh continues to enjoy rapid market share increase in the US, growing from 7.3% of all computer shipments in 2010 to 9.3% in 2011. Accordi... | What was Apples market share of all computer shipments in 2010? | {'text': '7.3%', 'answer_start': 257} |
121,740 | 121,398 | 57319c9ee17f3d1400422274 | generic | The funding and organization of universities varies widely between different countries around the world. In some countries universities are predominantly funded by the state, while in others funding may come from donors or from fees which students attending the university must pay. In some countries the vast majority o... | In nations that accept students from through the world what might the university offer to a student? | {'text': 'accommodation', 'answer_start': 477} |
26,072 | 25,730 | 56f8e6d39e9bad19000a06d6 | generic | It has pleased western historians to write of a decline of the Ottoman Empire as though a stable and uncontested polity of that name once existed. The borders did expand and contract but they were always dynamic and always in "question" right from the beginning. The Ottoman Empire was created from the lands of the form... | What was the Ottoman Empire created from? | {'text': 'the lands of the former eastern Roman Empire', 'answer_start': 299} |
129,165 | 128,823 | 57344560879d6814001ca454 | generic | Other Fortune 500 companies, while not headquartered in the area, do have a major presence. These include SunTrust Bank (based in Atlanta), Capital One Financial Corporation (officially based in McLean, Virginia, but founded in Richmond with its operations center and most employees in the Richmond area), and the medica... | What DuPont factory is located in the Richmond area? | {'text': 'Spruance Plant', 'answer_start': 559} |
16,572 | 16,230 | 56e0fb457aa994140058e863 | generic | According to China daily. Fifteen years after the satellite system was launched, it is now generating $31.5 billion for major companies such as China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp. | How long ago was the BeiDou Satellite System first launched? | {'text': 'Fifteen years', 'answer_start': 26} |
51,858 | 51,516 | 5725e47289a1e219009ac055 | generic | The Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College is a private, co-educational, not-for-profit Catholic school located in the wealthy residential southeastern neighbourhood of Carrasco. Established in 1955, it is regarded as one of the best high schools in the country, blending a rigorous curriculum with strong ex... | Who is the headmaster of the Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College? | {'text': 'professor Juan Pedro Toni', 'answer_start': 379} |
97,670 | 97,328 | 5a0e1448d7c850001886451d | generic | Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun... | What may be the result of developing effective ways to target new pathogens? | {'text': 'to save many thousands of lives in developing nations, while reducing the overall cost of treatment, and the costs to society', 'answer_start': 784} |
13,240 | 12,898 | 56df35c296943c1400a5d2f4 | generic | By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state. Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City was a major stop on Route 66 during the early part of the 20t... | Who wrote the Jazz oldie "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"? | {'text': 'Bobby Troup', 'answer_start': 363} |
88,734 | 88,392 | 5a3c8e8fcc5d22001a521e0d | generic | Some findings in the fields of cosmology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience are interpreted by atheists (including Lawrence M. Krauss and Sam Harris) as evidence that God is an imaginary entity only, with no basis in reality. A single, omniscient God who is imagined to have created the universe and is particularly ... | What does Richard Dawkins believe describes the creation of the universe? | {'text': 'evolutionary biology', 'answer_start': 42} |
108,966 | 108,624 | 5a2d6267f28ef0001a526518 | generic | Historical aspects of the Expo line route are noteworthy. It uses the right-of-way for the Santa Monica Air Line that provided electric-powered freight and passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica beginning in the 1920s. Service was discontinued in 1953 but diesel-powered freight deliveries to warehouses ... | In what year did the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority by the Expo Line from Southern Pacific? | {'text': '1953', 'answer_start': 263} |
71,307 | 70,965 | 5ad28416d7d075001a429865 | generic | In mid-June 1940, when international attention was focused on the German invasion of France, Soviet NKVD troops raided border posts in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. State administrations were liquidated and replaced by Soviet cadres, in which 34,250 Latvians, 75,000 Lithuanians and almost 60,000 Estonians were deporte... | Of the three countries invaded, which lost the most amount of people through deportation or loss of life? | {'text': 'Latvia', 'answer_start': 158} |
69,892 | 69,550 | 5726e53df1498d1400e8ef1e | generic | Later interpretations of Avicenna's philosophy split into three different schools; those (such as al-Tusi) who continued to apply his philosophy as a system to interpret later political events and scientific advances; those (such as al-Razi) who considered Avicenna's theological works in isolation from his wider philos... | Which interpretation of Avicenna's work was more taught in Islamic schools? | {'text': 'al-Razi', 'answer_start': 582} |
22,747 | 22,405 | 56f7467aaef2371900625a95 | generic | Slavs are customarily divided along geographical lines into three major subgroups: West Slavs, East Slavs, and South Slavs, each with a different and a diverse background based on unique history, religion and culture of particular Slavic groups within them. Apart from prehistorical archaeological cultures, the subgroup... | The Slav subgroups have had notable cultural contact with what kind of civilisations? | {'text': 'non-Slavic Bronze- and Iron Age', 'answer_start': 361} |
88,997 | 88,655 | 5a83a43ee60761001a2eb844 | generic | The first ground attack came at the Battle of Umm Qasr on 21 March 2003 when a combined force of British, American and Polish forces seized control of the port city of Umm Qasr. Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American forces in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved. On 1 May 2003, Bush ann... | Who was captured in December 2006? | {'text': 'Saddam Hussein', 'answer_start': 930} |
115,069 | 114,727 | 5ad3ca9e604f3c001a3ff0da | generic | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | During what periods of time were the essays and address contained in "The Aims of Education and Other Essays" destroyed? | {'text': '1912 and 1927', 'answer_start': 193} |
89,434 | 89,092 | 5ad1664b645df0001a2d19bd | generic | For many years Labour held to a policy of not allowing residents of Northern Ireland to apply for membership, instead supporting the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) which informally takes the Labour whip in the House of Commons. The 2003 Labour Party Conference accepted legal advice that the party could not c... | When did the Labour Party Conference refuse legal advice? | {'text': '2003', 'answer_start': 243} |
116,286 | 115,944 | 5a567aca6349e2001acdcdaa | generic | As noted above, there are 55 tinkhundla in Swaziland and each elects one representative to the House of Assembly of Swaziland. Each inkhundla has a development committee (bucopho) elected from the various constituency chiefdoms in its area for a five-year term. Bucopho bring to the inkhundla all matters of interest and... | How many members are there of the House Assembly? | {'text': '55', 'answer_start': 26} |
41,599 | 41,257 | 570d7229b3d812140066d95b | generic | The economy began to recover in the early 1960s, and the city experienced explosive population growth through immigration spurred by the jobs created with the implementation of major urban projects and infrastructure improvements. With the advent of democracy in Spain, the ancient kingdom of Valencia was established as... | What law made Valencia the capital of its region? | {'text': 'Statute of Autonomy', 'answer_start': 375} |
14,246 | 13,904 | 5ace09cd32bba1001ae499ef | generic | The Government was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars (1917–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1978) and Council of Ministers–Government (1978–1991). The first government was headed by Vladimir Lenin as "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR" and the last by Boris Yeltsin... | What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1964? | {'text': "Council of People's Commissars", 'answer_start': 43} |
63,075 | 62,733 | 57269b9bdd62a815002e8af4 | generic | Under a front page headline "The Truth", the paper printed allegations provided to them that some fans picked the pockets of crushed victims, that others urinated on members of the emergency services as they tried to help and that some even assaulted a police constable "whilst he was administering the kiss of life to a... | What did the paper report that some fans did? | {'text': 'picked the pockets of crushed victims', 'answer_start': 103} |
62,783 | 62,441 | 5a6683dff038b7001ab0bf29 | generic | Lossless data compression algorithms usually exploit statistical redundancy to represent data without losing any information, so that the process is reversible. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistical redundancy. For example, an image may have areas of colour that do not chang... | What may have redundancy that does not change over several pixels? | {'text': 'an image', 'answer_start': 269} |
57,770 | 57,428 | 5726476ddd62a815002e804f | generic | Homo sapiens reached the region by around 45,000 years ago, having moved eastwards from the Indian subcontinent. Homo floresiensis also lived in the area up until 12,000 years ago, when they became extinct. Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, East Timor, a... | How long ago did the Homo floresiensis live before they became extinct? | {'text': '12,000 years ago', 'answer_start': 163} |
91,958 | 91,616 | 5728fb541d04691400778ef1 | generic | Immediately after the War The Saint-Germain-des-Pres quarter and the nearby Saint-Michel quarter became home to many small jazz clubs, mostly found in cellars because of a lack of space; these included the Caveau des Lorientais, the Club Saint-Germain, the Rose Rouge, the Vieux-Colombier, and the most famous, Le Tabou.... | Where were most jazz clubs located? | {'text': 'cellars', 'answer_start': 151} |
68,977 | 68,635 | 57271960708984140094d9af | generic | Camillo di Cavour, under orders of Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia, sent an expeditionary corps of 15,000 soldiers, commanded by General Alfonso La Marmora, to side with French and British forces during the war.:111–12 This was an attempt at gaining the favour of the French, especially when the issue of uniting... | Who commanded the soldiers sent by Camillo di Cavour? | {'text': 'General Alfonso La Marmora', 'answer_start': 137} |
42,561 | 42,219 | 570de0480dc6ce1900204ce2 | generic | Compared to children, adolescents are more likely to question others' assertions, and less likely to accept facts as absolute truths. Through experience outside the family circle, they learn that rules they were taught as absolute are in fact relativistic. They begin to differentiate between rules instituted out of com... | Is not dating until a certain age a common sense or culturally-relative standard? | {'text': 'culturally-relative', 'answer_start': 383} |
18,590 | 18,248 | 56e43df08c00841900fbaf62 | generic | Many of the coinages that have been considered (often by Aavik himself) as words concocted ex nihilo could well have been influenced by foreign lexical items, for example words from Russian, German, French, Finnish, English and Swedish. Aavik had a broad classical education and knew Ancient Greek, Latin and French. Con... | When was Aavik's dictionary published? | {'text': '1921', 'answer_start': 477} |
74,121 | 73,779 | 572a2fefaf94a219006aa871 | generic | New Haven was the subject of Who Governs? Democracy and Power in An American City, a very influential book in political science by preeminent Yale professor Robert A. Dahl, which includes an extensive history of the city and thorough description of its politics in the 1950s. New Haven's theocratic history is also menti... | What is the name of popular book discussing the politics of New Haven published in the 50s? | {'text': 'Democracy and Power in An American City', 'answer_start': 42} |
74,661 | 74,319 | 5a6fe5818abb0b001a676024 | generic | It was not until 9 June 1982, with the Circulaire sur la langue et la culture régionales en Alsace (Memorandum on regional language and culture in Alsace) issued by the Vice-Chancellor of the Académie Pierre Deyon, that the teaching of German in primary schools in Alsace really began to be given more official status. T... | How long did it take to introduce the Circulair Savary? | {'text': 'three years', 'answer_start': 430} |
117,135 | 116,793 | 5ad013b477cf76001a6868e8 | generic | The most prominent struggle for power was the conflict that erupted after the death of Yaroslav the Wise. The rivaling Principality of Polotsk was contesting the power of the Grand Prince by occupying Novgorod, while Rostislav Vladimirovich was fighting for the Black Sea port of Tmutarakan belonging to Chernihiv.[citat... | What country did the Grand Prince avoid? | {'text': 'Poland', 'answer_start': 703} |
21,980 | 21,638 | 5ad401b0604f3c001a3ffd25 | generic | In June 2009 the first major building work at the abbey for 250 years was proposed. A corona—a crown-like architectural feature—was intended to be built around the lantern over the central crossing, replacing an existing pyramidal structure dating from the 1950s. This was part of a wider £23m development of the abbey e... | Panter Hudspith refurbished a 13th-century foodstore into what? | {'text': 'a restaurant', 'answer_start': 692} |
3,731 | 3,389 | 56cee23caab44d1400b88be6 | generic | Because of the magnitude of the quake, and the media attention on China, foreign nations and organizations immediately responded to the disaster by offering condolences and assistance. On May 14, UNICEF reported that China formally requested the support of the international community to respond to the needs of affected... | What did UNICEF report? | {'text': 'that China formally requested the support of the international community', 'answer_start': 212} |
33,940 | 33,598 | 5709c0e6ed30961900e84463 | generic | A "grand", sometimes shortened to simply "G", is a common term for the amount of $1,000. The suffix "K" or "k" (from "kilo-") is also commonly used to denote this amount (such as "$10k" to mean $10,000). However, the $1,000 note is no longer in general use. A "large" or "stack", it is usually a reference to a multiple ... | What is another term other than "large" that means a stack of mutiple thousands? | {'text': '"stack"', 'answer_start': 271} |
62,614 | 62,272 | 572754b1f1498d1400e8f659 | generic | Organic cotton is generally understood as cotton from plants not genetically modified and that is certified to be grown without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers or pesticides. Its production also promotes and enhances biodiversity and biological cycles. In the United States, organic ... | What group in the US determines the allowed practices in organic agriculture? | {'text': 'National Organic Program', 'answer_start': 367} |
68,638 | 68,296 | 572706815951b619008f84d3 | generic | In the US, dietitians are registered (RD) or licensed (LD) with the Commission for Dietetic Registration and the American Dietetic Association, and are only able to use the title "dietitian," as described by the business and professions codes of each respective state, when they have met specific educational and experie... | What is the abbreviation for licensed dietitians in the US? | {'text': 'LD', 'answer_start': 55} |
20,682 | 20,340 | 56e7adfc37bdd419002c4322 | generic | In the 1960s, the first Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was completed, and served as the only bridge crossing over the Lower Yangtze in eastern China at that time. The bridge was a source of pride and an important symbol of modern China, having been built and designed by the Chinese themselves following failed surveys by ... | When was the very first Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge finished? | {'text': 'the 1960s', 'answer_start': 3} |
83,371 | 83,029 | 572814623acd2414000df3fa | generic | The German Renaissance has bequeathed the city some noteworthy buildings (especially the current Chambre de commerce et d'industrie, former town hall, on Place Gutenberg), as did the French Baroque and Classicism with several hôtels particuliers (i.e. palaces), among which the Palais Rohan (1742, now housing three muse... | Where is the Opera House located? | {'text': 'Place Broglie', 'answer_start': 843} |
45,063 | 44,721 | 5ad35f99604f3c001a3fdf11 | generic | By the late 2000s, Dell's "configure to order" approach of manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications from its US facilities was no longer as efficient or competitive with high-volume Asian contract manufacturers as PCs became powerful low-cost commodities. Dell closed plants that pro... | What decade did Dell's manufacturing process become more efficient? | {'text': 'late 2000s', 'answer_start': 7} |
24,353 | 24,011 | 56f815cea6d7ea1400e173a7 | generic | In the late 14th century, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great reformed the Grand Duchy's army: instead of calling all men to arms, he created forces comprising professional warriors—bajorai ("nobles"; see the cognate "boyar"). As there were not enough nobles, Vytautas trained suitable men, relieving the... | What names did the newly formed noble families take afteR? | {'text': 'Lithuanian pagan given names of their ennobled ancestors', 'answer_start': 551} |
65,098 | 64,756 | 5726b585708984140094ce8a | generic | The Gothic vault, unlike the semi-circular vault of Roman and Romanesque buildings, can be used to roof rectangular and irregularly shaped plans such as trapezoids. The other structural advantage is that the pointed arch channels the weight onto the bearing piers or columns at a steep angle. This enabled architects to ... | What type of visual character is achieved by using the pointed arch? | {'text': 'more vertical visual character', 'answer_start': 540} |
44,855 | 44,513 | 57101890b654c5140001f7d5 | generic | The SASO consists of 12 questions. Six of these questions assess sexual attraction, four assess sexual behavior, and two assess sexual orientation identity. For each question on the scale that measures homosexuality there is a corresponding question that measures heterosexuality giving six matching pairs of questions. ... | What do the other six questions asses? | {'text': 'four assess sexual behavior, and two assess sexual orientation identity', 'answer_start': 84} |
11,239 | 10,897 | 56de37c0cffd8e1900b4b684 | generic | The Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin in a vast empire based on Roman law and Roman legions. It promoted trade, tolerance, and Greek culture. By 300 AD the Roman Empire was divided into the Western Roman Empire based in Rome, and the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople. The attacks o... | Where was the headquarters of the Western Roman Empire? | {'text': 'Rome', 'answer_start': 247} |
104,277 | 103,935 | 5a7724182d6d7f001a4a9f31 | generic | At over 5 million, Puerto Ricans are easily the 2nd largest Hispanic group. Of all major Hispanic groups, Puerto Ricans are the least likely to be proficient in Spanish, but millions of Puerto Rican Americans living in the U.S. mainland nonetheless are fluent in Spanish. Puerto Ricans are natural-born U.S. citizens, an... | How many U.S. citizens are there? | {'text': 'over 5 million', 'answer_start': 3} |
24,786 | 24,444 | 56f8821eaef237190062613c | generic | Under extreme compressive stresses and pressure, marine sedimentary rocks were uplifted, creating characteristic recumbent folds, or nappes, and thrust faults. As the rising peaks underwent erosion, a layer of marine flysch sediments was deposited in the foreland basin, and the sediments became involved in younger napp... | What was uplifted from extreme compressive stresses and pressure? | {'text': 'marine sedimentary rocks', 'answer_start': 49} |
21,210 | 20,868 | 5ad26eb5d7d075001a4293fc | generic | The situation in Switzerland and Liechtenstein is different from the rest of the German-speaking countries. The Swiss German dialects are the default everyday language in virtually every situation, whereas standard German is seldom spoken. Some Swiss German speakers perceive standard German to be a foreign language. | Which language do some standard German speakers perceive to be foreign? | {'text': 'Swiss German', 'answer_start': 245} |
119,621 | 119,279 | 5731173ce6313a140071cc2e | generic | Since the end of the World Wars, the term "great power" has been joined by a number of other power classifications. Foremost among these is the concept of the superpower, used to describe those nations with overwhelming power and influence in the rest of the world. It was first coined in 1944 by William T.R. Fox and ac... | What are middle powers? | {'text': 'those nations which exercise a degree of global influence, but are insufficient to be decisive on international affairs', 'answer_start': 614} |
6,894 | 6,552 | 56d4a7a72ccc5a1400d83169 | generic | Although initially thought to have originated as a manmade variant of an extant canid species (variously supposed as being the dhole, golden jackal, or gray wolf), extensive genetic studies undertaken during the 2010s indicate that dogs diverged from an extinct wolf-like canid in Eurasia 40,000 years ago. Being the old... | Testing revealed today's dogs trace back by how many years? | {'text': '40,000', 'answer_start': 289} |
130,543 | 130,201 | 5a7db7f770df9f001a87508b | generic | Different fields of science use the term matter in different, and sometimes incompatible, ways. Some of these ways are based on loose historical meanings, from a time when there was no reason to distinguish mass and matter. As such, there is no single universally agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter". Scientif... | What speed does matter travel at in physics? | {'text': 'the speed of light', 'answer_start': 510} |
24,760 | 24,418 | 56f87739aef23719006260c4 | generic | The highest peaks of the Western Alps and Eastern Alps, respectively, are Mont Blanc, at 4,810 m (15,780 ft) and Piz Bernina at 4,049 metres (13,284 ft). The second-highest major peaks are Monte Rosa at 4,634 m (15,200 ft) and Ortler at 3,905 m (12,810 ft), respectively | The highest peak of the Western Alps is where? | {'text': 'Mont Blanc', 'answer_start': 74} |
84,503 | 84,161 | 5728341bff5b5019007d9ef2 | generic | In June 1970, Nasser accepted the US-sponsored Rogers Plan, which called for an end to hostilities and an Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory, but it was rejected by Israel, the PLO, and most Arab states except Jordan. Nasser had initially rejected the plan, but conceded under pressure from the Soviet Union, whi... | What did Nasser move to the canal zone? | {'text': 'SAM missiles', 'answer_start': 839} |
124,802 | 124,460 | 57324359b9d445190005e948 | generic | His parents set aside specific times at breakfast and at dinner for daily family Bible reading. Chores were regularly assigned and rotated among all the children, and misbehavior was met with unequivocal discipline, usually from David. His mother, previously a member (with David) of the River Brethren sect of the Menno... | What university did Eisenhower attend? | {'text': 'West Point', 'answer_start': 582} |
84,396 | 84,054 | 572822d04b864d1900164537 | generic | Opposition to the union mounted among some of Syria's key elements, namely the socioeconomic, political, and military elites. In response to Syria's worsening economy, which Nasser attributed to its control by the bourgeoisie, in July 1961, Nasser decreed socialist measures that nationalized wide-ranging sectors of the... | How was Syria's economy fairing under the arrangement? | {'text': 'worsening', 'answer_start': 149} |
73,017 | 72,675 | 5a871d531d3cee001a6a10da | generic | Primary resistance occurs when a person becomes infected with a resistant strain of TB. A person with fully susceptible MTB may develop secondary (acquired) resistance during therapy because of inadequate treatment, not taking the prescribed regimen appropriately (lack of compliance), or using low-quality medication. D... | What was first reported in Iran? | {'text': 'Totally drug-resistant TB', 'answer_start': 673} |
106,130 | 105,788 | 572f91f3a23a5019007fc77b | generic | In 144 BC Emperor Jing abolished private minting in favor of central-government and commandery-level minting; he also introduced a new coin. Emperor Wu introduced another in 120 BC, but a year later he abandoned the ban liangs entirely in favor of the wuzhu (五銖) coin, weighing 3.2 g (0.11 oz). The wuzhu became China's ... | Who introduced new coinage in the year of 120 BC? | {'text': 'Emperor Wu', 'answer_start': 141} |
38,434 | 38,092 | 5a6123a8e9e1cc001a33cfa7 | generic | Gymnasts sprint down a runway, which is a maximum of 25 meters in length, before hurdling onto a spring board. The gymnast is allowed to choose where they start on the runway. The body position is maintained while "punching" (blocking using only a shoulder movement) the vaulting platform. The gymnast then rotates to a ... | What is it called when gymnasts do routines with their team? | {'text': 'advanced gymnastics', 'answer_start': 342} |
61,828 | 61,486 | 5726872c5951b619008f75cd | generic | For most of its independent years, the country has been engrossed in rampant ethnic strife and Burma's myriad ethnic groups have been involved in one of the world's longest-running ongoing civil wars. During this time, the United Nations and several other organisations have reported consistent and systematic human righ... | Has the country been able to overcome the problems of government with the previous regime? | {'text': "Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a majority in both houses, ending military rule.", 'answer_start': 1034} |
15,495 | 15,153 | 56e03942231d4119001abfe9 | generic | Under the provisions of the 1833 India Act, control of Saint Helena was passed from the East India Company to the British Crown, becoming a crown colony. Subsequent administrative cost-cutting triggered the start of a long-term population decline whereby those who could afford to do so tended to leave the island for be... | During the latter half of the 19th century what ships became prevalent that weren't dependent on trade winds? | {'text': 'steam ships', 'answer_start': 404} |
78,977 | 78,635 | 5ad261c0d7d075001a42905b | generic | Female houses differed from male Dominican houses in a lack of apostolic work for the women. Instead, the sisters chanted the Divine Office and kept all the monastic observances. Their lives were often much more strict than their brothers' lives. The sisters had no government of their own, but lived under the authority... | Whose authority did the sisters not live under? | {'text': 'general and provincial chapters of the order', 'answer_start': 328} |
2,563 | 2,221 | 56d12adf17492d1400aabb2b | generic | After gaining the Master Sword, Link is cleansed of the magic that kept him in wolf form, obtaining the Shadow Crystal. Now able to use it to switch between both forms at will, Link is led by Midna to the Mirror of Twilight located deep within the Gerudo Desert, the only known gateway between the Twilight Realm and Hyr... | Who did Zant form a pact with? | {'text': 'Ganondorf', 'answer_start': 620} |
19,736 | 19,394 | 56e7784537bdd419002c3ff4 | generic | Originally, each branch and agency of the U.S. government was responsible for maintaining its own documents, which often resulted in records loss and destruction. Congress established the National Archives Establishment in 1934 to centralize federal record keeping, with the Archivist of the United States as chief admin... | What year was the National Archives Establishment established in? | {'text': '1934', 'answer_start': 223} |
106,521 | 106,179 | 572ecaddc246551400ce4694 | generic | Robert of Ketton's 1143 translation of the Quran for Peter the Venerable, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, was the first into a Western language (Latin). Alexander Ross offered the first English version in 1649, from the French translation of L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1647) by Andre du Ryer. In 1734, George Sale produced the fi... | Whose French translation of the Quran was the model for the first English version? | {'text': 'Andre du Ryer', 'answer_start': 269} |
36,565 | 36,223 | 570b2c16ec8fbc190045b8af | generic | Ancient tables provided the sun's mean longitude. Christopher Clavius, the architect of the Gregorian calendar, noted that the tables agreed neither on the time when the sun passed through the vernal equinox nor on the length of the mean tropical year. Tycho Brahe also noticed discrepancies. The Gregorian leap year rul... | What did the architects of the calendar notice about the astronomical tables? | {'text': 'discrepancies', 'answer_start': 278} |
77,985 | 77,643 | 5a5e50095bc9f4001a75aec6 | generic | Vaiśeṣika metaphysical premises are founded on a form of atomism, that the reality is composed of four substances (earth, water, air, fire). Each of these four are of two types: atomic (paramāṇu) and composite. An atom is, according to Vaiśeṣika scholars, that which is indestructible (anitya), indivisible, and has a sp... | What does Vaisesika teach is able to be destroyed? | {'text': 'An atom', 'answer_start': 211} |
48,885 | 48,543 | 571aa39d10f8ca1400305225 | generic | Marwan was succeeded by his son, Abd al-Malik (685–705), who reconsolidated Umayyad control of the caliphate. The early reign of Abd al-Malik was marked by the revolt of Al-Mukhtar, which was based in Kufa. Al-Mukhtar hoped to elevate Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, another son of Ali, to the caliphate, although Ibn al-Han... | In what year did Ibn al-Zubayr die? | {'text': '692', 'answer_start': 631} |
76,576 | 76,234 | 57277e3cf1498d1400e8f9b2 | generic | In Mark 15:25 crucifixion takes place at the third hour (9 a.m.) and Jesus' death at the ninth hour (3 p.m.). However, in John 19:14 Jesus is still before Pilate at the sixth hour. Scholars have presented a number of arguments to deal with the issue, some suggesting a reconciliation, e.g., based on the use of Roman tim... | What time was the crucifiction per Mark? | {'text': '9 a.m.', 'answer_start': 57} |
124,453 | 124,111 | 57324509e17f3d14004227ad | generic | The offices of elder and ministerial servant were restored to Witness congregations in 1972, with appointments made from headquarters (and later, also by branch committees). It was announced that, starting in September 2014, appointments would be made by traveling overseers. In a major organizational overhaul in 1976, ... | Who has been president of the Society since 2000? | {'text': 'Don A. Adams', 'answer_start': 662} |
47,116 | 46,774 | 571a23874faf5e1900b8a8ca | generic | Seattle is widely considered one of the most liberal cities in the United States, even surpassing its neighbor, Portland, Oregon. Support for issues such as same-sex marriage and reproductive rights are largely taken for granted in local politics. In the 2012 U.S. general election, an overwhelming majority of Seattleit... | How does Seattle compare in church attendance to the rest oF the US? | {'text': 'much lower', 'answer_start': 803} |
82,264 | 81,922 | 5727bf403acd2414000deb5b | generic | The best-known medieval Chinese name for Tibet is Tubo (Chinese: 吐蕃 also written as 土蕃 or 土番; pinyin: Tǔbō or Tǔfān). This name first appears in Chinese characters as 土番 in the 7th century (Li Tai) and as 吐蕃 in the 10th-century (Old Book of Tang describing 608–609 emissaries from Tibetan King Namri Songtsen to Emperor ... | What is the best-known medieval Chinese name for Tibet? | {'text': 'Tubo', 'answer_start': 50} |
20,479 | 20,137 | 56e782c737bdd419002c406a | generic | Nanjing, one of the nation's most important cities for over a thousand years, is recognized as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, and had been the world's largest city aggregately for hundreds of years, enjoyed peace and prosperity and beared wars and disasters. Nanjing served as the capital of Eastern Wu... | How many Great Ancient Capitals does China have? | {'text': 'Four', 'answer_start': 106} |
17,163 | 16,821 | 5a550cc6134fea001a0e1862 | generic | The Mogadishu-based Somali National Television is the principal national public service broadcaster. On March 18, 2011, the Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government began experimental broadcasts of the new TV channel. After a 20-year hiatus, the station was shortly thereafter officially re-launche... | How many national public service broadcasters does Somalia have? | {'text': 'Somali National Television', 'answer_start': 20} |
23,541 | 23,199 | 56f76011a6d7ea1400e17219 | generic | Articles 46–53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties set out the only ways that treaties can be invalidated—considered unenforceable and void under international law. A treaty will be invalidated due to either the circumstances by which a state party joined the treaty, or due to the content of the treaty itse... | A treaty might be considered what if it's considered unenforceable and void under international law? | {'text': 'invalidated', 'answer_start': 106} |
76,035 | 75,693 | 5727a5574b864d1900163940 | generic | He notes that both A. P. de Candolle and Charles Lyell had stated that all organisms are exposed to severe competition. Darwin emphasizes that he used the phrase "struggle for existence" in "a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another"; he gives examples ranging from plants struggling a... | What is the struggle that Darwin describes about population likened to? | {'text': 'doctrine of Malthus', 'answer_start': 484} |
353 | 11 | 56d43c5f2ccc5a1400d830ac | generic | Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biːˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group ... | When did Beyoncé release Dangerously in Love? | {'text': '2003', 'answer_start': 526} |
110,947 | 110,605 | 5ace7e1b32bba1001ae4a812 | generic | Unpopulated boards are usually bare-board tested for "shorts" and "opens". A short is a connection between two points that should not be connected. An open is a missing connection between points that should be connected. For high-volume production a fixture or a rigid needle adapter is used to make contact with copper ... | A long is a connection between what? | {'text': 'two points that should not be connected', 'answer_start': 107} |
58,554 | 58,212 | 57266bdd5951b619008f722d | generic | Parkson enters by acquiring local brand Centro Department Store in 2011. Centro still operates for middle market while the 'Parkson' brand itself, positioned for middle-up segment, enters in 2014 by opening its first store in Medan, followed by its second store in Jakarta. Lotte, meanwhile, enters the market by inking ... | What store did Parkson buy in 2011? | {'text': 'Centro Department Store', 'answer_start': 40} |
60,825 | 60,483 | 57268864f1498d1400e8e2fe | generic | In December 1941, Japan launched, in quick succession, attacks on British Malaya, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, and Hong Kong. Churchill's reaction to the entry of the United States into the war was that Britain was now assured of victory and the future of the empire was safe, but the manner in which Br... | When was the ANZUS Pact formed? | {'text': '1951', 'answer_start': 804} |
16,957 | 16,615 | 56e1039be3433e1400422aa9 | generic | The law of the Eastern Catholic Churches in full union with Rome was in much the same state as that of the Latin or Western Church before 1917; much more diversity in legislation existed in the various Eastern Catholic Churches. Each had its own special law, in which custom still played an important part. In 1929 Pius ... | When did Pius XI announce his goal of codifying the law of all Eastern Churches? | {'text': '1929', 'answer_start': 310} |
29,776 | 29,434 | 57060ece75f01819005e791b | generic | The first road connecting the city to the mainland at Pleasantville was completed in 1870 and charged a 30-cent toll. Albany Avenue was the first road to the mainland that was available without a toll. | The first road that connected Atlantic City to the mainland was completed in what year? | {'text': '1870', 'answer_start': 85} |
64,740 | 64,398 | 5ace34f132bba1001ae49e48 | generic | The University of Michigan shapes Ann Arbor's economy significantly. It employs about 30,000 workers, including about 12,000 in the medical center. Other employers are drawn to the area by the university's research and development money, and by its graduates. High tech, health services and biotechnology are other major... | What are the four major components of the city's economy? | {'text': 'High tech, health services and biotechnology', 'answer_start': 260} |
111,257 | 110,915 | 5ad27d83d7d075001a4296d2 | generic | In any case, Alexander's toppling of the Achaemenid Empire, after his victories at the battles of the Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, and his advance as far as modern-day Pakistan and Tajikistan, provided an important outlet for Greek culture, via the creation of colonies and trade routes along the way. While the Alexan... | What types of cities didn't the expansion of the great ruler inspire? | {'text': 'Hellenism', 'answer_start': 420} |
19,577 | 19,235 | 5a78bdcfb73996001af5aff3 | generic | RIBA is based at 66 Portland Place, London—a 1930s Grade II* listed building designed by architect George Grey Wornum with sculptures by Edward Bainbridge Copnall and James Woodford. Parts of the London building are open to the public, including the Library. It has a large architectural bookshop, a café, restaurant and... | Who destroyed RIBA's headquarters? | {'text': 'George Grey Wornum', 'answer_start': 99} |
89,238 | 88,896 | 5ad12607645df0001a2d0f6c | generic | The 1923 general election was fought on the Conservatives' protectionist proposals but, although they got the most votes and remained the largest party, they lost their majority in parliament, necessitating the formation of a government supporting free trade. Thus, with the acquiescence of Asquith's Liberals, Ramsay Ma... | Who got the least votes? | {'text': 'Conservatives', 'answer_start': 44} |
26,938 | 26,596 | 5ad3abec604f3c001a3feb97 | generic | In 1979, the Japanese state broadcaster NHK first developed consumer high-definition television with a 5:3 display aspect ratio. The system, known as Hi-Vision or MUSE after its Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding for encoding the signal, required about twice the bandwidth of the existing NTSC system but provided ab... | In what year did NHK first develop consumer SD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio? | {'text': '1979', 'answer_start': 3} |
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