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28,097 | 27,755 | 56fb7af18ddada1400cd6447 | generic | Jews also spread across Europe during the period. Communities were established in Germany and England in the 11th and 12th centuries, but Spanish Jews, long settled in Spain under the Muslims, came under Christian rule and increasing pressure to convert to Christianity. Most Jews were confined to the cities, as they we... | What religion were Spanish Jews pressured into converting to? | {'text': 'Christianity', 'answer_start': 257} |
8,021 | 7,679 | 56dc6b3914d3a41400c2688d | generic | Germany has a comprehensive school known as the Gesamtschule. While some German schools such as the Gymnasium and the Realschule have rather strict entrance requirements, the Gesamtschule does not have such requirements. They offer college preparatory classes for the students who are doing well, general education class... | What type of school is the Gesamtschule? | {'text': 'comprehensive', 'answer_start': 14} |
128,244 | 127,902 | 5ad28599d7d075001a4298b7 | generic | Sporadic use of the term for some of the subject matter occurred subsequently, such as the use by Étienne Serres in 1838 to describe the natural history, or paleontology, of man, based on comparative anatomy, and the creation of a chair in anthropology and ethnography in 1850 at the National Museum of Natural History (... | Where was a chair in anthropology and ethnography created in 1838? | {'text': 'National Museum of Natural History', 'answer_start': 284} |
44,817 | 44,475 | 57100e4da58dae1900cd682f | generic | Most definitions of sexual orientation include a psychological component, such as the direction of an individual's erotic desires, or a behavioral component, which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s. Some people prefer simply to follow an individual's self-definition or identity. Scientific and pro... | When do scientists and professions agree that sexual orientation shows in a person? | {'text': 'typically emerge between middle childhood and early adolescence', 'answer_start': 423} |
75,632 | 75,290 | 5727aabd3acd2414000de936 | generic | North Carolina is home to three major league sports franchises: the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League and the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association are based in Charlotte, while the Raleigh-based Carolina Hurricanes play in the National Hockey League. The Panthers and Hurricanes are t... | The Caroli8na panthers belong to what league? | {'text': 'National Football League', 'answer_start': 93} |
25,029 | 24,687 | 56f8cf5e9e9bad19000a0564 | generic | Food is passed from the kitchen to the stube, where the dining room table is placed. Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into. Other meals are still served in a traditional manner on carved wooden plates. Furniture has been traditionally elaborat... | The food is passed from the kitchen to where? | {'text': 'the stube', 'answer_start': 35} |
86,056 | 85,714 | 5ad33f9a604f3c001a3fdbcb | generic | Sony have since launched their budget range of PlayStation 3 titles, known as the Greatest Hits range in North America, the Platinum range in Europe and Australia and The Best range in Japan. Among the titles available in the budget range include Resistance: Fall of Man, MotorStorm, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Rainbow S... | What's Sony's budget line of PS2 games called in Japan? | {'text': 'The Best', 'answer_start': 167} |
31,681 | 31,339 | 570a946c6d058f1900182fc5 | generic | According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2); this comprises 634.0 square miles (1,642 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) of water. The Piney Woods is north of Houston. Most of Houston is located on the gulf coastal plain, and its vegetation is class... | How is the vegetation of the area classified? | {'text': 'temperate grassland and forest', 'answer_start': 329} |
4,741 | 4,399 | 56cf5655aab44d1400b8903d | generic | Lee's childhood friend, author Truman Capote, wrote on the dust jacket of the first edition, "Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable." This comment has been construed to su... | Who was speculated to have wrote the book instead of Harper Lee? | {'text': 'Truman Capote', 'answer_start': 31} |
56,477 | 56,135 | 572655085951b619008f6fde | generic | Film speed is used in the exposure equations to find the appropriate exposure parameters. Four variables are available to the photographer to obtain the desired effect: lighting, film speed, f-number (aperture size), and shutter speed (exposure time). The equation may be expressed as ratios, or, by taking the logarithm... | A lens with a setting of f/1.4 lets how much to hit the focal plane compared with a setting of f/2? | {'text': 'twice as much', 'answer_start': 702} |
26,136 | 25,794 | 56f8f36a9b226e1400dd11e6 | generic | If the British Empire was now going to side with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire had no choice but to cultivate a relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was supported by the German Empire. In a few years these alignments became the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance (already formed in 1882), wh... | Who did the British Empire side with? | {'text': 'the Russian Empire', 'answer_start': 49} |
104,577 | 104,235 | 5ad41b78604f3c001a400524 | generic | Colonial Lowcountry landowners experimented with cash crops ranging from tea to silkworms. African slaves brought knowledge of rice cultivation, which plantation owners cultivated and developed as a successful commodity crop by 1700. With the coerced help of African slaves from the Caribbean, Eliza Lucas, daughter of p... | Which nation subsidized indigo crops from the Highcountry? | {'text': 'Britain', 'answer_start': 443} |
122,637 | 122,295 | 5ad13c20645df0001a2d1327 | generic | Jefferson and James Madison's conceptions of separation have long been debated. Jefferson refused to issue Proclamations of Thanksgiving sent to him by Congress during his presidency, though he did issue a Thanksgiving and Prayer proclamation as Governor of Virginia. Madison issued four religious proclamations while Pr... | What did Jefferson approve to issue, when it was sent to him by Congress during his presidency? | {'text': 'Proclamations of Thanksgiving', 'answer_start': 107} |
124,588 | 124,246 | 57324e7a0fdd8d15006c694b | generic | Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible condemns the mixing of religions, on the basis that there can only be one truth from God, and therefore reject interfaith and ecumenical movements. They believe that only their religion represents true Christianity, and that other religions fail to meet all the requirements se... | Why do Jehovah Witnesses believe the Bible condemns mixing of religions? | {'text': 'can only be one truth from God', 'answer_start': 101} |
70,584 | 70,242 | 5729559d3f37b3190047827c | generic | The original NAS Bermuda on the west side of the island, a seaplane base until the mid-1960s, was designated as the Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex. It provided optional anchorage and/or dockage facilities for transiting US Navy, US Coast Guard and NATO vessels, depending on size. An additional US Navy compound known a... | What did the NAS Bermuda offer once designated Annex? | {'text': 'anchorage and/or dockage facilities for transiting US Navy, US Coast Guard and NATO vessels', 'answer_start': 170} |
10,540 | 10,198 | 56de3c8acffd8e1900b4b6b8 | generic | Judicial power—the power to decide cases and controversies—is vested in the Supreme Court and inferior courts established by Congress. The judges must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, hold office during good behavior and receive compensations that may not be diminished during the... | What is the power given to the supreme court and lower courts called? | {'text': 'Judicial power', 'answer_start': 0} |
118,300 | 117,958 | 5730cea4aca1c71400fe5ada | generic | From 1904 to 1907, the Herero and the Namaqua took up arms against the Germans and in calculated punitive action by the German occupiers, the 'first genocide of the Twentieth Century' was committed. In the Herero and Namaqua genocide, 10,000 Nama (half the population) and approximately 65,000 Hereros (about 80% of the ... | When did two clans take up action against the German occupiers? | {'text': '1904 to 1907', 'answer_start': 5} |
100,665 | 100,323 | 572c00d6f182dd1900d7c7b0 | generic | In February 1861, secessionists in Tennessee's state government—led by Governor Isham Harris—sought voter approval for a convention to sever ties with the United States, but Tennessee voters rejected the referendum by a 54–46% margin. The strongest opposition to secession came from East Tennessee (which later tried to ... | What percentage of voters voted against secession in Tennessee's February 1861 referendum? | {'text': '54', 'answer_start': 220} |
22,552 | 22,210 | 56f71d1f711bf01900a44992 | generic | The Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of the Carpathian ... | According to Byzantine historiographers, tribes of Slavs emerged from what areas? | {'text': 'the Carpathian Mountains, the lower Danube and the Black Sea', 'answer_start': 305} |
107,632 | 107,290 | 572f87ec947a6a140053ca2a | generic | The interwar period was also marked by a radical change in the international order, away from the balance of power that had dominated pre–World War I Europe. One main institution that was meant to bring stability was the League of Nations, which was created after the First World War with the intention of maintaining wo... | What was the Interwar period marked by? | {'text': 'radical change in the international order', 'answer_start': 41} |
77,856 | 77,514 | 572792f3f1498d1400e8fc90 | generic | In December 1994, TCM debuted "TCM Remembers", a tribute to recently deceased notable film personalities (including actors, producers, composers, directors, writers and cinematographers) that occasionally airs during promotional breaks between films. The segments appear in two forms: individual tributes and a longer en... | Who provided the soundtrack for the longer TCM Remembers episode in 2009? | {'text': 'Steve Earle', 'answer_start': 983} |
35,642 | 35,300 | 570affb86b8089140040f696 | generic | 1 CATOBAR carrier: Charles de Gaulle is a 42,000 tonne nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, commissioned in 2001 and is the flagship of the French Navy (Marine Nationale). The ship carries a complement of Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard, Dassault Rafale M and E‑2C Hawkeye aircraft, EC725 Caracal and AS532 Cougar helicopte... | What type of missiles does the Charles de Gaulle carry? | {'text': 'Aster', 'answer_start': 387} |
88,473 | 88,131 | 572833dd2ca10214002da0a3 | generic | Traditionally the annelids have been divided into two major groups, the polychaetes and clitellates. In turn the clitellates were divided into oligochaetes, which include earthworms, and hirudinomorphs, whose best-known members are leeches. For many years there was no clear arrangement of the approximately 80 polychaet... | How many polychaete families are there? | {'text': 'approximately 80', 'answer_start': 294} |
116,727 | 116,385 | 573086f82461fd1900a9ce7e | generic | Airports are divided into landside and airside areas. Landside areas include parking lots, public transportation train stations and access roads. Airside areas include all areas accessible to aircraft, including runways, taxiways and aprons. Access from landside areas to airside areas is tightly controlled at most airp... | What do landside areas include? | {'text': 'parking lots, public transportation train stations and access roads', 'answer_start': 77} |
71,686 | 71,344 | 5acf670e77cf76001a684d77 | generic | Capacitors made with any type of dielectric material will show some level of "dielectric absorption" or "soakage". On discharging a capacitor and disconnecting it, after a short time it may develop a voltage due to hysteresis in the dielectric. This effect can be objectionable in applications such as precision sample a... | What does the process of dielectric absorption in a capacitor not depend on? | {'text': 'time-dependent', 'answer_start': 477} |
42,169 | 41,827 | 570d5b15fed7b91900d45f10 | generic | The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (German: Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, lit. German-French War, French: Guerre franco-allemande, lit. Franco-German War), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the N... | What was the war often referred to in France as? | {'text': 'the War of 1870', 'answer_start': 196} |
126,123 | 125,781 | 573409cd4776f41900661774 | generic | In 2005, the number of public employees per thousand inhabitants in the Portuguese government (70.8) was above the European Union average (62.4 per thousand inhabitants). By EU and USA standards, Portugal's justice system was internationally known as being slow and inefficient, and by 2011 it was the second slowest in ... | What was the average number of public employees per every thousand inhabitants for the European Union in 2005? | {'text': '62.4', 'answer_start': 139} |
34,463 | 34,121 | 5a106a36decec90018475650 | generic | Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD/LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Fina... | Which Lake is one of the largest in Europe? | {'text': 'Maschsee lake', 'answer_start': 508} |
3,882 | 3,540 | 56cee30faab44d1400b88bf4 | generic | The only attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York occurred, a large conflagration on t... | In what modern-day borough did the Great Fire happen? | {'text': 'Manhattan', 'answer_start': 342} |
126,865 | 126,523 | 57329fe2cc179a14009dab86 | generic | The word "police" was borrowed from French into the English language in the 18th century, but for a long time it applied only to French and continental European police forces. The word, and the concept of police itself, were "disliked as a symbol of foreign oppression" (according to Britannica 1911). Before the 19th ce... | When did the French language adopt the word 'police'? | {'text': 'in the 18th century', 'answer_start': 69} |
86,776 | 86,434 | 5a81b6a631013a001a334dc1 | generic | Groups share a fundamental kinship with the notion of symmetry. For example, a symmetry group encodes symmetry features of a geometrical object: the group consists of the set of transformations that leave the object unchanged and the operation of combining two such transformations by performing one after the other. Lie... | What do Lie groups express in terms of special relativity? | {'text': 'physical symmetry', 'answer_start': 520} |
111,951 | 111,609 | 5733f3f3d058e614000b665a | generic | The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until 2016. Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion. On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final dea... | How much were Premier League television rights from 2010 to 2013 purchased for? | {'text': '£1.782 billion', 'answer_start': 206} |
7,556 | 7,214 | 56db3337e7c41114004b4f35 | generic | The noted Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi refused to participate saying "she doesn’t want to run in the event as ‘caged woman’." On April 15, Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan pulled out of the Olympic torch relay, citing “very strong personal reasons”. On April 16, a p... | The retired police officer said she would not run as what? | {'text': 'caged woman', 'answer_start': 166} |
127,313 | 126,971 | 5733fcd5d058e614000b6718 | generic | According to R. J. Rummel, genocide has 3 different meanings. The ordinary meaning is murder by government of people due to their national, ethnic, racial, or religious group membership. The legal meaning of genocide refers to the international treaty, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Gen... | Rummel postulates that murder of people of government is due to national, ethnic, racial and which other membership? | {'text': 'religious group', 'answer_start': 159} |
24,243 | 23,901 | 56f7c511aef2371900625be6 | generic | The notion that all Polish nobles were social equals, regardless of their financial status or offices held, is enshrined in a traditional Polish saying: | What ethnic saying is this traditional from? | {'text': 'Polish saying', 'answer_start': 138} |
76,282 | 75,940 | 5727e149ff5b5019007d9769 | generic | On November 13, 1988, approximately 10,000 people attended an officially sanctioned meeting organized by the cultural heritage organization Spadschyna, the Kyiv University student club Hromada, and the environmental groups Zelenyi Svit ("Green World") and Noosfera, to focus on ecological issues. From November 14–18, 15... | What sort of issues were Zenlenyi Svit and Noosfera concerned with? | {'text': 'ecological', 'answer_start': 278} |
86,228 | 85,886 | 5ad345fe604f3c001a3fdc5a | generic | PlayStation Plus (commonly abbreviated PS+ and occasionally referred to as PSN Plus) is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service that was officially unveiled at E3 2010 by Jack Tretton, President and CEO of SCEA. Rumors of such service had been in speculation since Kaz Hirai's announcement at TGS 2009 of a po... | On what date did the PlayStation Plus service officially get cancelled? | {'text': 'June 29, 2010', 'answer_start': 460} |
79,076 | 78,734 | 5ad20117d7d075001a4281e6 | generic | Eton is one of ten English HMC schools, commonly referred to as "public schools", regulated by the Public Schools Act of 1868. Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and it is one of four such remaining single-sex boys' public schools in the Uni... | Which one of the ten English HMC schools is a day school rather than a boarding school? | {'text': 'Eton', 'answer_start': 0} |
43,230 | 42,888 | 570daf12df2f5219002ed0e2 | generic | Excavations in and near Agordat in central Eritrea yielded the remains of an ancient pre-Aksumite civilization known as the Gash Group. Ceramics were discovered that were related to those of the C-Group (Temehu) pastoral culture, which inhabited the Nile Valley between 2500–1500 BC. Some sources dating back to 3500 BC.... | What is the Gash Group? | {'text': 'an ancient pre-Aksumite civilization', 'answer_start': 74} |
14,503 | 14,161 | 56dfb3687aa994140058dff1 | generic | Bell's own detailed account, presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1882, differs in several particulars from most of the many and varied versions now in circulation, most notably by concluding that extraneous metal was not to blame for failure to locate the bullet. Perplexed by the pec... | What kind of mattress was the President directly on? | {'text': 'horse-hair', 'answer_start': 622} |
114,288 | 113,946 | 57300b6ea23a5019007fccbd | generic | The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso to do so instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the matc... | What year did the Football Association arrange The Laws of the Game? | {'text': '1863', 'answer_start': 591} |
37,027 | 36,685 | 570b47b6ec8fbc190045b956 | generic | The military history of the American side of the war involved different strategies over the years. The bombing campaigns of the Air Force were tightly controlled by the White House for political reasons, and until 1972 avoided the main Northern cities of Hanoi and Haiphong and concentrated on bombing jungle supply trai... | What two northern Vietnamese cities did the US avoid bombing at the outset of the war? | {'text': 'Hanoi and Haiphong', 'answer_start': 255} |
88,274 | 87,932 | 572827192ca10214002d9f54 | generic | Annelids' cuticles are made of collagen fibers, usually in layers that spiral in alternating directions so that the fibers cross each other. These are secreted by the one-cell deep epidermis (outermost skin layer). A few marine annelids that live in tubes lack cuticles, but their tubes have a similar structure, and muc... | What do non-cuticle annelids use to protect their skin? | {'text': 'mucus-secreting glands in the epidermis', 'answer_start': 317} |
122,390 | 122,048 | 5ace284a32bba1001ae49bfd | generic | A TiVo service update in July 2008 allowed the system to search and play YouTube videos. In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii vid... | What was launched on November 12, 2015? | {'text': 'an official app for the Wii', 'answer_start': 554} |
98,641 | 98,299 | 572abb9d34ae481900deac91 | generic | The number of shootings in the city has declined significantly in the last 10 years. Shooting incidents peaked in 2006 when 1,857 shootings were recorded. That number has dropped 44 percent to 1,047 shootings in 2014. Similarly, major crimes in the city has decreased gradually in the last ten years since its peak in 20... | When did shootings peak in the city? | {'text': '2006', 'answer_start': 114} |
84,165 | 83,823 | 5727eda1ff5b5019007d98bc | generic | When his father was transferred to Cairo in 1933, Nasser joined him and attended al-Nahda al-Masria school. He took up acting in school plays for a brief period and wrote articles for the school's paper, including a piece on French philosopher Voltaire titled "Voltaire, the Man of Freedom". On 13 November 1935, Nasser ... | What school did Nasser attend in Cairo? | {'text': 'al-Nahda al-Masria', 'answer_start': 81} |
114,782 | 114,440 | 5a62a75ff8d794001af1c190 | generic | The Americo-Liberian settlers did not identify with the indigenous peoples they encountered, especially those in communities of the more isolated "bush." They knew nothing of their cultures, languages or animist religion. Encounters with tribal Africans in the bush often developed as violent confrontations. The colonia... | What did the indigenous peoples envision creating? | {'text': 'a western-style state to which the tribesmen should assimilate', 'answer_start': 889} |
99,465 | 99,123 | 572b69e434ae481900deade9 | generic | The University of Guam (UOG) and Guam Community College, both fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, offer courses in higher education. UOG is a member of the exclusive group of only 76 U.S. land-grant institutions in the entire United States. Pacific Islands University is a small Christia... | What are the names of the two colleges in Guam? | {'text': 'The University of Guam (UOG) and Guam Community College', 'answer_start': 0} |
23,771 | 23,429 | 56f73a06711bf01900a44a95 | generic | Tito's foreign policy led to relationships with a variety of governments, such as exchanging visits (1954 and 1956) with Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, where a street was named in his honor. | When did Tito last visit Emperor Selassie? | {'text': '1956', 'answer_start': 110} |
45,646 | 45,304 | 57101271b654c5140001f7b9 | generic | Congress acted defiantly toward the Supreme Court by passing the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988 and the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 that made roughly fifty crimes punishable by death, including crimes that do not always involve the death of someone. Such non-death capital offenses include treason, espionage (spying for... | What is another term for the act of spying for another country? | {'text': 'espionage', 'answer_start': 299} |
71,737 | 71,395 | 5acf68cf77cf76001a684daa | generic | Several other types of capacitor are available for specialist applications. Supercapacitors store large amounts of energy. Supercapacitors made from carbon aerogel, carbon nanotubes, or highly porous electrode materials, offer extremely high capacitance (up to 5 kF as of 2010[update]) and can be used in some applicatio... | As of 2010, what is the lowest capacitance a supercapacitor has achieved? | {'text': '5 kF', 'answer_start': 261} |
49,226 | 48,884 | 571b42be9499d21900609c3d | generic | The expression "bitumen" originated in the Sanskrit, where we find the words jatu, meaning "pitch," and jatu-krit, meaning "pitch creating", "pitch producing" (referring to coniferous or resinous trees). The Latin equivalent is claimed by some to be originally gwitu-men (pertaining to pitch), and by others, pixtumens (... | To what English word does the Latin translate? | {'text': 'pitch', 'answer_start': 286} |
85,262 | 84,920 | 572801dd2ca10214002d9b4a | generic | To qualify for participation in the auctions, banks must be able to offer proof of appropriate collateral in the form of loans to other entities. These can be the public debt of member states, but a fairly wide range of private banking securities are also accepted. The fairly stringent membership requirements for the E... | What should all assets offered up as collateral be? | {'text': 'all equally good, and all equally protected from the risk of inflation', 'answer_start': 533} |
68,491 | 68,149 | 5726b2725951b619008f7adf | 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... | The juice of which fruit was determined to have helped sailors from contracting scurvy? | {'text': 'lime', 'answer_start': 165} |
95,292 | 94,950 | 572997743f37b319004784c9 | generic | The Serbo-Croatian dialects differ not only in the question word they are named after, but also heavily in phonology, accentuation and intonation, case endings and tense system (morphology) and basic vocabulary. In the past, Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects were spoken on a much larger territory, but have been replaced... | What has caused Stokavian to become more widely spoken? | {'text': 'migrations caused by Ottoman Turkish conquest of the Balkans', 'answer_start': 355} |
29,567 | 29,225 | 5705f90475f01819005e77fb | generic | These advantages offset the high stress, physical exertion costs, and other risks of the migration. Predation can be heightened during migration: Eleonora's falcon Falco eleonorae, which breeds on Mediterranean islands, has a very late breeding season, coordinated with the autumn passage of southbound passerine migrant... | What preys on nocturnal passerine migrants? | {'text': 'the greater noctule bat', 'answer_start': 385} |
92,101 | 91,759 | 5728c1414b864d1900164d58 | generic | In his role as god of prophecy and truth, Apollo had the epithets Manticus (/ˈmæntᵻkəs/ MAN-ti-kəs; Μαντικός, Mantikos, literally "prophetic"), Leschenorius (/ˌlɛskᵻˈnɔəriəs/ LES-ki-NOHR-ee-əs; Λεσχηνόριος, Leskhēnorios, from λεσχήνωρ, "converser"), and Loxias (/ˈlɒksiəs/ LOK-see-əs; Λοξίας, Loxias, from λέγειν, "to sa... | Which epithet has historically been associated with ambiguous? | {'text': 'Loxias', 'answer_start': 338} |
121,048 | 120,706 | 57316483497a881900248ec4 | generic | During Mubarak's reign, the political scene was dominated by the National Democratic Party, which was created by Sadat in 1978. It passed the 1993 Syndicates Law, 1995 Press Law, and 1999 Nongovernmental Associations Law which hampered freedoms of association and expression by imposing new regulations and draconian pen... | What laws created in 1990s impacted culture? | {'text': '1993 Syndicates Law, 1995 Press Law, and 1999 Nongovernmental Associations Law', 'answer_start': 142} |
6,455 | 6,113 | 56db2056e7c41114004b4db7 | generic | The finalists were Cook and Archuleta. David Cook was announced the winner on May 21, 2008, the first rocker to win the show. Both Cook and Archuleta had some success as recording artists with both selling over a million albums in the U.S. | Who was the winner? | {'text': 'David Cook', 'answer_start': 39} |
96,244 | 95,902 | 5729f8db6aef051400155176 | generic | For example, consider electron–positron annihilation, in which the rest mass of individual particles is destroyed, but the inertia equivalent of the system of the two particles (its invariant mass) remains (since all energy is associated with mass), and this inertia and invariant mass is carried off by photons which in... | What is the process in which the rest mass of particles is created from energy of two or more annihilating photons? | {'text': 'pair creation', 'answer_start': 441} |
83,849 | 83,507 | 572851feff5b5019007da178 | generic | Magadha (Sanskrit: मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahā-Janapadas (Sanskrit: "Great Countries") or kingdoms in ancient India. The core of the kingdom was the area of Bihar south of the Ganges; its first capital was Rajagriha (modern Rajgir) then Pataliputra (modern Patna). Magadha expanded to include most of Bihar and B... | Where was the center of Magadha? | {'text': 'Bihar', 'answer_start': 165} |
60,234 | 59,892 | 572682cd708984140094c883 | generic | The act of predation can be broken down into a maximum of four stages: Detection of prey, attack, capture and finally consumption. The relationship between predator and prey is one that is typically beneficial to the predator, and detrimental to the prey species. Sometimes, however, predation has indirect benefits to t... | How does the prey improve their evolutionary abilities through predator-prey interaction? | {'text': 'array of adaptations', 'answer_start': 617} |
36,093 | 35,751 | 570ad1354103511400d59a34 | generic | Sea levels began to rise during the Jurassic, which was probably caused by an increase in seafloor spreading. The formation of new crust beneath the surface displaced ocean waters by as much as 200 m (656 ft) more than today, which flooded coastal areas. Furthermore, Pangaea began to rift into smaller divisions, bringi... | What caused the sea to rise during the Jurassic? | {'text': 'increase in seafloor', 'answer_start': 78} |
21,783 | 21,441 | 5ad3f8b5604f3c001a3ffa7c | generic | Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster and a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. The members of the Chapter are ... | Who hated Westminster Abbey as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster? | {'text': 'Queen Elizabeth I', 'answer_start': 125} |
3,892 | 3,550 | 56cfbab4234ae51400d9bf1b | generic | In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, George ... | New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States? | {'text': 'capital', 'answer_start': 86} |
67,836 | 67,494 | 5727b0983acd2414000de9d7 | generic | In many places in Switzerland, household rubbish disposal is charged for. Rubbish (except dangerous items, batteries etc.) is only collected if it is in bags which either have a payment sticker attached, or in official bags with the surcharge paid at the time of purchase. This gives a financial incentive to recycle as ... | What is the charge for recycling in Switzerland? | {'text': 'free', 'answer_start': 357} |
8,636 | 8,294 | 56dd322166d3e219004dac46 | generic | The United Kingdom's constitution, being uncodified and largely unwritten, makes no mention of a prime minister. Though it had de facto existed for centuries, its first mention in official state documents did not occur until the first decade of the twentieth century. Accordingly, it is often said "not to exist", indeed... | Who was the last prime minister to serve simultaneously as Chancellor of the Exchequer? | {'text': 'Balfour', 'answer_start': 602} |
62,704 | 62,362 | 5727654add62a815002e9c11 | generic | The largest producers of cotton, currently (2009), are China and India, with annual production of about 34 million bales and 33.4 million bales, respectively; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries. The largest exporters of raw cotton are the United States, with sales of $4.9 billion... | What company is the top cotton broker in Africa? | {'text': 'Dunavant Enterprises', 'answer_start': 703} |
70,508 | 70,166 | 57294f071d0469140077927b | generic | There are few accredited diplomats in Bermuda. The United States maintains the largest diplomatic mission in Bermuda, comprising both the United States Consulate and the US Customs and Border Protection Services at the L.F. Wade International Airport. The current US Consul General is Robert Settje, who took office in A... | Who has the largest accredited diplomats in Bermuda? | {'text': 'The United States', 'answer_start': 47} |
29,816 | 29,474 | 57061efb52bb8914006898cc | generic | During this time, Atlantic City was under the mayoral reign of Edward L. Bader, known for his contributions to the construction, athletics and aviation of Atlantic City. Despite the opposition of many others, he purchased land that became the city's municipal airport and high school football stadium, both of which were... | What year did Edward L. Bader lead the initiative to construct the Atlantic City High School? | {'text': '1923', 'answer_start': 385} |
119,122 | 118,780 | 57314fe6497a881900248db9 | generic | Cultural and career issues in the U.S. Air Force have been cited as one of the reasons for the shortfall in needed UAV operators. In spite of an urgent need for UAVs or drones to provide round the clock coverage for American troops during the Iraq War, the USAF did not establish a new career field for piloting them unt... | Why did the USAF change its training methods on UAVs in 2014? | {'text': 'large aircraft losses in training', 'answer_start': 417} |
52,048 | 51,706 | 57265269708984140094c253 | generic | The quail is a small to medium-sized, cryptically coloured bird. In its natural environment, it is found in bushy places, in rough grassland, among agricultural crops, and in other places with dense cover. It feeds on seeds, insects, and other small invertebrates. Being a largely ground-dwelling, gregarious bird, domes... | Have quails ever been used for entertainment purposes ? | {'text': 'They were originally kept as songbirds, and they are thought to have been regularly used in song contests.', 'answer_start': 846} |
102,008 | 101,666 | 572e7e6acb0c0d14000f11ba | generic | In 1977, Gaddafi dissolved the Republic and created a new socialist state, the Jamahiriya ("state of the masses"). Officially adopting a symbolic role in governance, he retained power as military commander-in-chief and head of the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing opponents. Overseeing u... | What does "Jamahiriya" mean? | {'text': 'state of the masses', 'answer_start': 92} |
1,788 | 1,446 | 56cffdaa234ae51400d9c226 | generic | Two of Chopin's long-standing pupils, Karol Mikuli (1821–1897) and Georges Mathias, were themselves piano teachers and passed on details of his playing to their own students, some of whom (such as Raoul Koczalski) were to make recordings of his music. Other pianists and composers influenced by Chopin's style include Lo... | Who dedicated his 1915 piano Études to Chopin? | {'text': 'Debussy', 'answer_start': 392} |
18,307 | 17,965 | 5ad16393645df0001a2d195e | generic | Universal's multi-year film financing deal with Elliott Management expired in 2013. In July 2013, Universal made an agreement with Legendary Pictures to market, co-finance, and distribute Legendary's films for five years starting in 2014, the year that Legendary's similar agreement with Warner Bros. expires. | What two companies had a deal that expired in 2013? | {'text': "Legendary's similar agreement with Warner Bros. expires", 'answer_start': 253} |
101,101 | 100,759 | 572f80b8947a6a140053c9d3 | generic | Until recently, in most critical writing the post-punk era was "often dismissed as an awkward period in which punk's gleeful ructions petered out into the vacuity of the Eighties". Contemporary scholars have argued to the contrary, asserting that the period produced significant innovations and music on its own. Simon R... | What do comtemporary scholars think that post-punk actually did for music? | {'text': 'produced significant innovations and music on its own', 'answer_start': 258} |
1,162 | 820 | 56cbda8d6d243a140015ed91 | generic | Fryderyk Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, 46 kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 22 February 1810, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus (in Polish, he was Fryde... | What was the latin form of Frédéric's full name? | {'text': 'Fridericus Franciscus', 'answer_start': 274} |
101,758 | 101,416 | 572e808d03f98919007566e8 | generic | He immersed himself in work on the project, and was present at the Trinity bomb test. Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the very dark glasses or welder's lenses provided, reasoning that it was safe to look through a truck windshield, as it would screen out the harmful ultraviolet radiat... | What did Feynman think that the truck windshield would shield him against? | {'text': 'ultraviolet radiation', 'answer_start': 302} |
81,145 | 80,803 | 5728d8182ca10214002da94a | generic | In March 2013, Governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in the city, stating that the city has a $327 million budget deficit and faces more than $14 billion in long-term debt. It has been making ends meet on a month-to-month basis with the help of bond money held in a state escrow account and has instituted ... | What type of bankruptcy did Detroit file? | {'text': 'Chapter 9', 'answer_start': 927} |
88,398 | 88,056 | 5ace891a32bba1001ae4a9b7 | generic | However, the lifecycles of most living polychaetes, which are almost all marine animals, are unknown, and only about 25% of the 300+ species whose lifecycles are known follow this pattern. About 14% use a similar external fertilization but produce yolk-rich eggs, which reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the... | What is the benefit of rotten eggs? | {'text': 'reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the plankton', 'answer_start': 270} |
70,651 | 70,309 | 57295b726aef051400154d56 | generic | At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Bermuda competed in sailing, athletics, swimming, diving, triathlon and equestrian events. In those Olympics, Bermuda's Katura Horton-Perinchief made history by becoming the first black female diver to compete in the Olympic Games. Bermuda has had one Olympic medallist, Clarence Hill, who w... | What events did Bermuda compete in at the 2004 Summer Olympics? | {'text': 'sailing, athletics, swimming, diving, triathlon and equestrian events', 'answer_start': 49} |
117,456 | 117,114 | 5730b55f396df919000962ce | generic | Emulation of the SNES is now available on handheld units, such as Android devices, Apple's iPhone and iPad, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, the Gizmondo, the Dingoo and the GP2X by GamePark Holdings, as well as PDAs. While individual games have been included with emulators on so... | What was Nintendo's first approved emulator? | {'text': "Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii", 'answer_start': 339} |
16,837 | 16,495 | 5acd514807355d001abf3d0e | generic | The three latest satellites will jointly undergo testing of a new system of navigation signaling and inter-satellite links, and start providing navigation services when ready. | The three newest terminals will start providing what type of services when ready? | {'text': 'navigation services', 'answer_start': 144} |
124,961 | 124,619 | 573254ece99e3014001e66c7 | generic | Within months of beginning his tenure as the president of the university, Eisenhower was requested to advise U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal on the unification of the armed services. About six months after his appointment, he became the informal Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. Two months ... | What was the name of Columbia University's alumni association? | {'text': 'Columbia Associates', 'answer_start': 660} |
19,080 | 18,738 | 56e6d7086fe0821900b8ebc0 | generic | A notable pattern that developed during the 2000s and 2010s has been for certain pop songs to have lengthy runs on AC charts, even after the songs have fallen off the Hot 100. Adrian Moreira, senior vice president for adult music for RCA Music Group, said, "We've seen a fairly tidal shift in what AC will play". Rather ... | When do adult contemporary stations begin to play Top 40 songs? | {'text': 'after the hits had become established', 'answer_start': 441} |
67,920 | 67,578 | 5728ba494b864d1900164cfc | generic | The most popular alcoholic drink in Switzerland is wine. Switzerland is notable for the variety of grapes grown because of the large variations in terroirs, with their specific mixes of soil, air, altitude and light. Swiss wine is produced mainly in Valais, Vaud (Lavaux), Geneva and Ticino, with a small majority of whi... | What 4 terrain variations are credited for Switzerland's notable variety of grapes grown? | {'text': 'specific mixes of soil, air, altitude and light', 'answer_start': 168} |
21,375 | 21,033 | 5ad27b63d7d075001a429653 | generic | Unlike most languages that use alphabets to indicate the pronunciation, Chinese characters have developed from logograms that do not always give hints to its pronunciation. Although the written characters remained relatively consistent for the last two thousand years, the pronunciation and grammar in different regions ... | What is another name for the Xiang language? | {'text': 'Cantonese', 'answer_start': 559} |
71,329 | 70,987 | 5726da7d708984140094d39f | generic | Although Germany used forced labourers in most occupied countries, Poles and other Slavs were viewed as inferior by Nazi propaganda, thus, better suited for such duties. Between 1 and 2.5 million Polish citizens were transported to the Reich for forced labour, against their will. All Polish males were required to perfo... | How many people are believed to have died in Auschwitz? | {'text': '1.1 million people', 'answer_start': 917} |
18,142 | 17,800 | 5ad145ef645df0001a2d14da | generic | By the early 1940s, the company was concentrating on lower-budget productions that were the company's main staple: westerns, melodramas, serials and sequels to the studio's horror pictures, the latter now solely B pictures. The studio fostered many series: The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys action features and ser... | When did westerns with Johnny Rod Brown run? | {'text': '1938–43', 'answer_start': 650} |
98,903 | 98,561 | 572ac63e34ae481900deacd0 | generic | In the State Department, Kerry quickly earned a reputation "for being aloof, keeping to himself, and not bothering to read staff memos." Career State Department officials have complained that power has become too centralized under Kerry's leadership, which slows department operations when Kerry is on one of his frequen... | Who published the Ivory Tower Survey? | {'text': 'Foreign Policy Magazine', 'answer_start': 991} |
125,102 | 124,760 | 57327d1a0fdd8d15006c6b11 | generic | The 1960 Four Power Paris Summit between President Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle collapsed because of the incident. Eisenhower refused to accede to Khrushchev's demands that he apologize. Therefore, Khrushchev would not take part in the summit. Up until this event, Eisenho... | Along with Eisenhower, Macmillan and de Gaulle, what leader attended the Four Powers Paris Summit? | {'text': 'Nikita Khrushchev', 'answer_start': 70} |
126,775 | 126,433 | 5732ac1fcc179a14009dabea | generic | During the Miocene continents continued to drift toward their present positions. Of the modern geologic features, only the land bridge between South America and North America was absent, the subduction zone along the Pacific Ocean margin of South America caused the rise of the Andes and the southward extension of the M... | Which crisis occured towards the end of the Miocene period? | {'text': 'Messinian salinity crisis', 'answer_start': 717} |
9,568 | 9,226 | 5ad3e571604f3c001a3ff599 | generic | The first overseas deployment of Canadian military forces occurred during the Second Boer War, when several units were raised to serve under British command. Similarly, when the United Kingdom entered into conflict with Germany in the First World War, Canadian troops were called to participate in European theatres. The... | When were Canadian Troops called upon to assist in Asia? | {'text': 'First World War', 'answer_start': 235} |
122,619 | 122,277 | 5ad13a64645df0001a2d12cd | generic | There were also opponents to the support of any established church even at the state level. In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, wrote against a state sanctioned religion, saying: "Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending ... | When did Isaac Backus write supporting a state sanctioned religion? | {'text': '1773', 'answer_start': 95} |
5,343 | 5,001 | 56d123f217492d1400aaba4f | generic | Myers spoke next and continued to read the script. Once it was West's turn to speak again, he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." At this point, telethon producer Rick Kaplan cut off the microphone and then cut away to Chris Tucker, who was unaware of the cut for a few seconds. Still, West's comment re... | Who did Kanye West say doesn't care about black people? | {'text': 'George Bush', 'answer_start': 101} |
3,791 | 3,449 | 56cf9df0234ae51400d9be29 | generic | New York City traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city... | New York City is the biggest city in the United States since what historical date? | {'text': '1790', 'answer_start': 276} |
29,503 | 29,161 | 5706b3e90eeca41400aa0d54 | generic | The gross state domestic product (GSDP) of Delhi at current prices for the year 2011-12 has been estimated at Rs 3.13 lakh crore, which is an increase of 18.7 per cent over the previous fiscal. | The GSDP of Delhi increased by what percentage over the previous year in 2011-12? | {'text': '18.7', 'answer_start': 154} |
118,436 | 118,094 | 5730fac8a5e9cc1400cdbb66 | generic | Namibia follows a largely independent foreign policy, with persisting affiliations with states that aided the independence struggle, including Cuba. With a small army and a fragile economy, the Namibian Government's principal foreign policy concern is developing strengthened ties within the Southern African region. A d... | When did Namibia join the UN? | {'text': '23 April 1990', 'answer_start': 488} |
42,859 | 42,517 | 5ad2b042d7d075001a429f35 | generic | During the Cambrian period, Gondwana had a mild climate. West Antarctica was partially in the Northern Hemisphere, and during this period large amounts of sandstones, limestones and shales were deposited. East Antarctica was at the equator, where sea floor invertebrates and trilobites flourished in the tropical seas. B... | What began 306 Ma? | {'text': 'Glaciation', 'answer_start': 582} |
60,387 | 60,045 | 5a5f7f65eae51e001ab14b19 | generic | Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics #1 (cover dated Oct. 1939), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first appearances of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features. The issue was a great success, with it and a second printing the follo... | When was Funnies, Inc. founded? | {'text': '1939', 'answer_start': 63} |
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