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47,721 | 47,379 | 5ad2b8f4d7d075001a42a04e | generic | In the 1980s, parents of mixed-race children began to organize and lobby for the addition of a more inclusive term of racial designation that would reflect the heritage of their children. When the U.S. government proposed the addition of the category of "bi-racial" or "multiracial" in 1988, the response from the public... | What is a way African Americans could increase their numbers? | {'text': 'self-identification', 'answer_start': 650} |
42,312 | 41,970 | 570d785cb3d812140066d9c2 | generic | The casualties were horrible, especially for the attacking Prussian forces. A grand total of 20,163 German troops were killed, wounded or missing in action during the August 18 battle. The French losses were 7,855 killed and wounded along with 4,420 prisoners of war (half of them were wounded) for a total of 12,275. Wh... | What was the grand total of German casualties and those missing in action? | {'text': '20,163', 'answer_start': 93} |
55,179 | 54,837 | 572624ed38643c19005ad0b5 | generic | Shell's primary business is the management of a vertically integrated oil company. The development of technical and commercial expertise in all stages of this vertical integration, from the initial search for oil (exploration) through its harvesting (production), transportation, refining and finally trading and marketi... | What is Shell's primary business? | {'text': 'the management of a vertically integrated oil company', 'answer_start': 28} |
12,035 | 11,693 | 56df6b6d5ca0a614008f99f5 | generic | From the 2011 Census, the Office for National Statistics published that Plymouth's unitary authority area population was 256,384; 15,664 more people than that of the last census from 2001, which indicated that Plymouth had a population of 240,720. The Plymouth urban area had a population of 260,203 in 2011 (the urban s... | What was the population of Plymouth unitary authority circa 2011? | {'text': '256,384', 'answer_start': 121} |
80,795 | 80,453 | 572812d44b864d19001643ca | generic | Thousands of fonts exist on the market, but fewer than a dozen fonts—sometimes described as "pan-Unicode" fonts—attempt to support the majority of Unicode's character repertoire. Instead, Unicode-based fonts typically focus on supporting only basic ASCII and particular scripts or sets of characters or symbols. Several ... | Unicode-based fonts are normally focused on supporting what? | {'text': 'basic ASCII and particular scripts or sets of characters or symbols', 'answer_start': 243} |
17,376 | 17,034 | 56e15083e3433e1400422dab | generic | In Andorra, Catalan has always been the sole official language. Since the promulgation of the 1993 constitution, several Andorranization policies have been enforced, like Catalan medium education. | When was the Andorran constitution produced? | {'text': '1993', 'answer_start': 94} |
9,439 | 9,097 | 5a80193e8f0597001ac00193 | generic | The biologist Lynn Margulis, famous for her work on endosymbiosis, contends that symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution. She considers Darwin's notion of evolution, driven by competition, to be incomplete and claims that evolution is strongly based on co-operation, interaction, and mutual dependence among ... | What is the biologist Darwin famous for? | {'text': 'endosymbiosis', 'answer_start': 52} |
109,161 | 108,819 | 5ace255a32bba1001ae49baf | generic | The West Campus is located about one mile (1.6 km) to the west of the Danforth Campus in Clayton, Missouri, and primarily consists of a four-story former department store building housing mostly administrative space. The West Campus building was home to the Clayton branch of the Famous-Barr department store until 1990,... | On what floor are the information system offices? | {'text': 'second floor', 'answer_start': 824} |
95,132 | 94,790 | 572990e16aef051400154fdc | generic | From the middle of the 18th century, exploration and publication changed the course of British architecture towards a purer vision of the Ancient Greco-Roman ideal. James 'Athenian' Stuart's work The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece was very influential in this regard, as were Robert Wood's Palmyra a... | Who began the revolution of Greek influenced architecture in Britain? | {'text': "James 'Athenian' Stuart", 'answer_start': 165} |
32,183 | 31,841 | 5a836e5fe60761001a2eb6d0 | generic | Copper has been used since ancient times as a durable, corrosion resistant, and weatherproof architectural material. Roofs, flashings, rain gutters, downspouts, domes, spires, vaults, and doors have been made from copper for hundreds or thousands of years. Copper's architectural use has been expanded in modern times to... | How long has copper been banned in building construction? | {'text': 'hundreds or thousands of years', 'answer_start': 225} |
67,386 | 67,044 | 5726b6a15951b619008f7b91 | generic | In a WRIM, the rotor winding is made of many turns of insulated wire and is connected to slip rings on the motor shaft. An external resistor or other control devices can be connected in the rotor circuit. Resistors allow control of the motor speed, although significant power is dissipated in the external resistance. A ... | Where might a resistor be attached? | {'text': 'rotor circuit', 'answer_start': 190} |
102,194 | 101,852 | 573173bea5e9cc1400cdbf81 | generic | The RCC implemented measures for social reform, adopting sharia as a basis. The consumption of alcohol was banned, night clubs and Christian churches were shut down, traditional Libyan dress was encouraged, while Arabic was decreed as the only language permitted in official communications and on road signs. From 1969 t... | On what philosophy was the RCC's social reforms based? | {'text': 'sharia', 'answer_start': 57} |
51,368 | 51,026 | 57260d4aec44d21400f3d851 | generic | The worship of dynastic ruler cults was also a feature of this period, most notably in Egypt, where the Ptolemies adopted earlier Pharaonic practice, and established themselves as god-kings. These cults were usually associated with a specific temple in honor of the ruler such as the Ptolemaieia at Alexandria and had th... | A long lived cult in Erythrae worshiped which dead leader? | {'text': 'Alexander', 'answer_start': 747} |
110,354 | 110,012 | 572f7c1504bcaa1900d76a05 | generic | Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. Urartu was established in 860 BC and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. In the 1st century BC the Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great. Armenia became the first state in ... | When was Urartu created? | {'text': '860 BC', 'answer_start': 120} |
39,976 | 39,634 | 570e83d30b85d914000d7f77 | generic | Melbourne is an international cultural centre, with cultural endeavours spanning major events and festivals, drama, musicals, comedy, music, art, architecture, literature, film and television. The climate, waterfront location and nightlife make it one of the most vibrant destinations in Australia. For five years in a r... | Which factors make Melbourne one of the moust vibrant destinations in Australia? | {'text': 'The climate, waterfront location and nightlife', 'answer_start': 193} |
28,661 | 28,319 | 56fdeafd19033b140034cdcf | generic | The first practical ICs were invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on 12 September 1958. In his patent application of 6 Febr... | When was the first functional IC demonstrated? | {'text': '12 September 1958.', 'answer_start': 266} |
38,395 | 38,053 | 570cf238fed7b91900d45b39 | generic | In addition to the use of the multiprotein complexes listed above, Gram-negative bacteria possess another method for release of material: the formation of outer membrane vesicles. Portions of the outer membrane pinch off, forming spherical structures made of a lipid bilayer enclosing periplasmic materials. Vesicles fro... | What does the release of vesicles seem to demenstrate? | {'text': 'response to stress conditions', 'answer_start': 554} |
110,045 | 109,703 | 57341fd5d058e614000b6979 | generic | The city's elevation is 2,643 ft (806 m) above sea level (as measured at the Tucson International Airport). Tucson is situated on an alluvial plain in the Sonoran desert, surrounded by five minor ranges of mountains: the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Tortolita Mountains to the north, the Santa Rita Mountains to the ... | What desert is Tucson in? | {'text': 'Sonoran', 'answer_start': 155} |
86,074 | 85,732 | 5ad34016604f3c001a3fdbd9 | generic | In December 2008, the CTO of Blitz Games announced that it would bring stereoscopic 3D gaming and movie viewing to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with its own technology. This was first demonstrated publicly on PS3 using Sony's own technology in January 2009 at the Consumer Electronics Show. Journalists were shown Wipeout ... | What was the PS3 console able to play after the system software was updated to 3.05? | {'text': '3D films', 'answer_start': 600} |
100,231 | 99,889 | 572ba616111d821400f38f37 | generic | Nouns are also inflected for number, distinguishing between singular and plural. Typical of a Slavic language, Czech cardinal numbers one through four allow the nouns and adjectives they modify to take any case, but numbers over five place these nouns and adjectives in the genitive case when the entire expression is in... | When is the genitive case used? | {'text': 'when the entire expression is in nominative or accusative case', 'answer_start': 288} |
4,282 | 3,940 | 56cfb021234ae51400d9be72 | generic | New York is also a major center for non-commercial educational media. The oldest public-access television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971. WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary source of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television ... | What is the largest public radio station in the US by audience size? | {'text': 'WNYC', 'answer_start': 333} |
110,669 | 110,327 | 572fb31fa23a5019007fc8c0 | generic | Acid-fast bacteria, such as Mycobacteria, are resistant to decolorization by acids during staining procedures. The high mycolic acid content of Mycobacteria, is responsible for the staining pattern of poor absorption followed by high retention. The most common staining technique used to identify acid-fast bacteria is t... | What is mycolic acid is responsible for in Mycobacteria? | {'text': 'staining pattern of poor absorption followed by high retention.', 'answer_start': 181} |
26,555 | 26,213 | 5acfc4ee77cf76001a685e0a | generic | The rapid development of religions in Zhejiang has driven the local committee of ethnic and religious affairs to enact measures to rationalise them in 2014, variously named "Three Rectifications and One Demolition" operations or "Special Treatment Work on Illegally Constructed Sites of Religious and Folk Religion Activ... | These regulations have not led to the demolition of churches and what else? | {'text': 'Folk Religion Activities', 'answer_start': 301} |
107,947 | 107,605 | 5a8a485d3b2508001a72a984 | generic | In 2010 there was an attempt to register a 51st State Party with the New Zealand Electoral Commission. The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America. The party's secretary is Paulus Telfer, a former Christchurch mayoral candidate. On February 5, 2010, the party applied to regis... | When did the 51st State Party attempt to register with Paulus Telfer? | {'text': '2010', 'answer_start': 3} |
128,310 | 127,968 | 5ad2a0edd7d075001a429cb0 | generic | During the last three decades of the 19th century a proliferation of anthropological societies and associations occurred, most independent, most publishing their own journals, and all international in membership and association. The major theorists belonged to these organizations. They supported the gradual osmosis of ... | What was found in 48 educational institutions in the 18th century? | {'text': 'curriculum in anthropology', 'answer_start': 532} |
64,292 | 63,950 | 5ad01d8477cf76001a686a88 | generic | As economic and demographic methods were applied to the study of history, the trend was increasingly to see the late Middle Ages as a period of recession and crisis. Belgian historian Henri Pirenne continued the subdivision of Early, High, and Late Middle Ages in the years around World War I. Yet it was his Dutch colle... | What methods, applied to the study of chemistry, led to the perception of the Middle Ages as a time of recession and crisis? | {'text': 'economic and demographic', 'answer_start': 3} |
62,385 | 62,043 | 57279e7d3acd2414000de801 | generic | Prior to 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands which now make up the Arab world (excluding Israel). Of these, just under two-thirds lived in the French-controlled Maghreb region, 15–20% in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% in the Kingdom of Egypt and approximately 7% in the Kingdom of Yemen. A furt... | Prior to 1948, how many Jews were living in lands which now make up the Arab world (excluding Israel)? | {'text': '800,000', 'answer_start': 29} |
61,878 | 61,536 | 5726a242dd62a815002e8b8b | generic | Burmese resentment was strong and was vented in violent riots that paralysed Yangon (Rangoon) on occasion all the way until the 1930s. Some of the discontent was caused by a disrespect for Burmese culture and traditions such as the British refusal to remove shoes when they entered pagodas. Buddhist monks became the van... | What were some of problems experienced with the colonialism of Burma by the British? | {'text': 'Some of the discontent was caused by a disrespect for Burmese culture and traditions', 'answer_start': 135} |
74,143 | 73,801 | 572a334d1d04691400779848 | generic | In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit over reverse discrimination brought by 20 white and Hispanic firefighters against the city. The suit involved the 2003 promotion test for the New Haven Fire Department. After the tests were scored, no blacks scored high enough to qualify for considera... | The court cast was rather popular due to which person on the case? | {'text': 'Sonia Sotomayor', 'answer_start': 745} |
24,808 | 24,466 | 56f88a0ca6d7ea1400e17741 | generic | The core regions of the Alpine orogenic belt have been folded and fractured in such a manner that erosion created the characteristic steep vertical peaks of the Swiss Alps that rise seemingly straight out of the foreland areas. Peaks such as Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and high peaks in the Pennine Alps, the Briançonna... | What are the common characteristics of the Alpine Orogenic Belt? | {'text': 'steep vertical peaks', 'answer_start': 133} |
36,364 | 36,022 | 570b24776b8089140040f788 | generic | Some systems are capable of multipoint conferencing with no MCU, stand-alone, embedded or otherwise. These use a standards-based H.323 technique known as "decentralized multipoint", where each station in a multipoint call exchanges video and audio directly with the other stations with no central "manager" or other bott... | What is one disadvantage of using the H.323 technique? | {'text': 'increased network bandwidth', 'answer_start': 661} |
116,890 | 116,548 | 57309634069b5314008321b3 | generic | Many ground crew at the airport work at the aircraft. A tow tractor pulls the aircraft to one of the airbridges, The ground power unit is plugged in. It keeps the electricity running in the plane when it stands at the terminal. The engines are not working, therefore they do not generate the electricity, as they do in f... | How long should it take for an aircraft to be off the airport and in the air? | {'text': '90 minutes', 'answer_start': 1645} |
90,082 | 89,740 | 5ad412db604f3c001a400254 | generic | Another Alaskan transportation method is the dogsled. In modern times (that is, any time after the mid-late 1920s), dog mushing is more of a sport than a true means of transportation. Various races are held around the state, but the best known is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,150-mile (1,850 km) trail from Anch... | What doesn't the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorate in Alaskan history? | {'text': 'the famous 1925 serum run to Nome', 'answer_start': 463} |
112,237 | 111,895 | 572fee59b2c2fd14005685f9 | generic | The Jugurthine War of 111–104 BC was fought between Rome and Jugurtha of the North African kingdom of Numidia. It constituted the final Roman pacification of Northern Africa, after which Rome largely ceased expansion on the continent after reaching natural barriers of desert and mountain. Following Jugurtha's usurpatio... | Who did Jugurtha have to bribe in order for them to accept him as the new leader of Numidia? | {'text': 'the Romans', 'answer_start': 452} |
82,776 | 82,434 | 5727d0143acd2414000ded01 | generic | Under Walter Dill Scott's presidency from 1920 to 1939, Northwestern began construction of an integrated campus in Chicago designed by James Gamble Rogers to house the professional schools; established the Kellogg School of Management; and built several prominent buildings on the Evanston campus, Dyche Stadium (now nam... | What merger was proposed and rejected in 1933? | {'text': 'Northwestern with the University of Chicago', 'answer_start': 398} |
10,899 | 10,557 | 5acfa27f77cf76001a68565d | generic | Texts on architecture have been written since ancient time. These texts provided both general advice and specific formal prescriptions or canons. Some examples of canons are found in the writings of the 1st-century BCE Roman Architect Vitruvius. Some of the most important early examples of canonic architecture are reli... | Aside from general advice what did the texts not contain? | {'text': 'specific formal prescriptions or canons', 'answer_start': 105} |
6,105 | 5,763 | 56d3661659d6e414001462d8 | generic | American Idol is an American singing competition series created by Simon Fuller and produced by 19 Entertainment, and is distributed by FremantleMedia North America. It began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002, as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol and has since become one of the most succ... | What British series is American Idols format based on? | {'text': 'Pop Idol', 'answer_start': 270} |
111,448 | 111,106 | 57307b79069b531400832115 | generic | During and after the Greek War of Independence, Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling state, raising funds and awareness abroad. Greek merchant families already had contacts in other countries and during the disturbances many set up home around the Mediterranean (notably Marseilles in Fran... | After freedom was won by the Greeks who was of import to forming the rules ? | {'text': 'Greek War of Independence, Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling state', 'answer_start': 21} |
66,757 | 66,415 | 5726b876dd62a815002e8e18 | generic | After repeated efforts by the Samoan independence movement, the New Zealand Western Samoa Act 1961 of 24 November 1961 granted Samoa independence effective 1 January 1962, upon which the Trusteeship Agreement terminated. Samoa also signed a friendship treaty with New Zealand. Samoa, the first small-island country in th... | What's the name of the agreement that ended with the start of Samoa's independence from New Zealand? | {'text': 'Trusteeship Agreement', 'answer_start': 187} |
73,059 | 72,717 | 5a8720c81d3cee001a6a1104 | generic | In 2007, the country with the highest estimated incidence rate of TB was Swaziland, with 1,200 cases per 100,000 people. India had the largest total incidence, with an estimated 2.0 million new cases. In developed countries, tuberculosis is less common and is found mainly in urban areas. Rates per 100,000 people in dif... | How much greater is the mortality rate from TB for racial and ethnic minorities? | {'text': 'fivefold', 'answer_start': 653} |
116,468 | 116,126 | 57305fc38ab72b1400f9c4b6 | generic | The translator's role as a bridge for "carrying across" values between cultures has been discussed at least since Terence, the 2nd-century-BCE Roman adapter of Greek comedies. The translator's role is, however, by no means a passive, mechanical one, and so has also been compared to that of an artist. The main ground se... | Who remarked about Alexander Pope playing Homer on a flageolet? | {'text': 'Samuel Johnson', 'answer_start': 542} |
60,609 | 60,267 | 57265f11f1498d1400e8dd80 | generic | The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire i... | When did 458 million people live in the British Empire? | {'text': '1922', 'answer_start': 389} |
92,485 | 92,143 | 5a72698853a187001ae63113 | generic | To distinguish official campaigning from independent campaigning, political advertisements on television were required to include a verbal disclaimer identifying the organization responsible for the advertisement. Advertisements produced by political campaigns usually included the statement, "I'm [candidate's name], an... | What were candidates required to identify when speaking at a supporters business? | {'text': 'the organization', 'answer_start': 162} |
90,411 | 90,069 | 5ad2685bd7d075001a42926c | generic | Popper had his own sophisticated views on evolution that go much beyond what the frequently-quoted passages say. In effect, Popper agreed with some of the points of both creationists and naturalists, but also disagreed with both views on crucial aspects. Popper understood the universe as a creative entity that invents ... | What did Popper not have sophisticated views on? | {'text': 'evolution', 'answer_start': 42} |
4,126 | 3,784 | 56cf34c5aab44d1400b88e4d | generic | Throughout its history, the city has been a major port of entry for immigrants into the United States; more than 12 million European immigrants were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. The term "melting pot" was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. By 19... | What was the ethnicity of the second largest group of immigrants in 1900? | {'text': 'Irish', 'answer_start': 389} |
126,940 | 126,598 | 5acebd8232bba1001ae4b274 | generic | In 1566, the first police investigator of Rio de Janeiro was recruited. By the 17th century, most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions. On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in the state of Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order. In 1808, the Portuguese royal family relocated ... | How had the Rio police grown by the 16th century? | {'text': 'most captaincies already had local units with law enforcement functions', 'answer_start': 93} |
70,606 | 70,264 | 5ad425dd604f3c001a4008ff | generic | In 1970 the country switched its currency from the Bermudian pound to the Bermudian dollar, which is pegged at par with the US dollar. US notes and coins are used interchangeably with Bermudian notes and coins within the islands for most practical purposes; however, banks levy an exchange rate fee for the purchase of U... | Who do the US notes carry the image of? | {'text': 'Queen Elizabeth II', 'answer_start': 389} |
26,210 | 25,868 | 56f8ff969b226e1400dd124c | generic | The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a non-profit organization for research and advice on Middle Eastern policy. It regards its target countries as the Middle East but adopts the convention of calling them the Near East to be in conformance with the practices of the State Department. Its views are i... | How does WINEP bundle the countries of Northwest Africa? | {'text': 'under "North Africa."', 'answer_start': 393} |
106,422 | 106,080 | 5ad2292fd7d075001a42857d | generic | The physicist Abdus Salam, in his Nobel Prize banquet address, quoted a well known verse from the Quran (67:3-4) and then stated: "This in effect is the faith of all physicists: the deeper we seek, the more is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement of our gaze". One of Salam's core beliefs was that there is no ... | Which verse from the Quran didn't Abdus Salam quote at his Nobel banquet? | {'text': '67:3-4', 'answer_start': 105} |
124,012 | 123,670 | 57323214b9d445190005e8ae | generic | Provide Campaign Assistance. Minority leaders are typically energetic and aggressive campaigners for partisan incumbents and challengers. There is hardly any major aspect of campaigning that does not engage their attention. For example, they assist in recruiting qualified candidates; they establish "leadership PACs" to... | Who establishes leadership PACs? | {'text': 'Minority leaders', 'answer_start': 29} |
101,528 | 101,186 | 572ec68503f9891900756a08 | generic | Between 10 and 17 October 1757, a Hungarian general, Count András Hadik, serving in the Austrian army, executed what may be the most famous hussar action in history. When the Prussian King Frederick was marching south with his powerful armies, the Hungarian general unexpectedly swung his force of 5,000, mostly hussars,... | What city did Hadik occupy? | {'text': 'occupied part of their capital, Berlin, for one night', 'answer_start': 346} |
106,876 | 106,534 | 572ed6a6dfa6aa1500f8d439 | generic | The CD was planned to be the successor of the gramophone record for playing music, rather than primarily as a data storage medium. From its origins as a musical format, CDs have grown to encompass other applications. In 1983, following the CD's introduction, Immink and Braat presented the first experiments with erasabl... | What does ROM stand for? | {'text': 'read-only memory', 'answer_start': 412} |
102,651 | 102,309 | 572ea043c246551400ce4426 | generic | Cyprus has two official languages, Greek and Turkish. Armenian and Cypriot Maronite Arabic are recognised as minority languages. Although without official status, English is widely spoken and it features widely on road signs, public notices, and in advertisements, etc. English was the sole official language during Brit... | Are there any Eastern languages spoken in Cyprus? | {'text': 'Russian', 'answer_start': 546} |
107,733 | 107,391 | 572efe86cb0c0d14000f16de | generic | Puerto Rico has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States. In a 2012 status referendum a majority of voters, 54%, expressed dissatisfaction with the current political relationship. In a separate question, 61% of voters supported statehood (excluding the 26% of voters who left this question blank). O... | What territory has been suggested as a new addition to the United States? | {'text': 'Puerto Rico', 'answer_start': 0} |
120,671 | 120,329 | 57313738497a881900248c69 | generic | During the French Revolution, Red became a symbol of liberty and personal freedom used by the Jacobins and other more radical parties. Many of them wore a red Phrygian cap, or liberty cap, modeled after the caps worn by freed slaves in Ancient Rome. During the height of the Reign of Terror, Women wearing red caps gathe... | Women with red caps crowded around guillotines during the Reign of Terror to do what? | {'text': 'celebrate', 'answer_start': 349} |
34,886 | 34,544 | 570a7c016d058f1900182e8f | generic | Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instr... | With what emotional component did William James identify emotion? | {'text': 'subjective experience', 'answer_start': 274} |
16,227 | 15,885 | 56e0e9887aa994140058e7ac | generic | On October 21, 1959, Eisenhower approved the transfer of the Army's remaining space-related activities to NASA. On July 1, 1960, the Redstone Arsenal became NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, with von Braun as its first director. Development of the Saturn rocket family, which when mature, would finally give... | Who was the first director in charge of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center? | {'text': 'von Braun', 'answer_start': 209} |
112,127 | 111,785 | 572ff67204bcaa1900d76f3f | generic | Its main body is solid sterling silver and silver gilt, while its plinth is made of malachite, a semi-precious stone. The plinth has a silver band around its circumference, upon which the names of the title-winning clubs are listed. Malachite's green colour is also representative of the green field of play. The design ... | What is the Premier League Championship trophy based on? | {'text': 'The design of the trophy is based on the heraldry of Three Lions that is associated with English football.', 'answer_start': 309} |
64,917 | 64,575 | 5ad0c1a6645df0001a2d01dd | generic | It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride. A great number of ecclesiastical buildings remain from this period, of w... | With what organization are many Gothic cathedrals unlisted as World Heritage Sites? | {'text': 'UNESCO', 'answer_start': 485} |
10,981 | 10,639 | 56e4c4a539bdeb14003479ce | generic | One such reaction to the cold aesthetic of modernism and Brutalism is the school of metaphoric architecture, which includes such things as biomorphism and zoomorphic architecture, both using nature as the primary source of inspiration and design. While it is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism, o... | What school was a response to Brutalism? | {'text': 'the school of metaphoric architecture', 'answer_start': 70} |
71,522 | 71,180 | 5acf573d77cf76001a684bb6 | generic | When there is a potential difference across the conductors (e.g., when a capacitor is attached across a battery), an electric field develops across the dielectric, causing positive charge +Q to collect on one plate and negative charge −Q to collect on the other plate. If a battery has been attached to a capacitor for a... | What is an example of when there exists a similarity across the conductors? | {'text': 'when a capacitor is attached across a battery', 'answer_start': 66} |
38,691 | 38,349 | 570c19a06b8089140040fb31 | generic | It was ten years after the inception of the youth program, La Masia, when the young players began to graduate and play for their first team. One of the first graduates, who would later earn international acclaim, was previous Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola. Under Cruyff's guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga... | By 1992 who was Barcelona's most successful manager? | {'text': 'Cruyff', 'answer_start': 645} |
71,174 | 70,832 | 5ad27bb7d7d075001a429669 | generic | Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric was one of the reasons why the UK and France decided that Soviet participation in the 1938 Munich Conference regarding Czechoslovakia would be both dangerous and useless. The Munich Agreement that followed marked a partial German annexation of Czechoslovakia in late 1938 followed by... | Who was the French politician who appeased Germany with the take over of Czechoslovakia | {'text': 'Chamberlain', 'answer_start': 418} |
702 | 360 | 56beab283aeaaa14008c91cc | generic | Beyoncé and husband Jay Z are friends with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. She performed "America the Beautiful" at the 2009 presidential inauguration, as well as "At Last" during the first inaugural dance at the Neighborhood Ball two days later. Beyoncé and Jay Z held a fundraiser at the latter's... | Beyonce and Jay-Z went to a rally for the acquittal of whom? | {'text': 'George Zimmerman', 'answer_start': 880} |
63,051 | 62,709 | 57268c78708984140094c9bc | generic | According to Max Clifford: Read All About It, written by Clifford and Angela Levin, La Salle invented the story out of frustration with Starr who had been working on a book with McCaffrey. She contacted an acquaintance who worked for The Sun in Manchester. The story reportedly delighted MacKenzie, who was keen to run i... | Who was writing a book with McCaffrey? | {'text': 'Starr', 'answer_start': 136} |
118,969 | 118,627 | 5730e35df6cb411900e24519 | generic | Humanitarian Assistance Operations are "programs conducted to relieve or reduce the results of natural or manmade disasters or other endemic conditions such as human pain, disease, hunger, or privation that might present a serious threat to life or that can result in great damage to or loss of property. Humanitarian as... | Who is the Humanitarian support intended to help? | {'text': 'host nation civil authorities or agencies', 'answer_start': 468} |
82,954 | 82,612 | 5ad2c950d7d075001a42a226 | generic | Northwestern was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1917 and remains a research university with "very high" research activity. Northwestern's schools of management, engineering, and communication are among the most academically productive in the nation. Northwestern received $550 million in research... | When was Southwestern elected to the Association of American Universities? | {'text': '1917', 'answer_start': 72} |
20,685 | 20,343 | 56e7adfc37bdd419002c4325 | generic | In the 1960s, the first Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was completed, and served as the only bridge crossing over the Lower Yangtze in eastern China at that time. The bridge was a source of pride and an important symbol of modern China, having been built and designed by the Chinese themselves following failed surveys by ... | What type of design is the bridge? | {'text': 'a two-tiered road and rail design', 'answer_start': 453} |
128,432 | 128,090 | 5733cc56d058e614000b62a0 | generic | Applied Anthropology refers to the application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. It is a, "complex of related, research-based, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direc... | What do the instrumental methods of applied anthropology produce? | {'text': 'change or stability', 'answer_start': 221} |
95,293 | 94,951 | 5a2c75a2bfd06b001a5aeb8b | 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 have Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects replaced? | {'text': 'Štokavian', 'answer_start': 324} |
41,768 | 41,426 | 59d28ca72763a6001828409e | generic | In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York. In 1999, the company agreed to pay... | How much money did GE pay to settle the lawsuit filed against it by the New York State Attorney General in 1983? | {'text': '$250 million', 'answer_start': 323} |
126,036 | 125,694 | 5733ef714776f41900661559 | generic | The Head of State of Portugal is the President of the Republic, elected to a five-year term by direct, universal suffrage. He or she has also supervision and reserve powers. These powers are often compared[by whom?] with the "moderator power" that was held by the King in the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy.[citation... | By what means is the President of the Republic elected? | {'text': 'by direct, universal suffrage', 'answer_start': 92} |
76,921 | 76,579 | 5a7fb6be8f0597001ac0008c | generic | When it comes to civil and criminal cases, the Bundesgerichtshof is at the top of the hierarchy of courts. The other branches of the German judicial system each have their own appellate systems, each topped by a high court; these are the Bundessozialgericht for matters of social security, the Bundesarbeitsgericht for e... | What is the Bundessozialgericht at the top of? | {'text': 'the hierarchy of courts', 'answer_start': 82} |
130,039 | 129,697 | 5acea1b832bba1001ae4adff | generic | However, excessive hunting and poachers have also contributed heavily to the endangerment, extirpation and extinction of many animals, such as the quagga, the great auk, Steller's sea cow, the thylacine, the bluebuck, the Arabian oryx, the Caspian and Javan tigers, the markhor, the Sumatran rhinoceros, the bison, the N... | What animal could usually be found with the markhor? | {'text': 'the bluebuck', 'answer_start': 204} |
73,623 | 73,281 | 572734eb5951b619008f86b8 | generic | Following the 1914–15 edition, the competition was suspended due to the First World War, and didn't resume until 1919–20. The 1922–23 competition saw the first final to be played in the newly opened Wembley Stadium (known at the time as the Empire Stadium). Due to the outbreak of World War II, the competition wasn't pl... | What was Webly stadium called at that time? | {'text': 'Empire Stadium', 'answer_start': 241} |
71,144 | 70,802 | 5726d0795951b619008f7ed5 | generic | Of the territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1940, the region around Białystok and a minor part of Galicia east of the San river around Przemyśl were returned to the Polish state at the end of World War II. Of all other territories annexed by the USSR in 1939–40, the ones detached from Finl... | The regions of Białystok, Galicia and Przemyśl were returned to what country after world war II? | {'text': 'Polish state', 'answer_start': 195} |
69,601 | 69,259 | 5a7e668548f7d9001a0636a8 | generic | A significant portion of historical writing ranks as literature, particularly the genre known as creative nonfiction, as can a great deal of journalism, such as literary journalism. However, these areas have become extremely large, and often have a primarily utilitarian purpose: to record data or convey immediate infor... | Who are the major utilitarian historians? | {'text': 'Herodotus, Thucydides and Procopius', 'answer_start': 499} |
33,985 | 33,643 | 5a8cf0f0fd22b3001a8d9078 | generic | Currently printed denominations are $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. Notes above the $100 denomination stopped being printed in 1946 and were officially withdrawn from circulation in 1969. These notes were used primarily in inter-bank transactions or by organized crime; it was the latter usage that prompted Preside... | When were bills above the below the $1 withdrawn into circulation? | {'text': '1969', 'answer_start': 368} |
35,131 | 34,789 | 570a8ca86d058f1900182f8b | generic | Neville Southall holds the record for the most Everton appearances, having played 751 first-team matches between 1981 and 1997, and previously held the record for the most league clean sheets during a season (15). During the 2008–09 season, this record was beaten by American goalkeeper Tim Howard (17). The late centre ... | Who was the longest serving goalkeeper for the Everton FC? | {'text': 'Ted Sagar', 'answer_start': 437} |
72,802 | 72,460 | 5a73859a53a187001ae63210 | generic | Comcast also owns many local channels. Comcast also has a variety network known as Comcast Network, available exclusively to Comcast and Cablevision subscribers. The channel shows news, sports, and entertainment and places emphasis in Philadelphia and the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. areas, though the channel is also ava... | What did Comcast and the Mets creat in 2004? | {'text': 'SportsNet New York', 'answer_start': 822} |
11,570 | 11,228 | 5a835951e60761001a2eb5ee | generic | The BBC also introduced Ceefax, the first teletext service, starting in 1974. This service allows BBC viewers to view textual information such as the latest news on their television. CEEFAX has not made a full transition to digital television, instead being replaced by the new interactive BBCi service. | When did Ceefax make the full transition to digital television? | {'text': '1974', 'answer_start': 72} |
37,715 | 37,373 | 570b9fa36b8089140040f9c3 | generic | The sensitivity of Earth-based infrared telescopes is significantly limited by water vapor in the atmosphere, which absorbs a portion of the infrared radiation arriving from space outside of selected atmospheric windows. This limitation can be partially alleviated by placing the telescope observatory at a high altitude... | What sorts of telescopes completely avoid water vapor in Earth's atmosphere? | {'text': 'Space telescopes', 'answer_start': 388} |
98,048 | 97,706 | 572a6fc47a1753140016af5c | generic | Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, enter... | Where does Miami rank in terms of US Spanish-speaking populations? | {'text': 'second', 'answer_start': 829} |
85,210 | 84,868 | 5727f84eff5b5019007d997a | generic | The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for the euro and administers monetary policy of the Eurozone, which consists of 19 EU member states and is one of the largest currency areas in the world. It is one of the world's most important central banks and is one of the seven institutions of the European Union ... | What former managing director od Goldman Sachs international division is president of The European Central Bank? | {'text': 'Mario Draghi', 'answer_start': 619} |
38,620 | 38,278 | 570cecc0b3d812140066d31d | generic | In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats. Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor. This provides a firm... | Why helps add an extra bounce to the floor? | {'text': 'springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor', 'answer_start': 242} |
94,118 | 93,776 | 572965381d0469140077939b | generic | Lester Brown states that the market "does not incorporate the indirect costs of providing goods or services into prices, it does not value nature's services adequately, and it does not respect the sustainable-yield thresholds of natural systems". It also favors the near term over the long term, thereby showing limited ... | What can help over come the problems with the market? | {'text': 'Tax and subsidy shifting', 'answer_start': 352} |
64,888 | 64,546 | 5ace4cb332bba1001ae4a21d | generic | The University of Michigan Medical Center, the only teaching hospital in the city, took the number 1 slot in U.S. News & World Report for best hospital in the state of Michigan, as of 2015. The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) includes University Hospital, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital i... | What Catholic hospital is in Ann Arbor? | {'text': 'Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital', 'answer_start': 544} |
93,628 | 93,286 | 5a671775f038b7001ab0c1dc | generic | Glass-ceramic materials share many properties with both non-crystalline glass and crystalline ceramics. They are formed as a glass, and then partially crystallized by heat treatment. For example, the microstructure of whiteware ceramics frequently contains both amorphous and crystalline phases. Crystalline grains are o... | What materials do test regimes have a lot in common with? | {'text': 'non-crystalline glass and crystalline ceramics', 'answer_start': 56} |
11,132 | 10,790 | 56de48cc4396321400ee276d | generic | The report showed a small increase in world HDI in comparison with last year's report. This rise was fueled by a general improvement in the developing world, especially of the least developed countries group. This marked improvement at the bottom was offset with a decrease in HDI of high income countries. | Which countries experienced a decrease in HDI? | {'text': 'high income countries', 'answer_start': 284} |
94,915 | 94,573 | 572b81bc34ae481900deae56 | generic | There are many important organozinc compounds. Organozinc chemistry is the science of organozinc compounds describing their physical properties, synthesis and reactions. Among important applications is the Frankland-Duppa Reaction in which an oxalate ester(ROCOCOOR) reacts with an alkyl halide R'X, zinc and hydrochlori... | What is the zinc equivalent of the Grinard reaction? | {'text': 'The Barbier reaction', 'answer_start': 671} |
109,342 | 109,000 | 573015da04bcaa1900d77156 | generic | Washington University's sports teams are called the Bears. They are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and participate in the University Athletic Association at the Division III level. The Bears have won 19 NCAA Division III Championships— one in women's cross country (2011), one in men's tennis (2... | At what division level does the Washington University sports teams compete? | {'text': 'Division III', 'answer_start': 186} |
106,543 | 106,201 | 5ad23316d7d075001a42878a | generic | Vocalization markers indicating specific vowel sounds were introduced into the Arabic language by the end of the 9th century. The first Quranic manuscripts lacked these marks, therefore several recitations remain acceptable. The variation in readings of the text permitted by the nature of the defective vocalization led... | The absence of which language feature made later Quranic recitation more diverse? | {'text': 'Vocalization markers', 'answer_start': 0} |
118,081 | 117,739 | 5730c36ab7151e1900c0152e | generic | Mary's complete sinlessness and concomitant exemption from any taint from the first moment of her existence was a doctrine familiar to Greek theologians of Byzantium. Beginning with St. Gregory Nazianzen, his explanation of the "purification" of Jesus and Mary at the circumcision (Luke 2:22) prompted him to consider th... | What procedure was being performed while he gave his reasoning ? | {'text': 'the circumcision', 'answer_start': 264} |
55,475 | 55,133 | 5726365038643c19005ad305 | generic | When endothermy first appeared in the evolution of mammals is uncertain. Modern monotremes have lower body temperatures and more variable metabolic rates than marsupials and placentals, but there is evidence that some of their ancestors, perhaps including ancestors of the therians, may have had body temperatures like t... | Which group of animal has a lower body temperature that marsupials and placentals? | {'text': 'monotremes', 'answer_start': 80} |
114,887 | 114,545 | 57302bbda23a5019007fcee5 | generic | In 2003, additional UN sanctions were placed on Liberian timber exports, which had risen from US$5 million in 1997 to over US$100 million in 2002 and were believed to be funding rebels in Sierra Leone. These sanctions were lifted in 2006. Due in large part to foreign aid and investment inflow following the end of the w... | When were the timber export sanctions lifted for Liberia? | {'text': 'in 2006', 'answer_start': 230} |
86,140 | 85,798 | 5ad34254604f3c001a3fdc08 | generic | PlayStation 3 console protects certain types of data and uses digital rights management to limit the data's use. Purchased games and content from the PlayStation Network store are governed by PlayStation's Network Digital Rights Management (NDRM). The NDRM allows users to access the data from up to 2 different PlayStat... | What does the abbreviation "NERD" represent? | {'text': 'Network Digital Rights Management', 'answer_start': 206} |
66,614 | 66,272 | 5ad0e0b4645df0001a2d0785 | generic | This is held to be the first explanation of the modern concept of totalitarian state. Burke regarded the war with France as ideological, against an "armed doctrine". He wished that France would not be partitioned due to the effect this would have on the balance of power in Europe, and that the war was not against Franc... | What country did Burke want partitioned? | {'text': 'France', 'answer_start': 181} |
125,044 | 124,702 | 57326d6ce99e3014001e67ad | generic | Over New York City in 1953, Eastern Airlines Flight 8610, a commercial flight, had a near miss with Air Force Flight 8610, a Lockheed C-121 Constellation known as Columbine II, while the latter was carrying President Eisenhower. This prompted the adoption of the unique call sign Air Force One, to be used whenever the p... | What aircraft had an incident with Air Force Flight 8610? | {'text': 'Eastern Airlines Flight 8610', 'answer_start': 28} |
70,082 | 69,740 | 5726bb7e5951b619008f7c51 | generic | Modern Chinese has many homophones; thus the same spoken syllable may be represented by many characters, depending on meaning. A single character may also have a range of meanings, or sometimes quite distinct meanings; occasionally these correspond to different pronunciations. Cognates in the several varieties of Chine... | What have been beneficial in the reconstruction of Middle Chinese? | {'text': 'Sino-Xenic pronunciations', 'answer_start': 845} |
48,310 | 47,968 | 5ad3b134604f3c001a3fecc3 | generic | On 2 July 2012, GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to a $3 billion settlement of the largest health-care fraud case in the U.S. and the largest payment by a drug company. The settlement is related to the company's illegal promotion of prescription drugs, its failure to report safety data, bri... | How much was the settlement Wellbutrin agreed to? | {'text': '$3 billion', 'answer_start': 83} |
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