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30,625 | 30,283 | 5ad28af9d7d075001a4299d8 | generic | But house was also being developed on Ibiza,[citation needed] although no house artists or labels were coming from this tiny island at the time. By the mid-1980s a distinct Balearic mix of house was discernible.[citation needed] Several clubs such as Amnesia with DJ Alfredo were playing a mix of rock, pop, disco and ho... | What was the name of the big dance club in Southwark UK in the late 80s? | {'text': 'Haçienda', 'answer_start': 561} |
22,176 | 21,834 | 56f6ed94711bf01900a44875 | generic | Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music. While a similar term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period), this article is about the broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to th... | What is the period from 1750 to 1820 called? | {'text': 'the Classical period', 'answer_start': 217} |
99,342 | 99,000 | 5ace56ec32bba1001ae4a31b | generic | The core culture or Pengngan Chamorro is based on complex social protocol centered upon respect: From sniffing over the hands of the elders (called mangnginge in Chamorro), the passing down of legends, chants, and courtship rituals, to a person asking for permission from spiritual ancestors before entering a jungle or ... | Which culture involves sniffs the feet of elders? | {'text': 'Chamorro', 'answer_start': 29} |
55,997 | 55,655 | 5726c099708984140094d086 | generic | The existence of literary and colloquial readings (文白異讀), called tha̍k-im (讀音), is a prominent feature of some Hokkien dialects and indeed in many Sinitic varieties in the south. The bulk of literary readings (文讀, bûn-tha̍k), based on pronunciations of the vernacular during the Tang Dynasty, are mainly used in formal p... | What is another name for colloquial? | {'text': 'vernacular)', 'answer_start': 436} |
111,709 | 111,367 | 5733e5f54776f41900661465 | generic | In 1992, the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse and on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the Football Association's then headquarters in Lancaster Gate. This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated un... | On which date was the FA Premier League formed legally? | {'text': '27 May 1992', 'answer_start': 84} |
92,966 | 92,624 | 5a7b6ee021c2de001afea011 | generic | Although testing can determine the correctness of software under the assumption of some specific hypotheses (see hierarchy of testing difficulty below), testing cannot identify all the defects within software. Instead, it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against or... | What does the software contrast during testing against? | {'text': 'oracles—principles or mechanisms', 'answer_start': 318} |
100,469 | 100,127 | 572bb6a7f75d5e190021feb0 | generic | Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undevel... | What is common in developed countries? | {'text': 'criticism and blame', 'answer_start': 431} |
39,287 | 38,945 | 570c33ab6b8089140040fc23 | 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... | What did Carnivore monitor? | {'text': 'email and electronic communications', 'answer_start': 143} |
2,330 | 1,988 | 56cd73af62d2951400fa65c7 | generic | On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Apple had sold its one-hundred millionth iPod, making it the biggest selling digital music player of all time. In April 2007, Apple reported second quarter revenue of US$5.2 billion, of which 32% was made from iPod sales. Apple and several industry analysts suggest that iPod user... | How much revenue did Apple announce for Q2 2007? | {'text': '$5.2 billion', 'answer_start': 209} |
129,399 | 129,057 | 5a8300f5e60761001a2eb2db | generic | Microbiological culture is a principal tool used to diagnose infectious disease. In a microbial culture, a growth medium is provided for a specific agent. A sample taken from potentially diseased tissue or fluid is then tested for the presence of an infectious agent able to grow within that medium. Most pathogenic bact... | What type of hammer is a principal tool used to diagnose infectious disease? | {'text': 'Microbiological', 'answer_start': 0} |
35,067 | 34,725 | 5a3976a52f14dd001ac7234b | generic | Everton have a large fanbase, with the eighth highest average attendance in the Premier League in the 2008–09 season. The majority of Everton's matchday support comes from the North West of England, primarily Merseyside, Cheshire, West Lancashire and parts of Western Greater Manchester along with many fans who travel f... | Where is Liverpool F.C.'s support heartland? | {'text': 'Merseyside', 'answer_start': 209} |
101,049 | 100,707 | 5a2853ffd1a287001a6d0b82 | generic | Artists such as Gary Numan, the Human League, Soft Cell, John Foxx and Visage helped pioneer a new synthpop style that drew more heavily from electronic and synthesizer music and benefited from the rise of MTV. Post-punk artists such as Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and Josef K's Paul Haig, previously engaged in ava... | What music did not benefit from the rise of MTV? | {'text': 'synthpop', 'answer_start': 99} |
109,471 | 109,129 | 572f6f8b947a6a140053c956 | generic | The prevalence of phantom pain in upper limb amputees is nearly 82%, and in lower limb amputees is 54%. One study found that eight days after amputation, 72 percent of patients had phantom limb pain, and six months later, 65 percent reported it. Some amputees experience continuous pain that varies in intensity or quali... | After six months, what percentage of people who had limbs amputated still felt pain in those limbs? | {'text': '65 percent', 'answer_start': 222} |
123,665 | 123,323 | 5732138be17f3d1400422673 | generic | As a consequence, there was a crisis in international confidence in Greece's ability to repay its sovereign debt, as reflected by the rise of the country's borrowing rates (although their slow rise – the 10-year government bond yield only exceeded 7% in April 2010 – coinciding with a large number of negative articles, ... | What did the international banks have doubts about Greece's ability to repay? | {'text': 'sovereign debt', 'answer_start': 98} |
54,561 | 54,219 | 5ad0137b77cf76001a6868df | generic | Article 10 of the Berne Convention mandates that national laws provide for limitations to copyright, so that copyright protection does not extend to certain kinds of uses that fall under what the treaty calls "fair practice," including but not limited to minimal quotations used in journalism and education. The laws imp... | What categories do work that wouldn't normally be considered infringing fall into? | {'text': 'fair use or fair dealing', 'answer_start': 450} |
6,301 | 5,959 | 56db08b8e7c41114004b4c99 | generic | Following the success of season one, the second season was moved up to air in January 2003. The number of episodes increased, as did the show's budget and the charge for commercial spots. Dunkleman left the show, leaving Seacrest as the lone host. Kristin Adams was a correspondent for this season. | When did season two air? | {'text': 'January 2003', 'answer_start': 78} |
47,211 | 46,869 | 571a2b6310f8ca1400304f34 | generic | The model also shows all the memory stores as being a single unit whereas research into this shows differently. For example, short-term memory can be broken up into different units such as visual information and acoustic information. In a study by Zlonoga and Gerber (1986), patient 'KF' demonstrated certain deviations ... | Who performed a study in 1986 invovling a participant known as KF? | {'text': 'Zlonoga and Gerber', 'answer_start': 248} |
123,357 | 123,015 | 5a2ee726a83784001a7d2537 | generic | Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961, ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling the promise of the Constitution and his own political campaign promise. Building Brasília was part of Juscelino's "fifty years of prosperity in five" plan. Lúcio Costa won a contest and was the main urban plann... | During what time period was Lucio Costa President of Brazil? | {'text': 'from 1956 to 1961', 'answer_start': 42} |
73,941 | 73,599 | 57294516af94a219006aa223 | generic | On July 5, 1779, 2,600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, landed in New Haven Harbor and raided the 3,500-person town. A militia of Yale students had been prepping for battle, and former Yale president and Yale Divinity School professor Naphtali Daggett rode out to confron... | What is the name of the general that lead British regulars to New Haven Harbor? | {'text': 'William Tryon', 'answer_start': 68} |
99,565 | 99,223 | 5a57cc65770dc0001aeefd7c | generic | British empiricism, though it was not a term used at the time, derives from the 17th century period of early modern philosophy and modern science. The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as... | What was British empiricism originally called? | {'text': 'early modern philosophy and modern science', 'answer_start': 103} |
14,109 | 13,767 | 56e0a1d07aa994140058e674 | generic | Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933: Volga; Central Black Soil Region; North Caucasus; the Urals; the Crimea; part of Western Siberia; and the Kazak ASSR. With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on December 5, 1936, the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced. The Kazakh... | What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of? | {'text': 'the Uzbek SSR', 'answer_start': 487} |
93,201 | 92,859 | 5a472b735fd40d001a27dd61 | generic | In 1952, following a referendum, Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged into Baden-Württemberg. In 1957, the Saar Protectorate rejoined the Federal Republic as the Saarland. German reunification in 1990, in which the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ascended into the Federal Republic, re... | In 1957 what merged into Baden-Wurttemberg? | {'text': 'Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern', 'answer_start': 33} |
32,998 | 32,656 | 5a557830134fea001a0e1ac0 | generic | Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) is responsible for mitigating and responding to threats to Canada’s critical infrastructure and cyber systems. The CCIRC provides support to mitigate cyber threats, technical support to respond and recover from targeted cyber attacks, and provides o... | What does the CCIRC operate? | {'text': 'an online reporting tool where individuals and organizations can report a cyber incident', 'answer_start': 499} |
46,942 | 46,600 | 5719cf3610f8ca1400304e6f | generic | War work again brought local prosperity during World War II, this time centered on Boeing aircraft. The war dispersed the city's numerous Japanese-American businessmen due to the Japanese American internment. After the war, the local economy dipped. It rose again with Boeing's growing dominance in the commercial airlin... | During WWII what company added substantially to Seattle's economy? | {'text': 'Boeing aircraft', 'answer_start': 83} |
32,971 | 32,629 | 5a555aad134fea001a0e1a4b | generic | Serious financial damage has been caused by security breaches, but because there is no standard model for estimating the cost of an incident, the only data available is that which is made public by the organizations involved. "Several computer security consulting firms produce estimates of total worldwide losses attrib... | How wide-scale were the losses? | {'text': 'worldwide losses', 'answer_start': 297} |
67,338 | 66,996 | 5726b0355951b619008f7a82 | generic | A PM motor does not have a field winding on the stator frame, instead relying on PMs to provide the magnetic field against which the rotor field interacts to produce torque. Compensating windings in series with the armature may be used on large motors to improve commutation under load. Because this field is fixed, it c... | What do field windings provide? | {'text': 'flux', 'answer_start': 694} |
85,391 | 85,049 | 5728240c2ca10214002d9ecc | generic | Rescue operations involving sovereign debt have included temporarily moving bad or weak assets off the balance sheets of the weak member banks into the balance sheets of the European Central Bank. Such action is viewed as monetisation and can be seen as an inflationary threat, whereby the strong member countries of the... | What can be shuffeled around during a soverign debt crisis to mitigate the damage? | {'text': 'temporarily moving bad or weak assets', 'answer_start': 57} |
26,772 | 26,430 | 5a56d5296349e2001acdcf7d | generic | The defence estate is divided as training areas & ranges (84.0%), research & development (5.4%), airfields (3.4%), barracks & camps (2.5%), storage & supply depots (1.6%), and other (3.0%). These are largely managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. | What percentage of barracks & camps are managed by airfields? | {'text': '(2.5%)', 'answer_start': 132} |
59,477 | 59,135 | 5726dff0dd62a815002e938b | generic | Queen contributed music directly to the films Flash Gordon (1980), with "Flash" as the theme song, and Highlander (the original 1986 film), with "A Kind of Magic", "One Year of Love", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Hammer to Fall", and the theme "Princes of the Universe", which was also used as the theme of the Highland... | Which 1986 movie contained a Queen theme song? | {'text': 'Highlander', 'answer_start': 103} |
68,327 | 67,985 | 5acd5e3407355d001abf3f2a | generic | As of the 2000 United States census, there were 276,093 persons (July 2008 estimate was 380,173) and 61,371 families residing in Raleigh. The population density was 2,409.2 people per square mile (930.2/km²). There were 120,699 housing units at an average density of 1,053.2 per square mile (406.7/km²). The racial compo... | What was the June 2008 estimated population? | {'text': '380,173', 'answer_start': 88} |
26,940 | 26,598 | 5ad3abec604f3c001a3feb99 | generic | In 1979, the Japanese state broadcaster NHK first developed consumer high-definition television with a 5:3 display aspect ratio. The system, known as Hi-Vision or MUSE after its Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding for encoding the signal, required about twice the bandwidth of the existing NTSC system but provided ab... | When did satellite test broadcasts of lo-Vision start? | {'text': '1989', 'answer_start': 407} |
71,316 | 70,974 | 5ad284bbd7d075001a429882 | generic | Finally, on 26 June, four days after France sued for an armistice with the Third Reich, the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum demanding Bessarabia and, unexpectedly, Northern Bukovina from Romania. Two days later, the Romanians caved to the Soviet demands and the Soviets occupied the territory. The Hertza region was ini... | How many days did it take for the Romanians reject the Soviets requests? | {'text': 'Two days', 'answer_start': 197} |
122,957 | 122,615 | 5731e1420fdd8d15006c65f9 | generic | Robert S. Wood has argued that the United States is a model for the world in terms of how a separation of church and state—no state-run or state-established church—is good for both the church and the state, allowing a variety of religions to flourish. Speaking at the Toronto-based Center for New Religions, Wood said th... | What does Wood call the approach of allowing individuals the freedom to decide what they want to believe? | {'text': 'genius of religious sentiment in the United States', 'answer_start': 807} |
106,577 | 106,235 | 572ed583c246551400ce46fc | generic | According to Tabatabaei, there are acceptable and unacceptable esoteric interpretations. Acceptable ta'wil refers to the meaning of a verse beyond its literal meaning; rather the implicit meaning, which ultimately is known only to God and can't be comprehended directly through human thought alone. The verses in questio... | What are the two type of ta'wil? | {'text': 'acceptable and unacceptable', 'answer_start': 35} |
19,452 | 19,110 | 56e7b00300c9c71400d774eb | generic | Xinjiang, China; Argentina; Chile; Iceland; Russia and other areas skew time zones westward, in effect observing DST year-round without complications from clock shifts. For example, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is at 106°39′ W longitude, slightly west of center of the idealized Mountain Time Zone (105° W), but the time in ... | What year did Ireland and the UK give up on their permanent DST experiment? | {'text': '1971', 'answer_start': 691} |
11,604 | 11,262 | 56de858d4396321400ee29e3 | generic | In February 2016, it was confirmed by BBC Worldwide that Keeping Up Appearances is the corporation's most exported television programme, being sold nearly 1000 times to overseas broadcasters. | As of early 2016, what BBC show has been sold outside of the country the most times? | {'text': 'Keeping Up Appearances', 'answer_start': 57} |
72,698 | 72,356 | 57270deaf1498d1400e8f2b1 | generic | In 2001, Comcast announced it would acquire the assets of the largest cable television operator at the time, AT&T Broadband, for US$44.5 billion. The proposed name for the merged company was "AT&T Comcast", but the companies ultimately decided to keep only the Comcast name. In 2002, Comcast acquired all assets of AT&T ... | What did Comcast pay for this subsidiary? | {'text': '$44.5 billion', 'answer_start': 131} |
42,743 | 42,401 | 5ad2ac0ad7d075001a429e89 | generic | During the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907, parties led by Edgeworth David became the first to climb Mount Erebus and to reach the South Magnetic Pole. Douglas Mawson, who assumed the leadership of the Magnetic Pole party on their perilous return, went on to lead several expeditions until retiring in... | Who led the expedition that would first reach the geographic South Pole on 11 December 1914? | {'text': 'Roald Amundsen', 'answer_start': 694} |
51,841 | 51,499 | 5725e1ec89a1e219009ac029 | generic | The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university hou... | In 2007 the University of the Republic had a student body of how many people? | {'text': '81,774', 'answer_start': 110} |
79,957 | 79,615 | 5727d597ff5b5019007d9663 | generic | The animals most often thought of as being "typical" of Galicia are the livestock raised there. The Galician horse is native to the region, as is the Galician Blond cow and the domestic fowl known as the galiña de Mos. The latter is an endangered species, although it is showing signs of a comeback since 2001. Galicia's... | Which fowl species is native to the area? | {'text': 'galiña de Mos', 'answer_start': 204} |
17,134 | 16,792 | 5a550413134fea001a0e17dd | generic | There are a number of radio news agencies based in Somalia. Established during the colonial period, Radio Mogadishu initially broadcast news items in both Somali and Italian. The station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo. ... | Who originally opened Radio Mogadishu? | {'text': 'Russian assistance', 'answer_start': 207} |
119,137 | 118,795 | 5ad18e7a645df0001a2d1f1c | generic | Recent developments in LEDs permit them to be used in environmental and task lighting. LEDs have many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved physical robustness, smaller size, and faster switching. Light-emitting diodes are now used in applications as di... | What type of atmosphere can't LED lighting be used? | {'text': 'environmental', 'answer_start': 54} |
49,083 | 48,741 | 5ace78f932bba1001ae4a773 | generic | Asphalt/bitumen is typically stored and transported at temperatures around 150 °C (302 °F). Sometimes diesel oil or kerosene are mixed in before shipping to retain liquidity; upon delivery, these lighter materials are separated out of the mixture. This mixture is often called "bitumen feedstock", or BFS. Some dump truc... | To retain liquidity, what is sometimes mixed in with engine exhaust? | {'text': 'diesel oil or kerosene', 'answer_start': 102} |
109,242 | 108,900 | 5ace2e9932bba1001ae49d03 | generic | The Washington University School of Medicine, founded in 1891, is highly regarded as one of the world's leading centers for medical research and training. The School ranks first in the nation in student selectivity. Among its many recent initiatives, The Genome Center at Washington University (directed by Richard K. Wi... | In what year was Barnes-Jewish Hospital founded? | {'text': '1891', 'answer_start': 57} |
59,559 | 59,217 | 5acfc39777cf76001a685d97 | generic | Above the sessions exist presbyteries, which have area responsibilities. These are composed of teaching elders and ruling elders from each of the constituent congregations. The presbytery sends representatives to a broader regional or national assembly, generally known as the General Assembly, although an intermediate ... | The sessions are composed of which types of elders? | {'text': 'teaching elders and ruling elders', 'answer_start': 95} |
73,536 | 73,194 | 572769c2dd62a815002e9c7a | generic | A study in 2007 by Mark Long, an economics professor at the University of Washington, demonstrated that the alternatives of affirmative action proved ineffective in restoring minority enrollment in public flagship universities in California, Texas, and Washington. More specifically, apparent rebounds of minority enroll... | What percentage of the black population thought affirmative action should be abolished? | {'text': '14', 'answer_start': 626} |
66,971 | 66,629 | 5726a975708984140094cd37 | generic | At the request of the pope, he created an information office for prisoners of war and refugees, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost ten million (9 891 497) information requests and produced over eleven million (11.293.511) answers about missing persons. Montini was several times ope... | What was Montini accused of being by the Italian government? | {'text': 'politician', 'answer_start': 371} |
69,552 | 69,210 | 5a7e59cc48f7d9001a063515 | generic | Philosophy has become an increasingly academic discipline. More of its practitioners lament this situation than occurs with the sciences; nonetheless most new philosophical work appears in academic journals. Major philosophers through history—Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche—have... | Who are the major practitioners through history? | {'text': 'Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche', 'answer_start': 243} |
73,326 | 72,984 | 5ad414d2604f3c001a4002c1 | generic | President Kennedy stated in Executive Order 10925 that "discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin is contrary to the Constitutional principles and policies of the United States"; that "it is the plain and positive obligation of the United States Government to promote and ensure equal opportunity ... | Which President declared that discrimination is contrary to the Constitutional principles of the UK? | {'text': 'Kennedy', 'answer_start': 10} |
65,868 | 65,526 | 5726a6d05951b619008f7929 | generic | Although an alloy is technically an impure metal, when referring to alloys, the term "impurities" usually denotes those elements which are not desired. These impurities are often found in the base metals or the solutes, but they may also be introduced during the alloying process. For instance, sulfur is a common impuri... | What are the three common impurities in aluminum alloys? | {'text': 'Lithium, sodium and calcium', 'answer_start': 446} |
94,619 | 94,277 | 572a1dd76aef0514001552b0 | generic | The late nineteenth century also brought the systematic study of color theory, and particularly the study of how complementary colors such as red and green reinforced each other when they were placed next to each other. These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Describing his painting, The... | When did the systematic study of color theory begin? | {'text': 'late nineteenth century', 'answer_start': 4} |
111,083 | 110,741 | 5ace973b32bba1001ae4ab67 | generic | Since it was quite easy to stack interconnections (wires) inside the embedding matrix, the approach allowed designers to forget completely about the routing of wires (usually a time-consuming operation of PCB design): Anywhere the designer needs a connection, the machine will draw a wire in straight line from one locat... | What led to long design times? | {'text': 'the machine', 'answer_start': 260} |
19,074 | 18,732 | 56e6d441de9d371400068070 | generic | In its early years of existence, the smooth jazz format was considered to be a form of AC, although it was mainly instrumental, and related a stronger resemblance to the soft AC-styled music. For many years, artists like George Benson, Kenny G and Dave Koz had crossover hits that were played on both smooth jazz and sof... | Along with Kenny G and Dave Koz, what artist was featured on smooth jazz stations? | {'text': 'George Benson', 'answer_start': 221} |
20,876 | 20,534 | 56e79deb37bdd419002c424a | generic | In October 2008, Tom Benson announced that the New Orleans VooDoo were ceasing operations and folding "based on circumstances currently affecting the league and the team". Shortly thereafter, an article in Sports Business Journal announced that the AFL had a tentative agreement to sell a $100 million stake in the leagu... | Who made the announcement that the VooDoo were shutting down? | {'text': 'Tom Benson', 'answer_start': 17} |
33,200 | 32,858 | 570987baed30961900e8429b | generic | Orthodox Judaism maintains the historical understanding of Jewish identity. A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converts to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law and tradition. Orthodoxy thus rejects patrilineal descent as a means of establishing Jewish identity. Similarly, Orthodoxy strongly conde... | What does orthodoxy reject as a means of establishing Jewish identiy? | {'text': 'patrilineal descent', 'answer_start': 221} |
126,534 | 126,192 | 5732a488d6dcfa19001e8a5a | generic | The ad fontes principle also had many applications. The re-discovery of ancient manuscripts brought a more profound and accurate knowledge of ancient philosophical schools such as Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism, whose Pagan wisdom the humanists, like the Church fathers of old, tended, at least initially, to consider as... | Who was the most influential supporter of the ideals of Terence? | {'text': 'Saint Augustine', 'answer_start': 617} |
35,681 | 35,339 | 570b0780ec8fbc190045b7ee | generic | Although STOVL aircraft are capable of taking off vertically from a spot on the deck, using the ramp and a running start is far more fuel efficient and permits a heavier launch weight. As catapults are unnecessary, carriers with this arrangement reduce weight, complexity, and space needed for complex steam or electroma... | What landing aircraft have removed the need for arresting cables? | {'text': 'vertical', 'answer_start': 348} |
40,257 | 39,915 | 570c6a8cb3d812140066d1ef | generic | John's first wife, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, was released from imprisonment in 1214; she remarried twice, and died in 1217. John's second wife, Isabella of Angoulême, left England for Angoulême soon after the king's death; she became a powerful regional leader, but largely abandoned the children she had had by Jo... | How many legitimate children did John have? | {'text': 'five', 'answer_start': 333} |
44,731 | 44,389 | 570fa5ab80d9841400ab3603 | generic | Depending on which component of sexual orientation is being assessed and referenced, different conclusions can be drawn about the prevalence rate of homosexuality which has real world consequences. Knowing how much of the population is made up of homosexual individuals influences how this population may be seen or trea... | What message did Voeller deliver using this myth? | {'text': 'we [gays and lesbians] are everywhere', 'answer_start': 1162} |
675 | 333 | 56d4d0c32ccc5a1400d83250 | generic | Beyoncé is believed to have first started a relationship with Jay Z after a collaboration on "'03 Bonnie & Clyde", which appeared on his seventh album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse (2002). Beyoncé appeared as Jay Z's girlfriend in the music video for the song, which would further fuel speculation of their relat... | How many records combined have Beyoncé and Jay Z sold? | {'text': '300 million', 'answer_start': 447} |
72,548 | 72,206 | 5a35d292788daf001a5f8692 | generic | Before glaciation, mountain valleys have a characteristic "V" shape, produced by eroding water. During glaciation, these valleys are widened, deepened, and smoothed, forming a "U"-shaped glacial valley. The erosion that creates glacial valleys eliminates the spurs of earth that extend across mountain valleys, creating ... | What has a V shape after a glacier recedes? | {'text': 'mountain valleys', 'answer_start': 19} |
17,033 | 16,691 | 5a21dbd48a6e4f001aa08fa9 | generic | The Book of Concord is the historic doctrinal statement of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century. However, the Book of Concord is a confessional document (stating orthodox belief) rather than a book of ecclesiastical rules or discipline... | What book has been recognized as authoritative since the 1600s? | {'text': 'Book of Concord', 'answer_start': 4} |
96,721 | 96,379 | 572a3f281d04691400779881 | generic | The Ottoman Empire or, as a dynastic institution, the House of Osman was unprecedented and unequaled in the Islamic world for its size and duration. In Europe, only the House of Habsburg had a similarly unbroken line of sovereigns (kings/emperors) from the same family who ruled for so long, and during the same period, ... | When was the reign of sultan Mehmed VI? | {'text': '1918–1922', 'answer_start': 911} |
123,039 | 122,697 | 5731cbb4b9d445190005e56c | generic | The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under Henry VIII brought England alongside this broad Reformation movement. Reformers in the Church of England alternated between sympathies for ancient Catholic tradition and more Reformed principles, gradually developing into a tradition considered a middle ... | When was the Act of Supremacy passed? | {'text': '1534', 'answer_start': 679} |
25,326 | 24,984 | 56f8e1499e9bad19000a0672 | generic | Gene nomenclature has been established by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) for each known human gene in the form of an approved gene name and symbol (short-form abbreviation), which can be accessed through a database maintained by HGNC. Symbols are chosen to be unique, and each gene has only one symbol (alth... | How many symbols does each gene have? | {'text': 'only one', 'answer_start': 299} |
69,883 | 69,541 | 5726e3e2f1498d1400e8eef4 | generic | There are occasional brief hints and allusions in his longer works however that Avicenna considered philosophy as the only sensible way to distinguish real prophecy from illusion. He did not state this more clearly because of the political implications of such a theory, if prophecy could be questioned, and also because... | What did Avicenna not consider when explaining his theories on philosophy? | {'text': 'epistemological matters', 'answer_start': 480} |
23,493 | 23,151 | 56f74c09a6d7ea1400e17176 | generic | If a party has materially violated or breached its treaty obligations, the other parties may invoke this breach as grounds for temporarily suspending their obligations to that party under the treaty. A material breach may also be invoked as grounds for permanently terminating the treaty itself. | What temporary actions can parties of a treaty take in response to a material violation of a party's obligations? | {'text': 'suspending their obligations to that party', 'answer_start': 139} |
121,553 | 121,211 | 5a53729dbdaabd001a3866c0 | generic | European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools (scholae monasticae), in which monks and nuns taught classes; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century. The earliest universities were develop... | Where did education originally take place across the world? | {'text': 'Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools', 'answer_start': 62} |
69,395 | 69,053 | 5a7a441717ab25001a8a043a | generic | “The roots of all our modern academic fields can be found within the pages of literature.” Literature in all its forms can be seen as written records, whether the literature itself be factual or fictional, it is still quite possible to decipher facts through things like characters’ actions and words or the authors’ st... | In "Childe Harold's Pilgimage: Cano I," Lord Byron talks about the Portuguese and what other groups? | {'text': 'Spanish and the French', 'answer_start': 1382} |
51,666 | 51,324 | 5725bbfcec44d21400f3d499 | generic | The city of Montevideo suffered a siege of eight years between 1843 and 1851, during which it was supplied by sea with British and French support. Oribe, with the support of the then conservative Governor of Buenos Aires Province Juan Manuel de Rosas, besieged the Colorados in Montevideo, where the latter were supporte... | What did Montevideo suffer between 1843 and 1851? | {'text': 'a siege', 'answer_start': 32} |
66,281 | 65,939 | 5a81c94f31013a001a334eb6 | generic | Residents of Norfolk Island do not pay Australian federal taxes, creating a tax haven for locals and visitors alike. Because there is no income tax, the island's legislative assembly raises money through an import duty, fuel levy, medicare levy, GST of 12% and local/international phone calls. In a move that apparently ... | When will income tax be removed by Norfolk Island? | {'text': 'July 1, 2016', 'answer_start': 646} |
28,838 | 28,496 | 5706a30b75f01819005e7c91 | generic | In the post-apartheid era, the Constitution of South Africa has declared the country to be a "Non-racial democracy". In an effort to redress past injustices, the ANC government has introduced laws in support of affirmative action policies for Blacks; under these they define "Black" people to include "Africans", "Colour... | Who makes the "Coloured" people feel "Not black enough"? | {'text': 'ANC (African National Congress)', 'answer_start': 729} |
66,675 | 66,333 | 5ad11348645df0001a2d0c5c | generic | The historian Piers Brendon asserts that Burke laid the moral foundations for the British Empire, epitomised in the trial of Warren Hastings, that was ultimately to be its undoing: when Burke stated that "The British Empire must be governed on a plan of freedom, for it will be governed by no other", this was "...an ide... | What kind of doctrine did Hastings propose? | {'text': 'paternalistic', 'answer_start': 386} |
42,931 | 42,589 | 5ad2415cd7d075001a428961 | generic | Positioned asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is the southernmost continent and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean; alternatively, it may be considered to be surrounded by the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, or by the southern waters of the World O... | What continent is 14,000,000 square miles? | {'text': 'Antarctica', 'answer_start': 91} |
10,189 | 9,847 | 56ddef9d9a695914005b96eb | generic | The use of the term for the Iranian language family was introduced in 1836 by Christian Lassen. Robert Needham Cust used the term Irano-Aryan in 1878, and Orientalists such as George Abraham Grierson and Max Müller contrasted Irano-Aryan (Iranian) and Indo-Aryan (Indic). Some recent scholarship, primarily in German, ha... | Who first used the term Iranian language? | {'text': 'Christian Lassen', 'answer_start': 78} |
99,727 | 99,385 | 5a580041770dc0001aeeff2d | generic | John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea... | Why is Dewey's system considered a priori? | {'text': 'reality is determined by past experience', 'answer_start': 317} |
74,393 | 74,051 | 5727dd2d3acd2414000dee56 | generic | The Oak Street Connector (Connecticut Route 34) intersects I-91 at exit 1, just south of the I-95/I-91 interchange, and runs northwest for a few blocks as an expressway spur into downtown before emptying onto surface roads. The Wilbur Cross Parkway (Connecticut Route 15) runs parallel to I-95 west of New Haven, turning... | What is the name of the highway tunnel on Route 15 in New Haven? | {'text': 'Heroes Tunnel', 'answer_start': 635} |
48,890 | 48,548 | 571aa3cf10f8ca140030522b | generic | Geographically, the empire was divided into several provinces, the borders of which changed numerous times during the Umayyad reign. Each province had a governor appointed by the khalifah. The governor was in charge of the religious officials, army leaders, police, and civil administrators in his province. Local expens... | Who appointed the governors in the Umayyad empire? | {'text': 'khalifah', 'answer_start': 179} |
119,984 | 119,642 | 57312af7497a881900248bf2 | generic | Hong Taiji died suddenly in September 1643 without a designated heir. As the Jurchens had traditionally "elected" their leader through a council of nobles, the Qing state did not have in place a clear succession system until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor. The leading contenders for power at this time were Hong Taiji'... | Who became the emperor? | {'text': 'Fulin', 'answer_start': 448} |
56,204 | 55,862 | 5726652e5951b619008f7189 | generic | In practice, not all rule violations will result in a disqualification as the referee may use their own judgement and is not obligated to stop the match. Usually, the only offenses that the referee will see and immediately disqualify the match on (as opposed to having multiple offenses) are low blows, weapon usage, int... | What are the usual reasons for an automatic disqualification? | {'text': 'low blows, weapon usage, interference, or assaulting the referee', 'answer_start': 292} |
55,854 | 55,512 | 572687e3708984140094c8ff | generic | Unlike all other British Government records, the records from the East India Company (and its successor the India Office) are not in The National Archives at Kew, London, but are held by the British Library in London as part of the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. The catalogue is searchable online in the Access t... | Are you able to search most of the records online today? | {'text': 'The catalogue is searchable online in the Access to Archives catalogues', 'answer_start': 270} |
99,735 | 99,393 | 5a7c645ae8bc7e001a9e1d4b | generic | In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense... | What processes do idealists say are constructed by reality? | {'text': 'mental', 'answer_start': 127} |
79,536 | 79,194 | 5a5d4b0e5e8782001a9d5ea2 | generic | Cork is home to the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, and to many musical acts, including John Spillane, The Frank And Walters, Sultans of Ping, Simple Kid, Microdisney, Fred, Mick Flannery and the late Rory Gallagher. Singer songwriter Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas also hail from Cork. The opera singers Cara... | What city are the High Llamas from? | {'text': 'Cork', 'answer_start': 0} |
23,062 | 22,720 | 56f87f17aef2371900626115 | generic | The city has a Mayor and is one of the 16 cities and towns in England and Wales to have a ceremonial sheriff who acts as a deputy for the Mayor. The current and 793rd Mayor of Southampton is Linda Norris. Catherine McEwing is the current and 578th sherriff. The town crier from 2004 until his death in 2014 was John Melo... | Who's the current Mayor of Southampton? | {'text': 'Linda Norris', 'answer_start': 191} |
78,560 | 78,218 | 5727b0c94b864d1900163a7b | generic | The a cappella musical Perfect Harmony, a comedy about two high school a cappella groups vying to win the National championship, made its Off Broadway debut at Theatre Row’s Acorn Theatre on 42nd Street in New York City in October, 2010 after a successful out-of-town run at the Stoneham Theatre, in Stoneham, Massachuse... | In what month was Perfect Harmony's Off-Brodway debut? | {'text': 'October', 'answer_start': 223} |
20,237 | 19,895 | 5acf4dd377cf76001a684b6e | generic | The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school located on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The KU School of Business was founded in 1924 and currently has more than 80 faculty members and approximately 1500 students. | What kind of institution isn't KU's School of Business? | {'text': 'public', 'answer_start': 49} |
74,563 | 74,221 | 5a6fd77e8abb0b001a675fad | generic | At the same time, some Alsatians were in opposition to the Jacobins and sympathetic to the invading forces of Austria and Prussia who sought to crush the nascent revolutionary republic. Many of the residents of the Sundgau made "pilgrimages" to places like Mariastein Abbey, near Basel, in Switzerland, for baptisms and ... | When was the French Revolutionary Army victorious? | {'text': '1799', 'answer_start': 499} |
42,209 | 41,867 | 570d63cdfed7b91900d45fa5 | generic | On the French side, planning after the disaster at Wissembourg had become essential. General Le Bœuf, flushed with anger, was intent upon going on the offensive over the Saar and countering their loss. However, planning for the next encounter was more based upon the reality of unfolding events rather than emotion or pr... | Planning for the next battle was less based on emotion and more focused on what? | {'text': 'the reality of unfolding events', 'answer_start': 263} |
107,702 | 107,360 | 572faf0e04bcaa1900d76beb | generic | The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events. The Space Age began with the development of several technologies that culminated with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. This was the ... | How many people watched the Apollo 11 landing? | {'text': '500 million', 'answer_start': 936} |
88,521 | 88,179 | 572837113acd2414000df729 | generic | In monotheism and henotheism, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith. The concept of God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness),... | What is the benevolence of God called? | {'text': 'omnibenevolence', 'answer_start': 285} |
13,020 | 12,678 | 5ace2b2d32bba1001ae49c69 | generic | ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off). ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation. The Columbia Phonograph Company had international subsidiaries and affiliates such as the Columbia Graphophone Compan... | Ted Wallerstein became the head of Columbia what? | {'text': 'Records', 'answer_start': 1388} |
93,089 | 92,747 | 57293bee1d046914007791a6 | generic | A common cause of software failure (real or perceived) is a lack of its compatibility with other application software, operating systems (or operating system versions, old or new), or target environments that differ greatly from the original (such as a terminal or GUI application intended to be run on the desktop now b... | What do developers commonly do when creating software that can lead to failures? | {'text': 'lack of backward compatibility', 'answer_start': 430} |
83,686 | 83,344 | 5727e31e2ca10214002d98ad | generic | Regular LPGA tournaments are held at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, and major championships for the PGA or LPGA have been played at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oak Tree Country Club in Oklahoma City, and Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa. Rated one of the top golf courses in the nation, Southern Hills has... | Where is Southern Hills Country Club? | {'text': 'Tulsa', 'answer_start': 167} |
6,573 | 6,231 | 56d37e5059d6e4140014653c | generic | Finalist Phillip Phillips suffered from kidney pain and was taken to the hospital before the Top 13 results show, and later received medical procedure to alleviate a blockage caused by kidney stones. He was reported to have eight surgeries during his Idol run, and had considered quitting the show due to the pain. He un... | Which contestant thought about leaving the contest because of pain in his kidney? | {'text': 'Phillip Phillips', 'answer_start': 9} |
126,397 | 126,055 | 57327ed206a3a419008aca8d | generic | The humanists' close study of Latin literary texts soon enabled them to discern historical differences in the writing styles of different periods. By analogy with what they saw as decline of Latin, they applied the principle of ad fontes, or back to the sources, across broad areas of learning, seeking out manuscripts o... | What caused a large migration of Greek refuges in the 1450s? | {'text': 'Greek manuscripts', 'answer_start': 1262} |
17,840 | 17,498 | 56e15ea9cd28a01900c6781d | generic | Another initiative, presented by the late Mayor Thomas Menino, is the Renew Boston Whole Building Incentive, which reduces the cost of living in buildings that are deemed energy efficient. This, much like the green housing developments, gives people of low socioeconomic status an opportunity to find housing in communit... | Whos is the late Mayor of Boston? | {'text': 'Thomas Menino', 'answer_start': 48} |
51,535 | 51,193 | 5725c4b6ec44d21400f3d522 | generic | Improved sanitation in the developing world is a global need, but a neglected priority as shown by the data collected by the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) of UNICEF and WHO. This program is tasked to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to drinking w... | What does data collected by unicef and Who show | {'text': 'Improved sanitation in the developing world is a global need, but a neglected priority as shown by the data collected', 'answer_start': 0} |
114,090 | 113,748 | 57302564b2c2fd140056895b | generic | The demographics of the British Isles today are characterised by a generally high density of population in England, which accounts for almost 80% of the total population of the islands. In elsewhere on Great Britain and on Ireland, high density of population is limited to areas around, or close to, a few large cities. ... | How many people live in the area of London? | {'text': '9 million', 'answer_start': 388} |
11,625 | 11,283 | 56de6331cffd8e1900b4b850 | generic | Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (/ˈʃwɔːrtsənˌɛɡər/; German: [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈalɔʏs ˈʃvaɐ̯tsn̩ˌɛɡɐ]; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, former professional bodybuilder and politician. He served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 200... | What's Arnold Schwarzenegger's birth date? | {'text': 'July 30, 1947', 'answer_start': 95} |
55,530 | 55,188 | 5a3a0cbe2f14dd001ac726d9 | generic | In intelligent mammals, such as primates, the cerebrum is larger relative to the rest of the brain. Intelligence itself is not easy to define, but indications of intelligence include the ability to learn, matched with behavioral flexibility. Rats, for example, are considered to be highly intelligent, as they can learn ... | What part of the brain is larger in rats compared to the rest of the brain? | {'text': 'the cerebrum', 'answer_start': 42} |
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