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11,145 | 10,803 | 56de4a81cffd8e1900b4b7b7 | generic | A HDI of 0.8 or more is considered to represent "high development". This includes all developed countries, such as those in North America, Western Europe, Oceania, and Eastern Asia, as well as some developing countries in Eastern Europe, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and the oil-rich Arabian... | Which South American country was included among the seven promoted countries? | {'text': 'Brazil', 'answer_start': 448} |
49,114 | 48,772 | 5ace2eff32bba1001ae49d14 | generic | The terms asphalt and bitumen are often used interchangeably to mean both natural and manufactured forms of the substance. In American English, asphalt (or asphalt cement) is the carefully refined residue from the distillation process of selected crude oils. Outside the United States, the product is often called bitume... | Another way to say asphalt tar is to simply say what ? | {'text': 'asphalt', 'answer_start': 144} |
79,913 | 79,571 | 5727b73b4b864d1900163b26 | generic | The modern period of the kingdom of Galicia began with the murder or defeat of some of the most powerful Galician lords, such as Pedro Álvarez de Sotomayor, called Pedro Madruga, and Rodrigo Henriquez Osorio, at the hands of the Castilian armies sent to Galicia between the years 1480 and 1486. Isabella I of Castile, co... | Which Castillan ruler then consolidated control over Galicia? | {'text': 'Isabella I', 'answer_start': 295} |
25,646 | 25,304 | 56f9347d9e9bad19000a0804 | generic | 15th Street starts at FDR Drive, and 16th Street starts at a dead end half way between FDR Drive and Avenue C. They are both stopped at Avenue C and continue from First Avenue to West Street, stopped again at Union Square, and 16th Street also pauses at Stuyvesant Square. | Which road starts at a dead end half way between FDR Drive and Avenue C? | {'text': '16th Street', 'answer_start': 37} |
62,056 | 61,714 | 5728e91a4b864d1900165078 | generic | Under British administration, Myanmar was the second-wealthiest country in South-East Asia. It had been the world's largest exporter of rice. Myanmar also had a wealth of natural and labour resources. British Burma began exporting crude oil in 1853, making it one of the earliest petroleum producers in the world. It pro... | What notable quality made Burma stand out from other South East Asian countries ? | {'text': 'a highly literate population', 'answer_start': 358} |
35,718 | 35,376 | 5acd88dc07355d001abf4626 | generic | The Royal Navy is constructing two new larger STOVL aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth class, to replace the three now retired Invincible-class carriers. The ships are HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. They will be able to operate up to 40 aircraft on peace time operations with a tailored group of up to ... | Who is buying HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales? | {'text': 'Royal Navy', 'answer_start': 790} |
458 | 116 | 56bf8c8aa10cfb140055116c | generic | In July 2002, Beyoncé continued her acting career playing Foxxy Cleopatra alongside Mike Myers in the comedy film, Austin Powers in Goldmember, which spent its first weekend atop the US box office and grossed $73 million. Beyoncé released "Work It Out" as the lead single from its soundtrack album which entered the top ... | What large amount did the movie "Goldmember" gross? | {'text': '73 million', 'answer_start': 210} |
84,391 | 84,049 | 572821f44b864d1900164524 | generic | Relations between Nasser and Qasim grew increasingly bitter on 9 March, after Qasim's forces suppressed a rebellion in Mosul, launched a day earlier by a pro-Nasser Iraqi RCC officer backed by UAR authorities. Nasser had considered dispatching troops to aid his Iraqi sympathizers, but decided against it. He clamped dow... | What Iraqi leader clashed with Nasser? | {'text': 'Qasim', 'answer_start': 29} |
82,738 | 82,396 | 5727c2bf4b864d1900163cad | generic | Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. In... | Which great lake is Northwestern located along? | {'text': 'Lake Michigan', 'answer_start': 459} |
126,432 | 126,090 | 5a82057f31013a001a3350e5 | generic | Just as artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci – partaking of the zeitgeist though not himself a humanist – advocated study of human anatomy, nature, and weather to enrich Renaissance works of art, so Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (c. 1493–1540) advocated observation, craft, and practical techniques to improve t... | Who felt that the further examination and knowledge of studies in the arena of humanism could limit art? | {'text': 'Leonardo da Vinci', 'answer_start': 28} |
85,093 | 84,751 | 5a812b0331013a001a334bb8 | generic | Einstein showed in his thought experiments that people travelling at different speeds, while agreeing on cause and effect, measure different time separations between events, and can even observe different chronological orderings between non-causally related events. Though these effects are typically minute in the human... | Einstein showed how what could be altered by fixed particles? | {'text': 'both temporal and spatial dimensions', 'answer_start': 1109} |
74,880 | 74,538 | 57278e51f1498d1400e8fbf9 | generic | Carnival is known as Crop Over and is Barbados's biggest festival. Its early beginnings were on the sugar cane plantations during the colonial period. Crop over began in 1688, and featured singing, dancing and accompaniment by shak-shak, banjo, triangle, fiddle, guitar, bottles filled with water and bones. Other tradit... | What activity is done using a greased pole? | {'text': 'climbing', 'answer_start': 334} |
90,052 | 89,710 | 5ad411ad604f3c001a40020f | generic | Regular flights to most villages and towns within the state that are commercially viable are challenging to provide, so they are heavily subsidized by the federal government through the Essential Air Service program. Alaska Airlines is the only major airline offering in-state travel with jet service (sometimes in combi... | Which service denies government to subsidise regular air travel in Alaska? | {'text': 'Essential Air Service program', 'answer_start': 186} |
102,155 | 101,813 | 5731710105b4da19006bd18c | generic | Although theoretically a collegial body operating through consensus building, Gaddafi dominated the RCC, although some of the others attempted to constrain what they saw as his excesses. Gaddafi remained the government's public face, with the identities of the other RCC members only being publicly revealed on 10 Januar... | Along with the working class, what was the class background of RCC members? | {'text': 'middle', 'answer_start': 377} |
58,816 | 58,474 | 57265386708984140094c281 | generic | Trade secret misappropriation is different from violations of other intellectual property laws, since by definition trade secrets are secret, while patents and registered copyrights and trademarks are publicly available. In the United States, trade secrets are protected under state law, and states have nearly universal... | What US federal law protects trade secrets? | {'text': 'Economic Espionage Act', 'answer_start': 420} |
17,437 | 17,095 | 56e1784ee3433e1400422f69 | generic | Central Catalan is considered the standard pronunciation of the language. The descriptions below are mostly for this variety. For the differences in pronunciation of the different dialects, see the section pronunciation of dialects in this article. | Where do you look for the pronunciation of different dialects? | {'text': 'section pronunciation', 'answer_start': 198} |
39,144 | 38,802 | 5ad36134604f3c001a3fdf56 | generic | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nation's prime federal law enforcement organization. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI is concurrently a member of the U.S. Intellige... | What is under the jurisdiction of the FBI? | {'text': 'U.S. Department of Justice', 'answer_start': 242} |
11,986 | 11,644 | 56df61a08bc80c19004e4b77 | generic | On 27 April 1944 Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Plan for Plymouth to rebuild the bomb-damaged city was published; it called for demolition of the few remaining pre-War buildings in the city centre to make way for their replacement with wide, parallel, modern boulevards aligned east–west linked by a north–south avenue (Armad... | On what date was the publication of the Plan for Plymouth? | {'text': '27 April 1944', 'answer_start': 3} |
62,388 | 62,046 | 5aceb83132bba1001ae4b18b | generic | Prior to 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands which now make up the Arab world (excluding Israel). Of these, just under two-thirds lived in the French-controlled Maghreb region, 15–20% in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% in the Kingdom of Egypt and approximately 7% in the Kingdom of Yemen. A furt... | How many Jews lived in Arab world prior to 1948, including Israel? | {'text': '800,000', 'answer_start': 29} |
111,444 | 111,102 | 5ad29b99d7d075001a429bd2 | generic | In ancient times, the trading and colonizing activities of the Greek tribes and city states spread the Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, especially in Sicily and southern Italy (also known as Magna Grecia), Spain, the south of France and the Black sea coasts. Under Alex... | What helped to advance the Greek way of life inside its boarders? | {'text': 'trading and colonizing activities', 'answer_start': 22} |
118,576 | 118,234 | 57310d33e6313a140071cbb5 | generic | Compared to neighbouring countries, Namibia has a large degree of media freedom. Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country. The African Media... | Where was Namibia ranked on Press Freedom in 2013? | {'text': '19th', 'answer_start': 596} |
52,594 | 52,252 | 5726151f38643c19005acfc6 | generic | Widowed in 1861, the grief-stricken Queen withdrew from public life and left Buckingham Palace to live at Windsor Castle, Balmoral Castle and Osborne House. For many years the palace was seldom used, even neglected. In 1864, a note was found pinned to the fence of Buckingham Palace, saying: "These commanding premises t... | What did Queen Victoria do in response to his death? | {'text': 'left Buckingham Palace', 'answer_start': 72} |
82,347 | 82,005 | 5acfeb0477cf76001a6864aa | generic | Between 1346 and 1354, Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen toppled the Sakya and founded the Phagmodrupa Dynasty. The following 80 years saw the founding of the Gelug school (also known as Yellow Hats) by the disciples of Je Tsongkhapa, and the founding of the important Ganden, Drepung and Sera monasteries near Lhasa. However,... | Who dominated politics after 1453? | {'text': 'The minister family Rinpungpa', 'answer_start': 478} |
46,575 | 46,233 | 5acec09032bba1001ae4b2b3 | generic | Through the influence of the Eusebian faction at Constantinople, an Arian bishop, George of Cappadocia, was now appointed to rule the see of Alexandria. Athanasius, after remaining some days in the neighbourhood of the city, finally withdrew into the desert of Upper Egypt, where he remained for a period of six years, l... | Who wrote "Gratitude for his Flight"? | {'text': 'Alexandria', 'answer_start': 141} |
57,161 | 56,819 | 572697b35951b619008f7779 | generic | Napoleon continued to entertain a grand scheme to establish a French presence in the Middle East in order to put pressure on Britain and Russia, and perhaps form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire. In February 1806, Ottoman Emperor Selim III finally recognized Napoleon as Emperor. He also opted for an alliance with Fr... | In what year did Napoleon's Franco-Persian alliance end? | {'text': '1807', 'answer_start': 583} |
43,203 | 42,861 | 570dabef16d0071400510c92 | generic | At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found by Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans. It... | What possible link is represented by the hominid found in Eritrea? | {'text': 'hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans', 'answer_start': 264} |
40,017 | 39,675 | 570c4ce1b3d812140066d09b | generic | In 1173 John's elder brothers, backed by Eleanor, rose in revolt against Henry in the short-lived rebellion of 1173 to 1174. Growing irritated with his subordinate position to Henry II and increasingly worried that John might be given additional lands and castles at his expense, Henry the Young King travelled to Paris ... | Who returned to Brittany? | {'text': 'Geoffrey', 'answer_start': 753} |
81,827 | 81,485 | 5728c2302ca10214002da72c | generic | The effects of local surface low pressure are extremely limited because upper-level subsidence still continues to block any form of air ascent. Also, to be protected against rain-bearing weather systems by the atmospheric circulation itself, the desert is made even drier by his geographical configuration and location. ... | What is blocked due to local surface low pressure? | {'text': 'air ascent', 'answer_start': 132} |
26,186 | 25,844 | 56f8fb439b226e1400dd1228 | generic | The term "Near and Middle East," held the stage for a few years before World War I. It proved to be less acceptable to a colonial point of view that saw the entire region as one. In 1916 Captain T.C. Fowle, 40th Pathans (troops of British India), wrote of a trip he had taken from Karachi to Syria just before the war. T... | When did Captain T.C. Fowle write of a trip he had taken from Karachi to Syria? | {'text': '1916', 'answer_start': 182} |
57,449 | 57,107 | 5a63983668151a001a9223c1 | generic | Conflict between the Germanic tribes and the forces of Rome under Julius Caesar forced major Germanic tribes to retreat to the east bank of the Rhine. Roman emperor Augustus in 12 BC ordered the conquest of the Germans, but the catastrophic Roman defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest resulted in the Roman Empire... | What identity did Roman culture form? | {'text': 'a common German identity', 'answer_start': 893} |
56,817 | 56,475 | 572692035951b619008f76f5 | generic | In addition, the city has about 160 museums—the world's greatest single metropolitan concentration —over 100 art galleries, and some 30 concert halls, all of which maintain a constant cultural activity during the whole year. It has either the third or fourth-highest number of theatres in the world after New York, Londo... | How many museums are in Mexico City? | {'text': 'about 160', 'answer_start': 26} |
109,713 | 109,371 | 5a8c2e86fd22b3001a8d8608 | 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 ... | What is a DBMS designed to avoid? | {'text': 'the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases', 'answer_start': 218} |
74,298 | 73,956 | 572b91a4f75d5e190021fe4a | generic | New Haven was the host of the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games; then-President Bill Clinton spoke at the opening ceremonies. The city is home to the Pilot Pen International tennis event, which takes place every August at the Connecticut Tennis Center, one of the largest tennis venues in the world. New Haven bia... | What year did New Haven became a host for the Specials Olympics? | {'text': '1995', 'answer_start': 30} |
15,459 | 15,117 | 56e02f6f7aa994140058e31b | generic | Between January and May 1673, the Dutch East India Company forcibly took the island, before English reinforcements restored English East India Company control. The company experienced difficulty attracting new immigrants, and sentiments of unrest and rebellion fomented among the inhabitants. Ecological problems, includ... | How many slaves were on the island in 1723? | {'text': '610', 'answer_start': 634} |
34,007 | 33,665 | 5a8cfc17fd22b3001a8d90ca | generic | The value of the U.S. dollar was therefore no longer anchored to gold, and it fell upon the Federal Reserve to maintain the value of the U.S. currency. The Federal Reserve, however, continued to increase the money supply, resulting in stagflation and a rapidly declining value of the U.S. dollar in the 1970s. This was l... | How much value did the Federal Reserve lose between 1965 and 1981? | {'text': 'two thirds', 'answer_start': 545} |
33,833 | 33,491 | 5709aab4ed30961900e843f0 | generic | The symbol $, usually written before the numerical amount, is used for the U.S. dollar (as well as for many other currencies). The sign was the result of a late 18th-century evolution of the scribal abbreviation "ps" for the peso, the common name for the Spanish dollars that were in wide circulation in the New World fr... | In which region of the world were the Spanish pesos minted? | {'text': 'Spanish America', 'answer_start': 401} |
16,610 | 16,268 | 5acd35ea07355d001abf3964 | generic | On 2 November 2006, China announced that from 2008 BeiDou would offer an open service with an accuracy of 10 meters, timing of 0.2 microseconds, and speed of 0.2 meters/second.[citation needed] | China would offer a closed service with an accuracy of what? | {'text': '10 meters', 'answer_start': 106} |
50,407 | 50,065 | 572503ad0ba9f01400d97c31 | generic | The majority of Freemasonry considers the Liberal (Continental) strand to be Irregular, and thus withhold recognition. For the Continental lodges, however, having a different approach to Freemasonry was not a reason for severing masonic ties. In 1961, an umbrella organisation, Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Pui... | What are two major sections of Freemasonry? | {'text': 'Anglo-American and Continental', 'answer_start': 816} |
100,752 | 100,410 | 572c9ce2750c471900ed4cb6 | generic | By 1960 African Americans comprised 16.45% of the state's population. It was not until after the mid-1960s and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that they were able to vote in full again, but new devices, such as at-large commission city governments, had been adopted in several jurisdictions to limit their polit... | Which Republican Senator's 1970 victory showed the Republican Party's renewed competitiveness in Tennessee? | {'text': 'Bill Brock', 'answer_start': 387} |
37,859 | 37,517 | 5a8cb54afd22b3001a8d8d88 | generic | A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa. "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single... | What said that the most threatened ecosystems are found in France? | {'text': 'Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005', 'answer_start': 417} |
41,828 | 41,486 | 5acebf2832bba1001ae4b29a | generic | After the war, though, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates and disbanded in a reflection of the republican distrust of standing armies. State militias became the new nation's sole ground army, with the exception of a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West ... | Who did the state militia have an ongoing peace treaty with? | {'text': 'Native Americans', 'answer_start': 382} |
125,093 | 124,751 | 57327493e99e3014001e67c0 | generic | On May 1, 1960, a U.S. one-man U-2 spy plane was reportedly shot down at high altitude over Soviet Union airspace. The flight was made to gain photo intelligence before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit conference, which had been scheduled in Paris, 15 days later. Captain Francis Gary Powers had bailed out o... | When was a U-2 downed over the Soviet Union? | {'text': 'May 1, 1960', 'answer_start': 3} |
96,170 | 95,828 | 5acd1b2407355d001abf354e | generic | In the context of chemistry, energy is an attribute of a substance as a consequence of its atomic, molecular or aggregate structure. Since a chemical transformation is accompanied by a change in one or more of these kinds of structure, it is invariably accompanied by an increase or decrease of energy of the substances ... | What is the certainty of molecule to have energy greater than or equal to E at the given temperature T? | {'text': 'e−E/kT', 'answer_start': 961} |
13,821 | 13,479 | 5a29962d03c0e7001a3e17f7 | generic | Contributions from governments and the private sector to UNFPA in 2014 exceeded $1 billion. The amount includes $477 million to the organization’s core resources and $529 million earmarked for specific programs and initiatives. | What was the amount taken away from UNFPA's core resources? | {'text': '$477 million', 'answer_start': 112} |
97,863 | 97,521 | 572a74b727b69114009ef5d1 | generic | al-Qarawīyīn University in Fez, Morocco is recognised by many historians as the oldest degree-granting university in the world, having been founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri. While the madrasa college could also issue degrees at all levels, the jāmiʻahs (such as al-Qarawīyīn and al-Azhar University) differed in the sen... | What religious buildings were housed inside al-Qarawiyin University? | {'text': 'mosques', 'answer_start': 497} |
88,764 | 88,422 | 572871812ca10214002da366 | generic | The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical western philosophy, transcends bodily form. Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually. In most monot... | What is God's role in the creation of the world? | {'text': 'begetter', 'answer_start': 595} |
95,277 | 94,935 | 5a2c6cb2bfd06b001a5aeb77 | generic | The Croatian Latin alphabet (Gajica) followed suit shortly afterwards, when Ljudevit Gaj defined it as standard Latin with five extra letters that had diacritics, apparently borrowing much from Czech, but also from Polish, and inventing the unique digraphs "lj", "nj" and "dž". These digraphs are represented as "ļ, ń an... | How did Ljudevit Gaj define the Cyrillic alphabet? | {'text': 'standard Latin', 'answer_start': 103} |
51,441 | 51,099 | 57261f2fec44d21400f3d92e | generic | Developments in painting included experiments in chiaroscuro by Zeuxis and the development of landscape painting and still life painting. Greek temples built during the Hellenistic period were generally larger than classical ones, such as the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the temple of Artemis at Sardis, and the temple... | What is a Greek royal palace called? | {'text': 'basileion', 'answer_start': 393} |
11,965 | 11,623 | 56df5e858bc80c19004e4b41 | generic | The Lord Mayor's official residence is 3 Elliot Terrace, located on the Hoe. Once a home of Waldorf and Nancy Astor, it was given by Lady Astor to the City of Plymouth as an official residence for future Lord Mayors and is also used today for civic hospitality, as lodgings for visiting dignitaries and High Court judges... | What did Plymouth council estimate the cost to refurbish the Civic Centre municipal office building to be? | {'text': '£40m', 'answer_start': 628} |
97,634 | 97,292 | 5a0e06e9d7c85000188644f4 | generic | Proper nutrition is important for health and functioning, including the prevention of infectious diarrhea. It is especially important to young children who do not have a fully developed immune system. Zinc deficiency, a condition often found in children in developing countries can, even in mild cases, have a significan... | How many preschool children worldwide are zinc deficient? | {'text': '127 million', 'answer_start': 1082} |
89,039 | 88,697 | 5a85e66bb4e223001a8e729c | generic | On 12 January 2002, Musharraf gave a speech against Islamic extremism. He unequivocally condemned all acts of terrorism and pledged to combat Islamic extremism and lawlessness within Pakistan itself. He stated that his government was committed to rooting out extremism and made it clear that the banned militant organiza... | When were the militant organizations banned? | {'text': '12 January 2002', 'answer_start': 3} |
68,489 | 68,147 | 5726b2725951b619008f7add | generic | Sometimes overlooked during his life, James Lind, a physician in the British navy, performed the first scientific nutrition experiment in 1747. Lind discovered that lime juice saved sailors that had been at sea for years from scurvy, a deadly and painful bleeding disorder. Between 1500 and 1800, an estimated two millio... | When was the first nutrition experiment performed? | {'text': '1747', 'answer_start': 138} |
42,883 | 42,541 | 5ad25a9ed7d075001a428e3c | generic | Antarctica is the coldest of Earth's continents. The coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at the Soviet (now Russian) Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983. For comparison, this is 10.7 °C (20 °F) colder than subliming dry ice at one atmosphere of partial pressure, but sinc... | What relflects most of the light falling on it? | {'text': 'snow', 'answer_start': 822} |
63,550 | 63,208 | 5acf613977cf76001a684cea | generic | There is an extensive network of caves, including Wookey Hole, underground rivers, and gorges, including the Cheddar Gorge and Ebbor Gorge. The county has many rivers, including the Axe, Brue, Cary, Parrett, Sheppey, Tone and Yeo. These both feed and drain the flat levels and moors of mid and west Somerset. In the nort... | Where does the Axe river flow into? | {'text': 'Bristol Avon', 'answer_start': 366} |
112,006 | 111,664 | 5733f6204776f419006615c9 | generic | The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments". Starting with the 2013–14 season, these payments are in excess of £60 million over four seasons. Though designed to help teams adjust to the loss of television revenues (th... | To which type of team are parachute payments distributed to in the Premier League? | {'text': 'relegated', 'answer_start': 85} |
63,951 | 63,609 | 5ad3ddcb604f3c001a3ff442 | generic | In 1966, Yale began discussions with its sister school Vassar College about merging to foster coeducation at the undergraduate level. Vassar, then all-female and part of the Seven Sisters—elite higher education schools that historically served as sister institutions to the Ivy League when the Ivy League still only admi... | Who was the last undergraduate woman at Yale? | {'text': 'Amy Solomon', 'answer_start': 444} |
113,215 | 112,873 | 57301f43b2c2fd14005688cb | generic | San Diego hosts several major producers of wireless cellular technology. Qualcomm was founded and is headquartered in San Diego, and is one of the largest private-sector employers in San Diego. Other wireless industry manufacturers headquartered here include Nokia, LG Electronics, Kyocera International., Cricket Commun... | What sector does ESET fall under? | {'text': 'security', 'answer_start': 495} |
8,991 | 8,649 | 56ddc9d49a695914005b95cf | generic | In an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No. 02 C 3293, 65 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 673 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2004), a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, perhaps for the first time. Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and Ech... | Which judge denied Telewizja Polska's attempt to block the use of Internet Archive contents as evidence? | {'text': 'Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys', 'answer_start': 645} |
116,862 | 116,520 | 573094c48ab72b1400f9c5c2 | generic | There are a number of aids available to pilots, though not all airports are equipped with them. A visual approach slope indicator (VASI) helps pilots fly the approach for landing. Some airports are equipped with a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) to help pilots find the direction to the airport. VORs are often accompani... | What instruments do pilots use to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground? | {'text': 'instrument landing system', 'answer_start': 540} |
90,263 | 89,921 | 5ad23a10d7d075001a428842 | generic | Karl Popper's rejection of Marxism during his teenage years left a profound mark on his thought. He had at one point joined a socialist association, and for a few months in 1919 considered himself a communist. During this time he became familiar with the Marxist view of economics, class-war, and history. Although he qu... | How did Popper's rejection of Marxism in his adult years effect him? | {'text': 'left a profound mark on his thought', 'answer_start': 60} |
11,103 | 10,761 | 5ad0d219645df0001a2d0516 | generic | Some countries were not included for various reasons, mainly the unavailability of certain crucial data. The following United Nations Member States were not included in the 2010 report. Cuba lodged a formal protest at its lack of inclusion. The UNDP explained that Cuba had been excluded due to the lack of an "internati... | What ranking has Cuba been given since the situation with the complete data was addressed? | {'text': 'High Human Development country', 'answer_start': 650} |
77,055 | 76,713 | 5a8c7b39fd22b3001a8d88dd | generic | The collation of all known variants of a text is referred to as a variorum, namely a work of textual criticism whereby all variations and emendations are set side by side so that a reader can track how textual decisions have been made in the preparation of a text for publication. The Bible and the works of William Shak... | What is it called when the variations are texts are read separately? | {'text': 'variorum', 'answer_start': 66} |
6,694 | 6,352 | 56d384e559d6e4140014660b | generic | The show had been criticized in earlier seasons over the onerous contract contestants had to sign that gave excessive control to 19 Entertainment over their future career, and handed a large part of their future earnings to the management. | What company are contestants required to sign a contract with on American Idol? | {'text': '19 Entertainment', 'answer_start': 129} |
10,324 | 9,982 | 56df50f88bc80c19004e4a67 | generic | Indoor lighting is usually accomplished using light fixtures, and is a key part of interior design. Lighting can also be an intrinsic component of landscape projects. | What can be used as a intrinsic component of landscape projects? | {'text': 'lighting', 'answer_start': 7} |
125,170 | 124,828 | 5732833db9988014000c7652 | generic | Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only 70 miles from his ancestral home in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In 1967 the Eisenhowers donated the farm to the National Park Service. ... | What town did Eisenhower retire to after his presidency? | {'text': 'Gettysburg', 'answer_start': 136} |
53,835 | 53,493 | 57266f71dd62a815002e84bb | generic | In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Yea... | Who did the Cubs meet in the NLCS during 1989? | {'text': 'San Francisco Giants', 'answer_start': 439} |
96,786 | 96,444 | 572a4f691d046914007798f1 | generic | The economic structure of the Empire was defined by its geopolitical structure. The Ottoman Empire stood between the West and the East, thus blocking the land route eastward and forcing Spanish and Portuguese navigators to set sail in search of a new route to the Orient. The Empire controlled the spice route that Marco... | What serviced as the foundation for the structure of the economy of the Ottoman empire? | {'text': 'its geopolitical structure', 'answer_start': 52} |
38,727 | 38,385 | 570c3bad6b8089140040fc4a | generic | The club's original crest was a quartered diamond-shaped crest topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a palm. In 1910 the club held a competition among its members to design a new crest. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time ... | When was a competition held to produce a team crest? | {'text': '1910', 'answer_start': 198} |
2,638 | 2,296 | 56cd9ed662d2951400fa6784 | generic | The team worked on a Wii control scheme, adapting camera control and the fighting mechanics to the new interface. A prototype was created that used a swinging gesture to control the sword from a first-person viewpoint, but was unable to show the variety of Link's movements. When the third-person view was restored, Aonu... | How long was the GameCube version of Twilight Princess delayed? | {'text': 'a month', 'answer_start': 1152} |
122,782 | 122,440 | 5ad145bb645df0001a2d14cc | generic | The court noted that it "is a matter of history that this very practice of establishing governmentally composed prayers for religious services was one of the reasons which caused many of our early colonists to leave England and seek religious freedom in America." The lone dissenter, Justice Potter Stewart, objected to ... | What wasn't one of the reasons early colonists left England to seek religious freedom in America? | {'text': 'governmentally composed prayers for religious services', 'answer_start': 88} |
32,020 | 31,678 | 570971cb200fba1400368005 | generic | Copper has been in use at least 10,000 years, but more than 95% of all copper ever mined and smelted has been extracted since 1900, and more than half was extracted in only the last 24 years. As with many natural resources, the total amount of copper on Earth is vast (around 1014 tons just in the top kilometer of Earth... | How much of mined cooper has been extracted in the last 24 years? | {'text': 'more than half', 'answer_start': 136} |
104,337 | 103,995 | 572eb7eddfa6aa1500f8d309 | generic | Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States. Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela, only to later migrate to the United States along with their children and grandchildren who born and/or ... | When did the Venezuelans emigrate to the united states? | {'text': 'Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States.', 'answer_start': 0} |
50,051 | 49,709 | 5725231f0a492a190043570c | generic | By 1836, the Duchess's brother, Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry his niece to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold, Victoria's mother, and Albert's father (Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) were siblings. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite... | Prince Alexander was the second son of whom? | {'text': 'Prince of Orange', 'answer_start': 572} |
21,176 | 20,834 | 5ad26b1ed7d075001a42933e | generic | Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between "language" and "dialect" an issue of great political importance. A group speaking a separate "language" is often seen as having a greater claim to being a separate "people", and thus to be more deserving of its own... | What can the distinction between regional autonomy and the French Revolution lead to? | {'text': 'political controversy, or even armed conflict.', 'answer_start': 693} |
101,265 | 100,923 | 572e8567cb0c0d14000f1236 | generic | At the beginning of a match, an official tosses a coin and allows the captain of the visiting team call heads or tails. The captain of the team winning the coin toss is given the option of having first choice, or of deferring first choice to the other captain. The captain making first choice may either choose a) to kic... | Which team calls heads or tails in the coin flip before a CFL game? | {'text': 'visiting', 'answer_start': 85} |
124,860 | 124,518 | 573247b6b9d445190005e99c | generic | His primary duty was planning for the next war, which proved most difficult in the midst of the Great Depression. He then was posted as chief military aide to General MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. In 1932, he participated in the clearing of the Bonus March encampment in Washington, D.C. Although he was against the ac... | What sort of people did the Bonus March consist of? | {'text': 'veterans', 'answer_start': 344} |
4,265 | 3,923 | 56cfad77234ae51400d9be5d | generic | More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city, and the publishing industry employs about 25,000 people. Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journal... | How many people work in the New York publishing industry? | {'text': '25,000', 'answer_start': 122} |
71,505 | 71,163 | 5726d89c708984140094d349 | generic | A capacitor (originally known as a condenser) is a passive two-terminal electrical component used to store electrical energy temporarily in an electric field. The forms of practical capacitors vary widely, but all contain at least two electrical conductors (plates) separated by a dielectric (i.e. an insulator that can ... | What was a capacitor originally known as? | {'text': 'a condenser', 'answer_start': 33} |
72,338 | 71,996 | 572a2eb21d04691400779827 | generic | A new Digimon series was announced 30 months after the end of Digimon Fusion at a 15th anniversary concert and theater event for the franchise in August 2014. The series announced the return of the protagonists from the original Digimon Adventure series, most of them now as high school students. A countdown clicking ga... | How long after Digimon Fusion was a new series announced? | {'text': '30 months', 'answer_start': 35} |
130,492 | 130,150 | 5a6bb9624eec6b001a80a539 | generic | People with an acute coronary syndrome where no ST elevation is demonstrated (non-ST elevation ACS or NSTEACS) are treated with aspirin. Clopidogrel is added in many cases, particularly if the risk of cardiovascular events is felt to be high and early PCI is being considered. Depending on whether early PCI is planned, ... | What is NSTEACS an abbreviation for? | {'text': 'no ST elevation', 'answer_start': 45} |
74,524 | 74,182 | 5a6fc41b8abb0b001a675f7c | generic | Holy Roman Empire central power had begun to decline following years of imperial adventures in Italian lands, often ceding hegemony in Western Europe to France, which had long since centralized power. France began an aggressive policy of expanding eastward, first to the rivers Rhône and Meuse, and when those borders we... | When was Alsace charted by the Counts? | {'text': '1307', 'answer_start': 552} |
117,913 | 117,571 | 5731085a05b4da19006bccf7 | generic | Another important building is the falekaupule or maneapa the traditional island meeting hall, where important matters are discussed and which is also used for wedding celebrations and community activities such as a fatele involving music, singing and dancing. Falekaupule is also used as the name of the council of elder... | Besides meetings, for what other use is the meeting hall used? | {'text': 'celebrations', 'answer_start': 167} |
6,479 | 6,137 | 56d37a4159d6e414001464cc | generic | There were 13 finalists this season, but two were eliminated in the first result show of the finals. A new feature introduced was the "Judges' Save", and Matt Giraud was saved from elimination at the top seven by the judges when he received the fewest votes. The next week, Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai were eliminated. | Who was the first contestant to benefit from the Judges Save? | {'text': 'Matt Giraud', 'answer_start': 154} |
84,972 | 84,630 | 5a7dfc8570df9f001a8753d0 | generic | The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy dating back to the late 2nd millennium BC, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4,320 million years. Ancient Greek philosophers, including... | In what year did Plato write Book IV of his Physica? | {'text': '2nd millennium BC', 'answer_start': 96} |
75,572 | 75,230 | 572793615951b619008f8ded | generic | In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state, in which one-third of the population was enslaved. This was a smaller proportion than in many Southern states. The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister state, South Carolina, becoming the last or second-to... | What fraction of the population of North Carolina was enslaved in 1860? | {'text': 'one-third', 'answer_start': 52} |
122,942 | 122,600 | 5ad14c25645df0001a2d163c | generic | Steven Waldman notes that; "The evangelicals provided the political muscle for the efforts of Madison and Jefferson, not merely because they wanted to block official churches but because they wanted to keep the spiritual and secular worlds apart." "Religious freedom resulted from an alliance of unlikely partners," writ... | What did Deists and skeptics join together to fight against? | {'text': 'complete separation of church and state.', 'answer_start': 580} |
37,466 | 37,124 | 5a5a21359c0277001abe7048 | generic | In the late 1960s, the term heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock, but gradually began to be used to describe music played with even more volume and intensity. While hard rock maintained a bluesy rock and roll identity, including some swing in the back beat and riffs that tended to outline chord progressi... | Which term was never used interchangeably with hard rock? | {'text': 'heavy metal', 'answer_start': 28} |
71,258 | 70,916 | 5ad280c1d7d075001a4297d0 | generic | Soviet propaganda and representatives went to great lengths to minimize the importance of the fact that they had opposed and fought against the Nazis in various ways for a decade prior to signing the Pact. Upon signing the pact, Molotov tried to reassure the Germans of his good intentions by commenting to journalists t... | A war with the USSR was considered uncertain according to whom? | {'text': 'Hitler', 'answer_start': 474} |
39,289 | 38,947 | 570c33ab6b8089140040fc25 | generic | Carnivore was an electronic eavesdropping software system implemented by the FBI during the Clinton administration; it was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. After prolonged negative coverage in the press, the FBI changed the name of its system from "Carnivore" to "DCS1000." DCS is reported to sta... | When did the FBI abandon Carnivore? | {'text': '2001', 'answer_start': 510} |
44,087 | 43,745 | 5a2205ce819328001af389be | generic | The earliest recorded account of a circadian process dates from the 4th century B.C.E., when Androsthenes, a ship captain serving under Alexander the Great, described diurnal leaf movements of the tamarind tree. The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to a... | What was first described in medical texts during the 1300s? | {'text': 'diurnal process in humans', 'answer_start': 246} |
18,420 | 18,078 | 5acd312207355d001abf38a5 | generic | From 1525 to 1917 14,503 titles were published in Estonian, as opposed to the 23,868 titles which were published between 1918 and 1940.[citation needed] | How many Estonian books were published after 1917 through today? | {'text': '14,503', 'answer_start': 18} |
26,481 | 26,139 | 56f98bf79b226e1400dd1554 | generic | Ningbo, Wenzhou, Taizhou and Zhoushan are important commercial ports. The Hangzhou Bay Bridge between Haiyan County and Cixi, is the longest bridge over a continuous body of sea water in the world. | What is an important commercial port along with Ningbo, Wenzhou and Taizhou? | {'text': 'Zhoushan', 'answer_start': 29} |
49,936 | 49,594 | 572663fbf1498d1400e8ddfd | generic | Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided. On 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. In her diary she wrote, "I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got ... | Who came to tell Victoria that she was to be Queen of the United Kingdom? | {'text': 'Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham', 'answer_start': 238} |
19,844 | 19,502 | 56e78b7a37bdd419002c40fd | generic | The National Archives Building in downtown Washington holds record collections such as all existing federal census records, ships' passenger lists, military unit records from the American Revolution to the Philippine–American War, records of the Confederate government, the Freedmen's Bureau records, and pension and lan... | Where is the National Archives Building located? | {'text': 'downtown Washington', 'answer_start': 34} |
19,302 | 18,960 | 56e7560200c9c71400d76fd1 | generic | The 2011 declaration by Russia that it would not turn its clocks back and stay in DST all year long was subsequently followed by a similar declaration from Belarus. The plan generated widespread complaints due to the dark of wintertime morning, and thus was abandoned in 2014. The country changed its clocks to Standard ... | What country other than Russia declared they'd stay in DST all year? | {'text': 'Belarus', 'answer_start': 156} |
1,465 | 1,123 | 56d34dea59d6e414001462b3 | generic | At the funeral of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit in Paris in 1839, Chopin made a rare appearance at the organ, playing a transcription of Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne. On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate the te... | What was the dress rehearsal for? | {'text': "Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale", 'answer_start': 240} |
18,329 | 17,987 | 56e3a636e375b8140053a3cd | generic | Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities. It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. | In Estonia how many people speak Estonian as their native language | {'text': '1.1 million', 'answer_start': 109} |
1,054 | 712 | 56d4f6e02ccc5a1400d833a1 | generic | In 2005, Beyoncé teamed up with House of Brands, a shoe company, to produce a range of footwear for House of Deréon. In January 2008, Starwave Mobile launched Beyoncé Fashion Diva, a "high-style" mobile game with a social networking component, featuring the House of Deréon collection. In July 2009, Beyoncé and her moth... | Who did Beyoncé team up with in 2010 to get her fashions into Brazil? | {'text': 'C&A', 'answer_start': 690} |
82,842 | 82,500 | 5727e7f83acd2414000def75 | generic | In Fall 2008, Northwestern opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar, joining five other American universities: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication, NU-... | What branch did Northwestern open in Education City, Doha, Qatar? | {'text': 'NU-Q', 'answer_start': 317} |
54,657 | 54,315 | 5726dd035951b619008f804e | generic | In its 2011 report, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs, the BSA stated: "Over half of the world's personal computer users – 57 percent – admit to pirating software." The ninth annual "BSA Global Software Piracy Study" claims that the "commercial value of this shadow market of pirated software" w... | What percentage of people admit to pirating software? | {'text': '57 percent', 'answer_start': 148} |
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